And … action?: gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries

This 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 t...

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Main Authors: Ruth Eikhof, Doris, Newsinger, Jack, Luchinskaya, Daria, Rudloff, Daniela
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/53386/
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Newsinger, Jack
Luchinskaya, Daria
Rudloff, Daniela
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description This 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.
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spelling nottingham-533862020-08-22T04:30:14Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/53386/ And … action?: gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries Ruth Eikhof, Doris Newsinger, Jack Luchinskaya, Daria Rudloff, Daniela This 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. Wiley 2018-07-23 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/53386/3/GWO_resubmission3_proof.pdf Ruth Eikhof, Doris, Newsinger, Jack, Luchinskaya, Daria and Rudloff, Daniela (2018) And … action?: gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries. Gender, Work & Organization . ISSN 0968-6673 (In Press)
spellingShingle Ruth Eikhof, Doris
Newsinger, Jack
Luchinskaya, Daria
Rudloff, Daniela
And … action?: gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries
title And … action?: gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries
title_full And … action?: gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries
title_fullStr And … action?: gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries
title_full_unstemmed And … action?: gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries
title_short And … action?: gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries
title_sort and … action?: gender, knowledge and inequalities in the uk screen industries
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/53386/