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The pains of racism and economic adversity in young Londoners' lives: sketching the contours

Phillips, Coretta ORCID: 0000-0001-9796-7792 (2023) The pains of racism and economic adversity in young Londoners' lives: sketching the contours. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49 (3). 734 - 751. ISSN 1369-183X

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Identification Number: 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1850246

Abstract

This paper sketches an analytical framework to conceptualise the way racial power and socio-economic precarity impacts the everyday lives of young minority ethnic Londoners. Using life stories and photo-elicitation, it elucidates the pains of racialisation, racism, and economic marginalisation using and extending the metrics (depth, breadth, looseness and tightness) used in Crewe’s (2011. “Depth, Weight, Tightness: Revisiting the Pains of Imprisonment.” Punishment and Society 13 (5): 509–529. doi:10.1177/1462474511422172) conceptualisation of the contemporary pains of imprisonment. While there is no intention to imply a straightforward parallel between systems of penal power and racial power, the commonalities in the feelings evoked are stark in their affect and effect. This framework offers a means to register the different forms, gradations and intensities of racialising processes which are not easily captured by the singular concept of racism.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/current
Additional Information: © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Divisions: Social Policy
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Date Deposited: 09 Nov 2020 13:51
Last Modified: 27 Mar 2024 21:54
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/107399

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