Marjana Johansson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4273093 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marjana Johansson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marjana |
| FAMILY NAME | Johansson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHANSSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0877-0603 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A slog, a push and a labour of love
This paper draws on semi-structured interviews with 57 women electronic music artists to establish the concept of ‘ameliorative work’ as unrecognised and/or undervalued effort expended in order to make their working life better. We contribute to critical research into gender inequalities in the creative industries, and in particular consider the under-researched issue of women’s responses to incidents of gender-based discrimination that arise fro…
Intimate encounters
No abstract available
Feminism and social movements
More than ever the democratic promise of freedom and equality are under threat (Brown, 2019). This threat extends to the liberatory possibilities of the feminist project (Verloo and Patternote, 2018) as well as to the democratic underpinnings of universities (Prasad and Śliwa, 2024; Connell, 2019). Hope is not lost, however, as social movements continue to rally against oppressive and violent political currents, following the trailblazing global …
Race difference and power
None of the authors have a conflict of interest to disclose
Writing Class In and Out
This article explores how meanings of class are constructed in elite businesswomen's autobiographies. It extends existing sociological studies of elites in two ways. First, by theorising the cultural mechanisms that contribute to the reproduction of business elites, and second, by examining the hitherto under-researched gendered aspects of the reproduction of business elites, and the legitimisation of wealth. We show how these autobiographical te…
Marjana Johansson reviews Against Meritocracy
Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power and Myths of Mobility, Jo Littler. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018. 236 pp. £29.99, ISBN 9781138889552
Interlopers in class
This article introduces the concept of the interloper for examining classed and gendered dislocation. Focusing on academia, which we view as a classed and gendered field, we draw on Bourdieu and feminist standpoint theory to account for how we, as women of working‐class origin, have experienced ‘breaches' through which we have come to understand ourselves in classed and gendered terms. Coming from different cultural backgrounds, we also reflect o…
Stress at Work, Gendered Dys‐appearance and the Broken Body in Policing
This paper explores how stress as a gendered mode of perception is characterized by processes that call the body to attention in ambiguous and incomplete ways — an experience Leder terms ‘bodily dys‐appearance’. Extending Leder's work through an engagement with feminist accounts of embodiment, we show how stress, as constituted through a corporeal demand to pay attention to pain or discomfort, becomes negated or misrecognized through the sociocul…
Compositions of professionalism in counselling work
This article explores the embodied compositions of professionalism in the context of the counselling psychology profession in Russia. Specifically, we develop an embodied intersectionality framework for theorizing compositions of professionalism, which allows us to explain how multiple embodied categories of difference intersect and are relationally co-constitutive in producing credible professionals, and, importantly, how these intersections are…
From mosh pit to posh pit’
This paper addresses market-based cultural production in the context of the UK festival field, with a focus on the framing of the festival experience through anticipation. In particular, boutique festivals are discussed as examples of a contemporary cultural ‘product category’ which has emerged and proliferated in the last decade. Through discourse analysis of media representations of boutique festivals, we situate the boutique festival in a broa…
The discourse of meritocracy contested/reproduced
This article provides insights into the role of minority employees in reproducing and contesting the discourse of meritocracy in contemporary organizations. It also discusses the effects the contestation of meritocracy, or the lack thereof, has on organizational power relations and on the situation of individuals who are the target of meritocratic policies. Empirically, we address the experiences of a growing category of workers—women academics o…
It is E nglish and there is no Alternative’
In this paper, we employ an intersectional approach to explore language as a process of social and organizational differentiation of Polish migrant workers in the UK . In addition to intersectionality, our conceptual framework is informed by a sociolinguistic perspective on globalization, which accounts for the social differentiation produced by language in transnational contexts. Empirically, the paper is based on a qualitative study employing l…
Playing in the academic field
This paper draws on Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus and capital to explore the ways in which working in English as a non-native language influences foreign academics' performance of academic habitus and the level of their symbolic capital necessary for the achievement of success within UK higher education. Empirically, it is based on interviews with 54 non-native English-speaking academics employed in UK business schools. Our findings point…
Gender, Foreignness and Academia
This article explores the experiences of a growing but hitherto under‐researched category of academics employed within UK higher education: women of non‐ UK origin. Drawing on an intersectional approach, we examine how gender and foreignness act as dynamic, interrelating categories in producing particular subjectivities in the context of UK business schools. We employ a qualitative methodology based on narrative interviews with 31 foreign women a…
Place Branding and the Imaginary
This article discusses contemporary practices of place branding through the concept of the imaginary. Specifically, the aim is to interrogate place branding as a politically constituted process which unfolds in relation to dominant discourses and symbols that are in circulation; how existing material structures inform the process; and what material consequences occur as a result. The process is empirically illustrated by drawing on a qualitative …
City festivals
In a global market, cities aim to develop a distinct profile to attract mobile consumers. One means increasingly used to attain distinction is to brand the city as experience space. In particular, the urban festival has become a popular organizational form for creating experience spaces and for marketing cities. Festivals are often strategically conceived with the purpose of promoting a ‘distinctive city’, in line with uniqueness being the keysto…
City festivals
In a global market, cities aim to develop a distinct profile to attract mobile consumers. One means increasingly used to attain distinction is to brand the city as experience space. In particular, the urban festival has become a popular organizational form for creating experience spaces and for marketing cities. Festivals are often strategically conceived with the purpose of promoting a ‘distinctive city’, in line with uniqueness being the keysto…
Gender, Foreignness and Academia
This article explores the experiences of a growing but hitherto under‐researched category of academics employed within UK higher education: women of non‐ UK origin. Drawing on an intersectional approach, we examine how gender and foreignness act as dynamic, interrelating categories in producing particular subjectivities in the context of UK business schools. We employ a qualitative methodology based on narrative interviews with 31 foreign women a…
Interlopers in class
This article introduces the concept of the interloper for examining classed and gendered dislocation. Focusing on academia, which we view as a classed and gendered field, we draw on Bourdieu and feminist standpoint theory to account for how we, as women of working‐class origin, have experienced ‘breaches' through which we have come to understand ourselves in classed and gendered terms. Coming from different cultural backgrounds, we also reflect o…
Place Branding and the Imaginary
This article discusses contemporary practices of place branding through the concept of the imaginary. Specifically, the aim is to interrogate place branding as a politically constituted process which unfolds in relation to dominant discourses and symbols that are in circulation; how existing material structures inform the process; and what material consequences occur as a result. The process is empirically illustrated by drawing on a qualitative …
Writing Class In and Out
This article explores how meanings of class are constructed in elite businesswomen's autobiographies. It extends existing sociological studies of elites in two ways. First, by theorising the cultural mechanisms that contribute to the reproduction of business elites, and second, by examining the hitherto under-researched gendered aspects of the reproduction of business elites, and the legitimisation of wealth. We show how these autobiographical te…
Compositions of professionalism in counselling work
This article explores the embodied compositions of professionalism in the context of the counselling psychology profession in Russia. Specifically, we develop an embodied intersectionality framework for theorizing compositions of professionalism, which allows us to explain how multiple embodied categories of difference intersect and are relationally co-constitutive in producing credible professionals, and, importantly, how these intersections are…
It is E nglish and there is no Alternative’
In this paper, we employ an intersectional approach to explore language as a process of social and organizational differentiation of Polish migrant workers in the UK . In addition to intersectionality, our conceptual framework is informed by a sociolinguistic perspective on globalization, which accounts for the social differentiation produced by language in transnational contexts. Empirically, the paper is based on a qualitative study employing l…
Stress at Work, Gendered Dys‐appearance and the Broken Body in Policing
This paper explores how stress as a gendered mode of perception is characterized by processes that call the body to attention in ambiguous and incomplete ways — an experience Leder terms ‘bodily dys‐appearance’. Extending Leder's work through an engagement with feminist accounts of embodiment, we show how stress, as constituted through a corporeal demand to pay attention to pain or discomfort, becomes negated or misrecognized through the sociocul…
Playing in the academic field
This paper draws on Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus and capital to explore the ways in which working in English as a non-native language influences foreign academics' performance of academic habitus and the level of their symbolic capital necessary for the achievement of success within UK higher education. Empirically, it is based on interviews with 54 non-native English-speaking academics employed in UK business schools. Our findings point…
From mosh pit to posh pit’
This paper addresses market-based cultural production in the context of the UK festival field, with a focus on the framing of the festival experience through anticipation. In particular, boutique festivals are discussed as examples of a contemporary cultural ‘product category’ which has emerged and proliferated in the last decade. Through discourse analysis of media representations of boutique festivals, we situate the boutique festival in a broa…
Feminism and social movements
More than ever the democratic promise of freedom and equality are under threat (Brown, 2019). This threat extends to the liberatory possibilities of the feminist project (Verloo and Patternote, 2018) as well as to the democratic underpinnings of universities (Prasad and Śliwa, 2024; Connell, 2019). Hope is not lost, however, as social movements continue to rally against oppressive and violent political currents, following the trailblazing global …
City festivals
In a global market, cities aim to develop a distinct profile to attract mobile consumers. One means increasingly used to attain distinction is to brand the city as experience space. In particular, the urban festival has become a popular organizational form for creating experience spaces and for marketing cities. Festivals are often strategically conceived with the purpose of promoting a ‘distinctive city’, in line with uniqueness being the keysto…
Place Branding and the Imaginary
This article discusses contemporary practices of place branding through the concept of the imaginary. Specifically, the aim is to interrogate place branding as a politically constituted process which unfolds in relation to dominant discourses and symbols that are in circulation; how existing material structures inform the process; and what material consequences occur as a result. The process is empirically illustrated by drawing on a qualitative …
Playing in the academic field
This paper draws on Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus and capital to explore the ways in which working in English as a non-native language influences foreign academics' performance of academic habitus and the level of their symbolic capital necessary for the achievement of success within UK higher education. Empirically, it is based on interviews with 54 non-native English-speaking academics employed in UK business schools. Our findings point…
Gender, Foreignness and Academia
This article explores the experiences of a growing but hitherto under‐researched category of academics employed within UK higher education: women of non‐ UK origin. Drawing on an intersectional approach, we examine how gender and foreignness act as dynamic, interrelating categories in producing particular subjectivities in the context of UK business schools. We employ a qualitative methodology based on narrative interviews with 31 foreign women a…
The discourse of meritocracy contested/reproduced
This article provides insights into the role of minority employees in reproducing and contesting the discourse of meritocracy in contemporary organizations. It also discusses the effects the contestation of meritocracy, or the lack thereof, has on organizational power relations and on the situation of individuals who are the target of meritocratic policies. Empirically, we address the experiences of a growing category of workers—women academics o…
It is E nglish and there is no Alternative’
In this paper, we employ an intersectional approach to explore language as a process of social and organizational differentiation of Polish migrant workers in the UK . In addition to intersectionality, our conceptual framework is informed by a sociolinguistic perspective on globalization, which accounts for the social differentiation produced by language in transnational contexts. Empirically, the paper is based on a qualitative study employing l…
From mosh pit to posh pit’
This paper addresses market-based cultural production in the context of the UK festival field, with a focus on the framing of the festival experience through anticipation. In particular, boutique festivals are discussed as examples of a contemporary cultural ‘product category’ which has emerged and proliferated in the last decade. Through discourse analysis of media representations of boutique festivals, we situate the boutique festival in a broa…
Compositions of professionalism in counselling work
This article explores the embodied compositions of professionalism in the context of the counselling psychology profession in Russia. Specifically, we develop an embodied intersectionality framework for theorizing compositions of professionalism, which allows us to explain how multiple embodied categories of difference intersect and are relationally co-constitutive in producing credible professionals, and, importantly, how these intersections are…
Stress at Work, Gendered Dys‐appearance and the Broken Body in Policing
This paper explores how stress as a gendered mode of perception is characterized by processes that call the body to attention in ambiguous and incomplete ways — an experience Leder terms ‘bodily dys‐appearance’. Extending Leder's work through an engagement with feminist accounts of embodiment, we show how stress, as constituted through a corporeal demand to pay attention to pain or discomfort, becomes negated or misrecognized through the sociocul…
Interlopers in class
This article introduces the concept of the interloper for examining classed and gendered dislocation. Focusing on academia, which we view as a classed and gendered field, we draw on Bourdieu and feminist standpoint theory to account for how we, as women of working‐class origin, have experienced ‘breaches' through which we have come to understand ourselves in classed and gendered terms. Coming from different cultural backgrounds, we also reflect o…
Marjana Johansson reviews Against Meritocracy
Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power and Myths of Mobility, Jo Littler. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018. 236 pp. £29.99, ISBN 9781138889552
Writing Class In and Out
This article explores how meanings of class are constructed in elite businesswomen's autobiographies. It extends existing sociological studies of elites in two ways. First, by theorising the cultural mechanisms that contribute to the reproduction of business elites, and second, by examining the hitherto under-researched gendered aspects of the reproduction of business elites, and the legitimisation of wealth. We show how these autobiographical te…
Race difference and power
None of the authors have a conflict of interest to disclose
Feminism and social movements
More than ever the democratic promise of freedom and equality are under threat (Brown, 2019). This threat extends to the liberatory possibilities of the feminist project (Verloo and Patternote, 2018) as well as to the democratic underpinnings of universities (Prasad and Śliwa, 2024; Connell, 2019). Hope is not lost, however, as social movements continue to rally against oppressive and violent political currents, following the trailblazing global …
Intimate encounters
No abstract available
A slog, a push and a labour of love
This paper draws on semi-structured interviews with 57 women electronic music artists to establish the concept of ‘ameliorative work’ as unrecognised and/or undervalued effort expended in order to make their working life better. We contribute to critical research into gender inequalities in the creative industries, and in particular consider the under-researched issue of women’s responses to incidents of gender-based discrimination that arise fro…
Sociology (16 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works)