Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1177/03063968231164905
Huw C. Davies, Sheena Macrae
The British war on woke is an intensive ideological campaign against social justice movements that is mobilising far-right tropes and conspiracy theories within mainstream British political discourse. It sees itself in a battle of good versus evil, reason against the dark forces of pre-modernity, ‘Cultural Marxists’ and a ‘globalist elite’ intent on ruining ‘western civilisation’ and replacing ‘white’ British culture with woke multiculturalism. The authors examine this campaign’s discourses on various digital media including magazines, blogs, news sites and Twitter, and used search engines and a media database to capture a network graph of a community waging its war on woke. Using the graph metric of ‘betweenness centrality’, they isolate and visualise a small densely inter-connected homophily of political actors who share media platforms and cooperate with think-tanks, campaign groups, and ‘educational charities’. Using van Dijk’s concept of the ideological square, they explore the conceptual logics driving this campaign to its extreme positions, often justified on the basis of representing the interests of the British white working class.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-26DOI: 10.1177/03063968231164586
Tim Jacoby
Hidden away at the end of Edward Said’s seminal text, Orientalism, is a brief summary of his main arguments. Consisting of what he calls ‘four principal dogmas’, these establish the binary differences between East and West that make up the substantive bulk of his focus – namely us versus them, modernity versus atavism, subject versus object and humanity versus barbarity. This paper uses each as a vantage point from which to analyse and problematise established narratives on the relationship between Islam and political violence. Bringing together a wide-ranging field of scholarship and commentary, it aims to move beyond critique and towards a more sustained, and challenging, focus on the conceptual and empirical flaws that underpin the Occidental half of these apparently settled distinctions.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-18DOI: 10.1177/03063968231164599
R. Saini, Michael Bankole, Neema Begum
The UK Conservative Party leadership contest that took place in the summer of 2022 was unprecedented for, among other things, its level of ethnic diversity. This article argues that this does not indicate a sharp, contemporary liberal turn within the party. It argues the opposite, in fact, that recent senior ethnic minority cabinet members and leadership contenders represent some of the party’s most rightwing ideologues in years. Through critical discourse analysis of narrative related to race, borders, immigration and the ‘nation’ in selected media appearances made by ethnic minority leadership contenders Rishi Sunak, Sajid Javid, Nadhim Zahawi, Suella Braverman and Kemi Badenoch as part of their campaigns, this piece positions these individuals – in distinct yet interrelated ways – as ethnic minority post-racial gatekeepers, continuing yet intensifying a long trend within the Conservative Party of the reproduction of the racial status quo legitimised through nominal ethnic minority representation.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-12DOI: 10.1177/03063968231162266
Liz Fekete
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Pub Date : 2023-03-12DOI: 10.1177/03063968231157285
J. Newsinger
{"title":"Empire’s Violent End: comparing Dutch, British and French wars of decolonization 1945–1962 Edited by Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis","authors":"J. Newsinger","doi":"10.1177/03063968231157285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968231157285","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47028,"journal":{"name":"Race & Class","volume":"64 1","pages":"115 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48334493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-02DOI: 10.1177/03063968231156376
Oscar Herzog Astaburuaga
Based on official and unofficial reports into the 2020 massacre at Hanau of nine people in a racist attack by a rightwing German extremist, the article reveals how state agencies fail to acknowledge the danger of the extreme Right in Germany, and also manage to exonerate the police and other agencies over preventing attacks, investigating the circumstances fully and protecting victims – who can themselves be treated as part of the problem. The result is that survivors and families of the deceased still feel that they have been failed. This forensic dissection of the aftermath of the killings draws on evidence presented by NSU-Watch, Initiative 19 February, Forensic Architecture and the official investigation carried out by the Hessen regional parliament.
{"title":"The Hanau massacre and state (in)action: a dossier","authors":"Oscar Herzog Astaburuaga","doi":"10.1177/03063968231156376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968231156376","url":null,"abstract":"Based on official and unofficial reports into the 2020 massacre at Hanau of nine people in a racist attack by a rightwing German extremist, the article reveals how state agencies fail to acknowledge the danger of the extreme Right in Germany, and also manage to exonerate the police and other agencies over preventing attacks, investigating the circumstances fully and protecting victims – who can themselves be treated as part of the problem. The result is that survivors and families of the deceased still feel that they have been failed. This forensic dissection of the aftermath of the killings draws on evidence presented by NSU-Watch, Initiative 19 February, Forensic Architecture and the official investigation carried out by the Hessen regional parliament.","PeriodicalId":47028,"journal":{"name":"Race & Class","volume":"64 1","pages":"87 - 100"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45946354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-02DOI: 10.1177/03063968231156386
J. Bourne
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Pub Date : 2023-02-25DOI: 10.1177/03063968231153561
Paula Mulinari, Anders Neergaard
In October 2022, a new employment protection regulation, often seen as a core aspect of the Swedish model of industrial relations, was implemented in Sweden. While the debate around the new regulation was heated, one interesting omission was that, in the unions’ advocacy for maintaining various forms of labour market security, the racialised labour market was never discussed, despite a strong racially segmented labour market with varying working conditions. In this article we explore how three white, male-dominated trade unions representing employees in different class locations positioned themselves around the change in the new Employment Act. Inspired by contributions on racial capitalism, we unravel how trade unions take part in the contestation over industrial relations in a context in which neoliberal and ethnoracial policies are growing. Using the ‘Swedish model’ as an ‘empty signifier’ – highly variable in meaning, hence contestable – we find that the unions advance three different positions on employment protection regulation: flexible, skilled and protective, and in doing so contribute to the self-racialisation of white male workers in working life.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.1177/03063968231157564
F. Webber
As the UK economy unravels and collective action in defence of livelihood and life spreads, the author explains how 2022 reveals the way the government is reacting to an expanding list of ‘enemies’, heedless of legal and moral restraints. Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have pursued authoritarian responses on many fronts: with increasingly brutal policing of racialised minorities, migrants, asylum seekers and protesters, and ‘crackdowns’ announced or promised on investigative journalists; university campuses; striking nurses, ambulance workers, teachers, rail and postal workers; and ‘human rights’ – against a background of an impoverished and anxious population and a public sector in shreds. This review, though not exhaustive, highlights key aspects of the policing of society and particularly the introduction of new pieces of legislation in the past year.
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