11892: Exploring Rhetorical History from Non-Western Perspectives

Monday, July 28, 2025

13:45 - 15:15 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B6-m6

Session Type: Symposium (panel)
Orientation: International,Research,Diversity
Highlight: Showcase Symposium,DIG Highlight
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/d6nYWB

Organizer(s)

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Ziyun Fan

U. of York
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Roy R. Suddaby

U. of Victoria, Canada

Panelist(s)

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Francois Bastien

U. of Victoria, Canada
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Stephanie Decker

University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Hamid Foroughi

Warwick Business School, United Kingdom
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Yuan Li

Saint Mary's College of California, United States
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Shelley Price

Acadia U., Canada

Moderator(s)

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Roy R. Suddaby

U. of Victoria, Canada

The ‘historic turn’ in management studies has led to a greater appreciation of historical approaches and their potential contribution. Despite this significance, existing studies on rhetorical history have predominantly focused on Western contexts, resources, and nuances in understanding and engaging with rhetorical history. This panel symposium seeks to address the urgent need of advancing the limited scholarship on non-Western perspectives of rhetorical history. Specifically, we bring forward insights from indigenous communities and Global South experiences to illustrate how rhetorical history can be both binding and blinding. Within this context, claims, contest, and negotiations over ‘who gets to tell rhetorical history’ emerge, entangled with complex gender and power dynamics, which will also be discussed. More broadly, this symposium aims to catalyze future research that bridges theoretical divides and empirical insights, partaking in the nascent yet rapidly increasing calls in management studies to truly integrate non-Western contexts, understanding, and perspectives into management as a global phenomenon.