K Tyler
Biographic Data
| ID | 11185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Tyler |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Tyler |
| SIGNATURE | TYLER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Surrey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7562-5270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Brexit biographies: Everyday articulations of race, class and nation through the keyhole issues of Empire and 'culture wars
Some media and political science narratives suggest post-Brexit Britain is locked in a culture war epitomised by the differences thought to divide Leavers and Remainers in terms of their national values, classed and racialised identities. This article sets out to provide a more complex depiction of reality. To do this, we draw on in-depth interviews with individuals across Leave, Remain, national, migrant, racial, ethnic and class identities to t…
Brexit with a little 'b: Navigating belonging, ordinary Brexits, and emotional relations
This article analyses senses of belonging and belonging disrupted via the lens of Brexit with a little 'b': namely at the level of ordinary experiences in the flow of daily lives. Our interlocutors recount these as deeply emotionally charged experiences. Their accounts supplement and help nuance more widespread popular explanatory models of the referendum vote and its outcomes. Examining brexit through the intersection of belonging and emotion pe…
Leavers and Remainers as 'Kinds of People: Accusations of Racism Amidst Brexit
c) 2022 The Authors. Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2022.2155208
Genetic ancestry testing, whiteness and the limits of anti-racism
This article explores how a branch of genomic science that embraces and advocates anti-racism, public participation, consultation and inclusion unintentionally supports everyday discourses of race and racism. It focuses on the reproduction of racism and exposes the limits of anti-racist discourses that are embedded in public engagements with the science and technology of genetic ancestry testing. I deploy a case study which is centerd on the anal…
Suburban ethnicities: Home as the site of interethnic conviviality and racism
This article explores the ways in which the white working-class residents of a suburban English town reflect on their relationships with their British Asian Pakistani Muslim neighbors. Its focus is on how everyday constructions of home become sites for the intermingling of discourses of intercultural conviviality and racism. My contention is that the idea of home has not yet been given the detailed critical attention that it deserves in the socio…
A New Research Agenda for the Study of Genetic Ancestry Tests and the Formation of Racial and Ethnic Identities and Ancestries
This paper sets out a new research agenda for the study of family historians’ (referred to as ‘genealogists’) use of genetic ancestry tests in the course of their family history research in postcolonial Britain. My focus is upon the ways in which the use of these tests shapes the formation of genealogists’ ethnic, racial, national, class and gender identities and their ancestries. I argue that, while there is some significant and important work o…
Bringing Britain into being: Sociology, anthropology and British lives
In this Introduction to the volume, the authors argue that the time is over for thinking reductively of the anthropology of Britain as simply 'anthropology at home'. The authors also argue for the importance of creating space to promote fresh intellectual dialogue between anthropology and sociology. Both sociologists and anthropologists working on aspects of British social life are equally engaged, now more than ever, in the critical investigatio…
Amongst the disciplines: Anthropology, sociology, intersection and intersectionality
The history of relations between anthropology and sociology in the UK might at best be described as 'studied indifference'. And yet, they have shared disciplinary interests in many respects, including the concepts of belonging and identity. This article resists disciplinary boundaries and 'thinks together' sociological interpretations of intersectionality and anthropological notions of intersection. The authors argue that whilst intersectionality…
The suburban paradox of conviviality and racism in postcolonial Britain
Taking my cue from work on relations of interethnic conviviality in super-diverse cities across the globe, this paper examines the ways in which conviviality co-exists with racism as found in a suburban British town. My argument is that ethnographic attention to the proximity of interethnic relations of conviviality to racism is necessary to guard against overly celebratory accounts of conviviality that downplay everyday manifestations of racism.…
Attachments and connections: A 'white working-class' English family's relationships with their BrAsian 'Pakistani' neighbours
White working class people have been portrayed in the media and political discourse as unable to keep pace with the demands associated with living in multicultural Britain. In this article I shall challenge such representations of white working class people's attitudes towards racialized 'others'. To do this I explore the views of the members of a white working class family to the changing racial composition of their once ethnically homogenous co…
White bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race
Katharine TylerDepartment of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter, Exeter, [email protected](c) 2014, Katharine Tyler
Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire: On Home Ground
Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire
This book explores why it is white ethnicity has been rendered invisible, arguing that contemporary people's conceptions of themselves are conditioned by, and derive from, the unknown and forgotten le
The English village, whiteness, coloniality and social class
This article explores the entwining of discourses of race, class and coloniality within a specific set of racialised discourses articulated by white middle-class and middle-aged residents of a suburban English village. I draw upon Frankenberg’s (1993) analysis of whiteness and the contemporary reproduction of colonial notions of cultural difference to examine whites’ othering of wealthy British Asian (BrAsian) residents and the everyday construct…
New ethnicities and old classities: Respectability and Diaspora
This article explores the contrasts between the flexibility and openness of interethnic and diasporic identifications and the fixity of class distinctions in contemporary Britain. The author draws on fieldwork conducted in the Midlands area and a suburban town in the south east of England and traces the ways in which project participants mobilised their biographies and ancestries to express feelings of empathy and relatedness across black, white …
Whiteness studies and laypeople's engagements with race and genetics
This paper proposes a research strategy for examining laypeople's thoughts and reflections on innovations in the science of race and genetics. While some sociologists have shown a reluctance to engage in such discussions, this paper argues that social scientists need to take such views seriously. To do this, the paper brings together an anthropological approach to the study of scientific literacy and recent scholarship in the field of Whiteness s…
Teaching and Learning Guide for: Ethnographic approaches to race, genetics and genealogy
Author’s introduction Over the last 20 years, there has been a technological advance and commercial boom in genetic technologies and projects. These developments include a renewed scientific interest in the biological status and genetic constitution of race. This aspect of genetic research is of interest to sociologists and others working in the field of race and ethnicity studies. While the consensus among sociologists is that race is a social c…
The everyday language of white racism – By Jane H. Hill
Hill, Jane H. The everyday language of white racism . ix, 224 pp., illus., bibliogr . Oxford, Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell , 2008 . £19.99 (paper) Jane Hill's book provides a fine example of the anthropological ethos and ethic of ‘taking nothing for granted’. She deconstructs the logics underpinning the articulation of everyday racist language. In so doing, Hill examines national and local newspaper reports, internet debates and personal blogs…
Ethnographic Approaches to Race, Genetics and Genealogy
In recent years, there has been a technological advance and commercial boom in genetic technologies and projects, including a renewed scientific interest in the biological status and genetic constitution of race. This article provides an overview of sociological approaches to the study of race and genetics, and argues that these analyses should pay detailed critical attention to laypeople's engagements with the new genetic technologies. Drawing u…
A postcolonial people: South Asians in Britain – Edited by N. Ali, V.S. Kalra & S. Sayyid
Postcolonial People is one of the first edited volumes to focus specifically upon the histories, politics and everyday experiences
“Streetville Forever”: Ethnicity, Collective Action, and the State
Contemporary state policies in European and American societies mark a shift from older forms of governance focussed on the centrally concentrated state toward strategies that aim to limit governmental intervention by getting people to govern themselves. This means that individuals and communities are charged with carrying out roles and functions that were traditionally performed by the state. In this article I examine the conditions in which loca…
The Genealogical Imagination: The Inheritance of Interracial Identities
The aim of this article is to examine ethnographically how ideas of descent, biology and culture mediate ideas about the inheritance of racial identities. To do this, the article draws upon interviews with the members of interracial families from Leicester, a city situated in the East Midlands region of England. The article focuses upon the genealogical narratives of the female members of interracial families who live in an ethnically diverse inn…
Reflexivity, tradition and racism in a former mining town
In this article I examine the formation of white working-class racialized discourses in a former coal-mining town in Leicestershire. I draw upon my ethnographic research in the area to explore the conditions in which young white adults confront, challenge and question what they perceive to be others' conventional racist attitudes and beliefs, for example, the racist attitudes of members of their nuclear and extended families, friends and acquaint…
The racialised and classed constitution of English village life
This article explores ethnographically the 'village' as a stage for the enactment and reproduction of a racialised set of white middle-class social and moral values. To do this I draw upon interview material with middle-class whites who live in a suburban 'village' on the border of rural Leicestershire and urban Leicester in England. I explore the way in which my co-conversationalists reflexively and imaginatively defend their area's 'village' id…
The racialised and classed constitution of English village life
This article explores ethnographically the 'village' as a stage for the enactment and reproduction of a racialised set of white middle-class social and moral values. To do this I draw upon interview material with middle-class whites who live in a suburban 'village' on the border of rural Leicestershire and urban Leicester in England. I explore the way in which my co-conversationalists reflexively and imaginatively defend their area's 'village' id…
Reflexivity, tradition and racism in a former mining town
In this article I examine the formation of white working-class racialized discourses in a former coal-mining town in Leicestershire. I draw upon my ethnographic research in the area to explore the conditions in which young white adults confront, challenge and question what they perceive to be others' conventional racist attitudes and beliefs, for example, the racist attitudes of members of their nuclear and extended families, friends and acquaint…
The Genealogical Imagination: The Inheritance of Interracial Identities
The aim of this article is to examine ethnographically how ideas of descent, biology and culture mediate ideas about the inheritance of racial identities. To do this, the article draws upon interviews with the members of interracial families from Leicester, a city situated in the East Midlands region of England. The article focuses upon the genealogical narratives of the female members of interracial families who live in an ethnically diverse inn…
The English village, whiteness, coloniality and social class
This article explores the entwining of discourses of race, class and coloniality within a specific set of racialised discourses articulated by white middle-class and middle-aged residents of a suburban English village. I draw upon Frankenberg’s (1993) analysis of whiteness and the contemporary reproduction of colonial notions of cultural difference to examine whites’ othering of wealthy British Asian (BrAsian) residents and the everyday construct…
Suburban ethnicities: Home as the site of interethnic conviviality and racism
This article explores the ways in which the white working-class residents of a suburban English town reflect on their relationships with their British Asian Pakistani Muslim neighbors. Its focus is on how everyday constructions of home become sites for the intermingling of discourses of intercultural conviviality and racism. My contention is that the idea of home has not yet been given the detailed critical attention that it deserves in the socio…
Attachments and connections: A 'white working-class' English family's relationships with their BrAsian 'Pakistani' neighbours
White working class people have been portrayed in the media and political discourse as unable to keep pace with the demands associated with living in multicultural Britain. In this article I shall challenge such representations of white working class people's attitudes towards racialized 'others'. To do this I explore the views of the members of a white working class family to the changing racial composition of their once ethnically homogenous co…
Amongst the disciplines: Anthropology, sociology, intersection and intersectionality
The history of relations between anthropology and sociology in the UK might at best be described as 'studied indifference'. And yet, they have shared disciplinary interests in many respects, including the concepts of belonging and identity. This article resists disciplinary boundaries and 'thinks together' sociological interpretations of intersectionality and anthropological notions of intersection. The authors argue that whilst intersectionality…
The suburban paradox of conviviality and racism in postcolonial Britain
Taking my cue from work on relations of interethnic conviviality in super-diverse cities across the globe, this paper examines the ways in which conviviality co-exists with racism as found in a suburban British town. My argument is that ethnographic attention to the proximity of interethnic relations of conviviality to racism is necessary to guard against overly celebratory accounts of conviviality that downplay everyday manifestations of racism.…
New ethnicities and old classities: Respectability and Diaspora
This article explores the contrasts between the flexibility and openness of interethnic and diasporic identifications and the fixity of class distinctions in contemporary Britain. The author draws on fieldwork conducted in the Midlands area and a suburban town in the south east of England and traces the ways in which project participants mobilised their biographies and ancestries to express feelings of empathy and relatedness across black, white …
Ethnographic Approaches to Race, Genetics and Genealogy
In recent years, there has been a technological advance and commercial boom in genetic technologies and projects, including a renewed scientific interest in the biological status and genetic constitution of race. This article provides an overview of sociological approaches to the study of race and genetics, and argues that these analyses should pay detailed critical attention to laypeople's engagements with the new genetic technologies. Drawing u…
Leavers and Remainers as 'Kinds of People: Accusations of Racism Amidst Brexit
c) 2022 The Authors. Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2022.2155208
Bringing Britain into being: Sociology, anthropology and British lives
In this Introduction to the volume, the authors argue that the time is over for thinking reductively of the anthropology of Britain as simply 'anthropology at home'. The authors also argue for the importance of creating space to promote fresh intellectual dialogue between anthropology and sociology. Both sociologists and anthropologists working on aspects of British social life are equally engaged, now more than ever, in the critical investigatio…
White bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race
Katharine TylerDepartment of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter, Exeter, [email protected](c) 2014, Katharine Tyler
Brexit with a little 'b: Navigating belonging, ordinary Brexits, and emotional relations
This article analyses senses of belonging and belonging disrupted via the lens of Brexit with a little 'b': namely at the level of ordinary experiences in the flow of daily lives. Our interlocutors recount these as deeply emotionally charged experiences. Their accounts supplement and help nuance more widespread popular explanatory models of the referendum vote and its outcomes. Examining brexit through the intersection of belonging and emotion pe…
Brexit biographies: Everyday articulations of race, class and nation through the keyhole issues of Empire and 'culture wars
Some media and political science narratives suggest post-Brexit Britain is locked in a culture war epitomised by the differences thought to divide Leavers and Remainers in terms of their national values, classed and racialised identities. This article sets out to provide a more complex depiction of reality. To do this, we draw on in-depth interviews with individuals across Leave, Remain, national, migrant, racial, ethnic and class identities to t…
A New Research Agenda for the Study of Genetic Ancestry Tests and the Formation of Racial and Ethnic Identities and Ancestries
This paper sets out a new research agenda for the study of family historians’ (referred to as ‘genealogists’) use of genetic ancestry tests in the course of their family history research in postcolonial Britain. My focus is upon the ways in which the use of these tests shapes the formation of genealogists’ ethnic, racial, national, class and gender identities and their ancestries. I argue that, while there is some significant and important work o…
The racialised and classed constitution of English village life
This article explores ethnographically the 'village' as a stage for the enactment and reproduction of a racialised set of white middle-class social and moral values. To do this I draw upon interview material with middle-class whites who live in a suburban 'village' on the border of rural Leicestershire and urban Leicester in England. I explore the way in which my co-conversationalists reflexively and imaginatively defend their area's 'village' id…
Reflexivity, tradition and racism in a former mining town
In this article I examine the formation of white working-class racialized discourses in a former coal-mining town in Leicestershire. I draw upon my ethnographic research in the area to explore the conditions in which young white adults confront, challenge and question what they perceive to be others' conventional racist attitudes and beliefs, for example, the racist attitudes of members of their nuclear and extended families, friends and acquaint…
The Genealogical Imagination: The Inheritance of Interracial Identities
The aim of this article is to examine ethnographically how ideas of descent, biology and culture mediate ideas about the inheritance of racial identities. To do this, the article draws upon interviews with the members of interracial families from Leicester, a city situated in the East Midlands region of England. The article focuses upon the genealogical narratives of the female members of interracial families who live in an ethnically diverse inn…
“Streetville Forever”: Ethnicity, Collective Action, and the State
Contemporary state policies in European and American societies mark a shift from older forms of governance focussed on the centrally concentrated state toward strategies that aim to limit governmental intervention by getting people to govern themselves. This means that individuals and communities are charged with carrying out roles and functions that were traditionally performed by the state. In this article I examine the conditions in which loca…
Ethnographic Approaches to Race, Genetics and Genealogy
In recent years, there has been a technological advance and commercial boom in genetic technologies and projects, including a renewed scientific interest in the biological status and genetic constitution of race. This article provides an overview of sociological approaches to the study of race and genetics, and argues that these analyses should pay detailed critical attention to laypeople's engagements with the new genetic technologies. Drawing u…
A postcolonial people: South Asians in Britain – Edited by N. Ali, V.S. Kalra & S. Sayyid
Postcolonial People is one of the first edited volumes to focus specifically upon the histories, politics and everyday experiences
Whiteness studies and laypeople's engagements with race and genetics
This paper proposes a research strategy for examining laypeople's thoughts and reflections on innovations in the science of race and genetics. While some sociologists have shown a reluctance to engage in such discussions, this paper argues that social scientists need to take such views seriously. To do this, the paper brings together an anthropological approach to the study of scientific literacy and recent scholarship in the field of Whiteness s…
Teaching and Learning Guide for: Ethnographic approaches to race, genetics and genealogy
Author’s introduction Over the last 20 years, there has been a technological advance and commercial boom in genetic technologies and projects. These developments include a renewed scientific interest in the biological status and genetic constitution of race. This aspect of genetic research is of interest to sociologists and others working in the field of race and ethnicity studies. While the consensus among sociologists is that race is a social c…
The everyday language of white racism – By Jane H. Hill
Hill, Jane H. The everyday language of white racism . ix, 224 pp., illus., bibliogr . Oxford, Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell , 2008 . £19.99 (paper) Jane Hill's book provides a fine example of the anthropological ethos and ethic of ‘taking nothing for granted’. She deconstructs the logics underpinning the articulation of everyday racist language. In so doing, Hill examines national and local newspaper reports, internet debates and personal blogs…
New ethnicities and old classities: Respectability and Diaspora
This article explores the contrasts between the flexibility and openness of interethnic and diasporic identifications and the fixity of class distinctions in contemporary Britain. The author draws on fieldwork conducted in the Midlands area and a suburban town in the south east of England and traces the ways in which project participants mobilised their biographies and ancestries to express feelings of empathy and relatedness across black, white …
Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire: On Home Ground
Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire
This book explores why it is white ethnicity has been rendered invisible, arguing that contemporary people's conceptions of themselves are conditioned by, and derive from, the unknown and forgotten le
The English village, whiteness, coloniality and social class
This article explores the entwining of discourses of race, class and coloniality within a specific set of racialised discourses articulated by white middle-class and middle-aged residents of a suburban English village. I draw upon Frankenberg’s (1993) analysis of whiteness and the contemporary reproduction of colonial notions of cultural difference to examine whites’ othering of wealthy British Asian (BrAsian) residents and the everyday construct…
White bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race
Katharine TylerDepartment of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter, Exeter, [email protected](c) 2014, Katharine Tyler
Attachments and connections: A 'white working-class' English family's relationships with their BrAsian 'Pakistani' neighbours
White working class people have been portrayed in the media and political discourse as unable to keep pace with the demands associated with living in multicultural Britain. In this article I shall challenge such representations of white working class people's attitudes towards racialized 'others'. To do this I explore the views of the members of a white working class family to the changing racial composition of their once ethnically homogenous co…
A New Research Agenda for the Study of Genetic Ancestry Tests and the Formation of Racial and Ethnic Identities and Ancestries
This paper sets out a new research agenda for the study of family historians’ (referred to as ‘genealogists’) use of genetic ancestry tests in the course of their family history research in postcolonial Britain. My focus is upon the ways in which the use of these tests shapes the formation of genealogists’ ethnic, racial, national, class and gender identities and their ancestries. I argue that, while there is some significant and important work o…
Bringing Britain into being: Sociology, anthropology and British lives
In this Introduction to the volume, the authors argue that the time is over for thinking reductively of the anthropology of Britain as simply 'anthropology at home'. The authors also argue for the importance of creating space to promote fresh intellectual dialogue between anthropology and sociology. Both sociologists and anthropologists working on aspects of British social life are equally engaged, now more than ever, in the critical investigatio…
Amongst the disciplines: Anthropology, sociology, intersection and intersectionality
The history of relations between anthropology and sociology in the UK might at best be described as 'studied indifference'. And yet, they have shared disciplinary interests in many respects, including the concepts of belonging and identity. This article resists disciplinary boundaries and 'thinks together' sociological interpretations of intersectionality and anthropological notions of intersection. The authors argue that whilst intersectionality…
The suburban paradox of conviviality and racism in postcolonial Britain
Taking my cue from work on relations of interethnic conviviality in super-diverse cities across the globe, this paper examines the ways in which conviviality co-exists with racism as found in a suburban British town. My argument is that ethnographic attention to the proximity of interethnic relations of conviviality to racism is necessary to guard against overly celebratory accounts of conviviality that downplay everyday manifestations of racism.…
Genetic ancestry testing, whiteness and the limits of anti-racism
This article explores how a branch of genomic science that embraces and advocates anti-racism, public participation, consultation and inclusion unintentionally supports everyday discourses of race and racism. It focuses on the reproduction of racism and exposes the limits of anti-racist discourses that are embedded in public engagements with the science and technology of genetic ancestry testing. I deploy a case study which is centerd on the anal…
Suburban ethnicities: Home as the site of interethnic conviviality and racism
This article explores the ways in which the white working-class residents of a suburban English town reflect on their relationships with their British Asian Pakistani Muslim neighbors. Its focus is on how everyday constructions of home become sites for the intermingling of discourses of intercultural conviviality and racism. My contention is that the idea of home has not yet been given the detailed critical attention that it deserves in the socio…
Brexit biographies: Everyday articulations of race, class and nation through the keyhole issues of Empire and 'culture wars
Some media and political science narratives suggest post-Brexit Britain is locked in a culture war epitomised by the differences thought to divide Leavers and Remainers in terms of their national values, classed and racialised identities. This article sets out to provide a more complex depiction of reality. To do this, we draw on in-depth interviews with individuals across Leave, Remain, national, migrant, racial, ethnic and class identities to t…
Brexit with a little 'b: Navigating belonging, ordinary Brexits, and emotional relations
This article analyses senses of belonging and belonging disrupted via the lens of Brexit with a little 'b': namely at the level of ordinary experiences in the flow of daily lives. Our interlocutors recount these as deeply emotionally charged experiences. Their accounts supplement and help nuance more widespread popular explanatory models of the referendum vote and its outcomes. Examining brexit through the intersection of belonging and emotion pe…
Leavers and Remainers as 'Kinds of People: Accusations of Racism Amidst Brexit
c) 2022 The Authors. Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2022.2155208
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