By Professor Gavin Jack;Professor Robert Westwood
Foreign and cross-cultural administration has obtained little or no severe cognizance to this point. This e-book attracts upon particular principles from postcolonial idea to offer a critique of those comparable educational fields. The authors argue that those administration disciplines are Western discourses that convey ancient in addition to modern resonances with the vicissitudes of what should be greatly be known as 'the colonial project'. The ebook explores replacement and maybe extra politically and morally positive ways to the query of the 'other' in past due international capitalism.
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In these contexts, this myth circulated to ‘justify compulsion and unjust practices in the mobilization of labour in the colonies’ (p. 2). With regard to Africa, the ‘myth of the dark continent’ has a complex history traced by Brantlinger (1985) from the years prior to 1833, when slavery was abolished in British lands, up to the partitioning of Africa in the latter part of the 19th century. The myth functioned ideologically to demand that Africa, and its ‘savage customs’ (notably cannibalism), be colonized and thus ‘civilized’ and ‘enlightened’ on ‘moral, religious and scientific grounds’ (pp.
That is to say, our interest also lies in the role of various actors such as journal rankings, editors, academic conferences, leading business schools, leading names, editorial policies and so on, in shaping and reproducing a normative framework for the conduct of ‘good’ research and teaching in ICCM. Furthermore, our wider interest lies in the fact that ICCM is itself a global discourse – its core ideas, practices and agenda can be found in a number of different national and cultural contexts.
However, our sketching of ‘the problem’, inevitably involves some ghostly losses such as these, as we provisionally tighten up a focus. The kind of visibility we bring to our object of inquiry comes with the problems of all forms of visibility: it simultaneously occludes other perspectives and aspects. In other words, it entails strategy and its effects that both enable and constrain our understandings. Having put these partial boundaries in place, the next section begins our critical analysis of the apparent commitments and omissions of ICCM, which at times incorporates parts of IB as an adjacent domain.