Political Science and Political Biography: Reflections on the Study of Leadership (I)

Edinger, Lewis J.

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“…6 This is largely because during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the cultural model of the male breadwinner and the female domestic caregiver privileged men as public figures. 7 Nevertheless, private correspondence, newspaper reports and other sources can help historians create biographical narratives that highlight the agency of women and girls, and the limits of that agency, in a very masculinist cultural environment. 3 Philp Family Collection, UQFL28, Fryer Library, University of Queensland (hereafter 'PFC').…”

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“…They were confined to reporting how women were contributing to the war effort on the home front close to the head offices of their organisations. 7 In October 1942, the prime minister, John Curtin, announced, as part of a comprehensive plan to make the best use of manpower (the universally used term for men and women in this context), that the government was preparing for a compulsory call-up of women for national service to release men for combat. 8 Women were needed in manufacturing and rural sectors of the economy as well as in the services.…”

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“…It took me some time to realise that the resolution lay in Prinsep's archive; while he did not, like Manning Clark, go to the extent of directing future biographers, his archive provided hints as to how he saw his life and his legacy. 7…”

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“…Prinsep to John Forrest, 17 November 1900, State Records Office of Western Australia, AN 3005 Cons 255 376/07. 7 Mark McKenna, in his biography of Manning Clark, describes how his subject had left directions for future biographers: 'As Clark worked his way through his papers towards the end of his life, he was conscious that historians and biographers would use them in the future-so conscious that he could not resist the temptation to direct the biographer.' Mark McKenna, An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark (Carlton, Vic.…”

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A few years ago, in the final throes of completing my doctoral thesis on the former Western Australia Chief Protector of Aborigines and colonial artist Henry Prinsep (1844-1922), I attended the annual Christmas party of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society. 1 Each year Marie Louise Wordsworth, a long-time member, threw open her lush garden overlooking the Swan River at Peppermint Grove and generously allowed her visitors to examine her fine collection of Western Australian art and furniture. Among her possessions were paintings, objects and ephemera from the Prinsep estate that she had purchased on the death of Prinsep's youngest daughter Emily. 2 She invited me to inspect them and, opening a beautifully made jarrah bureau, there lay my subject's quills, pens, pencils and paper-and a pair of his wire-framed spectacles. Brazenly perhaps, I could not resist the chance to try them on and just for a moment I was able to see the world through his lens; gazing at his oil painting of karri forest next to the bureau, I realised that he was shortsighted and had what I took to be severe astigmatism. I already knew about the persistent stomach ulcers and respiratory problems that plagued his last years, and from the numerous images of him with cigar in hand, I assumed he would have been accompanied by the stench of tobacco. But I had not realised that he was also beset by poor vision, a burden for one who saw himself primarily as an artist, a calling that far outweighed his dedication to being a colonial civil servant. Such insights, even if seemingly inconsequential to the historical record, can add much to the quality of a biographer's understanding, as the English historian Kathryn Hughes observed in her 2017 book Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum. She reminds her readers of Thomas Carlyle's exhortation to remember that the past was populated by living people with a corporeal presence: 'Not abstractions were they, not diagrams and theorems, but men, in buff or other coats and breeches, with colour in their cheeks, with passion in their stomach, and the idioms, features and vitalities of very men.' 3 1 My PhD thesis was later published under the title Henry Prinsep's Empire: Framing a distant colony (Canberra: ANU Press, 2014). 2 Many of the paintings and furniture were later purchased by the National Library of Australia. In 2011 they formed a part of the NLA exhibition Out of the West: Western Australian Art 1830s-1930s. 3 Thomas Carlyle quoted by Kathryn Hughes. Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum (London: 4th Estate, 2017), x.

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“…In this narrower sense of professional biography, evidence for the development of leadership attributes, career path trajectories and critical incidents in relation to institutional arrangements and biases (e.g., gender, race, social class), demonstrate the historical nature of leadership as a social phenomenon, provide cases from which generalisations, theories and models can be drawn and, in a more formational sense, provide role modelling (Edinger, 1964;Gronn & Ribbins, 1996;Ribbins, 2003;Sugrue, 2005;Theakston, 2000).…”

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A New Biographical Studies for Educational Leadership: Challenges from a Postcolonial and Globalizing World

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Political leadership concerns those who play, in institutions, the decisive roles that determine “who gets what, when, how” (Lasswell, 1936). Power relations – and hence politics – exist in the smallest of groups, and leadership can be studied at every level – from the workgroup to global forums. Some social scientists understand leadership as a necessary social function within group and institutions, while others interpret it in terms of individual characteristics that seed the drive for power and facilitate success or failure in its exercise. The first approach drew on the foundational analyses of elite formation and bureaucratic rationalization (e.g., Michels, 1968 [1911]; Weber, 1961 [1922]), while the second drew on psychological theory as applied to the question of power (for example, Lasswell, 1977 [1930]). Both were later tempered by the emergence of social psychology; and the best contemporary work bridges institutional structure, historical context, group processes, and psychology (Elcock, 2001).

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