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.
Edited by:
Suvi Keskinen,
Aminkeng Atabong Alemanji,
Minna Seikkula
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781526165565
ISBN 10: 1526165562
Series: Racism, Resistance and Social Change
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 04 September 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
,
Further / Higher Education
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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 -- .
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 bo Akademi University. Minna Seikkula is a Researcher at the University of Helsinki.
