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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