Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Neuro-Futurism and Re-Imagining Leadership

An A-Z Towards Collective Liberation

  • Book
  • Jun 2024

Overview

Authors:
  1. Kai Syng Tan

    1. Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Spotlights anti-oppression tactics to dismantle and re-build ‘leadership’ as a creative, mobilities practice
  • Addresses lacunae in mobilities by entangling creativity, neurodivergence, social justice & non-western discourses
  • Joins forces with — and enriches — current discourse and action on power, equity, joy & collective liberation

Part of the book series: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture (SMLC)

Buy print copy

Hardcover Book USD 34.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
This title has not yet been released. You may pre-order it now and we will ship your order when it is published on 21 Jun 2024.
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Keywords

  • Literature and Mobility
  • Literature and Disability Studies
  • creative leadership
  • Creativity
  • neurodiversity

About this book

This book is a rip-roaring manifesto that re-claims ways to think about and do ‘leadership’. Colliding mobilities, neuro-queering, the arts and culture, critical leadership studies, social justice, creative pedagogy, futurity and Daoist cosmology for the first time, the book proposes ‘neuro-futurism’ as a beyond-colonial, heuristic change-making tool-kit for individuals and institutions. Celebrating the Dangerous, Demeaning and Dirty labour of Deviant/Defiant culture-workers often side-lined in (leadership) scholarship across 26 break-neck chapters and 40 images, this book challenges white-supremacist-cis-het-neuro-normative-capitalist-patriarchal forms of power and knowledge. Punchy, punching up and pulling no punches, it is a call to arms, feet, sole-soul, to co-create tables/houses/worlds that profit (neuro-)divergent people, planet, poetry and play. The deadline is 2050, so we’re running out of time. Are you ready for an extra-ordinary adventure?


Reviews

Tan artfully brings together seemingly disparate phenomena in a clever and compelling maneuver, urging the reader to consider their own assumptions and prejudices, while encouraging a re-learning and call-to-action for creative, innovative, and (neuro)divergent practices for change.  The book is meant to disrupt and energize – asking for change and urging us to question assumptions and poor habits we find ourselves easily dismissing under excuses of institutional frameworks. It questions academic agency and integrity, urging to confront difference and diversity, and using the artistic and creative as one mechanism to push for better leadership in this space. This is bold and inspiring – and I cannot wait to use this as an exemplar in my own methods and teaching. – Artist-Geographer Dr Kaya Barry

Astonishing, daring, pioneering, and much, much needed. At once inspirational, creative, subversive, and at times hilarious, Tan provides multiple strategies to disrupt and reclaim ideas and spaces about leadership. — Philosopher-Psychiatrist Dr Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed

Authors and Affiliations

  • Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Kai Syng Tan

About the author

Kai Syng Tan (she/they) is an artist-academic-agitator and Associate Professor in Arts and Cultural Leadership at UK’s University of Southampton. She writes in her personal, hyperactive and tentacular capacity.   


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Neuro-Futurism and Re-Imagining Leadership

  • Book Subtitle: An A-Z Towards Collective Liberation

  • Authors: Kai Syng Tan

  • Series Title: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-55376-9Due: 21 June 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-55379-0Due: 21 June 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-55377-6Due: 21 June 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2946-4838

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-4846

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 283

  • Number of Illustrations: 20 illustrations in colour

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation