ABSTRACT
The Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies offers a rich and insightful overview of critical leadership studies for students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners. The volume draws together 35 chapters from 56 authors who represent the vibrant diversity of the critical leadership community. It includes chapters from emerging and preeminent scholars who share an interest in directing leadership theorizing, development and practice toward the aims of liberation, justice, and equity.
The Companion is organized into six themes: (1) philosophical perspectives on leadership; (2) processes, practices, and power dynamics in leadership; (3) diversity and leadership; (4) leadership education and development; (5) lessons from the dark side of leadership; and (6) reimagining leadership and leadership studies.
The book has been curated to serve as a "go to" resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, academic staff, and researchers seeking to understand the current state of play on a given topic, as well as inspiration for how they might contribute to its development. Each chapter provides a comprehensive yet succinct review of contemporary literature and offers the reader avenues for future research. Leadership practitioners will also find provocative ideas among these pages to help them interrogate and transform the ways they lead.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Theme 1|49 pages
Philosophical perspectives on leadership
part Theme 2|107 pages
Process, practice(s) and power dynamics in leadership
chapter 8|13 pages
The Skein of language that contains us
part Theme 3|51 pages
Diversity and leadership
chapter 14|12 pages
The legitimacy trap for women leaders
chapter 15|13 pages
Decolonial perspectives of activism and climate justice in Latin America
chapter 17|12 pages
Navigating gender and religion in leadership
part Theme 4|69 pages
Leadership education and development
chapter 18|14 pages
From container to concerns
part Theme 5|106 pages
Lessons from the dark side of leadership
chapter 26|8 pages
The organization of ideological discourse in times of unexpected crisis
chapter 27|17 pages
The canary in the coalmine
part Theme 6|80 pages
Reimagining leadership