CONTEXTUALIZING DIVERSITY'S (NON-)PERFORMATIVITY.

The article contextualizes the traveled skeptical evaluation of diversity as a 'non-performative' (Ahmed) in German Gender Studies and Diversity Studies debates. The text analyses and highlights performative effects of a 'narrative of overcoming' according to which a multidimensional and non-hierarc...

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Published in:	Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies Vol. 16; pp. 127 - 153
Main Author:	Marten, Eike
Format:	Article
Published:	Research Foundation of SUNY on behalf of SUNY Cortland 2016
Subjects:	Discrimination (Sociology) Gender differences (Psychology) Performative (Philosophy)
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Summary:	The article contextualizes the traveled skeptical evaluation of diversity as a 'non-performative' (Ahmed) in German Gender Studies and Diversity Studies debates. The text analyses and highlights performative effects of a 'narrative of overcoming' according to which a multidimensional and non-hierarchic notion of diversity supersedes and replaces the critical concepts of gender and difference.