Kirsten Forkert
Biographic Data
| ID | 341503 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirsten Forkert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirsten |
| FAMILY NAME | Forkert |
| SIGNATURE | FORKERT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birmingham City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7938-3475 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Fixed Identities, Zero-Sum Games and Oppression Hierarchies
This article examines the persistence of common-sense conceptions of race and ethnic identity and the role they play within contemporary politics in the UK. Drawing on the work of Claire Alexander and Rogers Brubaker, the article reflects on why we continue to see ethnic identity as something fixed and static, and why this persists despite theoretical developments which have drawn attention to identity’s fluidity and contingency. Using a conjunct…
The chronopolitics of the 'Left Behind
This article examines the "Left Behind" as a temporal construct and its political uses. In the UK, the "Left Behind" is predominantly discussed as a group of people sharing a similar geographical locale, White identity, and deprivation. Political parties and commentators have been integral to constructing this White class as a deserving poor and voting bloc, who have not reaped the benefits of economic development. Instead of assessing the empiri…
Law and order
Kirsten Forkert talks to Kevin Blowe, campaigns coordinator of Netpol A Starmer-led government is unlikely to deviate from the mainstream-constructed consensus on policing Netpol - the Network for Police Monitoring ‐ is a coalition of organisations that liaise together on monitoring police activities. Cases it has been involved in include those of Ian Tomlinson and Jean Charles de Menezes. As DPP, Keir Starmer confirmed CPS decisions not to prose…
Solidarity against the odds
A discussion on the challenges facing trade union activists in the light of the government's determination to create a hostile environment for trade unionists as well as people of colour - including the ways in which intersectionalities of race and class play out in the workplace and the labour movement. Topics discussed include: how and why people get involved in unions - and how to maintain their interest in the face of sometimes outdated pract…
Challenging the structures of racism
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 …
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…
Austere Creativity and Volunteer-run Public Services
The article explores a particular concept of creativity which is being mobilised within Austerity Britain. This mobilisation involves capitalising on the resourcefulness and ingenuity of citizens in their ability to adapt and ‘problem-solve’ in the face of cuts to the welfare state; it lacks any oppositional or explicitly political aspects. Such a conception of creativity is also linked to imperatives to restore a perceived loss of community and …
The promises of creative industry higher education
In the context of economic growth policies that stress the importance of a ‘creative economy’, and the expansion of private universities, there has been an enormous growth in the number of creative industry degrees offered by Malaysian HEIs. This paper provides a critical discourse analysis of the promotional materials used by two private institutions, Multimedia University and Limkokwing University, to persuade students that these degrees will o…
Unwaged Posts in UK Universities
This article examines unwaged posts at UK universities, using recent examples of advertised job posts. While unpaid work is common in the UK higher education system, unwaged posts are not. The posts under scrutiny in this article differ from traditional honorary titles as they target early career academics, who are unlikely to have a paid position elsewhere, rather than established scholars. The article contextualizes the appearance of these post…
Class and panic in British immigration
In Policing the Crisis, Stuart Hall et al. (1978) explored the calculus of work and the trope around portraying certain categories of people as taking advantage of the majority, without evidence. The concept of work became abstracted so that it was longer about employment, but about conformity with certain norms. The moralising discourse of work as a moral duty, also as connected to citizenship, underpins debates on immigration. Politicians and r…
The persistence of bohemia
This paper is a reflection on bohemia, both as a historical and a contemporary phenomenon. It explores bohemia as an expression of and a response to the contradictions of both 19th-century bourgeois society and present-day neo-liberal society. It begins with an examination of the origins of bohemia in 19th-century Paris and follows its expansion and popularisation through the 20th century. The paper then focuses on Berlin as a paradigmatic exampl…
Work under communicative capitalism
Resistance as Form
Book Review| March 01 2008 Resistance as Form FORMS OF RESISTANCE: ARTISTS AND THE DESIRE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE FROM 1871 TO THE PRESENT VANABBE MUSEUMEINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS SEPTEMBER 22, 2007–JANUARY 6, 2008 Kirsten Forkert Kirsten Forkert KIRSTEN FORKERT is an artist, writer, organizer, and PhD student in media and communications at Goldsmiths College in London. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimag…
Tactical Media and Art Institutions
The persistence of bohemia
This paper is a reflection on bohemia, both as a historical and a contemporary phenomenon. It explores bohemia as an expression of and a response to the contradictions of both 19th-century bourgeois society and present-day neo-liberal society. It begins with an examination of the origins of bohemia in 19th-century Paris and follows its expansion and popularisation through the 20th century. The paper then focuses on Berlin as a paradigmatic exampl…
The promises of creative industry higher education
In the context of economic growth policies that stress the importance of a ‘creative economy’, and the expansion of private universities, there has been an enormous growth in the number of creative industry degrees offered by Malaysian HEIs. This paper provides a critical discourse analysis of the promotional materials used by two private institutions, Multimedia University and Limkokwing University, to persuade students that these degrees will o…
Class and panic in British immigration
In Policing the Crisis, Stuart Hall et al. (1978) explored the calculus of work and the trope around portraying certain categories of people as taking advantage of the majority, without evidence. The concept of work became abstracted so that it was longer about employment, but about conformity with certain norms. The moralising discourse of work as a moral duty, also as connected to citizenship, underpins debates on immigration. Politicians and r…
Tactical Media and Art Institutions
Resistance as Form
Book Review| March 01 2008 Resistance as Form FORMS OF RESISTANCE: ARTISTS AND THE DESIRE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE FROM 1871 TO THE PRESENT VANABBE MUSEUMEINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS SEPTEMBER 22, 2007–JANUARY 6, 2008 Kirsten Forkert Kirsten Forkert KIRSTEN FORKERT is an artist, writer, organizer, and PhD student in media and communications at Goldsmiths College in London. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimag…
Tactical Media and Art Institutions
Work under communicative capitalism
The persistence of bohemia
This paper is a reflection on bohemia, both as a historical and a contemporary phenomenon. It explores bohemia as an expression of and a response to the contradictions of both 19th-century bourgeois society and present-day neo-liberal society. It begins with an examination of the origins of bohemia in 19th-century Paris and follows its expansion and popularisation through the 20th century. The paper then focuses on Berlin as a paradigmatic exampl…
Class and panic in British immigration
In Policing the Crisis, Stuart Hall et al. (1978) explored the calculus of work and the trope around portraying certain categories of people as taking advantage of the majority, without evidence. The concept of work became abstracted so that it was longer about employment, but about conformity with certain norms. The moralising discourse of work as a moral duty, also as connected to citizenship, underpins debates on immigration. Politicians and r…
Unwaged Posts in UK Universities
This article examines unwaged posts at UK universities, using recent examples of advertised job posts. While unpaid work is common in the UK higher education system, unwaged posts are not. The posts under scrutiny in this article differ from traditional honorary titles as they target early career academics, who are unlikely to have a paid position elsewhere, rather than established scholars. The article contextualizes the appearance of these post…
Austere Creativity and Volunteer-run Public Services
The article explores a particular concept of creativity which is being mobilised within Austerity Britain. This mobilisation involves capitalising on the resourcefulness and ingenuity of citizens in their ability to adapt and ‘problem-solve’ in the face of cuts to the welfare state; it lacks any oppositional or explicitly political aspects. Such a conception of creativity is also linked to imperatives to restore a perceived loss of community and …
The promises of creative industry higher education
In the context of economic growth policies that stress the importance of a ‘creative economy’, and the expansion of private universities, there has been an enormous growth in the number of creative industry degrees offered by Malaysian HEIs. This paper provides a critical discourse analysis of the promotional materials used by two private institutions, Multimedia University and Limkokwing University, to persuade students that these degrees will 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.' 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…
Challenging the structures of racism
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 …
Solidarity against the odds
A discussion on the challenges facing trade union activists in the light of the government's determination to create a hostile environment for trade unionists as well as people of colour - including the ways in which intersectionalities of race and class play out in the workplace and the labour movement. Topics discussed include: how and why people get involved in unions - and how to maintain their interest in the face of sometimes outdated pract…
Law and order
Kirsten Forkert talks to Kevin Blowe, campaigns coordinator of Netpol A Starmer-led government is unlikely to deviate from the mainstream-constructed consensus on policing Netpol - the Network for Police Monitoring ‐ is a coalition of organisations that liaise together on monitoring police activities. Cases it has been involved in include those of Ian Tomlinson and Jean Charles de Menezes. As DPP, Keir Starmer confirmed CPS decisions not to prose…
Fixed Identities, Zero-Sum Games and Oppression Hierarchies
This article examines the persistence of common-sense conceptions of race and ethnic identity and the role they play within contemporary politics in the UK. Drawing on the work of Claire Alexander and Rogers Brubaker, the article reflects on why we continue to see ethnic identity as something fixed and static, and why this persists despite theoretical developments which have drawn attention to identity’s fluidity and contingency. Using a conjunct…
The chronopolitics of the 'Left Behind
This article examines the "Left Behind" as a temporal construct and its political uses. In the UK, the "Left Behind" is predominantly discussed as a group of people sharing a similar geographical locale, White identity, and deprivation. Political parties and commentators have been integral to constructing this White class as a deserving poor and voting bloc, who have not reaped the benefits of economic development. Instead of assessing the empiri…
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