Abstract
It has been roughly five years since the #FeesMustFall student protests shook the foundations of higher education in South Africa. However, in the aftermath of these protests, students’ demand for the decolonisation of the curriculum, despite initial energy, has seemingly lost momentum. Within the discipline of management and organisation studies, the situation is, even more, exacerbated, with efforts toward decolonisation being cosmetic at best. However, much criticism has been directed toward the notion of decolonisation for its lack of normative literature. This paper suggests that Critical Management Studies (CMS), and in particular, the CMS notion of denaturalisation, might provide a broad framework for achieving decolonisation. Furthermore, the work of contemporary philosopher Jacques Rancière is proposed as a pragmatic means to denaturalise management thinking to move closer to a truly decolonised management curriculum in South Africa.