Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Thinking Space - Why discrimination is preferable to tolerance |
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| Venue | : | The Tavistock Centre |
| Date | : | 27/11/2014 |
| Duration | : | 6:30pm to 8:30pm |
| Delegates | : | 70 |
| Extra Info | : | Over the last seventy years the Equality Movements have advocated for the values of inclusivity and tolerance and against prejudice and discrimination. They have brought about many momentous social changes. Yet, in many ways it would seem that little has changed. For example, pay differentials between men and women continue and in some sectors have actually widened and in a report highlighted in the Guardian Newspaper in May 2011, out of 14,000 university professors in the UK only 50 were black.
In trying to comprehend and address this sort of situation, psychoanalytic theorizations have tended to privilege the internal, unconscious world, whilst proponents of multiculturalism and diversity have privileged the external, conscious world. Farhad Dalal will argue that whilst both shed productive light on the situation, neither is sufficient in itself, in particular, taking the Diversity vision to task for its’ over simplifications. Farhad will sketch out a reading of the human condition that draws on Foulkes and Elias to give a particular conceptualization of power-relations a central role in human affairs and conclude that discriminatory processes are not only integral to the human condition but also cannot be done away with.
Chaired by Frank Lowe, Consultant Social Worker and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. |
| Organised By | : | The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust |
| Web Link | : | http://www.tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/training/conferences-and-events/thinking-space-why-discrimination-preferable-tolerance |