Editorial Issue 62 June 2016

Murphy, David F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8416-5627 (2024) Editorial Issue 62 June 2016. In: Waddock, Sandra, McIntosh, Malcolm, Neal, Judith Ann, Pio, Edwina and Spiller, Chellie, (eds.) Intellectual shamans, wayfinders, edgewalkers, and systems thinkers: building a future where all can thrive. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 3-4.

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Abstract

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them (Chinua Achebe).1

The late Nigerian novelist, poet, professor and critic Chinua Achebe was perhaps his country’s most celebrated sensemaker, storyteller and thinker. Achebe’s post-colonial novel Things Fall Apart 2 explores his Igbo people’s traditions, beliefs and values through the eyes of Okonkwo, a community leader and local wrestling champion, and charts the hero’s eventual demise following the arrival of British colonialism and Christian missionaries. The evocative title of Achebe’s novel comes from the opening lines of Irish poet W.B. Yeats’s apocalyptic The Second Coming, which has echoes of the fall of Okonkwo and his Igbo traditional community’s parallel disintegration and despair: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world... 3

1 See Chiikwuemeka Bosah (ed.) (2013). Celebrating Chinua Achebe: Essays on His Life, Legacy and Works. New Albany, OH & Enugn, Nigeria: Ben Bosah Books, p. 86.
2 Chinua Achebe (1958). Things Fall Apart. London: William Heinemann Ltd.
3 William Butler Yeats (1920). Michael Robartes and the Dancer. Churchtown, Dundram: The Cuala Press.

The University of Cumbria's David F. Murphy writes the editorial for this special theme issue of The Journal of Corporate Citizenship (Issue 62 June 2016). This special issue of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship honours the voice of the Changemaker, Wayfinder, Edgewalker, and Intellectual Shaman in particular. It is contended that we can all become Shamans, Wayfinders, and Edgewalkers, if we open up to the possibility that our work, whatever it is, is part of the healing process. With contributions from North America, Europe, Africa and Australasia, this issue addresses the ideas of corporate citizenship from perspectives entirely removed from the mainstream.

Item Type:	Book Section
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9781003579403
Departments:	Institute of Business, Industry and Leadership > Applied Transformative Education and Leadership
Depositing User:	Anna Lupton
Date Deposited:	05 Dec 2024 09:55
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2024 10:00
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/8531

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