L Bassel
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 50690 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | L Bassel |
| NOMBRES | L |
| APELLIDO | Bassel |
| FIRMA | BASSEL L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1189-4607 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 275 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Atmospheres and Activism
How and why does left solidarity fail women of color? Given the rising tide of far right extremism, this is an urgent question for social movement actors who wish to build sustainable coalitions for progressive politics. In this paper, we examine the dynamics of solidarity via a novel approach to the study of “atmospheres.” While scholars of emotions have identified the importance of atmospheres in social and political life, they are unable to an…
Moral Subjects in White Spaces
This article explores women of colour's struggles against white spaces in anti-austerity, anti-fascist and migrants' rights movements in Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, London, Madrid and Paris. We argue that solidarity is denied by white activists who resist women of colour's practical demands to take race, class, gender, sexuality, disability and legal status seriously as an organising strategy. These demands are misinterpreted as emotional pleas…
The lonely activist
In our six-nation comparative research project examining how women of colour activists in London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen and Madrid organise and mobilise against austerity, against the far right and for migrants' rights, we found activists experiencing intense feelings of loneliness in their work. Emotional turmoil in activist spaces is to be expected since activists are mobilised to action precisely because of the deeply felt emotio…
Hailing in the Face of Covid-19
In this paper, we examine the paradoxes of hailing health care workers as “Covid-19 heroes” in Canada and the United Kingdom. We ask how public discourses—primarily by governments, politicians, mainstream media, but also by racially minoritized groups and migrant-led associations—frame the ambiguous social and legal status of mostly women of color “essential” health care workers during the pandemic. We argue that hailing is a form of conditional …
A promise of listening
This article explores the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) hearing, ‘The hostile environment on trial’, which took place in London in 2018. When calling a gathering a ‘people’s tribunal’, certain kinds of listening and attention become possible, which are shaped by specific histories and contexts. The author considers the kinds of listening that took place during the London PPT and what changed as a result. She argues that the legal framing that…
The politics of precarity
Citizenship struggles
The 25th Anniversary Special Issue features forty articles that reflect on the study of citizenship in the last 25 years and highlight some cultural, economic, political, and social struggles over various forms and effects of citizenship. The authors include diverse disciplines, perspectives, and trajectories and address various struggles that shape citizenship as a concept and practice in the 21st century. This introduction provides an account o…
Becoming an active citizen
This article explores the effects of the UK citizenship test on migrants through the focus on the injunction to become an active citizen. We draw on qualitative interviews with 158 migrants of different nationalities who are at various stages in the process. We identify two responses. First, participants in our study drew on neo-liberal repertoires of active (knowledgeable) citizenship whereby they proved they are responsible and law-abiding agen…
Migrant women becoming British citizens
This article explores the different experiences of migrant women who are at various stages in the UK naturalisation process, drawing on interviews in Leicester and London, United Kingdom. We consider how care and coloniality shape migrant women’s experiences in the context of the neoliberal test process and what Nancy Fraser has called a ‘crisis of care’ (Fraser Citation2016). We argue that migrant women claim their own citizenship despite rather…
The politics of exhaustion
Drawing on our comparative research project conducted in six European cities, this article proposes a tentative politics of exhaustion as a way to understand the promise and perils of women of colour activists’ solidarity work. Through an examination of how women of colour activists strategise, organise and mobilise, we demonstrate the political and psychological impact of exhaustion. To declare exhaustion, we argue, is to hail the equally exhaus…
Naturalization policies, citizenship regimes, and the regulation of belonging in anxious societies
Variability and sampling strategy of cave wall concretion
Cave Art is a fragile testimony of past human societies and the development of modern behaviours. In limestone caves, moonmilk commonly endanger the artworks. It is a calcite deposit with a large variability of chemical composition and morphological structures and it hosts numerous microbial communities. The possibility to characterize this deposit in the field would aid in a better understanding of cave behaviour and allow the setting up of prop…
Deserving citizenship? Exploring migrants' experiences of the 'citizenship test' process in the United Kingdom
Since the early 2000s several European countries have introduced language and citizenship tests as new requirements for access to long-term residence or naturalization. The content of citizenship tests has been often presented as exclusionary in nature, in particular as it is based on the idea that access to citizenship has to be 'deserved'. In this paper, we aim to explore the citizenship tests 'from below', through the focus on the experience o…
Austerity and the Politics of Becoming
In this short contribution, we attempt to explore the ways in which austerity measures–deficit reductions through tax increases and cuts to public spending–generate unexpected political subjectivities among women of colour activists in Britain. In particular, we ex-amine how the dramatic cuts to public spending and the privatization of public services simultaneously subject women of colour by further destabilizing their already precarious economi…
Making political citizens? Migrants' narratives of naturalization in the United Kingdom
Citizenship tests are arguably intended as moments of hailing, or interpellation, through which norms are internalized and citizen-subjects produced. We analyse the multiple political subjects revealed through migrants’ narratives of the citizenship test process, drawing on 158 interviews with migrants in Leicester and London who are at different stages in the UK citizensh ip test process. In dialogue with three counter-figures in the critical na…
Mourning the old world whilst building the new? A rejoinder
The file associated with this record is under embargo until 18 months after publication, in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The full text may be available through the publisher links provided above
Caring subjects
The file associated with this record is under embargo until 18 months after publication, in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The full text may be available through the publisher links provided above
Minority Women and Austerity
This book examines minority women’s experiences of and activism within the austerity regimes of France and Britain. Through in depth case studies of the particular dynamics of austerity and activism in Scotland, England and France, we explore how activists operate in this moment of political and economic uncertainty and practice a ‘politics of survival’ (Hill Collins 2000). It explores how race, class, gender and legal status interact and shape b…
Minority Women and Austerity
Minority Women and Austerity
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.
Minority Women and Austerity
EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. In the first book of its kind, Bassel and Emejulu explore minority women’s experiences of and resistances to austerity measures in France and Britain. Minority women are often portrayed as passive victims. However, Minority women and austerity demonstrates how they use their race, class, gender and legal status as a resource for collective action in the face of the neoliberal colonisa…
Women of Colour’s Anti-Austerity Activism
Minority Women and Austerity
Minority Women and Austerity
Whose Crisis Counts? Minority Women, Austerity and Activism in France and Britain
Deserving citizenship? Exploring migrants' experiences of the 'citizenship test' process in the United Kingdom
Since the early 2000s several European countries have introduced language and citizenship tests as new requirements for access to long-term residence or naturalization. The content of citizenship tests has been often presented as exclusionary in nature, in particular as it is based on the idea that access to citizenship has to be 'deserved'. In this paper, we aim to explore the citizenship tests 'from below', through the focus on the experience o…
Minority women, austerity and activism
Based on their study of minority women's activism in the context of the economic crisis in Scotland, England and France, the authors question how well third sector organisations, policy-makers and social movements have responded to minority women's perspectives and needs arising from austerity and racism. Apart from being disproportionately affected by the cuts, minority women are also undermined by dominant discourses which can (mis)represent th…
Struggles for Institutional Space in France and the United Kingdom
This article uses intersectionality as an analytical tool to explore struggles for institutional space in policy processes in two ostensibly contrasting contexts: “republican” France and the “multicultural” United Kingdom. Specifically, the article undertakes within-case analysis of three policy processes. In France, we discuss the debate overlaïcité, or secularism, the subsequent formulation of the March 2004 law banning the wearing of religious…
Austerity and the Politics of Becoming
In this short contribution, we attempt to explore the ways in which austerity measures–deficit reductions through tax increases and cuts to public spending–generate unexpected political subjectivities among women of colour activists in Britain. In particular, we ex-amine how the dramatic cuts to public spending and the privatization of public services simultaneously subject women of colour by further destabilizing their already precarious economi…
The politics of exhaustion
Drawing on our comparative research project conducted in six European cities, this article proposes a tentative politics of exhaustion as a way to understand the promise and perils of women of colour activists’ solidarity work. Through an examination of how women of colour activists strategise, organise and mobilise, we demonstrate the political and psychological impact of exhaustion. To declare exhaustion, we argue, is to hail the equally exhaus…
Making political citizens? Migrants' narratives of naturalization in the United Kingdom
Citizenship tests are arguably intended as moments of hailing, or interpellation, through which norms are internalized and citizen-subjects produced. We analyse the multiple political subjects revealed through migrants’ narratives of the citizenship test process, drawing on 158 interviews with migrants in Leicester and London who are at different stages in the UK citizensh ip test process. In dialogue with three counter-figures in the critical na…
Solidarity under Austerity
In this article, we argue that in order to understand and counter the asymmetrical effects of the current economic crisis, intersectional analyses and coalition building are required. Our research aims to address a tendency in some intersectionality research to underplay or sideline social class and capitalist relations (Anthias 2012, 6, 15; Skeggs 2008). Our goal is to expand intersectionality to questions of political economy that are not typic…
Caring subjects
The file associated with this record is under embargo until 18 months after publication, in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The full text may be available through the publisher links provided above
Naturalization policies, citizenship regimes, and the regulation of belonging in anxious societies
Citizenship as Interpellation
This article examines the ideological function of ‘models’ of citizenship in shaping the contours of public debate and the ability of refugee women to make claims in the public sphere. Key elements of Louis Althusser's concept of interpellation are explored: ideology works by interpellating (‘hailing’) individuals, providing them with a social and juridical identity that constitutes them as subjects. The article argues that ‘models’ of citizenshi…
Intersectional Politics at the Boundaries of the Nation State
This article explores what it means to take women’s agency seriously and to fulfill the potential of intersectional politics. If we accept the central tenets of intersectionality, that axes of oppression are simultaneous and interacting, then we must interrogate the framing of current debates over women’s rights around the tension between gender and religious/cultural accommodation. It is argued that the unfulfilled potential of intersectional po…
Migrant women becoming British citizens
This article explores the different experiences of migrant women who are at various stages in the UK naturalisation process, drawing on interviews in Leicester and London, United Kingdom. We consider how care and coloniality shape migrant women’s experiences in the context of the neoliberal test process and what Nancy Fraser has called a ‘crisis of care’ (Fraser Citation2016). We argue that migrant women claim their own citizenship despite rather…
Speaking and Listening
This article explores the challenges and opportunities for political listening ( Bickford 1996 ) following the events of August 2011, with a specific focus on the role of the media and citizen responses to media coverage. While the aftermath of the riots hardly gives rise to starry-eyed optimism, I explore an interaction - a conference on media and the riots - where political listening took place and provided the possibility to break down binarie…
Citizenship struggles
The 25th Anniversary Special Issue features forty articles that reflect on the study of citizenship in the last 25 years and highlight some cultural, economic, political, and social struggles over various forms and effects of citizenship. The authors include diverse disciplines, perspectives, and trajectories and address various struggles that shape citizenship as a concept and practice in the 21st century. This introduction provides an account o…
Contemporary Grammars of Resistance
This article analyzes two social movements in France: the 'Mouvement des Indigènes de la République' [Movement of the 'Indigenous' of the Republic], and the 'Réseau Éducation Sans Frontières' [Education without Borders Network]. It explores the kinds of borders and underlying struggles that these social movements bring to light, and how their actions redraw borders. In these borderlands, actors in the two French resistance movements oppose exclus…
The lonely activist
In our six-nation comparative research project examining how women of colour activists in London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen and Madrid organise and mobilise against austerity, against the far right and for migrants' rights, we found activists experiencing intense feelings of loneliness in their work. Emotional turmoil in activist spaces is to be expected since activists are mobilised to action precisely because of the deeply felt emotio…
Becoming an active citizen
This article explores the effects of the UK citizenship test on migrants through the focus on the injunction to become an active citizen. We draw on qualitative interviews with 158 migrants of different nationalities who are at various stages in the process. We identify two responses. First, participants in our study drew on neo-liberal repertoires of active (knowledgeable) citizenship whereby they proved they are responsible and law-abiding agen…
Refugee Women and La République
This article examines Somali refugee women's participation in the French public sphere. Drawing on interviews, focus groups and participant observation with Somali refugee women and local actors, the article argues that representations of ‘Muslim women's needs’ in French debates over the headscarf do not correspond to Somali women's definitions of their needs and priorities. A ‘logic of separation’ is at work through which a hierarchy of needs is…
Hailing in the Face of Covid-19
In this paper, we examine the paradoxes of hailing health care workers as “Covid-19 heroes” in Canada and the United Kingdom. We ask how public discourses—primarily by governments, politicians, mainstream media, but also by racially minoritized groups and migrant-led associations—frame the ambiguous social and legal status of mostly women of color “essential” health care workers during the pandemic. We argue that hailing is a form of conditional …
The politics of precarity
Variability and sampling strategy of cave wall concretion
Cave Art is a fragile testimony of past human societies and the development of modern behaviours. In limestone caves, moonmilk commonly endanger the artworks. It is a calcite deposit with a large variability of chemical composition and morphological structures and it hosts numerous microbial communities. The possibility to characterize this deposit in the field would aid in a better understanding of cave behaviour and allow the setting up of prop…
The British Sociological Association Race and Ethnicity Study Group Conference ‘Mapping the Field
We would also like to thank the participants for their contribution.Additional informationNotes on contributorsKehinde AndrewsKEHINDE ANDREWS is Senior Lecturer in Working with Children, Young People & Families, and Criminology at Newman University.Leah BasselLEAH BASSEL is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University of Leicester.Aaron WinterAARON WINTER is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at University of East London
Bridging Differences or Building Silences? Parité and the Representation of ‘Women’ in French Political Life
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s there have been debates in France about the contemporary relevance of republican universalism. This article focuses on two specific areas in which these debates have been played out: first, that of the parité campaign for the representation of women in politics and, second, the campaign for the rights of migrant women or women ‘of migrant origin’. In respect of the first there has been some progress with the passing…
Refugee Women and La République
This article examines Somali refugee women's participation in the French public sphere. Drawing on interviews, focus groups and participant observation with Somali refugee women and local actors, the article argues that representations of ‘Muslim women's needs’ in French debates over the headscarf do not correspond to Somali women's definitions of their needs and priorities. A ‘logic of separation’ is at work through which a hierarchy of needs is…
Bridging Differences or Building Silences? Parité and the Representation of ‘Women’ in French Political Life
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s there have been debates in France about the contemporary relevance of republican universalism. This article focuses on two specific areas in which these debates have been played out: first, that of the parité campaign for the representation of women in politics and, second, the campaign for the rights of migrant women or women ‘of migrant origin’. In respect of the first there has been some progress with the passing…
Citizenship as Interpellation
This article examines the ideological function of ‘models’ of citizenship in shaping the contours of public debate and the ability of refugee women to make claims in the public sphere. Key elements of Louis Althusser's concept of interpellation are explored: ideology works by interpellating (‘hailing’) individuals, providing them with a social and juridical identity that constitutes them as subjects. The article argues that ‘models’ of citizenshi…
Struggles for Institutional Space in France and the United Kingdom
This article uses intersectionality as an analytical tool to explore struggles for institutional space in policy processes in two ostensibly contrasting contexts: “republican” France and the “multicultural” United Kingdom. Specifically, the article undertakes within-case analysis of three policy processes. In France, we discuss the debate overlaïcité, or secularism, the subsequent formulation of the March 2004 law banning the wearing of religious…
Intersectional Politics at the Boundaries of the Nation State
This article explores what it means to take women’s agency seriously and to fulfill the potential of intersectional politics. If we accept the central tenets of intersectionality, that axes of oppression are simultaneous and interacting, then we must interrogate the framing of current debates over women’s rights around the tension between gender and religious/cultural accommodation. It is argued that the unfulfilled potential of intersectional po…
Rupture or Reproduction? ‘New’ citizenship in France
Speaking and Listening
This article explores the challenges and opportunities for political listening ( Bickford 1996 ) following the events of August 2011, with a specific focus on the role of the media and citizen responses to media coverage. While the aftermath of the riots hardly gives rise to starry-eyed optimism, I explore an interaction - a conference on media and the riots - where political listening took place and provided the possibility to break down binarie…
Theories of Race and Ethnicity
How have research agendas on race and ethnic relations changed over the past two decades and what new developments have emerged? Theories of Race and Ethnicity provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge collection of theoretically grounded and empirically informed essays. It covers a range of key issues in race and ethnicity studies, such as genetics and race, post-race debates, racial eliminativism and the legacy of Barack Obama, and mixed race i…
The British Sociological Association Race and Ethnicity Study Group Conference ‘Mapping the Field
We would also like to thank the participants for their contribution.Additional informationNotes on contributorsKehinde AndrewsKEHINDE ANDREWS is Senior Lecturer in Working with Children, Young People & Families, and Criminology at Newman University.Leah BasselLEAH BASSEL is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University of Leicester.Aaron WinterAARON WINTER is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at University of East London
Solidarity under Austerity
In this article, we argue that in order to understand and counter the asymmetrical effects of the current economic crisis, intersectional analyses and coalition building are required. Our research aims to address a tendency in some intersectionality research to underplay or sideline social class and capitalist relations (Anthias 2012, 6, 15; Skeggs 2008). Our goal is to expand intersectionality to questions of political economy that are not typic…
Contemporary Grammars of Resistance
This article analyzes two social movements in France: the 'Mouvement des Indigènes de la République' [Movement of the 'Indigenous' of the Republic], and the 'Réseau Éducation Sans Frontières' [Education without Borders Network]. It explores the kinds of borders and underlying struggles that these social movements bring to light, and how their actions redraw borders. In these borderlands, actors in the two French resistance movements oppose exclus…
Minority women, austerity and activism
Based on their study of minority women's activism in the context of the economic crisis in Scotland, England and France, the authors question how well third sector organisations, policy-makers and social movements have responded to minority women's perspectives and needs arising from austerity and racism. Apart from being disproportionately affected by the cuts, minority women are also undermined by dominant discourses which can (mis)represent th…
Minority Women and Austerity
This book examines minority women’s experiences of and activism within the austerity regimes of France and Britain. Through in depth case studies of the particular dynamics of austerity and activism in Scotland, England and France, we explore how activists operate in this moment of political and economic uncertainty and practice a ‘politics of survival’ (Hill Collins 2000). It explores how race, class, gender and legal status interact and shape b…
Minority Women and Austerity
Minority Women and Austerity
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.
Minority Women and Austerity
EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. In the first book of its kind, Bassel and Emejulu explore minority women’s experiences of and resistances to austerity measures in France and Britain. Minority women are often portrayed as passive victims. However, Minority women and austerity demonstrates how they use their race, class, gender and legal status as a resource for collective action in the face of the neoliberal colonisa…
Women of Colour’s Anti-Austerity Activism
Minority Women and Austerity
Minority Women and Austerity
Whose Crisis Counts? Minority Women, Austerity and Activism in France and Britain
Austerity and the Politics of Becoming
In this short contribution, we attempt to explore the ways in which austerity measures–deficit reductions through tax increases and cuts to public spending–generate unexpected political subjectivities among women of colour activists in Britain. In particular, we ex-amine how the dramatic cuts to public spending and the privatization of public services simultaneously subject women of colour by further destabilizing their already precarious economi…
Making political citizens? Migrants' narratives of naturalization in the United Kingdom
Citizenship tests are arguably intended as moments of hailing, or interpellation, through which norms are internalized and citizen-subjects produced. We analyse the multiple political subjects revealed through migrants’ narratives of the citizenship test process, drawing on 158 interviews with migrants in Leicester and London who are at different stages in the UK citizensh ip test process. In dialogue with three counter-figures in the critical na…
Mourning the old world whilst building the new? A rejoinder
The file associated with this record is under embargo until 18 months after publication, in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The full text may be available through the publisher links provided above
Caring subjects
The file associated with this record is under embargo until 18 months after publication, in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The full text may be available through the publisher links provided above
Variability and sampling strategy of cave wall concretion
Cave Art is a fragile testimony of past human societies and the development of modern behaviours. In limestone caves, moonmilk commonly endanger the artworks. It is a calcite deposit with a large variability of chemical composition and morphological structures and it hosts numerous microbial communities. The possibility to characterize this deposit in the field would aid in a better understanding of cave behaviour and allow the setting up of prop…
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