Adam Elliott‐cooper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3994583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Elliott‐cooper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Elliott‐cooper |
| SIGNATURE | COOPER A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 216 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Abolishing institutional racism
In 2020, anti-racist campaigns mobilising under the banner of Black Lives Matter challenged liberal reforms to policing as they made calls to defund the police. In the same year, the UK government’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities rejected not just the radical demands of Black Lives Matter protesters, but even liberal analyses of institutional racism in policing. This article examines how these two political interventions, analysing the…
Black resistance to British policing
Using a decade of activist research, this book offers a radical analysis of grassroots black resistance to policing in twenty-first-century Britain
Empire's Endgame
Paris-Londres
The household where I grew up was filled with the sounds of calypso, soca, reggae and zouk. It was the latter, a genre of Franco-Caribbean music, that offered a distinctly French influence to the f
Moving beyond Marcuse
Displacement has become one of the most prominent themes in contemporary geographical debates, used to describe processes of dispossession and forced eviction at a diverse range of scales. Given its frequent deployment in studies describing the consequences of gentrification, this paper seeks to better define and conceptualise displacement as a process of un-homing, noting that while gentrification can prompt processes of eviction, expulsion and …
Our life is a struggle”
This paper investigates the role of women in anti‐racist campaigns against policing in post‐2011 England. It argues that imperial discourses about gender norms and respectability have helped to shape how race and crime are constituted in the contemporary period. Women's resistance to police racism has received scholarly attention from black feminists in North America; such attention has been less in Britain, particularly since the 1990s. While in…
An Introduction to the Special Issue on Identity Politics
This special issue responds to ongoing debates around what has been termed ‘identity politics’. We aim to intervene in what are make-or-break questions for the Left today. Specifically, we wish to provoke further interrogative but comradely conversation that works towards breaking-down the wedge between vulgar economism and vulgar culturalism. Critically, we maintain that just as all identity categories are spatially and temporally contingent – s…
The struggle that cannot be named
The history of black struggles in Britain has often centred on spaces of violence and resistance. While there has been significant attention paid to how racism is articulated through particular places, less has been said about anti-racism being communicated through its associations with space and place. Using Tottenham (north London) as a case study, I draw on ethnographic observations at demonstrations and public meetings, in addition to semi-st…
Conceptualizing racism
Racially Accommodative Language, shortened to RAL by Cazenave, is analysed in a text which combines a clinical and highly critical analysis of existing racism theories in North American sociology w
Free, decolonised education’
This commentary places British geography within transnational currents of student‐focused decolonisation movements. In October 2015, the author travelled to South Africa for the first time, visiting Witwatersrand University (Johannesburg), University of Cape Town ( UCT ) and Rhodes University in Grahamstown. This paper draws on historical accounts of the British colonisation of what is now South Africa, contextualising both the domestic and globa…
Crisis, austerity and everyday life
Crisis, austerity and everyday life: living in a time of diminishing expectations." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 41(3), pp. 584–585
Thoughts into action
At a glance, Black British Intellectuals and Education may appear an unremarkable book. Everyone knows that black British intellectuals exist, and that black individuals and communities participate
Moral panic(s) in the 21st century
Although Policing the Crisis brought thorough academic analysis to the overlap between police, government and media racism, black communities, and those standing in solidarity with them had been organising to address these issues long before. This resistance continues today, and Newham Monitoring Project (NMP) has been working with communities to support such initiatives for over thirty years. The work of NMP covers a range of issues, many of whi…
Labour and resistance across global spaces
What are the patterns of labour, organisation and resistance six years after the start of a global financial crisis that throated the basis of worldwide capital accumulation? National governments o
The Stuart Hall Project
The contemporary moment, beset with financial crises, imperial aggression, racism, state surveillance and repression of protest, has been notably absent from the now semi-retired Stuart Hall. The S
Moving beyond Marcuse
Displacement has become one of the most prominent themes in contemporary geographical debates, used to describe processes of dispossession and forced eviction at a diverse range of scales. Given its frequent deployment in studies describing the consequences of gentrification, this paper seeks to better define and conceptualise displacement as a process of un-homing, noting that while gentrification can prompt processes of eviction, expulsion and …
Free, decolonised education’
This commentary places British geography within transnational currents of student‐focused decolonisation movements. In October 2015, the author travelled to South Africa for the first time, visiting Witwatersrand University (Johannesburg), University of Cape Town ( UCT ) and Rhodes University in Grahamstown. This paper draws on historical accounts of the British colonisation of what is now South Africa, contextualising both the domestic and globa…
Our life is a struggle”
This paper investigates the role of women in anti‐racist campaigns against policing in post‐2011 England. It argues that imperial discourses about gender norms and respectability have helped to shape how race and crime are constituted in the contemporary period. Women's resistance to police racism has received scholarly attention from black feminists in North America; such attention has been less in Britain, particularly since the 1990s. While in…
The struggle that cannot be named
The history of black struggles in Britain has often centred on spaces of violence and resistance. While there has been significant attention paid to how racism is articulated through particular places, less has been said about anti-racism being communicated through its associations with space and place. Using Tottenham (north London) as a case study, I draw on ethnographic observations at demonstrations and public meetings, in addition to semi-st…
Crisis, austerity and everyday life
Crisis, austerity and everyday life: living in a time of diminishing expectations." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 41(3), pp. 584–585
Moral panic(s) in the 21st century
Although Policing the Crisis brought thorough academic analysis to the overlap between police, government and media racism, black communities, and those standing in solidarity with them had been organising to address these issues long before. This resistance continues today, and Newham Monitoring Project (NMP) has been working with communities to support such initiatives for over thirty years. The work of NMP covers a range of issues, many of whi…
An Introduction to the Special Issue on Identity Politics
This special issue responds to ongoing debates around what has been termed ‘identity politics’. We aim to intervene in what are make-or-break questions for the Left today. Specifically, we wish to provoke further interrogative but comradely conversation that works towards breaking-down the wedge between vulgar economism and vulgar culturalism. Critically, we maintain that just as all identity categories are spatially and temporally contingent – s…
Conceptualizing racism
Racially Accommodative Language, shortened to RAL by Cazenave, is analysed in a text which combines a clinical and highly critical analysis of existing racism theories in North American sociology w
The Stuart Hall Project
The contemporary moment, beset with financial crises, imperial aggression, racism, state surveillance and repression of protest, has been notably absent from the now semi-retired Stuart Hall. The S
The Stuart Hall Project
The contemporary moment, beset with financial crises, imperial aggression, racism, state surveillance and repression of protest, has been notably absent from the now semi-retired Stuart Hall. The S
Thoughts into action
At a glance, Black British Intellectuals and Education may appear an unremarkable book. Everyone knows that black British intellectuals exist, and that black individuals and communities participate
Moral panic(s) in the 21st century
Although Policing the Crisis brought thorough academic analysis to the overlap between police, government and media racism, black communities, and those standing in solidarity with them had been organising to address these issues long before. This resistance continues today, and Newham Monitoring Project (NMP) has been working with communities to support such initiatives for over thirty years. The work of NMP covers a range of issues, many of whi…
Labour and resistance across global spaces
What are the patterns of labour, organisation and resistance six years after the start of a global financial crisis that throated the basis of worldwide capital accumulation? National governments o
Free, decolonised education’
This commentary places British geography within transnational currents of student‐focused decolonisation movements. In October 2015, the author travelled to South Africa for the first time, visiting Witwatersrand University (Johannesburg), University of Cape Town ( UCT ) and Rhodes University in Grahamstown. This paper draws on historical accounts of the British colonisation of what is now South Africa, contextualising both the domestic and globa…
Crisis, austerity and everyday life
Crisis, austerity and everyday life: living in a time of diminishing expectations." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 41(3), pp. 584–585
An Introduction to the Special Issue on Identity Politics
This special issue responds to ongoing debates around what has been termed ‘identity politics’. We aim to intervene in what are make-or-break questions for the Left today. Specifically, we wish to provoke further interrogative but comradely conversation that works towards breaking-down the wedge between vulgar economism and vulgar culturalism. Critically, we maintain that just as all identity categories are spatially and temporally contingent – s…
The struggle that cannot be named
The history of black struggles in Britain has often centred on spaces of violence and resistance. While there has been significant attention paid to how racism is articulated through particular places, less has been said about anti-racism being communicated through its associations with space and place. Using Tottenham (north London) as a case study, I draw on ethnographic observations at demonstrations and public meetings, in addition to semi-st…
Conceptualizing racism
Racially Accommodative Language, shortened to RAL by Cazenave, is analysed in a text which combines a clinical and highly critical analysis of existing racism theories in North American sociology w
Moving beyond Marcuse
Displacement has become one of the most prominent themes in contemporary geographical debates, used to describe processes of dispossession and forced eviction at a diverse range of scales. Given its frequent deployment in studies describing the consequences of gentrification, this paper seeks to better define and conceptualise displacement as a process of un-homing, noting that while gentrification can prompt processes of eviction, expulsion and …
Our life is a struggle”
This paper investigates the role of women in anti‐racist campaigns against policing in post‐2011 England. It argues that imperial discourses about gender norms and respectability have helped to shape how race and crime are constituted in the contemporary period. Women's resistance to police racism has received scholarly attention from black feminists in North America; such attention has been less in Britain, particularly since the 1990s. While in…
Paris-Londres
The household where I grew up was filled with the sounds of calypso, soca, reggae and zouk. It was the latter, a genre of Franco-Caribbean music, that offered a distinctly French influence to the f
Black resistance to British policing
Using a decade of activist research, this book offers a radical analysis of grassroots black resistance to policing in twenty-first-century Britain
Empire's Endgame
Abolishing institutional racism
In 2020, anti-racist campaigns mobilising under the banner of Black Lives Matter challenged liberal reforms to policing as they made calls to defund the police. In the same year, the UK government’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities rejected not just the radical demands of Black Lives Matter protesters, but even liberal analyses of institutional racism in policing. This article examines how these two political interventions, analysing the…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Racism (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Colonialism (3 works)