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Technologies of Belonging

The Absent Presence of Race in Europe

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ID5337937
AuthorsAmade M’charek (0000-0001-5242-2406, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, corresponding author), Katharina Schramm (0000-0002-9275-6387, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), David Skinner (0000-0002-8169-3958, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK)
Year2014
Volume39
Issue4
Pages459-467
Publication date2014-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0162243914531149
OpenAlexW2111137159
LanguageEN
Citations received104
References cited16

In many European countries, the explicit discussion of race as a biological phenomenon has long been avoided. This has not meant that race has become obsolete or irrelevant all together. Rather, it is a slippery object that keeps shifting and changing. To understand its slippery nature, we suggest that race in Europe is best viewed as an absent presence, something that oscillates between reality and nonreality, which appears on the surface and then hides underground. In this special issue, we explore how race has been configured in different practices and how race-based identities and technologies are entwined in various European settings

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