Emejulu, A. and Bassel, L. (2015) Minority women, austerity and activism. Race & Class, 57 (2). pp. 86-95. ISSN 0306-3968
Abstract
Based on their study of minority women’s activism in the context of the economic crisis in Scotland, England and France, the authors question how well third sector organisations, policy-makers and social movements have responded to minority women’s perspectives and needs arising from austerity and racism. Apart from being disproportionately affected by the cuts, minority women are also undermined by dominant discourses which can (mis)represent them as either ‘victims’ or ‘enterprising actors’. There appears, from the excerpted interviews, to be a disconnect between minority women’s experiences and analyses of their precarity, their desire to take radical action and the compliant and domesticating projects and programmes that are currently being offered by some of their third sector ‘allies’.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 Institute of Race Relations. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Race & Class. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | activism; austerity; minority women; social enterprise; social movements; third sector |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 15 Mar 2024 11:22 |
Last Modified: | 15 Mar 2024 11:22 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0306396815595913 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:210285 |
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