Dr Olimpia Burchiellaro
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Olimpia Burchiellaro is an anthropologist and interdisciplinary scholar of gender, sexuality and political economy. She is a senior lecturer in Management at the University of Essex, where she is also a member of the Centre for Commons Organizing, Value Equalities and Resilience (COVER). Her research sits at the intersection of International Relations, Management and Queer Political Economy, leveraging queer perspectives to shed light on economies of dispossession and processes of value creation, destruction and extraction. She is the author of The Gentrification of Queer Activism (Bristol University Press, 2023), which explores the contradictions of queer inclusion in London. Olimpia completed her PhD and an Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship at the University of Westminster in the Department of Organizations, Economy & Society and Politics & International Relations. She has published ethnographic work in journals including Sexualities, Organization Studies, Gender, Work & Organization and the International Feminist Journal of Politics.
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Understanding Value and Values (BE402)
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Research Methods in Management and Marketing (BE425)
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Cooperative Management and Marketing � Capstone Module (BE940)
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Research Project with a Community-based Organisation (BE944)
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Research Project with a Community-based Organisation (BE970)
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Professional and Academic Development (Management and Marketing) (BE909)
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Social Economy Management: Theories and Perspectives (BE495)
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). Queering Control and Inclusion in the Contemporary Organization: On ‘LGBT-friendly control’ and the reproduction of (queer) value. Organization Studies. 42 (5), 761-785
Burchiellaro, O., (2021). Out of time: The queer politics of postcoloniality. Gender, Work & Organization. 28 (3), 1191-1194
Books (1)
Burchiellaro, O., (2023). The Gentrification of Queer Activism Diversity Politics and the Promise of Inclusion in London. Bristol University Press. 1529228565. 9781529228564
Book chapters (1)
Burchiellaro, O., Queering LGBT-Friendliness: Three Possibilities (and Problems) In a Multi-Sited Ethnographic Approach to Diversity. Editors: Nørholm Just, S., Risberg, A. and Villesèche, F., . Routledge
