More-than-Human Leadership?
Studying Leadership in Horse–Human Relationships
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23564804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Astrid Huopalainen (0000-0003-2739-2115, Organization and Management, Åbo Akademi University, Finland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 87-100 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192848185.013.6 |
| OpenAlex | W4308213242 |
| ISBN | 9780192848185 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 25 |
How can the relational, embodied, and affective dynamics between horses and humans enrich, develop, or even change common understandings about leadership? Moving away from hu-man-centred conceptualizations of leadership towards radically novel, species-inclusive, and posthuman terrains, this chapter investigates the co-creation of leadership in horse–human relationships within Finnish equestrian culture. Theoretically, it combines insights from the literature on relational leadership and horse–human relationships to develop micro-level understandings of how multispecies relationships—and what the author calls expressions of more-than-human leadership—emerge and co-become in situated practices. Drawing on ethnographic material on horse–human interactions (as in groundwork and in riding), combined with interviews with professional riding instructors, the chapter analyses how horses and humans co-construct leadership relationally. Further, it develops novel, care-based understandings of leadership through sensing, relating to, and learning from horses. By seeking to shift ordinary knowing positions and power distributions through care and respect for the horse, this chapter opens up novel possibilities for co-creating leadership across species boundaries and for conceptualizing and researching leadership differently.
Construct (python library) · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ethnography · Leadership style · Shared leadership · Situated · Sociology · Animal and Plant Science Education · Anthropology · Computer Science · Doping in Sports · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Psychology · Social Psychology
Effective Leadership Behavior
Leadership, not leaders
Posthuman Affirmative Business Ethics
Feline politics in organization
A report to an academy
‘Doggy-biopolitics’
(Un)Stable Relations
Co-being and intra-action in horse-human relationships
Show us the sound! Aesthetic leadership of symphony orchestra conductors
Dancing with the D-man
A Language of Their Own
Journeys Together
More‐than‐human emotions
Please tell me when you are in pain’
Managers Doing Leadership
Relational leadership
Learning to Speak Horse
Animals and organizations
Affective Pedagogies, Equine-assisted Experiments and Posthuman Leadership
Riding
Animal work, memory, and interspecies care
Ethnography in evolution
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |