TY - JOUR AU - Hvenegård-Lassen, Kirsten AU - Staunæs, Dorthe PY - 2019/07/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Elefanten i (bede)rummet. Raciale forsvindingsnumre, stemningspolitik og idiomatisk diffraktion JF - Kvinder, Køn & Forskning JA - KKF VL - 28 IS - 1-2 SE - Artikler DO - 10.7146/kkf.v28i1-2.116116 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/KKF/article/view/116116 SP - 44-57 AB - <p><em>The elephant in the room. Racial disappearance acts, mood politics and idiomatic diffraction</em> summarizes a particular way of handling social and cultural problems. It is about social taboos<br>that are affectively charged: even if everybody knows the elephant is there, they ignore it. In this article, we are grappling with disappearance acts related to race and racialization at a white-dominated Danish university. Race is simultaneously there and not there in organizational policies and practices preoccupied with governing diversity. Using a recent debate over ‘prayer rooms’ in educational institutions, we develop a methodology (‘idiomatic diffraction’) sensitive towards race and racialization in contexts dominated by whiteness. Leaning on Karen Barad, we argue that diffraction may open up a space from where light can be explored in the shadows of what Sylvia Wynter names ‘Man’s Project’.</p> ER -