Amanda Sinclair
Biographic Data
| ID | 3609442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Sinclair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Sinclair |
| SIGNATURE | SINCLAIR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7654-5136 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Five movements in an embodied feminism
How can bodies, embodied experiences and feelings, be recognized as central elements of becoming and being feminist? This article – a mixture of memoir and research reflection – aims to reveal the emergent and embodied nature of feminist paths using myself as case in point. Recounting five personal ‘movements’ over three decades, I show how my material situations, physically-felt struggles and embodied encounters with others, especially women, wr…
Bodies, sexualities and women leaders in popular culture
Purpose This paper focuses on visual representation of women leaders and how women leaders’ bodies and sexualities are rendered visible in particular ways. Design/methodology/approach The arguments are based on a reading of the Danish television drama series, Borgen . The authors interpret the meaning of this text and consider what audiences might gain from watching it. Findings The analysis of Borgen highlights the role of popular culture in res…
Containing, contesting, creating spaces
Drawing on the experiences of 29 Australian Indigenous artists and arts leaders, this article explores the way these individuals provide leadership by expressing and resisting cultural identities of Aboriginality. Scholars have shown how a key activity in leadership is ‘identity work’, or negotiating a sustainable leadership identity, yet much of the scholarship to date neglects context and cultural dimensions of identity work in leadership. Our …
Traditional midwifery or ‘wise women’ models of leadership
This article originated in a leadership program for Indigenous 1 Australian researchers, where a participant who had worked with traditional midwives in South Sudan reflected on her experiences. While there is increasing interest in how leadership studies can learn from Indigenous leadership experiences, much of this work has focused on men’s experiences or has not paid particular attention to women’s leadership. In this article, we suggest that …
Navigating the territories of Indigenous leadership
This article explores the leadership of Australian Indigenous artists and arts leaders. We advance the idea of ‘territories’ to convey the overlapping contexts in which Indigenous artistic leaders work, and through this framework seek to highlight the embodied ways individuals enact leadership across country and community. Thematic, narrative and discursive analysis of 29 in-depth interviews with diverse Indigenous artists identify four territori…
Reclaiming eroticism in the academy
In this article we address the question ‘what are we to do with ourselves?’ by arguing for the reclamation of the erotic in higher education. By defining the erotic in a way which encompasses the pursuit of pleasure and love, we seek to re-differentiate the collapsed categories of sex and eros. Universities have always been environments where a love of learning and pleasure in pedagogy is possible. Yet a range of cultural and societal factors hav…
A material dean
Placing self
In this contribution to ‘Leading Questions’, I explore ‘place’ in leadership studies experimenting with a bifurcated textual presentation. I suggest that our writing about leadership comes from a mixture of internal and external, personal and geographic, places: ‘real’ and current as well as remembered and reconstructed. Making these places more explicit, I argue, is a form of identity work, facilitating reflexivity in leadership writing. It prom…
Seducing Leadership
This article argues that leadership development is a process of seduction. Drawing on some stories of leadership development from my experience as participant, observer and teacher I show the ways in which certain sorts of highly valued leadership teaching contain seductive elements, including sweeping audiences off their feet and, in some contexts, forestalling critique about the content that is offered. The article also considers the extent to …
Writing Differently
Here are some stories about writing critically. We have written them to beguile you and make you laugh. But we also want to provoke you to think about how and why you write. Interspersed are short, unashamedly idiosyncratic statements about what we think is wrong with much of the writing that goes on in the field, and why we think writing matters. We want to discourage pompous, impenetrable writing; writing that seems driven by desires to demonst…
Body Possibilities in Leadership
Bodies and bodily performances – including physical stature, features, stance, gestures and voice – are central, yet ignored, elements in the accomplishment of leadership. In this article I offer some reasons for this neglect and attempt to redress it. My focus here is the bodily practices of two Australian leaders – the Victorian Chief Commissioner of Police, Christine Nixon and Chris Sarra, a school principal who was ‘Queenslander of the year’i…
Body and Management Pedagogy
In this article I explore the impact of bodies in management education — why they have been ignored and what possibilities may be created when we understand them better. Bodies — including gestures, stature, posture and voice — shape and constrain how teachers and students act, what they think and what is taken away. The bodies of male and female teachers and students occupy different spaces and carry contrasting significations, resulting in diff…
Journey around Leadership
Ideas about leadership in education, as in other areas of professional practice, increasingly borrow from management and business thinking. In this article I provide a commentary and critique of contemporary leadership in the form of a narrative of my own experience as an educator in a business school. My experience as a woman teacher of largely male, adult management students has underscored my learning about and critique of leadership theory an…
Women within diversity
In Australia, interest in women in organisations has been overtaken by a focus on “managing diversity”. The first part of this paper describes this trend and the accompanying diversity discourse before reviewing the arguments for and against subsuming women as one category within a diversity framework. The second part draws on three examples to explore how working within a managing diversity brief allows and advances analyses of gender. The paper…
Sex and the MBA
Disenchantment with the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) is widespread and the proportion of women undertaking an MBA has plateaued. This paper argues one explanation for both phenomena—that the MBA is constructed on gendered understandings of who a manager is, what they should do and how they should learn. Women's experience of the dominant culture of MBA programs is examined. Several `layers' of culture are considered, from the overt to…
What Do Chief Administrators Do? Findings From Victoria
This study explores the views of Victorian Chief Administrators (CAs) about their jobs. CAs report that the environment of administration has changed in three broad areas: greater public expectations, a breakdown of the politics‐administration dichotomy and difficulties reconciling managerial accountability with limited managerial autonomy. In response, CAs describe a distinctive pattern of concerns — with the “what”, “why” and “how” of agency op…
After Excellence
Organisational culture is recognised as a critical ingredient of organisational effectiveness. However, the popular “excellence” model of managing organisational culture is unsuited to the contingencies and character of many public sector organisations. Termed here the cultural control model, it is the only widely shared understanding of good culture and haw to create it. As a generic prototype of culture it is limited, since it relies on managem…
Public Sector Culture Managerialism or Multiculturalism
Despite dramatic change in the Australian public sector, little attention has been paid to organisational culture. With the importation of private sector strategies and structures the traditional values of public administration have been eroded. Public organisations and their members have experienced consequences of “culture shock”, even “cultural revolution”. Managerialism is an introduced culture which has been criticised by some academics and …
Body Possibilities in Leadership
Bodies and bodily performances – including physical stature, features, stance, gestures and voice – are central, yet ignored, elements in the accomplishment of leadership. In this article I offer some reasons for this neglect and attempt to redress it. My focus here is the bodily practices of two Australian leaders – the Victorian Chief Commissioner of Police, Christine Nixon and Chris Sarra, a school principal who was ‘Queenslander of the year’i…
Body and Management Pedagogy
In this article I explore the impact of bodies in management education — why they have been ignored and what possibilities may be created when we understand them better. Bodies — including gestures, stature, posture and voice — shape and constrain how teachers and students act, what they think and what is taken away. The bodies of male and female teachers and students occupy different spaces and carry contrasting significations, resulting in diff…
Five movements in an embodied feminism
How can bodies, embodied experiences and feelings, be recognized as central elements of becoming and being feminist? This article – a mixture of memoir and research reflection – aims to reveal the emergent and embodied nature of feminist paths using myself as case in point. Recounting five personal ‘movements’ over three decades, I show how my material situations, physically-felt struggles and embodied encounters with others, especially women, wr…
Seducing Leadership
This article argues that leadership development is a process of seduction. Drawing on some stories of leadership development from my experience as participant, observer and teacher I show the ways in which certain sorts of highly valued leadership teaching contain seductive elements, including sweeping audiences off their feet and, in some contexts, forestalling critique about the content that is offered. The article also considers the extent to …
Public Sector Culture Managerialism or Multiculturalism
Despite dramatic change in the Australian public sector, little attention has been paid to organisational culture. With the importation of private sector strategies and structures the traditional values of public administration have been eroded. Public organisations and their members have experienced consequences of “culture shock”, even “cultural revolution”. Managerialism is an introduced culture which has been criticised by some academics and …
Navigating the territories of Indigenous leadership
This article explores the leadership of Australian Indigenous artists and arts leaders. We advance the idea of ‘territories’ to convey the overlapping contexts in which Indigenous artistic leaders work, and through this framework seek to highlight the embodied ways individuals enact leadership across country and community. Thematic, narrative and discursive analysis of 29 in-depth interviews with diverse Indigenous artists identify four territori…
After Excellence
Organisational culture is recognised as a critical ingredient of organisational effectiveness. However, the popular “excellence” model of managing organisational culture is unsuited to the contingencies and character of many public sector organisations. Termed here the cultural control model, it is the only widely shared understanding of good culture and haw to create it. As a generic prototype of culture it is limited, since it relies on managem…
Traditional midwifery or ‘wise women’ models of leadership
This article originated in a leadership program for Indigenous 1 Australian researchers, where a participant who had worked with traditional midwives in South Sudan reflected on her experiences. While there is increasing interest in how leadership studies can learn from Indigenous leadership experiences, much of this work has focused on men’s experiences or has not paid particular attention to women’s leadership. In this article, we suggest that …
A material dean
Bodies, sexualities and women leaders in popular culture
Purpose This paper focuses on visual representation of women leaders and how women leaders’ bodies and sexualities are rendered visible in particular ways. Design/methodology/approach The arguments are based on a reading of the Danish television drama series, Borgen . The authors interpret the meaning of this text and consider what audiences might gain from watching it. Findings The analysis of Borgen highlights the role of popular culture in res…
Containing, contesting, creating spaces
Drawing on the experiences of 29 Australian Indigenous artists and arts leaders, this article explores the way these individuals provide leadership by expressing and resisting cultural identities of Aboriginality. Scholars have shown how a key activity in leadership is ‘identity work’, or negotiating a sustainable leadership identity, yet much of the scholarship to date neglects context and cultural dimensions of identity work in leadership. Our …
Placing self
In this contribution to ‘Leading Questions’, I explore ‘place’ in leadership studies experimenting with a bifurcated textual presentation. I suggest that our writing about leadership comes from a mixture of internal and external, personal and geographic, places: ‘real’ and current as well as remembered and reconstructed. Making these places more explicit, I argue, is a form of identity work, facilitating reflexivity in leadership writing. It prom…
What Do Chief Administrators Do? Findings From Victoria
This study explores the views of Victorian Chief Administrators (CAs) about their jobs. CAs report that the environment of administration has changed in three broad areas: greater public expectations, a breakdown of the politics‐administration dichotomy and difficulties reconciling managerial accountability with limited managerial autonomy. In response, CAs describe a distinctive pattern of concerns — with the “what”, “why” and “how” of agency op…
Journey around Leadership
Ideas about leadership in education, as in other areas of professional practice, increasingly borrow from management and business thinking. In this article I provide a commentary and critique of contemporary leadership in the form of a narrative of my own experience as an educator in a business school. My experience as a woman teacher of largely male, adult management students has underscored my learning about and critique of leadership theory an…
Public Sector Culture Managerialism or Multiculturalism
Despite dramatic change in the Australian public sector, little attention has been paid to organisational culture. With the importation of private sector strategies and structures the traditional values of public administration have been eroded. Public organisations and their members have experienced consequences of “culture shock”, even “cultural revolution”. Managerialism is an introduced culture which has been criticised by some academics and …
After Excellence
Organisational culture is recognised as a critical ingredient of organisational effectiveness. However, the popular “excellence” model of managing organisational culture is unsuited to the contingencies and character of many public sector organisations. Termed here the cultural control model, it is the only widely shared understanding of good culture and haw to create it. As a generic prototype of culture it is limited, since it relies on managem…
What Do Chief Administrators Do? Findings From Victoria
This study explores the views of Victorian Chief Administrators (CAs) about their jobs. CAs report that the environment of administration has changed in three broad areas: greater public expectations, a breakdown of the politics‐administration dichotomy and difficulties reconciling managerial accountability with limited managerial autonomy. In response, CAs describe a distinctive pattern of concerns — with the “what”, “why” and “how” of agency op…
Sex and the MBA
Disenchantment with the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) is widespread and the proportion of women undertaking an MBA has plateaued. This paper argues one explanation for both phenomena—that the MBA is constructed on gendered understandings of who a manager is, what they should do and how they should learn. Women's experience of the dominant culture of MBA programs is examined. Several `layers' of culture are considered, from the overt to…
Women within diversity
In Australia, interest in women in organisations has been overtaken by a focus on “managing diversity”. The first part of this paper describes this trend and the accompanying diversity discourse before reviewing the arguments for and against subsuming women as one category within a diversity framework. The second part draws on three examples to explore how working within a managing diversity brief allows and advances analyses of gender. The paper…
Journey around Leadership
Ideas about leadership in education, as in other areas of professional practice, increasingly borrow from management and business thinking. In this article I provide a commentary and critique of contemporary leadership in the form of a narrative of my own experience as an educator in a business school. My experience as a woman teacher of largely male, adult management students has underscored my learning about and critique of leadership theory an…
Body Possibilities in Leadership
Bodies and bodily performances – including physical stature, features, stance, gestures and voice – are central, yet ignored, elements in the accomplishment of leadership. In this article I offer some reasons for this neglect and attempt to redress it. My focus here is the bodily practices of two Australian leaders – the Victorian Chief Commissioner of Police, Christine Nixon and Chris Sarra, a school principal who was ‘Queenslander of the year’i…
Body and Management Pedagogy
In this article I explore the impact of bodies in management education — why they have been ignored and what possibilities may be created when we understand them better. Bodies — including gestures, stature, posture and voice — shape and constrain how teachers and students act, what they think and what is taken away. The bodies of male and female teachers and students occupy different spaces and carry contrasting significations, resulting in diff…
Writing Differently
Here are some stories about writing critically. We have written them to beguile you and make you laugh. But we also want to provoke you to think about how and why you write. Interspersed are short, unashamedly idiosyncratic statements about what we think is wrong with much of the writing that goes on in the field, and why we think writing matters. We want to discourage pompous, impenetrable writing; writing that seems driven by desires to demonst…
Seducing Leadership
This article argues that leadership development is a process of seduction. Drawing on some stories of leadership development from my experience as participant, observer and teacher I show the ways in which certain sorts of highly valued leadership teaching contain seductive elements, including sweeping audiences off their feet and, in some contexts, forestalling critique about the content that is offered. The article also considers the extent to …
Placing self
In this contribution to ‘Leading Questions’, I explore ‘place’ in leadership studies experimenting with a bifurcated textual presentation. I suggest that our writing about leadership comes from a mixture of internal and external, personal and geographic, places: ‘real’ and current as well as remembered and reconstructed. Making these places more explicit, I argue, is a form of identity work, facilitating reflexivity in leadership writing. It prom…
A material dean
Reclaiming eroticism in the academy
In this article we address the question ‘what are we to do with ourselves?’ by arguing for the reclamation of the erotic in higher education. By defining the erotic in a way which encompasses the pursuit of pleasure and love, we seek to re-differentiate the collapsed categories of sex and eros. Universities have always been environments where a love of learning and pleasure in pedagogy is possible. Yet a range of cultural and societal factors hav…
Containing, contesting, creating spaces
Drawing on the experiences of 29 Australian Indigenous artists and arts leaders, this article explores the way these individuals provide leadership by expressing and resisting cultural identities of Aboriginality. Scholars have shown how a key activity in leadership is ‘identity work’, or negotiating a sustainable leadership identity, yet much of the scholarship to date neglects context and cultural dimensions of identity work in leadership. Our …
Traditional midwifery or ‘wise women’ models of leadership
This article originated in a leadership program for Indigenous 1 Australian researchers, where a participant who had worked with traditional midwives in South Sudan reflected on her experiences. While there is increasing interest in how leadership studies can learn from Indigenous leadership experiences, much of this work has focused on men’s experiences or has not paid particular attention to women’s leadership. In this article, we suggest that …
Navigating the territories of Indigenous leadership
This article explores the leadership of Australian Indigenous artists and arts leaders. We advance the idea of ‘territories’ to convey the overlapping contexts in which Indigenous artistic leaders work, and through this framework seek to highlight the embodied ways individuals enact leadership across country and community. Thematic, narrative and discursive analysis of 29 in-depth interviews with diverse Indigenous artists identify four territori…
Bodies, sexualities and women leaders in popular culture
Purpose This paper focuses on visual representation of women leaders and how women leaders’ bodies and sexualities are rendered visible in particular ways. Design/methodology/approach The arguments are based on a reading of the Danish television drama series, Borgen . The authors interpret the meaning of this text and consider what audiences might gain from watching it. Findings The analysis of Borgen highlights the role of popular culture in res…
Five movements in an embodied feminism
How can bodies, embodied experiences and feelings, be recognized as central elements of becoming and being feminist? This article – a mixture of memoir and research reflection – aims to reveal the emergent and embodied nature of feminist paths using myself as case in point. Recounting five personal ‘movements’ over three decades, I show how my material situations, physically-felt struggles and embodied encounters with others, especially women, wr…
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (15 works) · Public relations (12 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Law (7 works)