Equal Opportunities International: Volume 26 Issue 5
Table of contents - Special Issue: The politics of equality: professionals, states and activists
Guest Editors: Shona Hunter, Elaine Swan
The politics of equality: professionals, states and activists
Shona Hunter, Elaine SwanThe paper draws out the key conceptual, methodological and substantive issues raised in the papers around the politics of equalities.
Change agents, double agents, secret agents: EEO in New Zealand
Deborah JonesThis paper theorises how equal employment opportunities (EEO) practitioners (EPs) operate as change agents within organisations.
Oscillating politics and shifting agencies: equalities and diversity work and actor network theory
Shona Hunter, Elaine SwanThe paper has two purposes: to introduce a new perspective on power and resistance in equalities work; and to trouble either or theorisations of success and failure in this work…
Touching the intangible? An analysis of The Equality Standard: A Framework for Sport
Sally ShawThe purpose of this research is to investigate equality policy development through an examination of The Equality Standard: A Framework for Sport and consider implications for…
Changes in working with gender equality in management in Sweden
Anna Wahl, Pia HöökThe article is based on a study of the changes in the methods used in working with gender equality issues in management in Sweden from the early 1990s until the early 2000s.
Organising for voting rights of people with disabilities in Lebanon: reflections for activists
Samantha Wehbi, Yahya El‐LahibThrough a reflection on a recent voting rights campaign for people with disabilities in Lebanon, the article aims to contribute to a body of literature that seeks to challenge the…
Making equalities work? Scottish trade unions’ approaches to equal opportunities
Colin Lindsay, Anne Munro, Sarah WiseThis paper seeks to analyse trade unions’ approaches to equal opportunities in Scotland, focusing on issues of: recruitment of membership from different groups; promoting…
Interview: Angela Mason on trips to Skegness, Maoists and briefings with the minister: A life in equalities work
Shona Hunter, Elaine SwanTo explore the experience of a key member of the UK equalities policy‐making elite, interrogating her shift from activist to top‐ranking equalities professional. To focus…
Talking it out: Political correctness as resistance to anti‐racism
Rosemary CrawleyIn this article, I seek to show how invocations of political correctness still work in nuanced ways to close down debates and trivialise issues, and effectively slow down progress…
The Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics and the Attack on Democracy
Nicki WardTo explore the experience of a key member of the UK equalities policy‐making elite, interrogating her shift from activist to top‐ranking equalities professional. To focus…
Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place
Tara N. LeachTo explore the experience of a key member of the UK equalities policy‐making elite, interrogating her shift from activist to top‐ranking equalities professional. To focus…
Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism
Sarah B. Proctor‐ThomsonTo explore the experience of a key member of the UK equalities policy‐making elite, interrogating her shift from activist to top‐ranking equalities professional. To focus…