This discussion of Daniel Butler's article "Racialized Bodies and the Violence of the Setting" takes up the importance of the concept of place, largely through the lens of Frantz Fanon. It argues ...that being is best understood as being placed, emphasizing the necessity of material and historical setting for any ontological formation. Very tentatively, it advances a fragile hope that Whiteness is currently being placed in a way that can no longer be regarded as something universalized and invisible.
Recognizing and acknowledging ‘color-blind’ racism By explaining Bonilla-Silva’s framework of color-blind racism this article aims to call attention to the fact that racism and race-based ...discrimination have changed over time. Despite the presence of a rule of law and a plethora of non-discrimination legislation, through subtle – seemingly nonracial – narratives, processes of racialization and racism can still continue to exist. By linking this framework to the importance of contextualizing and acknowledging the inequalities embedded within Dutch liberal democracy, the article illustrates how current day ‘color-blind racism’ is inextricably connected to the Dutch colonial history of slavery.
How lives are governed through emergency is a critical issue for our time. In this paper, we build on scholarship on this issue by developing the concept of ‘slow emergencies’. We do so to attune to ...situations of harm that call into question what forms of life can and should be secured by apparatuses of emergency governance. Through drawing together work on emergency and on racialization, we define ‘slow emergencies’ as situations marked by a) attritional lethality; b) imperceptibility; c) the foreclosure of the capacity to become otherwise; d) emergency claims. We conclude with a call to reclaim ‘emergency’.
This paper advocates a greater emphasis on racialization research, and consists of observations and research questions that could add to our understanding of racialization. Such understanding will be ...useful and perhaps even necessary, as a variety of world events result in continuing population movements as well as economic and political crises that could increase intra and international conflicts. Any of these could lead to the further racialization of refugees, migrants, earlier immigrants and others.
The linkage between race and migration, especially in the UK since the 1990s, has shifted from a focus on postcolonial migrants to focus on newer groups, while migration within the European Union has ...also altered the discussion of racism and migration. This critical review provides a framework for understanding how race is conceptualized (or ignored) in contemporary scholarship on migration. We identify three, partly overlapping nexi between migration and racialization: (1) 'Changing Migrations - Continuities of Racism'; (2) 'Complex Migrations - Differentialist Racialization'; (3) 'Post-racial Migrations - Beyond Racism'. The article analyses what each of these nexi bring into focus as well as what they neglect. The concept of race-migration nexus aids a fuller understanding of how migration and contemporary racialization are co-constructed. Scholars need to consider the relationship between migration and race to better address pressing issues of racism against migrants and settled communities.
Gendering platform research Kampouri, Eleni
Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation,
03/2022, Letnik:
16, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Odprti dostop
The literature on platform labour has been growing during recent years, encompassing a wide range of themes and perspectives, including gender. Despite efforts to address gender issues in the study ...of platforms, however, there is still a gap in the relevant literature. This article is an attempt to address this gap by discussing some of the theoretical and methodological implications of gendering platform research. At the same time, it is an attempt to think of gender as a perspective that sheds light on the feminisation and racialisation of precarious labour more broadly and platform labour more specifically. The article explores current research strands on gender and platforms. First, it discusses how gender is and can be integrated into the collection of statistical data on platforms. Then it considers recent research on domestic and care work platforms, which constitutes an area of interest for many researchers. The concept of work-life balance in platforms is raised next and the role of reproductive and affective labour as part of platform labour. The article addresses the question of affect in platforms, especially the ways in which it can provide a valuable theoretical framework for research shedding light on the subjectivity of platform workers. Overall, the article analyses both the recent literature on the topic and possible future research directions on gender in platforms.
Editorial Bradburne, James M
Museum management and curatorship (1990),
10/2020, Letnik:
35, Številka:
5
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Welcome to the fifth issue of 2020. The changes that we experienced at the beginning of the year have continued to accelerate, and much of the world is still living under some form of restrictions, ...and the global economy is still being devastated by the pandemic. With the murders in the United States of America of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, and more recently, the shooting of Jacob Blake, we continue to see growing international support for the Black Lives Matter movement, whose core principles speak to countless racialised people whose voices have been ignored for decades and centuries, around the globe. We cannot abstain from these issues, as we too are an expression of the systemic asymmetries of power and privilege. So what can we do? First, we can voice our support for those fighting for social justice, and acknowledge the necessity of actively reflecting on our roles in systemic and structural racism. Second, we can use our platform to amplify voices and experiences within museums that are under-represented, if represented at all. Third, in addition to producing special issues (such as last year’s issue on Social Justice, and the upcoming issue on Climate Change) we can highlight the articles published in our archive that have regained relevance in the current political context, or that shine a light on how we came to be where we are today.
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