'Crisis ordinariness and racial justice' - Nasar Meer
| Dates: | 10 January 2023 |
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| Times: | 15:00 - 16:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Current University students, General public |
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This talk explores how societies adapt to a form of ‘crisis ordinariness’ (Berlant 2011) in which the regularity of racial injustice prevails without the need for pre-meditated racist intentions. Underwritten by a ‘racial contract’ (Mills 1997), and propelled by racial mechanics in seemingly disparate and ancillary social spheres, the argument advanced here is that social systems bear the imprints of older racial injustices that are not merely restated but re-articulated in ways that may be novel, and yet share common properties with how other racial projects have been curated and sustained. Seeing racial injustice as systemic, therefore, better allows us to grasp the nature of the challenge we face.
Nasar Meer is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Edinburgh.
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