Part of the problem or part of the solution? Commissioned research and the political creation of "race" meaning

Kay Hampton

Part of the problem or part of the solution? Commissioned research and the political creation of "race" meaning

Kay Hampton

Glasgow Caledonian University

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Abstract

Drawing on twelve personal publications arising from eight empirical contract research projects in Scotland, the paper will illuminate ways in which applied research, commissioned by state institutions, shape & sustain political notions of "race". Arguing from a Race Formation perspective (Winant), the paper will explain how "race" as a process, is continually created, destroyed & re-invented in policy directed research processes, structures & relationships. A central argument in this paper will be that in an absence of an agreed "common-sense" meaning of "race" in Britain, local research participants' understandings of "race" & racialised inequalities are principally influenced by state driven ideologies.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2010

Keywords

equality
sociology
policy

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