Chris Steyaert
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Prof. PhD
Last Name
Steyaert
First name
Chris
Email
chris.steyaert@unisg.ch
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+41 71 224 7044
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Item type:Publication, Why change towards gender equality is glacially slow: Unpacking how men’s ambivalent manoeuvring sustains the masculine status quo(2026) - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The atmospheric attunement of diversity interventions: learnings from a dance performanceSince the start of diversity management in organizations, interventions have been primarily oriented toward altering individuals' cognition, missing out on the potential of the embodied and materially mediated character of learning and interacting as experimented with in artsbased interventions. In this study, through ethnographically exploring a dance performance, whose main purpose is to create a community between a diverse cast and audience, we aim to rethink interventions around diversity. In particular, we turn to the notion of atmospheric attunement to investigate how, in this artistic context, a diverse group of people learns to relate differently. From this, we theorize two conditions of possibility for thinking differently about diversity interventions: (1) a sentient focus on atmospheric attuning that collectively connects embodied differences, and (2) the material mediation of nonhuman elements that enables the co-creation of these affirmative experiences. Together, both conditions suggest considering diversity intervention as a politics of affirmative experience.Type:journal articleJournal:Culture and OrganizationVolume:31Issue:6 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Dialogic Organizing: Affirming public engagement for hope and solidarity(Sage, 2025-11-02); Scopus© Citations 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Ambivalent affects of queer resistance: the Stonewall uprising at the operaType:journal articleJournal:Qualitative Research in Organizations and Managment: An International JournalIssue:5Scopus© Citations 3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Emancipatory entrepreneuring as disidentification: A queer-feminist view of becoming a democratic cooperativeDemocratizing entrepreneurship itself is by far no guarantee for emancipation: the majority can (over)rule, masculinist dominance or regressive ideologies may flourish, and exclusions occur. By ethnographically following the transformation of a socially engaged agency into a diverse cooperative, we offer a processual study of emancipatory entrepreneuring that is undoing the paternal, family-like, and pseudo-democratic enterprise and creates a diverse cooperative with shared ownership, co-leadership, and queered sensitivities to gender, racism, and affective difference. Our analysis thereby relies on the political concept of “disidentification” and its process of queer worldmaking as developed by José Esteban Muñoz. On this conceptual basis, we redraw becoming democratic as an ongoing in-between process of “decomposing” heroic and patriarchally inclined entrepreneurship and ongoingly “recomposing” democratic entrepreneuring through revising interrelated layers of inequality. By introducing the theory of “disidentification”, we contribute with a queer-feminist conceptual vocabulary to analyze the intertwined political and processual nature of emancipation. Transformation is neither understood as a revolution nor a planned linear change but rather as an ongoing in-between process that subversively recycles former, habitual ways of interacting into undertaking different, more inclusive worldmaking.Type:journal articleJournal:Human RelationsVolume:78Issue:6Scopus© Citations 8 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Unsettling bodies of knowledge: Walking as a pedagogy of affectIn this article, we connect with recent attempts to rethink management learning as an embodied and affective process and we propose walking as a significant learning practice of a pedagogy of affect. Walking enables a postdualist view on learning and education. Based on course work focused on urban ethnography, we discuss walking as affect-pedagogical practice through the intertwined activities of straying, drifting and witnessing, and we reflect upon the implications for a pedagogy of affect. In conclusion, we speculate about the potential of a pedagogy of affect for future understandings and practices of management learning.Type:journal articleJournal:Management LearningIssue:52Scopus© Citations 50 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The accomplishement of inclusion in intergenerational danceIn this study, we aim to revisit theorizing on inclusion by turning to practice theory. Challenging the individualist ontological assumption of most diversity and inclusion studies, we follow a practice‐based theory of diversity to understand how an inclusive social order is accomplished. Our empirical case centres on the real‐time practicing of a dance production where diversity was central to its production process as well as final performance. Using a research strategy of connected situationalism, we uncover and document three practices: mixing, inverting and affirming, that are recursively intertwined into a nexus, producing inclusion. We advance the inclusion literature by proposing the notion ‘a site of diversalizing’ that processually captures the accomplishment of multiplicity through practices and their associations in time and space, highlighting the necessity to understand ‘practice’ as the entanglement of bodily, discursive and material components, and approaching context as comprised of mutually constituting relations instead of micro/macro levels.Type:journal articleJournal:Jounal of Management StudiesVolume:57Issue:6Scopus© Citations 40 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Affective control in new collaborative work: Communal
fantasies of purpose, growth and belongingWe examine the increasing popularity of collaborative work practices to understand its consequences for organizational control. Applying a Lacanian framework, we pay attention to how this (re-)emerging trend of collaborative work is underpinned by affect-laden fantasies of community-driven co-creation. Based on a multi-source study design to explore collaborative work, we identified three interrelated fantasies that arouse passionate attachments to collaborative community involvement: a spiritual fantasy of ‘purpose,’ an entrepreneurial fantasy of ‘growth,’ and a tribal fantasy of ‘belonging.’ To preserve the relevance of Lacan’s thought for the inquiry of distributed, post-heroic, and post-hierarchical work practice, we propose the notion of ‘communal Other.’ This notion provides insights into the unfolding of control through the fantasmatic desire for wholeness by working in collaborative communities. Conceptually, we theorize how tensions between the paradoxical enjoyment of pleasure and pain – what Lacan called ‘jouissance’ – highlight the central importance of affective control in collaborative work.Type:journal articleJournal:Organization StudiesScopus© Citations 41 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Peer Collaboration as a Relational Practice: Theorizing Affective Oscillation in Radical Democratic OrganizingRecently, radical democratic initiatives have been undertaken by freelancers and founders who come together in a range of alternative forms such as ethical entrepreneurial coalitions, urban coworking spaces, and open cooperative networks. In this paper, we argue that these initiatives to invent alternative, more equal forms of organizing engage strongly with relational activities to replace hierarchical interaction with distributed peer collaboration. While the literature has emphasized the sense of experimentation and reflexivity of these alternative forms of organizing, this paper especially draws attention to the affective dynamics of everyday peer-to-peer collaboration. Drawing on an 18-month ethnography of a cooperative network of social entrepreneurs, we use a practice-based approach to study peer collaboration as a relational practice formed through a nexus of ‘weaving,’ ‘sharing,’ and ‘caring’ activities. Focusing on the affective orders enveloping relational practice, we document how the practice of peer collaboration is imbued by what we call an ‘affective oscillation’ forming contrasting amplitudes between confidence and frustration, exuberance and anxiety, and trust and exhaustion. As our core contribution, we problematize how the affirmative intent of radical democratic organizing is potentially jeopardized by this ‘cloudy affectivity,’ and we conclude that the collective pursuit of embodied ethical encounters is formed by slowing down and feeling into affective oscillation.Type:journal articleJournal:Journal of Business EthicsIssue:164Scopus© Citations 37 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Reflecting with Pierre Bourdieu: towards a reflexive outlook for parctice-based studies of entrepreneurshipIn recent times, practice-based approaches have gained momentum as theoretical tools to understand entrepreneurship. Even if this project is far from finished, in this paper we argue that it needs its own critical assessment by zooming in on one of the major implications which comes with taking the practice turn, namely the question of reflexivity. Drawing on Bourdieu’s rich and refined conception of reflexivity, which forms an inherent part of his practice theory, we delineate the importance of incorporating this notion in how we further apply Bourdieu in practice-based entrepreneurship studies, while also opening up for a reflexive outlook of the practice turn in entrepreneurship studies. In particular, we argue that reflexivity is not so much a self-involved scholarly issue but rather a matter of attending to the social and intellectual unconscious embedded in our research and analytical tools, which can bring both epistemic and civic renewal in the ways practice-based approaches are developed in entrepreneurship studies. In the conclusion, we underline that the practice turn, without a reflexive outlook, will rather maintain the status quo of the field of entrepreneurship studies instead of realizing the promise it holds for the study of entrepreneurship.Type:journal articleJournal:Entrepreneurship & Regional DevelopmentVolume:32Issue:3-4: Entrepreneurship as PracticeScopus© Citations 46