{"id":11593,"date":"2020-06-03T00:25:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T23:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=11593"},"modified":"2020-08-13T17:07:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T16:07:15","slug":"from-the-vaults-affirmative-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/from-the-vaults-affirmative-action\/","title":{"rendered":"From the vaults: Affirmative Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Elizabeth Anderson\/ Omar Khan<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Listen to the recording <a href=\"https:\/\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/publiclecturesandevents\/20180509_1825_affirmativeAction.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/joDdE_5RrrA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Women and minority groups are significantly underrepresented in politics and various other walks of life. \u2018Affirmative action\u2019 is one response in tackling this enduring issue. But what is it? Who is it for? And why does it generate so much controversy? We discuss these questions and explore the relationship between affirmative action and social justice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speakers<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~eandersn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Anderson<\/a><br \/>\nJohn Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.runnymedetrust.org\/about\/the-team\/staff-team.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Omar Khan<\/a><br \/>\nDirector, Runnymede &amp; Governor, University of East London<\/p>\n<p>Chair<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/sarah-fine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sarah Fine<\/a><br \/>\nSenior Lecturer in Philosophy, KCL &amp; Fellow, Forum for Philosophy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recorded on 9 May 2018 at the LSE<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ac\/ERKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to the podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, philosopher Elizabeth Anderson and Runnymede Trust Director Omar Khan discuss affirmative action. What is it? Why is it so controversial?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":11570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109,165],"tags":[],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-11593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","category-from-the-vaults"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/06\/6-ppj.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-30Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13716,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593\/revisions\/13716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11593"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}