ABSTRACT

This article presents an autoethnographic account of the structures of inequality and legacies of colonial knowledge systems still active in Music departments in a cosmopolitan UK city from the point of view of the studentship. Institutions of Higher Education have increasingly acknowledged the dimensions of difference and exclusion in their spaces, personnel and curricula, mainly through the so-called policies of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. It is argued that these policies have failed to tackle the structural layers of discriminations in academia, creating instead an illusion of care. Drawing on the author’s involvement in the Music Departments of King’s College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and focusing on disciplinary practice in music studies, this article analyses the discourses of care invoked through EDI and how they intersect with the cultural logics of neoliberal capitalism. To this end, this article presents a series of student-lecturer conversations in an exercise of self-knowledge, with the aim to illustrate how music scholars strive to care in a context shaped by coloniality and austerity.

摘要

本文从学生的角度，对英国一个国际大都市的音乐系中仍然活跃的殖民知识体系的不平等结构和遗产进行了自我民族志的描述。高等教育机构越来越多地认识到其空间、人员和课程中的差异和排斥，主要是通过所谓的平等、多样性和包容性政策。有人认为，这些政策未能解决学术界歧视的结构性层面，反而造成了一种关怀的错觉。借鉴作者在伦敦国王学院和亚非研究学院（SOAS）音乐系的参与，并专注于音乐研究的学科实践，本文分析了通过 EDI 调用的关怀话语，以及它们如何与新自由主义资本主义的文化逻辑相交。为此，本文呈现了一系列学生与讲师在自我认识练习中的对话，旨在说明音乐学者如何在殖民和紧缩塑造的环境中努力关怀。