Theorizing dramaturgical resistance leadership from the leadership campaigns of Jeremy Corbyn

Sinha, Paresha; Jones, Owain Smolović; Carroll, Brigid

doi:10.1177/0018726719887310

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“…As noted above, resistance is prevalent in accounts of quota implementation. Resistance is a ubiquitous but notoriously slippery concept, which has grown from analysis of management to understandings of 'many individual and collective actions of dissent, opposition, protest and disengagement' (Sinha et al, 2019: 3) at work, within political movements, large and small-scale, connected physically and digitally (Vachhani and Pullen, 2019).…”

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‘I Wanted More Women in, but . . .’: Oblique Resistance to Gender Equality Initiatives

Jones

Taylor

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Work, Employment and Society

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Despite many interventions designed to change the gender demographics of positional leadership roles in organizations and professions, women continue to be under-represented in most arenas. Here we explore gender equality (GE) interventions through the example of positive discrimination quotas in politics to develop an understanding of resistance to them. Our case is the British Labour Party, analysing interviews with the people who designed, implemented and resisted the system of all-women shortlists. We develop the notion of ‘oblique resistance’ to describe an indirect form of resistance to the erosion of patriarchal power, which never directly confronts the issue of GE, yet actively undermines it. Oblique resistance is practised in three key ways: through appeals to ethics, by marking territory and in appeals to convention. We conclude by considering the conceptual and practical implications of oblique resistance, when direct and more overt resistance to GE is increasingly socially unacceptable.

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Section: Resistance To Gender Equality Initiativesmentioning

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‘I Wanted More Women in, but . . .’: Oblique Resistance to Gender Equality Initiatives

Jones

Taylor

et al. 2020

Work, Employment and Society

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“…In turn, self leadership has become associated with entrepreneurial and enterprising leaders with the focus indeed on driving the self to aspirational ends but somewhat inattentive to the contribution of others (Dean and Ford, 2017; D’Intino et al, 2007). Accordingly, we need a greater integrated understanding of leaders, leading and leadership in contexts where collectives, not individuals, distribute leadership in more intentionally participatory ways (Sutherland et al, 2014) or where leaders create and protect the space for different kinds of leadership actors and dynamics as opposed to more typical leader-centric activity (Sinha et al, 2019). It seems overall we know too little about individual agency in post or anti-heroic leadership spaces with the prospect of those attuned (and in fact ‘developed’) to leading within them – potentially these very leadership development youth participants – at risk of being under-recognised, under-utilised and under-valued.…”

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Leading or led? A critical exploration of youth leadership development

Carroll

Firth

2020

Management Learning

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Leadership development for youth is an increasingly large global business that has to date lacked sustained critical scrutiny. Our inquiry is based on application, interview and reflection data from participants in a university-based leadership programme, capturing them at the point they transition to early work lives. We argue that leadership has become such a prevalent career and work discourse that the leadership development that happens in youth offers a unique window into new organisational workers, the leadership development industry and a complex leadership theoretical terrain. A set of five ‘leading’ discourses – separate, suspended, small, self and semi – were identified that invite critical inquiry. While youth leadership scholars have previously noted the suspended and separate discourses, we empirically refine those and offer the other three (small, self and semi) as important to current contestations between leaders, leadership and leadership development. In doing so, we question whether current leadership development for youth creates substantive leadership capacity in individuals, organisations or society.

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“…Kelly explores how the minority group (left-wingers supporting Benn) and the majority group (right-wingers supporting Kinnock) stereotypically perceive each other and how the minority group is particularly committed to accentuating intergroup differences in an attempt to win the contest. Similarly, in a more recent study, Sinha et al (2021) study what they term the ‘dramaturgical resistance leadership’ of Jeremy Corbyn in relation to his successful 2015 leadership campaign. They identify three core elements in Corbyn’s strategy.…”

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“…A quick search through the most well-read journals in the field shows that, save for a few exceptions (e.g. Moufahim, Reedy, & Humphreys, 2015; Husted & Plesner, 2017; Ringel, 2019; Sinha, Smolović Jones, & Carroll, 2021), hardly any studies investigate parties from a truly organizational point of view.…”

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“…study of intergroup relations during the 1988 leadership contest in Britain's Labour Party between Neil Kinnock and Tony Benn. Kelly explores how the minority group (leftwingers supporting Benn) and the majority group (right-wingers supporting Kinnock)stereotypically perceive each other and how the minority group is particularly committed to accentuating intergroup differences in an attempt to win the contest.Similarly, in a more recent study,Sinha et al (2021) study what they term the 'dramaturgical resistance leadership' of Jeremy Corbyn in relation to his successful 2015 leadership campaign. They identify three core elements in Corbyn's strategy.One of these involves a rethinking of the organizational structure of the party, predicated on a blurring of the otherwise stable boundary between registered party -registered supporters.…”

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Political Parties and Organization Studies: The party as a critical case of organizing

Husted

Moufahim

Fredriksson

2021

Organization Studies

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Organization scholars have extensively studied both the politics of organization and the organization of politics. Contributing to the latter, we argue for further and deeper consideration of political parties, since: (1) parties illuminate organizational dynamics of in- and exclusion; (2) internal struggles related to the constitution of identities, practices, and procedures are accentuated in parties; (3) the study of parties allow for the isolation of processes of normative and affective commitment; (4) parties prioritize and intensify normative control mechanisms; (5) party organizing currently represents an example of profound institutional change, as new (digital) formations challenge old bureaucratic models. Consequently, we argue that political parties should be seen as ‘critical cases’ of organizing, meaning that otherwise commonplace phenomena are intensified and exposed in parties. This allows researchers to use parties as magnifying glasses for zooming-in on organizational dynamics that may be suppressed or concealed by the seemingly non-political façade of many contemporary organizations. In conclusion, we argue that organization scholars are in a privileged position to investigate how political parties function today and how their democratic potential can be improved in the future. To this end, we call on Organization and Management Studies to engage actively with alternative parties in an attempt to explore and promote progressive change within the formal political system.

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Theorizing dramaturgical resistance leadership from the leadership campaigns of Jeremy Corbyn

Cited by 9 publications

References 57 publications

‘I Wanted More Women in, but . . .’: Oblique Resistance to Gender Equality Initiatives

‘I Wanted More Women in, but . . .’: Oblique Resistance to Gender Equality Initiatives

Leading or led? A critical exploration of youth leadership development

Political Parties and Organization Studies: The party as a critical case of organizing

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