Otherness: An unfinished project in public administration

Abstract

The critical significance of the Discourse Movement in Public Administration was and continues to be its willingness to challenge the field’s beliefs, use interpretivist methodologies, and face otherness. Unfortunately, the movement’s revolutionary zeal was undermined by its inability to see otherness as nothing more than an epistemological fantasy. The following dialogue explores the issue of otherness, as an ontological reality, and sketches the Discourse Movement’s unfinished project: confronting otherness and, by extension, dismantling White Supremacy.