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Dan Godshaw
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Lecturer in Criminology at University of Bristol, @uob-policystudies.bsky.social. Researcher of migration, borders, immigration detention, racism, masculinities and state violence. Member of @mmbuob.bsky.social
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How the UK’s anti-slavery system harms the children it claims to protect.

New blog from MSc Public Policy alumna, Lucia Messent - winner of the @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social the annual Border Criminologies Dissertation Prize

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The hidden harms of the NRM: How the UK’s anti-slavery
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September 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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💡 🌟 Want your finger on the pulse before term starts? Read our freshest and most relevant articles from Justice, Power and Resistance now via our student reading list – free to access until 31 October!

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Justice, Power and Resistance reading list
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July 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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⚡The racist politics of the 2024 UK riots - ‘The true culprits are not rioters but capitalism and the state’

Read this valuable new intervention piece here:
Neither mindless nor legitimate: the racist politics of the 2024 UK riots and the limitations of the carceral response
In early August 2024, the UK experienced a wave of fascist violence of the kind not witnessed since the 1980s. In this intervention piece written soon after these events, we seek to understand what…
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April 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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New intervention article on 2024 UK riots with @annsingleton.bsky.social out now, 'Neither mindless nor legitimate: the racist politics of the 2024 UK riots and the limitations of the carceral response'.
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April 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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📢New #PAG20 Critical Perspectives📢
Neema Begum, @mikebankole.bsky.social , @drshardiabpalmer.bsky.social , @dangodshaw.bsky.social & Rima Saini introduce the concept of paradoxical representation to understand the actions of ethnic minority officeholders
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Critical perspectives article entitled "Skinfolk, but Not Kinfolk? Paradoxical Representation Among Ethnic Minority Conservative Political Elites in the UK" by Neema Begum, Michael Bankole, Shardia Briscoe-Palmer, Dan Godshaw, Rima Saini.
January 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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After some delays it’s great to see this published! We sketch out our concept of paradoxical representation by focusing on gendered racisms in the immigration politics of Sunak, Braverman, Badenoch, Patel.
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politicsgenderj.bsky.social Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · Dec 13
📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In their new Critical Perspectives article Neema Begum, Michael Bankole, Shardia Briscoe-Palmer, @dangodshaw.bsky.social & Rima Saini introduce the concept paradoxical representation to understand the actions of ethnic minority officeholders.

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Critical perspective article entitled "Skinfolk, but Not Kinfolk? Paradoxical Representation Among Ethnic Minority Conservative Political Elites in the UK" by Neema Begum, Michael Bankole, Shardia Briscoe-Palmer, Dan Godshaw & Rima Saini. First paragraph reads: As the number of ethnic minority politicians increase across countries like the United Kingdom and the United States, so too have instances in which these officeholders act against the communities they descriptively represent. In this contribution, we introduce the concept of paradoxical representation which we argue functions through neoliberal, post-racial scripts of color-blindness and meritocracy. Similar to research on gender representation which calls into question assumptions that substantive representation will follow unproblematically from women’s descriptive representation (Celis and Childs 2012), we argue that ethnic minority representatives can act as “post-racial gatekeepers.” This means paradoxically working against rather than for marginalized ethnic minority groups (Saini, Bankole, and Begum 2023). Through political discourse and policymaking, these representatives construct and “gatekeep” hegemonic ideas around race, racism, gender, and migration.
December 18, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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Thanks @crookedfootball.bsky.social. @annsingleton.bsky.social and I are developing this into a longer intervention piece so watch this space
crookedfootball.bsky.social Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · Aug 13
Reflections of the politics of the recent racist violence in the UK from @annsingleton.bsky.social, Bridget Anderson and Dan Godshaw
The racist politics of ‘mindless thuggery’ – Migration Mobilities Bristol
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November 21, 2024 at 4:40 PM