Equitable futures: Afrofuturism's critical world-building potential for management education

Mauricio Rodriguez (), Jose M Alcaraz, Valeria Carrillo Cortina and Dan Hassler-Forest
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Mauricio Rodriguez: BSB - Burgundy School of Business (BSB) - ESC Dijon-Bourgogne, CEREN - Centre de Recherche sur les Entreprises - BSB - Burgundy School of Business (BSB) - ESC Dijon-Bourgogne
Jose M Alcaraz: Lancaster University Leipzig, UCLy - UCLy (Lyon Catholic University)
Dan Hassler-Forest: Universiteit Utrecht = Utrecht University

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Abstract: How can management education integrate Afrofuturism's critical world-building practices to challenge oppression and (inter-related) identity-shaping categories, such as gender and race? In this article, we introduce the intellectual, cultural, and aesthetic movement of Afrofuturism as a vehicle to foster emancipatory learning. We posit that Afrofuturism mobilizes world-building inspired by Afrocentric perspectives that are of particular value for management learners to: (a) interrogate in an intersectional way multiple identity-shaping sources of oppression, (b) experiment with non-linear approaches to time that offer an ingenious lens to examine identity issues, and (c) to capitalize on the emotional connections and rich multi-modal learning offered by transmedia storytelling. Our work advances the agenda of critical management educators by offering a radical proposal for learners to address existing systemic inequalities and re-imaginative alternative organizational, emancipatory futures.

Keywords: Afrofuturism; Business Schools; Critical World Building; Gender; Race; Management education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-12-10
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Published in Management Learning, 2025, 56 (5), pp.1009-1022. ⟨10.1177/13505076241305555⟩

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DOI: 10.1177/13505076241305555

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