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Looking for whiteness in the war on terror
No full textThis essay addresses the links between routine, organised white supremacy and the 'war on terror.ï?? Beginning with an image of American soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib, viewed in the context of the new museum of apartheid in South Africa, it demonstrates the entangled elements of white supremacy, colonialism, the spectre of global terrorism, and the New Imperialism of George W. Bush and Tony Blair. The essay stresses the importance of comparative work and cross-cultural, transnational exchange in the effort to analyse the reproduction of racist discourse on local, national and global scales. The second part explores the value of using whiteness as a concept to interpret local conflicts exacerbated by the fascist British National Party. It argues that racist violence and physical intimidation accompanies the activities of such groups however hard they try to disguise their underlying ideology. It also demonstrates the significance of gender discourse in Islamophobic propaganda
The new national war monuments : interrogating gendered narratives in commemorative sculpture
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Muslims and military service
No full textThe increased presence of Muslims in the UK armed forces is a direct consequence of widening military recruitment to include citizens of Britain?s former colonies as well as the children of postcolonial migrants and settlers. Seen in this historical perspective, the significance of Muslim soldiers today indicates the symbolic importance of military work in the ongoing struggle for full citizenship and the right to belong in a diverse, multi-faith society
Towards a sociology of resentment: a debate on class and whiteness
No full textThis essay argues that there are urgent reasons why anti-racists should pay attention to the history of resentment as ?a political idea?. It offers different examples of the way the concept of white working class resentment has been routinely used in public discourse on race, immigration and multiculturalism in the UK. The BBC White Season is examined in detail as a framing device. International trends in political campaigning indicate increasing use of polling data to identify emotive issues, such as economic immigration and asylum seekers, which have been shown to be particularly divisive in marginal areas. In the context of policy-oriented, academic research on social cohesion, citizenship and belonging, social class and white identity emerge as key indicators of ?resentment?. The Nietzschian concept of ressentiment, particularly as developed by German sociologist Max Scheler, is considered in order to complicate the broader psycho-social dynamics of resentment today. Finally, the essay discusses Ghassan Hage?s work on affective attachments as a model of thinking through ?resentment? as a particular response to perceptions of waning racial privilege in Anglophone societies. The concept of ?white decline? and the subsequent embracing of victim identity precipitates political formations that endanger fragile multicultures
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