Racialised Space and the Politics of Emotion

Special Issue proposal to be submitted to Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power

This special issue seeks to examine the dynamics of racialised space in different social, cultural and political contexts. We seek papers addressing the following questions:

• How can we theorise racialised space from an interdisciplinary perspective
• What kinds of emotions are generated and reproduced in racialised space?
• What are the social and political encounters in racialised space?
• What are the emotions that characterise engagements between different types of social and political actors (e.g. cabinet ministers, parliamentarians, candidates, practitioners, civil society and social movements, grassroots activists) in racialised spaces?
• What are the connections between different racialised spaces (e.g. parliaments, parties, policymaking bodies, organisations, social movements, activist networks and NGOs) operating in diverse local, national and transnational contexts? How might these spaces be compared?
• What factors explain the persistent failure of efforts to make political spaces more inclusive and welcoming?
• How can political spaces be configured differently to generate different possibilities for achieving equality and justice?

Guest Editors:
Akwugo Emejulu, University of Sheffield, UK
Leah Bassel, Coventry University, UK
Ashlee Christoffersen, York University, Canada
Orly Siow, Lund University, Sweden

Following on from a public symposium held at Sheffield University in June, we would like to invite contributions to a special issue proposal to be submitted to Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.