Shona Hunter

Leeds Beckett University | LEEDS MET · Carnegie School of Education

In this article, I offer the idea of relational choreography as a way of understanding white positionality as responsible for, as well as resistant to, racialising practices. My argument develops through a self-reflexive analysis of my response to a photographic exhibition by Black British photographer, Vanley Burke, entitled By the Rivers of Birmi...

How can we rethink ideas of policy failure to consider its paradoxes and contradictions as a starting point for more hopeful democratic encounters? Offering a provocative and innovative theorisation of governance as relational politics, the central argument of Power, Politics and the Emotions is that there are sets of affective dynamics which comp...

This handbook offers a unique decolonial take on the field of Critical Whiteness Studies by re-historicising and re-spatialising the study of bodies and identities in the world system of coloniality. Situating the critical study of whiteness as a core intellectual pillar in a broadly-based project for racial and social justice, the volume understa...

In this paper I contribute to debates on the potential connections between care ethics and decoloniality from within Global North West European whiteness. I do this from a feminist psychosocial position which understands everyday lived realities as shifting dynamic entanglements, produced relationally though complicated spatially and temporally exp...

This chapter offers a decolonial approach to the critical study of whiteness. It focuses on twenty-first century global coloniality, characterised by neoliberalism's mix of necro-biopolitics and dependent on the toxic fantasies, materialities and global institutional, and interpersonal relationalities of whiteness. Critical race, decolonial, and bl...

This handbook offers a unique decolonial take on the field of Critical Whiteness Studies by rehistoricising and re-spatialising the study of bodies and identities in the world system of coloniality. Situating the critical study of whiteness as a core intellectual pillar in a broadly based project for racial and social justice, the volume understan...

Images from the Rivers of Birminam Exhibition which are considered in the article 'Being called toe 'By the Rivers of Birminam': the relational choreography of white looking

This is a presentation of some of the key arguments developed in the paper 'Being call to 'By the Rivers of Birminam' published in Critical Arts.

Abstract for a paper under revision to appear in a Special Edition of the journal Ethics and Social Welfare on Ethical Relations to the Past

Peel and Newman's paper on 'Gender's Wider Stakes' throws up many rich methodological threads. In this response I take the opportunity to follow and extend the line of analysis they establish in considering participants' engagement with the 'Attitudes to Gender' survey as a 'snapshot of a cultural moment' (Peel and Newman this issue: 25) which is h...

How can we rethink ideas of policy failure to consider its paradoxes and contradictions as a starting point for more hopeful democratic encounters? Offering a provocative and innovative theorisation of governance as relational politics, the central argument of Power, Politics and the Emotions is that there are sets of affective dynamics which compl...

This special issue provides a unique opportunity to draw on and extend insights into the international and interdisciplinary field of "white studies" (Bonnett 1996b, 2008) or "critical whiteness studies" (Nayak 2007) for feminist social politics. In 1999, Ruth Frankenberg wrote: In a process that has been gradually gathering force over the last sev...

This paper considers the relationship between white shame in contemporary UK health care contexts and historically idealized forms of white pride derived from nineteenth-century British colonialism. It uses excerpts from qualitative interview material to highlight the contemporary figures of the “white worried man” and the “white women savior” and...

This chapter takes a detailed look at the way in which one healthcare professional resists and negotiates his personal and professional identity in the context of a modernisation discourse that creates dilemmas for him through its categorical assumptions concerning ‘older’, male Asian GPs. It begins by considering the ways in which the professional...

This paper challenges dominant analyses of policy documents and documentation practices as coercive welfare technologies. Instead it develops an interdisciplinary feminist psychosocial analysis which posits policy documents as material semiotic actors in the process of governance, produced through and productive of the social relations of public se...

The first research phase of EDUMIGROM focused on background studies on education and ethnic relations in the domestic contexts of the project’s target countries. During this phase, research teams gathered and processed macro-level data and information with three adjacent goals in mind: to supply the comprehensive country studies on education and et...

Purpose The paper draws out the key conceptual, methodological and substantive issues raised in the papers around the politics of equalities. Design/methodology/approach Rather than reviewing and summarising each paper in turn this introductory article synthesises the key themes from papers to develop an overview of the key issues raised in the ed...

Purpose The paper has two purposes: to introduce a new perspective on power and resistance in equalities work; and to trouble either or theorisations of success and failure in this work. Instead it offers a new means of exploring micro‐practice. Design/methodology/approach The paper applies/develops an “actor network theory” (ANT) analysis to a si...

Purpose To explore the experience of a key member of the UK equalities policy‐making elite, interrogating her shift from activist to top‐ranking equalities professional. To focus attention on the under‐explored area of lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender equalities work. Design/methodology/approach The interview is prefaced with a critical comme...

This article uses empirical material from a qualitative study of adult and community learning (ACL) to explore issues around leading for equality and diversity in educational organisations. What the author is interested in is the way that the commitment to a ‘community’ context in ACL opens up (or keeps open) certain possibilities for ‘diverse’ edu...

This report presents the findings from the research project ‘Integrating Diversity? Gender, Race and Leadership in the Learning and Skills Sector’. The project was commissioned by the Centre for Excellence in Leadership. The main aim of the research is to examine what effects the concept and practice of diversity have in the learning and skills sec...

This paper draws on work conducted for a qualitative interview based study which explores the gendered racialised and professional identifications of health and social care professionals. Participants for the project were drawn from the professional executive committees of recently formed Primary Care Trusts. The paper discusses how the feminist ps...

This article seeks both to highlight a current imbalance in approaches to social identity in social policy, and to make suggestions as to how this might be redressed in future work employing the concept. The concept of identity and specifically social identity is increasingly employed in the discipline of social policy as a theoretical device with...