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This paper examines antiracist activism in Glasgow, Scotland, through the anchor of the 2021 ‘Battle of Kenmure Street,’ when residents and activists stopped a Home Office immigration raid. Drawing on twenty interviews and long-term activist–scholar engagement with groups connected to this mobilisation, the paper explores how participants make sense of both the euphoric high of such events and the longer-term organisational and personal challenges that undergird them. Drawing on participants’ own usage and critique of language from ‘movement lifecycle’ models, we build a careful critique of how this rubric can flatten activist experience, obscuring the gendered, racialised, and classed dimensions of antiracist struggle. Here, activists draw upon ideas of hope, grief, purpose, and care to offer alternative ways of understanding how movements are sustained or falter. Ultimately, we argue for grounding antiracist theory in everyday organizing while critically historicizing the strategies employed. Through this, we can build antiracist theory that emerges from and (crucially) contributes to antiracist struggle.
Author(s): White J, Hopkins P
Publication type: Article
Publication status: In Press
Journal: Ethnic and Racial Studies
Year: 2026
Acceptance date: 16/12/2025
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2607842
DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2025.2607842
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