ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of organizational autoethnography before moving on to the decolonial potential of postcolonial organizational autoethnography. For instance, the autoethnographic excerpt in the beginning of the chapter brings into conversation the challenges, difficulties, possibilities, impossibilities of recovering alternative rationalities in the realm of subaltern organizing. It is this fervor of emancipatory politics that characterizes postcolonial organizational autoethnography and its decolonial potential. For postcolonial organizational autoethnography, pursuing accountability can ensure that the postcolonial autoethnographer is able to counter the common critique that autoethnography, particularly autoethnography that speaks to marginalized experience, is only “me-search” because it requires a synchronicity between method. In sum, when postcolonial autoethnography is applied to organizational contexts, authors can understand the “cultural and social situatedness” of their own selves within the institution while exploring organizational phenomena. More importantly, they can interrogate social, cultural, political disparities that are linked to colonial histories and their postcolonial aftermath.
