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A primeira parte do texto trata das várias noções de "diferença" que surgiram na recente controvérsia sobre a categoria "negro" (black) como sinal comum para a experiência de grupos africanoscaribenhos e do sul da Ásia na Grã-Bretanha do pós-guerra. O objetivo é assinalar como "negro" operou como sinal contingente em diferentes circunstâncias políticas. A segunda seção considera as maneiras como questões de "diferença" foram enquadradas na teoria e na prática feministas durante as décadas de 1970 e 1980, tendo como foco principal o debate britânico. A autora conclui com um breve exame de algumas categorias conceituais usadas na teorização da "diferença", sugerindo um novo quadro para análise.

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On 3 August 2012, Shafilea Ahmed's parents were convicted of her murder, nine years after the brutal 'honour' killing. The case offers important insights into how 'honour'based violence might be tackled without constructing non-Western cultures as inherently uncivilised. Critiquing the framing devices that structure British debates about 'honour'based violence demonstrates the prevalence of Orientalist tropes, revealing the need for new ways of thinking about culture that do not reify it or treat it as a singular entity that can only be tackled in its entirety; instead, it is important to recognise that cultures consist of multiple, intersecting signifying practices that are continually 'creolising'. Thus, rather than talking purely about culture, debates on 'honour'-based violence should explore the intersection of culture with gender and other axes of differentiation and inequality.

A v t a r B r a h Abstract Using, as a point of departure, Tim Lott's recent autobiography where he attempts to make sense of his mother's suicide of 1988 through a reconstruction of his family genealogy, this article tries to map the production of gendered, classed, and racialized subjects and subjectivity in west London. It addresses the tension between Lott's discourse of his own white working-class boyhood during the 1970s where questions of 'race' are all but absent, and the racialized 'commonsense' that pervades the interviews with other local white contemporaries of Lott and his parents. These narratives are analysed in relation to the socio-economic context and the political activism of the period. Theoretically, it analyses the 'diaspora space' of London/Britain, interrogating essentialist 'origin stories' of belonging; reaching out to a glimmer on the horizon of emerging non-identical formations of kinship across boundaries of class, racism, and ethnicity; and exploring the purchase of certain South Asian terms -'ajnabi', 'ghair', and 'apna/apni' -in constructing a nonbinarized understanding of identi cation across 'difference'.They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.( Arundhati Roy in The God of Small Things)This essay is a meditation through a series of questions. A meditation, by de nition, cannot pre-suppose answers or conclusions. I hope that this one develops into an open-ended conversation -a kind of graf ti without nite beginnings and endings -with FR readers responding, interrogating, critiquing, agreeing or disagreeing, and extending its main concerns through the pages of this journal. The question: 'What do you think?', which is scattered throughout this text, is, therefore, offered as a genuine invitation to write back. My own meditation is in pursuit of what Donna Haraway

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Using, as a point of departure, Tim Lott's recent autobiography where he attempts to make sense of his mother's suicide of 1988 through a reconstruction of his family genealogy, this article tries to map the production of gendered, classed, and racialized subjects and subjectivity in west London. It addresses the tension between Lott's discourse of his own white working-class boyhood during the 1970s where questions of 'race' are all but absent, and the racialized 'commonsense' that pervades the interviews with other local white contemporaries of Lott and his parents. These narratives are analysed in relation to the socio-economic context and the political activism of the period. Theoretically, it analyses the 'diaspora space' of London/Britain, interrogating essentialist 'origin stories' of belonging; reaching out to a glimmer on the horizon of emerging non-identical formations of kinship across boundaries of class, racism and ethnicity; and exploring the purchase of certain South Asian terms -'ajnabi', 'ghair' and 'apna/apni' -in constructing a nonbinarized understanding of identification across 'difference'.

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