At the inaugural IARIMOS conference in Ottawa in August 2023 we shared the news that we were in talks with SAGE Publications to develop a comprehensive book that could be used for teaching Indigenous Management, a resource that is much needed.
Concise and dynamic contributions - not your typical textbook
Consultations during the inaugural IARIMOS conference, and others, shaped the thinking that we need a lively, interactive textbook equipped with various teaching tools designed to showcase and amplify Indigenous knowledges from a diverse array of Indigenous nations and communities. The book will be titled Indigenous Management: Knowledges and Frameworks (IMKF). We don’t see IMKF as being a ‘standard issue’, with maybe 10-12 chapters written by senior academics. We want it to include as many varied contributions as possible, and the SAGE team have been very supportive of that view.
Our Commissioning Editor at Sage suggested we should 'Help to build a community first, then involve the community in the building of the book'
SAGE have also agreed that royalties from the book can be channelled to fund emerging Indigenous management scholars, through initiatives like supporting travel and accomodation to attend future IARIMOS events.
Our ask to you
Our ask to you now is to please send us your ideas for potential short contributions, and, also, to share this call to other scholars who are doing Indigenous management research and may have something that could be a part of Indigenous Management: Knowledges and Frameworks too.
We envisage contributions being concise and dynamic, to enable more voices and knowledges to have a place in the book. This means that something 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 pages would be excellent: maybe your best or most inspiring teaching case, or story or idea or concept, that you would like students of Indigenous management to know, and instructors to utilize? It may be in text form, or text and a diagram or table, or it could be an annotated drawing, a story, a poem, a song, a review, anything that in your experience can help students understand and/or appreciate any aspect of Indigenous management knowledge relating to where you are form or where you are researching.
The draft introduction chapter offers some guidance
The draft Introduction chapter can act as a guide. It’s made up of our positioning statements, some text, some pictures, some short cases, and some key concepts or framework boxes, a few academic references, and links to further related video and audio resources. You can provide similar if you like with your contribution, but these are not essential or required. The draft intro (which will be updated when we have all of the contributions in – and so will be more globally encompassing than it currently is with its focus on where we (Jesse, Stephen, Ana Maria) are from: Canada, South America and Aotearoa New Zealand); also outlines the loose structure, or interconnected depths of the book by which we will look to organize contributions: protocols and stories; land and water; political voice and representation; social and community connections; and businesses and organizations.
In terms of the timetable, we aim to publish the book in the first half of 2025. We’d like to hear from you now about potential contributions. And we are looking to have early drafts by the middle of this year, 2024; with a view to having all contributions in by October 2024. Nicely placed within this timeframe is the second IARIMOS conference in mid-August 2024. We are pleased that SAGE has kindly decided to join IARIMOS as one of the sponsors to support to the conference and our efforts there to discuss and develop potential contributions with you if you can attend, which we strongly encourage you to do.
We envisage this book as very much being by the community for the community, so please do contact us with any ideas you have in relation to it. We want you and your insights as part of this effort!
Jesse, Steve, Ana Maria
