White Knights: Leadership as the heroicisation of whiteness
Abstract
This article draws on critical race theory to interrogate whiteness in dominant discourses of leadership. We conducted a discourse analysis of the media representations of 12 business leaders engaged in philanthropy in Australia to demonstrate how white practices of normalisation, solipsism and ontological expansiveness underpin the construction of white leaders as speaking for society, mastering all environments and self-sacrificing for the greater good. Our analysis suggests that ‘doing leadership’ is inextricably linked to ‘doing whiteness’, while the invisible presence of whiteness in leadership discourses sustains white power and privilege. By ‘naming’ whiteness and its practices, we aspire to unhinge it from its location as transparent, dominant and ordinary, and begin theorising leadership in ways that are conducive to the goals of racial equality.
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Helena Liu is a Lecturer in Organisation Studies at Swinburne Business School. She holds a PhD in Work & Organisation Studies from the University of Sydney Business School. Her research focuses on the discursive construction of leadership. This approach has led her to examine how leaders account for failure and the social construction of authenticity among banking CEOs during the Global Financial Crisis. Central to her work is a critical disposition towards the gendered, racialised, and classed nature of how we have come to understand ‘leadership’. Helena’s work has been published in the Journal of Business Ethics and Management Communication Quarterly.
Christopher Baker is a Research Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy, part of the Centre for Social Impact, at Swinburne Business School. Christopher came to research from a senior executive position in Human Resources at one of Australia’s largest listed companies; the ANZ bank. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He holds an MBA from Durham University Business School and a PhD in Sociology from Swinburne University of Technology. Christopher’s research focuses on private giving for public good, inclusive of Diaspora philanthropy. He has published on the topic of philanthropy and minority communities in Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies.
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