And...action? Gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries

Eikhof, Doris Ruth and Newsinger, Jack and Luchinskaya, Daria and Aidley, Daniela (2019) And...action? Gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries. Gender, Work and Organisation, 26 (6). pp. 840-859. ISSN 0968-6673 (https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12318)

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Abstract

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, Ruppert, and Savage, it analyses what knowledge of gender inequality is made visible and actionable in the case of the UK screen sector. We show: (i) 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 (ii) 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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Eikhof, Doris Ruth, Newsinger, Jack, Luchinskaya, Daria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0991-6149 and Aidley, Daniela;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:69819
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    30 June 2019
    Published
    12 December 2018
    Published Online
    17 September 2018
    Accepted
    Notes:This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Eikhof DR, Newsinger J, Luchinskaya D, Aidley D. And ? action? Gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries. Gender Work Organ. 2018;26(6), which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12318. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
    Subjects:Social Sciences > Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
    Department:Strathclyde Business School > Work, Organisation and Employment
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:17 Sep 2019 15:13
    Last modified:21 Nov 2024 01:17
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/69819
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