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 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2010 |
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Keywords
- equality
- sociology
- policy
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Part of the problem or part of the solution? Commissioned research and the political creation of "race" meaning. / Hampton, Kay.
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T1 - Part of the problem or part of the solution? Commissioned research and the political creation of "race" meaning
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N1 - <p>Paper presented at: XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology: Sociology on the Move, Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-17 July 2010. Conference abstracts available: <a href="http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/isa-gothenburg-2010-book-of-abstracts.pdf">http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/isa-gothenburg-2010-book-of-abstracts.pdf</a></p>
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N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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KW - policy
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