All Outputs (4)

From ‘Pretty’ to ‘Pretty Powerful’: The communicatively constituted power of facial beauty’s performativity (2021)
Journal Article
Hollis, D., Wright, A., Smolović Jones, O., & Smolović Jones, S. (2021). From ‘Pretty’ to ‘Pretty Powerful’: The communicatively constituted power of facial beauty’s performativity. Organization Studies, 42(12), 1885-1907. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406211030663

The face is a significant locus of power upon which judgements concerning a person’s status, worth and attractiveness are made. This study contributes to knowledge of facial norms’ shifting performative power in daily organizing, theorizing facial be... Read More about From ‘Pretty’ to ‘Pretty Powerful’: The communicatively constituted power of facial beauty’s performativity.

Guerrilla democracy: Mobile organizing and leadership in the 21st century (2021)
Book
Bloom, P., Smolović Jones, O., & Woodcock, J. (2021). Guerrilla democracy: Mobile organizing and leadership in the 21st century. Bristol University Press

Exposing and re-placing leadership through workers inquiry (2021)
Journal Article
Smolović Jones, O., Briley, G., & Woodcock, J. (2022). Exposing and re-placing leadership through workers inquiry. Leadership, 18(1), 61-80. https://doi.org/10.1177/17427150211026431

The literature on leadership place and space offers us an understanding of how the built environment, geography of location and socio-economic forces can coalesce to shape (and be shaped) by leadership practices. Missing thus far, however, is an acco... Read More about Exposing and re-placing leadership through workers inquiry.

Resources of history and hope: Studying left-wing political parties through loss (2021)
Journal Article
Smolovic Jones, O., Carroll, B., & Sinha, P. (2021). Resources of history and hope: Studying left-wing political parties through loss. Ephemera, 21(2), 199-215

The paper offers loss as a framework for identifying resources of hope in insider studies of left-wing political parties. It interrogates and builds on insights from our paper on the resistance leadership of Corbynism in the UK (Sinha et al., 2021),... Read More about Resources of history and hope: Studying left-wing political parties through loss.