I think one of the dilemmas we face in relation to the racist bombings and
attacks in London is that we probably know very little about why such
groups undertake such attacks.
Surely, one of the problems is that there has been too little attention
paid to the greographies of resistance which emanate from religious,
moralist and racist groups.
Somewhat peculiarly, those communities, which are deemed to promote sexist,
racist, violent, homophobic or fundamentalist discourses are often omitted
or categorised as adopting an oppositional, yet largely unexamined, space
in identity theory. As Gallaher has stressed within her own analysis:
"it is not enough to position the right as the opposition, while leaving
its politics, often of exclusion and hate, unanalyzed".
The general omission of communities which promote politically reactive
forms of resistance impedes a diagnostic interpretation of the multiplicity
of power relationships and their varied locations.
Pete Shirlow
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