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The Academy for Gender Equality and Social Justice Research in Organisations is delighted to host Dr Dorota Marsh, Senior Lecturer at the University of Lancashire Business School.

Her research interests lie at the intersection of organisational and social themes and examines the political potential of affect both within and beyond organisational settings. Her work has been published in a range of journals, including Human Relations, Organization Studies and New Technology, Work and Employment.

The seminar title is "Entrepreneurship Otherwise: Practice, Affect, and the Undoing of Masculine Mastery”. It brings together a published paper and a work-in-progress paper which unsettle dominant ways of thinking about entrepreneurship, masculinity, and desirable futures. Both papers draw on a processual practice perspective to examine how organisational life is continually (re)made through mundane sociomaterial practices. The first published paper "Deflated in shame and puffed up in pride: How affective practices matter for entrepreneuring" reclaims the optimism embedded in the processual notion of entrepreneuring, not as heroic future-making but as a fragile opening beyond what already exists. By following shame and pride in small family businesses, it shows how affective practices quietly disturb what is already organised, opening space for futures that cannot be planned or controlled. The second working paper, “No longer upright: When the male body leans out of hegemonic entrepreneurial masculinity,” extends this line of thinking by approaching hegemonic entrepreneurial masculinity as a precarious, embodied practice rather than a stable identity. Drawing on feminist theory and process philosophy, it explores how leaning, vulnerability, and corporeal exposure unsettle stabilised ideals of autonomy, control, and entrepreneurial mastery. Together, the papers argue for a practice-based, processual, and methodologically experimental approach in management and organisation studies.

This will be a hybrid event, held in LUMS LT14 (Dormer)

If attending in person, please email Sophie Alkhaled to secure your place s.alkhaled@lancaster.ac.uk