Nicolas Bencherki
@nicolas.recor.ca
Professing organizational communication at Université TÉLUQ. Affiliate prof at UQAM and at Audencia.
In a new article, Jeremy Vachet and I explain how the bohemian discourse allows artists to justify and aesthecize difficult living conditions, being in part complicit in creating a precarious working class. @universiteteluq.bsky.social #orgstudies
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‘It’s better to see yourself as a bohemian than poor’: Justifying precarious accommodation as bohemianism among independent musicians - Jeremy Vachet, Nicolas Bencherki, 2026
This article shows that independent musicians justify and endure precarious living and working conditions by discursively mobilizing the discourse of bohemianis...
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August 22, 2026 at 1:43 PM
In a new article, Jeremy Vachet and I explain how the bohemian discourse allows artists to justify and aesthecize difficult living conditions, being in part complicit in creating a precarious working class. @universiteteluq.bsky.social #orgstudies
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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I received my copies of my book, "Communicative Property" (Routledge)!
Viewing property as accomplished in communication recognizes more ways of having, owning, belonging, sharing... and extends them to more people.
Read it and make sure your library acquires it! recor.ca/a?link=4t3uBK
Viewing property as accomplished in communication recognizes more ways of having, owning, belonging, sharing... and extends them to more people.
Read it and make sure your library acquires it! recor.ca/a?link=4t3uBK
July 24, 2026 at 8:20 PM
I received my copies of my book, "Communicative Property" (Routledge)!
Viewing property as accomplished in communication recognizes more ways of having, owning, belonging, sharing... and extends them to more people.
Read it and make sure your library acquires it! recor.ca/a?link=4t3uBK
Viewing property as accomplished in communication recognizes more ways of having, owning, belonging, sharing... and extends them to more people.
Read it and make sure your library acquires it! recor.ca/a?link=4t3uBK
How do disciplines discursively legitimate themselves? In a @ijoc-usc.bsky.social article, D. Trudel and I analyze @icahdq.bsky.social Presidential Addresses, and show they ventriloquize figures into evolving configurations, balancing continuity and change.
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The Ventriloquial Configuring of Communication: International Communication Association Presidential Addresses as Legitimizing Rituals
| International Journal of Communication
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April 20, 2026 at 3:25 PM
How do disciplines discursively legitimate themselves? In a @ijoc-usc.bsky.social article, D. Trudel and I analyze @icahdq.bsky.social Presidential Addresses, and show they ventriloquize figures into evolving configurations, balancing continuity and change.
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To understand volunteers' trajectory through their "career", we need to view it as a series of attachments and detachments from organization, people and cause. That's what Gabrielle P. Fortier and I argue in our new paper in Management Communication Quarterly.
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Volunteering as Attachment - Gabrielle P. Fortier, Nicolas Bencherki, 2026
Drawing on 30 interviews with volunteers and employees in community-based organizations, this study theorizes volunteering as the evolution of attachments throu...
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April 14, 2026 at 2:01 PM
To understand volunteers' trajectory through their "career", we need to view it as a series of attachments and detachments from organization, people and cause. That's what Gabrielle P. Fortier and I argue in our new paper in Management Communication Quarterly.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Among the lineup is a paper by @nicolas.recor.ca & Dominique Trudel looking at @icahdq.bsky.social ICA presidential addresses and disciplinary legitimation.
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The Ventriloquial Configuring of Communication: International Communication Association Presidential Addresses as Legitimizing Rituals
| International Journal of Communication
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April 10, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Among the lineup is a paper by @nicolas.recor.ca & Dominique Trudel looking at @icahdq.bsky.social ICA presidential addresses and disciplinary legitimation.
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Feel like the past clings to you?
In "A ‘Sticky’ Past: The Viscosity of Organizational Memory in Navigating Ethical Change" (J. of Bus. Ethics), Y. Dudink, Y. Taminiau, M. Veenswijk and I explore the metaphor of viscosity to explain how the past hinders ethical change.
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In "A ‘Sticky’ Past: The Viscosity of Organizational Memory in Navigating Ethical Change" (J. of Bus. Ethics), Y. Dudink, Y. Taminiau, M. Veenswijk and I explore the metaphor of viscosity to explain how the past hinders ethical change.
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A ‘Sticky’ Past: The Viscosity of Organizational Memory in Navigating Ethical Change - Journal of Business Ethics
This paper introduces viscosity as a conceptual lens to examine how organizational memory shapes ethical transformation. Based on a qualitative case study of a Dutch bank seeking to distance itself fr...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Feel like the past clings to you?
In "A ‘Sticky’ Past: The Viscosity of Organizational Memory in Navigating Ethical Change" (J. of Bus. Ethics), Y. Dudink, Y. Taminiau, M. Veenswijk and I explore the metaphor of viscosity to explain how the past hinders ethical change.
recor.ca/a?link=TwThje
In "A ‘Sticky’ Past: The Viscosity of Organizational Memory in Navigating Ethical Change" (J. of Bus. Ethics), Y. Dudink, Y. Taminiau, M. Veenswijk and I explore the metaphor of viscosity to explain how the past hinders ethical change.
recor.ca/a?link=TwThje
Parution 🥳! Coline Sénac et moi publions un article, dans Nouvelles pratiques sociales, sur l'expérience de l'injustice épistémique par les bénévoles et activistes s'impliquant dans le milieu communautaire au Québec. Bonne lecture ! @universiteteluq.bsky.social
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Au nom d’une justice épistémique : l’implication bénévole et citoyenne dans les organismes communautaires au Québec – Nouvelles pratiques sociales
Un article de la revue Nouvelles pratiques sociales, diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.
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August 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Parution 🥳! Coline Sénac et moi publions un article, dans Nouvelles pratiques sociales, sur l'expérience de l'injustice épistémique par les bénévoles et activistes s'impliquant dans le milieu communautaire au Québec. Bonne lecture ! @universiteteluq.bsky.social
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Thrilled that a SI of Qualitative Research in Organization and Management (QROM) that I guest edited with Alex Wright and Sophie Del Fa just came out! "Research Methods for the Performative and Communicative Study of Organizing and Organizations", with papers by many fantastic people! #orgstudies
Volume 20 Issue 2 | Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management | Emerald Publishing
Encouraging critical qualitative work from researchers and practitioners within the management and organizational field throughout the world.
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August 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Thrilled that a SI of Qualitative Research in Organization and Management (QROM) that I guest edited with Alex Wright and Sophie Del Fa just came out! "Research Methods for the Performative and Communicative Study of Organizing and Organizations", with papers by many fantastic people! #orgstudies
Venez travailler avec moi ! Poste de professeur.e en relations publiques à l'Université TÉLUQ ! Visualisez l'offre ici: recor.ca/a?link=fI53xR
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July 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Venez travailler avec moi ! Poste de professeur.e en relations publiques à l'Université TÉLUQ ! Visualisez l'offre ici: recor.ca/a?link=fI53xR
À l'approche du 1er juillet, Mathieu Chaput, Sarah Naciri et moi publions dans La Conversation pour souligner l'entraide des locataires entre eux, dont dans des forums en ligne. Ce texte résulte du projet Entraide dans les marges. Merci à Samuel Lamoureux et Kenza Mellouki de nous avoir encouragés.
Crise du logement : alors que l’État se désengage, une entraide de proximité permet d’éviter le pire
Dans un contexte où l’État se désengage de ses responsabilités en matière de logement, des réseaux d’aide informels émergent, notamment sur les réseaux sociaux, comme un filet de sécurité improvisé.
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June 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
À l'approche du 1er juillet, Mathieu Chaput, Sarah Naciri et moi publions dans La Conversation pour souligner l'entraide des locataires entre eux, dont dans des forums en ligne. Ce texte résulte du projet Entraide dans les marges. Merci à Samuel Lamoureux et Kenza Mellouki de nous avoir encouragés.
@curlyresearcher.bsky.social présente son travail sur les vignettes en recherche qualitative, entrepris avec @nancyaumais.bsky.social, au colloque @acfas.ca sur "Restituer les savoirs" organisé par Marie-Claude Plourde et Thomas Maxwell.
May 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
@curlyresearcher.bsky.social présente son travail sur les vignettes en recherche qualitative, entrepris avec @nancyaumais.bsky.social, au colloque @acfas.ca sur "Restituer les savoirs" organisé par Marie-Claude Plourde et Thomas Maxwell.
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Petit rappel : les papiers sont attendus pour le 30 juin :)
Avec @melmillette.bsky.social nous lançons un appel à articles :
"Le travail émotionnel des chercheurs et chercheuses en question"
Analyses, observations, mais aussi récits de recherche sont les bienvenus :)
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"Le travail émotionnel des chercheurs et chercheuses en question"
Analyses, observations, mais aussi récits de recherche sont les bienvenus :)
journals.openedition.org/communiquer/...
Le travail émotionnel des chercheurs et chercheuses en question. Fa...
Présentation Rares sont les études qui s’intéressent au travail émotionnel des chercheurs et chercheuses, particulièrement dans la littérature francophone (Boué et al., 2024; Grimard, 2022). Pourta...
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May 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Petit rappel : les papiers sont attendus pour le 30 juin :)
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On parle du PCC dans le magazine Science:
"The vow—which echoes rhetoric used by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to justify canceling research grants and shutting down government programs—has alarmed many researchers."
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"The vow—which echoes rhetoric used by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to justify canceling research grants and shutting down government programs—has alarmed many researchers."
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In Canadian election, top Conservative candidate vows to end ’woke ideology’ in science funding
Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party is trying to topple Liberal government in 28 April election
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April 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
On parle du PCC dans le magazine Science:
"The vow—which echoes rhetoric used by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to justify canceling research grants and shutting down government programs—has alarmed many researchers."
www.science.org/content/arti...
"The vow—which echoes rhetoric used by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to justify canceling research grants and shutting down government programs—has alarmed many researchers."
www.science.org/content/arti...
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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March 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Reposted by Nicolas Bencherki
Monica Porzionato defends her PhD thesis at U Lund, entitled "Feeling the changing climate: An affective approach to the strategic communication of floods in a tourist city". Opponent prof Sine Just gives the opening presentation. Great to see different traditions, looking forward to the discussion!
February 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Monica Porzionato defends her PhD thesis at U Lund, entitled "Feeling the changing climate: An affective approach to the strategic communication of floods in a tourist city". Opponent prof Sine Just gives the opening presentation. Great to see different traditions, looking forward to the discussion!
Si vous êtes une personne talentueuse et bienveillante, avec une passion pour les études culturelles et médiatiques, venez travailler avec moi ! #communication #media #culturalstudies #academicjobs
December 2, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Si vous êtes une personne talentueuse et bienveillante, avec une passion pour les études culturelles et médiatiques, venez travailler avec moi ! #communication #media #culturalstudies #academicjobs
In 2025, EGOS will be in Athens. You MUST submit your work to subtheme 6, "Thinking Creatively about Organizing: How Organization is Communicatively Performed, Sustained, and Done Differently", convened by @loradob.bsky.social, Simon Parker and Alex Wright. #orgcom #orgstudies recor.ca/a?link=sb9CUN
EGOS - SUB-THEMES: Call for Short Papers - European Group for Organizational Studies
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September 17, 2024 at 8:54 PM
In 2025, EGOS will be in Athens. You MUST submit your work to subtheme 6, "Thinking Creatively about Organizing: How Organization is Communicatively Performed, Sustained, and Done Differently", convened by @loradob.bsky.social, Simon Parker and Alex Wright. #orgcom #orgstudies recor.ca/a?link=sb9CUN
Agency does not always involve agents; it emerges eventfully, as Boris Brummans, Camille Vézy and I write in our new Organization Studies paper, "Agency Without Agents: Affective Forces, Communicative Events, and Organizational Becomings" #orgstudies #orgcom doi.org/10.1177/0170...
Agency Without Agents: Affective Forces, Communicative Events, and Organizational Becomings - Nicolas Bencherki, Boris H. J. M. Brummans, Camille Vézy, 2024
How does agency emerge eventfully in processes of organizational becoming? This article aims to address this question by developing a process theory of agency b...
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August 6, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Agency does not always involve agents; it emerges eventfully, as Boris Brummans, Camille Vézy and I write in our new Organization Studies paper, "Agency Without Agents: Affective Forces, Communicative Events, and Organizational Becomings" #orgstudies #orgcom doi.org/10.1177/0170...
The paper Annis G. Golden and I wrote on "Navigating knowledges: Community health workers as liminal professionals" is published in the Journal of Professions and Organizations SI on 'Opening up the meanings of ‘the professional'! academic.oup.com/jpo/issue/11/2 #orgstudies #discourse #orgcome
Volume 11 Issue 2 | Journal of Professions and Organization | Oxford Academic
Publishes research on organizational issues concerning professionals, including their work, management and their broader social and economic role.
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July 12, 2024 at 11:45 AM
The paper Annis G. Golden and I wrote on "Navigating knowledges: Community health workers as liminal professionals" is published in the Journal of Professions and Organizations SI on 'Opening up the meanings of ‘the professional'! academic.oup.com/jpo/issue/11/2 #orgstudies #discourse #orgcome
If you'll be attending EGOS in Milan, join Birte Asmuß, Paul Spee and I for a conversation over lunch on Wednesday, July 3, about the Management Communication Quarterly special issue on "Communicating, interacting, and strategizing": www.tickettailor.com/events/recor... #orgcom #orgstudies #strategy
May 28, 2024 at 7:18 PM
If you'll be attending EGOS in Milan, join Birte Asmuß, Paul Spee and I for a conversation over lunch on Wednesday, July 3, about the Management Communication Quarterly special issue on "Communicating, interacting, and strategizing": www.tickettailor.com/events/recor... #orgcom #orgstudies #strategy
Learn all about The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research in Organizational Communication, edited bg Boris Brummans, Bryan C. Taylor, and Anu Sivunen, by reading my review in Communication Theory #orgstudies #orgcom doi.org/10.1093/ct/q...
March 27, 2024 at 1:54 AM
Learn all about The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research in Organizational Communication, edited bg Boris Brummans, Bryan C. Taylor, and Anu Sivunen, by reading my review in Communication Theory #orgstudies #orgcom doi.org/10.1093/ct/q...
Les pratiques professionnelles en communication vous intéressent? Les changements technologiques vous fascinent? Soumettez votre travail au le colloque annuel du RESIPROC, qui aura lieu les 7-8 octobre à Sherbrooke. Résumé de 300 mots avant le 1er mai. recor.ca/a?link=TW2jxP
March 18, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Les pratiques professionnelles en communication vous intéressent? Les changements technologiques vous fascinent? Soumettez votre travail au le colloque annuel du RESIPROC, qui aura lieu les 7-8 octobre à Sherbrooke. Résumé de 300 mots avant le 1er mai. recor.ca/a?link=TW2jxP
How does epistemic injustice impede volunteering and citizen participation? Coline Sénac and I explain how in a new article in the journal Voluntas: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#orgcom #orgstudies
#orgcom #orgstudies
The Experience of Epistemic Injustice in Volunteering: The Case of Community Organizations in Quebec - VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
Community organizations aim to promote social and environmental justice but can still reproduce injustice in their participatory and decision-making processes. To understand how that may be the case, ...
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February 27, 2024 at 5:52 PM
How does epistemic injustice impede volunteering and citizen participation? Coline Sénac and I explain how in a new article in the journal Voluntas: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#orgcom #orgstudies
#orgcom #orgstudies
Need help analyzing you qualitative data at the intersection of organizing and communicating? Want to help others? Join EGOS PDW 4, "Analyzing and Theorizing Raw Qualitative Data as a Collective"! Convened by David Hollis, Ellen Nathues & Monica Nadegger #orgstudies www.egos.org/jart/prj3/eg...
February 12, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Need help analyzing you qualitative data at the intersection of organizing and communicating? Want to help others? Join EGOS PDW 4, "Analyzing and Theorizing Raw Qualitative Data as a Collective"! Convened by David Hollis, Ellen Nathues & Monica Nadegger #orgstudies www.egos.org/jart/prj3/eg...