Racism as intimacy - looking, questioning and touching in the service encounter

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2950697
AutoresPaula Mulinari (0000-0002-4225-8590, Malmö University, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume23
Fascículo5
Páginas600-613
Data de publicação2017-09-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Identities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1350-4630 • E-ISSN: 1363-0296
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13504630.2017.1281111
OpenAlexW2582854754
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas47

The article aims to explore the embodied experience of processes of racialisation within service work with a special focus on what workers identify as central bodily strategies in defining them as the ‘other’. Theoretically, the analysis is inspired by the concept of everyday racism with a special focus on the central role of whiteness embedded in definitions of Swedishness. It also engages in dialog with postcolonial and feminist theories on the role of the body in relation to place and profession. Three practices evolve from the narratives as central to the processes of ‘othering’: looks, the repetitive question of origin and touches. The article consists primarily on 12 qualitative, in-depth interviews with service sectors employees who experience racism

Anti-racism · Racism · Sociology · Emotional Labor in Professions · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology