On Being Included Quotes

“It is certainly the case that responsibility for diversity and equality is unevenly distributed. It is also the case that the distribution of this work is political: if diversity and equality work is less valued by organizations, then to become responsible for this work can mean to inhabit institutional spaces that are also less valued.”
― Sara Ahmed, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

“Kirton, Greene, and Dean argue that as diversity becomes more professionalized, practitioners are less likely to mobilize an activist framework. They suggest that diversity practitioners have an ambivalent relationship to institutions, as captured by their use of the phrase “tempered radical” to describe the attitude of practitioners (2007: 1981),”
― Sara Ahmed, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

“diversity management” becomes a way of managing or containing conflict or dissent.”
― Sara Ahmed, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

“Becoming the race person means you are the one who is turned to when race turns up. The very fact of your existence can allow others not to turn up.”
― Sara Ahmed, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life