15 Decolonial perspectives of activism and climate justice in Latin America Resisting, re-centering, and redefining leadership from the margins

Antonio Jimenez-Luque

DOI: 10.4324/9781003363125-18

Introduction

The world cannot be explained just from the West. On the other hand, the world cannot be understood only from the East either. Regarding leadership studies, a mainstream approach has been imposed that, besides its key role in reproducing the dominant social, political, and economic system, makes invisible other ways of conceptualizing and practicing leadership. Therefore, if we want to learn more about the phenomenon of leadership, we need to make other forms of understanding and practicing leadership visible and situate them at the ...

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