Dr Olimpia Burchiellaro
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Olimpia Burchiellaro is a Senior Lecturer in Management at the University of Essex. Her research focuses on the incorporation of queerness into the productive spheres of global capitalism, and how this marks out certain bodies and communities for violence and dispossession. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork across global contexts such as London, Buenos Aires, São Paulo and Nairobi, working with both activists and movement organisers to contest multiple forms of racialized, gendered and classed violence. Her research works to problematize the management of queerness at different levels, both within and outside the workplace. She has published work in journals including Sexualities, Organization Studies and the International Feminist Journal of Politics. She is the author of the ethnographic monograph 'The Gentrification of Queer Activism' (Bristol University Press, 2023), which traces the closure of queer spaces and the ways in which diversity politics works to gentrify queerness in London. She completed has a BA in Social Anthropology and Politics from SOAS, and a PhD in the School of Social Sciences at University of Westminster. Her Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship in Politics and International Relations critically analysed contemporary corporate investments in diversity and LGBTQ+ rights. Olimpia also sits on the Management Committee for The Friends of the Joiners Arms, a Community Benefit Society that aims to open London’s first community-run, community-owned, queer venue.
Publications
Journal articles (6)
Burchiellaro, O., (2024). The homocapitalist politics of queer tourism: global LGBTQ+ activism, queer travel, and other queer mobilities in Buenos Aires, Argentina. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 26 (2), 240-263
Burchiellaro, O., (2024). A (queer) CEO society? Lesbians Who Tech and the politics of extra-ordinary homonormativity. Sexualities. 27 (4), 998-1015
Cheded, M., Hutton, M., Steinfield, L., Bettany, S., Burchiellaro, O. and Venkatraman, R., (2024). Moving gender across, between and beyond the binaries: In conversation with Shona Bettany, Olimpia Burchiellaro and Rohan Venkatraman. Journal of Consumer Affairs. 58 (1), 209-222
Burchiellaro, O., (2021). ‘There’s nowhere wonky left to go’: Gentrification, queerness and class politics of inclusion in (East) London. Gender, Work & Organization. 28 (1), 24-38
Burchiellaro, O., (2021). Out of time: The queer politics of postcoloniality. Gender, Work & Organization. 28 (3), 1191-1194
Burchiellaro, O., (2021). Queering Control and Inclusion in the Contemporary Organization: On ‘LGBT-friendly control’ and the reproduction of (queer) value. Organization Studies. 42 (5), 761-785
Books (2)
The Routledge Companion to Organizational Diversity Research Methods. Routledge
Burchiellaro, O., (2023). The Gentrification of Queer Activism Diversity Politics and the Promise of Inclusion in London. Policy Press. 1529228565. 9781529228564
