Unpacking diversity, grasping inequality : rethinking difference through critical perspectives
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Zanoni, Patrizia
Janssens, Maddy
Benschop, Yvonne
Nkomo, Stella M., 1947-
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SAGE
Abstract
Critical diversity studies emerged in the mid-1990s as a reaction to the
re-appropriation of equal opportunities by business through the notion of
diversity. They initially took issue with the dominant rhetoric of diversity as a
positive, empowering approach valorizing employees’ different capacities (e.g.
R. Thomas, 1992), arguing that the theoretical shift to diversity would obscure
unequal power relations in organizations, e.g. gender, race/ ethnicity, (dis)ability,
hampering the ability to challenge them (i.e. Bond and Pyle, 1998; Edelman et
al., 2001; Jones et al., 2000; Kelly and Dobbin, 1998; Liff, 1996; Liff and
Wajcman, 1996; Linnehand and Konrad, 1999; Lorbiecki and Jack, 2000;
Maxwell et al., 2001; McDougall, 1996; Prasad and Mills, 1997; Wilson and
Iles, 1999).
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Equal opportunity in employment, Organizations, Understandings of diversity
Sustainable Development Goals
Citation
Zanoni, P, Janssens, M, Benschop, Y & Nkomo, S 2010, 'Unpacking diversity, grasping inequality : rethinking difference through critical perspectives', Organization, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 9-29.