ABSTRACT

This article explores an intriguing emergent organising strategy among women of colour activists in London and Amsterdam: a politics of refusal. In response to the triple catastrophes facing women of colour: the on-going roll back of social welfare states, the normalisation of the far right in everyday life and the xenophobic backlash against migrants, we find that some women of colour activists are deliberatively withdrawing from view and working outside of dominant left activist spaces. Rather than demanding recognition and rights from institutional actors and supposed allies, many activists appeared to welcome and embrace their marginalisation as this exclusion from mainstream life creates the possiblity for alternative ways of doing politics and being political. Drawing on the work of Audra Simpson, we attempt to map the contours of women of colour’s refusal politics and consider how refusal generates different approaches to sovergenity and ungovernability.

摘要

本文探讨了伦敦和阿姆斯特丹有色女性活动家中一种有趣的新兴组织策略：拒绝政治。为了应对有色人种女性面临的三重灾难：社会福利国家的持续倒退、日常生活中极右翼的正常化以及对移民的仇外心理，我们发现一些有色人种女性活动家正在故意退出在占主导地位的左翼激进空间之外查看和工作。许多活动家并没有要求机构参与者和所谓的盟友承认和权利，而是似乎欢迎并接受他们的边缘化，因为这种被主流生活排除在外的做法为另一种政治和政治方式创造了可能性。借鉴奥德拉辛普森的作品，