Abstract
Based on their study of minority women’s activism in the context of the economic crisis in Scotland, England and France, the authors question how well third sector organisations, policy-makers and social movements have responded to minority women’s perspectives and needs arising from austerity and racism. Apart from being disproportionately affected by the cuts, minority women are also undermined by dominant discourses which can (mis)represent them as either ‘victims’ or ‘enterprising actors’. There appears, from the excerpted interviews, to be a disconnect between minority women’s experiences and analyses of their precarity, their desire to take radical action and the compliant and domesticating projects and programmes that are currently being offered by some of their third sector ‘allies’.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 86-95 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Race & Class |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2 Oct 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
© 2015 Institute of Race Relations.Funder
We are grateful to the British Academy, Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland at the University of Edinburgh, and the College of Social Science University of Leicester for their support of this work.Keywords
- activism
- austerity
- minority women
- social enterprise,
- social movements
- third sector
Themes
- Social Movements and Contentious Politics