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diversity development work

📖 Definitions

"Communities and members of communities who cultivate those with dissenting perspectives by taking steps to train, hire, or retain those with underrepresented theoretical perspectives, social locations, or to reward them for their epistemic diversity work, or to nurture cultures that are conducive to the development of dissenting views are performing diversity development work" (Fehr 2011, 145).

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📚 References

  • Fehr, Carla. 2011. “What Is in It for Me? The Benefits of Diversity in Scientific Communities.” In_ Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge_, edited by Heidi Grasswick. Springer. DOI:10.1007/978-1-4020-6835-5.