Pub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1080/1070289x.2023.2262132
Stephanie Kelly, F. Richardson
ABSTRACTThis article aims to synthesize the extant literature that brings sociological analysis to the context, production and perpetuation of the antiracist identity. Our aim is to distinguish this analysis from the huge body of literature written from inside antiracism. Antiracism began in the latter half of the twentieth century. This examination reveals antiracism as an identity and a project of organizational production maintained through discursive and symbolic formations and institutionalized forms of governance. Its members espouse easily digestible ‘common sense’ ideologies of racism and anti-racism premised on a belief in the ‘absolute nature’ of categories of ethnicity and race. It then builds on this discursive framing with commensurate solutions at these levels. It does this through discursive projects and codification of institutional self governance. However, this racializing identity work may perpetuate racism through its classifications and its obfuscation of class privilege and economic inequalities. Its ever-expanding codified extension into organizations, businesses and global grassroots movements calls for a critical lens to direct historical, economic and political analysis onto the obfuscating work of this identity.KEYWORDS: Anti racistanti racismidentity worksociologyhealtheducationsocial services Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationFundingThe work was supported by the WelTec-Whitireia Research and Innovation Office.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1080/1070289x.2023.2261774
Fatima Rajina
This article examines the changing perceptions of dress, focusing on the lungi, funjabi and the thobe, amongst the British Bangladeshi Muslim male diaspora in the East End of London. Through various historical trajectories, I argue that the research participants in this article dress their bodies according to the current meanings attributed to the garments. These meanings are (re)-configured using a meta-constructed stigma guideline they interpret using their faith, Islam, and the wider dominant discourse around acceptability and respectability. Drawing on in-depth interviews with British Bangladeshi Muslims in East London, I demonstrate how the ubiquitous presence of the Islamophobia arc is invisible yet dictates everyday behaviours and responses. In addition, framing masculinity via the Muslim gaze has intensified clear demarcations of what constitutes religious and/or ethnic dress. To extrapolate the continuous interplay in constructing a British Bangladeshi Muslim male identity via clothing, I explore this as paradigmatic of how stigma is located, consequently determining men’s sartorial choices. The article ends by considering how the socio-positioning qua the political landscape facilitates a structural restriction that trickles down to individual’s choices in what the appropriate Muslim male body can look like in the public sphere.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-21DOI: 10.1080/1070289x.2023.2257957
Melanie Griffiths
Emotions produce the borders between the self and other. They are also constitutive of national border practices and politics. This article considers the ‘affective governance’ of the UK’s immigration system, arguing that an emotional register that is both splenetic and indifferent is evident across migration policy, decision-making, and operational practice. It draws on 15-years of research on immigration administration, detention, and judicial spaces to explore the circulation and management of emotion by immigration practitioners. It argues that four emotions (anger, disgust, suspicion, fear) dominate across spaces, scales, and actors. Simultaneously, migrants’ purported emotions and affective lives are met with disinterest and disbelief, their emotional displays are ignored or punished, and immigration practitioners engage in their own emotional detachment. The article argues that by examining the emotional government of immigration systems, we can interrogate the role of affect in techniques of subjectification and the creation of deportable and disposable Others.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-20DOI: 10.1080/1070289x.2023.2259218
Revital Madar
This article delves into a military court’s quest to determine the nature of one Palestinian death by an Israeli soldier as exceptional or banal. The court’s rejection of selective enforcement claims in Azaria’s trial for Al-Sharif’s killing allows unpacking Israeli settler society’s indifference to Palestinian deaths. As I show, the logic of open fire regulations strips these deaths of their singularity and political meaning, constructs them as an exceptional repetition, and sets them aside even when soldiers are prosecuted for killing Palestinians. Exploring whether a different epistemology could account for the singular yet repetitive nature of Palestinians’ deaths in Israel, I turn to Deleuze. His understanding of repetition as the maximality of differences and reversal of the order of trauma lead me to conclude that the state of Israel does not repeat (killing Palestinians) because it represses (the death of Palestinians). It represses because it repeats.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-10DOI: 10.1080/1070289x.2023.2254572
Reza Bagheri
Islamophobia, as a form of cultural racism, can take different forms in different contexts. Previous research suggested that there is a perception among some Muslims that anti-Muslim racism is higher in areas where there is a high density of Muslim residents such as Glasgow. In contrast, some others suggest that ethnic minority people are at greater risk of racism in less racially diverse areas because of less community support and less police protection. This paper draws on a research which involved 10 semi-structured interviews with Muslims in different Scottish towns and small cities. The data is collected from marginal contexts that are typically overlooked or neglected in mainstream studies. To discuss the importance of the low or high density of Muslim communities, and any other possible factor, in the experience of Islamophobia the result of this research is compared to the experiences of 33 Muslim participants in Scottish major cities.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-03DOI: 10.1080/1070289x.2023.2247897
Raúl Pérez
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Pub Date : 2021-05-31DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2021.1933830
A. Moghadam
{"title":"The staging of cultural diversity in Dubai: the case of Dubai Art Fair","authors":"A. Moghadam","doi":"10.1080/1070289X.2021.1933830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2021.1933830","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47227,"journal":{"name":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","volume":"94 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77308835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-11-18DOI: 10.1080/1070289x.2020.1844516
Devon R. Goss
{"title":"Ivory in an ebony tower: how white students at HBCUs negotiate their whiteness","authors":"Devon R. Goss","doi":"10.1080/1070289x.2020.1844516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289x.2020.1844516","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47227,"journal":{"name":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","volume":"15 1","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75874111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2019.1629191
A. D. Bono
This article proposes to look at the Chinese community as a contextual assemblage rather than an epistemic truth in discussing urban multiculturalism in the Sydney urban context. In doing so, it st...
{"title":"Ethnic community in the time of urban branding","authors":"A. D. Bono","doi":"10.1080/1070289X.2019.1629191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2019.1629191","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes to look at the Chinese community as a contextual assemblage rather than an epistemic truth in discussing urban multiculturalism in the Sydney urban context. In doing so, it st...","PeriodicalId":47227,"journal":{"name":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","volume":"13 1","pages":"675-692"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74320709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-08DOI: 10.1080/1070289x.2020.1753414
E. Meyerhoff
{"title":"of Decolonising the University Unsettling Education and Studying for Decolonisation","authors":"E. Meyerhoff","doi":"10.1080/1070289x.2020.1753414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289x.2020.1753414","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47227,"journal":{"name":"Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power","volume":"11 1","pages":"500-504"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2020-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74903978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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