Organizing at the Margins: Theorizing Organizations of Struggle in the Global South

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This edited volume presents complex issues surrounding economic and cultural injustices in the global South and the social imaginaries articulated by vulnerable communities in these extractive zones. These organizations of struggle by disenfranchised members in the global South bring forth a collective of knowledge to decolonize organizational theory and think of organizing a more just world.  The essays in this volume critique and connect meanings of “organizations” in relation to neoliberalism, coloniality, and social justice. More specifically, scholars engage with  ideas of resistance such as invisible histories in management theory, hybrid collective action, self-determination and indigenous sovereignty, and decolonizing institutions. The chapters also cover a wide range of locations including feminist movements in Latin America, the struggles of Palestinians in self-exile to connect with their homeland, and reproductive labor in Sri Lanka to the decolonial potential of Black Lives Matter in the US and insights into organizing resistance in parts of Asia and Africa.  For scholars and policymakers, this book presents emancipatory essays that interrogate the cultural, social, political, and historical issues pertaining to organizations in the context of the neoliberal economy. Acknowledgements Praise for Organizing at the Margins Contents Notes on Contributors 1 Organizing Away from the Gaze: Local Knowledges, New Futures Situating Ourselves What Can We Learn from the Spaces of Extraction in the South? Decolonizing Dominant Epistemologies Dismantling Borders Deconstructing Structures Concluding Thoughts and Looking to the Future References Part I Decolonizing Dominant Epistemologies 2 Decolonizing Knowledge: Cultural Aspirations, Political Self-Determination, and Social Rights in Knowledge Making Reference 3 For Another Democratic Language: Feminist Action in Latin America and the Reconstruction of the Political Introduction Feminist Struggles in Latin America: Contemporary Transformations The Gender and Sexuality Agenda During the “Pink Tide” Violences and New Political Grammars Final Remarks References 4 Hybrid Collective Action The Forms of Hybrid Organizing Hybrid Media Hybrid Spaces Hybrid Tactics Hybrid Epistemologies Contestation and Strategic Communication in Hybrid Societies References 5 Alternative Economic Discourses from the Margins: Kenyan Migrant Women’s Informal Childcare Organizing as an Alternative Economic Discourse in the Contemporary U.S. Context Capitalism in Organizational Communication Scholarship Informal Childcare as an Alternative Organizing Practice Utu Feminism as Global South Cultural Framework Methods Research Setting and Procedures Researcher Positionality Data Analysis Findings Alternative Communication Practices in Kenyan Migrant Women’s ICCO Prayer Preserving Culture by Talking and Teaching Children Involved in ICCO Kenyan Culture Ethical Norms of the Women’s ICCO Discourse: Trust, Care, and Commitment Discussion and Conclusions References 6 Bound(less): Re-storying Entrepreneurship My Research Journey Bounded Making the Shift Bound(less): Re-storying Entrepreneurship Embracing Everydayness Rethinking Innovation Rethinking Economic Growth Conclusion References Part II Dismantling Borders 7 Reflexivity and Solidarity in Culture-Centered Research with Marginalized Populations Considering Reflexivity as Research A Rhetoric of Solidarity Establishing Trust Inside (Outsider) Conclusion References 8 The Imagined Freedom: Borders and Exile in the Global South Introduction Preparing for the Return The Power of a Foreign Passport The Imagined Freedom: Pay More or Suffer The Dream of a New Sky Memories Erased Between Anger and Hopelessness: Youth in Gaza Economy of Starvation Gaza Between the Global South and the Global North Conclusion References 9 Border Struggle: Invisible [Hi]story of the Other in Management/Organization Studies Saartje Baartman: A Product for Freak Management Shows Rational Dehumanization and Racialized Scientific Management: Saartje Baartman’s and Ota Benga’s Legacy for Management/Organization [Hi]story Concluding Thoughts References Part III Deconstructing Structures 10 Culture-Centered Organizing at the “Margins of the Margins”: Dismantling Structures, Decolonizing Futures Colonialism, Capitalism, and Theft Communicative Inequality and Disenfranchisement Whiteness, Privatization, and Colonialism Culture-Centered Organizing at the “Margins of the Margins” Resistance Work as Interconnected Voice in Organizing Processes Knowledge in Organizing Struggle Co-creating Voice Infrastructures Sustaining Voice Infrastructures Crafting Solidarities in Struggles Challenging Repression Activism Within the Academe Conclusion References 11 Emotional Communities in the Economy of Emotions: A Study of Discursive Muscularity in Networked Mobilization of Fan Groups in China Introduction Discursive Muscularity in the Digital Era Emotional Leverage of Online Fan Groups and Discursive Muscularity Online Fan Groups as Emotional Discursive Communities Influence of Emotional Fan Discourse: Constitutive Influence of Emotional Fan Discourse: Consumptive and Productive Emotional Leverage in Fan Economy and the Impact on Discursive Muscularity Emotional Leverage, Nationalistic Discourse, and Fan-Cotts References 12 Black Lives Matter as Postcolonial Organizing Introduction Postcolonialism and Organizing Commitment #1: Disrupting and Reimagining Organizing Spaces Commitment #2: Resisting Colonialist Discourse and Rethinking Organizing Practices Commitment #3: Decolonize Thought and Reconfigure Organizing Forms of Knowledge Postcolonial Nature of BLM Organizing BLM Commitment #1: Disrupting and Reimagining Organizing Spaces BLM Commitment #2: Resisting Colonialist Discourse and Rethinking Organizing Practices BLM Commitment #3: Decolonizing Thought and Reconfiguring Organizing Forms of Knowledge Conclusion Future Implications Embracing Postcoloniality Future Implications for Academics Future Implications for Organizers Afterword References 13 Producing and (Re) Producing? An Ethnographic Narrative of Female Estate and Apparel Workers of Sri Lanka A Preamble Why the World Needs to Know Their Stories? Of Colonial Plantations and (Post) Colonial Factories; A Brief Journey to the Past Lives of ‘Coolies’ Under ‘Colonial Masters’ A Gendered View: Lives of Female Tea Pluckers ‘Girls’, Garments and Global Capital On Theory and Methods Theorizing Productive and Reproductive Labour Of ‘Tea Pluckers’ and ‘Sewing Girls’: ‘Tales from the Field’ Lakshmini’s Productive, (Re)productive Labour Dishanthi: Untying Reproductive from Productive Labour Girls at Auntie Margaret’s Boarding House Demystifying Women’s Productive and Reproductive Labour Women at the Intersections of Gender, Class and Ethnicity References Index