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Feminism, co-option and (racial) neoliberalism

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By Terese Jonsson At a recent event organised by the Women’s and Gender Studies research cluster at the University of Portsmouth, titled ‘Feminisms, anti-racism, social justice: Theories and strategies for our times’, the topic of feminism’s co-option by capitalist and racist forces was much discussed. The co-option of feminist language and politics by a variety of nefarious forces is a recurrent topic of feminist concern, with some of the most common culprits identified as capitalism/neoliberalism, racism, imperialism. For example, Nancy Fraser’s and Angela McRobbie’s analysis of the neoliberal co-option of feminist language and politics in the service of the market

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CRaB Long Read: Researching Christian Minority Experience in Lahore: Communal Violence in the Muslim Zion

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Article by Dr Naheem Jabbar, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth: correspondence email: naheem.jabbar@port.ac.uk. On Easter Sunday last year, in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, a dehshat gard or suicide bomber killed 72 people, including 29 children in the city of Lahore. The message by Jamaat-ul-Ahra (Assembly of the Free), one of Pakistan’s numerous terrorist groups, to the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was directed both to Pakistan’s approximate 2% Christians in a nation of 180 million and locally, to Lahoris, in the Punjab, the ruling party’s home province: “We have carried out this attack to target the Christians who were celebrating Easter.

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The dangers of British fundamentalism

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By Terese Jonsson Do you know your ‘fundamental British values’? According to the UK government, these are ‘democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs’. Since 2014, the Department for Education advises all schools to ‘actively promote’ fundamental British values, and any school wishing to be graded as ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted must demonstrate that this promotion lies ‘at the heart’ of its work. Since the passing of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act in 2015, school teachers, university lecturers and administrators, local authority workers, doctors, nurses, prison, probation and police officers must

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