Counter-colonial pensarsentirfazer in cultural management

Abstract

The text shares the ongoing experience of the "LabGestão pensarsentirfazer contra-hegemônico em política e gestão cultural", a participant-action research project which focuses on the processes of cultural management of institutions and collectives of civil society that develop projects aimed at the expansion of cultural, social, political and economic rights of historically subalternized social groups, generating impact in the territories to which they are linked. In the Introduction, we discuss how the Science of Administration has become confused with a mercantile entrepreneurial vision, making a series of knowledge and management experiences linked to a non-instrumental rationality and to more collective processes of creation and production unviable. It then proposes that the experiences of cultural management lived especially by popular groups may offer important references for the construction of a counter-history of administration. Introducing the context of LabGestão - the Territory of Identity of the Recôncavo and the UFRB - it shares the foundations and the first steps of the project, as well as the actions underway and those planned for its first cycle (2022-2024). In conclusion, the text presents reflections on the challenges of participant-action research in the cultural field, defending the importance of producing knowledge for the field of administration based on experiences that cultural groups, collectives and institutions generate in their different contexts, considering the protagonists of these experiences as subjects of knowledge production.