The struggle that cannot be named
Violence, space and the re-articulation of anti-racism in post-Duggan Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2147690 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam Elliott-Cooper (King's College London), Adam Elliott‐cooper (King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 14 |
| Pages | 2445-2463 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2017.1367020 |
| OpenAlex | W2754887487 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 21 |
The history of black struggles in Britain has often centred on spaces of violence and resistance. While there has been significant attention paid to how racism is articulated through particular places, less has been said about anti-racism being communicated through its associations with space and place. Using Tottenham (north London) as a case study, I draw on ethnographic observations at demonstrations and public meetings, in addition to semi-structured interviews with anti-racist activists resisting policing in post-2011 London. This paper argues that, over time, racist metonyms describing places racialised as black have led to the rise of a metonymic anti-racism. Metonymic anti-racism is used alongside more overt anti-racist language, and has profound implications for understanding struggles against police racism in Britain. The paper analyses these implications, contextualizing them historically, in light of neoliberalised racial discourses and how anti-racist metonyms shape articulations of black struggle against policing in post-2011 Tottenham
Anti-racism · Articulation (sociology · Criminology · Ethnography · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Racism · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Anthropology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Urban Planning and Governance
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |