Research Catalog

Title

Losing the race : thinking psychosocially about racially motivated crime / David Gadd and Bill Dixon.

Author

Gadd, David, 1975-

Publication

London : Karnac, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Dixon, Bill.

Description

xxix, 258 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

• "Based on a two-year research project, 'Context and Motive in the Perpetration of Racially Motivated Violence and Harassment', funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), this book explores why many of those involved in racially motivated crime seem to be struggling to cope with economic, cultural, and emotional losses in their own lives. Drawing on in-depth biographical interviews with perpetrators of racist crimes and focus group discussions with ordinary people living in the same communities, the book explores why it is that some people, and not others, feel inclined to attack immigrants and minority ethnic groups. The relationships between ordinary racism, racial harassment, and the politics of the British National Party are also explored, as are the enduring impacts of deindustrialization, economic failure, and immigration on white working class communities."--Book jacket.
• The book assesses the legacy of New Labour policy on community cohesion, hate crime, and respect in terms of its impact on racist attitudes and racist incidents, and explores how it is that racist attacks, including racist murders, continue to happen. The book concludes by using psychoanalytically informed psychosocial concepts to explore examples of how and why race-thinking can be put aside, and what it is that needs to happen to get perpetrators to loosen or shed their emotional investments in hatred and violence. "--Book jacket.

Series Statement

Explorations in psycho-social studies series

Uniform Title

Explorations in psycho-social studies series.

Subjects

• Race Relations [MESH]
• Hate crimes > Social aspects > Great Britain
• Racism > Great Britain > Psychological aspects
• Race awareness > Great Britain
• Race > Psychological aspects
• Psychoanalysis and racism

Note

• "Based on a two-year research project, "Context and motive in the perpetration of racially motivated violence and harassment", funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)"--P. iv of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-248) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Posing the "why?" question -- Recovering the contradictory racist subject -- Understanding the "racially motivated offender" -- Racially aggravated offenders and the punishment of hate -- The unconscious attractions of far right politics -- Rethinking community cohesion -- Zahid Mubarek's murderer: the case of Robert Stewart -- Racism, respect, and recognition -- Conclusion: losing the race.

ISBN

• 9781855757936
• 1855757931

OCLC

• 697775177
• SCSB-12299166

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library