Reparative histories: tracing narratives of black resistance and white entitlement

Bergin, Catherine; Rupprecht, Anita

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“…The final implication involves the historicisation of White innocence and the political ambitions of race-conscious IPE. If Whitened narratives of place have been important for the reproduction of the English/British nation and its racialised exclusions, then reconstructing these to reflect hidden histories of expropriation and excluded experiences of resistance can offer one form of reparation (Bergin and Rupprecht, 2018). To this end, the research that went into this article has also been used in a community project documenting Leamington’s imperial history and the lives of migrants who moved to the town.…”

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Middle England’s empire: Social reproduction in the colonial global economy

Richardson

2023

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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This article brings feminist critiques of capitalism into conversation with race-conscious International Political Economy to highlight the place of social reproduction in the colonial global economy. It does so by taking a provincial perspective, using Royal Leamington Spa as a case study to reveal how the provision of care for the elderly and the ill sustained colonial elites across the life course, while religious and educational practices helped transmit cultural values across generations and reproduce imperialism as an institutionalised social order. Whereas the finance houses of London, the factories of Manchester, and the ports of Liverpool and Bristol constitute nodal points for imperial circuits of capital, the spa town condenses the everyday practices through which bourgeois metropolitan empire was lived and made liveable. These findings point to a functional differentiation of economic space within the metropole and offer a critical reinterpretation of Middle England as a Whitened site of middle-class respectability.

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Middle England’s empire: Social reproduction in the colonial global economy

Richardson

2023

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…Anti-racist praxis not only increases knowledge and awareness about these ideologies but replaces them with language, counternarratives, discourses, social and political activism that emphasize empathy for black, brown, and Indigenous peoples. 44 In this study, I offer evidence for a counternarrative that illustrates the experience of housing discrimination by Ottoman Greeks. I employ this counternarrative to argue for the engagement of Ottoman Greek immigrants' descendants, considered white by contemporary standards, toward an anti-racist praxis.…”

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Forging an Anti-Racist Praxis: Housing Discrimination against Ottoman Greek Immigrants in Early-Twentieth-Century Portland and Seattle

Topalidis

2022

Journal of Urban History

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Whiteness provides its possessors with the privilege of homeownership without racial restrictions and obstructs black, brown, and Indigenous people. I examine that privilege for the Ottoman Greeks, an early-twentieth-century Southeastern European immigrant cohort to the United States. To conduct the examination, I analyze data from the Dictionary of Races or Peoples, the Segregated Seattle Project, and the Portland Restrictive Covenant Project. Racial formation theory and the concept of racial fluidity provide the framework for this study’s three main findings.1 First, housing discrimination impacted Ottoman Greeks less than other racialized groups. Second, Ottoman Greeks experienced this discrimination as racially fluid Greeks or Turks. Finally, Ottoman Greek housing discrimination occurred in elite white communities of Portland and Seattle. My findings illustrate an alternate knowledge of whiteness that, when harnessed by descendants of early-twentieth-century immigrants, can potentially lead them toward anti-racist political advocacy and activism.

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“…What the contributions in this volume highlight is the underpinning of imaginations of the future with retellings of the past that are used to justify and legitimate one future vision over the other. To make sense of such social and political struggles over the future, it is important to investigate how certain visions of the past are mobilized, as has been suggested by scholars of the politics of memorialization (Bergin and Rupprecht 2018) and monument wars (Hasian and Paliewicz 2020) for understanding the politics of the present. The contributions in this volume go one step further, however, as they examine how the past and present are interlaced in narratives and political action in the present (see also Simko 2018).…”

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Creating, challenging, and changing pathways for cooperation through imagination

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Mahlert²,

Quack³

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Imagining Pathways for Global Cooperation

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We started this book project with an interest in better understanding how imaginations matter for global cooperation. In the introduction to this volume, we suggested that examining the role of imaginations and reflexivity in processes of global cooperation can help to overcome some of the limitations of systemic approaches to global governance, including a tendency towards making sweeping statements about the current state of global cooperation; a focus on authority relationships in institutionalized settings, as well as on outcomes of cooperation rather than on its process; and a neglect of the open-ended character of cooperation processes. When dissatisfaction with classic forms of global cooperation becomes widespread, the potentials and limits of human creative imagination become a central issue: in the face of gridlock in global cooperation, will the outcome be resignation or a hopeful search for new solutions? The increasing complexity and interconnectedness of our globalized world has prompted a certain pessimism regarding the potentialities of political change. However, the same developments have inspired a rediscovery of imagination as an important and necessary capacity. This shift resonates with the endeavour in this volume to explore the role of imaginations in open-ended processes of global cooperation.The ten preceding chapters provide in-depth case studies from different historical periods, policy fields, and world regions. By offering rich insights into the practice of global cooperation, they deepen our understanding of the multiple ways in which imaginations shape pathways of cooperation.In these concluding remarks, we revisit the main findings of the chapters to offer some overall reflections. We provide insights on how cooperative processes function across a variety of different actor constellations and are able to engender change, often through imagining new or alternative ways ahead. Since cooperation, in our understanding, is not synonymous with normatively positive outcomes, our analytical focus has shifted to the inner dynamics of

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Reparative histories: tracing narratives of black resistance and white entitlement

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Middle England’s empire: Social reproduction in the colonial global economy

Middle England’s empire: Social reproduction in the colonial global economy

Forging an Anti-Racist Praxis: Housing Discrimination against Ottoman Greek Immigrants in Early-Twentieth-Century Portland and Seattle

Creating, challenging, and changing pathways for cooperation through imagination

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