Huc-Hepher, S. 2019. ‘Sometimes there’s racism towards the French here’: xenophobic microaggressions in pre-2016 London as articulations of symbolic violence. National Identities . 23 (1), pp. 15-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2019.1649250
| Title | ‘Sometimes there’s racism towards the French here’: xenophobic microaggressions in pre-2016 London as articulations of symbolic violence |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Huc-Hepher, S. |
| Abstract | This article discusses xenophobic microaggressions (Pierce, 1970) experienced by members of the French community in London prior to the EU-Membership Referendum in 2016. Acting at the interface of agency and passivity, implicitness and complicity, they go unseen in the social space despite their omnipresence. Through a close reading of empirical data collected as part of an ethnographic study, the article posits that these microaggressions are articulations of historically embedded anti-French ‘symbolic violence’ (Bourdieu and Wacquant, 1992; Bourdieu, 1993). The three main areas addressed are humour, intersectionality and the reproductive nature of the phenomenon (Bourdieu and Passeron, 1970; Bourdieu, 1972). |
| Keywords | symbolic violence, xenophobic microaggressions, intersectionality, reproduction, French community |
| Journal | National Identities |
| Journal citation | 23 (1), pp. 15-39 |
| ISSN | 1460-8944 |
| 1469-9907 | |
| Year | 2019 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
| Accepted author manuscript | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2019.1649250 |
| Web address (URL) | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2019.1649250 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published online | 05 Aug 2019 |
| Published in print | Jan 2021 |