Developing the concept of 'disobedient knowledge', this book provides new perspectives on activism and everyday struggles against racism and bordering. Drawing on empirical material from distinct contexts in Northern, Western and Southern Europe, the chapters explore how different kinds of (b)orders are challenged and possibly also maintained in everyday antiracism, activism and struggles against borders. The book examines resistance and disobedience in relation to borders, social orders, conventional practices and hegemonic discourses. It underscores the importance of studying racism and bordering as intertwined phenomena. With a focus on the historical layers of resistance, disobedient practices and ways of building shared struggles, the book provides invaluable knowledge about postcolonial Europe and its future possibilities. -- .
Introduction: : Race, (b)ordering and disobedient knowledge
Suvi Keskinen, Aminkeng Atabong Alemanji and Minna Seikkula
Part I European racelessness and disobedient knowledge
1. Racists, nonracists and antiracists: The tensions and limitations of
Spanish antiracism
Mahdis Azarmandi
2. Memory, epistemological justice and disobedient knowledge: Narrating
Nordic histories in postethnic activism and art
Suvi Keskinen
3. Theorising from our lives: A Black Nordic feminist approach
Oda-Kange Midtvåge Diallo and Rahwa Tilahun Yohaness
4. Refusing the hegemonic grain: Challenging academic debates in British
higher education
Katucha Bento
Part II Everyday antiracism and community building
5. Researching and challenging everyday racism with the 'illegitimated
children of Italy'
Annalisa Frisina
6. Designing an antiracism mobile phone application: A reflection on the
process and discourse as disobedient knowledge
Aminkeng Atabong Alemanji
7. Cultures of the commons: Refugees, community work, and small-town
conviviality
Karin Krifors
Part III (B)ordering and border struggles
8. Antiracist and migration rights struggles through the lens of
methodological denationalism
Maja Sager
9. Disobedient knowledge and knowledge practices in administrative border
struggles: striving for a regularised status in post-2015 Finland
Minna Seikkula
10. Food, land and resistances across the Mediterranean: Toward a history of
disobedience and resistance in backlight
Gabriele Proglio
11. Racial capitalism, war and asylum seeking: Unearthing the troubled
relationship between refugee support, antiracism and international
solidarity
Fiorenza Picozza -- .
Suvi Keskinen is Professor in Ethnic Relations at the University of Helsinki. Aminkeng Atabong Alemanji is Program Director and Senior Lecturer for the Master of Social Exclusion at Åbo Akademi University. Minna Seikkula is a Researcher at Tampere University. -- .
