Doing leadership differently as resistance: Care-fully reworking Aotearoa New Zealand's research system

IF 1.3 4区社会学 Q2 GEOGRAPHY

New Zealand Geographer Pub Date : 2023-11-20 DOI:10.1111/nzg.12379

Bethany Cox, Kirsten Locke, Emma Sharp, Aisling Rayne, Leilani Walker, Tammy Steeves

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Abstract

The ‘research system’ in Aotearoa New Zealand is rife with obstacles for entry and retention of diversity. The research system's complexity and longevity gives the impression of stability and fixity, but we argue it is characterised by a lack of imagination around leadership that generates change. In this article, we examine the embodied experiences of research leadership, as encountered by participants at Aotearoa New Zealand's universities and a nationally funded Centre of Research Excellence. It is within such institutions and organisations, built on colonial and patriarchal values, that experiences of marginalisation, oppression and harassment have been documented. We destabilise the apparently static nature of this ‘research system monolith’ by taking up MacLeavy, Fannin and Larner's (2021) provocation of a feminist approach to boldly do leadership differently. Drawing from interviews with researchers, we provoke that resistance to, and reworking of, the research system is hidden in feminist modes of practice: in the everyday, mundane practices of care-full research leadership, that does leadership differently.

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以抵抗的方式做不同的领导:仔细改造新西兰的研究体系

新西兰奥特罗阿的“研究体系”充满了进入和保留多样性的障碍。该研究体系的复杂性和长期性给人一种稳定和固定的印象，但我们认为，它的特点是缺乏对产生变革的领导力的想象力。在这篇文章中，我们研究了研究领导的具体经验，正如新西兰大学和国家资助的卓越研究中心的参与者所遇到的那样。正是在这些建立在殖民主义和父权价值观基础上的机构和组织中，边缘化、压迫和骚扰的经历被记录下来。我们通过采纳MacLeavy、Fannin和Larner(2021)对女权主义方法的挑衅，大胆地以不同的方式进行领导，从而破坏了这种“研究系统整体”的明显静态性质。从对研究人员的采访中，我们激起了对研究系统的抵制和改造，这些抵制和改造隐藏在女权主义的实践模式中:在日常的、平凡的、谨慎的研究领导实践中，这与领导方式不同。

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New Zealand Geographer GEOGRAPHY-

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2.40

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8.30%

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期刊介绍： For over 50 years the New Zealand Geographer has been the internationally refereed journal of the New Zealand Geographical Society. The Society represents professional geographers in academic, school, business, government, community and other spheres in New Zealand and the South Pacific. The journal publishes academic papers on aspects of the physical, human and environmental geographies, and landscapes, of its region; commentaries and debates; discussions of educational questions and scholarship of concern to geographers; short interventions and assessments of topical matters of interest to university and high school teachers; and book reviews.