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Rajiv Maher and Alix Blanchard talk about their current empirical work with BHR practitioners. Entitled, "Becoming Uncomfortably Numb: A Collaborative Auto-ethnography of Managerialism in Business and Human Rights".
Wednesday 17 December 2025, 4pm (UK time)
In this collaborative auto-ethnography, Rajiv and Alix examine how managerialism in Business and Human Rights shapes both organizational dynamics and personal subjectivities. They retrace their own experiences of enthusiasm, disillusion, disengagement and resistance, as compliance logics technicalize and depoliticize harm while drowning out rightsholders' voices.
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Organized by Amanda Willmott, Annie Snelson-Powell, Tricia Olsen, Kathleen Rehbein, Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Michelle Westermann-Behaylo, and Harry Van Buren with support from University of Bath School of Management.