From Harare to Rio de Janeiro:Kukiya-Favelaorganization of the excluded

Abstract

This article, based on ethnographic research conducted with people in Brazil and Zimbabwe, reports organization/management experiences and narratives of poor and marginalized people of the south. South embodies the organizational struggle, survival skills and resilience of marginal and urban outcasts that inhabit inner cities, townships and slums. The article employs the notion of kukiya-favela organization, i.e. the organization of the excluded, to engage with them in order to: give voice to those who dwell at the margins of organization studies; make their narratives part of a subject that retains an elitist position; and re-address the Eurocentric management/organization discourse that imposes a legitimate justification for exploiting, excluding and labelling them as organization-less and urban outcasts of society. The article concludes that despite their marginality and exclusion they are able to construct local diverse meaningful (organizational) identities that can represent them with dignity in their struggle for justice and basic human rights. Finally, it reflects on the contribution this has for us, in organization studies, by opening new spaces for the study of organization[al] (lives) not from positions of ‘above’ or ‘against’ but ‘with’ ( Gergen, 2003 : 454).

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“…This research follow Imas and Weston's (2012) argument that there is a need to give a voice to the marginalised so they can establish their existence in organisation studies discourse.…”

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“…Essa consideração reflete que, nas favelas brasileiras, a maioria dos moradores é negra (Imas & Weston, 2012), mas ao mesmo tempo refrata a associação negro = favelado, generalizando-a. "Faltou o Dey Rey com uma foto do Mr. Catra" (Isabela, 2013) Como se pode observar nos enunciados, os léxicos favela, favelado são empregados de modo a lhes conferir tanto explícita quanto implicitamente um sentido pejorativo (dependendo do enunciado).…”

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“…Several forms of short‐term ethnographies have become increasingly popular for studying organizational settings (e.g. Imas and Weston, ; Jeffrey and Troman, ; Lee and Gregory, ; Nicolini, ; Pink and Morgan, ; Wulf et al, ). While conventional ethnography is usually based on long‐term observations to provide an understanding based on the perspectives of people in the field (Bailey, : 2, 205; Gobo, ), short‐term ethnographies try to achieve this understanding in the field in much shorter periods of time.…”