On ableism and anthropocentrism: a canine perspective on the workplace inclusion of disabled people
(2020) The 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management: Broadening our sight — Location: Online (7.August.2020)
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- Although scholars have to some extend examined how disabled people become Othered in organizational settings through language, space and practice, and similar analyses have appeared with regard to animals, no analysis so far has focused on the potential double marginalization that takes place when disabled people come to work with their service dog. In filling this void, this paper acknowledges the role socio-materiality plays in creating a social order in which humans and able-bodied people are privileged over non-humans and disabled people. This study documents the in/exclusion of service dogs in the workplace and how it serves as a proxy for the dis/enablement of the owners with mobility and visual impairments, taking a spatial, discursive and affective form. In this way, inclusion and exclusion become materialized through spatial arrangements and artefacts, words and signs, and embodied, emotional performances. Contributions are made towards the literatures on ableism and anthropocentrism in the workplace by illustrating the embodied entanglement of human-dog in the daily organization of work.
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Jammaers, E. (2020). On ableism and anthropocentrism: a canine perspective on the workplace inclusion of disabled people. Proceedings / Academy of Management, 2020(1), 18712. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/122011 (Original work published 2020)