Karim Murji - Race Critical Public Scholarship

Race Critical Public Scholarship

This edited collection addresses the challenges for critically engaged research, teaching and scholarship on race and racism, in a climate marked by sweeping changes in universities. Each chapter engages with debates about universities and publics, and the public orientation and reach of academic work. How do these factors play out in the work of scholars pursuing racial and social justice? What are the constraints of the marketised university or the bureaucratised political field or the celebrity-hungry arena of media culture? How can we use scholarly research and knowledge to create different and better meanings and outcomes in any of these places? With a focus on engaged and activist scholarship attuned to theory and practice, the chapters consider these issues in France, the UK, USA and Costa Rica. The chapters include discussions of teaching for social justice, collaborating and advocating for migrant and local communities and deploying scholarly knowledge in political work and the media.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Karim Murji is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University, UK. He writes on cultural and policy studies of ethnicity and racism, and criminology. With John Solomos, he is the editor of Racialization: Studies in Theory and Practice (2005) and Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations. He is an editor of the journal Sociology.

Gargi Bhattacharyya is Professor of Sociology at the University of East London, UK. She has written on issues of racism and sexuality, global cultures of racism and the war on terror. Her recent work includes Dangerous Brown Men: Exploiting Sex, Violence and Feminism in the War on Terror (2008) and the edited collection Ethnicities and Values in a Changing World (2009).

Ethnic and Racial Studies
Series editors: Martin Bulmer, University of Surrey, UK, and
John Solomos, City University London, UK

The journal Ethnic and Racial Studies was founded in 1978 by John Stone to provide an international forum for high quality research on race, ethnicity, nationalism and ethnic conflict. At the time the study of race and ethnicity was still a relatively marginal sub-field of sociology, anthropology and political science. In the intervening period the journal has provided a space for the discussion of core theoretical issues, key developments and trends, and for the dissemination of the latest empirical research.

It is now the leading journal in its field and has helped to shape the development of scholarly research agendas. Ethnic and Racial Studies attracts submissions from scholars in a diverse range of countries, fields of scholarship and crosses disciplinary boundaries. It has moved from being a quarterly to being published monthly and it is now available in both printed and electronic form.

The Ethnic and Racial Studies book series contains a wide range of the journals special issues. These special issues are an important contribution to the work of the journal, where leading social science academics bring together articles on specific themes and issues that are linked to the broad intellectual concerns of Ethnic and Racial Studies. The series editors work closely with the guest editors of the special issues to ensure that they meet the highest quality standards possible. Through publishing these special issues as a series of books, we hope to allow a wider audience of both scholars and students from across the social science disciplines to engage with the work of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Titles in the series include:

The Transnational Political Participation of Immigrants

Edited by Jean-Michel Lafleur and Marco Martiniello

Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism

Edited by Steven Vertovec

Exclusion, Engagements, Incorporation

Edited by Davide Per and John Solomos

New Racial Missions of Policing

International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics

Edited by Paul Amar

Young People, Ethnicity and Social Capital

Edited by Tracey Reynolds

Cosmopolitan Sociability

Edited by Tsypylma Darieva, Nina Glick Schiller and Sandra Gruner-Domic

Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Century

Edited by Charles A. Gallagher and France Winddance Twine

Theorising Integration and Assimilation

Edited by Jens Schneider and Maurice Crul

Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Asia

Inclusion or Exclusion?

Edited by Michelle Ann Miller

Diasporas, Cultures and Identities

Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos

Gender, Race and Religion

Intersections and Challenges

Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos

Latino Identity in Contemporary America

Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos

Migration: Policies, Practices, Activism

Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos

Nationalism and National Identities

Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos

Methods and Contexts in the Study of Muslim Minorities

Visible and Invisible Muslims

Edited by Nadia Jeldtoft and Jrgen S. Nielsen

Irregular Migrants

Policy, Politics, Motives and Everyday Lives

Edited by Alice Bloch and Milena Chimienti

Fighting Discrimination in Europe

The Case for a Race-Conscious Approach

Edited by Mathias Mschel, Costanza Hermanin and Michele Grigolo

Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspective

Edited by Michele Lamont and Nissim Mizrachi

Health Care and Immigration

Understanding the Connections

Edited by Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and Alejandro Portes

Edited by Myria Georgiou

Accounting for Ethnic and Racial Diversity

The Challenge of Enumeration

Edited by Patrick Simon and Victor Pich

Methodologies on the Move

The Transnational Turn in Empirical Migration Research

Edited by Anna Amelina, Thomas Faist and Devrimsel D. Nergiz

Racialization and Religion

Race, Culture and Difference in the Study of Antisemitism and Islamophobia

Edited by Nasar Meer

Race and Ethnicity in Secret and Exclusive Social Orders

Blood and Shadow

Edited by Matthew W. Hughey

The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Immigration and Integration

Edited by Marlou Schrover and Willem Schinkel

Mothering, Mixed Families and Racialised Boundaries

Edited by Ravinder Barn and Vicki Harman

Race Critical Public Scholarship

Edited by Karim Murji and Gargi Bhattacharyya

Race Critical Public Scholarship

Edited by
Karim Murji and Gargi Bhattacharyya

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