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…the end of the world wanders in the world like its globalization

(Deguy, 2009)

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Air quality is neither a stable material phenomenon, nor form of knowledge. What constitutes good or bad air seemingly consolidates in maps and graphs of gaseous or particle concentrations, in standards and thresholds, and in ‘metrological regimes’ of measurement and organized governance (Barry, 2002; Calvillo, 2018). However, air quality’s stability is illusory.

A randomly dispersed multiplicity of movements, fights and alternative practices of the ‘common’ is unlikely to elicit broader social change. It is more likely to founder on incoherence, conflicts among heterogeneous courses of action, and the weakness of fragmented, isolated forces that are confronted with entrenched interests. To achieve a minimum of convergence among diverse struggles and to amass enough force to challenge the status quo, we need to engage in the politics of hegemony (Kioupkiolis, 2019: 25-26).

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In Foucauldian organization studies, a shift of emphasis has taken place from the ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’ (Ricoeur, 2008) – uncovering modes of subjugation behind the smokescreen of individual freedom – towards the task of discovering potentials of agency, change and resistance (Raffnsøe et al., 2022; Randall and Munro, 2010; McKinlay and Taylor, 2014; Paulsson, 2011).

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The last decade is characterised by a multitude of crises, from the financial crisis of 2008 to the current covid19 pandemic, climate change, the refugees’ crises and the rise of authoritarian capitalism.

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In recent times, there has been a growing debate on common-pool resources, the commons, and on the design of institutions aimed at governing and managing them.

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Several theoretical frameworks have been developed to understand how individuals organise themselves into larger social structures and how these social structures in turn contribute to shaping individual attitudes, behaviours, ideas and beliefs. The concept of institutions is particularly central to most theoretical frameworks in the field of organisational and governance theory.

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The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a one-party state, with the ruling party – the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) – having no opposition parties that are legally tolerated. Although the economy has undoubtedly been liberalized, the state remains a soft authoritarian regime (Thayer, 2010). Vietnam is a lower middle-income country with 97 million people.

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From protecting consumer rights to promoting environmental justice, consumer activism has become an important source of protest. Consumer activism[1] here does not so much speak of a specific, organised movement, but of consumption practices as a locus of struggles for environmental sustainability and global equity (Bost

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Although organizations have long traditions of management and leadership development (Cappelli and Keller, 2017), it is only in the past 25 years that they have become attracted to the specific idea of ‘talent’, to talent’s presumed impact on organizational performance, and to the best ways of finding and deploying talent (Swailes, 2016).