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A Leadership of Refusal: Remaking the narrative of the falling leader
My latest article with Emma Bell and Sheena Vachhani has just been published in the British Journal of Management. Read it here: ·Bell, E., Sinclair, A. and S. Vachhani (2024) ‘A leadership of refusal: Remaking the narrative of the falling leader,’ British Journal of Management.
Article: Five movements in an embodied feminism: A memoir
Amanda provides a very personal account of how her feminism has been formed over ‘five movements’ and 3 decades. ‘I show how my material situations, physically-felt struggles and embodied encounters with others, especially women, wrested – sometimes catapulted – my precarious self-identification as a feminist.’
Article: Identities under scrutiny: How women leaders navigate feeling misidentified at work
Women leaders often experience scrutiny of their identity and a sense of asymmetry – that is, others see them differently to how they see themselves. In this study women leaders in male-dominated industries describe their experiences - and their strategies for overcoming - identity asymmetry.
Chapter: Re-envisaging leadership through the feminine imaginary in film and television
Women are typically subject to heightened scrutiny and criticism in leadership but in this study, Emma and Amanda explore examples in popular culture where women are portrayed enacting agency via three routes: by disrupting the patriarchal order; erotic leadership; and exploring an alternative “feminine imaginary”.
Article: Reclaiming Eroticism in the Academy
Drawing on the work of feminist theorists, Emma and Amanda argue that universities and academia have become sterile and transactional. By exploring the relationship between bodies and knowledge; by recognizing love in learning and wisdom; and by cultivating the pleasure and nurturance in teaching, academic work can be recast as an embodied practice, involving pleasure and love.