1. Introduction: The Praxis of Diversity. Christoph Lütge, Christiane Lütge, & Markus Faltermeier.- 2. Scattered Speculations on Business and Cultural Diversity. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.- 3. Diversity Beyong Non-Discrimination: From Structural Injustices to Participatory Institutions. Carol Gould.- 4. Diversity and the Problem of Social Glue. Christoph Lütge.- 5. Why Research on Women Entrepreneurs Needs New Directions. Helen Ahl.- 6. Political Practice, Hybrid Selves, and Rational Antagonism. Markus Faltermeier.- 7. A Sociological Perspective on Diversity in ELT Coursebooks. Grit Alter.- 8. Approaching Diversity in Education: Pedagogic and Queer Perspectives. Christiane Lütge, Thorsten Merse.
Christoph Lütge holds the Peter Löscher Endowed Chair of Business Ethics at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Professor Lütge conducts research in the field of business and corporate ethics, as well as ethics of digitization and artificial intelligence. In 2019, he was appointed Director of the newly founded TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence.
Christiane Lütge is Professor and Chair of Teaching English as a Foreign Language at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany, and Director of the Munich Centre of Teacher Education. Among her research interests are digital literacy and literary learning, multiliteracies, multimodality, media literacy, and transcultural learning, global education and global citizenship education.
Markus Faltermeier is Manager for Academic Projects at the Bavarian Center for Transatlantic Relations and lecturer for philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. His research interests center on epistemological foundations of the political in pluralistic democracies.
This edited collection brings together experts from various disciplines to engage critically with diversity theory, diversity politics, and their practical application.. Accordingly, the volume provides a provocative discursive space, where the key theoretical as well as practical problems of diversity in business, institutions and culture can speak to each other and can be assessed. The aim is to bridge the gap between two relatively distinct discourses: the discourse on practical applications of diversity concepts and the discourse on theoretical approaches to diversity. This selection of articles delivers the first step towards achieving this goal. Approaching diversity from a business perspective, the chapters discuss its ramifications on democratic institutions and theory, as well as point to its relevance in didactic and educational settings.