Sensemaking in Turbulent Contexts

African Student Leadership in a Postcolonial Context

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ID9399792
AutoresEric Karikari (0000-0001-7176-3353, Eric Karikari is a doctoral candidate at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque. His current research focuses on the construction of organizational culture in non-Western societies. His dissertation, scheduled to be completed in the spring of 2018, is titled Negotiating Culture in Africa: A Critical Analysis of Organizational Discourse in Ghana. This project, which combines organizational communication, media studies, and cultural studies, examines the means by which neoliberalism shapes the..., autor correspondente), Christopher Brown (0000-0003-0753-3128, Christopher Brown is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Minnesota State University, Mankato. Dr. Brown integrates philosophical work on race and critical race theories into understanding White privilege and institutional racism. Specifically, Dr. Brown examines discourses of White male elites and constructions of White masculinity, and critically engages the lived experiences of people of color navigating the politics and struggles of identity negotiation. Dr. Brown’s...)
Ano2018
Volume69
Fascículo4
Páginas439-452
Data de publicação2018-06-25
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCommunication Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1051-0974 • E-ISSN: 1745-1035
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10510974.2018.1472126
OpenAlexW2810658058
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas31

This study revealed the ways that student leaders make sense of their approaches to leadership in African student organizations in the United States. Seven leaders of recognized African student organizations in universities from the Midwest, Pacific Northwest, and the South took part in interviews. Discourse analysis of interview data revealed the complexity of leadership discourses and practices in a postcolonial context in showing that African student organizational leadership (a) proceeds through the accommodation and resistance to dominant Western organizational and/or colonial discourses and (b) enables leaders to make sense of theirs and their organizations’ identities in the context of discourses that marginalize African forms of cultural expression

Accommodation · Authentic leadership · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Leadership studies · Leadership style · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Resistance (ecology · Sensemaking · Sociology · Gender Studies · Global and Cross-Cultural Management · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Law · Psychology · Workplace Spirituality and Leadership