MINORITY WOMEN AND AUSTERITY

Contents

Glossary of French terms

About the authors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

1. Taking minority women’s activism seriously

Introduction

The three cases: France, England and Scotland

Methods

The 2008 economic crisis, austerity measures and minority women

Outline of the book

2. Theorising and resisting ‘political racelessness’ in Europe

Introduction

The racial logic of Europe

Manufacturing white ignorance and white innocence

Minority women and the epistemic violence of political racelessness

Minority women and epistemic justice

Conclusions

3. Whose crisis counts?

Introduction

Minority women and routinised precarity

Minority women’s routinised crises and austerity measures since 2008

Conclusions

4. Enterprising activism

Introduction

Governing the third sector

The enterprising third sector and minority women’s activism

Marketising third sector relations

Marketising organisational norms and values

Minority women activists: entrepreneurs, victims or invisible?

On being invisible or instrumentalised in France

Conclusions

5. The politics of survival

Introduction

Personal and collective resources

Activism as self-help, self-care and self-organising

Activism as self-representation?

Co-optation and being instrumentalised

Negotiating the Republic

Speaking against stigma and naming intersections

Social movements

Conclusion

6. Learning across cases, learning beyond ‘cases’

The road we have travelled

Learning across cases: state power and national ‘models’

Learning beyond ‘cases’: new actors on the scene

Conclusions

7. Conclusion: warning signs

Introduction

Raising the alarm

Race and Europe: what comes next?

Appendix

Fieldwork and sampling strategy

Analysis and coding frame

References

Index