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On Being Included:: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

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Ahmed, Sara. London: Duke University Press , 2012.
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 AHM 2012
Availability
2 copies, 2 available
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 unremarkab…
Author
Ahmed, Sara
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publication Date
2012
Physical Description
243pp
Subjects
Anti-Racism
Diversity
Abstract
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.
ISBN
9780-8223-52365
Language
English
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF NR 100 AHM 2012

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The sweet spot : how to find your groove at home and work

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Carter, Christine. New York, NY: Ballantine Books , 2015.
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF AA 74 CAR 2015
Availability
3 copies, 3 available
Not long ago Christine Carter, happiness expert at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, speaker, writer, and mother, found herself caught up in the busyness of modern life: too many conflicting obligations and not enough time, energy, or patience to get everything done. She tried all the stan…
Author
Carter, Christine
Place of Publication
New York, NY
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Publication Date
2015
Physical Description
xxi, 290 pages ; 25 cm
Subject
Time Management
Happiness
Self-Help
Abstract
Not long ago Christine Carter, happiness expert at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, speaker, writer, and mother, found herself caught up in the busyness of modern life: too many conflicting obligations and not enough time, energy, or patience to get everything done. She tried all the standard techniques--prioritizing, multitasking, delegating--but found that she needed a new approach, one that would allow her to live more in that zone we've all glimpsed but can never seem to hold on to: the sweet spot of expertise, efficiency, and ease.
ISBN
9780553392043
Language
English
Material Type
Book
Call Number
REF AA 74 CAR 2015

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