Re-configuring Anti-racism

<p>In our interconnected world of increasing racial ethnic and religious diversity racism is an enduring phenomenon with a range of pernicious consequences for individuals communities and societies. Despite considerable scholarly attention to race and racism there has been relatively little focus on anti-racism defined as the theory and practice of addressing racism counteracting its detrimental effects or envisaging its possible alternatives. </p><p>This edited collection explores the re-configuration of anti-racism in order to better combat racism in modern neo-liberal societies. Should anti-racism focus on tolerance harmony inclusion equality participation recognition acknowledgement indifference and/or justice? What is the role of everyday race labour the potentials and pitfalls of post-raciality and the potential of alter-racism via humour viscerality embodiment and affective atmospheres? The eight chapters forming this collection bring together scholars from cultural studies geography philosophy political science race relations and sociology to debate key epistemologies practices and contradictions pertaining to anti-racism as a global endeavour. This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Ethnic and Racial Studies.</i></p>