Dear Lisa and Sharri,

 

I hope all is well.

Please distribute the following call for workshop participants doing racial research in the European Union.

 

Call for Workshop participants – ISA 2023 (Montréal, Canada)

 

‘Who is the EU for?’: Understanding racialisation in the European Union

 

Workshop Primary Investigators:

 

Anna M. Agathangelou (York University)

Christian Kaunert (Dublin City University & University of South Wales)

Amal Abu-Bakare (University of Liverpool)

 

Today, whether it be the Russo-Ukrainian War, the ongoing issue of migration-security and asylum control in the Mediterranean sea-ways; or the recent commitment by the European Council to combat the alarming rise in racist and antisemitic incidents in EU member states; ongoing challenges to national belonging observed in the European Union are increasingly being discussed through an analysis of race. The question of how individual or collective EU states take the opportunity to reproduce their citizens’/nation’s character, identity, and socioeconomic status through racialisation is of increasing geopolitical interest as discussions concerning the existence of a global racial order extend beyond North America further into continental Europe. Quoting Wekker (2016:4), while “no one colonizes innocently; no one colonizes with impunity”. There is an epistemic, political, and policy significance for exploring the deeply layered consequences colonization has had for “the European metropoles and their sense of self” (ibid). The proposed ISA workshop for Montreal 2023 seeks to invite senior and junior academics who wish to discuss how the racialised European sense of self, becomes evident in political and security practices condoned, conditioned, or upheld by the European Parliament.  The theme of this workshop is reading European identity from practice rather than presuming that identity drives practice and considering what such reading reveals about conventional understandings of race-relations, exclusion, violence, and belonging in the EU.

 

Please e-mail your 200-word expression of interest in this workshop to [log in to unmask] by June 29, 2022.