“…In dialogue with a heterogeneous community of scholars committed to multifaceted DA (Cooke & Faria, 2013;Costa & Teodósio, 2011;Dar & Cooke, 2008;Gulrajani, 2010;Nkomo, 2015;Santos & Meneses, 2020;Saraiva & Enoque, 2019;Wanderley, Celano, & Oliveira, 2018) and engaged with researchers from the progressive face of MR -who prescribe relevance through northern intellectual activism and social justice (Contu, 2020;Rhodes, Wright, & Pullen, 2018) -this study explores the co-production of relevant Southern knowledge in management in (and from) Brazil through a transmodern perspective of subversive complicity that moves beyond the North-South binarism of Eurocentric modernity/coloniality (Dussel, 2015). Focusing on the dynamics of denial and appropriation-containment of multifaceted DA by an expansionist MR, this action-driven investigation seeks to answer the following question: How to co-produce…”