TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ropo, Arja 
AU  - Salovaara, Perttu 
TI  - Spacing leadership as an embodied and performative process 
KW  - Materiality
KW  - space, leadership
KW  - aesthetic epistemology
KW  - embodiment
KW  - process ontology
KW  - Lefebvre
KW  - performative
N2  - Aligned with the recent stream of research on the materiality of organizing, in this article, we develop a conceptualization of leadership as a sociomaterial relationship between human and space. We join the emerging discussions on the ‘thing-ness’ of leadership and extend these by addressing how an aesthetic, sense-based and embodied knowledge constitutes the sociomateriality of leadership and organizing. With the help of a Lefebvre-inspired framework, we introduce the concept of ‘spacing leadership’ that explicates leadership as being produced in an embodied and performative process between people and space. To specify this, we thematise three aesthetically embodied categories of knowledge development – senses, feelings and memories – to depict a sociomaterial understanding of leadership and space
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