Organizing at the Margins: Theorizing Organizations of Struggle in the Global South

This edited volume presents complex issues surrounding economic and cultural injustices in the global South and the social imaginaries articulated by vulnerable communities in these extractive zones. These organizations of struggle by disenfranchised members in the global South bring forth a collective of knowledge to decolonize organizational theory and think of organizing a more just world.

The essays in this volume critique and connect meanings of ＂organizations＂ in relation to neoliberalism, coloniality, and social justice. More specifically, scholars engage with ideas of resistance such as invisible histories in management theory, hybrid collective action, self-determination and indigenous sovereignty, and decolonizing institutions. The chapters also cover a wide range of locations including feminist movements in Latin America, the struggles of Palestinians in self-exile to connect with their homeland, and reproductive labor in Sri Lanka to the decolonial potential of Black Lives Matter in the US and insights into organizing resistance in parts of Asia and Africa.

For scholars and policymakers, this book presents emancipatory essays that interrogate the cultural, social, political, and historical issues pertaining to organizations in the context of the neoliberal economy.

Mahuya Pal is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida. Her critical organizational communication research explores decolonial politics anchored in organizing of resistance by underprivileged communities against institutional power. She contextualizes her research within the twenty-first century concerns about unbridled growth of transnational corporations.

Joëlle Cruz is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. Her research focuses on intersections of alternative organizing (e.g., grassroots, community-based organizing, and social movements) and culture. A postcolonial and decolonial feminist scholar, Joëlle is interested in rethinking and expanding what constitutes the ＂margins＂ in organizational communication.

Debashish Munshi is Professor of Management Communication at the University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand. His scholarly interests weave through critical communication studies, critical management studies, and subaltern historiography. His research explores alternative cultural (especially Indigenous, feminist, and postcolonial) models of building relationships with and among marginalised publics and working towards sustainable futures.