Sameness and difference in government equality talk

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2146205
AutoresIrene Gedalof (0000-0002-1220-9982, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume36
Fascículo1
Páginas117-135
Data de publicação2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2011.644310
OpenAlexW2035942775
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas18

This article discusses two sets of policy documents produced in the UK which form part of the 'equality and diversity agenda' as it was articulated by the Labour government and which led to formulation of the 2006 and 2010 Equality Acts. These documents are critically examined in order to identify the underlying definitions and discourses of equality and diversity that they deploy. What definitions of 'equality' and 'diversity' provide the legitimating discursive structure within which debates about human rights, inequality and discrimination take place? What does this tell us about the understanding of the relationship of sameness and difference to equality, and the relationship between different differences in government equality talk? I argue that, in both cases, gestures towards recognizing the central importance of difference and towards a more intersectional approach to those differences are ultimately subverted by the liberal terms within which these challenges are understood

Diversity (politics · Economics · Gender equality · Gesture · Government (linguistics · Inequality · Linguistics · Order (exchange · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Social Policy and Reform Studies