Dr Marco Checchi

Assistant Professor

School: Newcastle Business School

I am an Assistant Professor in Organisation Studies at Newcastle Business School. My research explores resistance, organisational democracy, and the cooperative, mutualist, and solidarity-economy practices through which people organise themselves outside, alongside, and against dominant managerial and market logics. My monograph (Bloomsbury, 2021) develops an account of resistance as constitutive rather than reactive.

Much of my recent empirical work focuses on community-led and democratically organised healthcare. I co-founded and coordinate the International Network of Social Clinics (), a European network of solidarity clinics that emerged in response to austerity and now provides a comparative basis for ongoing research on mutualism, organisational democracy, and community self-management in health and social care.

I welcome enquiries from prospective doctoral students interested in alternative, self-managed, and activist organisations — including cooperatives, social and solidarity economy initiatives, mutual aid networks, community-led healthcare, occupied workplaces, and grassroots collectives.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

My research sits at the intersection of critical organisation studies, political economy, and continental political philosophy. I am particularly interested in the everyday forms of resistance, refusal, and disobedience that shape — and are shaped by — organisational life, and in the cooperative, mutualist, and solidarity-economy practices through which people organise themselves outside, alongside, and against dominant managerial and market logics.

A long-standing strand of my work draws on Étienne de La Boétie, Michel Foucault, and Mark Fisher to develop an account of resistance as constitutive rather than reactive — an argument set out in my monograph (Bloomsbury, 2021) and continued in current work on voluntary servitude, capitalist realism, and the politics of organisational subjectivity.

Empirically, much of my recent research focuses on community-led and democratically organised healthcare, particularly the European network of social clinics that emerged in response to austerity. I co-founded and coordinate the International Network of Social Clinics (), which provides a comparative basis for ongoing work on mutualism, organisational democracy, and community self-management in health and social care.

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