Struggles for distinction: classing as discursive process in UK museum work
Evans, Samantha and Whiting, Rebecca and MacKenzie-Davey, Kate (2020) Struggles for distinction: classing as discursive process in UK museum work. Gender, Work & Organization , ISSN 0968-6673. (In Press)
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Abstract
This paper responds to calls from critical diversity scholars to explore class in context, arguing for a view of classing as a discursive process and adopting Bourdieu’s concept of field as a site of discursive struggle. Analysing interview, web and focus-group data, we address this in the field of UK museum work. We contextualise the field’s dynamic nature, highlighting its state of flux and explore three discourses: Distinguishing the field; Disavowing the market; and Gaining recognition through which it is constituted, and classing practiced. Discursive strategies of reinforcing, reframing and re-valorising were deployed by participants to legitimate their own and other positions in the field. We show how classing is a core process constituting an occupational field, how museum workers are entrapped by and complicit in this process and conclude with wider implications for understandings of class, classed inequality and diversity.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is the peer reviewed version of the article, which has been published in final form at the link above. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | class, diversity, inequality, museums, Bourdieu, capital, discourse |
| School: | Birkbeck Schools and Departments > School of Business, Economics & Informatics > Organizational Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Rebecca Whiting |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jan 2020 09:27 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jul 2020 10:19 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/30627 |
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