TY  - CHAP
TI  - Undoing Class Intersectionally? Alternative Organizations and the Non-Performativity of Diversity
AB  - Recent studies suggest that diversity management in hierarchical organizations does not produce the effects that it names and that discrimination within organizations can only be tackled if class and power relations are analysed and brought together with a critical diversity discourse. In an explorative case study we analyse the websites of alternative organizations with regard to processes of inclusion and exclusion from a (critical) diversity perspective. Our interest in such a diversity-oriented analysis of alternative organizations stems from the assumption that organizations that proclaim values like participation, solidarity and connection as well as equality/equity aim at redistributing power and therefore might also challenge existing diversity relations. Our results show, however, that even the small scale aims at redistributing power which we could identify do not address diversity in order to re-organize class and gender relations. We conclude by suggesting that claims for undoing class must take existing inequalities based on socially established categories of inclusion and exclusion, such as gender, age, ‘race’, ethnicity, (dis)ability, sexual orientation or class, into account.
AF  - Gender, Work and Organization 2016
PP  - Keele
PY  - 2016-01-01
AU  - Fleischmann, Alexander 
AU  - Bendl, Regine 
AU  - Schmidt, Angelika 
ER -