Decolonizing HRD: Towards Transnational Feminist Solidarity and Sustainability

Thursday, February 22, 2024

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM East Coast USA Time

Location: Madison (Lobby Level)

Author(s)

Eunbi Sim, MA

Ph.D. Student
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia, United States
Laura L. Bierema

Professor
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia, United States
TR

Tina Rousselot de Saint Céran

Ph.D. Student
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia, United States
WH

Weixin He

Ph.D. Student
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia, United States

Abstract: Gender issues at work have been increasingly “transnational”—extending and operating across national boundaries. Human resource development (HRD) scholarship and practices that essentialize marginalized women without considering the transnational oppression structure only reinforce gendered systems globally. This paper provides a framework for transnational feminist HRD (TFHRD) praxis to address transnational gender issues at work. The paper describes transnational feminism, introduces gender-related issues at work from a transnational feminist perspective, and identifies transnational gender discourse in HRD. Integrating transnational feminist studies and Bierema and Callahan’s (2014) critical HRD framework, this paper suggests TFHRD actions towards transnational feminist solidarity and sustainability through decolonizing HRD.