Human Resource Management.

"Drawing on 66 interviews with key actors in the equality and diversity field in the UK, we operationalise Bourdieu’s conception of the field, across the axes of individualism versus collectivism, and regulation versus voluntarism and map out the location of the key actors in this field. The contribution of this paper is three-fold: First, we advance the understanding of the equality and diversity field at the national level by analysing the accounts of the influential actors, whose interests and actions shape the field, in a single piece of work. Second, the paper illustrates how the multi-actor and contested nature of the equality and diversity field manifests in the accounts of actors, thereby presents evidence in support of policy and strategic thinking which goes beyond a single-actor focus. Finally, we contribute to the theoretical maturity and expansion of the equality and diversity scholarship through the use of Bourdieuan sociology.
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""This chapter explores the intersections between classed places and identities, focusing on the UK and examining the ways in which the figures of the ‘chav’ and the ‘pikey’ have been represented in British popular culture and in official policy discourses. We will argue that these representations conflate the racialized identity of the Gypsy Traveller with white working class identities and draw on the presence or proximity of Irish or Gypsy Travellers to the white ‘underclass’ in order to metonymically racialize the white working class as a whole.

The politics of space, we will argue, is central to this process. Existing sociological and cultural geography literature hints at the active role of the spatial  imaginary in classing people. We will
argue that particular spaces and places – housing estates, and places described as ‘chav towns’ – are used discursively as a way of fixing people in racialized class positions.  ""

Questions the value and contribution of contemporary approaches to corporate governance with its focus upon structures and preocuupation with 'culture change' when there are cost-effective ways of quickly changing behaviour, ensuring compliance, enabling more responsible and sustainable purchasing decisions and delivering other benefits with existing people, cultures and structures.