Whiteness and difference in nursing
- 16 March 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Nursing Philosophy
- Vol. 7 (2), 65-78
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-769x.2006.00255.x
Abstract
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.Keywords
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