1st Edition

Lifeworlds of Leadership Entrepreneurial Subjectivities in Indian Education

By Richard Thornton Copyright 2027
216 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book introduces the concept ‘purposed-leadership’ to explore the emotional lifeworlds and professional interventions of India’s start-up NGO educationalists. It contributes to anthropological and philosophical debates on subjectivity by engaging the theoretical frameworks of new materialist (relational) ontology and affect. It explores how the inherent tension of purposed-leadership produces... Read more

Introduction                                                                                                                                       

Chapter 1: Teach-Them: the origins of purposed-leadership                                                   

Chapter 2: Leadership, Family, and Self-Actualisation as changing the other             

Chapter 3: Life as a Social Entrepreneur of Education in Delhi                                  

Chapter 4: Entrepreneurial Subjectivity and Social Emotional Learning                  

Chapter 5: Autoethnographic post-script: how I want what they have …               

Conclusion    

Biography

Richard Thornton is a Research Associate at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, University of London. He is interested in subjectivity, affect, education, theatre, and embodied anthropology. His recent publications include ‘Dilemmas of vulnerability in Indian education NGOs’ (2025), and ‘Hey! Give me back my saviour complex’ (2024).