Trade-offs and disappearing acts: shifting societal discourses of diversity in Canada over three decades
Trade-offs and disappearing acts: shifting societal discourses of diversity in Canada over three decades
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10.1080/09585192.2015.1128459
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
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5.6
通讯作者：
Rodrigues, Sara
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作者：
Cukier, Wendy;Gagnon, Suzanne;Rodrigues, Sara
在过去的几十年里，对工作场所的少数群体和弱势群体的研究一直集中在多元化管理的话语上；然而，这种研究的大部分都强调个人和组织的话语，而不是更广泛的社会背景。我们对社会/宏观层面话语的批判性分析探索了加拿大对公平和多样性的话语建构，并就这些话语是如何在公共领域产生的提供了独到的发现。我们对1986年至2014年在全国发行的报纸《环球邮报》和1988年至2013年《加拿大就业平等法年度报告》上发表的文章进行了定量和定性的文本分析。本文描述了一系列的论述模式，包括那些专注于以合规为基础的公平、以社会正义为导向的模式，以及以企业自身利益为基础的自愿性“多元化管理”。它展示了在通过不同的话语保护和促进谁，以及使这些话语合法化的行为者类型方面的重要权衡。我们运用哈贝马斯的交往行动理论为这些模式提供了详细的证据，并讨论了我们分析中提出的对实践和理论的启示。
In the past few decades, research on minority and disadvantaged groups in the workplace has focused on the discourse of diversity management; however, most of this research has emphasized individual and organizational discourse rather than broader, societal contexts. Our critical analysis of societal/macro level discourse explores the discursive constructions of equity and diversity in Canada, and provides original findings on how these discourses have been produced in the public sphere. We apply quantitative and qualitative textual analysis to articles published from 1986 to 2014 in The Globe and Mail, a nationally distributed newspaper, and the Canadian Employment Equity Act Annual Reports from 1988 to 2013. This paper describes a range of discursive patterns including those focusing on compliance-based equity oriented toward social justice as well as voluntary 'diversity management' grounded in corporate self-interest. It demonstrates important trade-offs in who is protected and promoted through the contrasting discourses, and in the types of actors legitimizing these discourses. We provide detailed evidence of these patterns by applying Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action, and conclude with a discussion of implications for practice and for theory that are suggested in our analysis.