Ben Pitcher
Biographic Data
| ID | 86801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Pitcher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Pitcher |
| SIGNATURE | BEN PITCHER |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8071-2643 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’: Liberal Indigeneity and the Repudiation of Colonialism in Postimperial Britain
This article examines imaginative connections to an indigenous ancestry in popular British nonfiction writing on nature, landscape, and environment. It coins the term ‘liberal indigeneity’ to characterize ostensibly plural, inclusive engagements with Britain’s prehistoric past that promise to reconnect with nature and recover lost forms of identity, community, and relationality. Though animating interests that diverge considerably from the far ri…
Decolonization, Indigeneity, and the Cultural Politics of Race
Racism and Brexit: Notes Towards an Antiracist Populism
2019). Racism and Brexit: notes towards an antiracist populism. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 42, Special Issue: Racial nationalisms: borders, refugees and the cultural politics of belonging, pp. 2490-2509
The touch of iconoclasm
This article reflects on some depicted intentional acts of iconoclasm undertaken by Isis in Northern Iraq and viewed as online videos. It attempts to consider what makes these moving images compelling to audiences who share an orientation to the protection and preservation of ancient artefacts. In doing so, it prompts a reflection on their circulation as part of stories that get told about cultural heritage, and particularly the simple civilizati…
Race, Debt and the Welfare State
In this article I explore how the figure of debt illuminates the racial politics of welfare in neoliberal Britain. I begin by giving a reading of the simultaneous unfolding of post-war race politics and the Beveridgean welfare state, and then turn to consider the interpellative appeal of neoliberal debt to minoritiSed subjects who have, in certain respects, been de facto excluded from prevailing models of welfare citizenship. In particular, this …
Belonging to a Different Landscape: Repurposing Nationalist Affects
This is an article about the embodied, sensual experience of rural landscape as a site where racialized feelings of national belonging get produced. Largely impervious to criticism and reformation by 'thin' legal-political versions of multicultural or cosmopolitan citizenship, it is my suggestion that this racialized belonging is best confronted through the recognition and appreciation of precisely what makes it so compelling. Through an engageme…
Policing the crisis, or, why we love The Wire
The Wire’s figuration of the complexity of the relations between the different social structures, institutions and agents that constitute contemporary urban life has been taken as evidence of its ‘sociological’ status. In this article we argue for a more reflexive consideration of the show’s appeal qua model social text. Rather than regarding The Wire as enhancing our understanding of the social, this article acknowledges, and offers a reading of…
Race and capitalism redux
Pitcher's article deals with a revival of interest in the relationship between race and capitalism. The old reductionist arguments that once held that capitalism was ultimately to blame for racism have been subject to a peculiar inversion, and now capitalism is being conceived as having anti-racist outcomes. Engaging with arguments that suggest that anti-racism similarly serves as an agent of neoliberal capitalism, Pitcher suggests it is necessar…
Radical subjects after hegemony
White No Longer
To begin, I want to thank all five of my interlocutors for their thought-provoking responses to my article. I would like to concur with their respective analyses that the election and presidency of
Obama and the Politics of blackness: Antiracism in the "post-black" Conjuncture
This article sets out think about some of the challenges to U.S. antiracism heralded by Barack Obama's presidency. It begins by examining the relationship Obama negotiates with notions of blackness in his autobiographical writings, and it considers how this exemplifies what has been described as a “post-black” politics. It proceeds to discuss the insufficiency of critiques of “post-black” as having sold out a black political tradition, but it not…
The politics of multiculturalism: Race and racism in contemporary Britain
The Problem With White Trash
Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness Matt Wray Durham, NC/London, Duke University Press, 2006 232 pp., ISBN 0-8223-3882-3, $74.95 hbk; ISBN 0-8223-3873-4, $21.95 pbk Coming
Are You Thinking What We're Thinking?” Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Disavowal of Racism in the Run-up to the 2005 British General Election
The overt expression of racist discourse in the public realm is today—even in the case of far-right organizations like the British National Party—avoided at all costs. Yet approaches by competing political parties to the "populist" issue of asylum/immigration in the months preceding the 2005 General Election were clearly informed by negative ideas of racial difference. This article sets out to describe the conceptual logic and rhetorical structur…
Racism and Brexit: Notes Towards an Antiracist Populism
2019). Racism and Brexit: notes towards an antiracist populism. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 42, Special Issue: Racial nationalisms: borders, refugees and the cultural politics of belonging, pp. 2490-2509
Are You Thinking What We're Thinking?” Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Disavowal of Racism in the Run-up to the 2005 British General Election
The overt expression of racist discourse in the public realm is today—even in the case of far-right organizations like the British National Party—avoided at all costs. Yet approaches by competing political parties to the "populist" issue of asylum/immigration in the months preceding the 2005 General Election were clearly informed by negative ideas of racial difference. This article sets out to describe the conceptual logic and rhetorical structur…
Race and capitalism redux
Pitcher's article deals with a revival of interest in the relationship between race and capitalism. The old reductionist arguments that once held that capitalism was ultimately to blame for racism have been subject to a peculiar inversion, and now capitalism is being conceived as having anti-racist outcomes. Engaging with arguments that suggest that anti-racism similarly serves as an agent of neoliberal capitalism, Pitcher suggests it is necessar…
Race, Debt and the Welfare State
In this article I explore how the figure of debt illuminates the racial politics of welfare in neoliberal Britain. I begin by giving a reading of the simultaneous unfolding of post-war race politics and the Beveridgean welfare state, and then turn to consider the interpellative appeal of neoliberal debt to minoritiSed subjects who have, in certain respects, been de facto excluded from prevailing models of welfare citizenship. In particular, this …
Policing the crisis, or, why we love The Wire
The Wire’s figuration of the complexity of the relations between the different social structures, institutions and agents that constitute contemporary urban life has been taken as evidence of its ‘sociological’ status. In this article we argue for a more reflexive consideration of the show’s appeal qua model social text. Rather than regarding The Wire as enhancing our understanding of the social, this article acknowledges, and offers a reading of…
Belonging to a Different Landscape: Repurposing Nationalist Affects
This is an article about the embodied, sensual experience of rural landscape as a site where racialized feelings of national belonging get produced. Largely impervious to criticism and reformation by 'thin' legal-political versions of multicultural or cosmopolitan citizenship, it is my suggestion that this racialized belonging is best confronted through the recognition and appreciation of precisely what makes it so compelling. Through an engageme…
Are You Thinking What We're Thinking?” Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Disavowal of Racism in the Run-up to the 2005 British General Election
The overt expression of racist discourse in the public realm is today—even in the case of far-right organizations like the British National Party—avoided at all costs. Yet approaches by competing political parties to the "populist" issue of asylum/immigration in the months preceding the 2005 General Election were clearly informed by negative ideas of racial difference. This article sets out to describe the conceptual logic and rhetorical structur…
The politics of multiculturalism: Race and racism in contemporary Britain
The Problem With White Trash
Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness Matt Wray Durham, NC/London, Duke University Press, 2006 232 pp., ISBN 0-8223-3882-3, $74.95 hbk; ISBN 0-8223-3873-4, $21.95 pbk Coming
White No Longer
To begin, I want to thank all five of my interlocutors for their thought-provoking responses to my article. I would like to concur with their respective analyses that the election and presidency of
Obama and the Politics of blackness: Antiracism in the "post-black" Conjuncture
This article sets out think about some of the challenges to U.S. antiracism heralded by Barack Obama's presidency. It begins by examining the relationship Obama negotiates with notions of blackness in his autobiographical writings, and it considers how this exemplifies what has been described as a “post-black” politics. It proceeds to discuss the insufficiency of critiques of “post-black” as having sold out a black political tradition, but it not…
Radical subjects after hegemony
Policing the crisis, or, why we love The Wire
The Wire’s figuration of the complexity of the relations between the different social structures, institutions and agents that constitute contemporary urban life has been taken as evidence of its ‘sociological’ status. In this article we argue for a more reflexive consideration of the show’s appeal qua model social text. Rather than regarding The Wire as enhancing our understanding of the social, this article acknowledges, and offers a reading of…
Race and capitalism redux
Pitcher's article deals with a revival of interest in the relationship between race and capitalism. The old reductionist arguments that once held that capitalism was ultimately to blame for racism have been subject to a peculiar inversion, and now capitalism is being conceived as having anti-racist outcomes. Engaging with arguments that suggest that anti-racism similarly serves as an agent of neoliberal capitalism, Pitcher suggests it is necessar…
Race, Debt and the Welfare State
In this article I explore how the figure of debt illuminates the racial politics of welfare in neoliberal Britain. I begin by giving a reading of the simultaneous unfolding of post-war race politics and the Beveridgean welfare state, and then turn to consider the interpellative appeal of neoliberal debt to minoritiSed subjects who have, in certain respects, been de facto excluded from prevailing models of welfare citizenship. In particular, this …
Belonging to a Different Landscape: Repurposing Nationalist Affects
This is an article about the embodied, sensual experience of rural landscape as a site where racialized feelings of national belonging get produced. Largely impervious to criticism and reformation by 'thin' legal-political versions of multicultural or cosmopolitan citizenship, it is my suggestion that this racialized belonging is best confronted through the recognition and appreciation of precisely what makes it so compelling. Through an engageme…
The touch of iconoclasm
This article reflects on some depicted intentional acts of iconoclasm undertaken by Isis in Northern Iraq and viewed as online videos. It attempts to consider what makes these moving images compelling to audiences who share an orientation to the protection and preservation of ancient artefacts. In doing so, it prompts a reflection on their circulation as part of stories that get told about cultural heritage, and particularly the simple civilizati…
Racism and Brexit: Notes Towards an Antiracist Populism
2019). Racism and Brexit: notes towards an antiracist populism. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 42, Special Issue: Racial nationalisms: borders, refugees and the cultural politics of belonging, pp. 2490-2509
Decolonization, Indigeneity, and the Cultural Politics of Race
Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’: Liberal Indigeneity and the Repudiation of Colonialism in Postimperial Britain
This article examines imaginative connections to an indigenous ancestry in popular British nonfiction writing on nature, landscape, and environment. It coins the term ‘liberal indigeneity’ to characterize ostensibly plural, inclusive engagements with Britain’s prehistoric past that promise to reconnect with nature and recover lost forms of identity, community, and relationality. Though animating interests that diverge considerably from the far ri…
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