Challenging Social Inequality in the Global South: Class, Privilege, and Consciousness-Raising Through Critical Management Education

Unsanitized writing practices: Attending to affect and embodiment throughout the research process

“…The participant observations show that the presence of cleaners is sometimes felt as “annoying” by other workers in the airplane or passengers whose activities are stalled because of the cleaning work. Similarly, in their study of the relations between management students and toilet cleaners, Zulfiqar and Prasad (2020) show that it is precisely the invisibility of the workers that clean toilets which perpetuates social inequalities: “how can what cannot be seen, felt or heard be given recognition and legitimation (Butler, 2004)?” (cited in Zulfiqar & Prasad, 2020, p. 39). As Marxist feminists also argued (Duffy, 2007), although the sustainability of society depends on reproductive labor such as cleaning, it is often constructed in contrast to “real work,” and therefore remains invisible and unrecognized.…”

Searching for “home,” writing to find it: A reflective account on experiences of othering in life and academia in times of generalized crises

“…Yes, “dirt is a matter out of place,” Mary Douglas (1966) is right. It stigmatizes social groups, whose work or social class are perceived as dirty and this stigma affects discursive identity‐making processes (Zulfiqar & Prasad, 2020), what we now experience all the more during the COVID‐19 pandemic, whereby certain national and racial groups are discriminated against as potential carriers of the killer various more than others (Gao & Sai, 2020). I am perceived as such back home as well now, entering from a “highly contaminated” country.…”

Resistance and praxis in the making of feminist solidarity: A conversation with Cynthia Enloe

“…It is perhaps not surprising, then, that she agreed to Skype into my undergraduate classroom in Lahore, where I teach public policy to management students. My students listened in awe as she described her childhood in New York's suburbs, connected it to the international politics of paid domestic work and subsequently related it to the students’ own class project on the politics of domestic cleaning, on which she knew Ajnesh and I were working individually and together (e.g., Segarra & Prasad, 2020; Zulfiqar, 2019; Zulfiqar & Prasad, 2020, in press). I still get emails from students, who have since graduated, describing how they feel a personal connection to Cynthia when they read her work in graduate school or recall her advice to do a gendered analysis of their institutions, as they enter the workforce and take up managerial positions.…”