With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? Benevolent- and Microdiscrimination in Everyday Contexts

Bidragets oversatte titel: Med disse venner, behøves ingen fjender: Strukturel Diskrimination og gode intentioner i hverdagen

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    Abstract


    In this article, I discuss structural discrimination, an underrepresented area of study in Danish discrimination and intercultural research. I define it here as discursive and hegemonic. Structural discrimination is presented as an analytical approach with which to understand and identify aspects of power and asymmetry in communication and interactions. Using this approach, I address how exclusion and discrimination exist, while also being indiscernible, within widely accepted societal norms. I introduce the concepts of microdiscrimination and benevolent discrimination as two ways of articulating particular, opaque forms of racial discrimination that occur in everyday Danish (and other) contexts, and have therefore become normalized.
    I present and discuss discrimination as it surfaces in data from my empirical studies of discrimination in Danish contexts. These studies underscore how everyday assumptions and norms contribute to inadvertent discriminatory communication and practices in particular ways. The article, in introducing the terms microdiscrimination and benevolent discrimination, identifies and addresses attitudes and behaviors that fall outside the purview of everyday understandings of discrimination and racism, yet produce and uphold discrimination, hate and exclusions. It is my hope that these terms can be of use with regard to addressing and reducing contemporary intercultural, migration and discrimination challenges.
    Bidragets oversatte titelMed disse venner, behøves ingen fjender: Strukturel Diskrimination og gode intentioner i hverdagen
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    Publikationsdato2016
    Antal sider16
    StatusUdgivet - 2016
    Begivenhed23nd Nordic Intercultural Communication Conference - Bergen, Norge
    Varighed: 24 nov. 201626 nov. 2016
    https://nla.no/nor/etterutdanning-og-kurs/kurs-og-konferanser/nic-2016-bergen/programme

    Konference

    Konference23nd Nordic Intercultural Communication Conference
    Land/OmrådeNorge
    ByBergen
    Periode24/11/201626/11/2016
    Internetadresse

    Emneord

    • Structural discrimination
    • benevolent discrimination
    • microdiscrimination
    • race
    • diversity

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