Dr Olimpia Burchiellaro
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Olimpia Burchiellaro (she/her) is an anthropologist and senior lecturer at the 糖心Vlog, where she teaches modules on ethnographic methods, social economies, and community organizing. Her research is on queer political economy, LGBTQ+ activism, gentrification and homocapitalism. She is the author of The Gentrification of Queer Activism (Bristol University Press, 2023) and has conducted research on corporations and queer value in cities such as London, S茫o Paulo, Nairobi and Buenos Aires. Her work is published in journals including Sexualities, Organization Studies and the International Feminist Journal of Politics. Olimpia is the incoming co-Chair of the LGBTQA Caucus at the International Studies Association (ISA). Since 2022, she also sits on the Management Committee of The Friends of the Joiners Arms, an award-winning cooperative opening London鈥檚 first community-owned queer pub. Olimpia is member and communications lead for the Centre for Commons Organizing, Value Equalities and Resilience (COVER).
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Understanding Value and Values (BE402)
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Research Methods in Management and Marketing (BE425)
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Cooperative Management and Marketing 锟� Capstone Module (BE940)
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Research Project with a Community-based Organisation (BE944)
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Research Project with a Community-based Organisation (BE970)
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Professional and Academic Development (Management and Marketing) (BE909)
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Social Economy Management: Theories and Perspectives (BE495)
Publications
Journal articles (7)
Burchiellaro, O., (2025). Making Nairobi 鈥榦pen for business鈥�: the economic case for LGBTQ+ rights, speculative governmentality, and corporate investments in the future at the (queer and economic) frontier. Review of International Political Economy : RIPE
Burchiellaro, O., (2024). The homocapitalist politics of queer tourism: global LGBTQ+聽activism, queer travel, and other queer mobilities in Buenos Aires, Argentina. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 26 (2), 240-263
Burchiellaro, O., (2024). . Sexualities. 27 (4), 998-1015
Cheded, M., Hutton, M., Steinfield, L., Bettany, S., Burchiellaro, O. and Venkatraman, R., (2024). . Journal of Consumer Affairs. 58 (1), 209-222
Burchiellaro, O., (2021). 鈥楾here鈥檚 nowhere wonky left to go鈥�: Gentrification, queerness and class politics of inclusion in (East) London. Gender, Work & Organization. 28 (1), 24-38
Burchiellaro, O., (2021). Queering Control and Inclusion in the Contemporary Organization: On 鈥楲GBT-friendly control鈥� and the reproduction of (queer) value. Organization Studies. 42 (5), 761-785
Burchiellaro, O., (2021). Out of time: The queer politics of postcoloniality. Gender, Work & Organization. 28 (3), 1191-1194
Books (2)
The Routledge Companion to Organizational Diversity Research Methods. Routledge
Burchiellaro, O., (2023). The Gentrification of Queer Activism Diversity Politics and the Promise of Inclusion in London. Bristol University Press. 1529228565. 9781529228564
Book chapters (1)
Burchiellaro, O., Queering LGBT-Friendliness: Three Possibilities (and Problems) In a Multi-Sited Ethnographic Approach to Diversity. Editors: N酶rholm Just, S., Risberg, A. and Villes猫che, F., . Routledge
Grants and funding
2025
Queer/feminist understandings of political violence: Leveraging activist connections, experiences and knowledges
Economic and Social Research Council
