Simulating the lived experience of racism and islamophobia: on ‘embodied empathy’ and political tourism Ngo, Helen 2017, Simulating the lived experience of racism and islamophobia: on ‘embodied empathy’ and political tourism, Australian Feminist Law Journal, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 107-123, doi: 10.1080/13200968.2017.1321090. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Simulating the lived experience of racism and islamophobia: on ‘embodied empathy’ and political tourism Author(s) Ngo, Helen orcid.org/0000-0001-7445-3625 Journal name Australian Feminist Law Journal Volume number 43 Issue number 1 Start page 107 End page 123 Total pages 17 Publisher Taylor & Francis Australasia Place of publication Melbourne, Vic. Publication date 2017-01-02 ISSN 1320-0968 2204-0064 Summary This paper considers a certain genre of anti-racist solidarity — what I call simulations of lived experience – in order to critically examine the premises and pitfalls of such efforts. Two primary examples are examined: (1) a 2014 smartphone app called Everyday Racism, where users are invited to ‘play’ a racialised character for a week in order to ‘better understand’ the experience of racism; and (2) various iterations of ‘Hijab Day’, where non-Muslim women are invited to wear a hijab for a day. I argue that both examples, while well-intentioned, offer only a ‘thin’ version of the lived experience of veiled Muslim women and people of colour, failing to reckon with the epistemological and phenomenological complexity entailed in this embodied experience. Moreover, I argue that both proceed on the misguided idea that first-hand experience, rather than empathic listening, is generative of anti-racist solidarity, and in doing so, these efforts risk reproducing the very structures and habits of white privilege they set out to challenge. Language eng DOI 10.1080/13200968.2017.1321090 Field of Research 180199 Law not elsewhere classified 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified 1801 Law 1602 Criminology HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2017, Australian Feminist Law Journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30102757 Document type: Journal Article Collection: School of Humanities and Social Sciences Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 26 Sep 2017, 11:33:24 EST Tue, 12 Dec 2017, 14:01:28 EST Wed, 13 Dec 2017, 04:00:10 EST Thu, 14 Dec 2017, 07:25:43 EST Fri, 26 Jan 2018, 05:03:51 EST Fri, 23 Feb 2018, 13:03:10 EST Fri, 23 Feb 2018, 13:08:28 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 1 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 50 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 12 Dec 2017, 14:01:28 EST

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