Jasmine Kelekay

Biographic Data

ID391741
NAMEJasmine Kelekay
GIVEN NAMESJasmine
FAMILY NAMEKelekay
SIGNATUREKELEKAY J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
ORCID0000-0001-7099-8628
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Notes on collective care as black feminist praxis within, outside, and against the academic industrial machine

    Open AccessJasmine Kelekay, Oda-Kange Midtvåge Diallo et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences & Humanities Open2025

    In this collaborative meditation, understandings and practices of academic living in the Nordics as Afro-Nordic feminists are enacted through an explorative methodology of engaging and re-imagining forms for knowledge production through the lens of Black feminist theorizations. In particular, we rehearse practices of collective care through a form of collective note keeping, a practice which is in kinship with Christina Sharpe's concept of notes …

  • Afro-Sweden

    Jasmine KelekayARTICLEScandinavian Studies2023

    Sweden, like the rest of the Nordic region, is in the international imaginary often cast as a bastion of socially progressive policy and egalitarianism. Sweden is also widely imagined as color-blind, anti-racist, and homogeneously white. Yet even prior to the recent political gains of the Sweden Democrats, scholars, activists, and cultural producers have long worked to dismantle the “myth of Nordic exceptionalism” and to expose the “white normati…

  • Skinner, Ryan Thomas. Afro-Sweden

    Jasmine KelekayARTICLEScandinavian Studies2023

    Skinner, Ryan Thomas. Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. Pp. 291. Sweden, like the rest of the Nordic region, is in the international imaginary often cast as a bastion of socially progressive policy and egalitarianism. Sweden

  • Writing Letters as Counter-Archiving

    Oda-Kange Midtvåge Diallo, Jasmine Kelekay et al.ARTICLEMeridians2023References: 5

    Can counter-archiving be a form of social care? This essay is a dialogue on this topic among four Afro-Nordic feminists writing to each other in the form of letters over a five-month period during 2021. Using an explorative and intuitive practice informed by Black feminist thought, the authors dive into the archives of their families and of the communities that they relate to and are part of as a way to communicate how and why they approach count…

  • Framing the Black Lives Matter Movement

    Open AccessNikita Carney, Jasmine KelekayARTICLESocial Currents2022Cited by: 4References: 23

    The police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd sparked a resurgence of Black Lives Matter protests throughout the summer of 2020, reminiscent of the wave of Black Lives Matter protests that occurred after several police killings in 2014 including the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Based on qualitative analysis of mainstream media coverage of the protests, this paper examines key themes in the discourse surrounding the Black Live…

  • Other than the Projects, You Stay Professional”

    Open AccessNikki Jones, Kenly Brown et al.ARTICLECity and Community2022Cited by: 6References: 29

    In this article, we show how routine policing is conscripted into the project of maintaining and reproducing spatial racism in urban settings through an intersecting set of macro-level processes and micro-interactional practices. Our analysis of ethnographic interviews conducted with over 40 police officers during 20 ride-alongs in the Western United States identifies person- and place-specific heuristic classifications that police officers rely …

  • Samhällsvetenskapliga perspektiv på Black Lives Matter

    Open AccessJan Jämte, Jasmine Kelekay et al.ARTICLESociologisk Forskning2020

    Sociologisk Forskning bad tre samhällsvetenskapliga forskare, verksamma i Sverige och USA, att svara på några frågor om rörelseprotesterna under parollen Black Lives Matter (BLM), antisvart rasism och dödligt polisvåld mot svarta människor. Deras svar grundar sig i egen och andras forskning inom områden som relationen mellan rasifiering och kriminalisering, postkoloniala perspektiv och kritisk kriminologi, erfarenheter av polisiär kontroll bland …

  • Too Dark to Support the Lions, But Light Enough for the Frontlines”

    Open AccessJasmine Kelekay, Jasmine Linnea KelekayARTICLEOpen Cultural Studies2019

    In this article, I examine cultural production as an avenue for mapping African diasporic identities and racialised experiences in Finland. Hip hop culture has long acted as a lingua franca for the African diaspora and has been central in the development of collective identities among second-generation European youth of colour. Prior to the 2010s, the landscape of Finnish hip hop was largely white with little engagement with race or hip hop’s roo…

  • Ethnographies of Race, Crime, and Justice

    Victor M Rios, Nikita Carney et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Sociology2017

    This review discusses contemporary developments in qualitative research on race, crime, and criminal justice, focusing on ethnographic studies of race and policing, criminal justice, prisons, and mass incarceration. These ethnographies inform us about the day-to-day contexts in which crime, law, and punishment are produced. They help to make visible structures of power that contribute to inequality, push for a more reflexive approach to ethnograp…