A Emejulu
Biographic Data
| ID | 45453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Emejulu |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Emejulu |
| SIGNATURE | EMEJULU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-0840-4886 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 300 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Atmospheres and Activism: Rethinking Solidarity Politics
How and why does left solidarity fail women of color? Given the rising tide of far right extremism, this is an urgent question for social movement actors who wish to build sustainable coalitions for progressive politics. In this paper, we examine the dynamics of solidarity via a novel approach to the study of “atmospheres.” While scholars of emotions have identified the importance of atmospheres in social and political life, they are unable to an…
Joy, with Akwugo Emejulu
Joy -with Akwugo EmejuluWhat comes to mind when you think about joy?And can there be joy in protest and refusal?Someone who's been asking and trying to answer questions about this is Akwugo Emejulu.She's been investigating the relationship between Black feminist joy, ambivalence and futures, asking how Black feminists are remixing political media, meanings and messages to co-create manifestos for change.Akwugo has also been mapping the grassroots…
On the Limits of Liberalism: Teaching Iris Marion Young in Scotland
Moral Subjects in White Spaces: Impossible Solidarities
This article explores women of colour's struggles against white spaces in anti-austerity, anti-fascist and migrants' rights movements in Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, London, Madrid and Paris. We argue that solidarity is denied by white activists who resist women of colour's practical demands to take race, class, gender, sexuality, disability and legal status seriously as an organising strategy. These demands are misinterpreted as emotional pleas…
The lonely activist: On being haunted
In our six-nation comparative research project examining how women of colour activists in London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen and Madrid organise and mobilise against austerity, against the far right and for migrants' rights, we found activists experiencing intense feelings of loneliness in their work. Emotional turmoil in activist spaces is to be expected since activists are mobilised to action precisely because of the deeply felt emotio…
Intersectional Vulnerabilities and the Banality of Harm
In this article we examine how intersectional vulnerabilities are experienced and made sense of by women of color activists in Europe. We name intersectional vulnerabilities as a broad, sometimes contradictory, set of emotions, all tied to activists' complex experiences of insecurity and community. Intersectional vulnerabilities are those risks and rewards, derived from women of color activists' positioning in relation to race, class, gender, sex…
Refusing politics as usual: Mapping women of colour’s radical praxis in London and Amsterdam
This article explores an intriguing emergent organising strategy among women of colour activists in London and Amsterdam: a politics of refusal. In response to the triple catastrophes facing women of colour: the on-going roll back of social welfare states, the normalisation of the far right in everyday life and the xenophobic backlash against migrants, we find that some women of colour activists are deliberatively withdrawing from view and workin…
Critical perspectives on ABCD: A conversation with Akwugo Emejulu
opinion Share on Critical perspectives on ABCD: a conversation with Akwugo Emejulu Authors: Akwugo Emejulu University of Warwick University of WarwickView Profile , Lucy Pei University of California, Irvine University of California, IrvineView Profile , Aakash Gautam San Francisco State University San Francisco State UniversityView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 29Issue 5September - October 2022 pp 34–38https://doi.org/10.1145/3…
Diversity Within”: The Problems with “Intersectional” White Feminism in Practice
In intersectionality studies, debates about the additive versus constitutive nature of intersectionality are long-established. This article attempts to intervene in these conversations by examining how additive, “diversity within” intersectionality works in practice. Across feminist academia, advocacy, and policymaking, there is a widely held perception that among the nongovernmental organizations constituted around identity-based inequalities (f…
Introducing radical democratic citizenship: From practice to theory
For our special issue, ‘Radical Democratic Citizenship: From Practice to Theory’, we examine different forms of radical theorising and politics at the grassroots. Radical democratic citizenship entails forms of struggle against gross social, economic and political miseries and injustices. This special issue explores the implications of a renewed wave of revolutionary grassroots action. ‘Radical’ indicates firstly the potential for sustained funda…
Akwugo Emejulu: A Sociological Playlist
The politics of exhaustion
Drawing on our comparative research project conducted in six European cities, this article proposes a tentative politics of exhaustion as a way to understand the promise and perils of women of colour activists’ solidarity work. Through an examination of how women of colour activists strategise, organise and mobilise, we demonstrate the political and psychological impact of exhaustion. To declare exhaustion, we argue, is to hail the equally exhaus…
Intersectionality and the politics of knowledge production
Since its coinage in the 1980s, intersectionality has journeyed across borders and disciplines, which is a testament to its resonance. We examine how intersectionality has travelled within political science and the potential impact that this has had on its political project, with particular attention to the politics of knowledge production. The analysis draws on: (1) an original database of articles published in political science journals; (2) de…
Can Political Science Decolonise? A Response to Neema Begum and Rima Saini
Austerity and the Politics of Becoming
In this short contribution, we attempt to explore the ways in which austerity measures–deficit reductions through tax increases and cuts to public spending–generate unexpected political subjectivities among women of colour activists in Britain. In particular, we ex-amine how the dramatic cuts to public spending and the privatization of public services simultaneously subject women of colour by further destabilizing their already precarious economi…
Mourning the old world whilst building the new? A rejoinder
The file associated with this record is under embargo until 18 months after publication, in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The full text may be available through the publisher links provided above
Caring subjects: Migrant women and the third sector in England and Scotland
The file associated with this record is under embargo until 18 months after publication, in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The full text may be available through the publisher links provided above
Women of Colour’s Anti-Austerity Activism
Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain
Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain
Whose Crisis Counts? Minority Women, Austerity and Activism in France and Britain
Women as Sectarian Agents: Looking Beyond the Football Cliché in Scotland
In this article the authors challenge the hegemonic masculinity of the dominant football discourses on intra-Christian sectarianism in Scotland through a pilot study on women’s everyday experiences of sectarianism. The authors argue that dominant constructions of sectarianism often erase the standpoints of different kinds of women by minimising their roles both as agents for change and/or subjects who also reproduce sectarianism in their own righ…
Towards a radical digital citizenship in digital education
In this article, we attempt to define and explore a concept of ‘radical digital citizenship’ and its implications for digital education. We argue that the ‘digital’ and its attendant technologies are constituted by on-going materialist struggles for equality and justice in the Global South and North which are erased in the dominant literature and debates in digital education. We assert the need for politically informed understandings of the digit…
Travelling with intersectionality across time, place and space
This special issue is inspired by the debates generated by our Scottish Universities Insight Institute international seminar series entitled: Children’s Rights, Social Justice and Social Identities
When intersectionality met childhood studies: The dilemmas of a travelling concept
Childhood studies/geographies have a longstanding interest in questions around multiple social inequalities and identities in diverse socio-spatial contexts, but have not yet seriously considered the politics of intersectionality. Importing intersectionality into childhood studies is neither a straightforward nor an unproblematic process. We suggest that the question that childhood studies/geographies scholars must confront is how intersectionali…
Neoliberalism With a Community Face? A Critical Analysis of Asset-Based Community Development in Scotland
In this article, we trace the ideological and social policy roots of asset-based community development (ABCD) in the United States and the United Kingdom, and explore how this approach has been legitimized in Scotland. We argue that ABCD is a capitulation to neoliberal values of individualization and privatization. Drawing on findings from our empirical work, we discuss how ABCD generates dilemmas for community development. Although some practiti…
Minority women, austerity and activism
Based on their study of minority women's activism in the context of the economic crisis in Scotland, England and France, the authors question how well third sector organisations, policy-makers and social movements have responded to minority women's perspectives and needs arising from austerity and racism. Apart from being disproportionately affected by the cuts, minority women are also undermined by dominant discourses which can (mis)represent th…
When intersectionality met childhood studies: The dilemmas of a travelling concept
Childhood studies/geographies have a longstanding interest in questions around multiple social inequalities and identities in diverse socio-spatial contexts, but have not yet seriously considered the politics of intersectionality. Importing intersectionality into childhood studies is neither a straightforward nor an unproblematic process. We suggest that the question that childhood studies/geographies scholars must confront is how intersectionali…
Struggles for Institutional Space in France and the United Kingdom: Intersectionality and the Politics of Policy
This article uses intersectionality as an analytical tool to explore struggles for institutional space in policy processes in two ostensibly contrasting contexts: “republican” France and the “multicultural” United Kingdom. Specifically, the article undertakes within-case analysis of three policy processes. In France, we discuss the debate overlaïcité, or secularism, the subsequent formulation of the March 2004 law banning the wearing of religious…
Diversity Within”: The Problems with “Intersectional” White Feminism in Practice
In intersectionality studies, debates about the additive versus constitutive nature of intersectionality are long-established. This article attempts to intervene in these conversations by examining how additive, “diversity within” intersectionality works in practice. Across feminist academia, advocacy, and policymaking, there is a widely held perception that among the nongovernmental organizations constituted around identity-based inequalities (f…
Intersectionality and the politics of knowledge production
Since its coinage in the 1980s, intersectionality has journeyed across borders and disciplines, which is a testament to its resonance. We examine how intersectionality has travelled within political science and the potential impact that this has had on its political project, with particular attention to the politics of knowledge production. The analysis draws on: (1) an original database of articles published in political science journals; (2) de…
Austerity and the Politics of Becoming
In this short contribution, we attempt to explore the ways in which austerity measures–deficit reductions through tax increases and cuts to public spending–generate unexpected political subjectivities among women of colour activists in Britain. In particular, we ex-amine how the dramatic cuts to public spending and the privatization of public services simultaneously subject women of colour by further destabilizing their already precarious economi…
The politics of exhaustion
Drawing on our comparative research project conducted in six European cities, this article proposes a tentative politics of exhaustion as a way to understand the promise and perils of women of colour activists’ solidarity work. Through an examination of how women of colour activists strategise, organise and mobilise, we demonstrate the political and psychological impact of exhaustion. To declare exhaustion, we argue, is to hail the equally exhaus…
Solidarity under Austerity: Intersectionality in France and the United Kingdom
In this article, we argue that in order to understand and counter the asymmetrical effects of the current economic crisis, intersectional analyses and coalition building are required. Our research aims to address a tendency in some intersectionality research to underplay or sideline social class and capitalist relations (Anthias 2012, 6, 15; Skeggs 2008). Our goal is to expand intersectionality to questions of political economy that are not typic…
Caring subjects: Migrant women and the third sector in England and Scotland
The file associated with this record is under embargo until 18 months after publication, in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The full text may be available through the publisher links provided above
Towards a radical digital citizenship in digital education
In this article, we attempt to define and explore a concept of ‘radical digital citizenship’ and its implications for digital education. We argue that the ‘digital’ and its attendant technologies are constituted by on-going materialist struggles for equality and justice in the Global South and North which are erased in the dominant literature and debates in digital education. We assert the need for politically informed understandings of the digit…
Can Political Science Decolonise? A Response to Neema Begum and Rima Saini
The lonely activist: On being haunted
In our six-nation comparative research project examining how women of colour activists in London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen and Madrid organise and mobilise against austerity, against the far right and for migrants' rights, we found activists experiencing intense feelings of loneliness in their work. Emotional turmoil in activist spaces is to be expected since activists are mobilised to action precisely because of the deeply felt emotio…
Being and Belonging in Scotland: Exploring the Intersection of Ethnicity, Gender and National Identity among Scottish Pakistani Groups
Through an analysis of the views and attitudes of a small sample of the largest minority ethnic group in Scotland, I seek to examine two key issues in relation to recent research on ethnicity, national identity and belonging in Scottish social and political studies (McCrone and Kiely 2000; Bond and Rosie 2002; McCrone 2002; Bond 2006; Miller and Hussain 2006; McCrone and Bechhofer 2010). Firstly, I analyse how Scottish Pakistani groups name and c…
Intersectional Vulnerabilities and the Banality of Harm
In this article we examine how intersectional vulnerabilities are experienced and made sense of by women of color activists in Europe. We name intersectional vulnerabilities as a broad, sometimes contradictory, set of emotions, all tied to activists' complex experiences of insecurity and community. Intersectional vulnerabilities are those risks and rewards, derived from women of color activists' positioning in relation to race, class, gender, sex…
Travelling with intersectionality across time, place and space
This special issue is inspired by the debates generated by our Scottish Universities Insight Institute international seminar series entitled: Children’s Rights, Social Justice and Social Identities
On the Limits of Liberalism: Teaching Iris Marion Young in Scotland
Women as Sectarian Agents: Looking Beyond the Football Cliché in Scotland
In this article the authors challenge the hegemonic masculinity of the dominant football discourses on intra-Christian sectarianism in Scotland through a pilot study on women’s everyday experiences of sectarianism. The authors argue that dominant constructions of sectarianism often erase the standpoints of different kinds of women by minimising their roles both as agents for change and/or subjects who also reproduce sectarianism in their own righ…
Struggles for Institutional Space in France and the United Kingdom: Intersectionality and the Politics of Policy
This article uses intersectionality as an analytical tool to explore struggles for institutional space in policy processes in two ostensibly contrasting contexts: “republican” France and the “multicultural” United Kingdom. Specifically, the article undertakes within-case analysis of three policy processes. In France, we discuss the debate overlaïcité, or secularism, the subsequent formulation of the March 2004 law banning the wearing of religious…
Being and Belonging in Scotland: Exploring the Intersection of Ethnicity, Gender and National Identity among Scottish Pakistani Groups
Through an analysis of the views and attitudes of a small sample of the largest minority ethnic group in Scotland, I seek to examine two key issues in relation to recent research on ethnicity, national identity and belonging in Scottish social and political studies (McCrone and Kiely 2000; Bond and Rosie 2002; McCrone 2002; Bond 2006; Miller and Hussain 2006; McCrone and Bechhofer 2010). Firstly, I analyse how Scottish Pakistani groups name and c…
Institutionalizing intersectionality: The changing nature of European equality regimes
Institutionalizing intersectionality: the changing nature of European equality regimes." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37(10), pp. 1922–1923
Solidarity under Austerity: Intersectionality in France and the United Kingdom
In this article, we argue that in order to understand and counter the asymmetrical effects of the current economic crisis, intersectional analyses and coalition building are required. Our research aims to address a tendency in some intersectionality research to underplay or sideline social class and capitalist relations (Anthias 2012, 6, 15; Skeggs 2008). Our goal is to expand intersectionality to questions of political economy that are not typic…
Neoliberalism With a Community Face? A Critical Analysis of Asset-Based Community Development in Scotland
In this article, we trace the ideological and social policy roots of asset-based community development (ABCD) in the United States and the United Kingdom, and explore how this approach has been legitimized in Scotland. We argue that ABCD is a capitulation to neoliberal values of individualization and privatization. Drawing on findings from our empirical work, we discuss how ABCD generates dilemmas for community development. Although some practiti…
Minority women, austerity and activism
Based on their study of minority women's activism in the context of the economic crisis in Scotland, England and France, the authors question how well third sector organisations, policy-makers and social movements have responded to minority women's perspectives and needs arising from austerity and racism. Apart from being disproportionately affected by the cuts, minority women are also undermined by dominant discourses which can (mis)represent th…
Towards a radical digital citizenship in digital education
In this article, we attempt to define and explore a concept of ‘radical digital citizenship’ and its implications for digital education. We argue that the ‘digital’ and its attendant technologies are constituted by on-going materialist struggles for equality and justice in the Global South and North which are erased in the dominant literature and debates in digital education. We assert the need for politically informed understandings of the digit…
Travelling with intersectionality across time, place and space
This special issue is inspired by the debates generated by our Scottish Universities Insight Institute international seminar series entitled: Children’s Rights, Social Justice and Social Identities
When intersectionality met childhood studies: The dilemmas of a travelling concept
Childhood studies/geographies have a longstanding interest in questions around multiple social inequalities and identities in diverse socio-spatial contexts, but have not yet seriously considered the politics of intersectionality. Importing intersectionality into childhood studies is neither a straightforward nor an unproblematic process. We suggest that the question that childhood studies/geographies scholars must confront is how intersectionali…
Women of Colour’s Anti-Austerity Activism
Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain
Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain
Whose Crisis Counts? Minority Women, Austerity and Activism in France and Britain
Women as Sectarian Agents: Looking Beyond the Football Cliché in Scotland
In this article the authors challenge the hegemonic masculinity of the dominant football discourses on intra-Christian sectarianism in Scotland through a pilot study on women’s everyday experiences of sectarianism. The authors argue that dominant constructions of sectarianism often erase the standpoints of different kinds of women by minimising their roles both as agents for change and/or subjects who also reproduce sectarianism in their own righ…
Intersectionality and the politics of knowledge production
Since its coinage in the 1980s, intersectionality has journeyed across borders and disciplines, which is a testament to its resonance. We examine how intersectionality has travelled within political science and the potential impact that this has had on its political project, with particular attention to the politics of knowledge production. The analysis draws on: (1) an original database of articles published in political science journals; (2) de…
Can Political Science Decolonise? A Response to Neema Begum and Rima Saini
Austerity and the Politics of Becoming
In this short contribution, we attempt to explore the ways in which austerity measures–deficit reductions through tax increases and cuts to public spending–generate unexpected political subjectivities among women of colour activists in Britain. In particular, we ex-amine how the dramatic cuts to public spending and the privatization of public services simultaneously subject women of colour by further destabilizing their already precarious economi…
Mourning the old world whilst building the new? A rejoinder
The file associated with this record is under embargo until 18 months after publication, in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The full text may be available through the publisher links provided above
Caring subjects: Migrant women and the third sector in England and Scotland
The file associated with this record is under embargo until 18 months after publication, in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The full text may be available through the publisher links provided above
Akwugo Emejulu: A Sociological Playlist
The politics of exhaustion
Drawing on our comparative research project conducted in six European cities, this article proposes a tentative politics of exhaustion as a way to understand the promise and perils of women of colour activists’ solidarity work. Through an examination of how women of colour activists strategise, organise and mobilise, we demonstrate the political and psychological impact of exhaustion. To declare exhaustion, we argue, is to hail the equally exhaus…
Introducing radical democratic citizenship: From practice to theory
For our special issue, ‘Radical Democratic Citizenship: From Practice to Theory’, we examine different forms of radical theorising and politics at the grassroots. Radical democratic citizenship entails forms of struggle against gross social, economic and political miseries and injustices. This special issue explores the implications of a renewed wave of revolutionary grassroots action. ‘Radical’ indicates firstly the potential for sustained funda…
Refusing politics as usual: Mapping women of colour’s radical praxis in London and Amsterdam
This article explores an intriguing emergent organising strategy among women of colour activists in London and Amsterdam: a politics of refusal. In response to the triple catastrophes facing women of colour: the on-going roll back of social welfare states, the normalisation of the far right in everyday life and the xenophobic backlash against migrants, we find that some women of colour activists are deliberatively withdrawing from view and workin…
Critical perspectives on ABCD: A conversation with Akwugo Emejulu
opinion Share on Critical perspectives on ABCD: a conversation with Akwugo Emejulu Authors: Akwugo Emejulu University of Warwick University of WarwickView Profile , Lucy Pei University of California, Irvine University of California, IrvineView Profile , Aakash Gautam San Francisco State University San Francisco State UniversityView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 29Issue 5September - October 2022 pp 34–38https://doi.org/10.1145/3…
Diversity Within”: The Problems with “Intersectional” White Feminism in Practice
In intersectionality studies, debates about the additive versus constitutive nature of intersectionality are long-established. This article attempts to intervene in these conversations by examining how additive, “diversity within” intersectionality works in practice. Across feminist academia, advocacy, and policymaking, there is a widely held perception that among the nongovernmental organizations constituted around identity-based inequalities (f…
Sociology (28 works) · Political science (27 works) · Law (25 works) · Politics (24 works) · Gender Studies (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Austerity (10 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (10 works) · Political economy (9 works)