2021
DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12781
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“How did they protect you?” The lived experience of race and gender in the post‐colonial English university

Abstract: With this article, I seek to contribute to understandings of how racial and gender hierarchies are reproduced through organizational processes. Using an autoethnographic method, I seek to demonstrate the workings of Mill's Racial Contract Theory and Ahmed's concepts of raced and gendered encounters through the implementation of a university diversity initiative: the Race Equality Charter. My findings demonstrate how the "doing" of diversity work results "undoing" the non-white diversity worker, as their lived … Show more

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“…For example, Glass and Cook (2020) reveal how gender and race are embedded in the hidden rules of the game in the highest ranks of organisations, requiring conscious social and cultural labour by outsiders such as 'women and people of colour' to negotiate inclusion. Universities are also considered gendered and raced institutions (Mihăilă, 2018;Salmon, 2021), which individuals experience through gendered advantage and disadvantage (Pullen, Rhodes, & Thanem, 2017). Organised around a masculine 'ideal' academic with no caring responsibilities (Benschop & Brouns, 2003;Martinovic & Verkuyten, 2013;Mauthner & Edwards, 2010), careers in universities remain problematic for women (Ashencaen Crabtree & Shiel, 2019;Davies, Brighton, Reedy, & Bajwah, 2022;Reedy & Haynes, 2021) or those classed as 'other' to the idealised norms (Bleijenbergh, Van, & Vinkenburg, 2012).…”
Section: Being Struckmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, Glass and Cook (2020) reveal how gender and race are embedded in the hidden rules of the game in the highest ranks of organisations, requiring conscious social and cultural labour by outsiders such as 'women and people of colour' to negotiate inclusion. Universities are also considered gendered and raced institutions (Mihăilă, 2018;Salmon, 2021), which individuals experience through gendered advantage and disadvantage (Pullen, Rhodes, & Thanem, 2017). Organised around a masculine 'ideal' academic with no caring responsibilities (Benschop & Brouns, 2003;Martinovic & Verkuyten, 2013;Mauthner & Edwards, 2010), careers in universities remain problematic for women (Ashencaen Crabtree & Shiel, 2019;Davies, Brighton, Reedy, & Bajwah, 2022;Reedy & Haynes, 2021) or those classed as 'other' to the idealised norms (Bleijenbergh, Van, & Vinkenburg, 2012).…”
Section: Being Struckmentioning
confidence: 99%