By Omid Aliasghar
When personal crisis strikes, academic life carries on around it: deadlines, meetings, and expectations continue as if disruption is an individual problem. Omid Aliasghar reflects on how composure must be renegotiated when their full presence is no longer possible. Feelings of isolation are often not because of the crisis itself, but because of the gap between the support that exists and the structural conditions that prevent it from being translated into action. A field built on the study of how organizations navigate disruption has, for too long, asked its own members to navigate it in silence. Closing the gap between care and the conditions that allow it to act are what the field demands in order to shift composure from performative to reflexive.
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