Books by Dara Kelly
This chapter introduces the notion of ancestral leadership from Indigenous knowledge, a periphera... more This chapter introduces the notion of ancestral leadership from Indigenous knowledge, a peripheral source from the dominant Western discourse of leadership studies. Ancestral leadership rests entirely on values and principles about leadership that are enduring and draws upon knowledge that is built on earlier experience. It reflects leadership dynamics from the bonds of ancestry by virtue of continuous exchange between three realities: the human, the cosmos, and the divine. Drawing on qualitative interviews conducted with nine Māori business leaders, we show how these leaders carry their genealogies of leadership into the work they do and how they conduct themselves professionally. We also reveal how they consciously engage in creating, continuing and shaping their leadership genealogies and how ancestral leadership informs their ethical and value-driven conduct.
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Community-centered approaches to research in practice at Simon Fraser University. <em>Part ... more Community-centered approaches to research in practice at Simon Fraser University. <em>Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.</em>
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For Coast Salish communities, traditional gathering ceremonies once structured the heart of forma... more For Coast Salish communities, traditional gathering ceremonies once structured the heart of formal economic exchange. Within these ceremonies many economies were embedded that spoke to what it means to live freely as Coast Salish people. Freedom meant that Coast Salish had the capability to express spirituality, governance, leadership and economy through gatherings ceremonies. Today, Coast Salish people face residual barriers from colonial state interventions in Canada that had particularly detrimental impacts on the capability to practise gatherings, and have yet to fully recover from those impacts. The economic consequences of historically restricted freedom from Coast Salish economic exchange in gatherings have not been shown.
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This thesis explores the nature of Coast Salish economy of affection through related concepts of ... more This thesis explores the nature of Coast Salish economy of affection through related concepts of wealth, freedom and unfreedom in Canada with the prospect that a better understanding of these concepts will enhance contemporary and future approaches to economic development that emerge out of Coast Salish values. Economic unfreedom emerged with introduction of the Potlatch Ban, and its residual impacts are prevalent today as discussed in Xá:m! Crying, weeping—the affective expression of grieving that shapes how the Coast Salish wisdom keepers in this research talk about gatherings. Economic freedom from within Coast Salish worldview is inherently spiritual by virtue of the interrelated nature of exchange between Xá:ls, the Creator, Sólh Téméxw, the river environment, and Xwélmexw, the river people. The author offers a theoretical exploration using the Capability Approach of the extent to which Coast Salish freedom depends on the removal of residual economic unfreedom for tómiyeqw, the...
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This chapter introduces the notion of ancestral leadership from Indigenous knowledge, a periphera... more This chapter introduces the notion of ancestral leadership from Indigenous knowledge, a peripheral source from the dominant Western discourse of leadership studies. Ancestral leadership rests entirely on values and principles about leadership that are enduring and draws upon knowledge that is built on earlier experience. It reflects leadership dynamics from the bonds of ancestry by virtue of continuous exchange between three realities: the human, the cosmos, and the divine. Drawing on qualitative interviews conducted with nine Māori business leaders, we show how these leaders carry their genealogies of leadership into the work they do and how they conduct themselves professionally. We also reveal how they consciously engage in creating, continuing and shaping their leadership genealogies and how ancestral leadership informs their ethical and value-driven conduct.
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Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning, 2021
In this article, the authors argue that trans-systemic knowledge system analysis of Indigenous-to... more In this article, the authors argue that trans-systemic knowledge system analysis of Indigenous-to-Indigenous economics enables generative thinking toward Indigenous futures of economic freedom. The authors apply a trans-systemic lens to critically analyze persistent development philosophy that acts as a barrier to the advancement of Indigenous economic development thinking. By exploring ways in which colonial discourse entraps Indigenous nations within circular logic in service of a normative centre the need for new economic logic is apparent. Shifting to trans-systemic knowledge systems analysis to include diverse insights from Māori and other Indigenous economic philosophy, the authors show that it is not profit and financial growth that matters in and of itself. Rather, according to Indigenous definitions of wealth, economic freedom and development are constituted by value creation that aligns with Indigenous worldviews and principles. Indigenous economic knowledge centred on rel...
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Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018
Bridging the research-practice gap is significant, particularly where it concerns addressing the ... more Bridging the research-practice gap is significant, particularly where it concerns addressing the world’s grand challenges. In this article, we build on the engaged scholarship approach by illuminating some of the day-to-day tensions that researchers face in attempting to bridge the research-practice gap in actuality. Our findings highlight key factors that affect how researchers experience and manage the research-practice divide while investigating grand challenges. Autobiographical examples from our PhD dissertations are utilized to highlight these research-practice tensions faced and how we sought to overcome them. In doing so, we broaden the conceptual and methodological scholarship of this approach and offer implications for other researchers working to navigate the research-practice divide in their own research.
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European Management Review
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Leadership, 2021
This article introduces the notion of ancestral leadership that emerges from intergenerational wi... more This article introduces the notion of ancestral leadership that emerges from intergenerational wisdom at the intersection of people, place and ancestral knowledge. Place is a key component of colle...
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Leadership, 2021
This article introduces the notion of ancestral leadership that emerges from intergenerational wi... more This article introduces the notion of ancestral leadership that emerges from intergenerational wisdom at the intersection of people, place and ancestral knowledge. Place is a key component of collective continuity in ancestral leadership that reinforces identity, belonging and intergenerational reciprocity. The findings show that places carry leadership legacies and require ongoing maintenance to ensure genealogies of leadership are available to future generations. Engagement with ancestral leadership and its practical application is not bound to tribal and cultural contexts. By knowing the place of someone's ancestors as a lens into their leadership, one sees structures of accountability that extends beyond culturally bound contexts, and includes their leadership expressed in professional environments. The authors contribute to leadership theory by illuminating how ancestral legacies of leadership continue to inform contemporary generations of leadership and is transmitted intergenerationally within frameworks of genealogy.
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Handbook of International and Cross-Cultural Leadership Research Processes
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The purpose of this research is to open up and explore physical and metaphysical leadership knowl... more The purpose of this research is to open up and explore physical and metaphysical leadership knowledge that honours the feminine dimension of Māori culture from spiritual, ancestral and genealogical histories. From qualitative interviews conducted with nine Māori business leaders, nine recurrent themes emerged regarding significant aspects of ancestral leadership knowledge within Ngā Kete e Toru o te Wānanga. These themes are organised according to the three baskets of knowledge that were brought down from the heavens by Tāne, one of Māori mythology’s significant spiritual figures. The three baskets of knowledge are symbolic of the wealth of leadership knowledge that is contained in ancestral histories. Organising the knowledge into this structure reflects the author’s interpretation of the baskets and allows the knowledge that was shared in the interviews to fill them. This research discovered that these Māori business leaders actively carry their genealogies of leadership into the ...
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Core-Periphery Relations and Organization Studies, 2014
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Conference Presentations by Dara Kelly
For Coast Salish communities, traditional gathering ceremonies once structured the heart of forma... more For Coast Salish communities, traditional gathering ceremonies once structured the heart of formal economic exchange. Within these ceremonies many economies were embedded that spoke to what it means to live freely as Coast Salish people. Freedom meant that Coast Salish had the capability to express spirituality, governance, leadership and economy through gatherings ceremonies. Today, Coast Salish people face residual barriers from colonial state interventions in Canada that had particularly detrimental impacts on the capability to practise gatherings, and have yet to fully recover from those impacts. The economic consequences of historically restricted freedom from Coast Salish economic exchange in gatherings have not been shown.
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Thesis Chapters by Dara Kelly
PhD Dissertation, 2017
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This thesis explores the nature of Coast Salish economy of affection through related concepts of ... more This thesis explores the nature of Coast Salish economy of affection through related concepts of wealth, freedom and unfreedom in Canada with the prospect that a better understanding of these concepts will enhance contemporary and future approaches to economic development that emerge out of Coast Salish values. Economic unfreedom emerged with introduction of the Potlatch Ban, and its residual impacts are prevalent today as discussed in Xá:m! Crying, weeping—the affective expression of grieving that shapes how the Coast Salish wisdom keepers in this research talk about gatherings. Economic freedom from within Coast Salish worldview is inherently spiritual by virtue of the interrelated nature of exchange between Xá:ls, the Creator, Sólh Téméxw, the river environment, and Xwélmexw, the river people. The author offers a theoretical exploration using the Capability Approach of the extent to which Coast Salish freedom depends on the removal of residual economic unfreedom for tómiyeqw, the seven generations of unborn Coast Salish people. This thesis makes a methodological contribution through the use of autoethnography, oral history and heuristic inquiry as a research methodology that places Coast Salish philosophies of knowledge transmission at the centre, by listening to the voices of the ancestors through their descendants. The research contextually explores Coast Salish economic capability embedded within the ceremonial institution of gatherings including: access to wealth founded in syewá:l, genealogy and Síwes, knowledge from the Teachings; having the ability to conduct spiritual ‘work’ in ceremony; engaging in spiritual exchange with Xá:ls, the Creator and ancient ancestors; and creating relationships through gifting, debt, saving and banking that weave Coast Salish people together in a continuous selfsustaining network of interdependence. Coast Salish freedom is expressed in gatherings facilitating exchange within and across a complex interplay of spiritual, environmental, socio-cultural and financial capabilities. This expression of Coast Salish economic freedom allows for becoming a whole person and whole peoples within an economy that encapsulates all aspects of spiritual, environmental, socio-cultural and economic capability. It is an economy of affection in which Coast Salish individuals and peoples are wholly seen and recognised.
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Engaged Scholar Journal, 2021
In this article, the authors argue that trans-systemic knowledge system analysis of Indigenous-to... more In this article, the authors argue that trans-systemic knowledge system analysis of Indigenous-to-Indigenous economics enables generative thinking toward Indigenous futures of economic freedom. The authors apply a trans-systemic lens to critically analyze persistent development philosophy that acts as a barrier to the advancement of Indigenous economic development thinking. By exploring ways in which colonial discourse entraps Indigenous nations within circular logic in service of a normative centre, the authors clarify the need for a new economic logic. Shifting to trans-systemic knowledge systems analysis to include diverse insights from Māori and other Indigenous economic philosophy, the authors show that it is not profit and financial growth that matters in and of itself. Rather, according to Indigenous definitions of wealth, economic freedom and development are constituted by value creation that aligns with Indigenous worldviews and principles. Indigenous economic knowledge centred on relationship, reciprocity and interconnectedness fosters Indigenous economic freedom.
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