This volume takes up intersectionality and whiteness as perspectives through which to engage and understand leadership. The chapters draw from research and theory, as well as the authors own personal backgrounds and experiences to illustrate the complexity of leadership as a concept and the nuances of the development of leaders own individual leadership identities and perspectives. Presenting theoretically and empirically informed conversations that engage both scholarship and real-life issues in the sphere of leadership, authors address important issues for advancing research and practice in international contexts, including Australia, Botswana, Canada, South Africa, Pakistan, Netherlands, UK, and USA. Chapters evaluate the dominant models, conceptions, and perspectives of leadership as part of advocating alternative models of leadership which acknowledge the multiplicity of permutations of diversity of genders and ethnicities across the world. By so doing, authors consider how their work might lead to social change. It will be of interest to researchers, educators, and students in Gender Studies, Business, and Management, as well as community and corporate leaders.

Autorentext

Pontso Moorosi is an Associate Professor of educational leadership and management at the Centre for Education Studies, University of Warwick, UK.

Victoria Showunmi, is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies in Gender, Race and Identity in the IOE Education, Policy and Society Department at University College London, UK.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Context and Background.- 2. Are Colored Women even Woman Enough? Othering and the Enactment of Whiteness within South African Organizations.- 3. Decentering Whiteness through Relational Leadership: An Intergenerational Perspective on Social Justice.- 4. An Intersectional Approach to Gender Diversity in Leadership in the new South Africa: Insights from Women Leaders.-5. Atypical Scholars in Atypical Settings: Navigating Whiteness and Intersectional in Higher Education.- 6. When Leaders are Men and Women Play Second Fiddle: An Intersectional Perspective on The Botswana Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Sector.- 7. Black Masculinities in White Transnational Corporate Spaces: Disrupting the Hegemony of Whiteness in Leadership.- 8. Which Women? A Question We Must Never Tire to Ask in the Quest to Unsettle Whiteness.- 9. Mixed Blessings: Leading Through the Lens of Whiteness. 10. Disrupting the Status Quo: An Epilogue.