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Minority women and austerity : survival and resistance in France and Britain /

Bassel and Emejulu explore minority women's experiences of austerity measures in France and Britain. They demonstrate how they use their race, class, gender and legal status for collective action in the face of the neoliberal colonisation.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Bassel, Leah, 1976- (Autor), Emejulu, Akwugo (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2017.
Edición:1st
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • MINORITY WOMEN AND AUSTERITY
  • Contents
  • Glossary of French terms
  • About the authors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • 1. Taking minority women's activism seriously
  • Introduction
  • The three cases: France, England and Scotland
  • Methods
  • The 2008 economic crisis, austerity measures and minority women
  • Outline of the book
  • 2. Theorising and resisting 'political racelessness' in Europe
  • Introduction
  • The racial logic of Europe
  • Manufacturing white ignorance and white innocence
  • Minority women and the epistemic violence of political racelessness
  • Minority women and epistemic justice
  • Conclusions
  • 3. Whose crisis counts?
  • Introduction
  • Minority women and routinised precarity
  • Minority women's routinised crises and austerity measures since 2008
  • Conclusions
  • 4. Enterprising activism
  • Introduction
  • Governing the third sector
  • The enterprising third sector and minority women's activism
  • Marketising third sector relations
  • Marketising organisational norms and values
  • Minority women activists: entrepreneurs, victims or invisible?
  • On being invisible or instrumentalised in France
  • Conclusions
  • 5. The politics of survival
  • Introduction
  • Personal and collective resources
  • Activism as self-help, self-care and self-organising
  • Activism as self-representation?
  • Co-optation and being instrumentalised
  • Negotiating the Republic
  • Speaking against stigma and naming intersections
  • Social movements
  • Conclusion
  • 6. Learning across cases, learning beyond 'cases'
  • The road we have travelled
  • Learning across cases: state power and national 'models'
  • Learning beyond 'cases': new actors on the scene
  • Conclusions
  • 7. Conclusion: warning signs
  • Introduction
  • Raising the alarm
  • Race and Europe: what comes next?
  • Appendix
  • Fieldwork and sampling strategy.
  • Analysis and coding frame
  • References
  • Index.