Advertising Change: Presenting a New New Zealander?
The Southern Man advert is aiming to speak to a specific audience of beer drinkers, assumed by Speight’s to be men. Other beer companies have played with similar…
Tag: diversity
We started a podcast!
Standplaats Wereld is expanding with a new component. We will continue to marvel you with our stories, but from now on, we will also explore them in the…
What I’m Reading – Oct 2020
This article is cross-posted from the ZS intranet (which we call ZSpace), where I write episodically about issues of interest to the LGBTQ+ community and our allies. It’s…
Diversity and Inclusion: A Conversation with John Nieto-Phillips
In August of 2019, Professor John Nieto-Phillips joined SAR’s board of directors. He has brought to SAR a dedication to opening academic in…
What I’m Reading – Aug 2020
This article is cross-posted from the ZS intranet (which we call ZSpace), where I write episodically about issues of interest to the LGBTQ+ community and our allies. It’s…
5 Years of LGBTQ Marriage
It’s hard to believe it’s been five years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that LGBTQ persons have the right to marry. There was a really nice article…
Christina Dunbar-Hester on her book, Hacking Diversity
Interview by Héctor Beltrán https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691182070/hacking-diversity Héctor Beltrán: In your ethnographic work with voluntaristic open technology communities across…
The benefits of hiring a person with a mental disability
In this rapidly changing world, it is not only medicine, technology and science that improves the lives of people. What is equally life-changing is that our society is…
UK Universities, Decolonisation and the Future of Sociology
What is meant by the decolonisation of academic life? Why might it be of importance to contemporary British sociology? How might decolonisation proceed, and what might our sociological…
UK Universities, Decolonisation and the Future of Sociology
What is meant by the decolonisation of academic life? Why might it be of importance to contemporary British sociology? How might decolonisation proceed, and what might our sociological…
Teaching Intersectionality intersectionally: two different cups of tea?
BY KAY MARS Intersectionality has become somewhat of a buzzword in contemporary social sciences. It provided a short-hand term for a more complex and comprehensive understanding on identity,…
They / Them
In this post, I celebrate @merriam-webster’s Word of the Year, and reflect on some important trends for the LGBTQ+ community and our allies as awareness of They /…
Diversität- und Antidiskriminierung
Konzepte im Feld von Schule und Migration Publikation mit Beiträgen von: Prof. Dr. Mechtild Gomolla, Dr. Katrin Huxel, Dr. Galina Putjata, Dr. Thomas Geier, Prof. Dr. Yasemin Karakaşoğlu,…
Transforming Strategic Research Capacity through Democratization
In this @designopssumit presentation, @MarjorieSample and @keshiekay share their lessons from teaching designers how to do evaluative research, and the benefits to all involved.
Representing Diverse Bodies in Medical Illustration
In 2016, just before I began my dissertation fieldwork, a trio of young medical illustrators presented a panel on “Normativity and Diversity in Healthcare Imagery” at the annual…
Goose Lessons
What can an anthropologist (who specializes in humans) learn from an unlikely species (like a goose)? Plenty, it turns out. My husband and I went goose-banding the other day,…
Avoiding ‘Manels’
At ZS, our firm-wide Inclusion and Diversity initiative is picking up steam, and it’s generating a lot of interesting and thought-provoking discussion about how we can continue to…
Diskussionskultur in der Wissenschaft. Ein Interview mit “Max Musterwesen”
Anonymität ist in öffentlichen Debatten umstritten. Auf der einen Seite vermutet man Tricks, Verleumdung, Unehrlichkeit, in einer freien Gesellschaft gäbe es keine Gründe für Anonymität. Durch die Ge…
What Does Diversity and Inclusion Mean?
We need an emic approach to creating more inclusive departments. In December 2018, I called the founder of a diversity management organization to ask about a meeting where…
Navigating Silicon Valley’s Contradictions
Silicon Valley’s workers must maneuver their way through this place of diversity and discrimination, capitalist aims, and countercultural aspirations. You can spot the extremes on the street in…
Why Doesn’t Diversity Training Work?
Diversity training in both academia and business has seen limited success at best. Photo courtesy of publicdomainpictures.net The Challenge for Industry and Academia Uncommon Sense Starbucks’ deci…
The New Elite’s Battle Against Affirmative Action
The Harvard University Affirmative Action lawsuit says more about wealth than about race. What little solace we had from Abigail Fisher losing her anti-affirmative action case against the…
Wizards, Vampires, Klingons, and Other Alternative Cultures
On the last day of my introduction to anthropology class, we watch scenes from the documentary Trekkies. Students grin at the sincere folks dressed as Starfleet officers and…
Guest Post: Citation is a Gift: “Punking” Accounting in #hautalk
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Jules Weiss. Weiss is an MA student in the Applied Anthropology program at Oregon State University. They are a…