UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast

Alondra Nelson , President of the Social Science Research Council in the US and Harold F. Linder Chair in Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, joins us to question who is assumed to be the disposable demographic, and the politics of genetic data and racial biology being used to understand the ‘black body’ during the Covid-19 pandemic. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-ra...

We’re joined by  Ruth Wilson Gilmore , Professor of Geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at CUNY, for a conversation on the current crises of Covid-19 and state violence, touching on the desire for learning as a means of activism, the political geography of mobilisation and double consciousness. Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-ruth-wilson-gilmor...

In this episode of Short Takes, we’re joined by  Joy White , author of the eagerly anticipated book  Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City , published recently by Repeater, and Joy is going to talk a little bit about the arguments in her book and introduce the urgency of this intervention, particularly now in the context for our political culture created by the Covid emergency...

One of the most amazing publications of the last few years in the broad field of Black Studies and African American Studies has been  Bénédicte Boisseron ’s book  Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question , published by Columbia University Press. In the second of our Short Takes series, Boisseron joins us now to talk about  Afro-Dog , and to discuss the places where...

Welcome to our Short Takes podcast series! We'll be highlighting important research and conversations around the topics of racism and racialisation, with contributions from academics, activists and cultural practitioners. In the first of our series,  Sirpa Salenius , the biographer of Sarah Parker Remond, and author of  An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe &...