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Editorial: Race/Matter – materialism and the politics of racialization

Dimitris Papadopoulos — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:38:06 +0000

A materialist turn in the humanities and social sciences has revitalized work in feminism, science and technology studies, critical social theory and phenomenology. Nonetheless, we want to ask what’s at stake when ‘race’ is grasped from a materialist standpoint? Is…

Racists like us…

James Arvanitakis — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:56:16 +0000

This contribution is a reflection, conversation and debate between two people struggling to understand their own prejudices and interrogate the meaning of anti-racist politics. Acknowledging our own positions of privilege, we see ourselves as embodying whiteness: Dinesh as an Indian…

White ravers in a Goan village: race as machinic assemblage

Arun Saldanha — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:59:16 +0000

1. A Goan village

let’s see. when we came in there was a huge number of brits and some rich indians and a few backpackers, still very few tranceheads. so it wasn’t entirely sure whether it would get to

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The force of race

Daniel Swanton — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:54:29 +0000

The sudden change of ambiance in a street within the space of a few metres; the evident division of a city into zones of distinct psychic atmospheres; the path of least resistance which is automatically followed in aimless strolls (and

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2016: archive project

Zanny Begg — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:53:56 +0000

Social space is not a thing among other things, nor a product among other products: rather, it subsumes things produced and encompasses their interrelationships… – Henri Lefebvre

2016: Archive Project is an artistic investigation into the inner city Sydney suburb…

How do bodies matter? understanding embodied racialised subjectivities

Damien Riggs — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:53:13 +0000

Issues of materiality and their relation to racist practices continue to represent a key issue of concern for any theorisation of the ongoing operations of racial categories. In my own work I continue to be challenged to find ways to…

Material effects: race, class and masculinities among South African teachers

Robert Morrell — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:52:21 +0000

Introduction ^[1]
Current debates about race are not always successful in capturing issues of materiality which were a strong feature of social history and Marxist work twenty and thirty years ago. In this paper we approach the issue of race…

reckless driving: race through mass spec and global capital on highway 5

Jenny Reardon — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:50:52 +0000

technology corridor, southern California^[1]

technoparks, surround me. equipped with a notebook, tape recorder and the questions of an ethnographer of science, i arrive.

a man white, moustache, casual dress, waits for me outside of the bathroom.…

The materiality of race theory

Ben Pitcher — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:49:37 +0000

In this article I want to think not about the materiality of race, but about the material dimensions of race theory. In particular, I want to consider as material the relationship between race theory and an anti-racist politics in contemporary…

The materialisation of race in multiculture

Angela Mitropoulos — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:48:43 +0000

To pose the question of the materiality of race is also, if one is inclined to trace the genealogy and circumstance of this problematic, to pose the question of multiculturalism’s ‘failure’. This is understood – and there are more or…