Kimberley Strongbala Woomin: A Case Study in De-Colonising Indigenous Entrepreneurial Processes in Northern Australia

Cindy Reese Mitchell (), Natasha Short (), Robyn Eversole () and Michelle Evans ()
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Cindy Reese Mitchell: Charles Darwin University
Natasha Short: Maganda Makers Business Club
Robyn Eversole: Bucknell University
Michelle Evans: University of Melbourne

Chapter Chapter 13 in The Palgrave Handbook of Decolonising Entrepreneurship, 2025, pp 319-344 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter deconstructs the prevailing narrative of women’s entrepreneurship, exposing its complicity in the dispossession of Indigenous women. Through a 5-year engagement with the Maganda Makers Business Club in the Kimberley region of Australia, this research reveals how Indigenous women entrepreneurs are actively ‘re-fashioning’ Western entrepreneurial tools to align with their deeply held cultural values, which prioritise relationality between people and non-human beings. By rejecting profit-maximisation motives and linear growth trajectories, these women affirm their ventures as sacred cultural expressions of matriarchal responsibilities for family, community, culture, and country.

Keywords: Indigenous women’s entrepreneurship; Decolonisation; Coloniality of power; Relational wealth; Kimberley Region (Western Australia) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-92310-4_13

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