· "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 /5(77). “For those of us interested in diversity work, Ahmed’s On Being Included provides a novel way of thinking about diversity. In her readings of institutional documents interwoven with the voices of diversity workers, Ahmed cautions us to think about diversity as a tool deployed to further crystallize institutionally sanctioned racist practices that recede to the background of everyday life.”Cited by: Sara Ahmed's On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Gender, Place and Culture, Vol. 20, No. 4, ‐, bltadwin.ru BOOK REVIEW S. Ahmed, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, , pp, ISBN ‐0-‐‐‐5, $ (paperback), ISBN ‐0-‐‐‐1, $ (cloth) In recent years, ‘diversity’ work has Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins.
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. Mission Not Accomplished. By Meryl Altman. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Sara Ahmed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, On Being Included. by Sara Ahmed. One of my primary aims has been to describe the physical and emotional labor of "banging your head against a brick wall". Editions for On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life: (Paperback published in ), (Unknown Binding publish.
On Being Included Duke University Press Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life Sara Ahmed. di≈culty of speaking about racism as a person of color meant. 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. Such is the premise of Sara Ahmed's On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life, an ‘ethnography of texts’ (12) that sets out to explore ‘how the diversity world takes shape: how it comes to have certain habits, contours, rhythms, and orientations’ ().
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