Faculty of Management

Abstract: This paper takes up Elizabeth Anderson’s institutional epistemology approach to democratic deliberation, and levies two criticisms of the view developed in her paper “The Epistemology of Democracy.” I suggest that while Anderson is right to highlight epistemic considerations with regard to deliberation, her
conclusion that Deweyan experimentalism is the superior epistemic model is too hasty. I argue that Anderson
overstates the uniqueness of Dewey’s view to integrate epistemic dissent as a resource. Further, I suggest that this overstatement occludes alternative models that can both address dissent as productive and theorize inclusion as both intrinsically and instrumentally valuable. I assert that Anderson’s lack of attention to the moral aspect of democracy diminishes the strength of her view in that it highlights the inability of instrumentalist accounts to
provide moral justification for the legitimacy of democratic outcomes.

Objectives: Considerable evidence has advanced the role of citizen-led coalitions (CLC) in supporting the health and social needs of rural citizens. There has been little research focusing on the experiences and strategies of coalitions, with their limited resources and status, in targeting health inequities in their rural communities. The aim of this study was to understand the entrepreneurial strategies and experiences of rural coalitions to effect change in the delivery of health services for their older adult populations. Method: A qualitative descriptive study method was used to generate understanding of the entrepreneurial experiences and strategies of CLCs in advancing health services to meet the health and social needs of their citizens. Seven diverse CLCs (n = 40) from different rural communities participated in focus groups and in individual and coalition-level surveys. Thematic analysis was used to construct themes from the data. Results: Two overriding themes emerged: entrepreneurial strategies and societal recognition. CLCs engaged in numerous entrepreneurial strategies that enabled actions and outcomes in meeting their health care needs. These strategies included: securing quick wins, leveraging existing resources, and joining forces with stakeholder groups/ individuals. However, despite these strategies and successes, coalitions expressed frustration with not being seen and not being heard by decision-makers. This pointed to a key structural barrier to coalition successes-a broader societal and institutional problem of failing to recognize not only the health needs of rural citizens, but also the legitimacy of the community coalitions to represent and act on those needs. Conclusions: Despite the potential for coalitions to mobilize and effect change in addressing the inequities of rural health service access for older adults, broader barriers to their recognition, may undermine their entrepreneurial strategies and success.

The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused the abrupt curtailment of on-campus research activities that amplified impacts experienced by female and racialized faculty. In this mixed-method study, we systematically and strategically unpack the impact of the shift of academic work environments to remote settings on tenured and tenure-track faculty in Canada. Our quantitative analysis demonstrated that female and racialized faculty experienced higher levels of stress, social isolation and lower well-being. Fewer women faculty felt support for health and wellness. Our qualitative data highlighted substantial gender inequities reported by female faculty such as increased caregiving burden that affected their research productivity. The most pronounced impacts were felt among pre-tenured female faculty. The present study urges university administration to take further action to support female and racialized faculty through substantial organizational change and reform. Given the disproportionate toll that female and racialized faculty

This piece draws on my experience as an observer at the Reimagining Creative Economy workshop (University of Alberta, 2017) as well as someone working in the field of creative economy, to show what the papers/presentations/themes that emerged at the workshop are doing differently. The workshop’s focus on the specific histories and legacies of multiple colonial relations provides a nuanced and novel critique of the existing literature—both mainstream and critical—on creative economy. Specifically, this paper draws on the workshop contributions to examine how multiple colonialisms shape “whose creativity counts” in the creative economy; how multiple colonialisms map onto creative economy’s sanitation of the politics of development; and how creativity is not solely a resource for colonial capitalism, but also a tool to resist and reimagine the creative economy.

Despite the growing "data imperative" and "fetishization of data" across organizational contexts, critical scholars have adhered to a set of normative understandings for how people experience and engage with data and datafication in and around organizations: namely, as numbers and statistics that are "captured", interpreted, and operationalized. In reality, however, data and datafication are experienced within organizational life in a multiplicity of ways that often have very little to Organization Studies

Major philanthropic organizations are increasingly turning to the arts for social change to address racial injustices ranging from racialized poverty and mass incarceration, to health and educational disparities. This article problematizes the emergence, and increased celebration, of arts for social change philanthropy by situating it within successive articulations of racial neoliberalism. Focusing on the Canadian context, I argue that this "progressive turn" in arts philanthropy is the product of a series of neoliberal political-economic and ideological shifts that uniquely punish(ed) the racialized poor on a material level, while simultaneously producing these same communities and their artistic practices as attractive sites of investment for a primarily white and increasingly empowered philanthropic base. Drawing on a series of examples, I show how contemporary approaches to arts for social change philanthropy-particularly those that mobilize "business-like" strategies, priorities, and tools in pursuit of social change-function to extend and legitimize the "post-racial" ideological foundations of the racial neoliberal project, resulting in a paradoxical phenomenon that I term "racial neoliberal philanthropy." In addition to making the case for centering race in extant critical work on the political economy of philanthropy, this article-as well as the concept of racial neoliberal philanthropy-highlights how well-intentioned organizational responses to racial injustice can, in fact, reify racial inequities through policies and programming that are seemingly "beyond race."

In this article, I make the case for—and begin the task of—examining the role of nation branding in the philanthropic sector. Using a series of cases drawn from Canadian organized philanthropy, I explore the ideological work that philanthropic nation branding does, as well as the social and political implications of this phenomenon. I bring critical theories of nation and national identity together with Marxian-inspired theories of capitalism—particularly those that foreground the racial and colonial dimensions of capital accumulation—to illuminate the nationally embedded contradictions at the core of organized philanthropy in Canada. Specifically, I focus on how racialized and colonial discourses of the nation are mobilized in philanthropic nation branding in ways that elevate and legitimize organized philanthropy as a contradiction-free mechanism for addressing racial and colonial inequities in Canada. In doing so, philanthropic nation branding obscures the explicitly racial and colonial processes of accumulation that produce the philanthropic wealth powering much of the sector, thereby reinforcing an ahistorical Canadian nation brand. Through this analysis, I illustrate the importance of centering race and national identity in critical work on the political economy of philanthropy, organizational branding, and the ethics of philanthropy as a social policy mechanism in Canada, as well as other national contexts.

This article explores how Canadian philanthropic foundations with social justice mandates responded to the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic by loosening restrictions for grantees; collaborating on new initiatives; elevating grassroots knowledge; and balancing short- and long-term priorities. This response, however, revealed a series of tensions in the dominant pre-COVID-19 philanthropic model—specifically, as a mechanism to address the social, econ- omic, and ecological crises that predate COVID-19. The early pandemic response of grantmaking foundations can there- fore serve as a model for what a more democratic, agile, collaborative, and justice-oriented philanthropic sector can look like. RÉSUMÉ Cet article examine la réponse de fondations philanthropiques canadiennes aux enjeux de justice sociale pendant la pandémie de COVID-19. Elles l’ont fait en assouplissant les exigences exigées aux donataires; en collaborant autour de nouvelles initiatives; en prior...