OS PAÍSES EMERGENTES E O ESPÍRITO DA CONFERÊNCIA DE BANDUNG

O ESPÍRITO DE BANDUNG CRESCE DE NOVO.

DURANTE A DÉCADA DE 1970, INSPIROU O MOVIMENTO DOS NÃO ALINHADOS QUE REUNIU A MAIOR PARTE DOS PAÍSES MEMBROS DAS NAÇÕES UNIDAS CAUSANDO UMA REAÇÃO DOS CENTROS DE PODER MUNDIAL ATRAVÉS DA CRIAÇÃO DA COMISSÃO TRILATERAL (REUNINDO EUA, EUROPA E JAPÃO, SOB O COMANDO DA FAMÍLIA ROCKFELLER). 

AS COMEMORAÇÕES DOS 60 ANOS DA CONFERENCIA DE BANDUNG, ESTIMULADA ENTRE OUTRAS COISAS PELA CRIAÇÃO DOS BRICS, ESTÃO DESPERTANDO UM ENORME INTERESSE NÃO SOMENTE NA ÁSIA E ÁFRICA MAS INCLUINDO A AMÉRICA LATINA.

CHAMAMOS A ATENÇÃO DOS NOSSOS LEITORES PARA ALGUMAS INICIATIVAS NO CAMPO ACADÊMICO:

A - O South Center, dirigido por Martin Khor, dedicou importantes análises sobre a atualidade da Conferência de Bandung. Ver em:

http://www.southcentre.int/question/asian-african-summit-commemorates-60th-anniversary-of-bandung-conference/

http://www.southcentre.int/question/in-bandung-leaders-take-the-same-walk-and-pledge-their-predecessors-did-60-years-ago/

http://www.southcentre.int/question/revisiting-the-1955-bandung-asian-african-conference-and-its-legacy/

B - A Associação Latinoamericana de Informação - ALAI publicou um número de sua revista mensal, America Latina en movimiento,  dedicado à Vigência do Espírito de Bandung. Baixar em:

http://www.alainet.org/es/revistas/169851

C - Uma iniciativa acadêmica multidisciplinar de instituições afro - asiáticas realiza uma conferência sobre: "Repensando as forças emergentes: 60 anos depois da Conferência de Bandung". 

A Professora Beatriz Bissio, como membro da Cátedra e Rede UNESCO sobre Economia Global e Desenvolvimento Sustentável (REGGEN), representa a América Latina nessa conferência. A Professora Mônica Bruckman, também convidada, enviou seu paper na impossibilidade de realizar a viagem a Bandung. Veja abaixo o link para acessar a convocatória com a justificativa desse encontro:

http://www.bandungspirit.org/IMG/pdf/bandung_60_booklet-complete-1.pdf

D - Importantes especialistas em gestão internacional e pública, preocupados com a importância crescente dos países emergentes, preparam uma reunião para o próximo ano sobre: "Descolonizando os estudos de organização: na busca de um Novo Bandung". Ver texto abaixo:

In 1955 in Indonesia, a historical meeting took place of Asian and African states. The twenty-nine countries that co-organized the Conference represented nearly one-fourth of the land surface of the world and a total population of 1.5 billion. The Bandung Conference sought to create a new sense of solidarity among countries whose inhabitants had been dehumanized by colonialism. It represented a moment for constructing a more diverse, heterogenous collection of knowledge, including about organizations. Today metaphorically speaking, Bandung represents an opportunity for constructing a pluriversal MOS (Ibarra-Colado, 2006) and fostering a world in which many worlds and knowledges can coexist (Mignolo, 2011) from the perspective and in the interests “of the immense majority of humanity excluded by globalization” (Dussel, 2013: xx).

We wish to explore the possibility of a new Bandung in Organization Studies. We wish to discuss and assess organizing projects that are explicitly decolonial, and seek to reshape the existing global order. We also wish to consider the absence of such views within venues such as EGOS and the US Academy of Management, and the consequences of such absence. In short we wish to deploy the Bandung conference as a metaphor for heterogenous, dissonant, dissident, critical reframings of the discipline of MOS, reframings sensitive to differences of language, history, cultural identity, indigenous struggle, and development. The possibility of a New Bandung for MOS in Viña del Mar also means tracking the “center” and its own “peripheries”, in an effort to understand both the adherents as well as victims on a global scale of US-led Eurocentric “Organization Studies”.

Putting together “subalternized” voices, knowledges and bodies in order to dis-organize, alter-organize, organize ‘otherwise’, and decolonize MOS is a major challenge. In this stream we stand for the co-creation of a New Bandung in Organization Studies and particularly welcome contributions from peripheries of the “center”, whether peripheries defined by language (Lusophone, Francophone and Hispanic Americas and Africas), colonial history (South Asia and Indonesia), contemporary struggles (indigenous groups, Palestine, Kashmir), or other definitions.

We invite academics and practitioners of a variety of training and from different fields of knowledge to submit papers related to the following themes and topics:

- Engagements with MOS through post-colonialisms, Third Worldisms, development studies, dependency theorizings, and critical views on neoliberalism(s); or by engaging ‘otherwise’ with globalization studies, international relations, and regional studies;

- The contemporary global financial crisis and what it offers to heterogenize MOS; in particular the austerity project of the European Union, which follows prior efforts in Africa and Latin America through the 1970s and 1980s;

- Power shifts in the global order and what they signal for MOS; such shifts include the rise of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China South Africa) as a counter-hegemon to the Bretton Woods institutions;

- Projects of engagement and dis-engagement with the “center” of MOS; such projects include conference panels, presentations, journal submissions and other forms of colloboration and resistance with US-led Eurocentric “Organization Studies”, from “peripheries”;

- The post Cold War setting and what it constitutes in terms of Euro-American hegemony in MOS; in particular organizational struggles involving workers and oppressed peoples, and their implications for MOS;

- Contemporary struggles of indigenous people, such as in Ecuador or Bolivia, and their organizational implications;

- Critiques of Anglo/American- centric and heteronormative methodologies in MOS that present alternative modes of knowledge production; these could include (but not limited to) feminist, queer, experiential, ethnographic, interdisciplinary and psychodynamic methods;

- Historical accounts of alternative organizational theorizing from the South, that could be of relevance in this contemporary MOS moment;

- Fostering alternative types of organizations and organization studies from a perspective that recognizes more diversity than solely the corporate form

- Decolonial historical analyses of the rise of MOS within the Cold War period in Europe and of military dictatorships in Latin America;

- Decolonial historical analyses of “organization studies” from the perspective of alternative theorizing in Latin America, Europe and other parts of the rest of the world

Important Dates:

Abstract submission: November 10, 2015

Notification of acceptance: December 10, 2015

Submission of full paper (6.000 words): March 10, 2016

Abstracts of about 1000 words should be submitted through the website form at www.laemos.com<http://www.laemos.com>

The abstracts should be in English, including the name and email address of the author(s)

References

Amin, S. (2013). The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Bowden, B., & Seabrooke, L. (Eds.). (2006). Global standards of market civilization. London: Routledge.

Dussel, E. (2013). Ethics of Liberation. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Ibarra-Colado, E. (2006). Organization Studies and Epistemic Coloniality in Latin America: Thinking Otherness from the Margins. Organization, 13 (4): 489-508.

Mignolo, W. (2011). The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options. London: Duke University Press.

Tlostanova, M. (2015). Keynote lecture. Delinking from progressivism, or emergence as re-existence: Some non-Western remedies against the rhetoric of modernity. Ephemera, Moscow, May 6-7, pp. 26-27.