Women and minorities are increasingly entering fields where white male power is firmly entrenched. The spaces they come to occupy are not empty or neutral, but are imbued with history and meaning. This groundbreaking book interrogates the pernicious, subtle but nonetheless widely held view that certain bodies are naturally entitled to certain spaces, while others are not. How are positions of authority racialized and gendered? How do people manage their femininity and/or blackness while in a predominantly white male context? How do spaces become naturalized or normalized, and what does it mean when they are disrupted? Engaging with a range of material from a variety of institutions, Space Invaders is a timely contribution to wide-reaching debates on race, gender and space. It is the first book to articulate the full complexity of diversity in organizations.
Author(s): Nirmal Puwar
Edition: 1st
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 224
Preliminaries......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 Introduction Proximities......Page 12
2 Of Men and Empire......Page 24
3 Dissonant Bodies......Page 42
4 In Visible Universal Bodies......Page 66
5 Performative Rites Ill fi tting Suits......Page 88
6 Imperial Legitimate Language......Page 118
7 Becoming Insiders......Page 130
8 In Summation......Page 152
Bibliography......Page 168
Notes......Page 182
Index......Page 192
