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dc.contributor.authorKerr, Thor
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T11:36:15Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T11:36:15Z
dc.date.created2013-09-12T20:00:24Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationKerr, Thor. 2012. Desiring diversity at university. Borderlands e-journal. 11 (3): pp. 1-4.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13308
dc.description.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.

dc.publisherBorderlands
dc.relation.urihttp://www.borderlands.net.au/vol11no3_2012/kerr_diversity.pdf
dc.subjectsexism
dc.subjectgender studies
dc.subjectdiversity
dc.subjectpostcolonial studies
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dc.subjectSara Ahmed
dc.subjectracism
dc.subjectcultural studies
dc.titleDesiring diversity at university
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume11
dcterms.source.number3
dcterms.source.startPage1
dcterms.source.endPage4
dcterms.source.issn1447-0810
dcterms.source.titleBorderlands - e-journal
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curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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