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Covering leadership in the arts and humanities, this volume explores the notion that leadership is both a discursive practice and a performative identity that is situated in a body that not only thinks, but moves, acts, has emotions and desires, ages, experiences, hurts, and senses.

Table of Contents

Contributors vii

Introduction xiii
Lois Ruskai Melina

Part One: Leadership Thresholds 1
Gloria J. Burgess

1. The Anatomy of Leadership 5
Stephanie Guastella Lindsay

2. Dramatic Leadership: Dorothy Heathcote’s Autopoietic, or Embodied, Leadership Model 23
Kate Katafiasz

3. Leadership in the Time of Liminality: A Framework for Leadership in an Era of Deep Transformation 43
David Holzmer

4. Seeking Alignment in the World Body: The Art of Embodiment 65
Skye Burn

Part Two: Leaders Are Their Bodies 85
Lena Lid Falkman

5. (De/Re)Constructing Leading Bodies: Developing Critical Attitudes and Somaesthetic Practices 89
Maylon Hanold

6. Dollmaking as an Expression of Women’s Leadership 109
Kimberly Yost

7. Leadership Embodiment and Resistance: The Complex Journey of Latin American Pentecostal Women Pastors 129
Nora Méndez and Fernando Mora

8. Michelle Obama’s Embodied Authentic Leadership: Leading by Lifestyle 149
Elizabeth D. Wilhoit

Part Three: Leadership By and Through the Body 171
Antonio Marturano

9. Shall I Lead Now? Learner Experiences of Leader–Follower Relationships Through Engagement with the Dance 175
Julie Burge, Ray Batchelor, and Lionel Cox

10. Embodied Learning Experience in Leadership Development 193
Perttu Salovaara and Arja Ropo

11. Professionals Are Their Bodies: The Language of the Body as Sounding Board in Leadership and Professional Communication 217
Helle Winther

12. From the Ground Up: Revisioning Sources and Methods of Leadership Development 239
Kathryn Goldman Schuyler

Name Index 259

Subject Index 263

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      Publisher: John Wiley #38; Sons
      Publication Date: 4/17/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781118551615, 978-1118551615
      ISBN10: 1118551613

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Covering leadership in the arts and humanities, this volume explores the notion that leadership is both a discursive practice and a performative identity that is situated in a body that not only thinks, but moves, acts, has emotions and desires, ages, experiences, hurts, and senses.

      Table of Contents

      Contributors vii

      Introduction xiii
      Lois Ruskai Melina

      Part One: Leadership Thresholds 1
      Gloria J. Burgess

      1. The Anatomy of Leadership 5
      Stephanie Guastella Lindsay

      2. Dramatic Leadership: Dorothy Heathcote’s Autopoietic, or Embodied, Leadership Model 23
      Kate Katafiasz

      3. Leadership in the Time of Liminality: A Framework for Leadership in an Era of Deep Transformation 43
      David Holzmer

      4. Seeking Alignment in the World Body: The Art of Embodiment 65
      Skye Burn

      Part Two: Leaders Are Their Bodies 85
      Lena Lid Falkman

      5. (De/Re)Constructing Leading Bodies: Developing Critical Attitudes and Somaesthetic Practices 89
      Maylon Hanold

      6. Dollmaking as an Expression of Women’s Leadership 109
      Kimberly Yost

      7. Leadership Embodiment and Resistance: The Complex Journey of Latin American Pentecostal Women Pastors 129
      Nora Méndez and Fernando Mora

      8. Michelle Obama’s Embodied Authentic Leadership: Leading by Lifestyle 149
      Elizabeth D. Wilhoit

      Part Three: Leadership By and Through the Body 171
      Antonio Marturano

      9. Shall I Lead Now? Learner Experiences of Leader–Follower Relationships Through Engagement with the Dance 175
      Julie Burge, Ray Batchelor, and Lionel Cox

      10. Embodied Learning Experience in Leadership Development 193
      Perttu Salovaara and Arja Ropo

      11. Professionals Are Their Bodies: The Language of the Body as Sounding Board in Leadership and Professional Communication 217
      Helle Winther

      12. From the Ground Up: Revisioning Sources and Methods of Leadership Development 239
      Kathryn Goldman Schuyler

      Name Index 259

      Subject Index 263

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