No-Organization
Confronting the “It” of antiblackness in scholarship on Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9401517 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joëlle M Cruz (0000-0001-6019-487X, University of Colorado, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 297-305 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-5084 • E-ISSN: 1461-7323 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13505084241295751 |
| OpenAlex | W4407752248 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 35 |
This essay explores anti-Blackness and how it structures knowledge production about Africa. It introduces “No-Organization” or the “it” as an invisible discursive frame that constructs the continent as a space devoid of Organization. I use No-Organization to reengage two scholarly approaches invested in decentering the West and addressing the erasure of Africa in Organization Studies. The first approach deconstructs Western-centric representations in the literature, while the second one generates studies better attuned to African contexts and theories. I claim that both approaches overlook the deeper antiblack knowledge structure in which misrepresentations and contextual research exist. I offer No-Organization as a third approach, which allows us to grasp the unpalpable and recover expressions of Black and African social life in scholarly work
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |