Dr Elise Lobbedez
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Email
elise.lobbedez@essex.ac.uk -
Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 873079
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Location
EBS.3.23, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Elise started as a lecturer at the University of Essex in 2023, after she defended her PhD at emlyon business school, in France. Her research focuses on the dynamics of power and resistance, with an emphasis on the possibility of social and ecological transformations in repressive settings. She employs ethnography, and more generally qualitative methods, to investigate, among other things, the mechanisms underlying violent conflicts, the dynamics of collaborations and competitions between activists, and the sustaining of high-risk activism. Empirically, she explores various settings, ranging from the French yellow vest mobilization, the LGBT movement, or the Neapolitan waste economy crisis.
Qualifications
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PhD EMLYON Business School,
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Collective resistance, social movements, and activist work
Ethnography and qualitative research
Violence and organization
Anthropocene and sustainability
Conferences and presentations
Mastering the Secretive Technology. The Role of Digital Technology in the Social Process of Secrecy
39th EGOS colloquium, Cagliari, Italy, 7/7/2023
Resistance Movements Under Repression: An Ethnography of the Yellow Vests’ Responses to Sanctions and Pushback
Invited presentation, Montpellier, France, 13/2/2023
Accumulation by contamination: organising wast[ing] as the essence of the Anthropocene
Invited presentation, Grenoble, France, 14/10/2022
Ce que produit la violence: Penser l'organisation de la violence comme résistance à l'aune d'une ethnographie du mouvement des gilets jaunes
11e rencontre de perspectives critiques en management, Montpellier, France, 7/9/2022
'Liberté, Egalité, Flashball.' Resisting work to absorb violent protests
82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, United States, 4/8/2022
'You'll Never Be at Browland.' Reporting sexualized encounters in a field marked by unequal power relations
9th Ethnography Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, 2/6/2022
Faire attention. Pour une épistemologie du souci des autres
10e rencontre de perspectives critiques en management, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 8/9/2021
The Soft Flank Effect. An Amplifying and Sustaining Mechanism for Social Movement's Radical Protests Tactics
Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, 7/8/2021
The Soft Flank Effect. An Amplifying and Sustaining Mechanism for Social Movement’s Radical Protests Tactics
37th EGOS meeting, 8/7/2021
You can’t report what you don’t know: Methodological considerations of an ethnographer navigating organizational secrecy
8th Ethnography Workshop, 27/5/2021
The Strength of Pushback: Collective Identity in Fragmented Mass Movements
Invited presentation, Qualitative Research Seminar Series, Écully, France, 8/12/2020
The Strength of Pushback: Collective Identity in Fragmented Mass Movements
36th EGOS colloquium, 9/7/2020
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Management and Strategy (BE485)
Publications
Journal articles (4)
Lobbedez, E., (2024). Media Review: Strategies for Distributed and Collective Action. Organization Studies
Lobbedez, E. and Buchter, L., (2023). The strength of pushback collective identity in a fragmented mass movement. Mobilization: An International Quarterly. 28 (1), 61-88
Lobbedez, E., (2023). You can’t report what you don’t know: Methodological considerations of an ethnographer navigating organizational secrecy. Ephemera: theory and politics in organization. 23 (1), 189-200
Lobbedez, E., (2023). Absorptive Resisting Work: How the yellow vests deployed resistance to and through violence. Organization Studies. 45 (3), 433-456
Book chapters (1)
Panico, T., Pascucci, S., Lobbedez, E. and Del Giudice, T., (2022). Paradise lost? Understanding social embeddedness through crisis and violence in the Neapolitan ‘Land of Fires’. In: Whole Person Promotion, Women, and the Post-Pandemic Era: Impact and Future Outlooks. Editors: Crosby, M. and Faludi, J., . IGI Global. 91- 114. 9781668423646
