@article {6555,
	title = {Reclaiming the Outsider-Within Space: An Auto-Ethnography},
	journal = {Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry},
	volume = {8},
	year = {2010},
	month = {2010},
	pages = {119-132},
	abstract = {This article emerged from a personal need to reconcile the duality of my experience as a person working to raise awareness of equity issues, with that of being a female academic of mixed ethnicity. I discuss the formation of my subject as a developing sociologist, my attraction to the pre-reflexive identities of class, gender and ethnicity, and my struggle with the ambiguous nature of cultural cohesion. I move on to discuss how through conscious ways of knowing it is possible to reflexively act in ways that support substantive change. I argue outsiders-within, i.e. people like myself who grapple with such dual experiences, need not become {\textquotedblleft}hot commodities in social institutions that want the illusion of difference without the difficult effort needed to change power relations{\textquotedblright} (Collins, 1999:88). Rather, I believe outsiders-within can knowingly achieve small but important substantive changes that lead to future systemic change.},
	issn = {1532-5555}
}
