Theoretical work drawing on Foucault, Bourdieu and Wacquant, and critical reviews of liberal and postmigrant approaches to anti-racism.
Review essay on Bafta Sarbo and Eleonora Roldán Mendívil (eds.), Die Diversität der Ausbeutung. Zur Kritik des herrschenden Antirassismus (Dietz 2022). According to the issue editorial, it asks what the volume’s explicitly Marxist contributions add to racism analysis and points out their gaps.
Glossary of racist terms with racism-critical alternatives, produced for FH Kiel and everyday use. Varol co-wrote the entry on the K-word with Vassilis S. Tsianos as a guest contribution.
Conversation conducted by Varol with Emre Arslan about Arslan’s book Pax-Rassismus (Campus 2024).
Review of the German translation of James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, linking Baldwin’s analysis to racism in Germany today.
Critical review of Aladin El-Mafaalani’s Wozu Rassismus? (2021), arguing that the book plays down state violence and the link to neoliberal capitalism.
Uses Foucault’s concepts of biopower and state racism to discuss the Hanau attack, the killing of George Floyd and the effects of COVID-19 measures on racialised groups and spaces.
Article by Jonas Kähler. Quoted as a racism researcher: such incidents have always been widespread and are now receiving more media attention, and the video shows that racism runs through all social classes.