Intersectionality and Science Lessons How Do We Make Science Better More Inclusion means Better Science Disaggregation ie the analysis of particular groups axes identities reveals otherwise obscured dynamics ID: 588879
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Gender Race Intersectionality and Science
LessonsSlide2
How Do We Make Science Better?
More Inclusion means Better Science
Disaggregation
–i.e.
the analysis of particular groups, axes,
identities-
reveals otherwise obscured dynamics (
Method/Research Paradigm-
Hancock
))-
The Problem with Science
is
PoliticalSlide3
What is Science?
What is Science?
Communities of knowers
Trying to find
useful
ways of understanding the world
Collective endeavor- undermined by power differentials and inequalities
Social knowledge and innovation improved when a more diverse group of people are involved
If we want to cure cancer,
fdevelop
sustainable energy systems, or understand democracy, we need a more diverse professoriate and more diverse community of professional scientists and analystsSlide4
Disaggregation
In our effort to remedy the exclusions and inequalities that hobble our scientific communities, we will need to take a disaggregated approach
Disaggregation into the analysis of particular groups, axes, identities reveals otherwise obscured dynamics (Method- Hancock)
Qualitative differences, not differences in degree (Harris)
Limits to disaggregation at micro-level (
Jorden
Zachery)
Distinctive/unique issues for specific groups defined by social structures (Crenshaw)
Specific manifestations of bias and exclusion will work differently for different groupsSlide5
The Problem is Political
Better understanding the dynamics of exclusion and domination is useful
The problem is political- power and identity
Not
about pipelines
Possibility
of
change
Variation
across groups and contexts
The Truth will not set us
free
(though it can be one tool)
Women, don’t agonize, organize!
Wide variety of organizational forms
Multiple, overlapping, autonomous counter-publics
We all benefit when we are organized in more specific constituencies and we should foster that
Descriptive representation
Institutionalized Dissent and Consensus Decision-MakingSlide6
More Political Ideas
Require diversity on editorial boards and in reviewer pools
Rank departments by diversity indicators of various kinds
Create new scholarly institutions of our own- journals, conferences, awards, grants
Need to change idea about what science (or here, political science) is- struggle about how to define field