Decolonising management studies: A love story

Ruggunan, Shaun

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“…as well as 'recommodification' of older rented units (Mabin and Parnell 1983) and an official policy of 'self-help housing' (Mabin 1993: 336; see also Republic of South Africa 1977). In contrast to earlier policy, the government now promoted its primary role as that of facilitator in the creation of favourable conditions and opportunities for private sector participation (Ruggunan 2016). New areas begun as site-and-service schemes expanded rapidly to their huge form today, such as Motherwell, Orange Farm, Khayelitsha and Diepsloot (Harber 2011).…”

Section: Recommodification Markets and A Post-apartheid Subsidy Systemmentioning

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A Century of South African Housing Acts 1920–2020

Mabin

2020

Urban Forum

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A century ago, South Africa's first national scheme for financing public housing passed into law. The Housing Act, number 35 of 1920, created a fund administered by a Central Housing Board, from which municipalities could borrow to support construction of houses at a lower interest rate than available elsewhere. The Act came in the aftermath of the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-1919; the Parliament passed the law on 13 August 1920 and it came into effect a few days later. In the circumstances of 2020, millions of publicly subsidized houses later, and in the midst of a global pandemic, this article reflects on a century of public, or state, housing finance, through housing laws and practices that commenced 100 years ago. The article reviews the circumstances of health, housing, economy and politics in the 1918-1920 period. Themes emerge of public health, social control, racism and segregation, but also social democratic and anti-statist ideas. The article then briefly draws such themes through the twentieth century and beyond, leading to a consideration of the circumstances that prevail in the field in 2020, once more in contested conditions of pandemic, scarcity and poverty. The sources of the article include official reports and similar documents, secondary literature and some archival material. The method is historical and discursive.

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A Century of South African Housing Acts 1920–2020

Mabin

2020

Urban Forum

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“…While intersectionality was first termed to understand multiple marginalisation (Crenshaw, 1991), the question of focusing on identity categories has come under criticism within the CMS literature as a potential way of perpetuating further division and segregation (Lykke et al, 2014;Ruel, Mills, & Thomas, 2015). Yet, within the highly racialised context of South Africa's past and present, contextual studies need to take race into account (Carrim & Nkomo, 2016;Ruggunan, 2016;Zanoni, Janssens, Benschop, & Nkomo, 2010). The question remains as to how issues of race and http://www.sajhrm.co.za Open Access culture are brought to the fore in a way that eliminates boundaries of categorisation, while acknowledging South Africa's racialised context.…”

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Applying duoethnography to position researcher identity in management research

Kinnear

Ruggunan

2019

SA j. hum. resour. manag.

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Orientation: South African management studies do not have a strong tradition of qualitative, critical and reflexive research. We explore how this may occur through a reflection on researcher identity.Research purpose: To critically reflect on the focussed dialogue and reflection between the authors and to demonstrate how duoethnography can challenge management scholars to become more reflective of their scholarship.Motivation for the study: To show how duoethnography can be applied in management studies scholarship as a methodological approach.Research approach/design and method: A duoethnographic approach is used. This is a collaborative form of autoethnography between two researchers. The researchers themselves become the participants of the study. The dialogue between the researchers is reflective of shared, sometimes conflictual experiences on a focussed topic or research question. We reflect on the ways our dialogues influence Lisa’s reflection of her own identity when conducting qualitative doctoral research with a feminist lens. Her identity is also influenced through some of the narrative texts of the women she interviewed during her fieldwork.Main findings: The account concludes that duoethnography challenges the positivist position that researcher identity is objective from the participants we research. We show that gender, race and epistemic assumptions are not simply quantitative variables.Practical/managerial implications: The practical implication of the study is to encourage management scholars to engage in duoethnographic collaborations as a means to facilitate critical reflection on current and past work.Contribution/value-add: The study provides an original duoethnographic account that is an uncommon reflective practice in a management research context.

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“…They are interested in the way in which Western epistemology has guided and constrained knowledge production in organization theory by colonizing the depictions of organizational practices in non-Western countries (Alcadipani et al, 2012;Banerjee and Prasad, 2008;Cooke, 2004;Faria et al, 2010;Gantman et al, 2015;Murphy and Zhu, 2012;Prasad, 2003;Westwood and Jack, 2007). To decolonize MOK, there is growing interest in and a resurgence of indigenous worldviews and customary organizational practices that could open up new modes of inquiry and knowing which would contest and "go beyond" hegemonic structures of control and discipline (Connell, 2007;Dar, 2018;Jack and Westwood, 2006;Ruggunan, 2016;Yousfi, 2013).…”

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Decolonizing Arab organizational Knowledge: “Fahlawa” as a Research Practice

Yousfi

2021

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This article draws attention to how management scholars “the outsiders within” who are structurally positioned within the academies of dominant powers might negotiate the complexities of producing a locally rooted and meaningful knowledge, emancipated from the U.S. hegemony while carrying organization studies in Arab countries. Drawing upon my different ethnographic journeys as a researcher, brought up in an Arab country with a Francophone intellectual mindset and studying Arab management practices, I will discuss both the potential for and the difficulties of critical engagement with a decolonizing management research agenda. Then, and building on critical border thinking tradition, I will propose the Egyptian term “Fahlawa” as a metaphor for better describing the challenges of a decolonizing research practice that privileges contestation and perpetual bricolage over formal and universal design. Finally, I will conclude by highlighting the potential of “Fahlawa” as a survival/resistance practice to theorize what is unthought and invisible in management literature and to build situated knowledge less organized by U.S. domination.

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Decolonising management studies: A love story

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Cited by 14 publications

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A Century of South African Housing Acts 1920–2020

A Century of South African Housing Acts 1920–2020

Applying duoethnography to position researcher identity in management research

Decolonizing Arab organizational Knowledge: “Fahlawa” as a Research Practice

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