1st Edition

Thought Paralysis The Virtues of Discrimination

By Farhad Dalal Copyright 2012
270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

Given the enormous struggles, efforts and money expended on the equalities enterprise, why has more progress not been made? And further, why have things actually become worse in some circumstances? It is argued this has occurred because:- The values of Equality have been bureaucratized, allowing the liberal principle of "live and let live" to be perverted and put in the service of fear and... Read more
CHAPTER ONE Introduction: thought paralysis, CHAPTER TWO The struggle to live and let live: the liberal world view, CHAPTER THREE Equal strokes for different folks: the legislature, CHAPTER FOUR Manufacturing kinds of people: processes of inclusion and exclusion CHAPTER FIVE The human condition: psychology, CHAPTER SIX Counting discriminations, CHAPTER SEVEN Corrupting the liberal ideal: diversity in organizational life, CHAPTER EIGHT Perverting the liberal ideal: fear and control, in the Panopticon CHAPTER NINE The difference that dare not speak its name: the lexicon police, CHAPTER TEN The vicissitudes of discrimination, CHAPTER ELEVEN Islam: the new black, CHAPTER TWELVE Tolerating discrimination: discriminatory tolerance, CHAPTER THIRTEEN The road to nowhere: conceptual cul-de-sacs

Biography

Farhad Dalal