Pub Date : 2022-06-16DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2022.2088489
Rebecca Scott
ABSTRACT The novel virus known as COVID-19 emerged in late 2019 and became a global pandemic in early 2020. The supposed origin of the virus in a ‘wet market’ in Wuhan, China led to the deployment of anti-Chinese discourse in the Trump administration’s treatment of the virus. The pre-eminent protective health response, masking, quickly became defined as un-American and as a threat to freedom among Trump supporters. Drawing on public conversations in print and social media in spring 2020, the connections are traced between the US right-wing reaction to the global pandemic and the deep structures of whiteness as an antirelational identity in racial capitalism. This US right’s reaction to COVID-19, specifically the identification of the virus as Chinese and mask refusal, makes up part of a wider effort to reassert whiteness as central to American national identity. This ill-conceived response to the pandemic reveals how whiteness works through antirelational identity politics: i.e. racism, the denial of interconnection, and the refusal of efforts toward collective well-being.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2022.2086392
P. Ahluwalia, Toby Miller
Identifying as an ‘activist’ is akin to saying ‘I am an artist’, in that it is a foundational identity. The unspoken assumption is that an activist must ‘live the issue’ and demonstrate remorseless dedication via a comprehensive ‘alignment between personal identity and collective identity’ (Bobel, 2007). It generally refers to volunteer and professional campaigners, theorists, and analysts who oppose any or all of racism, misogyny, bigotry, war, economic inequality, and climate change. From Los Angeles to London, hipsters and the not-so-hip alike introduce themselves as ‘activists’. Their means of financial support and socio-cultural theories and practices are generally left undisclosed by this term, but it is understood axiomatically that they are not nationalistic, militaristic, sexist, or skeptical about climate change, and participate in progressive social movements. Celebrities are rather different from such common-or-garden activists. They are famous for being famous; creatures of marketing and carefully-directed gossip – fabulations of the culture industries. Activism is generally a hobby and a branding for them, rather than a thoroughgoing self-definition. In Hollywood, for example, agents select causes with which their charges might associate, based on image and status. An ‘A-lister’ is connected to different issues from someone trying to break through or fallen from the heights; straight men may be articulated to different organizations from feminist women. What do we find if we look at the main talent agencies? UTA’s ‘Culture and Leadership Division’ is dedicated to ‘thought leadership’ and ‘social impact’ (https://www.unitedtalent.com/ news/darnell-strom-to-lead-uta-culture-and-leadership/), while the ‘Politics department’ at ICM (currently subject to a potential merger with CAA) ‘works to form the connective tissue between talent and the political landscape by cultivating and seeking out opportunities that support and amplify what our clients are most passionate about.’ This is because ‘Creativity has the power to spark change’ (https://www.icmpartners.com/icm-politics/). CAA promises ‘limitless opportunities’ to ‘thought leaders who shape popular culture’ (https://www.caa.com/ about-us) and can ‘ignite and champion efforts to improve the world around us... to create positive social change,’ with environmentalism on the list (https://www.caa.com/socialresponsibility). WME lays claim to ‘one of the largest cultural footprints on Earth,’ enabling it to ‘influence perception and frame collective understanding... to shape and promote a better world’ through ‘Cause Consulting’ (https://www.wmeagency.com/responsibility/). Throughout, service to talent of course remains a lodestone – in this instance ‘advising clients in their philanthropic, social responsibility, and cause-making endeavors’ (https:// www.caa.com/social-impact). These activities are denounced by reactionaries as the left’s ‘grip on Hollywood’ (Ng, 2021). But here’s the deal
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Pub Date : 2022-04-13DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2022.2063115
Kealeboga Aiseng
ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate how an ecological understanding of polyglossia is used in the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) television channel, SABC 1 to maintain and create ethnolinguistic dominance. Key arguments this study will make are: (1) polyglossia is a language ideology masquerading as ethnolinguistic pluralism, (2) there is a loss of ethnolinguistic pluralism in SABC 1 because of the polyglot culture and its transmissions, (3) isiZulu is emerging as a language and cultural flare of the channel. This paper concluded that isiZulu’s presence is rising in a soap initially meant to be a Sepedi show. And this has negative consequences for language equality in the SABC.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2022.2056438
Jasbinder S. Nijjar
ABSTRACT In the years since the landmark Macpherson Report (1999) recognised London’s Metropolitan Police as ‘institutionally racist’, senior police officers and politicians in Britain have regularly reduced racism in policing to a problem of the past. This article examines police as a state institution where the politics of racism not only persist but do so coterminous with those of war. In doing so, I argue that policing is a biopolitical institution, that deploys racism as a formal strategy of war in vigorous defence of Euro-modernity. I show how the legacy of the Macpherson Report speaks to post-racial logic, which interacts with liberal myths about policing as non-martial to obscure the police’s racialised and militarised makeup. Challenging this hegemonic framing, I analyse how anti-black and anti-Muslim racisms share common ground, by producing racially coded populations as enemies of revered Euro-modern hallmarks like law and order and national security. I contend that this deeply embedded othering of race as anti-modern rationalises the police’s martial credentials, thus making militarised policing a racialised endeavour. As such, I illustrate how police regulates race through biopolitical strategies of securitisation, pre-emption and disposability, to reveal racial police warfare as foundational to everyday socio-political life in Britain.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-30DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2022.2057291
Farid Asey
ABSTRACT This article presents a qualitative exploration of racialized public servants’ lived experiences with workplace racial discrimination in British Columbia, Canada. Specifically, introducing the concept of the quiet purge as the theoretical framework that is used to make sense of data, this study examines experiences of participants with racist pressures at work that had the effect of side-lining and pushing them out to the peripheries of publicly funded workplaces. After detailing a variety of strategies used to recruit 25 non-White participants who worked in the public service and took part in this study, findings would be presented as cultural denigration, accent-mediated dehumanization, emotional fatiguing and precarity-breeding work assignment. In analyzing these findings, this article will conceptualize these racist pressures as the quiet purge, or stratifying mechanisms that were designed to peripheralize and marginalize racialized participants in their respective workplaces. Subsequently, the article will briefly discuss my observations of intersectionality and conclude that, considering the fact that some of the experiences that were recounted by participants describe incidents that were glaringly, unambiguously and blatantly racist – struggles that are often seen as the hallmarks of earlier times – workplace racial discrimination in Canada is alive and requires urgent research and policy attention.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-28DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2022.2054794
Malvika Sharma
ABSTRACT The Dalits in Poonch, a borderland district situated along the line of control in Jammu and Kashmir, belong to the multi-religious Pahari-ethnic-group. The partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 affected the community and displaced them across the cease-fire line – the boundary that bisected the erstwhile Poonch fiefdom and has since then stood as the de facto disputed border. Their displacement to the Poonch on the Indian side added another layer of marginality to an already stigmatised community (also referred to as Harijans/Bhangis) as the processes of their rehabilitation failed to rise above the narratives of exclusion and discrimination in a post-partition scenario. For the Dalits of Poonch, the journey has been different from the Dalits who have been subjected to oppression and exclusion elsewhere in India. The ethnic-Dalits in quest of ‘a religious identity’ where they can exist as an equal, have belonged within three different religious folds. Through an ethnographic inquiry, the research while exploring the lived experiences of Dalits here also looks at keeping in mind the role of partition and religion in the evolution of identities here. Besides the changing inter-community interactions between the Dalit community and dominant-caste groups in Poonch, the research analysis layers of marginality by looking at how one exists as a Dalit, living between and with multiple identities: religious identities, the larger Pahari-ethnic-identity, both of them at crossroads with the identity of being a borderlander, dwelling in a zone of conflict and dispute.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-25DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2022.2034613
F. Neto
ABSTRACT This review regards the book Roma Minority Youth Across Cultural Contexts Taking a Positive Approach to Research, Policy, and Practice edited by Profs. Radosveta Dimitrova, David L. Sam and Laura Ferrer-Wreder published at Oxford University Press. The book advances relevant research, theory, policy and practice within the Positive Youth Development (PYD) applied to Roma groups in a global perspective. This volume is particularly suited for the readership of Social Identities as a leading international journal for analysis on the role of ethnic and minority relations, ethnicity, immigration. Roma are among one of the most stigmatized and marginalized ethnic minority groups over the world. Roma are the largest at-risk ethnic minority in Europe traditionally suffering from social intolerance, exclusion, and poverty in addition to structured marginalization, segregation and access to resources. The volume provides a valuable source of interdisciplinary expertise with novel research findings and insights for readers interested in immigration, race, ethnicity, intercultural relations, sociology, social policy, anthropology, political science, international relations, geography, history, social psychology and cultural studies
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Pub Date : 2022-03-04DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2022.2057018
P. Ahluwalia, Toby Miller
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed. Russian actions re fl ected deeper factors, including pushback against the decade-long eastward expansion of the NATO alliance, anger over issues ranging from the independence of Kosovo to the placement of missile defence systems in Europe, an assertion of a concept of limited sovereignty for former Soviet states and a newfound con fi dence and aggressive-ness in foreign a ff airs that is intimately linked with the personality and world view of Russia ’ s predominant leader, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. (International Crisis Group 2008 as cited in Nielsen, 2009)
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Pub Date : 2022-02-28DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2022.2029739
Julia Doornbos, B. van Hoven, P. Groote
ABSTRACT This paper examines identity formations and negotiations among Indo-Europeans, and senses of ‘race’ in the postcolonial Netherlands. We do so by analysing daily practices of ‘being’, ‘feeling’ and ‘doing’ identities by second- and third-generation Indo-Europeans in the North-Eastern Netherlands. The paper contributes to ‘mixed-race’ literature by highlighting new, underexplored contexts in which ‘mixed-race’ identities are negotiated. We focus on practices, relations and transmissions across two generations and changing contexts within the Netherlands. Drawing on life story interviews, the narratives reveal how participants’ identities are politically and historically contingent, shaped by larger structures of racialized violence Indo-Europeans experienced in both the Dutch East Indies and the Netherlands. Identities are navigated in various ways with divergences and negotiations between self-identification, social imposition and familial and biological narrative.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-08DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2022.2029740
Ensar Yılmaz, Sinem Bağçe
ABSTRACT Neoclassical economists explain social phenomena in the decision-making process with the rational and prudent agent, seeking the highest amount of personal utility with her idiosyncratic preferences. However, atomistic choices and preferences cannot explain the phenomena, such as unequal living conditions and discrimination in labor. The agent, as a human being, is always in interaction with the social environment. Social identity is one of the areas in which the social environment is influential. Social identities are associated with social inequalities, directed by some practices, attitudes and institutions that negatively affect the life prospects of social groups of different identities. Therefore, economists need the social unifying analytical concepts, such as social identity, to comprehend the inequalities and related issues, such as redistribution policies in societies.
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