Contemporary Discourses in Social Exclusion

This book looks into different forms of social exclusion in different societies or contexts. It is important to note that in some cases, social exclusion is fueled by the deprivation of economic resources, political and social rights. In contrast, social constructs or cultural norms constitute significant factors in other cases. At the subject (macro) level, this book opens up an avenue where researchers from different subjects can look into how central issues of their subject can be understood through the lenses of social exclusion. For example, historical perspectives of social exclusion, sociological perspectives of social exclusion, religiosity and social exclusion, gender perspectives of social exclusion, educational perspectives of social exclusion, etc. At the thematic (micro) level, this book looks into how specific themes like racism, the corona virus pandemic, albinism, media, sexuality and gender intersect with social exclusion. In doing all these, the book also provides a much-needed multidisciplinary and methodological understanding of issues of social exclusion.

1. Introduction.- PART 1: SEXUALITY, RACE AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION.- 2. Doing Sensitive Research on Stigma, Sexuality and Religion: The Use of Q-Methodology. Clara Marlijn Meijer.- 3. When Whiteness and muscles are all that matter. Gay dating apps as spaces of exclusion, perspectives from Britain, Roy Celaire.- 4. Inclusive Dreams and Excluded Realities: An Analysis and Critique of ‘Xenophobic’ Rhetoric, and Practices of Exclusion in the South African   ‘Rainbow Nation,’  Khushal Naik and Åbo Akademi.- 5. Intra-Racism: The Token Blackie?,  Runyararo Sihle Chivaura.- PART 2: IDENTITY POLITICS, RELIGION, AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION.- 6. SOCIAL EXCLUSION AS REFLECTIONS OF PAST-FUTURES: THEORIZING AN ONTOLOGICAL STARTING POINT FOR UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL EXCLUSION, Martins Kwazema.- 7. The Occult, Popular Culture, and the Politics of Hope in the Ghanaian Entertainment Industry Seth Tweneboah.- 8. Interfaith coexistence or social exclusion? Milena Parland.- 9. Daring to be different in an androcentric world: The critical reflections on a Muslim woman in Ghana. By Charles Prempeh.- 10. Are Albinos People like Us?: Albinism and Social Exclusion in Ghana. Francis Benyah.- 11. Migration and questions of governance, equality and discrimination in the Finnish context. Nora Repo-Saeed.- 12. Australians trying to return home: Alienation, a cause and effect during the Covid-19 era? Alexander Rehnberg.-  13. One and free? A Wittgensteinian Analysis of the Change to the Words of the Australian National Anthem Ryan Manhire.