Race continues to hold a central place in popular politics, recurrently marking the line that divides the People from their others. But this very recurrence makes it harder to see how race and racism change, shifting in their alignments and articulations.
This talk will take up Stuart Hall’s challenge to think race conjuncturally, exploring the ways in which recent forms of nationalist-populist political projects have promised to rescue the Nation and save the People. Such conceptions link many places (from Modi’s India to the Trump’s US), but here Clarke will mainly focus on examples drawn from the United Kingdom and its flight from Europe to explore the racialised dynamics of the conjuncture as a transnational space.
Examples will include anti-immigrant mobilisations, the entanglements of race and crime, the celebration of the Flag, and the paradoxes of nativism. A critical aim of such conjunctural thinking is to undercut the naturalised and normalised conceptions of race as permanent Truths and explore how they are contested in practice.
John Clarke is an Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the Open University, UK. He has written on a wide range of subjects including youth cultures, welfare states, the impacts of consumerism and managerialism on public services, travelling policies, and conjunctural analysis. His most recent book is The Battle for Britain: Crises, Contradictions and Conflicts, Bristol University Press, 2023.
Ort:
Seminarraum 2 (1. Stock), Rooseveltplatz 2, 1090 Wien
Offen für alle Interessierten, ohne Anmeldung.
Organisiert von Emma Dowling.
