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Nanyang Technological University
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-05-2021
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-10-2022
DOI: 10.1177/00113921221132317
Abstract: This article that forms part of a Special Section on ‘Invisible Privilege in Asia’ is committed to expanding the theoretical debates in race and ethnic studies, which has been previously critiqued as a field that has focused more on the gathering of empirical observations than the development of theory. This critique is even more pronounced within the realm of studying race and ethnicity in Asia, where research is often siloed within the contexts of national boundaries and area studies. While national, sub-regional and other specificities exist, here we provide a framework that identifies particular practices and structural processes that are best understood as indicative of a form of invisible, or latent ‘privilege’. In paying attention to the geographical and historical specificities of how privilege functions, this article seeks not to uncritically impose a definition, but understand how and when ‘privilege’ provides a useful analytical framework in the absence of, or in collusion with, other explanatory mechanisms. In doing so, this introduction speaks back to the Western-centric conceptual landscape that sociology as a discipline tends to draw from.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-09-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2012
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 04-2016
DOI: 10.3828/IDPR.2016.12
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-11-2017
Publisher: Routledge India
Date: 04-10-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-11-2017
Abstract: Issues of integration, assimilation and the place of ‘strangers’ within metropolitan contexts have been overwhelmingly conceptualised within the larger structural frames of ethnicity, nationality, immigration status and socio-economic class. This raises and reflects important issues around strategies of differentiation, urban exclusion and the hierarchies inherent in everyday life within contemporary cities. However, in privileging such modes of analysis, other more dynamic, elastic, latent and surreptitious forms of affinity, relatedness and connection within the urban environment are often left unexamined. Friendship is one of these. The articles in this special issue initiate a deeper and more sustained focus on friendship as a relational modality that characterises many urban interactions, and that also takes on particular forms within demographically erse city spaces. The particular contribution of this special issue is in bringing together the literature from urban studies, research on ersity, understandings of social capital and networks and contemporary discussions of friendship. This introduction to the special issue argues that adopting alternative frameworks of enquiry such as friendship can serve to unsettle a priori assumptions about co-ethnic solidarity, and provide alternative epistemological starting points in understanding social networks. In doing so, this research not only contributes to contemporary readings of erse cities but extends understandings of the routine affective and material labour that urban dwellers regularly undertake. Calling for a focus on informal bonds like friendship, this article suggests that it is within such unexplored spheres that possibilities of care and convivial city living exist.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-11-2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 19-12-2019
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2014
DOI: 10.1111/SJTG.12063
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 08-01-2019
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190842475.001.0001
Abstract: The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment challenges the view that bodies belong to the category of “nature” and are biological, essential, and pre-social. It argues instead that bodies both shape and get shaped by human societies. As such, the body is an appropriate and necessary area of study for sociologists. The Handbook works to clarify the scope of this topic and display the innovations of research within the field. The volume is ided into three main parts: Bodies and Methodology Marginalized Bodies and Embodied Sociology. Sociologists contributing to the first two parts focus on the body and the ways it is given meaning, regulated, and subjected to legal and medical oversight in a variety of social contexts (particularly when the body in question violates norms for how a culture believes bodies “ought” to behave or appear). Sociologists contributing to the last part use the bodily as a lens through which to study social institutions and experiences. These social settings range from personal decisions about medical treatment to programs for teaching police recruits how to use physical force, from social movement tactics to countries’ understandings of race and national identity. Many chapters throughout the book offer extended methodological reflections, providing guidance on how to conduct sociological research on the body and, at times, acknowledging the role the authors’ own bodies play in developing their knowledge of the research subject.
Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press
Date: 07-2018
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2015
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-10-2018
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 21-07-2022
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2022
DOI: 10.1177/00113921221132311
Abstract: This introduction to the special section ‘Invisible Privilege in Asia’ suggests a framework within which studies of privilege in Asia can be situated. Animated by a global politics of Blackness and social movements that have renewed the focus on racialised inequality and hierarchy, we use this moment to urge an interrogation of the conceptual productivity of the notion of privilege. This project is particularly significant within a region that is often seen only as empirical site and not as a space for theory-building in the social sciences.
Location: Germany
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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