ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how this neoliberal governmental strategy is enacted variously and unpredictably in everyday governing practices and how it might produce resistance to normative institutional enactments even as it contains and disciplines difference. It explains the retroactive connections between past antagonisms and the present moment to be a central part of diversity workers knowledge. Emotions, experience and affect can serve to connect ideas of diversity to the political materialities more often associated with inequality and the social politics of resistances. For those involved in governing for diversity and equality specifically, rather than governance in general there is a sort of reflexive intentionality, about in terms of retroflexivity, to this subjectification process. The ways in which diversity workers seek to bring the past into the institutional present as a practice which pushes against individualising pressures in contemporary neoliberal space, is discussed.
