Vron Ware
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3692858 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Vron Ware |
| NOMBRES | Vron |
| APELLIDO | Ware |
| FIRMA | WARE V |
| AFILIACIONES | The Open University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
England’s military heartland
England's Military Heartland
Contact zones
This chapter focuses on Tidworth itself, beginning at Station Road which is the commercial heart of the garrison. It identifies the places where people mix socially and reports on a range of conversations with residents. Approaching the project of military–civilian integration as a political initiative, it investigates certain places that bring people together, and observes how particular groups or communities interact. The topic of loneliness in…
There is Power in a Good Question
In Left Feminisms: Conversations on the personal and the political, published by Lawrence & Wishart in March 2023, Jo Littler interviews fourteen feminist academics, including Vron Ware. In this interview, Vron Ware turned the tables to interview Jo Littler about the book, the process of compiling it, and her other work. This other work includes the books The Politics of Heritage: The legacies of 'race', with Roshi Naidoo (Routledge, 2005); Again…
All the rage
The intervention of British feminists in the South African War is a chapter of feminist history that is rarely included either in the memorialization of the suffrage movement or the genealogies of global counterinsurgency. The careers of pacifist Emily Hobhouse and suffragist Millicent Fawcett provide rich opportunities to examine the gendered and racialised politics of British imperial militarism. By exploring the confrontation between these two…
Learning from deep revolutionary time
This reflection on Seizing Freedom focuses on three different aspects of Roediger's book. The first considers the phenomenon of 'revolutionary time' and what might be gained from revisiting other literary accounts that vividly convey the possibilities entailed in breaking through all social and political constraints in the cause of freedom. The second section discusses Roediger's inquiry into the breakdown of revolutionary solidarity following th…
A Thinning of Skin’
This article considers how women's life writing has offered a situated mode of resistance to dominant racial regimes in the US and South Africa. Based on a reading of diverse texts, it employs concepts such as entanglement, disentanglement, estrangement and dislocation as keys to understand the relationship between blackness and whiteness, not in abstract, theoretical terms but as a complex configuration of meanings arising from and within specif…
Military Migrants
This is the first book to examine "migrant-soldiers' in the British army and places the phenomenon of Britain's multicultural army in relation to British culture, history and nationalism. It also expl
The New Literary Front
The novel Girls of Riyadh (Banat Al-Riyadh) by Rajaa Alsanea, published in English by Penguin in 2007, provides a valuable prism through which to examine an array of geo-political forces shaping the movement of literary texts between Anglophone and Arabic-speaking reading publics. The investigation seeks to contribute to the developing feminist scholarship on reading texts by and about Muslim women. However, rather than critique the substance of …
Cultures of Violence
Lives on the line
Being prepared to die for one's country has long been the touchstone of nationalism. But as the confused debates about Britishness have indicated over the last decade, concepts of national identity in the UK have been eroding fast and there is a growing uncertainty about what it means to serve one's country. The figure of the soldier is ubiquitous throughout the media, but the image of the flag-draped coffin remains a site of intense struggle, no…
Whiteness in the glare of war
The figure of the soldier-migrant demonstrates why it is important to bring the question of military service into contemporary sociological debates about citizenship, belonging and racism. The article draws on an understanding of whiteness as a fundamental component of historical and gendered notions of citizenship that feed the ‘hypnotic ideals’ of national identity. Because of academic specialism and disciplinary boundaries, however, the inters…
Why Critical Whiteness Studies needs to think about warfare
The history of whiteness is intrinsic to the concept of race itself, in all its changing formulations and fatal outcomes . Despite the continuing and careless use of racial terms to refer to skin colour and ethnic origin, one of the benefits of subjecting the term to political analysis has been to draw attention away from whiteness as a physical set of attributes, and to investigate and undermine its discursive power and symbolic currency within …
Towards a Sociology of Resentment
This debate essay argues that there are urgent reasons why sociologists should pay attention to the history of resentment as 'a political idea'. It offers different examples of the way the concept of white working class resentment has been routinely used in public discourse on race, immigration and multiculturalism in the UK. The BBC White Season is examined in detail as a framing device. Trends in political campaigning indicate increasing use of…
The White Fear Factor
When can we speak of 'white fear' and when, if at all, can this term be used to illuminate the active forms of racism that are alive today? And how do we link this particular postcolonial legacy to the amorphous concept of terror that leeches into our contemporary fears of each other
Info-War and the Politics of Feminist Curiosity
The attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in September 2001 and the subsequent declaration of the ‘war on terror’ by US and European powers, placed a particular burden upon feminists in those countries to call attention to the centrality of gender discourse in the current geo-political era. This essay recognises the urgency of exploring the ‘war on global terror’ from a feminist perspective, and applying pedagogical expertise to encou…
Out of Whiteness
Island Racism
Island Racism
The election of a British National Party councillor in London in September 1993 was greeted by shock and disbelief in the media, particularly because it happened during controversial preparations to celebrate the anniversary of Britain's role in Hitler's defeat in 1945. This essay sets out to examine some of the ways in which the BNP victory was reported in an attempt to understand how intricately gender and class are interwoven in discourses of …
We Ask for British Justice
White/Whiteness
Beyond the Pale
Beyond the Pale
A pioneering study of the political connections between black and white women which dissects the different meanings of femininity and womanhood and fries to overcome the moralism that so often infuses anti-racism
Beyond the pale
In this pioneering study, Vron Ware looks at the role of ideas about white women in the history of racism. Her two principal themes are the need to perceive white femininity as a historically constructed category, and the importance of understanding how feminism has developed as a political movement within racist societies. Her goal is to explore political connections between black and white women by dissecting the different meanings of femininit…
Moments of Danger
This essay arises out of a concern to understand how categories of racial, ethnic, and cultural difference particularly between women have been constructed in the past, in order to explore how these categories continue to be reproduced in more recent political and ideological conflicts. Until very recently, feminist theory relating to the writing of has tended to emphasize questions of gender and their articulation with class, with the result tha…
Whiteness in the glare of war
The figure of the soldier-migrant demonstrates why it is important to bring the question of military service into contemporary sociological debates about citizenship, belonging and racism. The article draws on an understanding of whiteness as a fundamental component of historical and gendered notions of citizenship that feed the ‘hypnotic ideals’ of national identity. Because of academic specialism and disciplinary boundaries, however, the inters…
Moments of Danger
This essay arises out of a concern to understand how categories of racial, ethnic, and cultural difference particularly between women have been constructed in the past, in order to explore how these categories continue to be reproduced in more recent political and ideological conflicts. Until very recently, feminist theory relating to the writing of has tended to emphasize questions of gender and their articulation with class, with the result tha…
Towards a Sociology of Resentment
This debate essay argues that there are urgent reasons why sociologists should pay attention to the history of resentment as 'a political idea'. It offers different examples of the way the concept of white working class resentment has been routinely used in public discourse on race, immigration and multiculturalism in the UK. The BBC White Season is examined in detail as a framing device. Trends in political campaigning indicate increasing use of…
Lives on the line
Being prepared to die for one's country has long been the touchstone of nationalism. But as the confused debates about Britishness have indicated over the last decade, concepts of national identity in the UK have been eroding fast and there is a growing uncertainty about what it means to serve one's country. The figure of the soldier is ubiquitous throughout the media, but the image of the flag-draped coffin remains a site of intense struggle, no…
A Thinning of Skin’
This article considers how women's life writing has offered a situated mode of resistance to dominant racial regimes in the US and South Africa. Based on a reading of diverse texts, it employs concepts such as entanglement, disentanglement, estrangement and dislocation as keys to understand the relationship between blackness and whiteness, not in abstract, theoretical terms but as a complex configuration of meanings arising from and within specif…
The White Fear Factor
When can we speak of 'white fear' and when, if at all, can this term be used to illuminate the active forms of racism that are alive today? And how do we link this particular postcolonial legacy to the amorphous concept of terror that leeches into our contemporary fears of each other
Island Racism
The election of a British National Party councillor in London in September 1993 was greeted by shock and disbelief in the media, particularly because it happened during controversial preparations to celebrate the anniversary of Britain's role in Hitler's defeat in 1945. This essay sets out to examine some of the ways in which the BNP victory was reported in an attempt to understand how intricately gender and class are interwoven in discourses of …
Why Critical Whiteness Studies needs to think about warfare
The history of whiteness is intrinsic to the concept of race itself, in all its changing formulations and fatal outcomes . Despite the continuing and careless use of racial terms to refer to skin colour and ethnic origin, one of the benefits of subjecting the term to political analysis has been to draw attention away from whiteness as a physical set of attributes, and to investigate and undermine its discursive power and symbolic currency within …
Beyond the pale
In this pioneering study, Vron Ware looks at the role of ideas about white women in the history of racism. Her two principal themes are the need to perceive white femininity as a historically constructed category, and the importance of understanding how feminism has developed as a political movement within racist societies. Her goal is to explore political connections between black and white women by dissecting the different meanings of femininit…
Moments of Danger
This essay arises out of a concern to understand how categories of racial, ethnic, and cultural difference particularly between women have been constructed in the past, in order to explore how these categories continue to be reproduced in more recent political and ideological conflicts. Until very recently, feminist theory relating to the writing of has tended to emphasize questions of gender and their articulation with class, with the result tha…
Beyond the Pale
A pioneering study of the political connections between black and white women which dissects the different meanings of femininity and womanhood and fries to overcome the moralism that so often infuses anti-racism
White/Whiteness
Beyond the Pale
We Ask for British Justice
Island Racism
The election of a British National Party councillor in London in September 1993 was greeted by shock and disbelief in the media, particularly because it happened during controversial preparations to celebrate the anniversary of Britain's role in Hitler's defeat in 1945. This essay sets out to examine some of the ways in which the BNP victory was reported in an attempt to understand how intricately gender and class are interwoven in discourses of …
Island Racism
Out of Whiteness
Info-War and the Politics of Feminist Curiosity
The attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in September 2001 and the subsequent declaration of the ‘war on terror’ by US and European powers, placed a particular burden upon feminists in those countries to call attention to the centrality of gender discourse in the current geo-political era. This essay recognises the urgency of exploring the ‘war on global terror’ from a feminist perspective, and applying pedagogical expertise to encou…
The White Fear Factor
When can we speak of 'white fear' and when, if at all, can this term be used to illuminate the active forms of racism that are alive today? And how do we link this particular postcolonial legacy to the amorphous concept of terror that leeches into our contemporary fears of each other
Towards a Sociology of Resentment
This debate essay argues that there are urgent reasons why sociologists should pay attention to the history of resentment as 'a political idea'. It offers different examples of the way the concept of white working class resentment has been routinely used in public discourse on race, immigration and multiculturalism in the UK. The BBC White Season is examined in detail as a framing device. Trends in political campaigning indicate increasing use of…
Why Critical Whiteness Studies needs to think about warfare
The history of whiteness is intrinsic to the concept of race itself, in all its changing formulations and fatal outcomes . Despite the continuing and careless use of racial terms to refer to skin colour and ethnic origin, one of the benefits of subjecting the term to political analysis has been to draw attention away from whiteness as a physical set of attributes, and to investigate and undermine its discursive power and symbolic currency within …
Cultures of Violence
Lives on the line
Being prepared to die for one's country has long been the touchstone of nationalism. But as the confused debates about Britishness have indicated over the last decade, concepts of national identity in the UK have been eroding fast and there is a growing uncertainty about what it means to serve one's country. The figure of the soldier is ubiquitous throughout the media, but the image of the flag-draped coffin remains a site of intense struggle, no…
Whiteness in the glare of war
The figure of the soldier-migrant demonstrates why it is important to bring the question of military service into contemporary sociological debates about citizenship, belonging and racism. The article draws on an understanding of whiteness as a fundamental component of historical and gendered notions of citizenship that feed the ‘hypnotic ideals’ of national identity. Because of academic specialism and disciplinary boundaries, however, the inters…
The New Literary Front
The novel Girls of Riyadh (Banat Al-Riyadh) by Rajaa Alsanea, published in English by Penguin in 2007, provides a valuable prism through which to examine an array of geo-political forces shaping the movement of literary texts between Anglophone and Arabic-speaking reading publics. The investigation seeks to contribute to the developing feminist scholarship on reading texts by and about Muslim women. However, rather than critique the substance of …
Military Migrants
This is the first book to examine "migrant-soldiers' in the British army and places the phenomenon of Britain's multicultural army in relation to British culture, history and nationalism. It also expl
A Thinning of Skin’
This article considers how women's life writing has offered a situated mode of resistance to dominant racial regimes in the US and South Africa. Based on a reading of diverse texts, it employs concepts such as entanglement, disentanglement, estrangement and dislocation as keys to understand the relationship between blackness and whiteness, not in abstract, theoretical terms but as a complex configuration of meanings arising from and within specif…
Learning from deep revolutionary time
This reflection on Seizing Freedom focuses on three different aspects of Roediger's book. The first considers the phenomenon of 'revolutionary time' and what might be gained from revisiting other literary accounts that vividly convey the possibilities entailed in breaking through all social and political constraints in the cause of freedom. The second section discusses Roediger's inquiry into the breakdown of revolutionary solidarity following th…
All the rage
The intervention of British feminists in the South African War is a chapter of feminist history that is rarely included either in the memorialization of the suffrage movement or the genealogies of global counterinsurgency. The careers of pacifist Emily Hobhouse and suffragist Millicent Fawcett provide rich opportunities to examine the gendered and racialised politics of British imperial militarism. By exploring the confrontation between these two…
There is Power in a Good Question
In Left Feminisms: Conversations on the personal and the political, published by Lawrence & Wishart in March 2023, Jo Littler interviews fourteen feminist academics, including Vron Ware. In this interview, Vron Ware turned the tables to interview Jo Littler about the book, the process of compiling it, and her other work. This other work includes the books The Politics of Heritage: The legacies of 'race', with Roshi Naidoo (Routledge, 2005); Again…
England’s military heartland
England's Military Heartland
Contact zones
This chapter focuses on Tidworth itself, beginning at Station Road which is the commercial heart of the garrison. It identifies the places where people mix socially and reports on a range of conversations with residents. Approaching the project of military–civilian integration as a political initiative, it investigates certain places that bring people together, and observes how particular groups or communities interact. The topic of loneliness in…
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