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Putting leadership in its place: Introduction to the special issue (2022)
Journal Article
Sutherland, N., Bolden, R., Edwards, G., & Schedlitzki, D. (2022). Putting leadership in its place: Introduction to the special issue. Leadership, 18(1), 3-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/17427150221083498

This special issue emerges from a call for papers issued following the 18th International Studying Leadership Conference, hosted at the University of the West of England in December 2019, which addressed the theme of ‘Putting leadership in its place’... Read More about Putting leadership in its place: Introduction to the special issue.

Problematizing leadership learning facilitation through a trickster archetype: An investigation into power and identity in liminal spaces (2021)
Journal Article
Edwards, G., Hawkins, B., & Sutherland, N. (2021). Problematizing leadership learning facilitation through a trickster archetype: An investigation into power and identity in liminal spaces. Leadership, 17(5), 542-559. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715021998229

This study uses the archetype of a ‘trickster’ to reflect back on, and hence problematize, the role of the educator/facilitator identity in leadership learning. This is based on the view that a trickster is a permanent resident in liminal spaces and... Read More about Problematizing leadership learning facilitation through a trickster archetype: An investigation into power and identity in liminal spaces.

Beyond unsustainable leadership: critical social theory for sustainable leadership (2017)
Journal Article
Bendell, J., Sutherland, N., & Little, R. (2017). Beyond unsustainable leadership: critical social theory for sustainable leadership. Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, 8(4), 418-444. https://doi.org/10.1108/SAMPJ-08-2016-0048

© 2017, © Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to prepare the conceptual groundwork for the future study of leadership for sustainable development. The paper demonstrates the relevance of Critical Leadership Studies to fu... Read More about Beyond unsustainable leadership: critical social theory for sustainable leadership.

Investigating leadership ethnographically: Opportunities and potentialities (2016)
Journal Article
Sutherland, N. (2018). Investigating leadership ethnographically: Opportunities and potentialities. Leadership, 14(3), 263-290. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715016676446

© 2016, The Author(s). Whilst recent years have seen increasingly ethnographic-focussed writings in Organisation Studies, similar developments have not been mirrored within Leadership Studies, where the field is still dominated by positivistic approa... Read More about Investigating leadership ethnographically: Opportunities and potentialities.

Anti-leaders(hip) in Social Movement Organizations: The case of autonomous grassroots groups (2014)
Journal Article
Sutherland, N., Land, C., & Böhm, S. (2014). Anti-leaders(hip) in Social Movement Organizations: The case of autonomous grassroots groups. Organization, 21(6), 759-781. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508413480254

© The Author(s) 2013. Through the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement, the idea of horizontal, leaderless organization has come to the attention of the mass media. In this article we explore radical, participative-democratic alternatives to leadershi... Read More about Anti-leaders(hip) in Social Movement Organizations: The case of autonomous grassroots groups.

Review: Direct action, deliberation and diffusion: Collective action after the WTO protests in Seattle (2013)
Journal Article
Sutherland, N. (2013). Review: Direct action, deliberation and diffusion: Collective action after the WTO protests in Seattle. Interface, 5(2), 540-543

In Direct Action, Deliberation and Diffusion: Collective Action after the WTO protests in Seattle, Lesley Wood seeks to examine the micro-level interactions that influenced the diffusion of the cluster of tactics associated with the 1999 World Trade... Read More about Review: Direct action, deliberation and diffusion: Collective action after the WTO protests in Seattle.