Decolonial feminist theory: Embracing the gendered colonial difference in management and organisation studies

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Abstract

Feminist theories in management and organization studies, each with their own ontological and epistemological assumptions, offer critical perspectives of the status quo to challenge our idea of progress in the discipline, yet there is limited engagement with ideas, theories, or practices from the lived experiences of Global South women. Decolonial feminism engages with debates pertaining to coloniality/modernity and indigenous identity and gender in Latin America, while providing a space for the voices and lived experiences of marginalized, non-Western(ised) women. Positioned in the context of Guatemalan Maya women and deploying critical insights from decolonial feminists, I unpack how the discourse about Global South women silences their voices and agency. Integrating decolonial feminist theory allows us to rethink management and organizationorganization studies as a Western gendered system. Interrupting mainstream narratives to bring a new geopolitics of knowledge and knowing from the perspective of the gendered colonial difference.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1203-1219
Number of pages17
JournalGender, Work and Organization
Volume28
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2021

Keywords

  • Maya women
  • coloniality
  • decolonial
  • feminist
  • indigenous knowledge
  • modernity
  • postcolonial

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