Michel Foucault and the coloniality of power

Castro‐Gómez, Santiago; Kopsick, Kyle; Goss, David

doi:10.1080/09502386.2021.2004435

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“…Although we acknowledge differences exist between decoloniality and postcolonial theory (Adébísí, 2023), like Bhambra (2014) and Castro-Gomez et al (2021), we see both as major contributions to scholarship and suggest that these differences are not so fundamental as to necessitate declaring allegiance to one or other camp.…”

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Gendered and Racialised Epistemological Injustice in FGM-safeguarding

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Pantazis

Karlsen

et al. 2023

Social & Legal Studies

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This paper explores FGM-safeguarding in the UK through a decolonial lens. Based on an analysis of the development of law and policy relating to ‘Female Genital Mutilation’ in the UK alongside data collected in focus groups with people of ethnic Somali heritage living in Bristol, we argue that the current legislation and policies, as well as their delivery, are steeped in colonial Othering. We demonstrate that legislative and policy approaches operate through a gendered and generational binary in which non-White mothers are othered as migrants (regardless of citizenship status) for whom anachronistic culture is deemed determinative, whilst their daughters are claimed as British. In this construction, ‘FGM’ operates as the symbolic marker that designates un/belonging: the uncircumcised girl is rescuable and claimed as ‘one of us’, whilst the circumcised mother is considered a mutilated political subject for whom belonging is foreclosed.

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