Decolonizing as an Ever Beginning
Forthcoming in Fohim E. (Ed) Decolonizing Management and Organization Studies - Why, How and What, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds.
13 Pages Posted: 7 Nov 2024
Date Written: September 20, 2024
Abstract
The decolonial agenda calls for bringing the colonized and colonizers together to restore the past and recommit to the future. This essay accounts for the experiences of four research teams co-travelling the space-time continuum with a quest at once simple and complicated: How do we begin decolonizing? Although each experience is unique and still unfolding, all four teams converged on a shared insight: decolonizing is a succession of new beginnings. As the river is never the same, each team’s encounters led to many new ways of seeing, being, and doing decolonizing. This essay invites us to begin again. Decolonizing as an ever beginning brings to the four intertwined aspects: 1) the land, 2) the body, 3) the ethics, and 4) the politics. Together, these continue to transform us profoundly and might offer some hope for new beginnings toward decolonizing the colonial legacy of our fields.
Keywords: Body, Decolonial beginnings, Ethics, Land, Politics
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