Stephanie Daher
Stephanie is a Postdoctoral Researcher at École Polytechnique (Paris) in the Technology for Change Research Chair, and I hold a PhD in Business Administration from Grenoble École de Management. Her research interests lie at the intersection of alter anthropological perspectives and Organization Studies, with a special focus on Indigenous/Amerindian cosmologies and philosophies.
She is currently working on a project examining the organizational consequences of low- and high-tech approaches to nature preservation within Indigenous groups in the Brazilian Amazon. She engages both theoretically and empirically with Indigenous peoples, communities, and movements to address issues of sustainability, human rights, and gender intersectionality. Her research reflects these engagements, touching on various themes from theoretical, empirical, and methodological perspectives.
“Not The Laws, but the Movements Behind Them”: Indigenous Women’s Movements and Business and Human Rights at the Marcha Das Mulheres Indígenas
Management research in the emergent area of Business and Human Rights (BHR) has acknowledged the need to understand community and grassroots organizing processes in relation to states and firms. Recent work in BHR has urged engagement with grassroots organizing perspectives, which have developed the tools to understand organizing processes, particularly in relation to the organization and dynamics of social movements. Building on this emergent and interdisciplinary dialogue, the current paper examines the Indigenous women’s movement in Brazil to understand how this Indigenous social movement navigates BHR in its relations with state and market actors. We draw on ethnographic data from the Marcha das Mulheres Indígenas (Indigenous Women’s March), examining four distinct approaches to BHR and theorizing the relation between those approaches: redress, negotiation, mediation, and entrepreneurship. We contribute to the emerging field of BHR within management research by better understanding the grassroots organizing approaches by which BHR is taken up and refashioned in practice, and the forms of agency and value orientations that underlie those distinct approaches.