Title Minority women and austerity : survival and resistance in France and Britain / Leah Bassel, Akwugo Emejulu

Edition 1st Published Bristol : Policy Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Intro -- MINORITY WOMEN AND AUSTERITY -- Contents -- Glossary of French terms -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1. Taking minority women's activism seriously -- Introduction -- The three cases: France, England and Scotland -- Methods -- The 2008 economic crisis, austerity measures and minority women -- Outline of the book -- 2. Theorising and resisting 'political racelessness' in Europe -- Introduction -- The racial logic of Europe -- Manufacturing white ignorance and white innocence -- Minority women and the epistemic violence of political racelessness -- Minority women and epistemic justice -- Conclusions -- 3. Whose crisis counts? -- Introduction -- Minority women and routinised precarity -- Minority women's routinised crises and austerity measures since 2008 -- Conclusions -- 4. Enterprising activism -- Introduction -- Governing the third sector -- The enterprising third sector and minority women's activism -- Marketising third sector relations -- Marketising organisational norms and values -- Minority women activists: entrepreneurs, victims or invisible? -- On being invisible or instrumentalised in France -- Conclusions -- 5. The politics of survival -- Introduction -- Personal and collective resources -- Activism as self-help, self-care and self-organising -- Activism as self-representation? -- Co-optation and being instrumentalised -- Negotiating the Republic -- Speaking against stigma and naming intersections -- Social movements -- Conclusion -- 6. Learning across cases, learning beyond 'cases' -- The road we have travelled -- Learning across cases: state power and national 'models' -- Learning beyond 'cases': new actors on the scene -- Conclusions -- 7. Conclusion: warning signs -- Introduction -- Raising the alarm -- Race and Europe: what comes next? -- Appendix -- Fieldwork and sampling strategy Analysis and coding frame -- References -- Index Summary Bassel and Emejulu explore minority women's experiences of austerity measures in France and Britain. They demonstrate how they use their race, class, gender and legal status for collective action in the face of the neoliberal colonisation Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes CIP data; resource not viewed Subject Women political activists -- Great Britain Women political activists -- France Minority women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions Minority women -- France -- Social conditions SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Minority women -- Social conditions Social conditions Women political activists Frauenbewegung Aktivist Minderheitenfrage Soziale Situation Frau SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 21st century France -- Social conditions -- 21st century Subject France Great Britain Großbritannien Frankreich Form Electronic book Author Emejulu, Akwugo, author ISBN 9781447327172 1447327179 9781447327165 1447327160 9781447327189 1447327187

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