"The tipping point"- interrogating racialized nationalist affects in Danish high schools

TY - JOUR

T1 - "The tipping point"- interrogating racialized nationalist affects in Danish high schools

AU - Khawaja, Iram

AU - Jaffe-Walter, Reva

PY - 2024/11

Y1 - 2024/11

N2 - In this article, we explore the fear and anxiety reflected within and generated by educational dispersal policies related to racialized minoritized students in Danish high schools. The article examines the production of high schools as sites of integration within policy and discourse and how racialized minoritized students are represented as ‘perpetually arriving’ and challenging the social cohesiveness of the Danish high school. Our conception of racialized nationalist affect captures how ideas of education and integration are bound up with racialized notions reinforcing fear, anxiety, and concern in response to a perceived threat of diversity that needs to be managed through dispersal policies. Drawing on existing policy documents related to student dispersal plans and interviews with high-school leaders and teachers, we critically analyze how the high school, the nation, and racialized minoritized students are affectively and discursively produced, perceived, and disciplined.

AB - In this article, we explore the fear and anxiety reflected within and generated by educational dispersal policies related to racialized minoritized students in Danish high schools. The article examines the production of high schools as sites of integration within policy and discourse and how racialized minoritized students are represented as ‘perpetually arriving’ and challenging the social cohesiveness of the Danish high school. Our conception of racialized nationalist affect captures how ideas of education and integration are bound up with racialized notions reinforcing fear, anxiety, and concern in response to a perceived threat of diversity that needs to be managed through dispersal policies. Drawing on existing policy documents related to student dispersal plans and interviews with high-school leaders and teachers, we critically analyze how the high school, the nation, and racialized minoritized students are affectively and discursively produced, perceived, and disciplined.

KW - high schools

KW - policies of student dispersal

KW - racialized nationalist affect

KW - tipping point

KW - student dispersal policies

KW - integration

KW - Racialized nationalist affect

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85210446457&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/13613324.2024.2427598

DO - 10.1080/13613324.2024.2427598

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1361-3324

SP - 1

EP - 20

JO - Race Ethnicity and Education

JF - Race Ethnicity and Education

ER -