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On Being Included de Sara Ahmed

On Being Included

Autor Sara Ahmed
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 mar 2012

Recomandăm această lucrare ca o resursă esențială pentru nivelul de master și doctorat în sociologie, studii de gen sau politici educaționale. În On Being Included, Sara Ahmed investighează ce se întâmplă de fapt în spatele discursului despre diversitate în universități. Dincolo de broșurile lucioase și declarațiile de misiune, autoarea dezvăluie o lume în care practicienii diversității se lovesc constant de un „zid de cărămidă” instituțional. Credem că forța acestui volum rezidă în definirea angajamentelor de diversitate ca „non-performative”: cuvinte care, prin simpla lor rostire, dau impresia că problema a fost rezolvată, blocând astfel acțiunea reală. Structura cărții este riguros organizată în cinci capitole care ghidează cititorul de la analiza limbajului administrativ (capitolul 2) până la o concluzie despre practica fenomenologică (capitolul 6). Dacă în The Feminist Killjoy Handbook Ahmed explora rezistența individuală în fața sexismului, aici ea mută lupa asupra modului în care instituțiile folosesc diversitatea pentru a masca rasismul structural. On Being Included acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum Diversity Regimes de James M Thomas, dar se distinge printr-o abordare teoretică mult mai profundă, integrând fenomenologia în analiza birocrației. În timp ce Building the Anti-Racist University de Shirley Anne Tate oferă o perspectivă globală, lucrarea lui Ahmed se concentrează pe mecanismele interne ale puterii și pe modul în care corpurile care „întruchipează diversitatea” navighează spațiile academice albe.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822352365
ISBN-10: 0822352362
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 3 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 154 x 226 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: MNG University Presses
Colecția Duke University Press

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este indispensabilă pentru oricine lucrează în administrația universitară sau studiază politicile de incluziune. Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere critică a modului în care limbajul egalității poate fi folosit ca barieră împotriva schimbării. Este un instrument teoretic puternic pentru a demonta birocrația diversității și pentru a înțelege de ce transformările instituționale autentice sunt atât de greu de realizat.

Despre autor

Sara Ahmed este o figură centrală în studiile culturale contemporane, teoria feministă și studiile critice ale rasei. Cu o vastă experiență în mediul academic și în cel școlar, ea a predat în instituții diverse, de la Harlem Village Academy la universități de prestigiu. Este coautoare a lucrării Upstanders și autoarea unor volume influente precum The Feminist Killjoy Handbook. Opera sa se concentrează pe modul în care puterea este exercitată în viața de zi cu zi și pe formele de rezistență în fața normelor instituționale, fiind recunoscută pentru rigoarea empirică și profunzimea teoretică.

Descriere scurtă

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. And yet, diversity practitioners often experience institutions as resistant to their work, which they describe as hitting against a “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.

Recenzii

"There are no other books of this rigor and calibre examining the institutional culture of diversity in higher education. Sara Ahmed not only offers a rigorous empirical study of how diversity operates in the real world; she also develops a brilliant theoretical framework exploring the affective reproduction of inequality. At the same time, as a black feminist, she draws on her own embodiment of difference and experience as a diversity practitioner." Heidi Safia Mirza, author of Race, Gender, and Educational Desire: Why Black Women Succeed and Fail"Just when you think everything that could possibly be said about diversity in higher education has been said, Sara Ahmed comes along with this startlingly original, deeply engaging ethnography of diversity work. On Being Included is an insightful, smart reflection on the embodied, profoundly political phenomenology of doing and performing diversity in predominantly white institutions. As Ahmed queers even the most mundane formulations of diversity, she creates one eureka moment after another. I could not put this book down. It is a must-read for everyone committed to antiracist, feminist work as key to institutional transformation in higher education."—Chandra Talpade Mohanty, author of Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity"Sara Ahmed's sensitive and respectful analysis of the complexities faced by diversity workers in higher education institutions arrives at a moment when we urgently need ways to rethink institutional dynamics and the animating effects of policy regimes and processes. This is a vital book: vital as a compass guiding the eye, heart, and mind to the knowledge that can emerge from the labor of institutional transformation, and vital in the sense of being life-giving to those involved in the process."—Gail Lewis, coauthor of Citizenship: Personal Lives and Social Policy
"There are no other books of this rigor and calibre examining the institutional culture of diversity in higher education. Sara Ahmed not only offers a rigorous empirical study of how diversity operates in the real world; she also develops a brilliant theoretical framework exploring the affective reproduction of inequality. At the same time, as a black feminist, she draws on her own embodiment of difference and experience as a diversity practitioner." Heidi Safia Mirza, author of Race, Gender, and Educational Desire: Why Black Women Succeed and Fail "Just when you think everything that could possibly be said about diversity in higher education has been said, Sara Ahmed comes along with this startlingly original, deeply engaging ethnography of diversity work. On Being Included is an insightful, smart reflection on the embodied, profoundly political phenomenology of doing and performing diversity in predominantly white institutions. As Ahmed queers even the most mundane formulations of diversity, she creates one eureka moment after another. I could not put this book down. It is a must-read for everyone committed to antiracist, feminist work as key to institutional transformation in higher education." - Chandra Talpade Mohanty, author of Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity "Sara Ahmed's sensitive and respectful analysis of the complexities faced by diversity workers in higher education institutions arrives at a moment when we urgently need ways to rethink institutional dynamics and the animating effects of policy regimes and processes. This is a vital book: vital as a compass guiding the eye, heart, and mind to the knowledge that can emerge from the labor of institutional transformation, and vital in the sense of being life-giving to those involved in the process." - Gail Lewis, coauthor of Citizenship: Personal Lives and Social Policy

Cuprins

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

Descriere

Sara Ahmed argues that a commitment to diversity is frequently substituted for a commitment to actual change. Institutions will produce programs promoting diversity, or sponsor committees to study it, rather than actually engaging in affirmative action hiring or anti-racist, anti-discrimination actions. Ahmed traces the work that diversity does, examining how the term is used and the way it serves to make questions about racism seem impertinent. Ahmed’s study is based in universities and her research is primarily in the UK and Australia, but the argument is equally valid in North America and for a wider range of institutions.