Leading from Between
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Author_Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh
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- ISBN 9780773559134
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Dec 2019
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Hardback
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Since the 1970s governments in Canada and Australia have introduced policies designed to recruit Indigenous people into public services. Today, there are thousands of Indigenous public servants in these countries, and hundreds in senior roles. Their presence raises numerous questions: How do Indigenous people experience public-sector employment? What perspectives do they bring to it? And how does Indigenous leadership enhance public policy making? A comparative study of Indigenous public servants in British Columbia and Queensland, Leading from Between addresses critical concerns about leadership, difference, and public service. Centring the voices, personal experiences, and understandings of Indigenous public servants, this book uses their stories and testimony to explore how Indigenous participation and leadership change the way policies are made. Articulating a new understanding of leadership and what it could mean in contemporary public service, Catherine Althaus and Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh challenge the public service sector to work towards a more personalized and responsive bureaucracy. At a time when Canada and Australia seek to advance reconciliation and self-determination agendas, Leading from Between shows how public servants who straddle the worlds of Western bureaucracy and Indigenous communities are key to helping governments meet the opportunities and challenges of growing diversity.
Catherine Althaus is deputy dean at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government and associate professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh is full professor in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University in Queensland.
