Curtin University Homepage
  • Library
  • Help
    • Admin

    espace - Curtin’s institutional repository

    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
    View Item 
    • espace Home
    • espace
    • Curtin Research Publications
    • View Item
    • espace Home
    • espace
    • Curtin Research Publications
    • View Item

    Desiring diversity at university

    192566_95382_kerr_diversity.pdf (126.0Kb)
    Access Status
    Open access
    Authors
    Kerr, Thor
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Citation
    Kerr, Thor. 2012. Desiring diversity at university. Borderlands e-journal. 11 (3): pp. 1-4.
    Source Title
    Borderlands - e-journal
    Additional URLs
    http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol11no3_2012/kerr_diversity.pdf
    ISSN
    1447-0810
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13308
    Collection
    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Diversity has become a pervasive feature of university policy statements in Australia, the United Kingdom and other nations. But what does diversity do and how does it perform in terms of addressing inequality in a university? Sara Ahmed answers these questions in a thesis supported by 21 interviews with diversity practitioners and her own experience. By interrogating diversity as a set of practices, Ahmed’s book explores how diversity policy can become a substitute for action against practices of exclusion in an institutional setting. On Being Included presents an argument for diversity workers to articulate exclusionary practices otherwise concealed by the appearance of diversity. This book argues for diversity to be a form of critique, not a public relations solution.

    Related items

    Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.

    • Soil properties drive a negative correlation between species diversity and genetic diversity in a tropical seasonal rainforest
      Xu, W.; Liu, L.; He, Tianhua; Cao, M.; Sha, L.; Hu, Y.; Li, Q.; Li, J. (2016)
      A negative species-genetic diversity correlation (SGDC) could be predicted by the niche variation hypothesis, whereby an increase in species diversity within community reduces the genetic diversity of the co-occurring ...
    • The need for an integrated theoretical framework for researching the influence of group diversity on performance
      Qin, J.; O'Meara, B.; McEachern, Steven (2009)
      Purpose – Investigating diversity presents researchers with a paradox because extremely inconsistent and conflicting findings about the effects of diversity have emerged in this field of study. It has been argued that the ...
    • Impacts of soil fertility on species and phylogenetic turnover in the high - rainfall zone of the Southwest Australian global biodiversity hotspot
      Sander, Juliane; Wardell-Johnson, Grant (2011)
      The ancient landscape of the South - West Australian Floristic Region (SWAFR) is characterized by exceptional floristic diversity, attributed to a complex mosaic of nutrient - impoverished soils. Between - soil type ...
    Advanced search

    Browse

    Communities & CollectionsIssue DateAuthorTitleSubjectDocument TypeThis CollectionIssue DateAuthorTitleSubjectDocument Type

    My Account

    Admin

    Statistics

    Most Popular ItemsStatistics by CountryMost Popular Authors

    Follow Curtin

    • 
    • 
    • 
    • 
    • 

    CRICOS Provider Code: 00301JABN: 99 143 842 569TEQSA: PRV12158

    Copyright | Disclaimer | Privacy statement | Accessibility

    Curtin would like to pay respect to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members of our community by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which the Perth campus is located, the Whadjuk people of the Nyungar Nation; and on our Kalgoorlie campus, the Wongutha people of the North-Eastern Goldfields.