Volume 16, Issue 1 (2016) Special Issue: Difference that makes no Difference: The Non-Performativity of Intersectionality and Diversity
This special issue of Wagadu, edited by Nikita Dhawan, Professor of Political Theory and Gender Studies and Director of the Research Platform Gender Studies, University of Innsbruck, outlines the ideological function of diversity and intersectionality as legitimizing performance indicators in discourses and institutions.Articles
How Not to Do Things with Words
Sara Ahmed
“What Difference Does Difference make?”: Diversity, Intersectionality and Transnational Feminist Politics
Nikita Dhawan and Maria do Mar Castro Varela
Pitfalls of Diversity Management
Mechthild Nagel
Rethinking Diversity in Academic Institutions
Vanessa Eileen Thompson and Veronika Zablotsky
(Non-) Speech Acts: The Performative Power of Silence
Jane Chin Davidson