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And ... action? Gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries
journal contribution
posted on 2018-12-06, 16:51 authored by Doris Ruth Eikhof, Jack Newsinger, Daria Luchinskaya, Daniela AidleyThis article explores how a knowledge ecology framework can help us better understand the
production of gender knowledge, especially in relation to improving gender equality. Drawing on
Law et al. (2011), it analyses what knowledge of gender inequality is made visible and actionable in
the case of the UK screen sector. We, firstly, show (1) that the gender knowledge production for the
UK screen sector operated with reductionist understandings of gender and gender inequality, and
presented gender inequality as something that needed evidencing rather than changing, and (2) that
gender knowledge was circulated in two relatively distinct circuits, a policy- and practice-facing one
focused on workforce statistics and a more heterogeneous and critical academic one. We then
discuss which aspects of gender inequality in the UK screen industry remained invisible and thus less
actionable. The article concludes with a critical appreciation of how the knowledge ecology
framework might help better understand gender knowledge production, in relation to social change
in the UK screen sector and beyond.
History
Citation
Gender, Work and Organization, 2018Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES/School of BusinessVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)