Promoting Equality and Diversity Through Economic Crisis

通过经济危机促进平等和多样性

• 批准号: AH/H040099/1
• 负责人: Kate Malleson
• 金额: $ 3.34万
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2010 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FH040099%2F1
• 关键词: Promoting; Equality; Diversity; Through; Economic

The Research Network on Promoting Equality and Diversity Through Economic Crisis ('PEDEC') draws on core philosophical and methodological traditions from geography, law, business and management, history and politics to advance understanding of: (i) the equality and diversity effects of the downturn across places, sectors, and social groups; and (ii) the possibilities for resisting negative outcomes and effecting positive change. PEDEC is concerned to promote equality based both on the recognition of difference and the redistribution of resources (Fraser, 1997). The fundamental inseparability of social class from other dimensions of social identity (gender, race/ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation and religion) also critically inform the approach taken. Collaborators will pool their inter-disciplinary expertise to debate urgent issues around: competing organizational responses to economic crisis; the uneven social and spatial distribution of redundancy; the effect and utility in this climate of legal interventions including as envisaged by the 2009 Equality Bill; a potential backlash against equality and diversity as 'too costly in recession'; and the media representation of these issues. The creation of the network responds to the new questions that have been raised by the economic crisis and that require investigation across disciplinary and spatial boundaries. It brings together scholars, practitioners and activists from the UK and elsewhere to explore the implications of the economic downturn, and coming cuts in public spending, for maintaining and progressing equality and diversity standards and for including marginalized groups in economic recovery.

通过经济危机促进平等和多样性研究网络（“PEDEC”）借鉴了地理学、法律、商业和管理、历史和政治等领域的核心哲学和方法论传统，以增进对以下方面的理解：（i）经济衰退对不同地区、部门和社会群体的平等和多样性影响； (ii) 抵制负面结果和实现积极改变的可能性。 PEDEC 致力于促进基于承认差异和资源再分配的平等（Fraser，1997）。社会阶层与社会身份的其他方面（性别、种族/民族、残疾、年龄、性取向和宗教）的根本不可分割性也对所采取的方法产生了重要影响。合作者将汇集跨学科的专业知识，围绕以下紧迫问题进行辩论：组织对经济危机的竞争性反应；冗余的社会和空间分布不均匀；在这种环境下法律干预措施的效果和效用，包括 2009 年《平等法案》所设想的；对平等和多样性的潜在抵制，因为“在经济衰退中成本太高”；以及媒体对这些问题的表述。该网络的创建回应了经济危机提出的新问题，这些问题需要跨学科和空间边界的调查。它汇集了来自英国和其他地方的学者、从业者和活动家，探讨经济衰退和即将到来的公共支出削减的影响，对维持和推进平等和多样性标准以及将边缘群体纳入经济复苏的影响。