Podcast
Performing Diversity, Producing Knowledge: Power and Transformation in (Cultural-)Institutions
What does it mean to work within institutions that are simultaneously sites of power and transformation? And how are diversity, knowledge, and the public negotiated in an increasingly mediatized world?This episode explores how institutional structures both enable and constrain diversity work. It examines the relationship between representation and structural change, as well as the role of media and academia in reproducing or challenging existing power relations. The conversation also considers the significance of activist engagements and positionalities within academic contexts.What kinds of change are genuinely possible within existing institutions? And how can diversity and justice be embedded sustainably beyond symbolic measures?
In this episode of Missing Chapters, we speak with Dr. phil. Yuvviki Dioh about:
- Institutions as sites of responsibility, power, and transformation
- Diversity policies in the context of structural change and symbolic performativity
- Media and academia as sites of hegemonic knowledge production
- Forms of academic activism in relation to claims of neutrality and questions of positionality
- Working as a Diversity Agent in Switzerland
- Navigating conflict, visibility, and freedom of expression within so-called "diverse institutions"
- Representation at the intersection of symbolic inclusion and structural transformation
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Transformation ist nicht Sache der Betroffenen
Prof. Dr. Patricia Purtschert
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Practice, Empowerment