From corporate corruption and the facilitation of money laundering, to food fraud and labour exploitation, European citizens continue to be confronted by serious corporate and white-collar crimes.
Presenting an original series of provocative essays, this book offers a European framing of white-collar crime. Experts from different countries foreground what is unique, innovative or different about white-collar and corporate crimes that are so strongly connected to Europe, including the tensions that exist within and between the nation-states of Europe, and within the institutions of the European region.
This European voice provides an original contribution to discourses surrounding a form of crime which is underrepresented in current criminological literature.
Popular views of white working-class communities are common but knowledge of their views on multiculturalism and change less so. This important book provides the first substantial analysis of white working-class perspectives on themes of multiculturalism and change in the UK, creating an opportunity for these ‘silent voices’ to be heard. Based on over 200 interviews in multiple sites the results are startling - challenging politicians, policy makers and researchers. Improving our understanding of how this group went from ‘hero to zero’, became framed as racist, resistant to change and disconnected from politics, the book suggests a new and progressive agenda for white working class communities to become a fully inclusive part of a modern and diverse country in the 21st century. The book will be valuable to academics and students as well as policy-makers and practitioners in national government and organisations.
Since the ‘migration crisis’ of 2016, long-simmering tensions between the Western members of the European Union and its ‘new’ Eastern members – Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary – have proven to be fertile ground for rebellion against liberal values and policies.
In this startling and original book Ivan Kalmar argues that Central Europe illiberalism is a misguided response to the devastating effects of global neoliberalism which arose from the area’s brutal transition to capitalism in the 1990s.
Kalmar argues that dismissive attitudes towards ‘Eastern Europeans’ in the EU as incapable of real democracy are a form of racism, and connected to recent racist attacks on migrants from the area to the West.
He explores the close relation between racism towards Central Europeans and racism by Central Europeans: a people white, but not quite.
In the wake of the Brexit vote in June 2016, The Guardian reported that white people in Britain had started wearing safety pins in a public show of solidarity with immigrants. 1 The symbol of the safety pin conveyed the idea that immigrants had nothing to fear from them – that they are ‘safe’. In the aftermath of Trump’s election, white Americans also wore safety pins in order to show support to those made most vulnerable by the new president’s rise to power, such as people of colour, especially Muslims, members of the LGBTQ community, and undocumented
about 16 minutes. A policewoman presents a mock Nazi salute. Smiles on the other officers’ faces show they are quite amused. Initial reports said that Chovanec died in hospital a little later, but his lawyer and family maintain that he was dead on arrival. At the time of writing, a court investigation is still going on. 1 Chovanec’s wife Henrieta saw a parallel to the well-known death of an African American who choked to death under the knee of a white policeman in the summer of 2020. ‘After the videos of the arrest of the American George Floyd,’ Henrieta recalled
must have played a role in the producers’ choice: lax labour laws, favourable tax treatment. But the work of Anikó Imre, a scholar who has been in the forefront of research on how race and whiteness function in the media produced in Central Europe, suggests that there is much more at play. 2 Focusing on the Netflix series, The Witcher , based on Polish source material and shot mostly in Hungary, Imre notes how Central and Eastern Europe provide a location where the vagaries of racial guilt can be dreamed away, where one can escape race as one of the major problems
Exploring why food aid exists and the deeper causes of food poverty, this book addresses neglected dimensions of traditional food aid and food poverty debates.
It argues that the food aid industry is infused with neoliberal governmentality and shows how food charity upholds Christian ideals and white privilege, maintaining inequalities of class, race, religion and gender. However, it also reveals a sector that is immensely varied, embodying both individualism and mutual aid.
Drawing upon lived experiences, it documents how food sharing amid poverty fosters solidarity and gives rise to alternative modes of food redistribution among communities. By harnessing these alternative ways of being, food aid and communities can be part of movements for economic and racial justice.
my past crawls forth on its deadly knees without once looking up Litany by Krog 1998 : 264, line 8 Africa, past and present, suffers under a humanism that has dehumanised. This limited the definition of ‘the human’ to select Westerners, with humanism in law historically turning people, racialised as black, into ‘a race doomed to wretchedness, degradation, abjection and servitude’ ( Mbembe 2011 : 188). It is demonstrated in South Africa by the ongoing resistance of white people against the notion that apartheid was a ‘crime against humanity’, a
515 Families, Relationships and Societies • vol 7 • no 3 • 515–20 • ©Policy Press • 2018 Print ISSN 2046 7435 • Online ISSN 2046 7433 • https://doi.org/10.1332/204674318X15384699062912 Accepted for publication 05 September 2018 • First published online 13 October 2018 open space White weddings and the reproduction of white femininity Julia Carter, julia.carter@uwe.ac.uk University of the West of England, Bristol, UK key words weddings • gender • women • whiteness • femininity To cite this article: Carter, J. (2018) White weddings and the reproduction of
Introduction Although the central story of race and beer in the US is one that centers on the production and reproduction of whiteness, there is reason to believe that the racialized social structure of beer might be cracking. This chapter will cover several developments that may indicate critical change in the phenomenon of craft beer. There is no doubt that there are several contemporary currents that are pressing against the whiteness of craft beer, and there is also no doubt that it is all happening right now . We will highlight several of these taking
