Codes of Cultural Belonging
Racialised National Identities in a Multi-Ethnic Scottish Neighbourhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2642340 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Satnam Virdee (0000-0001-8995-0827, University of Glasgow, Cyprus College, University of Bristol, corresponding author), Christopher Kyriakides (University of Glasgow, Cyprus College, University of Bristol), T Modood (0000-0001-8712-5508, University of Glasgow, Cyprus College, University of Bristol) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 30-38 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5153/sro.1424 |
| OpenAlex | W2158743630 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 10 |
This qualitative study investigates the relationship between race and nation in an ethnically mixed neighbourhood in Glasgow, Scotland. It finds that Scottishness has a historically founded racialised referent at the level of the neighbourhood but that this referent is undermined in everyday life by syncretic codes of cultural belonging represented by signifiers such as accent, dress and mannerisms. However, these cultural signifiers that contest the racialised referent are, on occasions, themselves challenged by negative ascriptions such as terrorist and extremist which reinforce, though never completely, the original racialised referent of Scottishness as whiteness. We conclude that whiteness is an unstable identifier of Scottishness, and Scottishness is an unstable identifier of whiteness, such that a negative view of Islam as antithetical to imagined conceptions of Scottishness, cannot easily be sustained in areas of relatively high racialised minority settlement
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |