The business school is racist: Act up!

Abstract

<jats:p> In this essay, we call upon our fellow scholars of colour to recognise the ways Business Schools are structured by white supremacy and actively de-value our knowledge and experiences. Alongside this recognition, collective action led by scholars of colour is needed to build intergenerational support systems which will be key to dismantling racialised power structures as they appear locally and transnationally. White scholars are invited to listen and learn from this call. </jats:p>

Bios, mythoi and women entrepreneurs: A Wynterian analysis of the intersectional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed women and women-owned businesses

“…This begins with the recognition that to date, our uncritical reproduction of abstract disembodied, extractivist ideologies has underpinned the unabated racial capitalism (Leong, 2013;Robinson, 2000) that has led to such disastrous outcomes. Now is the time to challenge our historical amnesia (Dar et al, 2020) and to explore and adopt alternative economic systems based around such ancient principles as protection of the commons, an ethics of care, interspecies interdependency and the periodic redistribution of wealth (Federici, 2019: 80;Haraway, 2016;Mussell, 2016). By establishing ring-fenced funding for marginalised entrepreneurs and targeted crisis management support, we acknowledge their contributions and demonstrate their importance to society, making sure no one is left behind (Murray, 2020;Warner, 2020a).…”

Envisioning More Equitable and Just Futures: Feminist Organizational Communication in Theory and Praxis

“…I also worry that the processes determining what is or is not “organizational communication” let feminist organizational communication disengage from robust, nuanced feminist work. For instance, some folks might classify Dar et al’s (2020) work on racism and business as not “communication” and Nakayama’s (2020) forum on whiteness and communication as not “organizational.” This dismissal requires feminism to speak constantly to the “center” of organizational communication rather than doing the organizing, disorganizing, and reorganizing that requires both organization and communication to change.…”

Not Getting Over It: The Impact of Sara Ahmed’s Work within Critical University Studies

“…Her writings pay homage to the rich lineage of women of color thinkers, activists, and artists before her: Lorde, Mohanty, Alexander, hooks, Davis, Anzaldúa, Mirza. She acknowledges the Black feminists and feminists of color scholar-activists whose in-roads into the academy gave us 'paths to follow' (Ahmed 2018;Dar et al 2020). Ahmed recalls academic life in Australia and the United Kingdom, the world she eventually left behind, as a turbulent 'sea of whiteness' (Ahmed 2012: 35).…”

“…Within the prevailing racial logics of the academy, whiteness represents intellectual, social, and moral superiority. So, when Ahmed writes about how leaving the 'sea of whiteness' (Ahmed 2012: 35) of academia allows her to let go of the '"weight" of tiredness' (Ahmed 2012: 36) and find lightness, joy, and humor in spaces of color, this politics of refusal is too threatening to white power (Dar et al 2020). Rather than rejecting Ahmed altogether, her name is used, but her Brownness (and queerness) are washed away so that she may blend in with the institutionalised whiteness of our discipline.…”