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SUMMARY:CIDRAL Public Lecture: Stephanie Schnurr (Warwick): Challenging H
 egemonic Notions of Leadership Through Storytelling: Experiences From Pr
 ofessionals Around the Globe
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DESCRIPTION:This event is part of CIDRAL's Work\, Leisure\, Culture stran
 d.\n\nStephanie Schnurr (University of Warwick) will deliver a public le
 cture entitled 'Challenging Hegemonic Notions of Leadership Through Stor
 ytelling: Experiences From Professionals Around the Globe'.\n\nHegemonic
  notions of leadership often depict leaders as “heroic”\, “tall\, handso
 me\, white\, alpha males” (Clifton et al. 2019\; Grint 2010). These assu
 mptions tend to be reflected and reinforced in stories told by celebrity
  leaders (such as Jack Welch and Indra Nooyi) who typically portray lead
 ership as an inherently masculine activity. In their stories they often 
 celebrate behaviours and traits associated with masculinity – such as ra
 tionality and a focus on business objectives\, control and competitivene
 ss\, toughness\, and perhaps even aggressiveness – and propagate them as
  aspects of good leadership (see also Ford\, 2006\; Fletcher\, 2004). \n
 \nHowever\, in this talk I explore several “other” stories which challen
 ge and resist such hegemonic notions of leadership. In and through these
  stories alternative forms of leadership are constructed\, which are bas
 ed on traits and behaviours typically associated with femininity\, such 
 as being caring\, nurturing\, empathetic\, collaborative\, and perhaps e
 ven vulnerable (e.g. Ford\, 2006\; Fletcher\, 2004). \n\nTaking a narrat
 ive as social practice approach I analyse such “other” leadership storie
 s told by women leaders in different workplaces in the Middle East\, the
  US\, India\, and Germany. Through these stories about their own experie
 nces in geographically and culturally diverse contexts\, the storyteller
 s not only navigate gender stereotypes\, but they also challenge and res
 ist globally valid hegemonic (and typically masculine) notions of leader
 ship and construct concrete alternatives. They thereby criticise the per
 sisting gender stereotypes that view women as “the less agentic sex” and
  as “underqualified for leadership” (Eagly & Carli\, 2016\, p. 351\; Hoy
 t & Murphy\, 2016\; Powell\, 2011)\, which are still prevail in many wor
 kplaces around the globe. These stories thus have transformative power a
 nd contribute to de-gendering leadership and changing one of the most pr
 essing issues of gender inequality and discrimination in the workplace (
 Clifton et al.\, 2019). \n\nStephanie Schnurr is Associate Professor of 
 Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick.
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:A113\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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