Why Decolonization?

Schayegh, Cyrus; Di-Capua, Yoav

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“…Though colonization manifested itself in various forms, including settler colonialism, colonies of exploitation and other administrative arrangements, it was carried out through violence, brutality and genocide (Shabbir et al , 2020), with the central aim being to extract riches and transfer them to European and white interests. Therefore, colonization was not simply a political endeavor but an ongoing global economic, cultural, psychological and ontological one, acting to shape the entire world with significant macro historical forces (Schayegh and Di-Capua, 2020).…”

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Rescuing marketing from its colonial roots: a decolonial anti-racist agenda

Francis

2022

JCM

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Purpose This paper illuminates the mechanisms through which marketing practice and institutions produced, normalized and institutionalized systemic racism in support of imperialism, colonization and slavery to provide impetus for transformational change. Critical race research is drawn on to propose paths toward decolonial and anti-racist research agenda and practice. Design/methodology/approach The paper integrates multidisciplinary literature on race, racism, imperialism, colonialism and slavery, connecting these broad themes to the roles marketing practices and institutions played in creating and sustaining racism. Critical race theory, afro pessimism, postcolonial theories, anti-racism and decoloniality provide conceptual foundations for a proposed transformative research agenda. Findings Marketing practices and institutions played active and leading roles in producing, mass mobilizing and honing racist ideology and the imagery to support imperialism, colonial expansion and slavery. Racist inequalities in market systems were produced globally through active collusion by marketing actors and institutions in these historical forces creating White advantage and Black dispossession that persist; indicating an urgent need for transformative anti-racists and decolonial research agendas. Research limitations/implications Covering these significant historical forces inevitably leaves much room for further inquiry. The paper by necessity “Mango picked” the most relevant research, but a full coverage of these topics was beyond the scope of this paper. Practical implications Marketing practitioners found themselves at the epicenter of a crisis during the Black Lives Matter protests. This paper aims to foster anti-racist ad decolonial research to guide practice. Social implications This paper addresses systemic and institutional racism, and marketplace inequalities – urgent societal challenges. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, the paper is the first in marketing to integrate multidisciplinary literature on historical forces of imperialism, colonization and slavery to illuminate marketing’s influential role in producing marketplace racism while advancing an anti-racist and de-colonial research agenda.

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Rescuing marketing from its colonial roots: a decolonial anti-racist agenda

Francis

2022

JCM

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The Anti-Aryan Moment: Decolonization, Diplomacy, and Race in Late Pahlavi Iran

Kashani-Sabet

2021

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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In 1946, the entertainer and activist Paul Robeson pondered America's intentions in Iran. In what was to become one of the first major crises of the Cold War, Iran was fighting a Soviet aggressor that did not want to leave. Robeson posed the question, “Is our State Department concerned with protecting the rights of Iran and the welfare of the Iranian people, or is it concerned with protecting Anglo-American oil in that country and the Middle East in general?” This was a loaded question. The US was pressuring the Soviet Union to withdraw its troops after its occupation of the country during World War II. Robeson wondered why America cared so much about Soviet forces in Iranian territory, when it made no mention of Anglo-American troops “in countries far removed from the United States or Great Britain.” An editorial writer for a Black journal in St. Louis posed a different variant of the question: Why did the American secretary of state, James F. Byrnes, concern himself with elections in Iran, Arabia or Azerbaijan and yet not “interfere in his home state, South Carolina, which has not had a free election since Reconstruction?”

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The Metaphysical Universe of Michel ʿAflaq and His Party: A Reappraisal of the Baʿth

Rapone

2023

Mod. Intell. Hist.

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This article offers a reassessment of Arab Socialist Baʿth Party founder Michel ʿAflaq's thought in the context of decolonization and global intellectual history. Engaging with ʿAflaq's thinking in terms of its metaphysical foundations and its relationship to universality, this work examines four key concepts in his oeuvre: resurrection (baʿth), faith (īmān), spirit (rūḥ), and unity (waḥda). In essence, ʿAflaq's metaphysics links the Arab nation with the past while his universalist aspirations open the way forward for the future. While numerous scholars in recent years have explicated the universal ambitions of anticolonial nationalists, the place of Arab nationalists and their relationship to decolonization are in need of greater scholarly attention. In turn, I argue that ʿAflaq's ambition of national resurrection ought to be understood as such a quest to realize the universal.

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Why Decolonization?

Cited by 22 publications

References 63 publications

Rescuing marketing from its colonial roots: a decolonial anti-racist agenda

Rescuing marketing from its colonial roots: a decolonial anti-racist agenda

The Anti-Aryan Moment: Decolonization, Diplomacy, and Race in Late Pahlavi Iran

The Metaphysical Universe of Michel ʿAflaq and His Party: A Reappraisal of the Baʿth

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