Richard Niesche is Associate Professor in Educational Leadership at The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Amanda Heffernan is Lecturer in Leadership at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

1. Conceptualising constructions of educational-leader identity. 2. Identity, subjectivity and agency: feminists re-conceptualising educational leadership within / against / beyond the neo-liberal self. 3. The principalship as a social relation. 4. This Bridge Called My Leadership: Leading America's Schools While Black and Female. 5.Towards an ethics of leadership. 6. Manufacturing the Woman Leader: How Can Wardrobes Help Us to Understand Leadership Identities? 7. Tropes and tall tales: Leadership in the neoliberalised world of English academies. 8. Being, becoming, and questioning the school leader: An autoethnographic exploration of a woman in the middle. 9. The Will Not to Know: Data Leadership, Necropolitics and Ethnic-Racialized Student Subjectivities. 10. Subjectivity and the school principal: Governing at the intersection of power and truth. 11. A Day in the Life Performance of a Re/Dis/Un/Covering Administrator. 12. Exploring and Que(e)rying the Subjectivity of Educational Leadership Researchers Who Pursue Queer Issues. 13. That's enough about me: Exploring leaders' identities in schools in challenging circumstances.

Theorising Identity and Subjectivity in Educational Leadership Research brings together a range of international scholars to examine identity and subjectivities in educational leadership in new and original ways. The chapters draw on a variety of approaches in theory and method to demonstrate the important new developments in understanding identity and subjectivity beyond the traditional ways of understanding and thinking about identity in the field of educational leadership.
The book highlights empirical, theoretical and conceptual research that offers new ways of thinking about the work of educational leaders. The authors take critical approaches to exploring the influences of gender, race, sexuality, class, power and discourse on the identity and subjectivity formation of educational leaders. It provides global perspectives on educational leadership research and researchers and offer exciting new approaches to theorising and researching these issues.
This book will appeal to researchers, students, and professionals working in the fields of educational leadership and sociology, and the chapters within offer readers new perspectives in understanding educational leaders, their work and their identities.