Decolonizing Deliberative Democracy: Perspectives from Below

Journal of Business Ethics · 2022 · Volume 181 · Issue 2

Abstract

‘The notion of One-World World signals the predominant idea in the West that we all live within a single world, made up of one underlying reality (one nature) and many cultures. This imperialistic notion supposes the West’s ability to arrogate for itself the right to be “the world” and to subject all other worlds to its rules, to diminish them to secondary status or to nonexistence, often figuratively and materially. It is a very seductive notion.Arturo EscobarThe master’s tool will never dismantle the master’s house.Audre Lorde

Keywords

Deliberative democracy, Decoloniality, Indigenous struggles, Postcolonialism, Corporate social responsibility

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