Contemporary Discourses in Social Exclusion

Aminkeng A Alemanji researches on issues of race, racism, antiracism and antiracism education. His research focuses on developing different strategies of antiracism education in and out of schools. He has also researched Ethnic Profiling in Finland, as well as Hate Crimes in Finland. He is currently the Program Director for the Masters of Social Exclusion at Åbo Akademi University.  Francis Benyah is currently a PhD candidate in the Study of Religions, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. He has also served as a Visiting Research Fellow in the Minority Research Program of the Åbo Akademi University. His research interest focuses on African Pentecostal Christianity with a special interest on how it intersects and interacts with public life in areas such as media, politics, health, and human rights. Martins Kwazema is a Doctoral Candidate in General History at Abo Akademi University, Finland. He has a masters degree in Futures Studies and is involved in research on future literacy. His primary research interests lie in investigating the socio-political and economic history of pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial Africa as well as futures for Africa. He also has research interests in the history of exclusion and inclusion of minorities globally.  Marlijn Meijer is a Doctoral Candidate in the Study of Religions at Åbo Akademi University in Finland. Her study explores how Ghanaian young adults identifying as sexual minorities negotiate their sexuality and religious identity in everyday life. Her research is part of the Doctoral Training Network for Minority Research and the international research project Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective led by professor Peter Nynäs.

• 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.