{"product_id":"on-being-included-racism-and-diversity-in-institutional-life-paperback","title":"On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSara Ahmed\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\" \u003ci\u003eOn Being Included\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eOn Being Included\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSara Ahmed is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her books include \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Politics of Emotion\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eStrange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eDifferences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.6 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 28, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44292260003942,"sku":"9780822352365","price":52.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/eURvLzZUejB4Qk04aFlkdm5Va04rUT09.webp?v=1766908536","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/on-being-included-racism-and-diversity-in-institutional-life-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}