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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; -webkit-user-select: auto;">Please join us on Zoom for the first ELAN workshop meeting of 2023, on Jan. 18 17:00-18:30 GMT. We will be discussing<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-user-select: auto;"> </span><b style="-webkit-user-select: auto;">Elana
Resnick’s</b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-user-select: auto;"> </span>paper, "The Determined Indeterminacy of White Supremacy: Racial Disavowal and Strategic Deniability in Bulgaria."<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-user-select: auto;"> </span><b style="-webkit-user-select: auto;">Anna
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; -webkit-user-select: auto;">If you are interested in attending this workshop, please email<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-user-select: auto;"> </span></span><a href="mailto:j.e.connor@hum.leidenuniv.nl" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); -webkit-user-select: auto;" class="" data-loopstyle="link"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-user-select: auto;">j.e.connor@hum.leidenuniv.nl</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; -webkit-user-select: auto;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-user-select: auto;"> </span>for
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<b style="-webkit-user-select: auto;">The Determined Indeterminacy of White Supremacy: Racial Disavowal and Strategic Deniability in Bulgaria</b><u style="-webkit-user-select: auto;"></u><u style="-webkit-user-select: auto;"></u></p>
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<b style="-webkit-user-select: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-user-select: auto;">Abstract:<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-user-select: auto;"> </span></span></b><u style="-webkit-user-select: auto;"></u><u style="-webkit-user-select: auto;"></u></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-user-select: auto;">This article explores how manifestations of systemic white supremacy take hold through the widespread politics of racial disavowal. Rooted in ethnographic research in Sofia, Bulgaria, this article analyzes
the appearance of Nazi signs on electoral ballots on the eve of Bulgaria's EU accession in 2007—and then more than a decade later, in 2019. Bringing together theory from the anthropology of indeterminacy and sociolinguistics, this article examines how strategies
of what I call “determined indeterminacy” naturalize white supremacy and institutional racism. Determined indeterminacy is collective method of strategic deniability—the institutional and everyday denial of the systemic racism that undergirds social life.
Tracing the changing politics of racial disavowal within a long history of racial erasures helps us understand how the strategic deniability of contemporary white supremacy takes shape and works to naturalize, transform, and fix longstanding racial hierarchies.</span><u style="-webkit-user-select: auto;"></u><u style="-webkit-user-select: auto;"></u></p>
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<b style="-webkit-user-select: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-user-select: auto;">Keywords</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-user-select: auto;">: White supremacy, indeterminacy, racism, power, Europe</span><font color="#888888" style="-webkit-user-select: auto;"><u style="-webkit-user-select: auto;"></u><u style="-webkit-user-select: auto;"></u></font></p>
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