Bob Pease

Undoing Privilege (eBook, ePUB)

Unearned Advantage and Systemic Injustice in an Unequal World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For every group that is oppressed, another group is privileged. Here, Bob Pease argues that privilege, as the other side of oppression, has received insufficient attention in both critical theories and in the practices of social change. As a result, dominant groups have been allowed to reinforce their dominance.

The second edition of Undoing Privilege extensively revises the six sites of privilege from the first edition: Western dominance, class elitism, white and patriarchal privilege and heterosexual and able-bodied privilege to reflect policy shifts and new social movement initiatives as well as the latest research and resources. This edition also includes four new chapters on anthropocentrism, cisgender privilege, adultism and Christian privilege. Pease points out that while the vast majority of people may be oppressed on one level, many are also privileged on another. He demonstrates how members of privileged groups can engage critically with their own dominant position, and explores the potential and limitations of them forming relations of solidarity against oppression and their unearned privilege.

The second edition includes new theoretical developments in privilege theory, collective responsibility, complicity in systemic injustice and allyship. It is an essential book for all who are concerned about developing theories and practices for a socially just world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781913441142
• Artikelnr.: 62860941

Autorenporträt

Bob Pease is Chair of Social Work in the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University in Geelong, Australia. He has published widely in the fields of masculinity studies and critical approaches to social work practice and is the author or co-editor of ten previous books. His most recent co-edited books are the International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities (2007), Migrant Men: Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration Experience (2009) and Critical Social Work: Theories and Practices for a Socially Just World (2nd edition 2009). He has been involved in profeminist masculinity politics for many years and actively engaged in campaigns to end men's violence against women.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations 1. Oppression, Privilege and
Relations of Domination 2. The Matrix and Social Dynamics of Privilege Part
II: Intersecting Sites of Privilege 3. Western Dominance and Colonialism 4.
Political Economy and Class Elitism 5. Gender Order and the Patriarchal
Dividend 6. Racial Formations and White Supremacy 7. Institutionalised
Heterosexuality and Hetero-privilege 8. Ableist Relations and the
Embodiment of Privilege Part III: Undoing Privilege 9. Challenging the
Reproduction of Privilege from Within