Pub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1177/03063968231205144
Deniz Yonucu
Drawing on the case of state-sanctioned violence and discrimination against Alevis, a historically stigmatised and persecuted ethnosectarian community in Turkey, this article shows that sectarian identities can also be raced. The case of Alevis in Turkey not only indicates how sectarianism can function as a form of racism but also offers an example of the connection between the production of race and the politics of death. Approaching racism as a punitive mechanism and form of collective punishment that punishes racialised communities at different levels and that constantly reminds them of the possibility of what Gilmore terms ‘premature death’, the article offers a new and nuanced understanding of the multiple modalities of racism in Turkey. Rather than viewing racism in Turkey as merely an imitative form of European racism, this article shows that racism in Turkey is also informed by the country’s own imperial past. Turkey provides fertile ground for examining both western and non-western forms of racism and the intersections between the two.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1177/03063968231203488
Daniel Škobla, Richard Filčák
The site known as Lipnica is a segregated Roma settlement built on the edge of a municipal landfill in the district town of Turčany, central Slovakia (fictitious names have been used for the site and the town). The settlement emerged as a result of processes rooted in neoliberal economic restructuring, accompanied by a sharp rise in unemployment in the 1990s. The settlement was originally built to provide temporary housing for those who were in arrears for rent in municipal flats, and originally consisted of one apartment building and several modular cabins. In the following years it expanded, and today it is an ethnic quasi-ghetto for approximately 400 Roma inhabitants. From a theoretical perspective, an analysis of the Lipnica settlement is situated at the intersection of critical race theory and environmental justice theory. In this article, we describe the trajectory leading to the formation of the settlement and analyse how the impoverishment of the Roma, coupled with the construction of the community as ‘maladjusted’ anti-social others, facilitated their spatial exclusion. We conclude that the case demythologises culturising explanations for the emergence of Roma settlements, by using empirical data to show how Lipnica developed as a result of intentional discriminatory policies of the local ruling class used against an ethnic minority.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1177/03063968231203485
Lena Obermaier
This article examines Israel’s policies of deliberate disablement and debilitation during the Great March of Return in Gaza between March 2018 and December 2019. The orchestrated attacks on Palestinians during the Great March of Return were the latest incidents on a trajectory of premeditatively produced mass injuries and impairments in the Israeli settler-colonial context. The disabling of Palestinians and the debilitation of Palestinian health and rehabilitative infrastructures should be seen as part of Israel’s settler-colonial ‘logic of elimination’. Disabling the Palestinian body politic is a way to systematically erase indigenous people from the land, in this case from Gaza which has, in the words of Rashid Khalidi, refused to be a ‘docile ghetto’. Injuries should therefore not be seen as mere by-products of war, categorised as collateral damage, or even as a ‘humanitarian’ alternative to death.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-12DOI: 10.1177/03063968231193940
P. Pelz
This year, 2023, marks the sixtieth anniversary of Jeremy Seabrook’s authorial career as one of our finest and most impassioned writers on the nexus of the personal, the political and the global. And, it is just over three decades since he first wrote in Race & Class. With a depth and range that spans the life situation of the poor in Britain, the underprivileged and precariat of the Asian sub-continent, the impact of imperialism and consumerism on the psyche, the meaning of work, the impact of environmental disaster and the essence of what it is to be human – and a gift for striking prophecy – Seabrook’s career has been marked by the telling of beautifully expressed but often deeply uncomfortable and challenging truths. Yet always with immense feeling for the other at their heart. As expressed in his seminal piece, ‘The soul of man under globalism’ (Race & Class 43, no. 4, 2002), ‘There are many macro-economic accounts of globalisation, but we rarely learn how it affects the psyche and sensibility of lives uprooted and radically reshaped by the penetration of their world by the market economy.’ We are therefore delighted to publish in this issue and this anniversary year, not only Jeremy Seabrook’s latest article for us, ‘The present imperium’, but also this response, by a contemporary, to his recently published autobiography, Private Worlds: growing up gay in post-war Britain (Pluto Press, 2023) which raises not only fundamental themes relating to the gay community in the UK and its history, but also profound, wider societal issues.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-12DOI: 10.1177/03063968231193934
R. Lenṭin
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Pub Date : 2023-08-04DOI: 10.1177/03063968231190489
J. Pandian
place? If that is not possible, would there be room for two conflicting narratives about the very basic understanding of the conflict among the Palestinians and Israelis? All these questions challenge us to further develop what could present a resolution model for the conflict. Finally, Bishara maintains throughout the book his promise to remain objective in his study but never neutral about justice, freedom, and human rights in Palestine, which is a dilemma that challenges many in the academic community. This very well-written and thoroughly researched book makes it an excellent fit for not only academic and scholarly audiences, but also an inspiration for advocates who aim to advance justice and truth in Palestine.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-04DOI: 10.1177/03063968231191059
Matthieu Clément
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Pub Date : 2023-07-07DOI: 10.1177/03063968231183896
J. Seabrook
The author reflects on current trends to explore the historical record of the injustices of colonial racism and slavery, and raises the question of whether this changed mood of regret over the past bears any relation to, or significance for, the ongoing depredations visited on the most impoverished of the world today. For these still appear largely invisible. In the process, he encompasses the growing threat of catastrophic global warming and environmental disaster – and some of the movements struggling against this. He excoriates a global system of continuous economic expansion whereby the poor have become a little less poor as the rich have become abusively, unimaginably richer.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/03063968231166901
A. Elliott-Cooper
In 2020, anti-racist campaigns mobilising under the banner of Black Lives Matter challenged liberal reforms to policing as they made calls to defund the police. In the same year, the UK government’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities rejected not just the radical demands of Black Lives Matter protesters, but even liberal analyses of institutional racism in policing. This article examines how these two political interventions, analysing the same place at the same time, arrived at such divergent conclusions. This is done by tracing critiques of institutional racism from the Black Power movements of the 1960s and ’70s, through to the more liberal interpretations of institutional racism following the 1999 Macpherson Report. It goes on to argue that the failings of Macpherson provided the impetus for the political developments of 2020. The dearth of political, historical and economic analysis by Macpherson helped embolden the government to denude interpretations of data on racial inequalities as constituting institutional racism. Simultaneously, the endurance of police racism in post-Macpherson Britain has served only to underline the necessity for more radical demands in challenging institutional racism. The author argues that this has spurred on present-day activists to draw on the radical Black Power politics of the twentieth century to complement their abolitionist demands.
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