Patrizia Zanoni is Professor at Hasselt University (Belgium) and Chair in Organization Studies at the Utrecht University School of Governance (the Netherlands). One of the driving forces in critical management studies, she researches how ‘diversity’ – markers of difference including among other gender, ‘race’, disability and their intersections – is used as a principle of organizing to enforce exploitation and oppression for capital accumulation. Keeping class relations front and center in explanations of inequality, her work pushes diversity and inclusion scholarship towards more radical critique, beyond pleas for equal opportunities and non-discrimination within global neoliberal capitalism. With a background in economics, anthropology, and political science, she is committed to diversity research that is interdisciplinary and critical. She is currently working on diversity and precarity in Amazon, how digital technology mediates difference, and the possibility of a post-pandemic non-capitalist organization of the economy and society.
Patrizia has received awards for her master’s thesis, academic papers, dissertation and innovation in education. Her latest funded (collaborative) research projects are on digital logistics and intersectional equality policies. She does ‘civic’ scholarship with various communities including two teams in Hasselt and Utrecht, the editorial team of the journal Organization, practitioners and policy makers.
