Bristol University Press
11 Speaking Back and Seeing Beyond the Landscapes of Hate
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on the range of everyday encounters of racism or ‘microaggressions’ that people from ethnic minorities experience, the impact it has, and the opportunities to challenge this hostility through, for example, anti-racist youth work education. The authors provide an excerpt from their own conversations and reflections to provide an account that illustrates the ways in which those involved in the research on hate have often themselves been victimized by hate and how these lived experiences shape, and are shaped by, and mirror, their research. The chapter also draws on qualitative research with young people in the north of England, to explore two responses to racism: ‘reactive’, an immediate response to the situation, and ‘proactive’, measured responses formulated through resistance, resilience and agency. The chapter concludes by arguing that for young people safe space affords an opportunity to speak back and see beyond landscapes of hate.
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the range of everyday encounters of racism or ‘microaggressions’ that people from ethnic minorities experience, the impact it has, and the opportunities to challenge this hostility through, for example, anti-racist youth work education. The authors provide an excerpt from their own conversations and reflections to provide an account that illustrates the ways in which those involved in the research on hate have often themselves been victimized by hate and how these lived experiences shape, and are shaped by, and mirror, their research. The chapter also draws on qualitative research with young people in the north of England, to explore two responses to racism: ‘reactive’, an immediate response to the situation, and ‘proactive’, measured responses formulated through resistance, resilience and agency. The chapter concludes by arguing that for young people safe space affords an opportunity to speak back and see beyond landscapes of hate.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- List of Figures ix
- About the Authors x
- Series Preface xv
- Preface xvi
- Introducing Landscapes of Hate 1
- Examining the Contours of Hate: A Critical Hate Studies Analysis 22
- Hiding the Harm? An Argument against Misogyny Hate Crime 38
- Constructing Britain’s Hated Landscapes: The Linguistic and Ideological Construction of Toxteth 58
- Negotiating Landscapes of (Un)safety: Atmospheres and Ambivalence in Female Students’ Everyday Geographies 78
- Becoming Visible, Becoming Vulnerable? Bodies, Material Spaces and Affective Economies of Hate 98
- The Role of Space and Place in Learning Disabled People’s Experiences of Disablist Violence 118
- Hostility, Hate and Humiliation: Disability Hate Crime on UK Public Transport 138
- Safe Spaces or Spaces of Control? Racial Tensions at Predominantly White Institutions 157
- ‘It’s Not Hate to … [Say] That Gay Sex Leads to Hell’: Contesting Hate, Reiterating Heteronormativities 176
- Speaking Back and Seeing Beyond the Landscapes of Hate 196
- Rethinking Responses to Hate: Towards a Socio-ecological Approach 217
- Afterword: Spatializing Hate – Relational, Intersectional and Emotional Approaches 238
- Index 247
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- List of Figures ix
- About the Authors x
- Series Preface xv
- Preface xvi
- Introducing Landscapes of Hate 1
- Examining the Contours of Hate: A Critical Hate Studies Analysis 22
- Hiding the Harm? An Argument against Misogyny Hate Crime 38
- Constructing Britain’s Hated Landscapes: The Linguistic and Ideological Construction of Toxteth 58
- Negotiating Landscapes of (Un)safety: Atmospheres and Ambivalence in Female Students’ Everyday Geographies 78
- Becoming Visible, Becoming Vulnerable? Bodies, Material Spaces and Affective Economies of Hate 98
- The Role of Space and Place in Learning Disabled People’s Experiences of Disablist Violence 118
- Hostility, Hate and Humiliation: Disability Hate Crime on UK Public Transport 138
- Safe Spaces or Spaces of Control? Racial Tensions at Predominantly White Institutions 157
- ‘It’s Not Hate to … [Say] That Gay Sex Leads to Hell’: Contesting Hate, Reiterating Heteronormativities 176
- Speaking Back and Seeing Beyond the Landscapes of Hate 196
- Rethinking Responses to Hate: Towards a Socio-ecological Approach 217
- Afterword: Spatializing Hate – Relational, Intersectional and Emotional Approaches 238
- Index 247
