Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials
http://hdl.handle.net/10230/7
2024-03-19T08:00:26ZRethinking agency: towards a collaborative approach on political agency of people on the move in the Mediterranean
http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58859
Rethinking agency: towards a collaborative approach on political agency of people on the move in the Mediterranean
Nohr, Isabell
Situated at the intersection of the autonomy of migration approach and critical citizenship studies, the working paper proposes a research approach and paradigm change within Mediterranean migration scholarship that integrates people on the move as active agents influencing knowledge production. Illustrating the suggested approach, the working paper uses the case example of political agency and acts of citizenship of people on the move in Libya. To examine how communicative acts of citizenship enable people on the move to express political agency, the proposal suggests a qualitative, collaborative, and explorative research design using photo-elicitation and photo voice methodologies. While people on the move are mostly constructed as voiceless victims in dominant humanitarian discourse and as security threats in dominant media and policy discourse, the research aims to amplify the voices of people on the move themselves within a post-colonial and reflective research paradigm. By shifting the focus to subject-centred understanding of the situation of people on the move in Libya, the working paper proposes a conceptualization that will be able to challenge dominant discourses that construct people on the move as inferior ‘Other’ and suggest new conceptual frameworks to conduct research on mobility.
2024-01-01T00:00:00ZEveryday racism in everyday life: experiences of racist Interactions in shared-cohabited spaces in Barcelona
http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58376
Everyday racism in everyday life: experiences of racist Interactions in shared-cohabited spaces in Barcelona
Rodríguez-Reche, Cristina
The rejection of the North African community in Spain, chiefly from Morocco, implies one of the primary expressions of racism in the country. This racialisation process relies on visible and stereotypical markers perpetuating a colonial and essentialist category around the image of the "Moor". This racism constitutes a prominent dimension of everyday racism. For this reason, this paper explores how this everyday racism is manifested through the daily social interactions of racialised people, influencing two principal dimensions of everyday life: emotions and decisions. The shared and cohabited spaces will be used as a context for observation and narrative of this link since these interactions with others occur primarily in these spaces. Through 26 in-depth interviews, this contribution highlights that the emotions generated from these racist interactions significantly impact the potential use (or non-use) that racialised people will make of shared spaces based on previous experiences.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZFrom acting to activism: unveiling the construction of the distant
sufferer: a critical analysis of celebrity advocacy’s representation
of the distant sufferer
http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58017
From acting to activism: unveiling the construction of the distant
sufferer: a critical analysis of celebrity advocacy’s representation
of the distant sufferer
Pennington, Madeleine; Rodríguez-Reche, Cristina
This paper delves into the convergence of racialisation and feminisation within the framework of Celebrity Advocacy (CA) as it relates to the portrayal of distant sufferers. While previous discussions of CA have explored its ties to neocolonialism and the oversimplification of distant suffering, there has been a notable absence of an intersectional examination, particularly in the context of racialisation and feminisation. Therefore, our research question is framed as follows: “In what ways is the distant sufferer represented in celebrity advocacy?” This study hones in on CA and its depiction of distant
sufferers in a post-humanitarian context. Employing a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of Angelina Jolie's discourse and visual analysis of accompanying images, our findings shed light on the racialisation that occurs under Jolie's and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) white gaze. This representation manifests a white saviour complex and adopts a paternalistic tone. We argue that an intersectional approach is imperative to challenge the portrayal of the distant sufferer as a monolithic figure or simply a “third-world woman”. This paper contributes insights into how CA reconceptualizes those on the move, legitimising hegemonic processes favouring the dominant group.
2023-10-02T00:00:00ZCap a una agenda metropolitana intercultural: universitat Pompeu Fabra, 13 de desembre de 2022
http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57916
Cap a una agenda metropolitana intercultural: universitat Pompeu Fabra, 13 de desembre de 2022
Premat Katz, Celia; Figueras Maz, Mònica; Medina Bravo, Pilar, 1966-; Rodrigo Alsina, Miquel, 1955-; Pinyol Jiménez, Gemma; Feixa, Carles, 1962-
Document elaborat pel grup motor de la Càtedra Re|Generation
2023-07-26T00:00:00Z