Developing the concept of 'disobedient knowledge', this book provides new perspectives on activism and everyday struggles against racism and bordering. Drawing on empirical material from distinct contexts in Northern, Western and Southern Europe, the chapters explore how different kinds of (b)orders are challenged and possibly also maintained in everyday antiracism, activism and struggles against borders. The book examines resistance and disobedience in relation to borders, social orders, conventional practices and hegemonic discourses. It underscores the importance of studying racism and bordering as intertwined phenomena. With a focus on the historical layers of resistance, disobedient practices and ways of building shared struggles, the book provides invaluable knowledge about postcolonial Europe and its future possibilities.
Suvi Keskinen is Professor in Ethnic Relations at the University of Helsinki.Aminkeng Atabong Alemanji is Program Director and Senior Lecturer for the Master of Social Exclusion at Åbo Akademi University.Minna Seikkula is a Researcher at Tampere University.
Introduction: : Race, (b)ordering and disobedient knowledgeSuvi Keskinen, Aminkeng Atabong Alemanji and Minna SeikkulaPart I European ‘racelessness’ and disobedient knowledge1. Racists, nonracists and antiracists: The tensions and limitations of Spanish antiracismMahdis Azarmandi2. Memory, epistemological justice and disobedient knowledge: Narrating Nordic histories in postethnic activism and artSuvi Keskinen3. Theorising from our lives: A Black Nordic feminist approachOda-Kange Midtvåge Diallo and Rahwa Tilahun Yohaness4. Refusing the hegemonic grain: Challenging academic debates in British higher educationKatucha Bento Part II Everyday antiracism and community building5. Researching and challenging everyday racism with the 'illegitimated children of Italy'Annalisa Frisina6. Designing an antiracism mobile phone application: A reflection on the process and discourse as disobedient knowledgeAminkeng Atabong Alemanji 7. Cultures of the commons: Refugees, community work, and small-town conviviality Karin KriforsPart III (B)ordering and border struggles8. Antiracist and migration rights struggles through the lens of methodological denationalismMaja Sager9. Disobedient knowledge and knowledge practices in administrative border struggles: striving for a regularised status in post-2015 FinlandMinna Seikkula 10. Food, land and resistances across the Mediterranean: Toward a history of disobedience and resistance in backlightGabriele Proglio11. Racial capitalism, war and asylum seeking: Unearthing the troubled relationship between refugee support, antiracism and international solidarityFiorenza Picozza