Joelle Cruz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joelle Cruz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Cruz |
| SIGNATURE | CRUZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University, College Station, |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Organizing at the Margins
Organizing at the Margins
Quarantined across borders
Embodied transnationalism is characterized by intimate experiences of human-made political borders that define, limit, and restrict flows of the “Other.” In the Quarantined Across Borders collection, contributors from immigrant and diasporic backgrounds address the material and discursive differences in how they experience the pandemic in terms of a public health crisis and public policy response that intersects racialized gender, class, citizens…
Following traces
Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it brings forth a methodology of “traces” for organizational ethnography of the shadow, also understood as the realm of the repressed. Second, it highlights the emotional disconnect that organizational ethnographers encounter in traumatized communities and provides suggestions to bridge them. Design/methodology/approach The paper – drawing on autoethnography – incorporates the author’s fieldwor…
Dirty Work at the Intersections of Gender, Class, and Nation
This study explored how market women rework meanings of dirty work and gender, class, and nation in post-conflict Liberia. I used African feminist theory as a lens, which nuances a simplistic and Western-centered reading of market women's empowerment. In this study, the notion of empowerment is connected to the principle of negotiation or the ability to compromise and strategically capitalize on situations. The women used three main strategies to…
Memories of trauma and organizing
This study builds on social-constructionist approaches to organizational memory studies by exploring how traumatic memories reconstruct present-day organizing practices. Using African feminist ethnography, I explored how war memories shaped market women’s informal credit organizations called ‘susu groups’ in postconflict Liberia. Findings show that traumatic memories engender and sustain three organizing practices: idealization, amplification, an…
This Ain't Paris Sweetie
This autoethnography explores West African and French identity in the Southern United States. Seven short poems trace back a journey from West Africa and France to the American South and flesh out the contours of a transient and suspended self. A brown immigrant woman, my text reconstructs the embodied experience of racism and sexism in a small conservative community. Poetic prose helps to capture the elusive nature of a narrative, best expressed…
Memories of trauma and organizing
This study builds on social-constructionist approaches to organizational memory studies by exploring how traumatic memories reconstruct present-day organizing practices. Using African feminist ethnography, I explored how war memories shaped market women’s informal credit organizations called ‘susu groups’ in postconflict Liberia. Findings show that traumatic memories engender and sustain three organizing practices: idealization, amplification, an…
Dirty Work at the Intersections of Gender, Class, and Nation
This study explored how market women rework meanings of dirty work and gender, class, and nation in post-conflict Liberia. I used African feminist theory as a lens, which nuances a simplistic and Western-centered reading of market women's empowerment. In this study, the notion of empowerment is connected to the principle of negotiation or the ability to compromise and strategically capitalize on situations. The women used three main strategies to…
This Ain't Paris Sweetie
This autoethnography explores West African and French identity in the Southern United States. Seven short poems trace back a journey from West Africa and France to the American South and flesh out the contours of a transient and suspended self. A brown immigrant woman, my text reconstructs the embodied experience of racism and sexism in a small conservative community. Poetic prose helps to capture the elusive nature of a narrative, best expressed…
This Ain't Paris Sweetie
This autoethnography explores West African and French identity in the Southern United States. Seven short poems trace back a journey from West Africa and France to the American South and flesh out the contours of a transient and suspended self. A brown immigrant woman, my text reconstructs the embodied experience of racism and sexism in a small conservative community. Poetic prose helps to capture the elusive nature of a narrative, best expressed…
Memories of trauma and organizing
This study builds on social-constructionist approaches to organizational memory studies by exploring how traumatic memories reconstruct present-day organizing practices. Using African feminist ethnography, I explored how war memories shaped market women’s informal credit organizations called ‘susu groups’ in postconflict Liberia. Findings show that traumatic memories engender and sustain three organizing practices: idealization, amplification, an…
Dirty Work at the Intersections of Gender, Class, and Nation
This study explored how market women rework meanings of dirty work and gender, class, and nation in post-conflict Liberia. I used African feminist theory as a lens, which nuances a simplistic and Western-centered reading of market women's empowerment. In this study, the notion of empowerment is connected to the principle of negotiation or the ability to compromise and strategically capitalize on situations. The women used three main strategies to…
Following traces
Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it brings forth a methodology of “traces” for organizational ethnography of the shadow, also understood as the realm of the repressed. Second, it highlights the emotional disconnect that organizational ethnographers encounter in traumatized communities and provides suggestions to bridge them. Design/methodology/approach The paper – drawing on autoethnography – incorporates the author’s fieldwor…
Quarantined across borders
Embodied transnationalism is characterized by intimate experiences of human-made political borders that define, limit, and restrict flows of the “Other.” In the Quarantined Across Borders collection, contributors from immigrant and diasporic backgrounds address the material and discursive differences in how they experience the pandemic in terms of a public health crisis and public policy response that intersects racialized gender, class, citizens…
Organizing at the Margins
Organizing at the Margins
Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Autoethnography (2 works)