Jordan Mullard jordan.c.mullard@durham.ac.uk
Honorary Fellow
Authenticity and recognition: Theorising antiracist becomings and allyship in the time of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter
Mullard, Jordan. C. R.
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Abstract
The confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the murder of George Floyd in America and a global Black Lives Matter response triggered anew the global struggle for racial justice. Using cyber, remote, and in-person ethnographic methods, this paper explores racial identity, allyship and processes of becoming during the spring and summer of 2020. Building on theories of ‘the struggle for recognition’, I situate becoming within the interplay of what I call epistemic, affective and reciprocal authenticity. Within this project, I address identity, redistribution and the reconfiguration of conceptual distinctions between justice and dignity. The analysis reflects a time of racial tension in a provincial Northeastern town in England, UK – a predominantly white and marginalised location. I amplify the personal testimonies, conversations and written words of three quite different activists to highlight the nuanced refractions of lived experience and a developing antiracism. These collaborators reveal how their antiracist becomings, in the light of 2020 events, incorporate affective, epistemic and reciprocal authenticities that bring to the fore new potentialities for racial justice, white allyship and recognition.
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Mullard, J. C. R. (2024). Authenticity and recognition: Theorising antiracist becomings and allyship in the time of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter. Anthropological Theory, 24(2), 111-135. https://doi.org/10.1177/14634996231193608
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 24, 2023 |
Online Publication Date | Sep 3, 2023 |
Publication Date | 2024-06 |
Deposit Date | Jul 28, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 20, 2023 |
Journal | Anthropological Theory |
Print ISSN | 1463-4996 |
Electronic ISSN | 1741-2641 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 24 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 111-135 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/14634996231193608 |
Keywords | becomings, racial consciousness, Black Lives Matter, identity, social movements, allyship, recognition, COVID-19, Authenticity |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1238716 |
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