A decolonial feminist contribution to management studies: Introducing Maya women’s communitarian organising
用去殖民女性主义理论介绍危地马拉玛雅女性的社群组织方式,这种在边缘地带形成的组织以权力分散、自我管理和集体决策为特点,为管理学提供了来自全球南方原住民女性的认识论贡献。
Decolonial feminist theory is an important tool to counter the coloniality manifested in the control of knowledge and gender present in management studies. In this article, I use decolonial feminist theory as a framework to introduce Maya women and their communitarian organising. Maya women’s communitarian organising is a theorisation developed with Indigenous Guatemalan women. It is a way of working and organising that is built in the socioeconomic margins and oriented by the plurality of life as a Maya woman. Communitarian organising cultivates the women’s Buen Vivir through the decentralisation of power, self-management and participative decision-making based on collective, consensus-based participation by members. This article provides an empirically grounded contribution to the decolonial epistemic shift in management studies. By centring Maya women and their communitarian organising, this article enables management academics to learn from diverse epistemic encounters, engage with alternative worldviews, and think about management and organisation from the perspective and experiences of Global South Indigenous women.