Empire's Endgame

Bhattacharyya, Gargi; Elliott-Cooper, Adam; Balani, Sita; Nişancıoğlu, Kerem; Koram, Kojo; Gebrial, Dalia; El‐Enany, Nadine; Noronha, Luke de

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“…While the word ‘Chef’ itself isn't removed – despite its association with stabbing – the act of ‘cheffing’ is, along with getting ‘chinged’. Concerns around a ‘knife crime epidemic’ are evidenced here, where simply bad language is not removed, but acts associated with this music by sensationalised media reportage are (Bhattacharrya et al 2021, p. 62). Nonetheless, what we are seeing is a marketing of the allure of this music, but its full character remaining hidden from view.…”

Section: Case Study: 1xtra and The Censorship Of Grime And Drill Musicmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Lambros Fatsis’ 2018 article ‘Grime: Criminal subculture of public counterculture’ demonstrates ‘metonymic, associations between rap culture(s), violence, and crime in order to reveal some longstanding and deep-rooted prejudices’ that have befallen grime music and its artists, including the notorious Form 696 used by the Metropolitan police (until 2017) to cancel grime events with impunity on the basis of an audience demographic that was likely to attend (Fatsis 2018, p. 450; 2019, p. 1307; Riley 2017). And in Empire's Endgame, Gargi Bhattacharyya explores how a knife crime ‘panic’ is tied to an aggrandised sense of ‘black on black crime’, peddled by public figures such as the British broadcaster Piers Morgan (Bhattacharyya et al 2021, pp. 59–60).…”

Section: Coded Language and The Censorship Of Black Musicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This censorship runs in parallel with the introduction of ‘knife-crime prevention orders’ that function similarly to ASBOs, that were issued to DJ Slimzee for his involvement with Rinse FM. The orders mean that mere suspicion can result in arrest, ‘expelling racialised people from the albeit limited protections of criminal law’ (Bhattacharrya et al 2021, p. 66). Any semblance of violence is immediately censored across this programming.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Live and direct? Censorship and racialised public morality in grime and drill music

Lacey¹

2022

Pop. Mus.

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This article addresses the linguistic policing of grime and UK drill music. Existing studies often focus on the immediacy of the penal system. This article will instead explore the extent to which institutional bodies uphold and maintain a programme of racialised censorship across radio broadcasts, seeking to understand how these value judgements impact upon creative practice. It presents an ethnographic study of three radio shows that aired on BBC 1Xtra, demonstrating through interviews and analysis how the broadcaster's censorship practice unfairly renders Black artists as dangerous with criminal associations. Lyrical assertions of musical skill are misread as direct threats, while evocations of the quotidian are seen to cause violence rather than reflect artists’ surroundings. Importantly, it will show how artists’ work and words are adversely discriminated against owing to a legacy of racialised public morality that imposes greater sanctions and restrictions on artistic output: radio personalities must strike a balance between presenting voyeuristic excitement about a genre, and the need to meet (racialised) editorial standards; producers assiduously monitor new slang to make sure that it is censored; and artists are encouraged to self-censor and alter their musical output, to protect themselves from unwanted ramifications.

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Section: Case Study: 1xtra and The Censorship Of Grime And Drill Musicmentioning

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Section: Coded Language and The Censorship Of Black Musicmentioning

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Live and direct? Censorship and racialised public morality in grime and drill music

Lacey¹

2022

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“…Plentiful research focuses on this policy field's inherently problematic societal aspects [50] as a means to entrench global inequality, influencing third countries through the externalisation of a policy field laden with violence and coercion that has colonial roots and overtones [51,52]. This methodology and theoretical outlook contribute to shedding light on the institutional workings behind the normalisation of cruelty, state crimes [11] and human rights abuses on land and at sea, within and beyond the EU's borders.…”

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Immigration Policy and State Power

Maccanico

2021

Societies

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An analysis of 20 years of official documents (1995–2014) and legislative acts at national and EU levels using Jessop’s Strategic Relational Approach (SRA) offers insights into inherent structural flaws in the Justice and Home Affairs aspects of European and member state migration policies. Focusing on two triptychs (hierarchy, governance and government; state power(s), strategic selectivities and structures) and tracking their development clarifies that this policy field’s purposes stray beyond migration management. In fact, the EU migration policy model was set up to be inherently expansive and is intimately linked to EU institutions and national governments striving to enhance their power(s). This is why apparent aberrations and unlawful acts by states amounting to a power grab have developed into an attack against normative frameworks including human rights. This article investigates whether European approaches to immigration policy at the EU and national levels currently pose a problem in terms of state power and authoritarianism due to inherently expansive tendencies and the serial production of problems and hierarchies. It offers a methodological, state-theoretical contribution to address a policy fix in which the EU and its member states appear caught, with harmful effects that spread beyond EU borders through externalisation.

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“…Its caring functions are carried out by welfare institutions normatively oriented aroundand therefore capable of deviation fromideals of care (Tronto, 2010). Consequently, the state itself is capable of neglect (Bhattacharyya et al, 2021).…”

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The banality of state violence: Institutional neglect in austere local authorities

Kiely

Warnock

2022

Critical Social Policy

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Theorisations of state violence under austerity have been criticised for their imprecision. In response, this article introduces the concept of institutional neglect: a specific modality of structural violence. We argue that institutional neglect occurs when state services deny care to eligible clients. This is a normative claim which locates an obligation to care in the body of the state. Through case studies of two local authority-run care services in the UK, we identify three banal, quotidian techniques of neglect: delay, deferral, and diversion. We emphasise that care is not necessarily an antidote to violence; instead, care and violence are increasingly entangled within state bureaucracies under austerity.

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Empire's Endgame

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Live and direct? Censorship and racialised public morality in grime and drill music

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The banality of state violence: Institutional neglect in austere local authorities

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