Paradox and Power in Caring Leadership

Edited by Leah Tomkins, Independent Scholar, Visiting Professor, University of the West of England, and former Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford, UK

'This sparkling collection puts care where it always should have been - at the forefront of leadership studies. Drawing on a wide variety of perspectives it encourages us to think afresh about why leadership really matters and how it should be practised. It is a gem.'--Dennis Tourish, University of Sussex, UK'Leadership can be brutally self-assertive - or it can be pastorally tender: this is just one of the many paradoxes teased out and explored by the editor and her top-class team of 22 genuine collaborators, in a beautifully produced and critically sophisticated volume that never wearies and genuinely stimulates and inspires.'--Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge, UK'A very welcome collection examining an often-neglected side of leadership, and one that does so with remarkable intellectual range. It draws not only on psychology and philosophy but also on literature and evolutionary theory; on classical and contemporary traditions; as well as on thinkers as diverse as Keats and Arendt. What readers will appreciate most, though, is the balanced - and sometimes critical - approach many of the essays take.'--Terry L. Price, University of Richmond, US

• Contents:Introduction 1PART I SETTING THE SCENE: POWER, PRIVILEGE AND DISADVANTAGE1 Leadership, care and (in)justice 16Leah TomkinsPART II THE ROOTS OF CARE: KINSHIP, FEELINGS AND BODIES2 Do leaders need to have tender hearts? Emotion and the duty to care 29Joanne B. Ciulla3 The caring leader: an exploration of family archetypes 40Yiannis Gabriel4 Magically horrific: caring leadership and the paradoxical evolution of parenthood 52Gerardo Abreu Pederzini5 Leading with embodied care 63Amanda Sinclair and Donna LadkinPART III THE RISKS OF CARE: DEPENDENCY, EXPLOITATION AND VULNERABILITY6 The shepherd king and his flock: paradoxes of leadership and care in classical Greek philosophy 75Carol Atack7 Leadership and the fiduciary: addressing asymmetrical power by caring well 86Helen Mussell8 Leadership in the ancient and modern military: carelessness and moral injury 98Liz Sawyer and Ben Sawyer9 A metamorphosis for leaders: caring in good faith 109Jen JonesPART IV THE CARING LEADER AT WORK: SECURITY, SACRIFICE AND SELF10 Care and security in Vergil’s Aeneid: an analysis of the politics of empire 121Michèle Lowrie11 Negative Capability and care of the self 131Charlotte von Bülow and Peter Simpson12 Pater figure: leaders, emperors and fathers in Seneca and Stoicism 142Liz Gloyn13 Through the prism of Sartre: taking care of our existential freedom 153Peter BloomPART V RESHAPING THE CONTOURS OF LEADERSHIP: RELATIONSHIP, COMMUNITY AND DEMOCRACY14 Educating caring leaders: a paradox of collective uniqueness 163Ann L. Cunliffe and Matthew Eriksen15 Caring leadership as collective responsibility: a dialogue with Arendt and Heidegger 175Rita A. Gardiner16 Caring leadership as radical ontology: Eastern philosophies of non-separation 186Vinca Bigo17 Care without leaders: the collective powers of affective leadership 198Iain Munro and Torkild Thanem18 Caring beyond kinship: applying Jane Addams’ social ethic to the organizational domain 210Donna LadkinIndex 222