Hussain, Y and Bagguley, P orcid.org/0000-0001-6536-8322 (2015) Reflexive Ethnicities: Crisis, Diversity and Re-Composition. Sociological Research Online, 20 (3). 18. ISSN 1360-7804
Abstract
This paper we presents an analysis of how people reflexively relate to their ethnicity in the context of cultural and political crisis after the 7/7 bombings in London in 2005. Introducing a differentiated conception of reflexivity following Archer and Lash, the paper shows how cognitive, hermeneutic and aesthetic reflexivity (Lash) are expressed autonomously, communicatively and autonomously (Archer) variably across and within ethnicities. Differentiated reflexive expressions of ethnicity are rooted in the politics and histories of ethnicities in relation to dominant discourses of whiteness and Britishness. The data is from a qualitative interview study of how different ethnic groups in West Yorkshire were affected by the 7/7 London bombings, with people of African-Caribbean, Black- African, Bangladeshi, Indian Pakistani and White backgrounds. The increased reflexivity of identity that this demands, is seen to be rooted in the political crises generated by Britain’s role in and response to the war on terror, but also biographical experiences of contextual continuities, discontinuities and incongruities of migration.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: |
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Keywords: | Ethnicity; Reflexivity; Identity; 7/7 Bombings; Migration |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number British Academy SG-41810 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 31 Jul 2015 15:48 |
Last Modified: | 27 Nov 2020 10:02 |
Published Version: | http://www.socresonline.org.uk/20/3/18.html |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.5153/sro.3776 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:88488 |