Forskningsseminarium med Farzad Khan

På fredag 1.9 kommer Farzad att föreläsa om "Epistemic Healing: A Critical Ethical Response to Epistemic Violence in Business Ethics".

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Dr. Khan is a well recognized scholar within CSR and critical management studies. His research interests center on business ethics, corporate social responsibility, critical approaches in management, and organization theory.

Epistemic Healing: A Critical Ethical Response to Epistemic Violence in Business Ethics

We argue that there is a neo-colonial knowledge regime operating in business ethics. This knowledge regime engages in systematic epistemic violence of exclusion and distortion against indigenous alternative
knowledge formations from the Global South. Thus, the question posed for the business ethics field from a critical perspective is how to ethically respond and challenge this situation of power and domination. We propose the idea of epistemic healing as an ethical critical response for reversing epistemic violence in business ethics. Epistemic healing requires identifying and then calling back to the center of discussion in business ethics knowledge traditions of the other that it has excluded and made peripheral. We illustrate this principle of epistemic healing in the context of Islamic business ethics given that it contains epistemic violence against Islam, particularly Sufism, an important knowledge tradition of the Muslim other from the Global South. Breaking silence on the neocolonial knowledge regime operating in the construction of business ethics, introducing the concept of epistemic healing, and illustrating the latter’s fecundity in advancing debate in business ethics while also helping reverse the field’s epistemic violence against alternative knowledge commitments
and resources of the other from the Global South are the important contributions of this paper.