G Bhattacharyya
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 17588 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | G Bhattacharyya |
| NOMBRES | G |
| APELLIDO | Bhattacharyya |
| FIRMA | BHATTACHARYYA G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of East London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7781-2507 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 245 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Afterword
This afterword offers some preliminary thoughts on how to retrieve the analytic framework of racial capitalism as a set of tools to comprehend the horrors before us
How and Why Sociology Is under Attack
Antiracists who are anticapitalist, anticapitalists who are anticolonial
This piece considers the anticolonial and internationalist influences delineated in Arun Kundnani's What is Antiracism? And Why it Means Anticapitalism. The review considers approaches to scholarly writing about and for the purposes of antiracism and presents the benefits of retrieving movement histories as part of our conversations with each other
Capital’s Genocide
Taking as a starting point the desire of many to locate the unfolding genocide in Gaza in the irrationality of its perpetrators — the Israeli state and/or its imperial backers — this article proposes instead to understand it as an extreme expression of the continuous violence necessary to maintain not only local settler colonial rule, but the global capitalist system as a whole. Building on the existing literature on settler colonialism and racia…
It's not about academic life. That's what I have to tell you
Gargi Bhattacharyya is Professor of Sociology at the University of East London, UK. They have written, co-authored and edited/co-edited a very wide range of books, including Tales of Dark-Skinned Women (Routledge 1998); Sexuality and Society (Routledge 2005); Crisis, Austerity and Everyday Life (Palgrave 2015); Race and Power: Global Racism in the twenty-first century (Routledge 2016); Rethinking Racial Capitalism (Rowman and Littlefield 2018); a…
The sexualisation of conflict
Empire's Endgame
How media and conflicts make migrants
The book explores how we understand global conflicts as they relate to the "European refugee crisis", and draws on a range of empirical fieldwork carried out in the UK and Italy. It examines how global conflict has been constructed in both countries through media representations - in a climate of changing media habits, widespread mistrust, and fake news. In so doing, it examines the role played by historical amnesia about legacies of imperialism …
Revisiting ‘common-sense’ in a time of cultivated ignorance – a conversation with Errol Lawrence
An interview with Errol Lawrence, discussing the concept of common-sense racism, the adaptation of racist cultures, battles around public services and the role of the state and the continuing influence of The Empire Strikes Back
Revisiting histories of anti-racist thought and activism
This piece reconsiders histories of anti-racist thought and practice, including the linkages between anti-racisms and other traditions of liberatory thought. We argue that anti-racism should be understood as a strand in radical thought linking internationalism, institutional critique and street activism, in the process interfeeding with other social movements. The traditions of anti-racist thought discussed in this special issue exemplify these c…
The poetics of justice
This article revisits accounts of the black radical tradition as a critique and alternative to institutionalised modes of knowledge and learning, reprising Harney and Moten’s concept of the undercommons to think about the constraints of the university and the possibility for thinking differently together. The deployment of linguistic and conceptual difficulty as a tactic of political speech is linked to Sutherland’s discussion of Marx’s poetics, …
Nationalism – a hard habit to break
This piece considers the intrusion of forms of nationalism into movements for democracy or social justice. It is argued that the landscape of political participation is always uneven and reflects histories of inclusion, exclusion and variations in entitlement to participate and be safe. This unevenness can lead to non-participation, opposition or non-engagement in popular movements by groups with recent histories of marginalization or persecution…
In the name of women's rights
Rethinking Racial Capitalism
How has capitalism created or enhanced racism? In what ways do the violent histories of slavery and empire continue to influence the allocation of global resources? Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival proposes a return to analyses of racial capitalism – the capitalism that is inextricably linked with histories of racist expropriation – and argues that it is only by tracking the interconnections between changing mo…
Austerity and disallowing claims
This piece reviews the account of the impact of austerity on spaces of minority ethnic women's activism presented in Bassel and Emejulu's work. The piece suggests that techniques of austerity remake cultures of political racelessness by seeking to disallow all claims of entitlement in favour of processes of credentialism. In response, we hear the challenges facing minority women activists in England, Scotland and France and the necessary shifts i…
Go home
In July 2013, the UK government arranged for a van to drive through parts of London carrying the message 'In the UK illegally? GO HOME or face arrest.' This book tells the story of what happened next. The vans were short-lived, but they were part of an ongoing trend in government-sponsored communication designed to demonstrate toughness on immigration. The authors set out to explore the effects of such performances: on policy, on public debate, o…
Go home
In July 2013, the UK government arranged for a van to drive through parts of London carrying the message ‘In the UK illegally? GO HOME or face arrest.’ The vans were short-lived, but they were part of an ongoing trend in government-sponsored communication designed to demonstrate control and toughness around immigration. This book explores the effects of such performances of toughness: on policy, on public debate, on pro-migrant and anti-racist ac…
Race and Power
Reviewing cutting-edge debates around racial politics and the culture and economy of globalization, this book draws together a wide range of important contemporary debates in a clear and concise way for undergraduate students. Far from concluding that racism is over, the authors contend that the forces of globalization inhabit older cultures of racial division in order to safeguard the economic interests of the privileged. Arguing that the unspok…
Racialized consciousness and class mobilizations
This piece considers the implications of the analysis offered in Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider for an understanding of anti-racist mobilizations through and alongside the trade union movement in our time
RereadingThe Empire Strikes Back
This piece reviews key aspects of the volume The Empire Strikes Back in order to reconsider the approaches to analysing state racism and economic crisis and to suggest parallels for our time. The piece examines the manner in which the authors seek to position an understanding of racism at the heart of any class analysis. The piece also considers the representation of black feminism in the collection
Regional Narratives and Post-racial Fantasies in the English Riots
This article considers the manner in which the urban disturbances across England in 2011 were framed in popular and scholarly understanding. The article suggests that the days of rioting are not, in themselves, the events that merit analysis and scrutiny. Instead, we should consider again how we frame urban unrest within a broader analysis of the renegotiation of public space and national identities. The article goes on to consider the representa…
Introduction
In a climate marked by expanding scholarship in ethnic and racial studies alongside sweeping changes in universities and the conditions of academic work, we seek to explore the nature of and challenges for critically engaged research, teaching and scholarship on race and racism. In particular, we look at the connection between academic scholarship and political engagement and activity that we are calling race critical public scholarship. We situa…
How can we live with ourselves? Universities and the attempt to reconcile learning and doing
This article revisits recent debates about the responsibilities of public scholarship. The piece argues that writing in a range of fields has engaged with issues of racism, in particular as racism has been manifested in the 'war on terror', but that this discussion has been muted within the sub-field of race and ethnic studies. There is a discussion of the impact of pressures to demonstrate the 'usefulness' of research to a wider public and the l…
Communities, Centres, Connections, Disconnections
This paper presents key ideas from fieldwork conducted in Birmingham between 2009 and 2011. This work examined identity in 'white' neighbourhoods, and attitudes to politics and understandings of poverty in more mixed ones. This work revealed that many Birmingham residents were concerned about a perceived loss of values, the impact of 'unrespectable' households and individuals in their areas and the apparent disconnect between political representa…
Sex, Shopping and Security
Ten years ago, I still believed that media could be categorised into mainstream and other, into media created and distributed by large wealthy organisations that could reach a mass audience and med
Rethinking Racial Capitalism
How has capitalism created or enhanced racism? In what ways do the violent histories of slavery and empire continue to influence the allocation of global resources? Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival proposes a return to analyses of racial capitalism – the capitalism that is inextricably linked with histories of racist expropriation – and argues that it is only by tracking the interconnections between changing mo…
In the name of women's rights
Introduction
In a climate marked by expanding scholarship in ethnic and racial studies alongside sweeping changes in universities and the conditions of academic work, we seek to explore the nature of and challenges for critically engaged research, teaching and scholarship on race and racism. In particular, we look at the connection between academic scholarship and political engagement and activity that we are calling race critical public scholarship. We situa…
Communities, Centres, Connections, Disconnections
This paper presents key ideas from fieldwork conducted in Birmingham between 2009 and 2011. This work examined identity in 'white' neighbourhoods, and attitudes to politics and understandings of poverty in more mixed ones. This work revealed that many Birmingham residents were concerned about a perceived loss of values, the impact of 'unrespectable' households and individuals in their areas and the apparent disconnect between political representa…
Sex, Shopping and Security
Ten years ago, I still believed that media could be categorised into mainstream and other, into media created and distributed by large wealthy organisations that could reach a mass audience and med
Austerity and disallowing claims
This piece reviews the account of the impact of austerity on spaces of minority ethnic women's activism presented in Bassel and Emejulu's work. The piece suggests that techniques of austerity remake cultures of political racelessness by seeking to disallow all claims of entitlement in favour of processes of credentialism. In response, we hear the challenges facing minority women activists in England, Scotland and France and the necessary shifts i…
How can we live with ourselves? Universities and the attempt to reconcile learning and doing
This article revisits recent debates about the responsibilities of public scholarship. The piece argues that writing in a range of fields has engaged with issues of racism, in particular as racism has been manifested in the 'war on terror', but that this discussion has been muted within the sub-field of race and ethnic studies. There is a discussion of the impact of pressures to demonstrate the 'usefulness' of research to a wider public and the l…
Gurinder Chadha and the Apna generation
Cultural Education in Britain
Antiracists who are anticapitalist, anticapitalists who are anticolonial
This piece considers the anticolonial and internationalist influences delineated in Arun Kundnani's What is Antiracism? And Why it Means Anticapitalism. The review considers approaches to scholarly writing about and for the purposes of antiracism and presents the benefits of retrieving movement histories as part of our conversations with each other
Spectatorship and the War on Terror
This paper considers the staging of violence, atrocities, and sexuality in the conduct of the war on terror. The piece discusses the manner in which the terms of the war on terror appear to shut down possible debate and examines the rhetorical and representational strategies that cause this. The paper argues that the war on terror includes a cultural project that seeks to create a consenting global audience. This cultural project appears more dif…
South Asian Cultural Studies--Lessons from Back Home
This is a brief consideration of the emergence of a 'South Asian Cultural Studies'. The piece considers some key debates in the history of cultural studies--in particular, the formation of work that has sought to analyse and value the cultural lives of minority ethnic communities. Against this background, institutionalising the study of the everyday cultures of the South Asian diaspora represents a timely opportunity to consider new forms of raci…
Black skin / white boards
Cultural Education in Britain
Wogs south of Calais?—rethinking racial boundaries for Britain in Europe
Gurinder Chadha and the Apna generation
Black skin / white boards
South Asian Cultural Studies--Lessons from Back Home
This is a brief consideration of the emergence of a 'South Asian Cultural Studies'. The piece considers some key debates in the history of cultural studies--in particular, the formation of work that has sought to analyse and value the cultural lives of minority ethnic communities. Against this background, institutionalising the study of the everyday cultures of the South Asian diaspora represents a timely opportunity to consider new forms of raci…
In defence of amateurism - on not professionalizing ethnic and racial studies
This piece suggests that the field of ethnic and racial studies is too diverse in theoretical and methodological approach and subject of study to constitute its own discipline. Instead, ethnic and racial studies remains a loosely defined space of interdisciplinary exchange. There is a sense of community among researchers in this field, but teaching continues to be organized to meet the imperatives of different home disciplines. This article argue…
Sexuality and Society
In this broad-ranging introduction to the study of sexuality, Gargi Bhattacharyya guides students through the key theoretical debates in the area from the early history of sexology, through Foucault's technologies of self to Judith Butler on the performance of identity. Bhattacharyya shows how these theoretical positions apply to sexuality as it is experienced in contemporary society, and covers key topics such as:* the ideology of heterosexualit…
Dangerous Brown Men
Why is the public presentation of the war on terror suffused with sexualised racism? What does this tell us about ideas of gender, sexuality, religious and political identity and the role of the state in the Western powers? Can we diffuse inter-ethnic conflicts and change the way the West pursues its security agenda by understanding the role of sexualised racism in the war on terror? In asking such questions, Gargi Bhattacharyya considers how the…
Spectatorship and the War on Terror
This paper considers the staging of violence, atrocities, and sexuality in the conduct of the war on terror. The piece discusses the manner in which the terms of the war on terror appear to shut down possible debate and examines the rhetorical and representational strategies that cause this. The paper argues that the war on terror includes a cultural project that seeks to create a consenting global audience. This cultural project appears more dif…
Sex, Shopping and Security
Ten years ago, I still believed that media could be categorised into mainstream and other, into media created and distributed by large wealthy organisations that could reach a mass audience and med
Communities, Centres, Connections, Disconnections
This paper presents key ideas from fieldwork conducted in Birmingham between 2009 and 2011. This work examined identity in 'white' neighbourhoods, and attitudes to politics and understandings of poverty in more mixed ones. This work revealed that many Birmingham residents were concerned about a perceived loss of values, the impact of 'unrespectable' households and individuals in their areas and the apparent disconnect between political representa…
Regional Narratives and Post-racial Fantasies in the English Riots
This article considers the manner in which the urban disturbances across England in 2011 were framed in popular and scholarly understanding. The article suggests that the days of rioting are not, in themselves, the events that merit analysis and scrutiny. Instead, we should consider again how we frame urban unrest within a broader analysis of the renegotiation of public space and national identities. The article goes on to consider the representa…
Introduction
In a climate marked by expanding scholarship in ethnic and racial studies alongside sweeping changes in universities and the conditions of academic work, we seek to explore the nature of and challenges for critically engaged research, teaching and scholarship on race and racism. In particular, we look at the connection between academic scholarship and political engagement and activity that we are calling race critical public scholarship. We situa…
How can we live with ourselves? Universities and the attempt to reconcile learning and doing
This article revisits recent debates about the responsibilities of public scholarship. The piece argues that writing in a range of fields has engaged with issues of racism, in particular as racism has been manifested in the 'war on terror', but that this discussion has been muted within the sub-field of race and ethnic studies. There is a discussion of the impact of pressures to demonstrate the 'usefulness' of research to a wider public and the l…
RereadingThe Empire Strikes Back
This piece reviews key aspects of the volume The Empire Strikes Back in order to reconsider the approaches to analysing state racism and economic crisis and to suggest parallels for our time. The piece examines the manner in which the authors seek to position an understanding of racism at the heart of any class analysis. The piece also considers the representation of black feminism in the collection
Racialized consciousness and class mobilizations
This piece considers the implications of the analysis offered in Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider for an understanding of anti-racist mobilizations through and alongside the trade union movement in our time
Race and Power
Reviewing cutting-edge debates around racial politics and the culture and economy of globalization, this book draws together a wide range of important contemporary debates in a clear and concise way for undergraduate students. Far from concluding that racism is over, the authors contend that the forces of globalization inhabit older cultures of racial division in order to safeguard the economic interests of the privileged. Arguing that the unspok…
Go home
In July 2013, the UK government arranged for a van to drive through parts of London carrying the message 'In the UK illegally? GO HOME or face arrest.' This book tells the story of what happened next. The vans were short-lived, but they were part of an ongoing trend in government-sponsored communication designed to demonstrate toughness on immigration. The authors set out to explore the effects of such performances: on policy, on public debate, o…
Go home
In July 2013, the UK government arranged for a van to drive through parts of London carrying the message ‘In the UK illegally? GO HOME or face arrest.’ The vans were short-lived, but they were part of an ongoing trend in government-sponsored communication designed to demonstrate control and toughness around immigration. This book explores the effects of such performances of toughness: on policy, on public debate, on pro-migrant and anti-racist ac…
Rethinking Racial Capitalism
How has capitalism created or enhanced racism? In what ways do the violent histories of slavery and empire continue to influence the allocation of global resources? Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival proposes a return to analyses of racial capitalism – the capitalism that is inextricably linked with histories of racist expropriation – and argues that it is only by tracking the interconnections between changing mo…
Austerity and disallowing claims
This piece reviews the account of the impact of austerity on spaces of minority ethnic women's activism presented in Bassel and Emejulu's work. The piece suggests that techniques of austerity remake cultures of political racelessness by seeking to disallow all claims of entitlement in favour of processes of credentialism. In response, we hear the challenges facing minority women activists in England, Scotland and France and the necessary shifts i…
In the name of women's rights
How media and conflicts make migrants
The book explores how we understand global conflicts as they relate to the "European refugee crisis", and draws on a range of empirical fieldwork carried out in the UK and Italy. It examines how global conflict has been constructed in both countries through media representations - in a climate of changing media habits, widespread mistrust, and fake news. In so doing, it examines the role played by historical amnesia about legacies of imperialism …
Revisiting ‘common-sense’ in a time of cultivated ignorance – a conversation with Errol Lawrence
An interview with Errol Lawrence, discussing the concept of common-sense racism, the adaptation of racist cultures, battles around public services and the role of the state and the continuing influence of The Empire Strikes Back
Revisiting histories of anti-racist thought and activism
This piece reconsiders histories of anti-racist thought and practice, including the linkages between anti-racisms and other traditions of liberatory thought. We argue that anti-racism should be understood as a strand in radical thought linking internationalism, institutional critique and street activism, in the process interfeeding with other social movements. The traditions of anti-racist thought discussed in this special issue exemplify these c…
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