"This book will surely come to be recognised as a landmark on the long road towards putting a loving, suffering, struggling subject at the centre of social policy. Psychoanalysis meets Foucault in this hugely ambitious account of the state's melancholic entanglement with social difference. Fail again. Fail Better!"
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Paul Hoggett, Professor Emeritus, writer and cofounder of the Climate Psychology Alliance.
"By foregrounding the 'feeling work' that characterises the daily practice of state agencies, their staff and their users, Hunter demonstrates with supreme skill and intellectual adroitness the power of feminist, psychosocial analysis to unlock and make meaningful the social, historical, cultural and psychic forces in and through which our subjectivities and collective belongings are made".Â
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Gail Lewis, writer, psychotherapist, researcher and activist. Â
"Our world is in turmoil. We in live in the accumulated pain and emboldened geopolitical violence of 500 years of colonial history. This volume does not offer any balm for white wounds. Rather it is an insurgent call for racial justice. Bringing together a breadth of voices from across the Global North and South, the editors ask readers to critically reflect upon the connections and separations of the world through the varied formations of whiteness. This extraordinary volume is a provocation, a challenge, and a conversation, offering new constellations of possibilities to approach the field of critical whiteness studies; to interrogate whiteness within the calculated balances and sacrificial structures of the world; and to consider whiteness in relation, a method of working through the interpersonal. The chapters rumble with a thoughtful intensity that both activists and intellectuals require to carry forth visions of radical change, especially in these times when events in one part of the world cascades in another."
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Nalini Mohabir, co-editor of The Fire that Time: Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation
"What a wide-ranging and fiery examination of whiteness; its intersections, infusions and leaching logics across time, place and systems of colonial and racial domination. Apartheid, Hindu nationalism, indigenous genocide, oceanic colonialism and Goa, Meghan Markle, post-feminism, philosophical entrapment and Zionism are some of the topics through which authors complicate and decolonise critical whiteness studies. Drawing out theorising into activism, crucially the collection offers strategies towards a more equitable social world. A treasure trove for teachers, students and activists."
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Yasmin Gunaratnam, author of Researching Race and Ethnicity and Death and the Migrant.
"This handbook provides a compelling, multi-level and wide-ranging investigation of the many ways in which white supremacy has ineluctably always been central to the notion of ‘race’ and racism in its various dehumanising and ever-destructive guises. Drawing on the insights of authors from a wide range of countries, contexts, and disciplines, this insightfully curated collection of chapters makes for captivating reading and adds significantly to extant scholarship on racism. This scholarly tour de force will undoubtedly become an important reference for scholars with an interest in the field whiteness and racism and the ever-changing articulations of racism."
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Norman Duncan, Professor of Psychology; critical race scholar; co-editor of Race, Memory, and the Apartheid Archive.
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"This collection offers, at long last, the foundation of a genuinely transnational as well as transdisciplinary conversation about whiteness. The editors have curated an extraordinary range of work from a new generation of writers who bring creative, intuitive and analytical insights to bear on a subject that has evaded sustained critique for too long. The book will infuriate those who are invested in maintaining the status quo; it will only encourage those who are determined to act together to change it."
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Vron Ware, author of Out of Whiteness.　
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The Global Colonial Politics of Liberal Democratic Citizenship. Eds. Andreouli, E., Figgou, L. and Kadianaki, I. (Routledge, 2026)
Feminist Perspectives Eds. Alcock, P., Haux, T., McCall, V. and May, M. (Blackwell, 2022, 6th edn; 2016; 5th edn; 2012, 4th edn.)
Viral Whiteness: 21st Century Global Colonialities with Christi van der Westhuizen (Routledge, 2021)
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The role of multicultural fantasies in the enactment of the state: The English NHS as an affective formation Eds. Jupp, E., Pykett, J. and Smith, F. M. (Routledge, 2017)
Feminist psychosocial approaches to relationality, recognition and denial Ed. Ozbilgin, M. F. (Edward Elgar, 2009)
Subversive attachments? Gendered, raced and professional realignments in the ‘new’ NHS’ Eds. Barnes, M. and Prior, D. (Policy Press, 2009)
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Policy & Research Reports
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White Spaces Research Network Expands. Leeds University Reporter, November edition. 2010
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White Spaces Research Network. for World Universities Network Newsletter, Summer edition. 2009
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White Spaces International Interdisciplinary Conference Report. Policy World: the Newsletter of the UK Social Policy Association  Summer edition. 2009
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Educational Leadership for Diversity: The politics of patience and impatience. Centre for Excellence in Leadership Working Paper Series Lancaster: Lancaster University Management School/DfES Standards Unit. 2006.
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An Introduction to the Field of Adult and Community Learning. Centre for Excellence in Leadership Working Paper Series, Lancaster: Lancaster University Management School/DfES Standards Unit. 2005.
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Adult and Community Learning: Subjugated Knowledges and the Possibilities for Diversity. Centre for Excellence in Leadership Working Paper Series, Lancaster: Lancaster University Management School/DfES Standards Unit. 2005
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Fry, G., Hunter, S., Law, I., Osler, A., Swann, S., Tzanelli, R.
Williams, F. (2008) Education in the UK, Working Paper Two, Ethnic Difference in Education and Diverging Prospects for Urban Youth in an Enlarged Europe, University of Leeds.
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Law, I., Hunter, S., Osler, A., Swann, S., Tzanelli, R. and Williams, F. (2008) Ethnic Relations in the UK, Working Paper Three, Ethnic Difference in Education and Diverging Prospects for Urban Youth in an Enlarged Europe, , University of Leeds.
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Ahmed, S., Hunter, S., Kilic, S., Leach T., Swan, E. and Turner, L. (2006) ‘Integrating Diversity: Gender, ‘Race’ and Leadership in the Learning and Skills Sector, Final report, Centre for Excellence in Leadership, November, 2006.
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Integrating Diversity in Adult and Community Learning: Democracy, Diversity and the Politics of Patience and Impatience’. CEL Diversity Team Working Paper 12, Lancaster University Management School. 2006.
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(2006) ‘The Relationship between researching ‘race’ and gender and developing diversity policy’. CEL Diversity Team Working Paper 13, Lancaster University Management School.
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Hunter, S. and Swan, E. (2006) ‘Networking in Equality and Diversity? The Non-human and diversity work in the learning and skills sector’. CEL Diversity Team Working Paper 14, Lancaster University Management School.
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Ahmed, S., Hunter, S., Kilic, S., Swan, E and Turner, L. (2006). ‘The Language of Diversity'. CEL Diversity Team Working Paper 15, Lancaster University Management School.
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Ahmed, S., Hunter, S., Kilic, S., Swan, E and Turner, L. (2006). 'Doing Diversity: Knowledges, Strategies and Expertise'. CEL Diversity Team Working Paper 16, Lancaster University Management School.
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Ahmed, S., Hunter, S., Kilic, S., Swan, E and Turner, L. (2006). 'Who Does Diversity? Responsibility and Representation'. CEL Diversity Team Working Paper 17, Lancaster University Management School.
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Ahmed, S., Hunter, S., Kilic, S., Swan, E and Turner, L. (2006). 'Diversity, Performance and the "new equality regimes"'. CEL Diversity Team Working Paper 19, Lancaster University Management School.
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Ahmed, S., Hunter, S., Kilic, S., Swan, E and Turner, L. (2006). 'Diversity and Racism'. CEL Diversity Team Working Paper 18, Lancaster University Management School.
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Ahmed, S., Hunter, S., Kilic, S., Swan, E and Turner, L. (2006).
'Diversity and Leadership: Reconceptualising Leadership for Equality and Diversity', Integrating Diversity Team’, CEL Diversity Team Working Paper 21, Lancaster University Management School.
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Foster Review into Further Education Contributor to Centre for Excellence in Leadership briefing to Sir Andrew Foster’s Review into the Future Role and Purpose of Further Education (November 2005).
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Ahmed, S., Hunter, S., Kilic, S., Leach T., Swan, E. and Turner, L. ‘Integrating Diversity: Gender, ‘Race’ and Leadership in the Learning and Skills Sector, Interim Report 3, March 2005.
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Ahmed, S., Hunter, S., Kilic, S., Leach T., Swan, E. and Turner, L. ‘Integrating Diversity: Gender, ‘Race’ and Leadership in the Learning and Skills Sector, Interim Report 2, October 2005.
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Ahmed, S., Hunter, S., Kilic, S., Leach T., Swan, E. and Turner, L. ‘Integrating Diversity: Gender, ‘Race’ and Leadership in the Learning and Skills Sector, Interim Report 1, September 2004.
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A Statistical Review of the Gender Distribution of the School of Social Sciences Research Fund 1995-2000. University of Birmingham. May 2001.
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