The ‘crisis’ of white hegemony, neonationalist femininities and antiracist feminism

Bibliographic Data

ID11697155
AuthorsSuvi Keskinen (0000-0001-6174-9216, University of Helsinki, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume68
Pages157-163
Publication date2017-11-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWomen s Studies International Forum (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0277-5395 • E-ISSN: 1879-243X
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.wsif.2017.11.001
OpenAlexW2768749524
LanguageEN
Citations received36
References cited19

The rise of neonationalist politics and racist activism has characterised many European countries in recent years. Moreover, there is a growing public focus on gendered and sexualised intimacies. These two tendencies have increasingly intertwined and sexual violence has become a site for struggles over feminist and (anti)racist politics. The article examines what I call the ‘crisis’ of white hegemony arising in the aftermath of the arrival of a large number of refugees in 2015-2016 and the different strategies that women’s and feminist activism has developed. Within white nationalism, there is an upsurge of ‘white border guard femininities’: white women who mobilise on social media and in far-right groups. Simultaneously, antiracist feminist activism has strengthened. It seeks to confront racist discourses of foreign perpetrators and to redirect the discussion by addressing structural aspects of racial and gendered hierarchies and voicing experiences of harassment that are bypassed in the public discussions

Feminism · Harassment · Hegemony · Islamophobia · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · White (mutation · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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