Articles by Olimpia Burchiellaro

November 7, 2023

🎭 How capitalism co-opted difference and why we need to take it back

Olimpia Burchiellaro

We are living in a new era of diversity-friendly corporations. These corporations are co-opting difference to wash over the violences of capitalism. Olimpia Burchiellaro argues that only by reconnecting identity struggles to questions of economic justice will we engender democratic transformations

Olimpia Burchiellaro

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster

Olimpia is an anthropologist of gender/sexuality, queer politics and political economy.

She has published work in journals including Sexualities, Gender, Work & Organization and Organization Studies.

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The Gentrification of Queer Activism
Bristol University Press, 2023

Offers a critique of the closure of queer spaces and the ways in which diversity politics works to gentrify queerness in London.

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