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Choreographing Complexity : A Cross-Cultural Study on Authentic Leadership in Contemporary Dance Projects
No full textAbstract
Project leadership is known as one of the key factors in project success. There are solid
bodies of work on leadership, project management, and cultural studies. Yet, in spite of the
great amount of literature, there exist only a few works about leading creative personalities
that are known by their complex behavioural traits in the cross-cultural context.
This research aims to illuminate leadership in behaviourally complex cross-cultural projects
and propose a better understanding of dealing with complex situations. With this aim in mind,
it argues the impact of authentic leadership on project success and dealing with behavioural
complexities in cross-cultural complex projects.
A multi-disciplinary study was conducted in order to fulfil the research goals. Two
contemporary dance creation projects were selected as case studies from the creative industry
field. These cases were chosen to show cross-cultural preferences for having a cultural
reference on the topic. Participated observation was applied as the core method of data
collection and semi-structured interviews were conducted as the supportive method. The
epistemological design of the research focused on two aspects: Polyscopic view and common
patterns. To create a polyscopic view on the cases and issues observed in these cases, the data
provided views from three different perspectives: observer, dancer, and choreographer. The
collected data was analysed through the authentic leadership perspective, and the impacts of
presence and absence of authentic leadership were studied in correlation to each other.
Additionally, the choreographers’ common behavioural patterns were noted and analysed
through the authentic leadership perspective.
According to the research findings, there is a strong correlation between the authentic
leadership style and dealing with complex issues generated by behavioural complexity of
creative personalities. Also, there is considerable evidence of the project success and the
applied authentic leadership. The research reveals supporting evidence of the impact of the
authentic leadership style on preventing future complexitiesAbstrakt
Ein entscheidender Faktor für den Erfolg eines Projekts ist eine gute Projektführung. Zu den Themen Führung, Projektmanagement und Kulturstudien existieren umfassende und belastbare Arbeiten. Dennoch gibt es nur wenig Literatur, die sich mit der Führung kreativer Persönlichkeiten beschäftigt, die sich im interkulturellen Kontext durch ihr komplexes Verhalten auszeichnen.
Das Ziel dieser Untersuchung ist es, Führung in verhaltensbezogen komplexen interkulturellen Projekten zu beleuchten und das Verständnis für den Umgang mit komplexen Situationen zu verbessern. Zu diesem Zweck wird die Bedeutung von Authentic Leadership für den Erfolg eines Projekts sowie für den Umgang mit komplexem Verhalten in interkulturellen Projekten erörtert.
Um das Untersuchungsziel zu erreichen, wurde eine multidisziplinäre Studie durchgeführt. Für die Fallstudie wurden zwei Projekte aus der Kreativwirtschaft ausgewählt, die zeitgenössische Tanzstücke entwickeln und aufführen. Die Wahl fiel auf diese Projekte, um auf interkulturelle Aspekte komplexen Verhaltens und der Anforderungen an den Führungsstil eingehen zu können. Als Hauptmethode der Datenerhebung kam die teilnehmende Beobachtung zum Einsatz, ergänzt wurde diese durch halbstrukturierte Interviews. Das epistomologische Untersuchungsdesign fokussiert auf zwei Aspekte: auf eine polyskope Sichtweise und auf die Gemeinsamkeiten der Projekte. Die polyskope Sicht auf die Projekte und auf die beobachteten Phänomene ermöglichen die Daten, indem sie Sichtweisen aus drei verschiedenen Perspektiven liefern: der des Beobachters, der Tänzerinnen sowie der Choreografinnen. Die erhobenen Daten wurden aus der Perspektive der authentic leadership analysiert, und die Bedeutung der Präsenz und Abwesenheit dieses Führungsstils wurden im Verhältnis zu einander untersucht. Zusätzlich wurden aus der Perspektive der authentic leadership die wiederkehrenden Verhaltensmuster des Choreographen notiert und analysiert.
Basierend auf den Forschungsergebnissen besteht eine starke Korrelation zwischen dem Stil der authentic leadership und dem Umgang mit komplexen Phänomenen, die durch komplexes Verhalten der kreativen Persönlichkeiten entstehen. Außerdem liegen umfangreiche Beweise für einen Zusammenhang zwischen dem Erfolg eines Projekts und der Anwendung von authentic leadership vor. Die Untersuchung findet stützende Beweise für die Bedeutung des authentischen Führungsstils für die Vermeidung zukünftiger Komplexitäten
Review: "From Citizens to Subjects. City, State, and the Enlightenment in Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus" / Curtis Murphy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. ISBN: 9780822964629
No full text"History texts are fabrications designed to obscure the past rather than to elucidate it […] written history is an attempt to re-create so-called actual events according to the political, social or religious convictions of the author […] The travesty is that a great many historians actually believe what they're saying. Their motives are unconscious and cultural, based on prejudices and wish fulfillment." [1]
This book by C. G. Murphy scaffolds an argument against the socially constructed common sense among so-called civilized societies. As well-instructed civilized individuals, each of us has been educated to assume that any given government works better if its control over the population is rational and somewhat centralized. The almost automatic implication is that in the absence of centralized control, nothing would work, and chaos would bloom. Rowing against such good sense, the eloquent monograph From Citizens to Subject seeds healthy doubts on our good judgment. Murphy deconstructed this common evidence with his complex investigation of the history of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. The delicately constructed argument is not only essential to the understanding of the History of Poland, Ukraine and Belarus during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries in Central Europe, but it also raises pivotal political questions linked to current issues in Europe
Review: "Transforming the Transformation? The East European Radical Right in the Political Process" / Michael Minkenberg (ed.). London: Routledge, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-13-883183-4
No full textSince the 1980s, political scientists have been examining radical right parties and movements with an increasing intensity. They are mostly focused on the electoral outcomes, typically employing two types of explanations for societal and electoral support: demand-side approaches (an analysis of how changes in voters' attitudes affect the support for these parties [1]) and supply-side approaches (which examines how contextual and structural factors can facilitate or deter the radical right's electoral success [2]).
Minkenberg's work distinguishes itself from existing publications by taking on a different perspective. First, in contrast to most comparative studies of the radical right, it examines not only political parties and elections, but focuses on the dynamism they introduce to the political process. Second, the book contains a comparative approach to the study of the radical right in Eastern Europe, which generally receives less scholarly consideration in comparison to Western Europe
Review: "Die Herstellung von Sicherheit an der EU-Außengrenze. Migrations- und Grenzpolitik in der polnischen Region Karpatenvorland" / Radosław Buraczyński. Cham: Springer International, 2015. ISBN: 978-3-658-09464-5
No full textThe book addresses three key topics. First, the Europeanization of migration and border policies at EU level is discussed in a more general manner. Second – and closely related to the first notion – the author explores the facets of the so-called 'downloading' policy in the EU's multi-level governance system, thus disentangling the processes of Europeanization from the supranational EU level through the national (ch. 3) up to the regional level (ch. 4), where it is supposed to be implemented in first instance. Third, Buraczyński seeks to elaborate on the consequences of these policy changes for the self-positioning and behavioural patterns of the residents of the borderlands. The temporal and spatial context is framed by the Subcarpathian region in the very southeast of Poland (Karpatenvorland) that is studied from the transformation period of 1989 until present day
Rezension: "Der umkämpfte Krieg. Das Museum des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Danzig. Entstehung und Streit" / Paweł Machcewicz. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. ISBN: 978-3-447-11035-8
No full textHistorische Museen als Bestandteil und wichtiges Medium von Erinnerungskultur und Geschichtspolitik sind oft Gegenstand öffentlicher Debatten. Die politische Auseinandersetzung um das neu gegründete Museum des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Danzig überschritt jedoch die Grenzen einer demokratischen, öffentlichen Debatte und zeigte mit aller Deutlichkeit, mit welchen Mitteln die in Polen regierende Partei Recht und Gerechtigkeit (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) ihre nationalistische Geschichtspolitik umsetzt. Der umkämpfte Krieg ist eine Art Verteidigungsrede des polnischen Historikers und des ehemaligen Direktors des Museums, Paweł Machcewicz, eine Antwort auf politisch motivierte Vorwürfe, ein Tagebuch des Untergangs seines Museumsprojektes und der Schädigung seiner wissenschaftlichen Karriere. Gleichzeitig ist das Buch eine wichtige Stimme in der Debatte darüber, wie die Geschichte Polens erzählt werden soll, und wie sich Polen dabei in der europäischen Gemeinschaft positioniert
Establishing the End of the Soviet Union as a Temporal Boundary. Perspectives from Georgia’s Greek Community
No full textIn interview conversations with self-identifying members of Georgia’s shrinking Greek community, consultants regularly contrast aspects of their life that have changed profoundly since the end of the Soviet Union, thereby establishing the end of the Soviet Union as a temporal threshold relating today to a very different yesterday. Based on an ethnographically informed conversation analysis of 49 semi-structured interview conversations, this article aims to further our understanding of what the end of the Soviet Union means to my consultants, contributing a sociolinguistic perspective to current debates in the field of Border and
Boundary Studies. I will take two analytical perspectives, both of which highlight different important aspects. Firstly, I follow the metaphor of family breakdown that emerged in the interviews as having occurred on two levels. On a community level, this breakdown of the Soviet “family of nations” is narrated for instance in terms of rising Georgian nationalism. This is perceived as challenging consultants’ belonging to the Georgian nation state and as drawing new boundaries.
On an individual and very tangible level, consultants communicatively have to come to terms with their own families being put under strain through family members’ migration to Greece. Secondly, I follow the tidemarks left by the Soviet yesterday in independent Georgia’s today and how consultants use them to position themselves and their community
Europäisierung kollektiver Erinnerung. Eine qualitative Untersuchung am Beispiel erinnerungskultureller Institutionen in Deutschland und Polen
No full textThe present master’s thesis discusses the issue of Europeanization of collective memory both from an empirical and theoretical point of view. Its aim is twofold: On the one hand, it tries to deliver an empirical verification of the question, if and in how far a Europeanization of collective memory can be observed. On the other hand, based on the results of the empirical analysis, it wishes to contribute to the theoretical understanding and conception of this phenomenon. Giv-en the frequent mention of a division of Europe into a Western and Eastern sphere of collective remembrance regarding National Socialism and the period of Soviet hegemony, the analysis will be conducted on case studies both from Germany and Poland dealing with one of those topics. These case studies are the Buchenwald Memorial and the Memorial Museum in der “Runden Ecke” in Germany as well as the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum and the European Solidarity Centre in Poland. In the scope of this paper, Europeanization of collective memory is understood as an increase in transnational interdependences and references between collective memories. In practice, this process will be analysed regarding a Europeanization or European momentum of the stakeholders involved, the funding, the objective and self-image as well as the historical narrative of the above-mentioned institutions. As a result of the analysis, tendencies of Europeanization can be shown with regard to all four aspects. Therefore, the author of this pa-per proposes to discuss the process of Europeanization henceforth not only in terms of historical narratives, as has been done so far, but also in terms of the collectives behind that narrative
