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.
Psychosocial and Community Health, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195, USA. dgallen@u.washington.edu
David G
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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*