Sheena Vachhani
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3452743 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sheena Vachhani |
| PRENOMES | Sheena |
| SOBRENOME | Vachhani |
| ASSINATURA | VACHHANI S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2911-455X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 213 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
‘You can’t buy my silence’
Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) are increasingly used by powerful organizations to silence victims of workplace abuse, discrimination and misconduct. While originally designed to protect intellectual property, NDAs have evolved into tools that suppress resistance, conceal unethical and sometimes criminal behaviour and reinforce organizational silence. This Acting Up piece draws on the experiences of Zelda Perkins – co-founder of the global campa…
Corrosive Solo Self-Employment
Solo self-employment (SSE) is a heterogeneous category that requires further contextual analysis across different occupations and professions. Drawing on a multiple methods study, this article reveals the corrosive impact of a specific type of SSE, that of the self-employed personal trainer (SEPT) in the UK fitness industry. SEPTs pay rent in cash and in kind and carry out (unpaid) tasks that would otherwise be undertaken by contracted employees …
The (academic) chair
In this paper we move from considering the chair as an (inanimate) object, to exploring its vitality through a more vibrant and active reading of this inescapable everyday item.We are inspired by feminist new materialism and how affect shapes our understanding of matter.Reading matter in this way surfaces our orientations toward everyday items that show embodied practices of mattering.This, in turn, shines light on how we imbue objects with meani…
Networked feminism in a digital age—mobilizing vulnerability and reconfiguring feminist politics in digital activism
In what ways can we understand the productive tensions and complexities of digital feminist activism? This paper explores the increase of networked feminism, which focuses attention on digital activism and its relation to transformative social change. It suggests that we need a better understanding of how digital feminist activism might be changing the shape of transnational feminist resistance and praxis, and how feminist politics are created an…
Feminist Ethics and Women Leaders
Chasing rainbows? A recognition-based critique of Primark’s precarious commitment to inclusion
This paper develops a dialectical critique of organizational commitments to inclusion showing how, as rhetorical gestures, such commitments are undermined by practices of over-inclusion and exclusion. It argues that these practices are not distinct but interrelated aspects of the instrumental ways in which organizations respond to encounters with difference, limiting the latter’s capacity to open up new ways of being, and of organizing. This theo…
Feminist solidarity
Feminist solidarity is a way of being that is embedded in cultural traditions and movements that resist women's socio-economic inequalities and patriarchal power. It unites women in, inter alia, a refusal to accept the ongoing prevalence of sexism and misogyny; the exploitation of women's labor, emotions, and bodies; physical and financial violence toward women; inequalities of work opportunities and entrenched gender pay disparities. Feminist so…
Ethics, politics and feminist organizing
This article critically examines a 21st century online, social movement, the Everyday Sexism Project (referred to as the ESP), to analyse resistance against sexism that is systemic, entrenched and institutionalized in society, including organizations. Our motivating questions are: what new forms of feminist organizing are developing to resist sexism and what are the implications of thinking ethico-politically about feminist resistance that has th…
Relational Encounters and Vital Materiality in the Practice of Craft Work
Practice-based studies of organization have drawn attention to the importance of the body as a site of knowledge and knowing. However, relational encounters between bodies and objects, and the affects they generate, are less well understood in organization studies. This article uses new materialist theory to explore the role of affect in embodied practices of craft making. It suggests that craft work relies on affective organizational relations a…
Thinking critically about affect in organization studies
Affect holds the promise of destabilizing and unsettling us, as organizational subjects, into new states of being. It can shed light on many aspects of work and organization, with implications both within and beyond organization studies. Affect theory holds the potential to generate exciting new insights for the study of organizations, theoretically, methodologically and politically. This Special Issue seeks to explore these potential trajectorie…
Neo-villeiny and the service sector
This article presents data from a comprehensive study of hyper flexible and precarious work in the service sector. A series of interviews were conducted with self-employed personal trainers along with more than 200 hours of participant observation within fitness centres in the UK. Analysis of the data reveals a new form of hyper flexible and precarious work that is labelled neo-villeiny in this article. Neo-villeiny is characterized by four featu…
Organizing Love — Thoughts on the Transformative and Activist Potential of Feminine Writing
This paper engages with what it means to write love and poses the question: what does love do for feminine writing? I move beyond the concept of love as an ideology or condition of work (such as ‘for the love of the job’) and draw on a feminine poetics of organization that highlights its disruptive potential. Love, in this sense, breaks the rationality and order of the ‘masterful’ text and alters gendered academic writing. The power of writing wi…
Working out
In this article, we identify the importance of aesthetic labour to the self-employed fitness industry personal trainer (PT), detailing the ways in which the PT trades on their own physical capital. We examine how these discussions relate to the aesthetic and material dimensions of body work (that is to say, enacted on and through bodies) and the ways in which affective labour, inherent to this type of service work, intersects or delimits physical…
Always different
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to problematise the notion of woman-as-monster and draws together a conceptual analysis of the monstrous-feminine and its relation to maternal and monstrous bodies including its implications for equality and inclusion in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach – Whilst exploring how female monsters are inextricably tied to their sexual difference, the author draws on social and psychoanalytic perspectives…
(Re)creating objects from the past – affect, tactility and everyday creativity
In this paper I explore the notion of everyday creativity as affective practice through the resurrection of craft, especially vintage objects and traditional craft practices that evoke memories of objects from the past. This is explored in relation to two specific sites of organization: (1) knitting culture through the practice of yarn bombing; and (2) the resurrection of vintage objects such as vinyl record collecting. These two sites form power…
The materiality of leadership
There is a growing body of research that has advanced knowledge of the embodied nature of leadership, and its relationship between aesthetics and affect (Hansen et al., 2007; Ladkin, 2008; Ropo and Sauer, 2008; Sinclair, 2005). The relationship between the surface or exterior of the body and embodiment have developed rich insights, yet we suggest that the ways in which affect, materiality and leadership connect requires space to change the ways i…
Putting into question the imaginary of recovery
In this article, we put into question the discourses that emerged during the global financial crisis (GFC) and that coalesced around a particular socio-economic imaginary of ‘recovery’ over the period 2009–2012. Our reading of these discourses is very much guided by the notion of the dialectic as developed by Fredric Jameson, and as such this paper can be read as an attempt to put his theoretical ideas to work. Through our dialectical reading, we…
The Materiality of Leadership
Home is where the heart is? Organizing women's work and domesticity at Christmas
This article critically discusses domestication and women's work in household organization at Christmas, a case of meta-organizing which fuels commercialization. Located in the growing body of work on contesting femininity that challenges traditional notions of femininity, we problematize the binary divide between women's work at home and commercial organizations. By considering Christmas as a set of ritualistic activities replete with myths of f…
The Death of a Salesman? An Exploration into the Discursive Production of Sales Identities
This paper critically examines how identity formations change, dissolve and reform. It is argued that the framing overtly expressed in the production of identity and the construction of narrative therein provide an interesting stage from which to understand linguistic (de)constructions of identity change in organisational life, here explored, amongst salespeople in a single case organisation. Empirical material is presented to explore a dualism o…
Ethics, politics and feminist organizing
This article critically examines a 21st century online, social movement, the Everyday Sexism Project (referred to as the ESP), to analyse resistance against sexism that is systemic, entrenched and institutionalized in society, including organizations. Our motivating questions are: what new forms of feminist organizing are developing to resist sexism and what are the implications of thinking ethico-politically about feminist resistance that has th…
Relational Encounters and Vital Materiality in the Practice of Craft Work
Practice-based studies of organization have drawn attention to the importance of the body as a site of knowledge and knowing. However, relational encounters between bodies and objects, and the affects they generate, are less well understood in organization studies. This article uses new materialist theory to explore the role of affect in embodied practices of craft making. It suggests that craft work relies on affective organizational relations a…
Neo-villeiny and the service sector
This article presents data from a comprehensive study of hyper flexible and precarious work in the service sector. A series of interviews were conducted with self-employed personal trainers along with more than 200 hours of participant observation within fitness centres in the UK. Analysis of the data reveals a new form of hyper flexible and precarious work that is labelled neo-villeiny in this article. Neo-villeiny is characterized by four featu…
Feminist solidarity
Feminist solidarity is a way of being that is embedded in cultural traditions and movements that resist women's socio-economic inequalities and patriarchal power. It unites women in, inter alia, a refusal to accept the ongoing prevalence of sexism and misogyny; the exploitation of women's labor, emotions, and bodies; physical and financial violence toward women; inequalities of work opportunities and entrenched gender pay disparities. Feminist so…
Networked feminism in a digital age—mobilizing vulnerability and reconfiguring feminist politics in digital activism
In what ways can we understand the productive tensions and complexities of digital feminist activism? This paper explores the increase of networked feminism, which focuses attention on digital activism and its relation to transformative social change. It suggests that we need a better understanding of how digital feminist activism might be changing the shape of transnational feminist resistance and praxis, and how feminist politics are created an…
Organizing Love — Thoughts on the Transformative and Activist Potential of Feminine Writing
This paper engages with what it means to write love and poses the question: what does love do for feminine writing? I move beyond the concept of love as an ideology or condition of work (such as ‘for the love of the job’) and draw on a feminine poetics of organization that highlights its disruptive potential. Love, in this sense, breaks the rationality and order of the ‘masterful’ text and alters gendered academic writing. The power of writing wi…
The materiality of leadership
There is a growing body of research that has advanced knowledge of the embodied nature of leadership, and its relationship between aesthetics and affect (Hansen et al., 2007; Ladkin, 2008; Ropo and Sauer, 2008; Sinclair, 2005). The relationship between the surface or exterior of the body and embodiment have developed rich insights, yet we suggest that the ways in which affect, materiality and leadership connect requires space to change the ways i…
(Re)creating objects from the past – affect, tactility and everyday creativity
In this paper I explore the notion of everyday creativity as affective practice through the resurrection of craft, especially vintage objects and traditional craft practices that evoke memories of objects from the past. This is explored in relation to two specific sites of organization: (1) knitting culture through the practice of yarn bombing; and (2) the resurrection of vintage objects such as vinyl record collecting. These two sites form power…
Working out
In this article, we identify the importance of aesthetic labour to the self-employed fitness industry personal trainer (PT), detailing the ways in which the PT trades on their own physical capital. We examine how these discussions relate to the aesthetic and material dimensions of body work (that is to say, enacted on and through bodies) and the ways in which affective labour, inherent to this type of service work, intersects or delimits physical…
Home is where the heart is? Organizing women's work and domesticity at Christmas
This article critically discusses domestication and women's work in household organization at Christmas, a case of meta-organizing which fuels commercialization. Located in the growing body of work on contesting femininity that challenges traditional notions of femininity, we problematize the binary divide between women's work at home and commercial organizations. By considering Christmas as a set of ritualistic activities replete with myths of f…
Putting into question the imaginary of recovery
In this article, we put into question the discourses that emerged during the global financial crisis (GFC) and that coalesced around a particular socio-economic imaginary of ‘recovery’ over the period 2009–2012. Our reading of these discourses is very much guided by the notion of the dialectic as developed by Fredric Jameson, and as such this paper can be read as an attempt to put his theoretical ideas to work. Through our dialectical reading, we…
Always different
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to problematise the notion of woman-as-monster and draws together a conceptual analysis of the monstrous-feminine and its relation to maternal and monstrous bodies including its implications for equality and inclusion in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach – Whilst exploring how female monsters are inextricably tied to their sexual difference, the author draws on social and psychoanalytic perspectives…
The (academic) chair
In this paper we move from considering the chair as an (inanimate) object, to exploring its vitality through a more vibrant and active reading of this inescapable everyday item.We are inspired by feminist new materialism and how affect shapes our understanding of matter.Reading matter in this way surfaces our orientations toward everyday items that show embodied practices of mattering.This, in turn, shines light on how we imbue objects with meani…
The Death of a Salesman? An Exploration into the Discursive Production of Sales Identities
This paper critically examines how identity formations change, dissolve and reform. It is argued that the framing overtly expressed in the production of identity and the construction of narrative therein provide an interesting stage from which to understand linguistic (de)constructions of identity change in organisational life, here explored, amongst salespeople in a single case organisation. Empirical material is presented to explore a dualism o…
The Death of a Salesman? An Exploration into the Discursive Production of Sales Identities
This paper critically examines how identity formations change, dissolve and reform. It is argued that the framing overtly expressed in the production of identity and the construction of narrative therein provide an interesting stage from which to understand linguistic (de)constructions of identity change in organisational life, here explored, amongst salespeople in a single case organisation. Empirical material is presented to explore a dualism o…
The Materiality of Leadership
Home is where the heart is? Organizing women's work and domesticity at Christmas
This article critically discusses domestication and women's work in household organization at Christmas, a case of meta-organizing which fuels commercialization. Located in the growing body of work on contesting femininity that challenges traditional notions of femininity, we problematize the binary divide between women's work at home and commercial organizations. By considering Christmas as a set of ritualistic activities replete with myths of f…
(Re)creating objects from the past – affect, tactility and everyday creativity
In this paper I explore the notion of everyday creativity as affective practice through the resurrection of craft, especially vintage objects and traditional craft practices that evoke memories of objects from the past. This is explored in relation to two specific sites of organization: (1) knitting culture through the practice of yarn bombing; and (2) the resurrection of vintage objects such as vinyl record collecting. These two sites form power…
The materiality of leadership
There is a growing body of research that has advanced knowledge of the embodied nature of leadership, and its relationship between aesthetics and affect (Hansen et al., 2007; Ladkin, 2008; Ropo and Sauer, 2008; Sinclair, 2005). The relationship between the surface or exterior of the body and embodiment have developed rich insights, yet we suggest that the ways in which affect, materiality and leadership connect requires space to change the ways i…
Putting into question the imaginary of recovery
In this article, we put into question the discourses that emerged during the global financial crisis (GFC) and that coalesced around a particular socio-economic imaginary of ‘recovery’ over the period 2009–2012. Our reading of these discourses is very much guided by the notion of the dialectic as developed by Fredric Jameson, and as such this paper can be read as an attempt to put his theoretical ideas to work. Through our dialectical reading, we…
Working out
In this article, we identify the importance of aesthetic labour to the self-employed fitness industry personal trainer (PT), detailing the ways in which the PT trades on their own physical capital. We examine how these discussions relate to the aesthetic and material dimensions of body work (that is to say, enacted on and through bodies) and the ways in which affective labour, inherent to this type of service work, intersects or delimits physical…
Always different
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to problematise the notion of woman-as-monster and draws together a conceptual analysis of the monstrous-feminine and its relation to maternal and monstrous bodies including its implications for equality and inclusion in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach – Whilst exploring how female monsters are inextricably tied to their sexual difference, the author draws on social and psychoanalytic perspectives…
Organizing Love — Thoughts on the Transformative and Activist Potential of Feminine Writing
This paper engages with what it means to write love and poses the question: what does love do for feminine writing? I move beyond the concept of love as an ideology or condition of work (such as ‘for the love of the job’) and draw on a feminine poetics of organization that highlights its disruptive potential. Love, in this sense, breaks the rationality and order of the ‘masterful’ text and alters gendered academic writing. The power of writing wi…
Thinking critically about affect in organization studies
Affect holds the promise of destabilizing and unsettling us, as organizational subjects, into new states of being. It can shed light on many aspects of work and organization, with implications both within and beyond organization studies. Affect theory holds the potential to generate exciting new insights for the study of organizations, theoretically, methodologically and politically. This Special Issue seeks to explore these potential trajectorie…
Neo-villeiny and the service sector
This article presents data from a comprehensive study of hyper flexible and precarious work in the service sector. A series of interviews were conducted with self-employed personal trainers along with more than 200 hours of participant observation within fitness centres in the UK. Analysis of the data reveals a new form of hyper flexible and precarious work that is labelled neo-villeiny in this article. Neo-villeiny is characterized by four featu…
Ethics, politics and feminist organizing
This article critically examines a 21st century online, social movement, the Everyday Sexism Project (referred to as the ESP), to analyse resistance against sexism that is systemic, entrenched and institutionalized in society, including organizations. Our motivating questions are: what new forms of feminist organizing are developing to resist sexism and what are the implications of thinking ethico-politically about feminist resistance that has th…
Relational Encounters and Vital Materiality in the Practice of Craft Work
Practice-based studies of organization have drawn attention to the importance of the body as a site of knowledge and knowing. However, relational encounters between bodies and objects, and the affects they generate, are less well understood in organization studies. This article uses new materialist theory to explore the role of affect in embodied practices of craft making. It suggests that craft work relies on affective organizational relations a…
Feminist Ethics and Women Leaders
Chasing rainbows? A recognition-based critique of Primark’s precarious commitment to inclusion
This paper develops a dialectical critique of organizational commitments to inclusion showing how, as rhetorical gestures, such commitments are undermined by practices of over-inclusion and exclusion. It argues that these practices are not distinct but interrelated aspects of the instrumental ways in which organizations respond to encounters with difference, limiting the latter’s capacity to open up new ways of being, and of organizing. This theo…
Feminist solidarity
Feminist solidarity is a way of being that is embedded in cultural traditions and movements that resist women's socio-economic inequalities and patriarchal power. It unites women in, inter alia, a refusal to accept the ongoing prevalence of sexism and misogyny; the exploitation of women's labor, emotions, and bodies; physical and financial violence toward women; inequalities of work opportunities and entrenched gender pay disparities. Feminist so…
Networked feminism in a digital age—mobilizing vulnerability and reconfiguring feminist politics in digital activism
In what ways can we understand the productive tensions and complexities of digital feminist activism? This paper explores the increase of networked feminism, which focuses attention on digital activism and its relation to transformative social change. It suggests that we need a better understanding of how digital feminist activism might be changing the shape of transnational feminist resistance and praxis, and how feminist politics are created an…
The (academic) chair
In this paper we move from considering the chair as an (inanimate) object, to exploring its vitality through a more vibrant and active reading of this inescapable everyday item.We are inspired by feminist new materialism and how affect shapes our understanding of matter.Reading matter in this way surfaces our orientations toward everyday items that show embodied practices of mattering.This, in turn, shines light on how we imbue objects with meani…
‘You can’t buy my silence’
Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) are increasingly used by powerful organizations to silence victims of workplace abuse, discrimination and misconduct. While originally designed to protect intellectual property, NDAs have evolved into tools that suppress resistance, conceal unethical and sometimes criminal behaviour and reinforce organizational silence. This Acting Up piece draws on the experiences of Zelda Perkins – co-founder of the global campa…
Corrosive Solo Self-Employment
Solo self-employment (SSE) is a heterogeneous category that requires further contextual analysis across different occupations and professions. Drawing on a multiple methods study, this article reveals the corrosive impact of a specific type of SSE, that of the self-employed personal trainer (SEPT) in the UK fitness industry. SEPTs pay rent in cash and in kind and carry out (unpaid) tasks that would otherwise be undertaken by contracted employees …
Sociology (16 obras) · Epistemology (11 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Management and Organizational Studies (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Aesthetics (7 obras) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (7 obras) · Law (7 obras)