GEO305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Diversity Training
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Theorising privilege: an organised systematic way of ordering society. It is the capacity to do something: relative privilege that ensures power, privilege means more than class gendered or racialised. To have privilege: spaces that make you feel like you belong can demarcate how you feel privileged or not, try make it more inclusionary, privilege increases the odds of having things your own way. Grants the cultural authority: we work with a lot of socially constructed information, who gets taken seriously, who is accountable to who and for what. Opposite to privilege is oppression: oppression is what tends to be focused on and privilege is largely implicative of power, can"t have inequality without those who have more, we are all implicated. We as individuals don"t believe we are oppressive but participate in relationships of oppression this is by default. Oppression in the invisible systems by asserting dominance over other groups.
