Whiteness and difference in nursing.
This paper uses a semiotic, performative theory of language and post-colonial theory to argue that nursing's representations of 'multiculturalism' need to be grounded in a theory of whiteness, an historicized understanding of how ethnic/cultural differences come to be represented in the ways they are and informed by Foucault's notions of power/knowledge. Using nursing education and 'cultural compentency' as examples, the paper draws on a range of literatures to suggest more critical and politically productive ways of approaching difference from within nursing's largely white interpretive framework.
Allen
David G
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Psychosocial and Community Health, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195, USA. dgallen@u.washington.edu
D001318:Authoritarianism; D002983:Clinical Competence; D018595:Colonialism; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D019513:Feminism; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D016294:Models, Nursing; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009742:Nursing Theory; D026706:Paternalism; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D011057:Politics; D033302:Postmodernism; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011287:Prejudice; D012660:Semantics; D012930:Social Dominance; D012933:Social Identification; D012945:Social Values; D013561:Symbolism; D044465:White People / Q000208:ethnology*