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Singh, Amit, Valluvan, Sivamohan and Kneale, James (2024) A pub for England : race and class in the time of the nation. European Journal of Cultural Studies . doi:10.1177/13675494231225742 ISSN 1367-5494. (In Press)
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1177/13675494231225742
Abstract
The pub is often romanticised as a site of idyllic English ‘working-class’ sociability that is now under threat. Such melancholic invocations of the pub’s plight are invoked amid the wider resurgence of a racialised English nationalism that makes particularly effective claims to a ‘white working-class’ and their putatively ‘left-behind’ anguish. This article challenges such dominant accounts, juxtaposing such racially defensive readings of the working-class pub against the otherwise overlooked phenomenon of England’s ‘desi pubs’ (Indian-run pubs) through recourse to David Jesudason’s Desi Pubs as well as drawing upon the accounts of the founder of Glassy Junction, a historic desi pub in Southall. Importantly, this overdue engagement of ‘desi pubs’ is considered not through frameworks of race and nation alone but also within conjunctural webs of capitalist stratification and subjectivity. Ultimately, we argue that attentiveness to desi pubs helps draw out convivial modalities of working-class sociability that exist outside of both otherwise ascendant racial and nationalist grievance frames and the sanitised but also prohibitive consumerist webs of aspirational distinction and individualism.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races T Technology > TX Home economics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Bars (Drinking establishments) , Bars (Drinking establishments) -- England, National characteristics, English, Nationalism -- England, Group identity -- England, Social psychology -- England, Race, White people -- Race identity , Working class -- Social conditions -- England, Multiculturalism -- England | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | European Journal of Cultural Studies | ||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 1367-5494 | ||||||
Official Date: | 31 January 2024 | ||||||
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DOI: | 10.1177/13675494231225742 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 7 February 2024 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 7 February 2024 |
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