Veranstaltungen

Programm

Over the past decade the Black Lives Matter movement, de-colonial initiatives urging structural and material changes to our cities, curriculums, media reporting, or museums (just to name a few) and debates around xenophobia have worked to foreground within public discourse Europe’s colonial and migration histories. The racisms and discriminations produced by colonialism endure, and traverse geographical boundaries. Colonial pasts are confronted not only within the space of Europe, but across the globe. Activist movements have ‘forced’ societies across the Global North to more actively reflect on how colonialism, racism and whiteness shape both institutional and material structures, as well as everyday affective contours. As sociologists engaged in research within these fields, we choose which theoretical perspectives to use when studying these phenomena, as well as what methodological interventions will be used to interface with and present the social world. This call for papers invites a dialogue around what theoretical and methodological lenses we use to study ‘race’ and whiteness in societies across the Global North and the Global South, and what sort of knowledge of the social world our approaches either generate or obscure. This connects to how ‘race’ is produced through a continuous, yet differentially regulated flow of persons, knowledge and materials between the Global South and North. We would like to explore these theoretical and methodological approaches by reflecting on three broad themes: ‘race’ and Europe’s (post) colonial memory and the politics of remembering; how ‘race’ is made through the city; racial discrimination(s) and knowledge production.