Chapter 4: Toward the “Other”: Followership Justice and Leadership Reach

Inclusion has varied meanings to countless places and people (World Bank, 2013; Young, 1990). To distressed communities and marginalized populations, the concept of inclusion captures the lack of societal protective factors that leadership decisions around distribution or policy might intentionally promote or ignore. For at-risk populations, it is a sense of fairness that “others” enjoy. For the privileged, this exclusion of the “other,” knowingly or not, contributes to increased social injustice, thus promoting the zero-sum game. These opposing forces advancing “otherness” complicated by the bordered, yet, connected binaries of local or global, inclusion or exclusion, and leader or follower require a transdisciplinary discourse that broad societal leadership and followership can leverage as postmodernism fades.