Racism, Governance, and Public Policy
This book presents a new framing of policy debates on the question of racism through a discursive critique of contemporary issues and contexts, drawing on a program of new European research carried out between 2010 and 2013, with a central focus on the UK. This includes analysis of the discursive construction of Muslims in three contexts: the workplace, education and the media. Informed by a fundamental critique of both the post-racial and the limitations of human rights strategies, it identifies the ongoing significance of contemporary raciality in governance strategies and develops a new radical agenda for addressing these processes, advocating strategies of racism reduction.
Katy Sian is a Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Manchester.
Ian Law is Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds. He was also the Founding Director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies at the University of Leeds.
S. Sayyid is the Director of the International Centre for Muslim and Non-Muslim Understanding at the University of South Australia, and a Reader in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds.
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Beyond Human Rights
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Sian, Katy P., 1984
Racism, governance, and public policy : beyond human rights / by Katy Sian, Ian Law, and S. Sayyid.
pages cm. (Routledge advances in sociology ; 112)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. RacismGovernment policyEurope. 2. RacismGovernment policyGreat Britain. 3. Human rightsEurope. 4. Human rightsGreat Britain. 5. MuslimsCivil rightsEurope. 6. MuslimsCivil rightsGreat Britain. 7. EuropeRace relationsPolitical aspects. 8. Great BritainRace relationsPolitical aspects. 9. EuropeSocial policy. 10. Great BritainSocial policy. I. Law, Ian. II. Sayyid, S. (Salman) III. Title.
D990.S54 2013
305.80094dc23
2013005482
ISBN13: 978-0-415-81265-8 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-06868-7 (ebk)
A vision of the future is in sightthe total transformation and dismantling of racismthrough the mobilisation of a series of global transformations in the way the world works.
