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Guest Editorial: Unpacking Diversity, Grasping Inequality: Rethinking Difference Through Critical Perspectives

Year: 2009

Type: editorial

Abstract: Critical diversity studies emerged in the mid-1990s as a reaction to the \nre-appropriation of equal opportunities by business through the notion of \ndiversity. They initially took issue with the dominant rhetoric of diversity as a \npositive, empowering approach valorizing employees’ different capacities (e.g. \nR. Thomas, 1992), arguing that the theoretical shift to diversity would obscure \nunequal power relations in organizations, e.g. gender, race/ ethnicity, (dis)ability, \nhampering the ability to challenge them (i.e. Bond and Pyle, 1998; Edelman et \nal., 2001; Jones et al., 2000; Kelly and Dobbin, 1998; Liff, 1996; Liff and \nWajcman, 1996; Linnehand and Konrad, 1999; Lorbiecki and Jack, 2000; \nMaxwell et al., 2001; McDougall, 1996; Prasad and Mills, 1997; Wilson and \nIles, 1999).

Source: Organization

DOI: 10.1177/1350508409350344

Authors: Patrizia Zanoni, Maddy Janssens, Yvonne Benschop, Stella Nkomo

Institutions: Hasselt University, KU Leuven, Radboud University Nijmegen, University of Pretoria

Language: English

Topic: Gender Diversity and Inequality

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2056812707

Cites: 162

Cited by: 634

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