The Economics of Identity
This paper examines and critiques top-down institutional EDI policies and plans from Canadian academic libraries. Using David James Hudson’s critique of how the diversity model overemphasizes representation over meaningful action, this paper explores how the EDI plans and policies at Canadian acade...
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The Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians
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This paper examines and critiques top-down institutional EDI policies and plans from Canadian academic libraries. Using David James Hudson’s critique of how the diversity model overemphasizes representation over meaningful action, this paper explores how the EDI plans and policies at Canadian academic libraries facilitate the exchange of racial capital, thereby reducing racialized identities to currency. To explore pathways forward, I conducted a thematic analysis of EDI plans and policies from all Canadian academic libraries. This thematic analysis informs strategies for how people within Canadian academic institutions can move beyond the diversity model to recentre meaningful and effective equity work. The paper closes with a call towards embedded EDI practices informed by Indigenous concepts of decolonial indigenization and relationality.
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| spelling | doaj-art-e8cc7133edd341cbb320e450dbeb98ff2025-08-20T01:57:55ZengThe Canadian Association of Professional Academic LibrariansCanadian Journal of Academic Librarianship2369-937X2024-12-011010.33137/cjal-rcbu.v10.43088The Economics of IdentityTina Liu0https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8246-7715McGill University This paper examines and critiques top-down institutional EDI policies and plans from Canadian academic libraries. Using David James Hudson’s critique of how the diversity model overemphasizes representation over meaningful action, this paper explores how the EDI plans and policies at Canadian academic libraries facilitate the exchange of racial capital, thereby reducing racialized identities to currency. To explore pathways forward, I conducted a thematic analysis of EDI plans and policies from all Canadian academic libraries. This thematic analysis informs strategies for how people within Canadian academic institutions can move beyond the diversity model to recentre meaningful and effective equity work. The paper closes with a call towards embedded EDI practices informed by Indigenous concepts of decolonial indigenization and relationality. https://cjal.ca/index.php/capal/article/view/43088academic librariesequity, diversity, and inclusionhuman capitalneoliberalismracial capital |
| spellingShingle | Tina Liu The Economics of Identity Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship academic libraries equity, diversity, and inclusion human capital neoliberalism racial capital |
| title | The Economics of Identity |
| title_full | The Economics of Identity |
| title_fullStr | The Economics of Identity |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Economics of Identity |
| title_short | The Economics of Identity |
| title_sort | economics of identity |
| topic | academic libraries equity, diversity, and inclusion human capital neoliberalism racial capital |
| url | https://cjal.ca/index.php/capal/article/view/43088 |
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