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Refusing politics as usual : mapping women of colour’s radical praxis in London and Amsterdam
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Emejulu, Akwugo and van der Scheer, Inez (2022) Refusing politics as usual : mapping women of colour’s radical praxis in London and Amsterdam. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 29 (1). pp. 9-26. doi:10.1080/1070289X.2021.1914951 ISSN 1547-3384.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2021.1914951
Abstract
This article explores an intriguing emergent organising strategy among women of colour activists in London and Amsterdam: a politics of refusal. In response to the triple catastrophes facing women of colour: the on-going roll back of social welfare states, the normalisation of the far right in everyday life and the xenophobic backlash against migrants, we find that some women of colour activists are deliberatively withdrawing from view and working outside of dominant left activist spaces. Rather than demanding recognition and rights from institutional actors and supposed allies, many activists appeared to welcome and embrace their marginalisation as this exclusion from mainstream life creates the possiblity for alternative ways of doing politics and being political. Drawing on the work of Audra Simpson, we attempt to map the contours of women of colour’s refusal politics and consider how refusal generates different approaches to sovergenity and ungovernability.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Minority women -- Political activity, Women in community organization, Minority women activists , Social movements | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power | ||||||||
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1547-3384 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 29 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 9-26 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/1070289X.2021.1914951 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power on 23 Apr 2021, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1070289X.2021.1914951 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 April 2021 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 April 2022 | ||||||||
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