Latest Racialisation Podcast Episodes
In conversation with Xine Yao
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - August 30, 2023 15:08 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGala Rexer welcomes Xine Yao, Associate Professor at UCL and author of Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America (Duke University Press, 2021). Reflecting on how Disaffected has travelled as a book, a theory, and a method over the past two years, Xine speaks a...
In conversation with Akwugo Emejulu
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - July 27, 2023 13:33 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGala Rexer welcomes Akwugo Emejulu, Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick and author of Fugitive Feminism (Silver Press, 2022). Discussing the figure of the fugitive from a Black feminist perspective, Akwugo addresses questions about solidarity and coalitional work, strategies of c...
In conversation with Musab Younis
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - March 29, 2023 15:53 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLuke de Noronha welcomes Musab Younis, senior lecturer in politics and international relations at Queen Mary, University of London, and author of On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought (University of California Press, 2022). Musab traces the themes and arguments o...
In conversation with Maya Mikdashi
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - March 13, 2023 15:41 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGala Rexer welcomes Maya Mikdashi, Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Lecturer in the Middle East Studies Program at Rutgers University, to talk about her book Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism and the State in Lebanon (Stanford, 2022). Maya r...
In conversation with Maurice Stierl
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - January 27, 2023 15:38 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLuke de Noronha welcomes Maurice Stierl, researcher at Osnabrück University in Germany and author of Migrant Resistance in Contemporary Europe (Routledge, 2019). Maurice describes the varied patterns of movement and militarisation at the sea borders of Europe: the Atlantic, Central Mediterranean...
In conversation with Françoise Vergès
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - January 16, 2023 15:23 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGala Rexer welcomes Françoise Vergès, franco-Reunionnese activist, independent curator, and public educator, to talk about her most recent books, A Feminist Theory of Violence (2022), The Wombs of Women. Race, Capital, Feminism (2020,) and A Decolonial Feminism (2019). Françoise discusses how wom...
In conversation with Karimah Ashadu
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - October 12, 2022 11:49 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingKarimah Ashadu joins the SPRC podcast to discuss two of her recent films, Brown Goods (2020) and Plateau (2022), on the labour and labourers that sustain informal economies of waste disposal and tin mining in Germany and Nigeria. Plateau (excerpt), 2021-2022 HD digital film, colour with sou...
In conversation with Coretta Phillips
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - July 27, 2022 12:57 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCoretta Phillips, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, joins Clive Nwonka for a conversation on race, criminal justice and social policy. Coretta discusses ethnographically capturing both the organic experiences of multi-culture and the more structured and governed forms of multiculturali...
In conversation with James Doucet-Battle
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - July 13, 2022 12:57 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMedical anthropologist, James Doucet-Battle, joins us to talk about his book, Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk and Type 2 Diabetes. Discussing the importance of delinking race from risk in order to tell a more holistic, anthropological story of what it means to be Black, James brings autobiogr...
In conversation with Kojo Koram
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - May 19, 2022 11:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLuke de Noronha welcomes Kojo Koram, Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck School of Law and author of Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire (John Murray Press, 2022). Discussing his recent book, Kojo addresses questions around 20th century decolonisation, neoliberalism and national soverei...
In conversation with Shakuntala Banaji
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - April 20, 2022 13:12 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCo-author of Social Media and Hate, Shakuntala Banaji joins Clive Nwonka to delve into the theoretical and practical intersections of misinformation and online hate speech in contemporary societies. Shakuntala discusses online and offline activism, the intellectual source that inspired her work,...
In conversation with Farah Jasmine Griffin
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - March 16, 2022 13:42 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingClive Nwonka is joined by Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of Read Until You Understand, a deeply personal and wide-ranging mediation on Black culture, political freedom and humanity. Farah discusses writing with an ethic of care, honouring grace, mercy and beauty, and the relationship between rage...
In conversation with Lisa Lowe
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - November 24, 2021 13:45 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLuke de Noronha welcomes Lisa Lowe, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race and Migration, to talk about her book, The Intimacies of Four Continents, where she examines links between transatlantic slavery, Asian indenture, imperial trades and colonialism. Concerning liberalism, Lisa di...
In conversation with Laleh Khalili
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - November 03, 2021 13:17 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLaleh Khalili,, Professor of International Politics and author of Sinews of War & Trade, joins us for a conversation on land reclamation, dredging and the role of maritime infrastructures as conduits of the movement of technologies, capital, people and cargo. Addressing the significant bodies of...
In conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - October 20, 2021 13:35 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAlexis Pauline Gumbs, writer, independent scholar and poet, joins us to reflect on engaging with the works of Black feminist scholars, ancestral listening and her connectedness to seals. Author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis discusses how colonialism, enslavemen...
In conversation with Nandita Sharma
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - September 08, 2021 12:10 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLuke de Noronha welcomes Nandita Sharma, activist scholar and Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, to discuss borders, migration and citizenship in relation to the pandemic and climate catastrophes. Nandita addresses the demand for a planetary commons, and the need to li...
In conversation with Dipesh Chakrabarty
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - August 25, 2021 12:11 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe’re joined by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Professor of History and author of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age, for a conversation on his intellectual trajectory and the idea of the planetary. Speaking on the climate crisis and the human condition, Dipesh states that “unless we realise our geo...
In conversation with Gracie Mae Bradley
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - August 11, 2021 12:14 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLuke de Noronha is joined by Gracie Mae Bradley, policy expert, writer and campaigner, and Interim Director of Liberty. Involved in the wider grassroots movement for social justice in the UK and having written extensively on state racism and civil liberties, Gracie joins us to speak about the st...
In conversation with Shabaka Hutchings
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - July 28, 2021 13:51 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingShabaka Hutchings, jazz musician and band leader, joins us to talk about his new album with Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future, delving into transcending from the individual to the collective state, and the healing and spiritual force of music. Discussing his musical influences and progression, ...
In conversation with Adam Elliott-Cooper
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - July 08, 2021 14:20 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAdam Elliott-Cooper joins Luke de Noronha to talk about resistance to racist state violence in Britain, and how this resistance is shaped by histories of imperialism and anti-imperialism. Discussing his book, Black Resistance to British Policing (MUP, 2021), Adam situates current mobilisations i...
In conversation with Robbie Shilliam
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - June 23, 2021 12:07 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLuke de Noronha welcomes Robbie Shilliam, Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, to discuss his recent book Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction (Polity Press, 2021). Across his writing, Robbie’s made several critical interventions on questions surrounding race, colo...
What Does Eugenics Mean To Us? Episode 6: People, people, people
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - May 12, 2021 13:11 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOne of the ways in which eugenics became incorporated into mainstream society all around the world was through the birth control movement. Early twentieth-century birth control pioneers like Marie Stopes and Margaret Sanger were also ardent eugenicists, and their motives were bound up with imper...
What Does Eugenics Mean To Us? Episode 5: Race and space
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - May 12, 2021 13:09 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe places and spaces we inhabit profoundly affect our lives and how we live them in ways we need to think about more critically. At the launch of the project that is the subject of today's episode, Kamna Patel spoke to how people have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic by saying "It is not ...
What Does Eugenics Mean To Us? Episode 4: Confronting ableism in eugenics
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - May 12, 2021 13:08 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAlong with being inherently racist, eugenics was also an inherently ableist concern. In this episode Subhadra speaks to experts in the field of disability studies to explore the ways in which power delineates difference between people, and how this relates to the much broader structures of our s...
What Does Eugenics Mean To Us? Episode 3: The legacy of Cyril Burt
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - May 12, 2021 13:07 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTwo of the fields where eugenic thinking had an enormous influence, and where some of its legacies continue to hold sway are Psychology and Education Studies. An influential figure in both those fields was a former UCL Professor of Psychology, Sir Cyril Burt. In this episode Subhadra and her gue...
What Does Eugenics Mean To Us? Episode 2: Curating Heads
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - May 12, 2021 13:06 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis episode documents and commemorates a collaborative research project at UCL, which brought together geneticists, historians, archaeologists and museum curators to consider how science mediates the dilemma of death. It was called Curating Heads and its scientific aims were to use the latest t...
What Does Eugenics Mean To Us? Episode 1: The stories we tell are powerful
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - May 12, 2021 13:06 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt has often been argued that eugenicists were not real scientists, but almost all of their ideas were grounded in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century scientific discourse. Science is a social and a socialised endeavour. Scientists are people, and their work is embodied in the social and...
Short Takes: We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - April 15, 2021 11:27 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOur latest Short Takes comes from Ian Sanjay Patel, author of the new book We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire (Verso, 2021). This important book provides a global history of post-war migration to the UK, offering fresh insights into the relationship between migr...
In conversation with Angela Saini
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - March 31, 2021 11:57 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPaige Patchin is joined by science journalist, Angela Saini, for a conversation on her book Superior: The Return of Race Science, discussing the resurgence of race science, pseudoscientific racial myths and problematic narratives of human difference. Angela looks at how the changing figure of th...
In conversation with Nicholas De Genova
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast - March 10, 2021 14:16 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNicholas De Genova joins Luke de Noronha for a conversation about the relationship between bordering, migration and the pandemic, and his current thinking around The Migrant Metropolis. Nicholas discusses why it’s important to think of migrant crises as racial crises, recapturing the subjectivit...
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