C Leddy-Owen
Biographic Data
| ID | 42753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Leddy-Owen |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Leddy-Owen |
| SIGNATURE | LEDDY-OWEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0175-9057 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Making space for solidarity: The transformative role of shame in challenging racialised hegemony
Using an affective framework, this article explores the role of shame in stimulating non‐migrant citizen solidarity with asylum seekers and refugees across the UK. Combining research on shame with ongoing discussions of solidarity and influential work by Bourdieu, the productive potential of affect is discussed. This paper argues that shame is an affect capable of creating a ‘rupture’ in an individual or organisation's habitus. This rupture is ev…
“Slaughterhouse cattle are treated better than this”: Exploring the salience of everyday nationhood at British airports
Questions remain about nationhood’s everyday salience – that is, whether and how nationhood is engaged with by “ordinary people” undertaking routine activities. We present an innovative methodology for investigating everyday nationhood at the international border. We created a social media dataset of 1,083 “tweets” made during British airport border crossings, where nationhood might be expected to be particularly salient – especially during a per…
Understating the (nationalist) state: A response to my reviewers
I first set out my general perspective on nationalism as, above all, a form of politics related to modern statehood. This feeds into the response to each reviewer. First responding to Sandelind, I dispute the contention that I overstate nationalism’s political dimension. The dominance of nationalism as a political ideology in the contemporary world is, I argue, much more important than Sandelind suggests, in terms of framing both statehood and th…
Bringing the State Back into the Sociology of Nationalism: The Persona Ficta Is Political
This article re-examines two key questions from the sociology of nationalism - why nationalism resonates emotionally and to what extent nations are socially salient - and the implications of these for a sense of peoplehood and collective political agency. The particular focus is on the state. Instead of conflating statehood with nationhood, or seeking to expose it as illusory, sociologists should consider how the state - imagined and experienced …
Nationalism, Inequality and England’s Political Predicament
Based on fine-grained ethnographic research in an English city, this book offers a highly original perspective on England’s contemporary political predicament. It argues that some of the most influential academic accounts of the country's current political situation, particularly those focusing on culture or racism, have neglected the key role of nationalism as an often unspoken, banal political principle and framing ideology. Suggesting that eco…
Building and blurring the intimate boundaries of nation, race and geopolitics in a suburb neighbouring a UK immigration removal centre
Drawing on analysis of qualitative interviews with 25 residents of an affluent, highly militarised suburb neighbouring a British immigration detention centre, this article analyses how constructions of place and home interrelate with nationalist, racialised and geopolitical boundaries. The article begins by introducing the fieldwork site before discussing the centrality of feminist geopolitics frameworks to the subsequent data analysis. The findi…
Liberal Nationalism, Imagined Immigration and the Progressive Dilemma
The article critically evaluates liberal nationalist perspectives on immigration by drawing on findings from a qualitative research project undertaken in 2014 among White British interviewees in England. From one perspective the study's participants' attitudes seem to support arguments made by David Goodhart and other liberal nationalists regarding immigration, social trust and integration. However, further analysis suggests that these attitudes …
I had a hard time actually trying to catch the essence of Englishness: Participant photography and the racialised construction of place and belonging in a South London suburb
This article draws on findings from a study conducted in a South London suburb that employed photograph participation methods alongside semi-structured qualitative interviews in order to explore the extent to which identifications as English are racialised. While initial data analysis utilised a somewhat reductive photo-elicitation approach, this article presents findings from a reanalysis in which the photographic data were approached on an equa…
Reimagining Englishness: Race', Class, Progressive English Identities and Disrupted English Communities
This article explores suggestions made by the contemporary mainstream left in England that reinvigorated English national identities could be an important resource for constructing a progressive sense of social solidarity and community in England. Analysis of semi-structured qualitative interviews undertaken in a South London area finds that English identifiers do associate Englishness with a sense of social cooperation and community. However, fo…
It Sounds Unwelcoming, It Sounds Exclusive, but I Think It's Just a Question of Arithmetic Really: The Limits to White People's Anti-Essentialist Perspectives on the Nation
Analysing data from qualitative interviews, this article demonstrates how white people's constructions of national identity in England destabilise but ultimately reaffirm essentialist, exclusionary boundaries. The first set of findings presented demonstrate the ways in which normalised associations between whiteness and Englishness are regularly, temporarily unsettled through empirical, experiential and ethical processes of reflection, only to be…
‘It's true, I'm English… I'm not lying’: Essentialized and precarious English identities
This article explores relationships between Englishness and racialization in order to consider the potential for English identities that are progressive in anti-essentialist or multicultural terms. The article draws on data from interviews in which people from a South London area talk about Englishness. I will examine how English identities are understood by participants who are white and participants who are not white. While white participants e…
I had a hard time actually trying to catch the essence of Englishness: Participant photography and the racialised construction of place and belonging in a South London suburb
This article draws on findings from a study conducted in a South London suburb that employed photograph participation methods alongside semi-structured qualitative interviews in order to explore the extent to which identifications as English are racialised. While initial data analysis utilised a somewhat reductive photo-elicitation approach, this article presents findings from a reanalysis in which the photographic data were approached on an equa…
Reimagining Englishness: Race', Class, Progressive English Identities and Disrupted English Communities
This article explores suggestions made by the contemporary mainstream left in England that reinvigorated English national identities could be an important resource for constructing a progressive sense of social solidarity and community in England. Analysis of semi-structured qualitative interviews undertaken in a South London area finds that English identifiers do associate Englishness with a sense of social cooperation and community. However, fo…
It Sounds Unwelcoming, It Sounds Exclusive, but I Think It's Just a Question of Arithmetic Really: The Limits to White People's Anti-Essentialist Perspectives on the Nation
Analysing data from qualitative interviews, this article demonstrates how white people's constructions of national identity in England destabilise but ultimately reaffirm essentialist, exclusionary boundaries. The first set of findings presented demonstrate the ways in which normalised associations between whiteness and Englishness are regularly, temporarily unsettled through empirical, experiential and ethical processes of reflection, only to be…
Building and blurring the intimate boundaries of nation, race and geopolitics in a suburb neighbouring a UK immigration removal centre
Drawing on analysis of qualitative interviews with 25 residents of an affluent, highly militarised suburb neighbouring a British immigration detention centre, this article analyses how constructions of place and home interrelate with nationalist, racialised and geopolitical boundaries. The article begins by introducing the fieldwork site before discussing the centrality of feminist geopolitics frameworks to the subsequent data analysis. The findi…
Liberal Nationalism, Imagined Immigration and the Progressive Dilemma
The article critically evaluates liberal nationalist perspectives on immigration by drawing on findings from a qualitative research project undertaken in 2014 among White British interviewees in England. From one perspective the study's participants' attitudes seem to support arguments made by David Goodhart and other liberal nationalists regarding immigration, social trust and integration. However, further analysis suggests that these attitudes …
Bringing the State Back into the Sociology of Nationalism: The Persona Ficta Is Political
This article re-examines two key questions from the sociology of nationalism - why nationalism resonates emotionally and to what extent nations are socially salient - and the implications of these for a sense of peoplehood and collective political agency. The particular focus is on the state. Instead of conflating statehood with nationhood, or seeking to expose it as illusory, sociologists should consider how the state - imagined and experienced …
‘It's true, I'm English… I'm not lying’: Essentialized and precarious English identities
This article explores relationships between Englishness and racialization in order to consider the potential for English identities that are progressive in anti-essentialist or multicultural terms. The article draws on data from interviews in which people from a South London area talk about Englishness. I will examine how English identities are understood by participants who are white and participants who are not white. While white participants e…
It Sounds Unwelcoming, It Sounds Exclusive, but I Think It's Just a Question of Arithmetic Really: The Limits to White People's Anti-Essentialist Perspectives on the Nation
Analysing data from qualitative interviews, this article demonstrates how white people's constructions of national identity in England destabilise but ultimately reaffirm essentialist, exclusionary boundaries. The first set of findings presented demonstrate the ways in which normalised associations between whiteness and Englishness are regularly, temporarily unsettled through empirical, experiential and ethical processes of reflection, only to be…
Liberal Nationalism, Imagined Immigration and the Progressive Dilemma
The article critically evaluates liberal nationalist perspectives on immigration by drawing on findings from a qualitative research project undertaken in 2014 among White British interviewees in England. From one perspective the study's participants' attitudes seem to support arguments made by David Goodhart and other liberal nationalists regarding immigration, social trust and integration. However, further analysis suggests that these attitudes …
I had a hard time actually trying to catch the essence of Englishness: Participant photography and the racialised construction of place and belonging in a South London suburb
This article draws on findings from a study conducted in a South London suburb that employed photograph participation methods alongside semi-structured qualitative interviews in order to explore the extent to which identifications as English are racialised. While initial data analysis utilised a somewhat reductive photo-elicitation approach, this article presents findings from a reanalysis in which the photographic data were approached on an equa…
Reimagining Englishness: Race', Class, Progressive English Identities and Disrupted English Communities
This article explores suggestions made by the contemporary mainstream left in England that reinvigorated English national identities could be an important resource for constructing a progressive sense of social solidarity and community in England. Analysis of semi-structured qualitative interviews undertaken in a South London area finds that English identifiers do associate Englishness with a sense of social cooperation and community. However, fo…
Building and blurring the intimate boundaries of nation, race and geopolitics in a suburb neighbouring a UK immigration removal centre
Drawing on analysis of qualitative interviews with 25 residents of an affluent, highly militarised suburb neighbouring a British immigration detention centre, this article analyses how constructions of place and home interrelate with nationalist, racialised and geopolitical boundaries. The article begins by introducing the fieldwork site before discussing the centrality of feminist geopolitics frameworks to the subsequent data analysis. The findi…
Nationalism, Inequality and England’s Political Predicament
Based on fine-grained ethnographic research in an English city, this book offers a highly original perspective on England’s contemporary political predicament. It argues that some of the most influential academic accounts of the country's current political situation, particularly those focusing on culture or racism, have neglected the key role of nationalism as an often unspoken, banal political principle and framing ideology. Suggesting that eco…
Understating the (nationalist) state: A response to my reviewers
I first set out my general perspective on nationalism as, above all, a form of politics related to modern statehood. This feeds into the response to each reviewer. First responding to Sandelind, I dispute the contention that I overstate nationalism’s political dimension. The dominance of nationalism as a political ideology in the contemporary world is, I argue, much more important than Sandelind suggests, in terms of framing both statehood and th…
Bringing the State Back into the Sociology of Nationalism: The Persona Ficta Is Political
This article re-examines two key questions from the sociology of nationalism - why nationalism resonates emotionally and to what extent nations are socially salient - and the implications of these for a sense of peoplehood and collective political agency. The particular focus is on the state. Instead of conflating statehood with nationhood, or seeking to expose it as illusory, sociologists should consider how the state - imagined and experienced …
“Slaughterhouse cattle are treated better than this”: Exploring the salience of everyday nationhood at British airports
Questions remain about nationhood’s everyday salience – that is, whether and how nationhood is engaged with by “ordinary people” undertaking routine activities. We present an innovative methodology for investigating everyday nationhood at the international border. We created a social media dataset of 1,083 “tweets” made during British airport border crossings, where nationhood might be expected to be particularly salient – especially during a per…
Making space for solidarity: The transformative role of shame in challenging racialised hegemony
Using an affective framework, this article explores the role of shame in stimulating non‐migrant citizen solidarity with asylum seekers and refugees across the UK. Combining research on shame with ongoing discussions of solidarity and influential work by Bourdieu, the productive potential of affect is discussed. This paper argues that shame is an affect capable of creating a ‘rupture’ in an individual or organisation's habitus. This rupture is ev…
Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Nationalism (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)