Elise Lobbedez

Elise Lobbedez is a lecturer at the University of Essex, United Kingdom. She holds a PhD in management and organization studies from emlyon business school, in France. Her research focuses on the dynamics of power and resistance, with an emphasis on the possibility of social and ecological transformations in repressive settings. Along these lines, she employs ethnography, and more generally qualitative methods, to study the mechanisms underlying violent conflicts, the dynamics of collaborations and competitions between activists, and the sustaining of high-risk activism, through the deployment of support structures and the use of hidden organising and secrecy by resisters. Empirically, she explores various settings, ranging from the French yellow vest mobilization, the LGBT movement, or the Neapolitan waste economy crisis.