I Refuse to Condemn: Resisting racism in times of national security

Editor Asim Qureshi in Conversation with Fatima Rajina and Adam Elliott-Cooper

In times of heightened national security, scholars and activists from the communities under suspicion often attempt to alert the public to the more complex stories behind the headlines. But when they raise questions about the government, military and police policy, these individuals are routinely shut down and accused of being terrorist sympathisers or apologists for gang culture. In such environments, there is immense pressure to condemn what society at large fears. This collection explains how the expectation to condemn has emerged, tracking it against the normalisation of racism, and explores how writers manage to subvert expectations as part of their commitment to anti-racism.

Join us for a conversation with the editor and two of the authors in this new edited collection.

Adam Elliott-Cooper is a research associate in the Centre for Applied Sociology at University of Greenwich. His book, Black Resistance to British Policing, will be published by Manchester University Press in Spring 2021.

The event will be held via Zoom and joining instructions will be sent to registered attendees on the day of the event.
https://www.gre.ac.uk/people/rep/las/dr-adam-elliott-cooper

Asim Queresh (editor) completed his PhD in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent. He is the research director at the advocacy group CAGE and since 2003 has specialised in investigating the impact of counter-terrorism practice worldwide. Asim is also author the author of Rules of the Game: Detention, Deportation, Disappearance (Columbia University Press, 2009) and A Virtue of Disobedience (Unbound & Byline, 2019).

Fatima Rajina completed her PhD in the Centre of Islamic Studies, SOAS where her research looked at British Bangladeshi Muslims and their changing identification and perceptions of dress and language. She is currently working on a project, Lutonians, along with a local photographer to document the everyday lived experiences of people from Luton. She has previously worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge and a research fellow in the Department of Social Science, UCL Institute of Education.

Fatima Rajina is currently a Legacy in Action Research Fellow at the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, De Montfort University.

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