Just framing: ethnicities and racisms in a “postmodern” framework

Rattansi, Ali

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“…Identities and identifications are conceptualised as relational, context dependent, fluid and always in a process of becoming rather than fixed or established (Hall 1992;Rattansi 1994). Hall suggests that:…”

Section: Cultural Citizenship Identities and Valuesmentioning

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Cultural values, moral sentiments and the fashioning of gendered migrant identities

Morrice

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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The promotion of British cultural values to which all citizens can and should sign up to has taken on unprecedented urgency and momentum in political and public discourses. This paper explores the meanings and values attached to contemporary forms of Britishness from the perspective of migrant refugee women, and outlines the conflicting interpretations and expectations of different projects of feminine citizenship. Drawing on empirical research it suggests that gendered migrant identities and values are formed and performed in relation to real and imagined understanding of British (white) heterosexual women and can be seen, at least in part, as asserting moral value and distinctiveness. The women invoked migrant cultural pride in the form of caring, community, close family ties and heterosexuality to claim recognition and resist the lack of moral value ascribed to migrant identities. However, this is achieved through a re-inscription of gender identities in which heterosexuality and sexual restraint become technologies of regulation and control.ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Cultural Citizenship Identities and Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural values, moral sentiments and the fashioning of gendered migrant identities

Morrice

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Thus, the use of the term 'Western' to describe the activists is meant to invoke the West as a political economic agenda that shapes social structures within racist global power relations (Said 1978, Rattansi 1994, Bhattacharyya et al 2002 and to draw a distinction between affluent, privileged nations and communities and 'non-Western' economically and politically marginalized nations and communities (Mohanty 2003). As Frankenberg (1993) points out, in the geographical sense, the 'West' tends to be understood to refer to the capitalist European countries, North America, Australia, New Zealand, and on occasion, Japan (p. 265).…”

Section: Citizenship Western Activists and Whiteness: An Interpretimentioning

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Transnational activists, news media representations, and racialized ‘politics of life’: the Christian Peacemaker Team kidnapping in Iraq

Mahrouse

2009

Citizenship Studies

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In late 2005, four antiwar activists with a group called Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) were kidnapped in Baghdad. Two of the men were identified as Canadian citizens, and the other two were an American and a Briton. In March 2006, after nearly four months in captivity, three of the men were rescued through a military operation involving British, American, Canadian, and Iraqi forces, and they were returned to their countries of residence. This essay explores the racialized privileges of Western citizenship status, and in particular, its deployment in transnational (referring to the physical crossing of national borders) interventions made by such activists. Moreover, this essay seeks to understand and reveal the vast distinction between those who carry the privilege of Western citizenship and those who do not, and the subversive possibilities within such asymmetrical power relations. By using media representations of this kidnapping as the focal point of the analysis, this essay explores how racialization and sexuality work together to construct both Western citizenship and national identity.This essay explores the racialized privilege(s) of Western citizenship status, and in particular, its deployment in transnational (referring to the physical crossing of national borders) interventions made by activists. Moreover, it seeks to understand and reveal the vast distinction between those who carry the privilege of Western citizenship and those who do not, and the subversive possibilities within such asymmetrical power relations. The focus for this discussion is a specific case of a kidnapping of four men, and the subsequent rescue of three of them in 2005-2006. By using media representations of this kidnapping as the focal point of the analysis, this essay explores how racialization and sexuality work together to construct both Western citizenship and national identity. However, before proceeding with this discussion, it is necessary to describe the details about this specific kidnapping case.In late 2005, four men with a group called Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) were kidnapped in Baghdad. Two of the men, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden, were identified as Canadian citizens. The other two were an American -Tom Fox -and a BritonNorman Kember. Soon after the kidnapping was reported on the news, the public learned that CPT is a long-established organization whose members are driven by the Christian faith and the principle of non-violence, and who have had an ongoing presence in Iraq since October 2002, the beginning of the latest US military invasion. 1 Their motto is 'getting in the way', which according to a CPT publication, conveys 'multiple meanings including the practice

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“…There are clearly some affinities between the diversity of ethnicity and the diversity of sexuality, and some parallels between broadening the anti-racist alliance and broadening the antihomophobic alliance. It is also probable that recent 'postmodernist' work in this area will encounter resistance from politicized black communities (Rattansi, 1995;Werbner and Modood, 1997). 4.…”

Section: Local and Global Cartographiesmentioning

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To Queer or Not to Queer a Lesbian and Gay Group? Sexual and Gendered Politics at the Turn of the Century

Humphrey

1999

Sexualities

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This article explores some emerging tensions between 'lesbian and gay' people and politics on the one hand, and 'queer' people and politics on the other. These are described by reference to a case-study of the lesbian and gay group in the public-sector trade union UNISON, which is the largest nationwide organization of lesbians and gay men in the UK. The article analyses the struggles over personal identities and political agendas which have been occasioned by challenges from queer subjects, notably bisexuals and transgendered people. It is argued that these struggles need to be situated in broader historical and international contexts, and that this could deconstruct the antinomy between the 'lesbian and gay' movement and novel forms of 'queerdom'.

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Just framing: ethnicities and racisms in a “postmodern” framework

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Cultural values, moral sentiments and the fashioning of gendered migrant identities

Cultural values, moral sentiments and the fashioning of gendered migrant identities

Transnational activists, news media representations, and racialized ‘politics of life’: the Christian Peacemaker Team kidnapping in Iraq

To Queer or Not to Queer a Lesbian and Gay Group? Sexual and Gendered Politics at the Turn of the Century

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