Eviscerating equality: Normative whiteness and Conservative equality policy

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL ISSUES

Critical Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-05-02 DOI:10.1177/02610183221093788

Irene Gedalof

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Abstract

This article draws on the insights of narrative analysis to critically review recent changes to UK government equality policy through three examples: the announcement of a new equality strategy, changes to the governance of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), and the establishment and report of the Sewell Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. I argue that these policy initiatives and the narratives justifying them signal moves to further weaken the UK government’s formal commitments to protections against discrimination. This involves not only the familiar argument in favour of a limited, liberal model of individual equality of opportunity, but is also about bolstering normative whiteness in the face of growing calls for a reckoning with the UK’s legacy of colonialism, slavery and deep-seated racial inequalities.

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铲除平等:规范的白人和保守的平等政策

本文利用叙事分析的见解，通过三个例子来批判性地回顾英国政府最近对平等政策的变化:宣布新的平等战略，平等与人权委员会(EHRC)治理的变化，以及休厄尔种族和民族差异委员会的成立和报告。我认为，这些政策举措和为其辩护的说法表明，这些举措将进一步削弱英国政府对保护不受歧视的正式承诺。这不仅涉及支持一种有限的、自由的个人机会平等模式的常见论点，还涉及在要求清算英国殖民主义、奴隶制和根深蒂固的种族不平等遗产的呼声日益高涨之际，支持规范的白人化。

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期刊介绍： Critical Social Policy provides a forum for advocacy, analysis and debate on social policy issues. We publish critical perspectives which: ·acknowledge and reflect upon differences in political, economic, social and cultural power and upon the diversity of cultures and movements shaping social policy; ·re-think conventional approaches to securing rights, meeting needs and challenging inequalities and injustices; ·include perspectives, analyses and concerns of people and groups whose voices are unheard or underrepresented in policy-making; ·reflect lived experiences of users of existing benefits and services;