Calving Out a Space to Exist: “Marked” Identities in Polar Science’s “Unmarked Spaces”

Anya Lawrence, Luis Escobedo
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For minority employees at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the organisation has enriched their careers, while offering equality, diversity and inclusivity (EDI) measures to mitigate some of the issues affecting them. However, the way they belong to BAS remains impacted by the structural and everyday practices that shape their lives through identity processes. In light of BAS’ ambition to enhance Antarctic science opportunities to underrepresented groups, this study engages with the lived experiences and perspectives of minority BAS employees at their workplace. We argue that while they experience and perceive rejection, discrimination and exclusion, these practices are tangled up in the dominant and majority group’s internal identification processes rather than by the isolated and deliberate action of its members. Those who are part of the “unmarked” dominant group have, from an early age, internalised national, ethnic, gender, and other forms of belonging and continue to engage in new boundary demarcation in the present. In this way, it is in their contact with non-members, that the boundaries between the “marked” and “unmarked” come to the fore, even when the intention of the dominant group may be to erode such boundaries.
开辟生存空间:极地科学“无标记空间”中的“标记”身份
对于英国南极调查局(BAS)的少数族裔员工来说,该组织丰富了他们的职业生涯,同时提供平等、多样性和包容性(EDI)措施,以减轻影响他们的一些问题。然而,他们属于BAS的方式仍然受到结构和日常实践的影响,这些实践通过身份过程塑造了他们的生活。鉴于BAS的目标是为代表性不足的群体增加南极科学机会,本研究涉及BAS少数族裔员工在其工作场所的生活经历和观点。我们认为,当他们经历和感知拒绝、歧视和排斥时,这些做法与主导和多数群体的内部认同过程纠缠在一起,而不是由其成员的孤立和故意行为引起的。那些属于“无标记”主导群体的人,从小就内化了民族、种族、性别和其他形式的归属感,并在今天继续从事新的边界划分。这样,在他们与非成员的接触中,“被标记”和“未标记”之间的界限就显现出来了,即使主导群体的意图可能是削弱这种界限。
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