“…In IYS and outside of it, participants formed friendships that served as a bridge across differences (Banerjea et al, 2017) and inequalities (Lugones & Rosezelle, 1995) and generated empathy, support and further activism. Here is how Asha replied when I asked her in our interview about how she feels that participating in IYS helps to make social change:What I like about IYS is that it creates many bonds, and then once you bond, that's when you want to unite forces and create social change … With [friend from IYS], he's a gay man, right?…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In IYS and outside of it, participants formed friendships that served as a bridge across differences (Banerjea et al, 2017) and inequalities (Lugones & Rosezelle, 1995) and generated empathy, support and further activism. Here is how Asha replied when I asked her in our interview about how she feels that participating in IYS helps to make social change:…”
Section: Expanding Activism Through Friendship Tiesmentioning
This paper calls for greater attention to the interpersonal aspects of youth activism through a sociological and Black feminist exploration of peer relationships within youth political engagement. Drawing on a multi‐method qualitative research, the work foregrounds the perspectives and experiences of Black girls and girls of colour involved in an anti‐racist Scottish youth work charity. I argue that community and friendship ties cultivated participants' activism. Moreover, participants sought to enact social change by undertaking activist educational practices with their peers. This paper demonstrates how studying young people's peer relationships can engender a better understanding of youth activism and support it.
“…In IYS and outside of it, participants formed friendships that served as a bridge across differences (Banerjea et al, 2017) and inequalities (Lugones & Rosezelle, 1995) and generated empathy, support and further activism. Here is how Asha replied when I asked her in our interview about how she feels that participating in IYS helps to make social change:What I like about IYS is that it creates many bonds, and then once you bond, that's when you want to unite forces and create social change … With [friend from IYS], he's a gay man, right?…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In IYS and outside of it, participants formed friendships that served as a bridge across differences (Banerjea et al, 2017) and inequalities (Lugones & Rosezelle, 1995) and generated empathy, support and further activism. Here is how Asha replied when I asked her in our interview about how she feels that participating in IYS helps to make social change:…”
Section: Expanding Activism Through Friendship Tiesmentioning
This paper calls for greater attention to the interpersonal aspects of youth activism through a sociological and Black feminist exploration of peer relationships within youth political engagement. Drawing on a multi‐method qualitative research, the work foregrounds the perspectives and experiences of Black girls and girls of colour involved in an anti‐racist Scottish youth work charity. I argue that community and friendship ties cultivated participants' activism. Moreover, participants sought to enact social change by undertaking activist educational practices with their peers. This paper demonstrates how studying young people's peer relationships can engender a better understanding of youth activism and support it.
“…Thus, I argue that ethnographic encounters ensue from building social worlds and relationalities despite events that transgress our understanding of field, home, and fieldwork (Banerjea et al. 2022).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…What kind of ethnographies emerge from life‐threatening, socio‐political turmoil and spatio‐temporal disruption (Banerjea et al. 2022)? These realities altered the notions of field and home.…”
Against the backdrop of India's 2019 Islamophobic Citizenship Amendment Act, this article is based on ethnographic research with young Muslim women from Aligarh which aimed to show that their narratives of displacement and exclusion from citizenship inspired their search for belonging and enabled them to reinscribe spaces with their own, marginalised, but nonetheless real, projects of belonging. From exclusion and debasement springs new imagination of belonging: this is my finding. Drawing on intersectional feminist writings, postcolonial and critical Muslim studies, I propose that Muslim women's geographies become forms of contestation of the national project producing non‐citizens. In this context, I trace the interconnections between physical and spiritual geographies to show us how Muslim women continue to carve space for themselves.
“…The results presented in this book might be put into discussion with other work in the future-for example, the social, economic, political and geopolitical effects of Covid-19 on Chinese diasporic policy making in the digital era and on changes in the migratory paths taken by Chinese migrants and their descendants living in Europe. Secondly, it would be interesting to compare our findings not only with researches carried out on Chinese people residing in other European countries and beyond; but also with studies dealing with the experiences of other ethnic and racial minorities in France or around the world (Banerjea, 2021;Smith et al, 2022).…”
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Conclusion Simeng WangRichard Horton (2020), the editor-in-chief of The Lancet, calls for considering Covid-19 a syndemic, which reveals biological and social interactions that are important for prognosis, treatment, and health policy. This approach invites a larger vision, encompassing education, employment, housing, food, and the environment. In his essay, he gave the examples of vulnerable people-the elderly as well as Black, Asian, and other minority ethnic communities-and predicted that no matter how effective a treatment or protective a vaccine is, the pursuit of a purely biomedical solution to Covid-19 will fail. A full solution requires a reduction in social disparities and more equitable access to health care and social welfare. As part of incorporating a sociological view of health and illness into this solution, our book is an invitation to pay attention to social conditions and inequalities during the Covid-19 pandemic.This volume shows the extent to which the living conditions of Chinese populations abroad are connected to both their country of origin and their living country. Several chapters describe the existence of a gap in terms of social experiences (attitudes, portrayals, and behaviors) between Chinese people in France and the French majority. This is undoubtably due to social inequalities between racial/ethnic minorities and the majority, in terms of access to health care, housing conditions, food access, institutional racism, and racial discrimination. At the same time, the book reveals the differences in the strength and the intensity of the connections to China among the respondents to our survey: for some, China is the motherland, and, for others, it is the home country of their parents. The pandemic reshaped their relationship, both material and symbolic, to China.Another feature of the book is our attention to heterogeneity among the Chinese population in France in terms of the social experiences and living conditions during the pandemic. Indeed, Chinese people in France were already experiencing social inequalities and social differentiation before Covid-19, and, as illustrated in many chapters, the pandemic had different impacts on them depending on their age, gender, migratory generation, social background, education level, profession, and regional origin in China. Hence, an intersectional approach that recognizes these various social relationships proved essential for understanding the differentiated social representations and practices adopted by Chinese people in France during the health crisis (i.e., media consumption, preventive measures, self-reported stress, food behaviors, mutual assistance,
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