Settled knowledge practices, truncated imaginations. (March 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Vijay, Devi
• Is Part Of: Organization. Volume 30:Number 2(2023)
• Page Start: 424
• Page End: 429
• Publication Date: 2023-03
• Subjects: Alternative organizations -- anti-colonialism -- Critical Management Studies -- decolonization -- Eurocentrism -- politics of knowledge; Organizational sociology -- Periodicals; Organization -- Periodicals; 302.35
• DOI: 10.1177/13505084211057261
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1350-5084

Abstract

Martin Parker recently auto-critiqued his book Against Management . Parker reflected on the book's circulation, responded to some criticisms, and proposed a manifesto for a School of Organizing that must emphasize alternative organizational forms. I highlight the Eurocentric frame that permeates the book and the auto-critique. This Eurocentrism manifests as settled geographies, histories, and epistemic practices. Such knowledge practices truncate the possibilities of radically imagining alternatives to the contemporary crises of capitalism. I borrow Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's metaphor of foraging to briefly consider how subterranean struggles and solidaristic transgressions offer possibilities for alternative world-making.