Lou Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 187974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lou Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lou |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9116-6019 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 237 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Idea of the Organic, or the Constitutional, in Fanon’s Phenomenological Description of the Psychopathology of Racial Alienation
This paper challenges an unspoken consensus in Fanon Studies, namely, whether Fanon had something other than a social constructivist concept of race, that is, that “race” is not a biological reality, but an ideological myth constructed by a racialized and racist society. A counterfactual case is made in this paper, enlisting forensic analysis and archival research evidence to do so. It also relies on knowledge now accessible in English for the fi…
Teaching to say ‘no’: Pedagogies of refusal in the social sciences classroom (and beyond)
Although not new, debates about researchers’ refusal to engage in (potentially) unethical and harmful research have recently gained traction in the social sciences, stressing the need for researchers to ‘learn to say no.’ Decolonial and indigenous scholars working in contexts of settler colonialism have extended these debates to the practice of teaching in higher education. In this ‘points of departure’ article, we build on these debates and prac…
The Future of Refugee Livelihoods Programming: Lessons From the Jordan Compact
Livelihoods have been a central element of the humanitarian response to the Syria crisis. This was especially the case in Jordan, with the Jordan Compact promising hundreds of thousands of jobs for Syrians, and development opportunities for their hosts. In this commentary, we highlight three broader lessons from the scheme, the results of which were disappointing for many Syrians. Livelihoods interventions must ensure that indicators of success a…
The screens: Frantz Fanon’s theses on neocolonialism and revolutionary democracy
In this article, we dissect Fanon’s use of screens in The Wretched of the Earth as a metaphor for the intermediaries of neocolonialism in post-independence Africa. We argue that the origins of Fanon’s use of screens lie in the Hegelian dialectic, through which the inertia Fanon observed in people under colonial conditions during his clinical sociotherapeutic studies reappears with the transformation of decolonization movements into neocolonialism…
Reconstructions of the Rhetoric of the American Dream
The “shock and awe” of the 2024 election has so laid bare the vacuity of the rhetoric of American liberal democracy that it has elicited a new, coarsened public rhetoric. FAAFO (F—ed around and found out) is a trope to which even the respectable discourse of the mainstream media has resorted. FAAFO is the irrepressible rhetoric in which we now speak of the ruins of the bourgeoisie, as Walter Benjamin observed of surrealism. This ruin had already …
Defining, operationalising and translating 'vulnerability' in humanitarian work in Jordan
Vulnerability' saturates contemporary humanitarian discourse and practice in English. But how is 'vulnerability' operationalised and translated - both literally and figuratively - and what can these dynamics tell us about the humanitarian system? Drawing on an extensive engagement with humanitarianism in Jordan, this article explores how 'vulnerability' is turned from a ubiquitous designator of need to an operationalizable indicator in humanitari…
The Jordan Compact, Refugee Labour and the Limits of Indicator-oriented Formalization
This article explores the significance of initiatives to formalize the labour market participation of refugees. Many practitioners believe that formalization is a panacea for improving the lives of marginalized workers, including refugees. This article argues, however, that in practice it easily becomes an indicator-oriented exercise, where readily quantifiable targets are prioritized over substantive improvements. To this end, the article analys…
Who Is a Refugee in Jordan? Hierarchies and Exclusions in the Refugee Recognition Regime
This article dissects the refugee recognition regime in Jordan. It argues that refugee recognition, despite being conducted by UNHCR, is a heavily politicized process shaped by intersecting racial and national hierarchies, restrictive government regulations, and UNHCR policies. Despite Jordan hosting the ‘second highest share of refugees per capita in the world’, relatively few protection seekers gain refugee status, and when they do, it is almos…
Learning to say 'no: Privilege, Entitlement and Refusal in Peace, (Post)conflict and Security Research
In this forum, we focus on the possibility and necessity for active refusal in research, and the complexities of refusal. We offer four different perspectives, based on our shared concerns and understanding of the harms caused by some field research, and driven by our engagement with and membership in some of the communities experiencing this harmful fieldwork in peace, (post)conflict and security settings.Drawing on feminist, queer, indigenous, …
What Is Left to Be Done? The Marxist-Humanism of Charles Denby (1907–1983) – Black Worker-Editor
From ‘It Rarely Happens’ to ‘It’s Worse for Men’: Dispelling Misconceptions about Sexual Violence against Men and Boys in Conflict and Displacement
Sexual violence against men and boys in conflict and displacement has garnered increasing attention over the past decade and has been recognised in UN Security Resolution 2467. Despite increased evidence and understanding of the issue, myths and misconceptions nevertheless abound. The authors of this article – practitioners and academics with extensive experience in the field – aim to dispel ten of the most common misconceptions that we have enco…
Refugees can be entrepreneurs too!’ Humanitarianism, race, and the marketing of Syrian refugees
In the context of a greater focus on the politics of migration, the ‘refugee entrepreneur’ has become an increasingly important figure in humanitarian, media, and academic portrayals of refugees. Through a focus on Jordan's Za‘tari refugee camp, which has been deemed a showcase for refugees’ ‘entrepreneurship’, this article argues that the designation of Syrian refugees as ‘entrepreneurs’ is a positioning of Syrians within colonial hierarchies of…
Syrian refugee men as objects of humanitarian care
Critical feminist scholars of conflict and displacement have demonstrated that “womenandchildren” (Enloe 1993) have become an uncontroversial object of humanitarian concern in these contexts (Carpenter 2003; Hyndman and Giles 2011). Yet very little scholarly work has attempted to understand the position of refugee men as a demographic within humanitarianism. Through an analysis of the Syria refugee response in Jordan, this article investigates ho…
The Politics of Labeling Refugee Men as “Vulnerable”
Critiques of humanitarian work with refugees have increasingly called for refugee men’s “vulnerabilities” to be recognized. The deployment of “vulnerability” reflects the term’s centrality within contemporary humanitarianism, and its rapidly expanding use in feminist analysis. This article argues that calls to see refugee men as “vulnerable” fail to critique, and even seek to expand, “vulnerability” as a mechanism of humanitarian governance. This…
Frantz Fanon's Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Clinical Work: Practicing Internationally with Marginalized Communities
Making Refugees Work? The Politics of Integrating Syrian Refugees into the Labor Market in Jordan
Refugee response planners no longer frame Syrian refugees merely as objects of humanitarian care. Increasingly they are portrayed as enterprising subjects, whose formal integration into labor markets simultaneously can create self-sufficient actors and cure the economic woes of host countries. However, bringing together humanitarian and economic agendas is not an easy task. This article analyzes the contradictions and frictions that have emerged …
Explaining the (Non-)Encampment of Syrian Refugees: Security, Class and the Labour Market in Lebanon and Jordan
In Lebanon and Jordan the (non-)encampment of Syrian refugees is serving states’ labour market goals. The Lebanese economy ‘requires’ large numbers of non-encamped low-wage Syrian workers, but the Jordanian regime assists its Transjordanian support base by restricting poor Syrians’ access to the labour market through encampment. While acknowledging the importance of both states’ differing historical experiences hosting refugees, and the security …
Race, Rights and Rebellion in the Custodial State: A Post-Los Angeles Marxian Reconstruction
America's new race/class contradictions erupted in the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, providing an impetus to think through the dialectic of political and human emancipation the young Marx articulated in Zur Judenfrage. For Stanford Lyman, the theoretical response to the assimilation of diasporic Jews into modernizing 19th-century Europe was appropriated by American sociologists responding to 20th-century America's 'ethnoracial mix'. At the text's f…
Race and Recognition: Pathways to an Affirmative Black Identity
Building on the early work of Frantz Fanon, we explored the concept of recognition as an aspect of Black racial identity or the degree of being seen by others and ourselves as equal or morally worthy persons deserving respect. We collected 64 racial life narratives with self-identified Black adults in four contexts: Australia, Bermuda, South Africa, and the United States. We uncovered a core theme of Global Recognition or the desire to be seen as…
Corporate Coup D'État
Toward a Black Radical Critique of Political Economy
Sex Changes'? Paradigm Shifts in 'Sex' and 'Gender' following the Gender Recognition Act
Gender transformations are normatively understood as somatic, based on surgical reassignment, where the sexed body is aligned with the gender identity of the individual through genital surgery - hence the common lexicon 'sex change surgery'. We suggest that the UK Gender Recognition Act 2004 challenges what constitutes a 'sex change' through the Act's definitions and also the conditions within which legal 'recognition' is permitted. The sex/gende…
(E)Racing the Ego: Sartre, Modernity, and Fanon's Theory of Consciousness
(2002). (e)Racing the Ego: Sartre, Modernity, and Fanon's Theory of Consciousness. Parallax: Vol. 8, Fanon & the Impasses of Modernity, pp. 46-53
Marginal Note on Minority Questions in the Thought of Frantz Fanon
The Young Marx's Critique of Civil Society, and the Self-Limiting Emancipation of Black Folk: A Post-Los Angeles Reconstruction
Explaining the (Non-)Encampment of Syrian Refugees: Security, Class and the Labour Market in Lebanon and Jordan
In Lebanon and Jordan the (non-)encampment of Syrian refugees is serving states’ labour market goals. The Lebanese economy ‘requires’ large numbers of non-encamped low-wage Syrian workers, but the Jordanian regime assists its Transjordanian support base by restricting poor Syrians’ access to the labour market through encampment. While acknowledging the importance of both states’ differing historical experiences hosting refugees, and the security …
Making Refugees Work? The Politics of Integrating Syrian Refugees into the Labor Market in Jordan
Refugee response planners no longer frame Syrian refugees merely as objects of humanitarian care. Increasingly they are portrayed as enterprising subjects, whose formal integration into labor markets simultaneously can create self-sufficient actors and cure the economic woes of host countries. However, bringing together humanitarian and economic agendas is not an easy task. This article analyzes the contradictions and frictions that have emerged …
The Politics of Labeling Refugee Men as “Vulnerable”
Critiques of humanitarian work with refugees have increasingly called for refugee men’s “vulnerabilities” to be recognized. The deployment of “vulnerability” reflects the term’s centrality within contemporary humanitarianism, and its rapidly expanding use in feminist analysis. This article argues that calls to see refugee men as “vulnerable” fail to critique, and even seek to expand, “vulnerability” as a mechanism of humanitarian governance. This…
Syrian refugee men as objects of humanitarian care
Critical feminist scholars of conflict and displacement have demonstrated that “womenandchildren” (Enloe 1993) have become an uncontroversial object of humanitarian concern in these contexts (Carpenter 2003; Hyndman and Giles 2011). Yet very little scholarly work has attempted to understand the position of refugee men as a demographic within humanitarianism. Through an analysis of the Syria refugee response in Jordan, this article investigates ho…
Refugees can be entrepreneurs too!’ Humanitarianism, race, and the marketing of Syrian refugees
In the context of a greater focus on the politics of migration, the ‘refugee entrepreneur’ has become an increasingly important figure in humanitarian, media, and academic portrayals of refugees. Through a focus on Jordan's Za‘tari refugee camp, which has been deemed a showcase for refugees’ ‘entrepreneurship’, this article argues that the designation of Syrian refugees as ‘entrepreneurs’ is a positioning of Syrians within colonial hierarchies of…
Sex Changes'? Paradigm Shifts in 'Sex' and 'Gender' following the Gender Recognition Act
Gender transformations are normatively understood as somatic, based on surgical reassignment, where the sexed body is aligned with the gender identity of the individual through genital surgery - hence the common lexicon 'sex change surgery'. We suggest that the UK Gender Recognition Act 2004 challenges what constitutes a 'sex change' through the Act's definitions and also the conditions within which legal 'recognition' is permitted. The sex/gende…
Who Is a Refugee in Jordan? Hierarchies and Exclusions in the Refugee Recognition Regime
This article dissects the refugee recognition regime in Jordan. It argues that refugee recognition, despite being conducted by UNHCR, is a heavily politicized process shaped by intersecting racial and national hierarchies, restrictive government regulations, and UNHCR policies. Despite Jordan hosting the ‘second highest share of refugees per capita in the world’, relatively few protection seekers gain refugee status, and when they do, it is almos…
Race and Recognition: Pathways to an Affirmative Black Identity
Building on the early work of Frantz Fanon, we explored the concept of recognition as an aspect of Black racial identity or the degree of being seen by others and ourselves as equal or morally worthy persons deserving respect. We collected 64 racial life narratives with self-identified Black adults in four contexts: Australia, Bermuda, South Africa, and the United States. We uncovered a core theme of Global Recognition or the desire to be seen as…
Learning to say 'no: Privilege, Entitlement and Refusal in Peace, (Post)conflict and Security Research
In this forum, we focus on the possibility and necessity for active refusal in research, and the complexities of refusal. We offer four different perspectives, based on our shared concerns and understanding of the harms caused by some field research, and driven by our engagement with and membership in some of the communities experiencing this harmful fieldwork in peace, (post)conflict and security settings.Drawing on feminist, queer, indigenous, …
Defining, operationalising and translating 'vulnerability' in humanitarian work in Jordan
Vulnerability' saturates contemporary humanitarian discourse and practice in English. But how is 'vulnerability' operationalised and translated - both literally and figuratively - and what can these dynamics tell us about the humanitarian system? Drawing on an extensive engagement with humanitarianism in Jordan, this article explores how 'vulnerability' is turned from a ubiquitous designator of need to an operationalizable indicator in humanitari…
Race, Rights and Rebellion in the Custodial State: A Post-Los Angeles Marxian Reconstruction
America's new race/class contradictions erupted in the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, providing an impetus to think through the dialectic of political and human emancipation the young Marx articulated in Zur Judenfrage. For Stanford Lyman, the theoretical response to the assimilation of diasporic Jews into modernizing 19th-century Europe was appropriated by American sociologists responding to 20th-century America's 'ethnoracial mix'. At the text's f…
Toward a Black Radical Critique of Political Economy
Black Thought and Black Reality
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The Young Marx's Critique of Civil Society, and the Self-Limiting Emancipation of Black Folk: A Post-Los Angeles Reconstruction
Marginal Note on Minority Questions in the Thought of Frantz Fanon
(E)Racing the Ego: Sartre, Modernity, and Fanon's Theory of Consciousness
(2002). (e)Racing the Ego: Sartre, Modernity, and Fanon's Theory of Consciousness. Parallax: Vol. 8, Fanon & the Impasses of Modernity, pp. 46-53
Sex Changes'? Paradigm Shifts in 'Sex' and 'Gender' following the Gender Recognition Act
Gender transformations are normatively understood as somatic, based on surgical reassignment, where the sexed body is aligned with the gender identity of the individual through genital surgery - hence the common lexicon 'sex change surgery'. We suggest that the UK Gender Recognition Act 2004 challenges what constitutes a 'sex change' through the Act's definitions and also the conditions within which legal 'recognition' is permitted. The sex/gende…
Toward a Black Radical Critique of Political Economy
Corporate Coup D'État
Explaining the (Non-)Encampment of Syrian Refugees: Security, Class and the Labour Market in Lebanon and Jordan
In Lebanon and Jordan the (non-)encampment of Syrian refugees is serving states’ labour market goals. The Lebanese economy ‘requires’ large numbers of non-encamped low-wage Syrian workers, but the Jordanian regime assists its Transjordanian support base by restricting poor Syrians’ access to the labour market through encampment. While acknowledging the importance of both states’ differing historical experiences hosting refugees, and the security …
Race, Rights and Rebellion in the Custodial State: A Post-Los Angeles Marxian Reconstruction
America's new race/class contradictions erupted in the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, providing an impetus to think through the dialectic of political and human emancipation the young Marx articulated in Zur Judenfrage. For Stanford Lyman, the theoretical response to the assimilation of diasporic Jews into modernizing 19th-century Europe was appropriated by American sociologists responding to 20th-century America's 'ethnoracial mix'. At the text's f…
Race and Recognition: Pathways to an Affirmative Black Identity
Building on the early work of Frantz Fanon, we explored the concept of recognition as an aspect of Black racial identity or the degree of being seen by others and ourselves as equal or morally worthy persons deserving respect. We collected 64 racial life narratives with self-identified Black adults in four contexts: Australia, Bermuda, South Africa, and the United States. We uncovered a core theme of Global Recognition or the desire to be seen as…
Making Refugees Work? The Politics of Integrating Syrian Refugees into the Labor Market in Jordan
Refugee response planners no longer frame Syrian refugees merely as objects of humanitarian care. Increasingly they are portrayed as enterprising subjects, whose formal integration into labor markets simultaneously can create self-sufficient actors and cure the economic woes of host countries. However, bringing together humanitarian and economic agendas is not an easy task. This article analyzes the contradictions and frictions that have emerged …
Syrian refugee men as objects of humanitarian care
Critical feminist scholars of conflict and displacement have demonstrated that “womenandchildren” (Enloe 1993) have become an uncontroversial object of humanitarian concern in these contexts (Carpenter 2003; Hyndman and Giles 2011). Yet very little scholarly work has attempted to understand the position of refugee men as a demographic within humanitarianism. Through an analysis of the Syria refugee response in Jordan, this article investigates ho…
The Politics of Labeling Refugee Men as “Vulnerable”
Critiques of humanitarian work with refugees have increasingly called for refugee men’s “vulnerabilities” to be recognized. The deployment of “vulnerability” reflects the term’s centrality within contemporary humanitarianism, and its rapidly expanding use in feminist analysis. This article argues that calls to see refugee men as “vulnerable” fail to critique, and even seek to expand, “vulnerability” as a mechanism of humanitarian governance. This…
Frantz Fanon's Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Clinical Work: Practicing Internationally with Marginalized Communities
From ‘It Rarely Happens’ to ‘It’s Worse for Men’: Dispelling Misconceptions about Sexual Violence against Men and Boys in Conflict and Displacement
Sexual violence against men and boys in conflict and displacement has garnered increasing attention over the past decade and has been recognised in UN Security Resolution 2467. Despite increased evidence and understanding of the issue, myths and misconceptions nevertheless abound. The authors of this article – practitioners and academics with extensive experience in the field – aim to dispel ten of the most common misconceptions that we have enco…
Refugees can be entrepreneurs too!’ Humanitarianism, race, and the marketing of Syrian refugees
In the context of a greater focus on the politics of migration, the ‘refugee entrepreneur’ has become an increasingly important figure in humanitarian, media, and academic portrayals of refugees. Through a focus on Jordan's Za‘tari refugee camp, which has been deemed a showcase for refugees’ ‘entrepreneurship’, this article argues that the designation of Syrian refugees as ‘entrepreneurs’ is a positioning of Syrians within colonial hierarchies of…
What Is Left to Be Done? The Marxist-Humanism of Charles Denby (1907–1983) – Black Worker-Editor
Who Is a Refugee in Jordan? Hierarchies and Exclusions in the Refugee Recognition Regime
This article dissects the refugee recognition regime in Jordan. It argues that refugee recognition, despite being conducted by UNHCR, is a heavily politicized process shaped by intersecting racial and national hierarchies, restrictive government regulations, and UNHCR policies. Despite Jordan hosting the ‘second highest share of refugees per capita in the world’, relatively few protection seekers gain refugee status, and when they do, it is almos…
Learning to say 'no: Privilege, Entitlement and Refusal in Peace, (Post)conflict and Security Research
In this forum, we focus on the possibility and necessity for active refusal in research, and the complexities of refusal. We offer four different perspectives, based on our shared concerns and understanding of the harms caused by some field research, and driven by our engagement with and membership in some of the communities experiencing this harmful fieldwork in peace, (post)conflict and security settings.Drawing on feminist, queer, indigenous, …
The Jordan Compact, Refugee Labour and the Limits of Indicator-oriented Formalization
This article explores the significance of initiatives to formalize the labour market participation of refugees. Many practitioners believe that formalization is a panacea for improving the lives of marginalized workers, including refugees. This article argues, however, that in practice it easily becomes an indicator-oriented exercise, where readily quantifiable targets are prioritized over substantive improvements. To this end, the article analys…
Reconstructions of the Rhetoric of the American Dream
The “shock and awe” of the 2024 election has so laid bare the vacuity of the rhetoric of American liberal democracy that it has elicited a new, coarsened public rhetoric. FAAFO (F—ed around and found out) is a trope to which even the respectable discourse of the mainstream media has resorted. FAAFO is the irrepressible rhetoric in which we now speak of the ruins of the bourgeoisie, as Walter Benjamin observed of surrealism. This ruin had already …
Defining, operationalising and translating 'vulnerability' in humanitarian work in Jordan
Vulnerability' saturates contemporary humanitarian discourse and practice in English. But how is 'vulnerability' operationalised and translated - both literally and figuratively - and what can these dynamics tell us about the humanitarian system? Drawing on an extensive engagement with humanitarianism in Jordan, this article explores how 'vulnerability' is turned from a ubiquitous designator of need to an operationalizable indicator in humanitari…
The Idea of the Organic, or the Constitutional, in Fanon’s Phenomenological Description of the Psychopathology of Racial Alienation
This paper challenges an unspoken consensus in Fanon Studies, namely, whether Fanon had something other than a social constructivist concept of race, that is, that “race” is not a biological reality, but an ideological myth constructed by a racialized and racist society. A counterfactual case is made in this paper, enlisting forensic analysis and archival research evidence to do so. It also relies on knowledge now accessible in English for the fi…
Teaching to say ‘no’: Pedagogies of refusal in the social sciences classroom (and beyond)
Although not new, debates about researchers’ refusal to engage in (potentially) unethical and harmful research have recently gained traction in the social sciences, stressing the need for researchers to ‘learn to say no.’ Decolonial and indigenous scholars working in contexts of settler colonialism have extended these debates to the practice of teaching in higher education. In this ‘points of departure’ article, we build on these debates and prac…
The Future of Refugee Livelihoods Programming: Lessons From the Jordan Compact
Livelihoods have been a central element of the humanitarian response to the Syria crisis. This was especially the case in Jordan, with the Jordan Compact promising hundreds of thousands of jobs for Syrians, and development opportunities for their hosts. In this commentary, we highlight three broader lessons from the scheme, the results of which were disappointing for many Syrians. Livelihoods interventions must ensure that indicators of success a…
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