The Power of Diversity Discourses at Work: On the Interlocking Nature of Diversities and Occupations Universiteit Hasselt KU Leuven
Drawing on Fairclough's comprehensive social theory of discourse as text, social practice and discursive practice, the paper examines how discourses of diversity are implicated in the power dynamics in the Belgian branch of an international automobile company. Our analysis shows how diversity discourses are interlocked with occupations. On the one hand, speakers' occupational practices are conditional for the emergence of multiple, ...