IIMB Management Review

Journal of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Strangers at the Bedside: Solidarity-making to address institutionalized infrastructural inequalities

Devi Vijay, Philippe Monin and Mukta Kulkarni
Journal Name
Organization Studies
Journal Publication
others
Journal Publications Functional Area
Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Management
Publication Date
Vol. 44(8), August 2023, Pg. 1281-1308
Abstract

This study explores how heterogeneous actors produce solidarities to address institutionalized infrastructural inequalities. We trace fifteen years over which diverse actors constructed community palliative care infrastructure in Kerala, India. We analyse how actors engaged in solidarity processes of recognizing interdependences, reconfiguring spaces and re-imagining accountability to challenge exclusionary institutions and construct inclusive infrastructure at different scales. We foreground solidarity-making as an indispensable yet under-theorized aspect of institutional research on inequalities. We inform solidarity studies by illustrating how solidarity-making pulsates infrastructures with diverse webs of relations and spatial configurations. Overall, we advance a generative engagement with heterogeneity in institutional analyses and discuss the implications of solidarity-making to address infrastructural inequalities.

Strangers at the Bedside: Solidarity-making to address institutionalized infrastructural inequalities

Author(s) Name: Devi Vijay, Philippe Monin and Mukta Kulkarni
Journal Name: Organization Studies
Volume: Vol. 44(8), August 2023, Pg. 1281-1308
Year of Publication:
Abstract:

This study explores how heterogeneous actors produce solidarities to address institutionalized infrastructural inequalities. We trace fifteen years over which diverse actors constructed community palliative care infrastructure in Kerala, India. We analyse how actors engaged in solidarity processes of recognizing interdependences, reconfiguring spaces and re-imagining accountability to challenge exclusionary institutions and construct inclusive infrastructure at different scales. We foreground solidarity-making as an indispensable yet under-theorized aspect of institutional research on inequalities. We inform solidarity studies by illustrating how solidarity-making pulsates infrastructures with diverse webs of relations and spatial configurations. Overall, we advance a generative engagement with heterogeneity in institutional analyses and discuss the implications of solidarity-making to address infrastructural inequalities.