373: Decolonizing Field Research in a Neoliberal Economy (19682)

Saturday, August 10, 2024

13:00 – 14:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

Location: Fairmont: Ambassador Room

Session Number: 373
PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Teaching,Theme,Research,Diversity
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/bRp9py

Organizer(s)

TB

Tathagata Bhowmik

PhD student at Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve U., United States
RM

Ram Mahalingam

U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
VD

Vijayta Doshi

Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur, India
PA

Pankhuri Agarwal

School of Management, U. of Bath, United Kingdom
AS

Akhil S G

Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve U.
PB

Poonam Barhoi

Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad, India, India

This PDW aims to generate and sustain interest in a community of scholars, educators, and practitioners engaging in management research and teaching that focuses on the explicit and implicit effects of a neoliberal economy on social groups and organizations, in employing an intersectional approach to field research. Unlike research methods that emphasize detachment, distance, and objectivity from the phenomenon of interest, this workshop aims to generate dialogue on employing embodied experiences and demographic characteristics of the researcher like gender, social class, race, nationality, age, etc., as critical windows to generate research questions, engaging wholly and systematically within the natural context of the phenomenon of interest during data collection, decolonizing prior research and sources of information through deconstruction, addressing the logistical challenges that researchers might face during fieldwork in remote areas, and acknowledging the social, economic, and political dynamics every phenomenon of interest possesses in a neoliberal economy and intertwining those to generate an intersectional approach to fieldwork. This topic aligns with the Research, Teaching, and Diversity Orientation of the 2024 AOM Meeting along with the theme of the Meeting.