Moral Subjects in White Spaces: Impossible Solidarities.
This article explores women of colour's struggles against white spaces in anti-austerity, anti-fascist and migrants' rights movements in Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, London, Madrid and Paris. We argue that solidarity is denied by white activists who resist women of colour's practical demands to tak...
| Publicado en: | Sociology Vol. 59; no. 4; pp. 663 - 681 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Aug2025
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