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Negotiating leader identities through indirect mockery in talk about decision-making in a distributed leadership context KU Leuven
In this article, we scrutinise how humour, and in particular, indirect mockery contributes to the construction of leader identities in talk about decision-making in an organisation characterized by a distributed leadership context. So rather than focusing on decision-making episodes themselves, we tease out an aspect of the goal achievement side of the leadership influence process. Through multimodal discourse analysis, we focus on episodes in ...
Negotiating identities in stories of anti-Chinese racism during the COVID-19 pandemic KU Leuven Ghent University
'Bringing about' complex social groups in WWII testimonies through the code German's indexical value KU Leuven
Othering the expat majority: Qatari junior academics’ identity work at the interface of migration and institutional reform KU Leuven
Qatar’s development is intertwined with migration, resulting in the native population forming a minority. Zooming in on the academic world, which is in the midst of reform processes, we investigate the impact of the expat majority on the identity work of Qatari female junior academics. Drawing on a narrative as social practice approach, we study ‘othering’-strategies in the stories of three interviewees. We demonstrate how their category work ...
Clashing Ideological Frameworks in a Belgian Job Interview with a Sierra Leonean Candidate KU Leuven
Macro-Structural Change in Relation to Micro-Discursive Storytelling: Qatari Nationality as a Resource for the Construction of Professional Identity KU Leuven
Combining insights from the sociology of education and from discourse-based work on identities within contexts of organizational change, we aim to tease out how topdown structural changes can be related to micro-discursive identity work. Selecting the case of the Qatari university context – which currently takes up a pivotal position in a nation-wide transformative agenda that targets both society and economy – we engage in an empirical ...