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Balogun, Bolaji and Ohia-Nowak, Margaret Amaka (2024) 'Geographies of race in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe.' Ethnic and Racial Studies. pp. 1-20. (Forthcoming)

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Abstract

This article is a discipline-defining agenda. It addresses the oversight of Geographies of race in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and explores geography’s potential contributions to the unfolding debates around race, decolonisation, and whiteness. Geographies of race remain unmarked and therefore unchallenged within the field of geography in CEE. Consequently, geographers typically consider CEE as peripheral to the global racial discourses and possibly post-racial. By drawing on sociological, migration, historical, and anthropological approaches, particularly in Poland, the article emphasises the importance of geography in discussions around race, decolonisation, and whiteness. It considers the appeal of geographies of race to this “peripheral location” to demonstrate a shift in racial and colonial discourses. By bridging interdisciplinary approaches and challenging prevailing discourses, the article aims to broaden the scope of the geographies of race and foster a more inclusive and global understanding of race and colonisation.

Item Type: Journal Article
Keywords: Blackness and whiteness; geographies of race; colonialism; Central and Eastern Europe;Poland; race and space
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Department of Anthropology & Sociology
ISSN: 01419870
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2400301
SWORD Depositor: JISC Publications Router
Date Deposited: 21 Sep 2024 08:13
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/42526
Funders: Leverhulme Trust

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