Anna‐Maria Murtola
Biographic Data
| ID | 6738304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna‐Maria Murtola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna‐Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Murtola |
| SIGNATURE | MURTOLA A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auckland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2921-7794 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Who cares for wellbeing? Corporate wellness, social reproduction and the essential worker
This paper seeks to contribute to the rethinking of wellbeing in organisation studies. First, it contributes to critiques of corporate wellness by drawing on social reproduction theory to show how the wellbeing of every individual worker is dependent on the efforts of many, often unacknowledged, others. Corporate wellness initiatives epitomise the dominant, neoliberal narrative of wellbeing in which individuals are posited as responsible for the …
Visible and invisible work in the pandemic
Feminist scholars and activists have long fought to make visible the fundamental but overlooked social reproduction work performed primarily by women, often in households. Taking on black feminist criticisms of the initial prioritization of the experience of white, middle-class women, these debates have developed into a broader social reproduction theory, which emphasizes the relationality of multiple forms of oppression under capitalism. The COV…
Experience, Commodification, Biopolitics
Although the commodification of experience has been a long-standing concern for critical scholars, today the breadth and depth of this practice and the conscious manipulation involved is unparalleled. In this paper I analyse contemporary commodification of experience drawing on insights from the early Frankfurt school and autonomist thought. In doing so, I show how contemporary commodification of experience, understood in particular in terms of e…
Entrepreneurship and expropriation
Entrepreneurship plays out today in an ideologically mediated contest between production in common and expropriation of the common. On the one hand, it is possible to locate a ‘positive’ moment of the increasing socialization of work through which production has become social and cooperative, involving production from the common, in common, of the common. On the other hand, there is a ‘negative’ moment that seeks to separate, enclose and capture …
Materialist theology and anti-capitalist resistance, or, ‘What would Jesus buy
Analysis of resistance in critical organization and management studies today tends to focus on expressions of micro resistance in the workplace. Meanwhile, much broader struggles are taking place on the global arena in response to the ongoing violence of neoliberal capitalism. Capitalism, which has always had a fraught relationship to religion, appears today in many ways as a religion in its own right. Furthermore, its ongoing expansion is explic…
Commodification of utopia
This article responds to recent lamentations about the waning of utopia. Through an explanation of different concepts of utopia and an analysis of a recent shopping mall development project, the article shows how utopia has been appropriated by commercial actors. Drawing on the work of Herbert Marcuse and Giorgio Agamben and with the help of the Homeric allegory of the lotus eaters and contemporary popular culture, the article analyzes this state…
Experience, Commodification, Biopolitics
Although the commodification of experience has been a long-standing concern for critical scholars, today the breadth and depth of this practice and the conscious manipulation involved is unparalleled. In this paper I analyse contemporary commodification of experience drawing on insights from the early Frankfurt school and autonomist thought. In doing so, I show how contemporary commodification of experience, understood in particular in terms of e…
Commodification of utopia
This article responds to recent lamentations about the waning of utopia. Through an explanation of different concepts of utopia and an analysis of a recent shopping mall development project, the article shows how utopia has been appropriated by commercial actors. Drawing on the work of Herbert Marcuse and Giorgio Agamben and with the help of the Homeric allegory of the lotus eaters and contemporary popular culture, the article analyzes this state…
Visible and invisible work in the pandemic
Feminist scholars and activists have long fought to make visible the fundamental but overlooked social reproduction work performed primarily by women, often in households. Taking on black feminist criticisms of the initial prioritization of the experience of white, middle-class women, these debates have developed into a broader social reproduction theory, which emphasizes the relationality of multiple forms of oppression under capitalism. The COV…
Commodification of utopia
This article responds to recent lamentations about the waning of utopia. Through an explanation of different concepts of utopia and an analysis of a recent shopping mall development project, the article shows how utopia has been appropriated by commercial actors. Drawing on the work of Herbert Marcuse and Giorgio Agamben and with the help of the Homeric allegory of the lotus eaters and contemporary popular culture, the article analyzes this state…
Entrepreneurship and expropriation
Entrepreneurship plays out today in an ideologically mediated contest between production in common and expropriation of the common. On the one hand, it is possible to locate a ‘positive’ moment of the increasing socialization of work through which production has become social and cooperative, involving production from the common, in common, of the common. On the other hand, there is a ‘negative’ moment that seeks to separate, enclose and capture …
Materialist theology and anti-capitalist resistance, or, ‘What would Jesus buy
Analysis of resistance in critical organization and management studies today tends to focus on expressions of micro resistance in the workplace. Meanwhile, much broader struggles are taking place on the global arena in response to the ongoing violence of neoliberal capitalism. Capitalism, which has always had a fraught relationship to religion, appears today in many ways as a religion in its own right. Furthermore, its ongoing expansion is explic…
Experience, Commodification, Biopolitics
Although the commodification of experience has been a long-standing concern for critical scholars, today the breadth and depth of this practice and the conscious manipulation involved is unparalleled. In this paper I analyse contemporary commodification of experience drawing on insights from the early Frankfurt school and autonomist thought. In doing so, I show how contemporary commodification of experience, understood in particular in terms of e…
Who cares for wellbeing? Corporate wellness, social reproduction and the essential worker
This paper seeks to contribute to the rethinking of wellbeing in organisation studies. First, it contributes to critiques of corporate wellness by drawing on social reproduction theory to show how the wellbeing of every individual worker is dependent on the efforts of many, often unacknowledged, others. Corporate wellness initiatives epitomise the dominant, neoliberal narrative of wellbeing in which individuals are posited as responsible for the …
Visible and invisible work in the pandemic
Feminist scholars and activists have long fought to make visible the fundamental but overlooked social reproduction work performed primarily by women, often in households. Taking on black feminist criticisms of the initial prioritization of the experience of white, middle-class women, these debates have developed into a broader social reproduction theory, which emphasizes the relationality of multiple forms of oppression under capitalism. The COV…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Commodification (2 works) · Economy (2 works)