What can white people do? Listening, challenging ignorance, generous encounters, and the ‘not yet’ as diversity research praxis

Responding to the call to theorise praxis in relation to philosophy and white diversity research, I draw on philosophers of race, and in particular, collective white ignorance, and generous encounters to argue for listening as a form of progressive white praxis. Whilst praxis has been theorised in feminist theory in relation to knowledge, standpoint and bodies, literature neglects how whiteness structures the production of knowledge and praxis. I argue that an understanding of white praxis should entail an examination of white epistemology, white ignorance and encounters with the stranger. At the same time, heeding critical race theorists’ cautions about critical whiteness studies and white feminism, I propose ways in which listening could begin to work as a form of white praxis responding to racism in research on diversity and organisations

Eating the Asian Other? Pedagogies of Food Multiculturalism in Australia

Public pedagogies in tourism and education in Australia suggest that food is a medium through which we learn more about each other’s cultures: in other words food is a pedagogy of multiculturalism. Drawing on a white Anglo Australian man’s memories of food in different intercultural encounters, this paper prises open the concept of eating the Other. There has been trenchant critique of food multiculturalism and the consuming cosmopolitan in Australia (Hage 1997; Probyn 2004; Duruz 2010). Thus, several writers critique the prevailing idea that eating ethnic food is a sign of cosmopolitanism, and even anti-racism, in individuals and cities in Australia (Hage 1997; Sheridan 2002; Duruz 2010). Hence, the notion of eating the Other has been taken up to discuss how ethnicity becomes an object of enrichment for white people through the eating of ethnic food in restaurants (Hage 1997) and cooking ethnic food at home (Heldke 2003). In this paper we present an ‘entangled’ story of Frank which includes white expatriate masculinity, multiculturalism with ethnics and what Heldke calls ‘colonial food adventuring’. Drawing on a close reading of Frank’s story, we argue that an evaluation of food multiculturalism needs to historicise, gender and racialise inter-cultural food encounters. Thus, we argue that there are ethnic food socialities other than those of home-building or restaurant multiculturalisms. We suggest that culturalist and political economy pedagogies of food multiculturalism could be augmented by one that attends to the production of whiteness and gender

Seeing benevolently: representational politics and digital race formation on ethnic food tour webpages

The aim of this paper is to extend studies of food media and racialisation by applying Nakamura’s (2002, 2008) concepts of digital race formation and cybertype to the webpages of an ethnic food tour in southwestern Sydney. Whilst the literature on food media, and racialisation and food practices are burgeoning, little attention to date has been given to racialization and gendering on food websites, and particularly those for social enterprises, which have hybrid commercial and social aims. Given that Nakamura has focused on a range of new media but not webpages, we draw on analytic frameworks on visual racism from Van Leeuwen (2008) and interactivity and aesthetics by Adami (2014, 2015) to provide a detailed case study analysis of how the visual and verbal meaning making strategies and the technological affordance of interactivity produce racialised and gendered cybertyping and Othering. Our analysis shows that racialised femininity is deployed to touristify a region seen by racist media to be criminalised, masculine and foreign. We conclude by arguing that methods for analysing meaning-making strategies in new media need to be developed in food studies and that food social enterprises should see their representational work as part of their social mission

A Qualitative Study of Rural School Returners\u27 Journeys to Secondary Credential Completion

Dropping out of school has a negative impact on an individual’s life and a person’s ability to contribute to the country’s society and economy. Returning to schooling and obtaining a diploma or equivalent is fraught with obstacles. Many people try several times to complete the degree; fewer succeed. The plight of rural students including rural school returners is often overlooked because their problems are overshadowed by the problems of urban areas. The purpose of this qualitative study, involving three extensive interviews of five rural school returners, was to build upon existing research on high school dropouts through the exploration of lived experiences of rural school returners. Such an in-depth focus highlights this understudied population. The lenses of rurality, resilience, and mattering guided the design of the study. The findings of the study offer insight for educational leaders, educators, and policy makers to employ in their endeavors of supporting school returners. The study found that the rural context both motivates as well as challenges school returners. Long distances and inadequate services, family and work obligations, and low paying, dead-end jobs provided both the impetus and the impediment to school returning and completion. In addition, the study found that regret about their public school experiences helped to motivate the participants to return to schooling. Others have noted regret as a motivator because lost opportunity often engenders regret while education can open or reopen doors to opportunity. The study found that gender impacts educational experiences in rural areas. Rural female students often report traditional gender roles and situations as challenges to their educational attainment. As other studies have found, women more often find they want to seek further education after finally gaining the high school credential. Finally, this study found that personal resilience and educational resilience factors, internal attributes, and mattering to others supported the participants in overcoming the challenges they faced as school returners. This finding adds to the literature on successful school returners because it describes the interplay of these factors noted in each participant’s story. Previous research presents these factors separately rather than in dynamic interaction with each other

Sensory politics of food pedagogies

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Mapping Pockets of Survival

In our Shadwell food history walk, part of a larger ‘Food Lives’ initiative, we employed counter-mapping techniques to shed light on overlooked post-war migrant cafés, revealing their essential role in facilitating food security and community. These spaces, often central in marginalised individuals’ navigation through urban life, epitomise racialised resistance and survival. Their significance, especially the almost invisible contributions of women and men of colour, stands in contrast to dominant historical narratives. The spatial food heritage of Cable Street emphasises the longstanding influence of racially marginalised migrant communities, countering racism and racial inequalities. Drawing parallels to present-day East End eateries, often criticised yet serving as cultural hubs, the project underscores the enduring ‘sticky emotions’ tied to food, racial dynamics, and colonial legacies

The structure and musical styles of bilingual musical theatre in Malaysia

Deriving from the Western art form, musical theatre by local Malaysian productions has been increasing since the last decade. The multiculturalism of the community is also reflected in the growing trend of local bilingual musicals. Bilingual use in various art forms is not an unfamiliar phenomenon in Malaysia since it is a multicultural country that consists of three main ethnicities: Malay, Chinese and Indian. This paper highlights and discusses the structure and the musical style employed in bilingual musical productions in Malaysia. Analysis of several productions shows the function of language in these musicals and how bilingualism is used to construct the architecture of a musical

Association of the OPRM1 Variant rs1799971 (A118G) with Non-Specific Liability to Substance Dependence in a Collaborative de novo Meta-Analysis of European-Ancestry Cohorts

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A systematic literature review of UK university–industry collaboration for knowledge transfer: A future research agenda

This systematic review establishes what is currently known and, more importantly, what is not known about knowledge transfer (KT) between UK universities and industries. The review focuses on four central measures related to university–industry (U–I) collaboration for KT that have been previously identified in the literature: motivations; activities; barriers; and outcomes. Different rationales underpin existing studies and we frame these using two perspectives: the sociopolitical perspective and the contextual perspective. To date studies with a sociopolitical perspective have largely focused upon ‘motivations’ to engage in U–I collaboration but largely from academics’ perspectives and tangible activities and outcomes have been the foci of the contextual perspective on KT but these have rarely been sector specific. We discuss these and other major findings in terms of policy implications for future research funding