Thinking and Theorizing with the Global South(s): Alternative frameworks for work, management and organizational knowledge production

This is a conference panel for the International Critical Management Studies Conference 2025 (scheduled at Manchester Metropolitan Univeristy) with the following convenors:

Convenors
Jennifer Manning
Maynooth University, Ireland jennifer.manning@mu.ie

Muneeb Ul Lateef Banday
Goa Institute of Management, India, and University of Bern, Switzerland muneeb.banday@unibe.ch

Anukriti Dixit
University of Bern, Switzerland anukriti.dixit@unibe.ch

In this stream, we wish to create a regenerative space for critical management scholars to go beyond ‘the canon’ in the discipline, by seeking connections, interweaving theories of power, gender, capital and knowledge together with theories of the self (such as the ones in Buddhist philosophy and Vedanta philosophy), power, relational dynamics (that may resemble gendered power – for example in the ideas of Motherism, Stiwanism, queens and writers from the Indian, Chinese and African subcontinents), knowledge (such as in Confucianism or Daoism) about and with society (such as that found in Sufism) originating in the Global South. We let the stories of – feminist educator-leader Savitribai Phule, feminist writer Mahashweta Devi, existential poetess Lal Ded, feminist pirates and sea-conquerors Grace O’Malley and Zheng Yi Sao, Black feminist collective Women With A Vision – inspire us to highlight both lives and knowledges produced in the Global South(s). This panel invites researchers and academics to think with the Global South(s).