Vesna Manojlovic via nettime-l on Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:14:56 +0100 (CET)


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<nettime> on leadership and older women 

unusual answer, perhaps...

On 10/01/2024 13:11, Joseph Rabie via nettime-l wrote:

A question, that this seems to point in the direction of, is that of leadership and its worthiness.

I suggest groups of older women as leaders: hag-o-cracy.

Considering it a given to have to choose a leader, or accept one being imposed, to whom one is willing to cede all personal responsibility.
this is a very centralised & hierarchical & authoritarian view on "leadership".
there can be poly-centric leaders, at different times within social circle, or for various activities, or for different regional scopes...
Or using "consensus-based" leadership... https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Consensus 


Where are the Mandelas, those who bring wisdom to the job and truly represent human decency?
they are here: Mia Mottley, the Prime Minister of Barbados, and Sheik Hasina, prime minister of Bangladesh 

also: Vandana Shiva, Riane Eisler, Silvia Federici, Elizabeth Kolbert...

& many other https://wiki.techinc.nl/Female_experts

plus
grandmothers ruling societies has been proven survival strategy for millennia 
(200.000 BC to 10.000BC).

there are many examples in literature & fiction;
Starhawk: The Fifth Sacred Thing: https://starhawk.org/writing/books/the-fifth-sacred-thing/
Ursula Le Guin https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/09/30/ursula-k-le-guin-menopause/ 

Heather Marsh: http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/binding-chaos/

Dr Sharon Blackie: Hagitude https://hagitude.org
and in current tribes & indigenous cultures, via anthropologists & paleontologists... 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/camilla-power-10728753218#events



grumpily yours,
Vesna


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