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Skinfolk, but Not Kinfolk? Paradoxical Representation Among Ethnic Minority Conservative Political Elites in the UK (2024)
Journal Article
Begum, N., Bankole, M., Briscoe-Palmer, S., Godshaw, D., & Saini, R. (2024). Skinfolk, but Not Kinfolk? Paradoxical Representation Among Ethnic Minority Conservative Political Elites in the UK. Politics and Gender, 20(3), 745 - 750. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x24000278

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, w... Read More about Skinfolk, but Not Kinfolk? Paradoxical Representation Among Ethnic Minority Conservative Political Elites in the UK.

Left out of the left behind? Ethnic minority support for Brexit (2024)
Journal Article
Martin, N., Sobolewska, M., & Begum, N. (2024). Left out of the left behind? Ethnic minority support for Brexit. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2358080

The Brexit referendum was a seismic electoral event with far-reaching consequences, but ethnic minority voters’ decisions in the referendum remain under-researched. We examine what differentiates ethnic minority Remainers from Leavers in two large so... Read More about Left out of the left behind? Ethnic minority support for Brexit.

Ticking Two Boxes, Fighting Two Battles: Intersectional Experiences of Ethnic Minority Women Councillors in UK Local Government (2024)
Journal Article
Begum, N., & Sobolewska, M. (2024). Ticking Two Boxes, Fighting Two Battles: Intersectional Experiences of Ethnic Minority Women Councillors in UK Local Government. Politics and Gender, 20(3), 553-578. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x24000047

When the analytical lens of intersectionality was first applied to descriptive representation, it documented the increased level of disadvantage for those belonging to more than one underrepresented group. Although ethnic minority women have been slo... Read More about Ticking Two Boxes, Fighting Two Battles: Intersectional Experiences of Ethnic Minority Women Councillors in UK Local Government.

The 2022 Conservative leadership campaign and post-racial gatekeeping (2023)
Journal Article
Saini, R., Bankole, M., & Begum, N. (2023). The 2022 Conservative leadership campaign and post-racial gatekeeping. Race and Class, https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968231164599

The UK Conservative Party leadership contest that took place in the summer of 2022 was unprecedented for, among other things, its level of ethnic diversity. This article argues that this does not indicate a sharp, contemporary liberal turn within the... Read More about The 2022 Conservative leadership campaign and post-racial gatekeeping.

Demarcation and Definition: Explicating the Meaning and Scope of ‘Decolonisation’ in the Social and Political Sciences (2020)
Journal Article
Saini, R., & Begum, N. (2020). Demarcation and Definition: Explicating the Meaning and Scope of ‘Decolonisation’ in the Social and Political Sciences. Political Quarterly, 91(1), 217-221. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12797

Decolonisation of the curriculum is a burgeoning yet controversial project of radical change, gaining slow but steady traction in higher education politics departments across the country. At its heart is the acknowledgement and systematic unravelling... Read More about Demarcation and Definition: Explicating the Meaning and Scope of ‘Decolonisation’ in the Social and Political Sciences.

Getting back in the DeLorean: modernization vs. anti-modernization in contemporary British politics (2018)
Journal Article
Kerr, P., Foster, E., Oaten, A., & Begum, N. (2018). Getting back in the DeLorean: modernization vs. anti-modernization in contemporary British politics. Policy Studies, 39(3), 292-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2018.1478407

This article highlights a growing clash between mainstream modernizing and populist anti-modernizing forces in the UK. Whilst scholarship on UK party politics has, for the past three decades, focussed on processes of party modernization, little atten... Read More about Getting back in the DeLorean: modernization vs. anti-modernization in contemporary British politics.