Othering Mushrooms: Migratism and its racist entanglements in the Brexit campaign

Deploying the ambivalence of mushrooms in the cultural imagination as an analytical lens, and drawing from Sara Ahmed’s (2010) theorization of ‘othering’ as an embodied process, the presentation examines the Brexit campaign’s migratism and its racist entanglements. Vráblíková argues that research on how forests, mushrooms and their foragers have figured in the formation of white heteropatriarchy is vital for contesting the re-emergence of the right-wing populism that, in Europe, is exemplified by events such as Brexit.  

Dr Lenka Vráblíková is the second IAS Residential Fellow and will be staying at Loughborough during November. More information on the IAS Residential Fellows can be found here.

Othering Mushrooms: Migratism and its racist entanglements in the Brexit campaign

Deploying the ambivalence of mushrooms in the cultural imagination as an analytical lens, and drawing from Sara Ahmed’s (2010) theorization of ‘othering’ as an embodied process, the presentation examines the Brexit campaign’s migratism and its racist entanglements. Vráblíková argues that research on how forests, mushrooms and their foragers have figured in the formation of white heteropatriarchy is vital for contesting the re-emergence of the right-wing populism that, in Europe, is exemplified by events such as Brexit.  

Dr Lenka Vráblíková is the second IAS Residential Fellow and will be staying at Loughborough during November. More information on the IAS Residential Fellows can be found here.