Equitable futures: Afrofuturism’s critical world-building potential for management education
介绍非洲未来主义作为一种思想、文化和美学运动,帮助管理学习者以交叉性视角审视压迫、尝试非线性时间观,并通过跨媒体叙事激发情感与多模态学习,从而挑战系统性不平等、想象解放性的组织未来。
How can management education integrate Afrofuturism’s critical world-building practices to challenge oppression and (inter-related) identity-shaping categories, such as gender and race? In this article, we introduce the intellectual, cultural, and aesthetic movement of Afrofuturism as a vehicle to foster emancipatory learning. We posit that Afrofuturism mobilizes world-building inspired by Afrocentric perspectives that are of particular value for management learners to: (a) interrogate in an intersectional way multiple identity-shaping sources of oppression, (b) experiment with non-linear approaches to time that offer an ingenious lens to examine identity issues, and (c) to capitalize on the emotional connections and rich multi-modal learning offered by transmedia storytelling. Our work advances the agenda of critical management educators by offering a radical proposal for learners to address existing systemic inequalities and re-imaginative alternative organizational, emancipatory futures.