Coloniality in practice : tracing power struggles in marginal entrepreneurship
submitted by Dominik Mösching (from Saanen (Bern))
In a world that breathes "coloniality" at large, a growing number of post- and decolonial organization scholars problematize power by recognizing the persisting aftermath of the colonial experience (Mills 2018, Alcadipani, Khan, Gantman and Nkomo 2012). The question how colonial power relations are (not) reproduced has come under closer scrutiny, in particular regarding the practice of entrepreneurship, increasingly analyzed as a force of making other worlds (Sarasvathy 2015, Cálas, Smircich and Bourne 2009). Yet, decolonial analyses often fall into the "structuralist trap" of seeing colonial power as totalized formation out of reach (Escobar 2018, Zanoni, Contu, Healy and Mir 2017). As a result, vivid empirical illustrations of the "neocolonial" struggles between decolonial and colonial aspirations are in short supply (Durepos, Prasad and Villanueva 2016, Millar 2014, Imas and Weston 2012), and the lack of concepts to situate the emergence of large phenomena in everyday life (Nicolini 2017a) even puts the central decolonial impetus to recover the "agency of the marginal" at risk (Srinivas 2013, Mignolo and Escobar 2010). This study addresses both the empirical and the conceptual gap by tracing neocolonial power struggles in marginal entrepreneurship. In the tradition of studying global connections "from below" (Mathews, Lins Ribeiro and Alba Vega 2012, Tsing 2015), I engage in a multi-sited ethnography (Falzon 2009) of an emergent Direct Trade (DT) coffee business. By applying the conceptual framework of social practice theory (SPT) (Hui, Schatzki and Shove 2017, Reckwitz 2002), I make neocolonial power struggles operational as performances of subject positioning (Bröckling 2016, Davies and Harré 1999). This enables me to trace them in marginal entrepreneurial practices which connect a migrant-led coffee shop in Switzerland with a relaunched family farm in Colombia. The single case study thereby discloses empirical settings that are often unheard, or silenced, in management and organization studies (MOS) (Gantman, Yousfi and Alcadipani 2015, Jack, Westwood, Srinivas and Sardar 2011).
Year of publication: |
2019
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Authors: | Mösching, Dominik |
Publisher: |
2019: St. Gallen |
Subject: | Postkolonialismus | Postcolonialism | Entrepreneurship | Entrepreneurship approach | Management | Sozialwissenschaft | Social sciences |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (circa 383 Seiten) Illustrationen |
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Series: | Dissertationen / Universität St. Gallen ; No. 4845 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Hochschulschrift ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature |
Language: | English |
Thesis: | Dissertation, University of St. Gallen, 2018 |
Notes: | Zusammenfassung in deutscher und englischer Sprache |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024214
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