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Race, Place and Justice

A special issue of Genealogy (ISSN 2313-5778).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 24672

Special Issue Editors

Dr. John Wainwright

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1. School of Health, Social Work and Sport, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK
2. Director-Global Race Centre for Equality (GRACE), Preston, UK
Interests: the intersection between ethnicity; racism and social work practice; race, ethnicity and racism and youth justice; children and young people in care; adoption and mental health
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Prof. Dr. Mick McKeown

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School of Nursing, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
Interests: service user and carer involvement; mental health advocacy; psychosocial interventions for people with serious mental health problems; secure mental health services; the social construction of difference; mad studies and mental health social movements; qualitative and participatory methods, Q methodology
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Dr. Kim McGuire

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School of Justice, Faculty of Business and Justice, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK
Interests: law in action and phenomenology; effect of the law for inclusion and exclusion; 'hate crime' and human rights

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will publish selected papers from the Race, Place and Justice Online Conference which will take place on Wednesday 16 March 2022. Candidate papers for the Special Issue will be selected by either the conference chairs who will be the Guest Editors of the Special Issue. We welcome contributions across a wide range of disciplines, engaging with the concepts of race, place and space through widely divergent methods and analysis. The aim is to produce analysis on a current real-world issue via cutting-edge academic and practitioner viewpoints.

(1) Accepted papers of a maximum of 10000 words will be considered for a Special Issue of Genealogy to be published within 6 months of the conference, no later than 16 August 2022.

All relevant topics will be considered for presentation at the conference and subsequent publication in Genealogy.  

Themes:  through the lens of rac(ism) intersectioned with other social divisions, including:

Social class;

Gender;

Disability; and

Place and space.

The conference and the subsequent Special Issue represent an opportunity to contribute to debates concerning rac(ism), identity, diversity, community cohesion, conflict, and justice. This opportunity is of interest to those exploring race and its connections with place and multidimensional identities in a transdisciplinary context—for instance, community studies, politics, law, hate crime, criminal justice sociology, and mental health.

The event will bring together the ideas and perspectives of leading academics, policymakers, practitioners, and community workers, offering a cutting-edge interdisciplinary approach to the key debates.

Other key focuses for the conference and Special Issue include:

- Strong links between practice, theory, and policy;

- Up-to-date analysis of contemporary policy issues;

- Reflections on key themes, and case studies that illustrate the relevance of research to real life.

This conference will build on previous studies that focus on the intersectional experiences of race, place, and justice, including that of Wainwright, McKeown and Kinney (2020) who discussed the importance of acknowledging place and space in the experiences of Black Mental Health service users. McGuire’s (2019) study on Brexit and xenophobia in the media provides a context for exploring rac(ism) and space, whilst the work of Wilson and McGuire (2021) focuses on the stigma that working class mothers experience and how they are judged negatively by teachers and the school system because of their marginalized and (sometimes) multiple social identities. Studies on ‘honour’ abuse (Khan, 2018; Begum et al., 2020; Lowe et al., 2021) discuss the intersectional identities of South Asian Women that experience domestic abuse, whilst Williams and Clarke (2020) discuss the criminalization of Black young men and the collective punishment that they experience by being labelled as members of gangs in the criminal justice system in England and Wales. Further, the discriminatory experiences of migrants through the denial of access to (mental) health treatment by the UK government continuing to pursue a policy of Hostile Environment amidst the pandemic is discussed by McKeown (2020). These studies provide examples of the broad range of ideas and papers that explore race, place, and justice within an intersectional frame that have direct relevance to submission at the conference and publication in the subsequent Special Issue. Studies or discussion papers that build on these, or similar themes are welcome.

We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400–600 words summarizing their intended contribution. These can be sent to the Genealogy Editorial Office ([email protected]). Abstracts will be reviewed by the Guest Editors for the purposes of ensuring proper fit within the scope of the conference and Special Issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer-review.

References

Begum, Reema, Khan, Roxanne , Brewer, Gayle  and Hall, Beth (2020) “They Will Keep Seeing Young Women Murdered by Men. Enough Is Enough-We Have Seen too Many Women Lose Their Lives”. Lessons for Professionals Working with Victims of ‘Honour’ Abuse and Violence. Genealogy, 4 (3)

Khan, Roxanne  (2018) Introduction to the special issue on honour-based abuse, violence and killings. Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, 10 (4). pp. 237-238

Lowe, Michelle, Khan, Roxanne , Thanzami, Vanlal, Barzy, Mahsa and Karmaliani, Rozina (2021) Antigay “Honor” Abuse: A Multinational Attitudinal Study of Collectivist-Versus Individualist-Orientated Populations in Asia and England. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36 (15-16). pp. 7866-7885

Mcguire, Kim  (2019) Engaging with the Media in a Pre and Post Brexit World: Racism, Xenophobia and Regulation: A United Kingdom Perspective. Journal of Hate Studies, 15 (1). pp. 255-273.

Mckeown, Michael  (2021) Migrant health charges: a scandal amidst the crisis [Editorial]. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 28 (2). pp. 118-120.

Williams, Patrick., Clarke, Becky,  (2020). (Re)producing Guilt in Suspect Communities: The Centrality of Racialisation in Joint Enterprise Prosecutions. International Journal For Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 9(3), pp.116-129.

Wilson, Suzanne  and Mcguire, Kim  (2021) ‘They’d already made their minds up’: understanding the impact of stigma on parental engagement. British Journal of Sociology of Education . ISSN 0142-5692

Wainwright, John Peter , Mckeown, Michael  and Kinney, Malcolm (2019) ‘In these streets’: The saliency of place in an alternative black mental health resource centre. International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, 13 (1). pp. 31-44.

Dr. John Wainwright
Prof. Dr. Mick McKeown
Dr. Kim McGuire
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Genealogy is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • rac(ism)
  • class
  • gender
  • criminal justice
  • disability
  • place
  • space
  • Black
  • South Asian

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Criminalising Black Trauma: Grime and Drill Lyrics as a Form of Ethnographic Data to Understand “Gangs” and Serious Youth Violence
by Beth Hall, Roxanne Khan and Mike Eslea
Genealogy 2023, 7(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy7010002 - 23 Dec 2022
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Background: The criminalisation of drill music, a rap-based genre, is a recent chapter in a long history of policing “Black” music. The association of drill and other rap music with “gang” violence has a direct impact on the treatment of Black boys and [...] Read more.
Background: The criminalisation of drill music, a rap-based genre, is a recent chapter in a long history of policing “Black” music. The association of drill and other rap music with “gang” violence has a direct impact on the treatment of Black boys and men in the criminal justice system. However, critics argue that, rather than causing violence, violent lyrics reflect the lived experiences of marginalised communities. Method: Using a qualitative approach, this study analysed the lyrical content of 90 drill, grime, and other rap-based songs by UK artists, using thematic analysis. Findings: The following themes were found: social issues in the local area and community, involvement in crime, social status, coping with adversity, social support network, police, and escaping. Collectively, the themes highlight a narrative of Black boys and men who have experienced a range of adversities such as poverty, racism, child criminal exploitation, and community violence. Conclusions: Artists who make reference to drugs and violence in their lyrics also discuss adverse experiences and the impact of these, supporting the view that violent lyrics are a reflection of lived experience. Thus, focusing on criminalising rap music may be deflecting attention from risk factors for serious youth violence that are evidence-based. Full article
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Criminalized Intimacies between POWs and ‘Unworthy War Wives’ and Their Soldier-Husbands’ Responses to Racial, Sexual Wartime Justice in Nazi Germany
by Vandana Joshi
Genealogy 2022, 6(4), 86; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6040086 - 18 Oct 2022
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The article places itself in the burgeoning literature on fraternization between POWs and local women during the twentieth century world wars. Though fraternization with the enemy was considered undesirable by all warring nations, incarcerating women for prolonged periods and suspending their citizenship for [...] Read more.
The article places itself in the burgeoning literature on fraternization between POWs and local women during the twentieth century world wars. Though fraternization with the enemy was considered undesirable by all warring nations, incarcerating women for prolonged periods and suspending their citizenship for even longer was a hallmark of the Nazi system of (in)justice. War wives came in for harsher treatment as double traitors: to the nation and their soldier-husbands. The author has selected a few love triangles from a large cache of Gestapo reports; regional, local and ‘Special Court’ trials; and soldier-husbands’ clemency appeals for a qualitative analysis. Her interrogation of the archival sources from a people’s perspective goes into hitherto unexplored emotions, subjectivities and experiences of the affected people and deliniates how they appropriated, negotiated, rejected and defied the penal code in their own ways through a display of willful conduct. The interiority of their experience is juxtaposed with the discourse analysis of honor and shame surrounding criminalized intimacies to expose the gap between wartime discourse and social practice. Full article
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Jus Sanguinis, “Effective Nationality” and Exclusion: Analysing Citizenship Deprivation in the UK
by Kim McGuire
Genealogy 2022, 6(3), 62; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6030062 - 7 Jul 2022
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This article will analyse the use of genealogy in the context of race, place, and justice via the concepts of nationality/citizenship and cultural/national identity, including “imagined communities”. Analysis is undertaken through the legal concept of “jus sanguinis” and simultaneous differing interpretations of “citizen”, [...] Read more.
This article will analyse the use of genealogy in the context of race, place, and justice via the concepts of nationality/citizenship and cultural/national identity, including “imagined communities”. Analysis is undertaken through the legal concept of “jus sanguinis” and simultaneous differing interpretations of “citizen”, including the concept of “effective nationality”. The latter incorporates the Nottebohm principle “shared sentiments and interests” and is particularly relevant in “security situations. This article argues that “effective nationality” is indicative of the Anderson’s famous landmark study of nationalism, “Imagined Communities”. The legal concept of jus sanguinis draws upon genealogy: “A line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor”. However, the imagined communities to which someone perceives they belong, through ancestral lineage, or cultural, political or religious affinity are often highly contested cultural notions, not least in times of political unrest. This article will focus on the UK and show how liberal policies and criteria initially aimed at the expansion of citizenship have, in the 21st century, similarly enabled exclusion. However, I argue that the current exclusion process is the simultaneous use of jus sanguinis and cultural interpretations of “effective nationality” when applied to those who supported proscribed groups, for example ISIS in Syria. This paper uses legislation, media comment, and the legal case studies of Nottebohm and Shamima Begum. Full article
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Colonisation and the Genesis and Perpetuation of Anti-Blackness Violence in South Africa
by Suriamurthee Moonsamy Maistry
Genealogy 2023, 7(4), 72; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy7040072 - 26 Sep 2023
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The narrative of the colonisation of South Africa that prevailed and continues to prevail in certain segments of contemporary South African society is that of the white coloniser as an industrious, noble, peaceful and innocent being, divinely tasked with the project of bringing [...] Read more.
The narrative of the colonisation of South Africa that prevailed and continues to prevail in certain segments of contemporary South African society is that of the white coloniser as an industrious, noble, peaceful and innocent being, divinely tasked with the project of bringing civilisation to the country’s indigenous Black tribal people—people bereft of religion, cognitive competence and incapable of responsible land ownership. In this article, I reflect on the genesis of anti-Blackness over three and a half centuries and argue that despite Black resistance over this period, the systematic orchestration of anti-Blackness through repressive violence, constantly morphing policy legislation and relentless propaganda machinery has imprinted on the psyche of South Africans in particular ways. Black academe in South Africa has been systematically frustrated with Western Eurocentric epistemologies and ontologies and struggle to engage in any substantive epistemological or ontological delinking. Inspiration from decolonial theory is invoked to offer an analysis of the paralysis of the new Black political, economic and academic elite, as they occupy a zone of being co-opted into the stranglehold of white economic and cultural hegemony. Full article
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Racism, Discrimination, and Harassment in Medical Schools in the UK: A Scoping Review
by Alexander Montasem, Teuta Gjuladin-Hellon, Hassan Awan, Brian Aine, Julian Whyte, Norah Alqadah and Chukwuemeka Ibeachu
Genealogy 2023, 7(2), 32; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy7020032 - 5 May 2023
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Background: Discrimination, racism, harassment, stereotyping, and bullying are a significant issue for medical students as they create a hostile environment with detrimental effect on student wellbeing and educational experience. Findings suggest that though prevalent, reporting of these experiences is rare and perceived as [...] Read more.
Background: Discrimination, racism, harassment, stereotyping, and bullying are a significant issue for medical students as they create a hostile environment with detrimental effect on student wellbeing and educational experience. Findings suggest that though prevalent, reporting of these experiences is rare and perceived as ineffective. Objectives: This scoping review aims to map the trends, types, and nature of discrimination, harassment, bullying, stereotyping, intimidation, and racism reports in undergraduate medical education in the UK since 2010 and to determine areas of focus for undertaking full systematic reviews in the future. Method: A search was conducted using the MEDLINE, AHMED, CINHL, and EMBASE electronic databases from 2010 up to February 2022 in English. Only primary research papers (e.g., cohort studies, cross-sectional studies, and case series) that report the words/phrases discrimination (including gender and racial), harassment (including verbal, sexual, academic, and physical), bullying, stereotype, intimidation, and racism within medical education in the UK after 2010, following the Equity Act 2010, were eligible for inclusion. Results: Five relevant articles relating to discrimination, harassment, bullying, stereotyping, intimidation, and racism in medical schools in the UK were included. Three themes were identified across these studies. Conclusions: The data suggest that there is a high prevalence rate of discrimination, harassment, and stereotyping being experienced by ethnic minority undergraduate medical students in the UK. There is underreporting due to perceived and structural barriers. The identified studies suggest that less progress has been made in these areas. Full article
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