A ancestralidade como dimensão organizacional: reflexões decoloniais sobre as organizações negras a partir da atuação histórica das irmandades negras da Bahia

Abstract

Around the knowledge built and universalized in the field of Administration about organization and management, one can see a great void of studies concerning the multiple forms and organizational dimensions of indigenous peoples and the black population present in our local and contemporary history. This emptiness reveals a framework of organizational invisibilities that hides practices, knowledge and complexities that are far beyond the business scope and the market economy. From a decolonial epistemological engagement, the objective of this dissertation is to initiate research reflections about the organizational experiences built in the diaspora by the African and Afro descendant population, here called Black Organizations, and the main elements that compose them. Above all, the ancestry that is identified here as the main dimension that singles out these organizations and feeds their management processes, their practices of resistance, internal organization and the various principles and organizational elements. To contribute to the proposed reflections, we carried out a historical research concerning the Black Religious Brotherhoods in Bahia in the 19th century, mobilizing as historical sources the productions of important researchers, especially in the field of history and anthropology. The reflections carried out point to the need to build new and important research paths in Administration and delve into other rationales, epistemologies, practices and technologies present in the organizational experiences of our ancestral peoples.