Alaina C Zanin
Biographic Data
| ID | 85472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alaina C Zanin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alaina C |
| FAMILY NAME | Zanin |
| SIGNATURE | ZANIN A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8463-9853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Occupational Identification and Assimilation of Pain Work: (Re)Conceptualizing the Experience of Pain at Work as an Embodied, Co-Constructed Process
This study examines how professional aerial acrobats are socialized to navigate pain as a feature of their occupational identity. Drawing from qualitative interview and arts-based elicitation data from 27 professional aerialists, this study advances organizational communication and body work scholarship by introducing the concept of pain work as a new sub-category of body work. Pain work is a communicative, embodied practice through which workers…
We created the policy, so we don’t need to use it: A qualitative case study of consent policy implementation
This case study describes how members of a dance production negotiated organizational consent by documenting the collaborative implementation of a ‘consent contract.’ This contract functioned as policy regarding appropriate touch and risk management within the production. Utilizing structurating activity theory (SAT), this study documents two system contradictions (i.e. safety versus skill building, protection versus production) and one structura…
Irrational rationality in organizational decision-making: Sustainability discourses and material constraints of U.S. urban desert farmers
This study documents how urban desert farmers make sense of their organizational decisions as sustainable. This study collected interviews with urban desert farmers located in one metropolitan area in the southwestern United States. By employing a sensemaking theoretical framework, data analysis revealed two occupational Discourses (i.e. economic sustainability and environmental sustainability) in tension that were used to retrospectively rationa…
Discursive, Communal, and Individual Coping Strategies: How U.S. Adults Co-constructed Coping During Preliminary Covid-19 Stressors
This interpretive research study explores U.S. adults’ lived experiences during the beginning months of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Participants (N= 44), recruited from a convenience sample of U.S. adults, engaged in in-depth semi-structured interviews or focus groups. Through an iterative analysis of participants’ experiences and the theoretical model of communal coping (TMCC), the authors identified three convergent stressors (i.e., isolation…
Why do employees choose defensive silence: How concerns with formal powerholders undermine self-efficacy to dissent
This study used structurational divergence theory (SDT) to explain why employees’ concerns with powerholders can encourage them to select defensive silence in their approach to workplace problems. A survey of working adults (N = 276) revealed employees who had a concern with powerholders were more likely to select defensive silence as compared to employees who were concerned about other types of workplace concerns. Results indicated that percepti…
Storying the Gender Binary in Sport: Narrative Motifs Among Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming Athletes
This study utilized a two-tiered, thematic and structural narrative analysis to understand the ways transgender, gender non-conforming (TGNC) athletes story their experiences of sport. All participants ( N = 20) self-identified as TGNC and as athletes. A thematic narrative analysis of semi-structured interviews revealed several convergent narratives (i.e., gender sanctioning, binary gender survival, gender transition and disclosure, and gender af…
Trans Relational Ambivalences: A Critical Analysis of Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Relational (Un)Belonging in Sports Contexts
This study explores ways trans and gender-nonconforming athletes navigate a sense of relational (un)belonging in sport contexts. Our research reveals dialectic movements between feelings of inclusion/exclusion juxtaposed with the structural being of inclusion/exclusion. More specifically, the feeling of inclusion/exclusion gestures to individual sensed experiences of (un)belonging, while the being of inclusion/exclusion anchors a participant’s in…
Perceived organizational influences on Western U.S. collegiate athletes’ attitudes toward concussion risks and concussion reporting
This paper investigates how cultural narratives from people at varying positions in a team culture affect athletes’ attitudes toward concussion injures and concussion reporting. Power Five National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) athletes (N = 226) competing in high-concussion risk sports completed a survey exploring the frequency with which they heard performance or safety narratives from three distinct organizational sources: coaches, At…
Fragmenting Feminine-Athletic Identities: Identity Turning Points During Girls’ Transition into High School
This study employed a turning point analysis to document events that influence the development of athletic identities in female athletes transitioning into high school. All participants ( N = 28), between the ages of 14–15 years old, belonged to a competitive club soccer team located in the southwestern United States. Through an analysis of pre- and post-season interviews and bi-weekly video journal entries, data revealed several fragmenting turn…
Collective Emotion During Collective Trauma: A Metaphor Analysis of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study provides insight into lived experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Participant metaphors of the pandemic were collected by conducting in-depth semi-structured interviews ( N = 44). Participants were asked to compare the pandemic with an animal and with a color, and to provide contextual sensemaking about their metaphors. A metaphor analysis revealed four convergent mental models of participants' pandemic experiences…
Toward a typology for negotiating layered identities: An oppositional discourse analysis of girls’ youth sport
This study documents how participants in an all-female youth sport organization negotiate oppositional discourses of identity. Employing Fairhurst and Putnam’s (2019) integrative method of organizational discourse analysis, the findings revealed hegemonic and alternative discourses related to gender (i.e., boys and girls are different; boys and girls are the same), which influenced how participants negotiated a nested feminine-athletic identity a…
Athletic Identity Transformation: A Qualitative Drawing Analysis of Implicit Constructions of Athletes, Girls, and the Self
This study utilizes a drawing analysis to elicit identity constructions of two groups of youth in a large metropolitan area located in the Southwestern United States. These two groups were girls, aged 8–12, who either (a) enrolled and participated in a sports program or (b) did not enroll in the program and did not participate in sports ( N = 25). Participants were asked to draw images of an athlete, a girl, and themselves, then explain the image…
Concertive resistance: How overlapping team identifications enable collective organizational resistance
This study describes how overlapping sources of identification allow organizational members to resist managerial influence collectively in the absence of overt talk or leadership communication – labeled here concertive resistance. Concertive resistance is exercised by organizational members according to a set of core group-level values which challenge, invert, or disrupt top-down control. Concertive resistance extends Barker’s [1993. “Tightening …
The Structuration of Community-Based Mental Health Care: A Duality Analysis of a Volunteer Group's Local Agency
Using a lens of structuration theory, this study highlights the ways that specific structures within the current community-based model of mental health care might enable and constrain individuals and families living with mental illness. Through a case study of a volunteer mental illness advocacy group, the authors employed a duality analysis on a variety of data collected from the case (i.e., interviews, organizational documents, and community he…
Performance Versus Safety: Understanding the Logics of Cultural Narratives Influencing Concussion Reporting Behaviors
Athlete safety and concussion injury have garnered considerable attention recently, and appropriate evaluation of athletes following head impacts depends, in part, on athletes’ self-reporting of the symptoms. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has focused primarily on concussion injury education to encourage self-reporting; however, such efforts have not been especially effective and many potential injuries continue to go unreported. Th…
It's Not Like You Need to Live 10 or 20 Years: Challenges to Patient-Centered Care in Gynecologic Oncologist-Patient Interactions
The literature suggests that the patient-perspective approach (i.e., eliciting and responding to patients' perspectives, including beliefs, preferences, values, and attitudes) to patient-centered care (PCC) is not a reliable predictor of positive outcomes; however, little is known about why the patient-perspective approach does not necessarily lead to positive outcomes. By using discourse analysis to examine 44 segments of oncologist-patient inte…
Collective Emotion During Collective Trauma: A Metaphor Analysis of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study provides insight into lived experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Participant metaphors of the pandemic were collected by conducting in-depth semi-structured interviews ( N = 44). Participants were asked to compare the pandemic with an animal and with a color, and to provide contextual sensemaking about their metaphors. A metaphor analysis revealed four convergent mental models of participants' pandemic experiences…
It's Not Like You Need to Live 10 or 20 Years: Challenges to Patient-Centered Care in Gynecologic Oncologist-Patient Interactions
The literature suggests that the patient-perspective approach (i.e., eliciting and responding to patients' perspectives, including beliefs, preferences, values, and attitudes) to patient-centered care (PCC) is not a reliable predictor of positive outcomes; however, little is known about why the patient-perspective approach does not necessarily lead to positive outcomes. By using discourse analysis to examine 44 segments of oncologist-patient inte…
Toward a typology for negotiating layered identities: An oppositional discourse analysis of girls’ youth sport
This study documents how participants in an all-female youth sport organization negotiate oppositional discourses of identity. Employing Fairhurst and Putnam’s (2019) integrative method of organizational discourse analysis, the findings revealed hegemonic and alternative discourses related to gender (i.e., boys and girls are different; boys and girls are the same), which influenced how participants negotiated a nested feminine-athletic identity a…
Performance Versus Safety: Understanding the Logics of Cultural Narratives Influencing Concussion Reporting Behaviors
Athlete safety and concussion injury have garnered considerable attention recently, and appropriate evaluation of athletes following head impacts depends, in part, on athletes’ self-reporting of the symptoms. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has focused primarily on concussion injury education to encourage self-reporting; however, such efforts have not been especially effective and many potential injuries continue to go unreported. Th…
Athletic Identity Transformation: A Qualitative Drawing Analysis of Implicit Constructions of Athletes, Girls, and the Self
This study utilizes a drawing analysis to elicit identity constructions of two groups of youth in a large metropolitan area located in the Southwestern United States. These two groups were girls, aged 8–12, who either (a) enrolled and participated in a sports program or (b) did not enroll in the program and did not participate in sports ( N = 25). Participants were asked to draw images of an athlete, a girl, and themselves, then explain the image…
Concertive resistance: How overlapping team identifications enable collective organizational resistance
This study describes how overlapping sources of identification allow organizational members to resist managerial influence collectively in the absence of overt talk or leadership communication – labeled here concertive resistance. Concertive resistance is exercised by organizational members according to a set of core group-level values which challenge, invert, or disrupt top-down control. Concertive resistance extends Barker’s [1993. “Tightening …
Fragmenting Feminine-Athletic Identities: Identity Turning Points During Girls’ Transition into High School
This study employed a turning point analysis to document events that influence the development of athletic identities in female athletes transitioning into high school. All participants ( N = 28), between the ages of 14–15 years old, belonged to a competitive club soccer team located in the southwestern United States. Through an analysis of pre- and post-season interviews and bi-weekly video journal entries, data revealed several fragmenting turn…
It's Not Like You Need to Live 10 or 20 Years: Challenges to Patient-Centered Care in Gynecologic Oncologist-Patient Interactions
The literature suggests that the patient-perspective approach (i.e., eliciting and responding to patients' perspectives, including beliefs, preferences, values, and attitudes) to patient-centered care (PCC) is not a reliable predictor of positive outcomes; however, little is known about why the patient-perspective approach does not necessarily lead to positive outcomes. By using discourse analysis to examine 44 segments of oncologist-patient inte…
Performance Versus Safety: Understanding the Logics of Cultural Narratives Influencing Concussion Reporting Behaviors
Athlete safety and concussion injury have garnered considerable attention recently, and appropriate evaluation of athletes following head impacts depends, in part, on athletes’ self-reporting of the symptoms. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has focused primarily on concussion injury education to encourage self-reporting; however, such efforts have not been especially effective and many potential injuries continue to go unreported. Th…
Athletic Identity Transformation: A Qualitative Drawing Analysis of Implicit Constructions of Athletes, Girls, and the Self
This study utilizes a drawing analysis to elicit identity constructions of two groups of youth in a large metropolitan area located in the Southwestern United States. These two groups were girls, aged 8–12, who either (a) enrolled and participated in a sports program or (b) did not enroll in the program and did not participate in sports ( N = 25). Participants were asked to draw images of an athlete, a girl, and themselves, then explain the image…
Concertive resistance: How overlapping team identifications enable collective organizational resistance
This study describes how overlapping sources of identification allow organizational members to resist managerial influence collectively in the absence of overt talk or leadership communication – labeled here concertive resistance. Concertive resistance is exercised by organizational members according to a set of core group-level values which challenge, invert, or disrupt top-down control. Concertive resistance extends Barker’s [1993. “Tightening …
The Structuration of Community-Based Mental Health Care: A Duality Analysis of a Volunteer Group's Local Agency
Using a lens of structuration theory, this study highlights the ways that specific structures within the current community-based model of mental health care might enable and constrain individuals and families living with mental illness. Through a case study of a volunteer mental illness advocacy group, the authors employed a duality analysis on a variety of data collected from the case (i.e., interviews, organizational documents, and community he…
Toward a typology for negotiating layered identities: An oppositional discourse analysis of girls’ youth sport
This study documents how participants in an all-female youth sport organization negotiate oppositional discourses of identity. Employing Fairhurst and Putnam’s (2019) integrative method of organizational discourse analysis, the findings revealed hegemonic and alternative discourses related to gender (i.e., boys and girls are different; boys and girls are the same), which influenced how participants negotiated a nested feminine-athletic identity a…
Fragmenting Feminine-Athletic Identities: Identity Turning Points During Girls’ Transition into High School
This study employed a turning point analysis to document events that influence the development of athletic identities in female athletes transitioning into high school. All participants ( N = 28), between the ages of 14–15 years old, belonged to a competitive club soccer team located in the southwestern United States. Through an analysis of pre- and post-season interviews and bi-weekly video journal entries, data revealed several fragmenting turn…
Collective Emotion During Collective Trauma: A Metaphor Analysis of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study provides insight into lived experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Participant metaphors of the pandemic were collected by conducting in-depth semi-structured interviews ( N = 44). Participants were asked to compare the pandemic with an animal and with a color, and to provide contextual sensemaking about their metaphors. A metaphor analysis revealed four convergent mental models of participants' pandemic experiences…
Perceived organizational influences on Western U.S. collegiate athletes’ attitudes toward concussion risks and concussion reporting
This paper investigates how cultural narratives from people at varying positions in a team culture affect athletes’ attitudes toward concussion injures and concussion reporting. Power Five National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) athletes (N = 226) competing in high-concussion risk sports completed a survey exploring the frequency with which they heard performance or safety narratives from three distinct organizational sources: coaches, At…
Discursive, Communal, and Individual Coping Strategies: How U.S. Adults Co-constructed Coping During Preliminary Covid-19 Stressors
This interpretive research study explores U.S. adults’ lived experiences during the beginning months of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Participants (N= 44), recruited from a convenience sample of U.S. adults, engaged in in-depth semi-structured interviews or focus groups. Through an iterative analysis of participants’ experiences and the theoretical model of communal coping (TMCC), the authors identified three convergent stressors (i.e., isolation…
Why do employees choose defensive silence: How concerns with formal powerholders undermine self-efficacy to dissent
This study used structurational divergence theory (SDT) to explain why employees’ concerns with powerholders can encourage them to select defensive silence in their approach to workplace problems. A survey of working adults (N = 276) revealed employees who had a concern with powerholders were more likely to select defensive silence as compared to employees who were concerned about other types of workplace concerns. Results indicated that percepti…
Storying the Gender Binary in Sport: Narrative Motifs Among Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming Athletes
This study utilized a two-tiered, thematic and structural narrative analysis to understand the ways transgender, gender non-conforming (TGNC) athletes story their experiences of sport. All participants ( N = 20) self-identified as TGNC and as athletes. A thematic narrative analysis of semi-structured interviews revealed several convergent narratives (i.e., gender sanctioning, binary gender survival, gender transition and disclosure, and gender af…
Trans Relational Ambivalences: A Critical Analysis of Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Relational (Un)Belonging in Sports Contexts
This study explores ways trans and gender-nonconforming athletes navigate a sense of relational (un)belonging in sport contexts. Our research reveals dialectic movements between feelings of inclusion/exclusion juxtaposed with the structural being of inclusion/exclusion. More specifically, the feeling of inclusion/exclusion gestures to individual sensed experiences of (un)belonging, while the being of inclusion/exclusion anchors a participant’s in…
Irrational rationality in organizational decision-making: Sustainability discourses and material constraints of U.S. urban desert farmers
This study documents how urban desert farmers make sense of their organizational decisions as sustainable. This study collected interviews with urban desert farmers located in one metropolitan area in the southwestern United States. By employing a sensemaking theoretical framework, data analysis revealed two occupational Discourses (i.e. economic sustainability and environmental sustainability) in tension that were used to retrospectively rationa…
We created the policy, so we don’t need to use it: A qualitative case study of consent policy implementation
This case study describes how members of a dance production negotiated organizational consent by documenting the collaborative implementation of a ‘consent contract.’ This contract functioned as policy regarding appropriate touch and risk management within the production. Utilizing structurating activity theory (SAT), this study documents two system contradictions (i.e. safety versus skill building, protection versus production) and one structura…
Occupational Identification and Assimilation of Pain Work: (Re)Conceptualizing the Experience of Pain at Work as an Embodied, Co-Constructed Process
This study examines how professional aerial acrobats are socialized to navigate pain as a feature of their occupational identity. Drawing from qualitative interview and arts-based elicitation data from 27 professional aerialists, this study advances organizational communication and body work scholarship by introducing the concept of pain work as a new sub-category of body work. Pain work is a communicative, embodied practice through which workers…
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Athletes (5 works) · Physical therapy (5 works)