Sara Ahmed: On Being Included | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780822352365 | On Being Included | Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life | Ahmed

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Sara Ahmed is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her books include The Cultural Politics of Emotion; Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality; and Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. On Arrival 1

1. Institutional Life 19

2. The Language of Diversity 51

3. Equality and Performance Culture 83

4. Commitment as a Non-performative 113

5. Speaking about Racism 141

Conclusion. A Phenomenological Practice 173

Notes 191

References 221

Index 235

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780822352365
ISBN-10:	0822352362
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ahmed, Sara
Hersteller:	MNG University Presses Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen:	3 illustrations
Maße:	226 x 154 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Sara Ahmed
Erscheinungsdatum:	28.03.2012
Gewicht:	0,354 kg