Promoting Equality and Diversity Through Economic Crisis

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、法学、商业和管理学、历史学和政治学的核心哲学和方法论传统，以增进对以下问题的理解：(I)经济低迷对地方、部门和社会群体的平等和多样性影响；(Ii)抵制消极结果和产生积极变化的可能性。PEDEC致力于在承认差异和重新分配资源的基础上促进平等(Fraser，1997)。社会阶层与社会认同的其他方面(性别、种族/族裔、残疾、年龄、性取向和宗教)的根本不可分离性也严重影响了所采取的办法。合作者将汇集他们的跨学科专业知识，围绕以下紧迫问题展开辩论：对经济危机的相互竞争的组织应对措施；裁员的社会和空间分布不均；法律干预在这种环境下的效果和效用，包括2009年《平等法案》所设想的那样；对平等和多样性的潜在反弹，认为它们在经济衰退中代价太高；以及媒体对这些问题的描述。该网络的建立是对经济危机提出的、需要跨越学科和空间界限进行调查的新问题的回应。它将来自英国和其他地方的学者、实践者和活动家聚集在一起，探讨经济低迷和即将削减的公共支出对维持和进步平等和多样性标准以及将边缘化群体纳入经济复苏的影响。

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.