Description

Race, Migration, and Intersectionality specialist group

The PSA Race, Migration and Intersectionality (RMI) specialist group aims to create a much-needed space for PSA members and our networks to share, promote and discuss research related to race, racism, ethnicity, ethnic minority political participation and representation, but also issues of identity, im/migration, and belonging. The group places a strong emphasis on intersectionality, foregrounding the interactions and overlaps amongst racism and racialised borders, capitalism and class dynamics, heteropatriarchy, and ableism.

The Race, Migration, and Intersectionality specialist group welcomes a broad range of academics across various career stages and promote interdisciplinary research.

The group has three aims:

To become a prominent, leading, and open forum for the development and promotion of interdisciplinary research on race, migration, and intersectionality - this includes being present and active at the annual PSA conference
Build and foster a collegial and supportive environment for students and scholars from backgrounds currently under-represented in the discipline of political studies
Contribute to local, national, and regional debates about immigration, integration, ethnicity, race, multiculturalism, decolonisation, and intersectionality - with an emphasis on supporting rigour, equity, and nuance in these discussions

Become a member of the Race, Migration, and Intersectionality specialist group today! It is free to join for PSA members.

If you want to stay up to date with us and hear about the latest events, research, and jobs related to race, migration, and intersectionality, sign up to our mailing list: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A0=PSA-RACE

PSA RMI Political Studies Review Symposium: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blackness and Black Politics

Call for Abstracts Deadline: Friday 25 April 2025

Hosted by the Political Studies Association (PSA) Race, Migration, and Intersectionality Specialist Group (RMI)

Symposium Guest Editors: Dr Shardia Briscoe-Palmer, Dr Michael Bankole, Dr Jessica Underwood, and Dr Lydia Ayame Hiraide

A one-day event to be held on Friday 25th July, 2025 PSA Office in Camden, London

From the rise and fall of ‘political blackness’ (Modood, 1994; Andrews, 2016; Ambikaipaker, 2018) to Black British feminist organising around misogynoir (Young, 2000; Ali et al., 2010; Mirza and Gunaratnam, 2014; Palmer, 2020), Britain has a long history of Black activism, political thought, and cultural production. Yet, both public and academic discourses often fail to account for the histories, legacies, and implications of Blackness and anti-Blackness as key shapers of modern Britain.

In an article published in British Politics Sadiya Akram asks, ‘Dear British politics—where is the race and racism?’ (2024). We recognise the lack of attention to race and racism in the discipline of British politics in particular. But we extend this question further, looking to the spaces between and across social sciences and humanities disciplines which speak to the significance and diversity of our engagements with Blackness and Black politics. We ask where Blackness, Black politics, and anti-Blackness articulate themselves within and between our disciplines?

This symposium seeks to foreground the work of both established and emerging scholars engaging with themes of Blackness and Black politics from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, including sociology, cultural studies, history, and political studies. Participants will have the opportunity to share their work in a friendly, collegial, and interdisciplinary setting. Research/ideas which are still in the early stages of development are also welcome.

We invite contributions that critically explore the temporalities, spatialities, and epistemologies of Blackness in Britain, following historical and contemporary struggles articulated from and through this category. Participants are encouraged to examine how the dynamics of Blackness and Black politics are constructed and lived in, struggled for and against, and made fundamental to various forms of resistance across Britain.

Selected contributions from this symposium will be published in an issue of Political Studies Review after subjection to a peer review process. Given that all of the submissions will be subject to peer and editorial review, we cannot guarantee that all of the papers presented at the symposium will definitely be published in the final PSR issue. Final publication will be subject to the quality and rigour of the submitted paper.

The group invite abstracts of up to 200 words by Friday 25 April 2025 and welcome submissions from scholars at any stage of their career, including early career academics.

The final paper to be submitted to peer review for publication in an issue of Political Studies Review will be limited to 3,000 words inclusive of all notes and references.

Abstracts should be submitted via this form: https://forms.gle/jpPLz7Tuytuuvi6p7