Race, bordering and disobedient knowledge: Activism and everyday struggles in Europe

by Suvi Keskinen (Editor), Aminkeng Atabong Alemanji (Editor), Minna Seikkula (Editor)

Overview

Developing the concept of 'disobedient knowledge', this book provides new perspectives on activism and everyday struggles against racism and bordering. Drawing on empirical material from distinct contexts in Northern, Western and Southern Europe, the chapters explore how different kinds of (b)orders are challenged and possibly also maintained in everyday antiracism, activism and struggles against borders. The book examines resistance and disobedience in relation to borders, social orders, conventional practices and hegemonic discourses. It underscores the importance of studying racism and bordering as intertwined phenomena. With a focus on the historical layers of resistance, disobedient practices and ways of building shared struggles, the book provides invaluable knowledge about postcolonial Europe and its future possibilities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526165541
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	06/04/2024
Series:	Racism, Resistance and Social Change
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Suvi Keskinen is Professor in Ethnic Relations at the University of Helsinki.
Aminkeng Atabong Alemanji is Program Director and Senior Lecturer for the Master of Social Exclusion at Åbo Akademi University.
Minna Seikkula is a Researcher at Tampere University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: : Race, (b)ordering and disobedient knowledge
Suvi Keskinen, Aminkeng Atabong Alemanji and Minna Seikkula:

Part I European ‘racelessness’ and disobedient knowledge
1. Racists, nonracists and antiracists: The tensions and limitations of Spanish antiracism
Mahdis Azarmandi
2. Memory, epistemological justice and disobedient knowledge: Narrating Nordic histories in postethnic activism and art
Suvi Keskinen
3. Theorising from our lives: A Black Nordic feminist approach
Oda-Kange Midtvåge Diallo and Rahwa Tilahun Yohaness
4. Refusing the hegemonic grain: Challenging academic debates in British higher education
Katucha Bento

Part II Everyday antiracism and community building
5. Researching and challenging everyday racism with the 'illegitimated children of Italy'
Annalisa Frisina
6. Designing an antiracism mobile phone application: A reflection on the process and discourse as disobedient knowledge
Aminkeng Atabong Alemanji
7. Cultures of the commons: Refugees, community work, and small-town conviviality
Karin Krifors

Part III (B)ordering and border struggles
8. Antiracist and migration rights struggles through the lens of methodological denationalism
Maja Sager
9. Disobedient knowledge and knowledge practices in administrative border struggles: striving for a regularised status in post-2015 Finland
Minna Seikkula
10. Food, land and resistances across the Mediterranean: Toward a history of disobedience and resistance in backlight
Gabriele Proglio
11. Racial capitalism, war and asylum seeking: Unearthing the troubled relationship between refugee support, antiracism and international solidarity
Fiorenza Picozza