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Prefiguring the anti-racist university: a systems change approach to the Race Equality Charter

Prefiguring the anti-racist university: a systems change approach to the Race Equality Charter
Prefiguring the anti-racist university: a systems change approach to the Race Equality Charter
In this paper, I will set out three methodological approaches to enable the conduct of the Race Equality Charter (REC) to prefigure the systems change that will make the process of racial equity meaningful. Systems change has been a lens which has gained popularity as a principle of social change in recent years but has yet to be applied to institutional racial equality. My argument here is that how the REC is done is as important as the work involved itself; it can either prefigure systems change or it can reproduce existing patterns of domination and disadvantage. Adopting a “prefigurative” methodological approach will enable the transformative transfer of resources and knowledge to people of colour in higher education, and catalyse a mindset shift to sustain the process of racial equity in the long term.
anti-racism, university, systems, prefigurative politics, insitutional, higher Education
Pathak, Pathik
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Pathak, Pathik
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Pathak, Pathik (2021) Prefiguring the anti-racist university: a systems change approach to the Race Equality Charter. Lincoln Journal of Higher Education Practice, 4 (2), [1].

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In this paper, I will set out three methodological approaches to enable the conduct of the Race Equality Charter (REC) to prefigure the systems change that will make the process of racial equity meaningful. Systems change has been a lens which has gained popularity as a principle of social change in recent years but has yet to be applied to institutional racial equality. My argument here is that how the REC is done is as important as the work involved itself; it can either prefigure systems change or it can reproduce existing patterns of domination and disadvantage. Adopting a “prefigurative” methodological approach will enable the transformative transfer of resources and knowledge to people of colour in higher education, and catalyse a mindset shift to sustain the process of racial equity in the long term.

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Accepted/In Press date: 16 June 2021
e-pub ahead of print date: 16 June 2021
Keywords: anti-racism, university, systems, prefigurative politics, insitutional, higher Education

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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/450247
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Date deposited: 19 Jul 2021 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 13:10

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