Eli Melby
Biographic Data
| ID | 4210601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eli Melby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eli |
| FAMILY NAME | Melby |
| SIGNATURE | MELBY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-2033-4351 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Withdrawal from the system’. Women frontline workers’ political trajectories during Covid-19
This article explores women frontline workers’ political trajectories during the Covid-19 pandemic, based on longitudinal fieldwork (2021–2024) within two grassroots Yellow Vest Movement (YVM) groups in south-eastern France. Drawing on interview and participant observation data, it traces how ten women from feminised and precarious labour sectors politicised work outside traditional union frameworks. The YVM provided interpretive schemas and netw…
Under the Smokescreen of Horizontality
There is little scholarship on how gender impacts the construction of leadership in supposedly leaderless, horizontal social movements. In this study, I expand the concept of leading tasks, to get at the ways in which gender intersects with the critical organizing work of maintaining horizontal movements. Drawing on comparative data from 7 months of fieldwork conducted with two grassroots groups in the French Yellow Vest movement, I argue that ho…
Pushed out by politics
Under the Smokescreen of Horizontality
There is little scholarship on how gender impacts the construction of leadership in supposedly leaderless, horizontal social movements. In this study, I expand the concept of leading tasks, to get at the ways in which gender intersects with the critical organizing work of maintaining horizontal movements. Drawing on comparative data from 7 months of fieldwork conducted with two grassroots groups in the French Yellow Vest movement, I argue that ho…
Pushed out by politics
Under the Smokescreen of Horizontality
There is little scholarship on how gender impacts the construction of leadership in supposedly leaderless, horizontal social movements. In this study, I expand the concept of leading tasks, to get at the ways in which gender intersects with the critical organizing work of maintaining horizontal movements. Drawing on comparative data from 7 months of fieldwork conducted with two grassroots groups in the French Yellow Vest movement, I argue that ho…
Withdrawal from the system’. Women frontline workers’ political trajectories during Covid-19
This article explores women frontline workers’ political trajectories during the Covid-19 pandemic, based on longitudinal fieldwork (2021–2024) within two grassroots Yellow Vest Movement (YVM) groups in south-eastern France. Drawing on interview and participant observation data, it traces how ten women from feminised and precarious labour sectors politicised work outside traditional union frameworks. The YVM provided interpretive schemas and netw…
Gender Politics and Representation (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Acoustics (1 work) · Aeronautics (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Computer security (1 work) · Context (archaeology (1 work) · Engineering (1 work)