Resonance and reach: discussions on racism between the UK and Germany from the late 1970s
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in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Jahrgang 37, Nr. 10, 06.08.2014, S. 1808-1814.
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T1 - Resonance and reach
T2 - discussions on racism between the UK and Germany from the late 1970s
AU - Bojadžijev, Manuela
PY - 2014/8/6
Y1 - 2014/8/6
N2 - In this paper I investigate the resonance of the volume The Empire Strikes Back within the debates on racism in Germany since the late 1970s. I am interested in this long-term intellectual exchange in light of the current need to conceptualize racism in a European framework and thereby reflect upon the characteristics, concepts and possibilities of such a framework. I begin by situating the debate at that time within the context of the New Left. What connected both situations, in Germany and the UK, was an inscription of the then-ongoing anti-colonial and decolonial struggles of the South in the North, not least through the 'retaliatory effect' of migration movements and struggles of migration arriving in Europe. I argue that the understandings of racism and anti-racism are grounded in a materialist framework and that the concept of articulation helped and continues to help thinking the complexity and heterogeneity of the social.
AB - In this paper I investigate the resonance of the volume The Empire Strikes Back within the debates on racism in Germany since the late 1970s. I am interested in this long-term intellectual exchange in light of the current need to conceptualize racism in a European framework and thereby reflect upon the characteristics, concepts and possibilities of such a framework. I begin by situating the debate at that time within the context of the New Left. What connected both situations, in Germany and the UK, was an inscription of the then-ongoing anti-colonial and decolonial struggles of the South in the North, not least through the 'retaliatory effect' of migration movements and struggles of migration arriving in Europe. I argue that the understandings of racism and anti-racism are grounded in a materialist framework and that the concept of articulation helped and continues to help thinking the complexity and heterogeneity of the social.
KW - concept of articulation
KW - Germany
KW - Marxism
KW - New Left
KW - racism
KW - the UK
KW - Cultural studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84906094948&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01419870.2014.932405
DO - 10.1080/01419870.2014.932405
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:84906094948
VL - 37
SP - 1808
EP - 1814
JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
SN - 0141-9870
IS - 10
ER -