Shiv Ganesh
Biographic Data
| ID | 391162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shiv Ganesh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shiv |
| FAMILY NAME | Ganesh |
| SIGNATURE | GANESH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waikato |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7239-5465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Transparency and Engagement as Cornerstone Features of Sustainable Strategic Communication Practice: Insights from Nudie Jeans
This study examines transparency and engagement as cornerstone features of sustainable strategic communication practice, drawing insights from a multi-year ethnographic study involving the Swedish fashion organization, Nudie Jeans. Positioning sustainability at the heart of good strategic communication practice, particularly within the Nordic context, which is recognized for its emphasis on sustainability, we explore how Nudie Jeans enacts these …
Beyond Dualisms: Revisioning Critical Communication Principles in Intercultural and Environmental Communication
Capitalism produces dualisms, and these dualisms create ruin. There is an urgent need for critical communication studies to address such harmful separations as nature versus society, or human versus nonhuman, in order to better understand and respond to contemporary crises. This paper addresses this need by assessing five dynamic principles of critical communication that underlie an eight-year programme on environmental communication research, ba…
(Re)Contextualizing Organizing Inequities: The Communicative Production of Worker Vulnerability in Global Supply Chains
Global supply chains are the infrastructure of contemporary capitalism and produce, define, and determine the vulnerabilities of labor. Yet much communication inquiry into work conditions does not position either risk or vulnerabilities of labor with regard to these global chains. For organizational communication studies, supply chains also offer an opportunity to recontextualize work inequities and vulnerabilities by moving beyond container meta…
Iteration, collaboration and transformation: The work of Mistra Environmental Communication
This essay describes the nature of community and public engagement at the Mistra Environmental Communication program, an eight-year program, based in Sweden, focused on how communication shapes sustainability transformations. The paper describes the critical, engaged, and change-oriented approaches that guide the program’s work, outlining collaborative practices, and formats developed with a range of societal partners. The program chooses to use …
The Powerpoint Imagination: Visualization and managerial vocabularies in sustainability reports
Sustainability reporting has been established as a dominant but problematic communication practice in global sustainability management. In this paper, we challenge the commonplace view of reporting as the simple and textual transmission of information, by interpreting corporate sustainability reports as visual artefacts that encourage particular views of environmental issues. We discuss visualization as a key practice in communication and rhetori…
On Separating Data from People: Reflections on Indigenous Digital Exhaust, Transparency, and Constitutive Relationality
This essay invites readers to think through the carelessness and care-lessness of data extraction regimes under surveillance capitalism with regard to notions of care produced with and against these systems. It does so by first narrating Joanna Radin's analysis of how the Akimel O'Odhum came to be separated from their data as "exhaust," despite the indigenous data sovereignty movement. It then shifts registers to spotlight the kinds of care evide…
Suffering and the edges of melodrama
Suffering occupies a central place vis-à-vis both melodrama and tragedy, and draws attention to their closeness, despite considerable efforts to distinguish between them. The multiple relations between tragedy and melodrama become clearer when we reflect deeply on the place and role of suffering. My goal in this essay is to cast some light on how suffering works around the edges of melodrama, even as it produces melodramatic performance, in a way…
Visibility agents: Organizing transparency in the digital era
Transparency is a complex and multifaceted communication phenomenon. In the current environment, demands for organizational transparency now come from a wide range of entities we term visibility agents, ranging from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and global networks, on one hand, to activist coalitions and automated surveillance agents, on the other. We develop a framework to conceive of such visibility agents and the range of transparency …
Decolonizing Open Science: Southern Interventions
Hegemonic Open Science, emergent from the circuits of knowledge production in the Global North and serving the economic interests of platform capitalism, systematically erase the voices of the subaltern margins from the Global South and the Southern margins inhabiting the North. Framed within an overarching emancipatory narrative of creating access for and empowering the margins through data exchanged on the global free market, hegemonic Open Sci…
Recuperating Areas: Research on Media and Communication History and South Asian Studies
In this short piece I argue, as provocation, that a recuperated area-focused approach to the history of research on media and communication can remedy the twin problems of theoretical universalization and methodological parochialism that continue to persist in the field despite decades of critique.The former, of course, implicates the modernist project of developing theories of communication that stretch to explain much of the complexity of human…
The Orlando shootings as a mobilizing event: Against reductionism in social movement studies
On October 15, 2016, the Republican candidate for president, Donald Trump, spoke in New Jersey at an event touted as a Bollywood fundraiser for victims of terror in the United States, organized by
Doubt, Delay, and Discourse: Skeptics’ Strategies to Politicize Climate Change
This article proposes a theoretical framework to explain climate skeptics’ persuasive discursive strategies against anthropogenic global warming. By combining Bourdieu’s notions of political and social fields with discursive articulation the framework explains skeptics’ strategies to politicise climate change, generate debate, and delay political action. To illustrate the framework, we analyze publications of the New Zealand Climate Science Coali…
From Wall Street to Wellington: Protests in an Era of Digital Ubiquity
The Occupy movement is said to represent a new generation of post-Seattle protests, driven by social networking, and breaking from organizing practices in previous eras. This study analyzes the Occupy Wellington protest to shed light on the role of protests in an era of digital media ubiquity. Based on the participant observation as well as 76 brief interviews, the study explores how activists used digital media, and examines the broader institut…
Boundaryless Careers: Bringing Back Boundaries
Boundaryless career theories are increasingly prominent in career studies and management studies, and provide a new ‘status quo’ concerning modern careers. This paper contextualizes the boundaryless careers literature within management studies, and evaluates its contributions, including broadening concepts of career and focusing interorganizational career phenomena. It acknowledges the considerable stimulus given to career studies by this literat…
Dialogue, Activism, and Democratic Social Change
Journal Article Dialogue, Activism, and Democratic Social Change Get access Shiv Ganesh, Shiv Ganesh 1Department of Management Communication, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Heather M. Zoller Heather M. Zoller 2Department of Communication, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication The…
Positioning Intercultural Dialogue—Theories, Pragmatics, and an Agenda
Running the race: Competition discourse and broadband growth in Aotearoa New Zealand
The objective of this study is to understand key aspects of contemporary discourse surrounding telecommunications development in Aotearoa New Zealand after the privatization of telecommunications in the late 1980s. We identify various characteristics of discourse on competition and telecommunication and trace how competition discourse was rhetorically positioned in attempts to produce economic, political and cultural outcomes. In particular, we a…
Qualifying Engagement: A Study of Information and Communication Technology and the Global Social Justice Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand
Scholarly commentary has underscored the importance of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in organizing the Global Social Justice Movement (GSJM). This study examines key communicative assumptions regarding technology and activist participation in the GSJM by asking three research questions: (a) what impacts of ICT-enabled brokerage are evident in the GSJM in Aotearoa New Zealand; (b) how are activists' attitudes embedded in th…
Neoliberalism and knowledge interests in boundaryless careers discourse
Decades of critical research have established that economic and political ideologies permeate and shape thought, text and action, and academic knowledge production is no exception. This article examines how ideologies might permeate academic texts, by assessing the reach and influence of neoliberalism in research on boundaryless careers. Specifically, it asks: did the emergence and growth of scholarship on boundaryless careers support, challenge,…
Discourses of Volunteerism
(2009). Discourses of Volunteerism. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 33, Communication Yearbook 33, pp. 343-383
The silent community: Organizing zones in the digital divide
This article is a critical interrogation of scholarship on digital divides as it pertains to development in the so-called `Third World'. The article proceeds by identifying three problematic assumptions of extant research on digital divides in the context of development: the discursive binarization between `haves' and `have-nots'; the normatization of the digital divide; and the unproblematic representation of local community interests. The artic…
Assimilation, Sexuality and the Contours of Relational Care in Academe
Reflections on Care In retrospect, it seems that I always had a feeling of disquiet about living in the United States after moving from India to complete my PhD at Purdue University, but it was difficult to identify and name for several years. After I finished my PhD work at Purdue, moving into a tenure track job in the US seemed to be the natural and inevitable outcome of my graduate education. I was offered a job at the University of Montana, s…
Transforming Resistance, Broadening Our Boundaries: Critical Organizational Communication Meets Globalization from Below
This essay addresses the need for organizational communication scholarship to come to terms with the contested nature of globalization through analyses of collective resistance. We argue that organizational communication has largely situated the study of resistance at the level of the individual, and characterized it as an element of micro-politics located within organizational boundaries. Thus, resistance has been considered in localized, interp…
Mediating the Imagination: Corporate Involvement in the Production of Centralized Subjectivity
The role of the imagination as a collective property in today's global economy has received much attention. The thesis that modern subjectivity, produced by processes of consumption and constructed in a global cultural economy, is coupled with the expansion of our collective imagination demands qualification. In this article, the author engages in an analysis of themes of gender, religion, and nationalism in discourse produced by participants in …
Dialogue, Activism, and Democratic Social Change
Journal Article Dialogue, Activism, and Democratic Social Change Get access Shiv Ganesh, Shiv Ganesh 1Department of Management Communication, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Heather M. Zoller Heather M. Zoller 2Department of Communication, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication The…
Neoliberalism and knowledge interests in boundaryless careers discourse
Decades of critical research have established that economic and political ideologies permeate and shape thought, text and action, and academic knowledge production is no exception. This article examines how ideologies might permeate academic texts, by assessing the reach and influence of neoliberalism in research on boundaryless careers. Specifically, it asks: did the emergence and growth of scholarship on boundaryless careers support, challenge,…
Transforming Resistance, Broadening Our Boundaries: Critical Organizational Communication Meets Globalization from Below
This essay addresses the need for organizational communication scholarship to come to terms with the contested nature of globalization through analyses of collective resistance. We argue that organizational communication has largely situated the study of resistance at the level of the individual, and characterized it as an element of micro-politics located within organizational boundaries. Thus, resistance has been considered in localized, interp…
From Wall Street to Wellington: Protests in an Era of Digital Ubiquity
The Occupy movement is said to represent a new generation of post-Seattle protests, driven by social networking, and breaking from organizing practices in previous eras. This study analyzes the Occupy Wellington protest to shed light on the role of protests in an era of digital media ubiquity. Based on the participant observation as well as 76 brief interviews, the study explores how activists used digital media, and examines the broader institut…
Positioning Intercultural Dialogue—Theories, Pragmatics, and an Agenda
Qualifying Engagement: A Study of Information and Communication Technology and the Global Social Justice Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand
Scholarly commentary has underscored the importance of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in organizing the Global Social Justice Movement (GSJM). This study examines key communicative assumptions regarding technology and activist participation in the GSJM by asking three research questions: (a) what impacts of ICT-enabled brokerage are evident in the GSJM in Aotearoa New Zealand; (b) how are activists' attitudes embedded in th…
The silent community: Organizing zones in the digital divide
This article is a critical interrogation of scholarship on digital divides as it pertains to development in the so-called `Third World'. The article proceeds by identifying three problematic assumptions of extant research on digital divides in the context of development: the discursive binarization between `haves' and `have-nots'; the normatization of the digital divide; and the unproblematic representation of local community interests. The artic…
Discourses of Volunteerism
(2009). Discourses of Volunteerism. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 33, Communication Yearbook 33, pp. 343-383
The Orlando shootings as a mobilizing event: Against reductionism in social movement studies
On October 15, 2016, the Republican candidate for president, Donald Trump, spoke in New Jersey at an event touted as a Bollywood fundraiser for victims of terror in the United States, organized by
Doubt, Delay, and Discourse: Skeptics’ Strategies to Politicize Climate Change
This article proposes a theoretical framework to explain climate skeptics’ persuasive discursive strategies against anthropogenic global warming. By combining Bourdieu’s notions of political and social fields with discursive articulation the framework explains skeptics’ strategies to politicise climate change, generate debate, and delay political action. To illustrate the framework, we analyze publications of the New Zealand Climate Science Coali…
Visibility agents: Organizing transparency in the digital era
Transparency is a complex and multifaceted communication phenomenon. In the current environment, demands for organizational transparency now come from a wide range of entities we term visibility agents, ranging from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and global networks, on one hand, to activist coalitions and automated surveillance agents, on the other. We develop a framework to conceive of such visibility agents and the range of transparency …
Mediating the Imagination: Corporate Involvement in the Production of Centralized Subjectivity
The role of the imagination as a collective property in today's global economy has received much attention. The thesis that modern subjectivity, produced by processes of consumption and constructed in a global cultural economy, is coupled with the expansion of our collective imagination demands qualification. In this article, the author engages in an analysis of themes of gender, religion, and nationalism in discourse produced by participants in …
Mediating the Imagination: Corporate Involvement in the Production of Centralized Subjectivity
The role of the imagination as a collective property in today's global economy has received much attention. The thesis that modern subjectivity, produced by processes of consumption and constructed in a global cultural economy, is coupled with the expansion of our collective imagination demands qualification. In this article, the author engages in an analysis of themes of gender, religion, and nationalism in discourse produced by participants in …
Transforming Resistance, Broadening Our Boundaries: Critical Organizational Communication Meets Globalization from Below
This essay addresses the need for organizational communication scholarship to come to terms with the contested nature of globalization through analyses of collective resistance. We argue that organizational communication has largely situated the study of resistance at the level of the individual, and characterized it as an element of micro-politics located within organizational boundaries. Thus, resistance has been considered in localized, interp…
Assimilation, Sexuality and the Contours of Relational Care in Academe
Reflections on Care In retrospect, it seems that I always had a feeling of disquiet about living in the United States after moving from India to complete my PhD at Purdue University, but it was difficult to identify and name for several years. After I finished my PhD work at Purdue, moving into a tenure track job in the US seemed to be the natural and inevitable outcome of my graduate education. I was offered a job at the University of Montana, s…
Discourses of Volunteerism
(2009). Discourses of Volunteerism. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 33, Communication Yearbook 33, pp. 343-383
The silent community: Organizing zones in the digital divide
This article is a critical interrogation of scholarship on digital divides as it pertains to development in the so-called `Third World'. The article proceeds by identifying three problematic assumptions of extant research on digital divides in the context of development: the discursive binarization between `haves' and `have-nots'; the normatization of the digital divide; and the unproblematic representation of local community interests. The artic…
Qualifying Engagement: A Study of Information and Communication Technology and the Global Social Justice Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand
Scholarly commentary has underscored the importance of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in organizing the Global Social Justice Movement (GSJM). This study examines key communicative assumptions regarding technology and activist participation in the GSJM by asking three research questions: (a) what impacts of ICT-enabled brokerage are evident in the GSJM in Aotearoa New Zealand; (b) how are activists' attitudes embedded in th…
Neoliberalism and knowledge interests in boundaryless careers discourse
Decades of critical research have established that economic and political ideologies permeate and shape thought, text and action, and academic knowledge production is no exception. This article examines how ideologies might permeate academic texts, by assessing the reach and influence of neoliberalism in research on boundaryless careers. Specifically, it asks: did the emergence and growth of scholarship on boundaryless careers support, challenge,…
Positioning Intercultural Dialogue—Theories, Pragmatics, and an Agenda
Running the race: Competition discourse and broadband growth in Aotearoa New Zealand
The objective of this study is to understand key aspects of contemporary discourse surrounding telecommunications development in Aotearoa New Zealand after the privatization of telecommunications in the late 1980s. We identify various characteristics of discourse on competition and telecommunication and trace how competition discourse was rhetorically positioned in attempts to produce economic, political and cultural outcomes. In particular, we a…
Boundaryless Careers: Bringing Back Boundaries
Boundaryless career theories are increasingly prominent in career studies and management studies, and provide a new ‘status quo’ concerning modern careers. This paper contextualizes the boundaryless careers literature within management studies, and evaluates its contributions, including broadening concepts of career and focusing interorganizational career phenomena. It acknowledges the considerable stimulus given to career studies by this literat…
Dialogue, Activism, and Democratic Social Change
Journal Article Dialogue, Activism, and Democratic Social Change Get access Shiv Ganesh, Shiv Ganesh 1Department of Management Communication, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Heather M. Zoller Heather M. Zoller 2Department of Communication, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication The…
From Wall Street to Wellington: Protests in an Era of Digital Ubiquity
The Occupy movement is said to represent a new generation of post-Seattle protests, driven by social networking, and breaking from organizing practices in previous eras. This study analyzes the Occupy Wellington protest to shed light on the role of protests in an era of digital media ubiquity. Based on the participant observation as well as 76 brief interviews, the study explores how activists used digital media, and examines the broader institut…
Doubt, Delay, and Discourse: Skeptics’ Strategies to Politicize Climate Change
This article proposes a theoretical framework to explain climate skeptics’ persuasive discursive strategies against anthropogenic global warming. By combining Bourdieu’s notions of political and social fields with discursive articulation the framework explains skeptics’ strategies to politicise climate change, generate debate, and delay political action. To illustrate the framework, we analyze publications of the New Zealand Climate Science Coali…
The Orlando shootings as a mobilizing event: Against reductionism in social movement studies
On October 15, 2016, the Republican candidate for president, Donald Trump, spoke in New Jersey at an event touted as a Bollywood fundraiser for victims of terror in the United States, organized by
Decolonizing Open Science: Southern Interventions
Hegemonic Open Science, emergent from the circuits of knowledge production in the Global North and serving the economic interests of platform capitalism, systematically erase the voices of the subaltern margins from the Global South and the Southern margins inhabiting the North. Framed within an overarching emancipatory narrative of creating access for and empowering the margins through data exchanged on the global free market, hegemonic Open Sci…
Recuperating Areas: Research on Media and Communication History and South Asian Studies
In this short piece I argue, as provocation, that a recuperated area-focused approach to the history of research on media and communication can remedy the twin problems of theoretical universalization and methodological parochialism that continue to persist in the field despite decades of critique.The former, of course, implicates the modernist project of developing theories of communication that stretch to explain much of the complexity of human…
Visibility agents: Organizing transparency in the digital era
Transparency is a complex and multifaceted communication phenomenon. In the current environment, demands for organizational transparency now come from a wide range of entities we term visibility agents, ranging from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and global networks, on one hand, to activist coalitions and automated surveillance agents, on the other. We develop a framework to conceive of such visibility agents and the range of transparency …
The Powerpoint Imagination: Visualization and managerial vocabularies in sustainability reports
Sustainability reporting has been established as a dominant but problematic communication practice in global sustainability management. In this paper, we challenge the commonplace view of reporting as the simple and textual transmission of information, by interpreting corporate sustainability reports as visual artefacts that encourage particular views of environmental issues. We discuss visualization as a key practice in communication and rhetori…
On Separating Data from People: Reflections on Indigenous Digital Exhaust, Transparency, and Constitutive Relationality
This essay invites readers to think through the carelessness and care-lessness of data extraction regimes under surveillance capitalism with regard to notions of care produced with and against these systems. It does so by first narrating Joanna Radin's analysis of how the Akimel O'Odhum came to be separated from their data as "exhaust," despite the indigenous data sovereignty movement. It then shifts registers to spotlight the kinds of care evide…
Suffering and the edges of melodrama
Suffering occupies a central place vis-à-vis both melodrama and tragedy, and draws attention to their closeness, despite considerable efforts to distinguish between them. The multiple relations between tragedy and melodrama become clearer when we reflect deeply on the place and role of suffering. My goal in this essay is to cast some light on how suffering works around the edges of melodrama, even as it produces melodramatic performance, in a way…
Iteration, collaboration and transformation: The work of Mistra Environmental Communication
This essay describes the nature of community and public engagement at the Mistra Environmental Communication program, an eight-year program, based in Sweden, focused on how communication shapes sustainability transformations. The paper describes the critical, engaged, and change-oriented approaches that guide the program’s work, outlining collaborative practices, and formats developed with a range of societal partners. The program chooses to use …
Transparency and Engagement as Cornerstone Features of Sustainable Strategic Communication Practice: Insights from Nudie Jeans
This study examines transparency and engagement as cornerstone features of sustainable strategic communication practice, drawing insights from a multi-year ethnographic study involving the Swedish fashion organization, Nudie Jeans. Positioning sustainability at the heart of good strategic communication practice, particularly within the Nordic context, which is recognized for its emphasis on sustainability, we explore how Nudie Jeans enacts these …
Beyond Dualisms: Revisioning Critical Communication Principles in Intercultural and Environmental Communication
Capitalism produces dualisms, and these dualisms create ruin. There is an urgent need for critical communication studies to address such harmful separations as nature versus society, or human versus nonhuman, in order to better understand and respond to contemporary crises. This paper addresses this need by assessing five dynamic principles of critical communication that underlie an eight-year programme on environmental communication research, ba…
(Re)Contextualizing Organizing Inequities: The Communicative Production of Worker Vulnerability in Global Supply Chains
Global supply chains are the infrastructure of contemporary capitalism and produce, define, and determine the vulnerabilities of labor. Yet much communication inquiry into work conditions does not position either risk or vulnerabilities of labor with regard to these global chains. For organizational communication studies, supply chains also offer an opportunity to recontextualize work inequities and vulnerabilities by moving beyond container meta…
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (16 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Media studies (5 works)