Trabalho identitário desde o Sul Global: por uma agenda de pesquisa pluriversal sobre as identidades
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Ao longo das últimas duas décadas, o estudo das identidades nas e ao redor das organizações consolidou-se em torno de um vocabulário que inclui o trabalho identitário, a regulação identitária, o jogo identitário e a ameaça identitária. Este artigo argumenta que esse vocabulário, embora útil, não é neutro nem universal. Ele repousa sobre uma epistemologia e uma ontologia do Norte, que tomam como ponto de partida um self individual e delimitado. Recorrendo à noção de colonialidade do ser e às concepções de pessoa oriundas de tradições do Sul, o artigo relê esse vocabulário e propõe uma agenda de pesquisa organizada em torno de três eixos: relacionalidade, colonialidade e pluriversalidade. Cada eixo mostra como uma perspectiva do Sul redefine conceitos centrais do campo e aponta para conceitos que ainda precisam ser desenvolvidos. O artigo apresenta três contribuições: torna visível o caráter situado do vocabulário das identidades; mobiliza autores africanos, latino-americanos e asiáticos como ferramentas analíticas, e não como ilustração; e apresenta uma agenda de pesquisa.
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