Suki Ali

Racializing research: Managing power and politics?

Abstract This article engages with the issue of power relations within ethnographic research into ‘race’. Taking as its starting point the importance of understanding processes of racialization, it draws upon ethnographic work with children in order to explore the role of reflexivity in managing issues of power in knowledge production. Using the concept of ‘subjectivation’ it argues that we cannot ever hope to escape (non)hierarchical power relations in research, that all research is inevitably, to an extent, racializing. The study suggests that feminist politics of knowledge can help us to deal with these methodological complexities.

FEMINISM AND POSTCOLONIAL: KNOWLEDGE/POLITICS

Abstract This article charts a partial and situated engagement with some of the debates about the development of feminist and postcolonial theory. It looks at the importance of maintaining an engagement with both these perspectives in contemporary struggles around knowledge/politics in the (British) academy. In addition it discusses the ways in which the conjunction of feminist with postcolonial provides impetus for new methodological agendas in future research and practice.

Intersectionality, Black British feminism and resistance in education: a roundtable discussion

This roundtable discussion was the opening plenary panel of the 7th Gender and Education Association Conference, entitled ‘Regulation and Resistance’, held at the Institute of Education, London, 25–27 March 2009. The discussion centred on exploring the historical development and continuing relevance of intersectional and Black British feminist approaches for contemporary debates in gender and education.

Black feminist praxis: some reflections on pedagogies and politics in higher education

This essay takes a personal, reflexive approach to the positioning of black feminism in higher education in the UK. It asks how we might best understand the political economy of black feminist knowledge in higher education. It argues that challenges for black British feminist pedagogies and embodied positionality are best explored through postcolonial paradigms, and coalitions amongst black feminists continue to be of vital importance in contemporary academic sites.

Multicultural families: Deracializing transracial adoption

In 2010, the Coalition government announced its plans for adoption reform which included ‘removing barriers’ to transracial adoption. The government has blamed social workers’ looking for ‘perfect ethnic matches’ for denying black and minority ethnic children placements with ‘loving and stable families’. The paper draws upon qualitative research with professionals and parents, which shows that the government has failed to take into account the complex ways in which race and ethnicity matter within adoption. Their wish to deracialize transracial adoption fits with wider concerns about race mixing, families and national belonging in multicultural Britain. While they attempt to minimize the importance of race and ethnicity, they continue to place race at the heart of these debates.

Impeccable advice: supporting women academics through supervision and mentoring

At the time when Diana was writing A womans guide to doctoral studies (2001), she was supervising a number of female doctoral students. She drew on some of their experiences in the writing of the book, and they in return benefited from the extensive insights she had about the politics of academic life that she portrays in her book. In this article, two of those students will reflect on the experience of working with Diana during this period of time, particularly in relation to her role as a mentor to younger academics. This article will engage with some of the issues from the perspective of those who were experiencing them at the time. The type of role model that she was able to be is unfortunately rarely found in higher education, now more than ever, given the changing context of higher education. The legacy that she left is therefore important to preserve. In doing so, the authors reflect on how her approach has influenced their own approach to supervision and on the importance of her legacy.

the sense of memory

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the role of collective memory in ethno-national projects. In addition, there has been an expansion of research utilising memory work and auto/biographical methods, which have been particularly effective in the writing of feminists of colour. The paper is prompted by a return to Avtar Brahs ‘The Scent of Memory’ that it uses as a starting point to explore the relationships between competing accounts of ‘private’ memories of racialisation that come from mixed-race siblings growing up in a mainly white town. Drawing on interviews, the paper uses familial narratives and their individual telling, to show how sense is made of divergent experiences and memories of childhood and teenage in 1960s and 1970s Britain. The paper shows how narrative accounts are often negotiated through multiple senses, revealing them as both imagined and recalled, contested and negotiated. The paper considers the strengths and limitations of narrative analysis in understanding the relationship between individual and collective memories at both national and familial levels. It argues that the ways in which the social and personal memories are connected in the processes of subjectivation are unstable and opaque, and can only ever be partially known through the process of narrativisation.

Race, gender and educational desire: why black women succeed and fail

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