MA in Psychosocial Studies and MA Sociology Annual Lecture: "Against White Interiority. A Racial Critique of Therapeutic Reason"
When:
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Venue:
Online
We are delighted to let you know about our MA in Psychosocial Studies and MA in Sociology Annual Lecture. We will have the opportunity to listen to Professor Sam Binkley, Emerson College, Boston, presenting his latest book "Against White Interiority. A Racial Critique of Therapeutic Reason"(Palgrave, 2023). I am sure this will be very interesting to some of you, I am hoping you will be able to join us.
This book presents a bold critique of the new racial sensibility that has attained global prominence following the police murder of George Floyd. Through a set of managerial and therapeutic discourses, this new sensibility describes the inner racial life of white subjects, inducing them to adopt a therapeutic attitude toward deeply interiorized white emotions and conflicts. In so doing, the new racial sensibility promises to remake whiteness in the image of the self-aware racial ally. However, such an appeal, it is argued, serves the subtle function of the preservation of white racial dispositions, and the reproduction of the very racism it sets out to transform. Adopting a critical lens derived from Michel Foucault’s analysis of sexuality, together with an engagement with sociological, psychoanalytic and phenomenological reflections on shame as a racial affect, a critique of white interiority considers alternative frames through which white anti-racist subjection might be imagined.
Birkbeck has a subscription to the online book, I recommend you browse it to join what I gather will be a lively and interesting discussion:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31828-3
The joining link to the online event is here. Do register your place so that a confirmation email with the joining link can be sent directly to you.
Speaker
Sam Blinkley
Bio can be found here
Contact name:
Margarita Palacios