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Dear All:

We invite you to attend our PDW and Symposium at the 2018 Academy of Management Meeting in Chicago. 

Details:

PDW: Indigenous Peoples and the Economy: A Force for Decolonization or Recolonization?

WHEN: Friday, August 10,2018. 1000-1130

WHERE: Hyatt Regency Chicago in Turnham

SYMPOSIUM: Decolonizing Development: Perspectives from Indigenous Communities

WHEN: Monday August 13, 2018 0945-1115.

WHERE: Columbus IJ room of the Hyatt Regency Chicago

Please join us in laughing and/or crying at the profound irony of scheduling a session on decolonization and Indigenous perspectives in a room named 'Columbus'.

In these PDW and symposium events, we will explore possibilities for Indigenous organizations to become forces for decolonization. Business enterprises owned and operated by Indigenous communities are one way they participate in the market economy. The challenge is developing enterprise management and governance structures that allow Indigenous communities to participate in economic activity without sacrificing social and cultural ties that are integral to Indigenous wellbeing.

The long and violent history of colonialism has also shaped the experience of Indigenous communities' relationship with the market economy. Indigenous resistance is thus central to the decolonial project, which rejects the universalistic and 'objective' assumptions of Eurocentric epistemologies and modernity while privileging multiple local histories, ways of knowing and ways of being in the world.

In this workshop we will explore:

• Possibilities of how Indigenous organizations can engage with the decolonial project
• In what wayside Indigenous epistemologies shape the ways in which Indigenous peoples and organizations participate in the market economy
• What are the experiences of Indigenous entrepreneurs and businesses in their engagement with the market economy
• What are the risks for Indigenous communities and organizations in participating with states and corporations in developmental and resource extraction projects
• What alternative forms of organizations and economies can emerge from Indigenous imaginaries

These are some of the questions we will explore in the workshop. The possibilities that emerge should develop as part of a more radical set of aims and interventions that seek to challenge hegemonic power.

Founding Chair, Academy of Management Native, Aboriginal

& Indigenous Peoples Caucus

Founding Member, NABSWASAI – The Native American
Business Scholars Working Group