Playing the system: ‘Race’-making and elitism in diversity projects in Germany's classical music sector

Producing (Musical) Difference: Power, Practices and Inequalities in Diversity Initiatives in Germany’s Classical Music Sector

“…At the centre of such discussions stands the question of whether diversity and inclusion programmes can indeed prompt progressive representations of difference and tackle the cultural sector’s deep-seated entanglements with classed, raced and gendered inequalities, or whether such initiatives ultimately have reproductive consequences, perpetuating precisely what they claim to undo (e.g. Ahmed, 2012; Kolbe, 2021; Nwonka, 2015; Titley, 2014). Gavan Titley (2014), for instance, detects a depoliticisation of cultural diversity policies as they become delinked from wider contestations of racial inequality.…”