Decolonizing-recolonizing curriculum in management and accounting

Filgueiras Sauerbronn, F., Lima, J. P. R. d. and Faria, A. (2023) Decolonizing-recolonizing curriculum in management and accounting. Revista de Administração Contemporânea, (doi: 10.1590/1982-7849rac2023230050.en) (Early Online Publication)

Abstract

Objective: to reflexively understand how management and accounting decolonial academics in the Global South perceive and respond to the decolonizing curriculum agenda created in the Atlantic North within the hyper-contra-revolutionary context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Theoretical approach: we embrace a decolonizing-recolonizing perspective that challenges reaffirms theory/practice and North/South binarisms that we internalize. Method: we embrace action research based on self-criticism and reflexivity to address the experiences of privileged decolonial scholars. Results: our findings reveal important aspects related to decolonizing-recolonizing dynamics that are occurring in bodies, contexts, and academic spaces. Conclusions: our study reveals that decolonizing the management and accounting curriculum in the South is permeated by difficulties for theoretical delinking, which trigger tensions about the constitution of personal/collective being, the mobilization of intellectual/practical activism, the creation of forms of engagement internal/ external to the academy, transcending the competitive/solidaristic academic action model; the construction of knowledge in extractivist/non-extractivist forms; and the materialization of pluriversal knowledge in academic/nonacademic products. We hope to encourage everyday decolonizing-recolonizing management and accounting education that goes beyond the North/South binarism and curricular reforms led by the counter-revolutionary neoliberal university and its Eurocentric business schools.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Early Online Publication
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Lima, Mr Joao Paulo
• Authors: Filgueiras Sauerbronn, F., Lima, J. P. R. d., and Faria, A.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > Adam Smith Business School > Accounting and Finance
• Journal Name: Revista de Administração Contemporânea
• Publisher: ANPAD
• ISSN: 1415-6555
• ISSN (Online): 1982-7849
• Published Online: 03 October 2023
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2023 The Authors
• First Published: First published in Revista de Administração Contemporânea 2023
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License