In the first of two special episodes, our executive producer Adders in the Studio (a.k.a George Ofori-Addo) provided us with highlights from some of our favourite conversations from Season 14. Featuring, Gurminder Bhambra, John Holmwood, April Louise-Pennant, Twayna Mayne, Kieron Turner and Amit Singh
Laura and Remi joined us to talk about their new book Anti-racist scholar-activism which focuses on ‘the praxes of academics working within, and against, their institutions in pursuit of anti-racist social justice’. Links: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157966/
Tanzil breaks down how the law becomes a vehicle to enact systemic oppressions and exploitations despite it consistently being positioned in the public imagination as a force for liberation. Links: http://npolicemonitor.co.uk https://www.routledge.com/Time-Temporality-and-Legal-Judgment/Chowdhury/p/book/9781138324503 https://dogsection.org/press/abolishing-the-police/
James joined us to talk through his discussions on race, class, the state, and solidarity from his latest book - The Empire at Home, Internal Colonies and the End of Britain. Links: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341002/the-empire-at-home/
Franck joined us to discuss his work as a communist lawyer/barrister and the extent to which his and others approach to law can contribute to the international working-class struggle to overthrow imperial and capitalist domination. Links: https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/asylum-conscientious-objectors-israeli-apartheid/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGL2242vHBs
...: with Bernard Coard & Derron Wallace. Guest Hosts: Derron Wallace is an Assistant Professor of Education and Sociology at Brandeis University. Derron is a sociologist of race, ethnicity and education. He specializes in cross-national studies of structural and cultural inequalities in urban schools across global cities, focusing specifically on the experiences of young people of African descent. His current research examines the educational outcomes of Black youth in London and New York City....
In this episode, we mainly use the teachings of Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall and bell hooks to discuss Malcolm's life as a graduate of the supplementary school movement (Hackney) to his present-day as a scholar-activist in Devon. Links: https://linktr.ee/malcolmrichards
Campaigners and activists Gloria and Lisa joined us to break down the history and contemporary injustices of Joint Enterprise. Joint Enterprise is a common law doctrine where an individual can be jointly convicted of the crime of another if the court decides they foresaw that the other party was likely to commit that crime. https://jointenterprise.co/
In this week's episode Tissot and Chantelle spotlight the work of the Good Law project by exploring some of their cases/exposures on the UK government handling of the COVID-19 global pandemic. https://goodlawproject.org
In this episode we draw on themes from Amits's ethnographic PhD research centred on the durability of racialisation and racial habitus in a Muay Thai/Kickboxing Gym in East London. Our discussion centres around arguments in this paper https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/UNEDER6JY83KRD6CA74V/full
David returned to the show to discuss the military withdrawals from Afghanistan and some of the global legacies of the war on terror. We finish by exploring some of our fears around the government and media’s continued rejection of anti-racism and the BLM movement.
April-Louise returned to the show to discuss her PhD thesis on the educational trajectories of Black women in the English education system. Later we focus on A-L’s time working for the Welsh government and the legacies of Penrhyn Castle, slavery and the Pennant family. Links: https://podcasts.apple.com/sb/podcast/the-legacy-of-penrhyn-castle-pt-1/id1501716010?i=1000530825810 https://crishet.mandela.ac.za/Staff-Associates/April-Louise-Pennant https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00131857.2...
Danny joined us for his annual visit to the show to outline current trends in local and global inequalities with discussions on Brexit, the war on terror, the tories and COVID-19.
Hannah joined us to discuss her conceptualisation of ‘Violent Ignorance’ in her latest book which ‘sets out to examine how the past persists in the present, how trauma is silenced or reappears, and how we might reimagine identity and connection in ways that counter - rather than ignore - historic violence’. Links- https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/violent-ignorance-9781786998613/
Kieron joined us to outline and explain the history and contemporary activism of the BDS movement. We also explore how supporting Palestinian liberation presents multiple opportunities for international solidarity building. Links: https://palestineaction.org/
Rima returns to the show to discuss her research on South Asian middle classes in the context of the current British government, critical race theory, the sewer report and authoritarian capitalism. Useful links: https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/saini-rima
Chantelle and Tissot present some anecdotal reflections of the global and local legacies and implications of the war on terror 20 years on from 9/11.
Guest hosts: Nadya Ali is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex. Her research interests lie at the intersection of border politics, 'race', citizenship, and Britain as a post-imperial nation. She has published on the Prevent strategy, Islamophobia, British Muslims and austerity. Dr Naaz Rashid is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. She is author of Veiled Threats: Representing the Muslim Woman in Public Policy Discourses (Policy Press...
Award winning comedian Twayna Mayne joined us to discuss the craft of (sociological) comedy writing and her lived experience and reflections of transracial adoption. Useful links: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07r9qy3 https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/ask-me-anything-podcast-production/
Chantelle and Tissot talk about their visit to the #WarInnaBabylon exhibition, the realities of Brexit (including the shortage of patron shots, nandos & milkshakes) and the myth of global Britain. Useful links: https://www.ica.art/exhibitions/war-inna-babylon
Selma James, Sara Callaway, Shanice Octavia McBean & Aviah Day met the Crossroads Women’s Centre in London to discuss Selma's latest book, Our Time is Now: Sex, Race, Class and Caring for People and Planet https://crossroadsbooksonline.net Guest Hosts: Selma James is an antisexist, antiracist, anti-capitalist campaigner. In 1972 she put forward Wages for Housework (WFH) as a demand and a political perspective that redefined the working class to include all who work without wages, starting with w...
Gurminder and John joined us to discuss arguments and themes from their latest book, Colonialism and Modern Social Theory. Links: https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Colonialism+and+Modern+Social+Theory-p-9781509541294
This is the first of two reflective episodes about arguments and themes in Aaron Winter and Aurelien Mondon’s book - Reactionary Democracy: How racism and the populist far-right became mainstream. Useful links: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3173-reactionary-democracy
Alison reflects on the reception of her 2020 book, Me not you: the trouble with mainstream feminism. We discuss disposability, the connection between t**er*fs and racism (& the far right) and we present some hopeful possibilities for our political culture. Useful links: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526155801/
Joy joined us to discuss the impact of her 2020 book - Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City. We have a wide-ranging conversation about race and class in pandemic times focussing on the intensified neglect and theft of the state, the widening of racialised and classed inequalities during the lockdowns and we interweave some reflections on intergenerational trauma. Useful links: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/terraformed-young-black-lives-in-the-inner-city/
We return to themes and lessons from Alana’s 2020 book - ‘Why Race Still Matters’ - to discuss how nations and the far right are attacking the Black Lives Matter movement. We also address how race and power are influencing the Covid-19 conjuncture. Useful links: https://www.alanalentin.net/category/whyracestillmatters/
Nicky joined us to discuss her scholarship on race in both London and Johannesburg and what can be learnt from future and existing anxieties in the largest and wealthiest city in South Africa as a case study for the contemporary global south city. Useful links: https://witspress.co.za/catalogue/anxious-joburg/ https://nickyfalkof.com
In this episode, we present some critiques of the Left and alternative media responses to both COVID-19 and Grenfell. Our focus is on some lessons from A. Sivanandan: to abandon knee-jerk politics and reject ‘left interventions’ on the 24-hour news cycle.
Arshad and Thom joined us to outline how the EU utilise a form of liberal violence to border, reject and harm refugees attempting to enter one of its European Nations. Useful links: No Name Kitchen i http://www.nonamekitchen.org/
Lucy critically outlines some of the remaining colonial entanglements of asylum & refugee policies from the 1951 Geneva Convention, the New Labour years and more contemporary violence enacted by the Home Office. Useful links: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/people/academic-staff/lucy-mayblin https://politybooks.com/?s=Migration+Studies+and+Colonialism https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781783486168/Asylum-after-Empire-Colonial-Legacies-in-the-Politics-of-Asylum-Seeking https://www.routledge.com/Imp...
