Abstract
Helma Lutz and Nira Yuval-Davis are known for their extensive work in the field of intersectionality. For many years, their research has focused on connections between gendered racisms, citizenship and belonging. In the summer of 2020, Linda Supik and Catharina Peeck-Ho virtually interviewed Nira Yuval-Davis and Helma Lutz between London, Frankfurt am Main, Hannover and Münster. The two scholars talk about their theoretical perspectives in the field against the backdrop of their intellectual pathways and shared experiences in activism, e.g. in the The European Forum of Socialist Feminists (which later became European Left Feminists). Among other things, they discuss questions regarding race and racism in Europe, migrant care work and labour during the pandemic, problems of simple dichotomies of the global South and North, and transversal politics and transnational feminism. They reflect on shared perspectives on feminist activism and scholarship.
Helma Lutz and Nira Yuval-Davis are interviewed by Catharina Peeck-Ho and Linda Supik (We thank Douglas Becker and Cosima Hartmann for their careful transcriptions of this interview)
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RC05 = Research Committee 05 https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/research-networks/research-committees/rc05-racism-nationalism-indigeneity-and-ethnicity.
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Since 2018.
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Fifty-six people were killed and more than 700 injured when suicide bombers attacked a bus and three underground trains in this by now severest terrorist attack in Britain.
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The creation of a ‘hostile environment’ is a set of explicitly discriminatory measures to make undocumented immigrants leave the UK, implemented by the Labour Party in the 2000s and intensified by Conservative Home Secretary Theresa May from 2010 on. Measures later were renamed ‘compliant environment.’ Obligations to check people’s documentation in all life areas lead to forms of racial profiling and hit racialised populations. An inter-ministerial working group—initially named the ‘Hostile Environment Working Group’—was set up in 2012 (see Qureshi et al. 2020).
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The British National Health Service (NHS) is tax-financed and, in principle, guarantees free health care to every inhabitant of the UK.
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*1945, Director of the Cultural Studies Centre at the Institute of Education at the University of London.
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“Who owns intersectionality” is the title of Kathy Davis’ Lecture as part of the Cornelia Goethe Colloquium on ‘Intersectionality in a Crossfire?’ on November 18, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZXq_rsS3VA Accessed: 04 October 2021.
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The title of this unpublished keynote was: Intersectionality’s appropriation? A critical dispute about feminist knowledge regimes and their contestations.
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Ann Phoenix Lecture “Interrogating Intersectional contestations: Should the privileged speak?” in the Summer 2020 lecture series at the Cornelia Goethe Center Frankfurt can be downloaded from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr7GWMAW2ik&t=17s Accessed: 04 October 2021.
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Hanau is a town in the vicinity of Frankfurt, where, on February 19th, 2020, a forty-three year old man, called a right-wing extremist by the police, killed Gökhan Gültekin, Sedat Gürbüz, Said Nesar Hashemi, Mercedes Kierpacz, Hamza Kurtović, Vili Viorel Păun, Fatih Saraçoğlu, Ferhat Unvar and Kaloyan Velkov, who had been customers of a shisha bar and a kiosk.
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Lutz, H., Yuval-Davis, N., Peeck-Ho, C., Supik, L. (2022). Situated Gazes on Gendered Racisms, Citizenship and Belonging. In: Supik, L., et al. Gender, Race and Inclusive Citizenship. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36391-8_2
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