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On Being Included

- Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
Af: Sara Ahmed Engelsk Paperback

On Being Included

- Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
Af: Sara Ahmed Engelsk Paperback
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What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as resistant to their work, as captured through their use of the metaphor of the "brick wall." On Being Included offers an explanation of this apparent paradox. It explores the gap between symbolic commitments to diversity and the experience of those who embody diversity. Commitments to diversity are understood as "non-performatives" that do not bring about what they name. The book provides an account of institutional whiteness and shows how racism can be obscured by the institutionalization of diversity. Diversity is used as evidence that institutions do not have a problem with racism. On Being Included offers a critique of what happens when diversity is offered as a solution. It also shows how diversity workers generate knowledge of institutions in attempting to transform them.
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What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as resistant to their work, as captured through their use of the metaphor of the "brick wall." On Being Included offers an explanation of this apparent paradox. It explores the gap between symbolic commitments to diversity and the experience of those who embody diversity. Commitments to diversity are understood as "non-performatives" that do not bring about what they name. The book provides an account of institutional whiteness and shows how racism can be obscured by the institutionalization of diversity. Diversity is used as evidence that institutions do not have a problem with racism. On Being Included offers a critique of what happens when diversity is offered as a solution. It also shows how diversity workers generate knowledge of institutions in attempting to transform them.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9780822352365
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0822352362
Udg. Dato: 28 mar 2012
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 221mm
Højde: 155mm
Forlag: Duke University Press
Oplagsdato: 28 mar 2012
Forfatter(e): Sara Ahmed
Forfatter(e) Sara Ahmed


Kategori Social diskriminering og ligestilling


ISBN-13 9780822352365


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 256


Udgave


Længde 15mm


Bredde 221mm


Højde 155mm


Udg. Dato 28 mar 2012


Oplagsdato 28 mar 2012


Forlag Duke University Press

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