Racial entanglements and sociological confusions: repudiating the rehabilitation of integration

Valluvan, Sivamohan

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“…Elsewhere, Jones and Clarke (2005, 306) have highlighted that in media portrayals of the "war on terror", the media "all too easily strays into a somewhat delusional, but diametric opposition … that of a Manichaean conflict of Good and Evil -an opposition that, in reality, does not exist (in the terms in which it is conventionally set)". Instead, the above examples reveal how ethnic inclusion/exclusion followed a process of segmentation within the press' discourse, most notable in the distinction between "good" and "bad" Muslims were called upon to display their approachability (Rudge et al 2012;Valluvan 2017), and when they did, such examples were viewed as exceptional or even congratulated (Valluvan 2017).…”

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The subjective and objective violence of terrorism: analysing “British values” in newspaper coverage of the 2017 London Bridge attack

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2018

Critical Studies on Terrorism

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This article examines howŽižek's analysis of "subjective" violence can be used to explore the ways in which media coverage of a terrorist attack is contoured and shaped by less noticeable forms of "objective" (symbolic and systemic) violence. Drawing upon newspaper coverage of the 2017 London Bridge attack, it is noted how examples of "subjective" violence were grounded in the externalization of a clearly identifiable "other", which symbolically framed the terrorists and the attack as tied to and representative of the UK Muslim community. Examples of "systematic" violence were most notable in the ideological edifice that underpinned this framing but also in the ways in which newspaper reports served to draw upon British values in the aftermath of the attack. This directed attention away from the contradictions within the UK, towards narratives that sought to "fix" these contradictions through eradicating the problem of "the other" and/or by violently protecting the British values "they" seek to undermine. As a consequence, newspaper coverage worked to uphold the illusion that "peace" could be achieved by eradicating terrorism through further forms of objective violence, including, internment without trial; the "ripping up" of human rights; and, closer surveillance of Muslim communities. Indeed, it was this unacknowledged violence that worked to maintain British values in the press' coverage. KeywordsŽižek, London Bridge, British values, Muslim/Islam, media analysis Analysing the London Bridge attack: aims, purposes and methodological concernsIn May and June 2017, the United Kingdom (UK) was subject to two terrorist attacks, the second of which took place in London on June 3. 1 While driving in a rented van, the three 3 attackers: Khuram Shazad Butt; Rachid Redouane; and, Youssef Zaghba, mounted the pavement along London Bridge, driving into pedestrians, before exiting the van and proceeding to Borough Market, where they stabbed four people. 2 Eventually, the attackers were shot dead by police. In total eight people were killed and 48 injured.While not deferring from the severity of the atrocity, this article will critically examine UK (London-based) newspaper coverage of the London Bridge attack. 3 Informed by SlavojŽižek's conceptualization of violence, it highlights how Žižek's (2010) analysis of "subjective" violence can be used to explore the extent to which media coverage of a terrorist attack is contoured and shaped by forms of "objective" violence (Žižek 2013). In particular, it is this paper's contention that examples of objective violence were most noticeable in the media's demarcation of certain outsider groups, in this instance, the UK Muslim community. Implicit in this process, is the way in which newspaper representations of British values were symbolically used in newspaper coverage of the attack and how these representations can be examined and challenged in order "to uncover their latent significance" (Taylor 2010, 92).Methodologically, this analysis is drawn from an initial sample of 359 newspape...

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The subjective and objective violence of terrorism: analysing “British values” in newspaper coverage of the 2017 London Bridge attack

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2018

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“…And that's a good thing: it's evidence that on the whole, people are finding ways to get along. But racism is also a part of integration (see Valluvan ). It is one, albeit pathological modality by which newcomers attempt to insert themselves favourably into post‐immigration racialized hierarchies of difference.…”

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“…Integration assumes the role of the gatekeeper of the nation: whiteness is twinned with liberal values to patrol its boundaries and decide who is deserving (and who isn't). Whilst the architects of integration like to proclaim their commitment to the mingling and melding of difference, integration is in fact a divisive process, constructing and hardening difference (Anthias : 323; Valluvan : 5). Integration is not the organic or anodyne amalgamation of difference; it is the hard‐fought struggle to protect the national boundaries of the community of value (Anderson : 9).…”

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Pathological integration, or, how East Europeans use racism to become British

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Mogilnicka

2017

British Journal of Sociology

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East Europeans are integrating into life in the UK. This entails learning to get along with their new neighbours, but it also involves not getting along with certain neighbours. Integration is not confined to benevolent forms of everyday cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism and conviviality; it can also include more pathological forms, like racism. Whilst integration is generally seen as desirable, the learning that it entails necessarily includes less desirable practices and norms. The aim of this article is to show how East Europeans in the UK have been acquiring specifically British competencies of racism. This doesn't mean all East Europeans are racist or they always use racism; it does mean, however, that racism is a part of the integration equation. We focus on the racist and racializing practices of Poles, Hungarians and Romanians in Bristol in the UK. These East Europeans are using racism to insert themselves more favourably into Britain's racialized status hierarchies. This is a kind of integration.

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“…One might also trace the theoretical influences here in Luhmann and Bourdieu, or cite Sayad (1996). And we now clearly have a lot of works amassing at the fringes of the field, not least Schinkel's, which share similar sources (i.e., see also Bauböck, 1994a;Crul & Schneider, 2010;Dahinden, 2016;Fox & Mogilnicka, 2019;Grzymala-Kaslowska & Phillimore, 2017;Korteweg, 2017;Simon, 2005;Valluvan, 2017; and surveys of integration research and policy in Scholten, Entzinger, Penninx, & Verbeek, 2015;Simon, Piché, & Amélie, 2015;and my Favell, 2015, a revision and update of the original 2001 Carnegie report first presented in 1999). 4.…”

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Integration: twelve propositions after Schinkel

Favell

2019

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By way of a commentary on Willem Schinkel's 'Against "immigrant integration": For an end to neocolonial knowledge production' in this volume, I propose twelve propositions in order to rethink the academic use of the concept "integration" in contemporary migration studies. The notion of "immigration integration" is deeply embedded in a methodological nationalism found throughout mainstream research and policy making on "immigration" that reproduces a colonial, nation-state centred vision of society sustained by global inequalities. The article broadly shares Schinkel's arguments, while suggesting specific operationalisations which could advance a more autonomous social scientific understanding of how the categorisation of international migration and mobilities is used by nation-states to sustain particular orders and hierarchies of social power.

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Racial entanglements and sociological confusions: repudiating the rehabilitation of integration

Cited by 11 publications

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The subjective and objective violence of terrorism: analysing “British values” in newspaper coverage of the 2017 London Bridge attack

The subjective and objective violence of terrorism: analysing “British values” in newspaper coverage of the 2017 London Bridge attack

Pathological integration, or, how East Europeans use racism to become British

Integration: twelve propositions after Schinkel

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