00:00:00 Intro to the series 00:02:30 Intro to the webinar 00:03:31 Anna Hájková‘s research and public interventions 00:10:23 Blind spots 00:14:10 Epistemic frames 00:18:13 The
Tag: Racialisation
In this episode of Yurt Jurt, Aidai Aidarova speaks with Terrell J. Starr, journalist, podcaster, and political commentator. Aidai and Terrell discuss how conversations about colonialism
From Political Quarterly Blog […] On a deeper conceptual level, the complex history of “race” and racialisation shows that apparent skin colour is just one
The political left is (potentially) a force to counter right-wing politics, resist nationalist tendencies, and help coordinate social movements that fight against capitalism. But recently,
In Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century (Duke University Press, 2024), Mingwei Huang traces the transformation of global capitalism and its racial
By “Atlantic bias” I mean a set of assumptions about “race”, racism, colonialism and imperialism prevalent on the left globally but rooted in the history
Julian Go is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. His research explores the social logics, forms and impact of empires and colonialism; postcolonial/decolonial thought
Asaf Elia-Shalev’s book Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth (University of California Press, 2024) tells the story of the young and impoverished
This article seeks to deepen understanding of the global politics of reactionary discursive formations, which at the current conjuncture increasingly coalesce around self-victimising articulations of
I recently found a photograph of me as a baby, and on the back, scribbled in my father’s handwriting, the words: “Our daughter is blue.”
Anti-blackness has until recently been a taboo topic within Arab society. This began to change when Nader Kadhem, a prominent Arab and Muslim thinker from
The 48th issue of The Funambulist is entitled “Fifty Shades of White(ness).” Beyond its tongue-in-cheek title, the general editorial argument is that if we are
Summary Post-slavery is an academic analytical concept that signifies the fragmented legacies and continuities of past slavery and slave trade in contemporary societies after its
Racial capitalism requires that the subaltern periphery, providing cheap labour and new markets, be placed behind an imagined racial barrier, so that the full protection
For decades, historians have debated the question of whether concepts equivalent to race and racism existed in premodern Chinese ethnic discourse. Unfortunately, this discussion has
Five hours before the opening of the West Papuan waria beauty pageant, the salon of the Sorong community elders was busy with preparations. Among 10
Indonesians’ present-day notions of beauty are embedded in a long and complex relationship between skin colour and race Go to any mall in Indonesia and
“Race and Racism in Africa and the Middle East” was part of the nationwide #ScholarStrike to halt academic business as usual and to instead host
Bruce S. Hall is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. This article first appeared in Antropologia Vol. 7 No.
Laura Menin is an Italian anthropologist based at the University of Sussex, UK, whose research explores love, intimacy, political violence, racialisation, and the legacies of
From AJS Review Abstract “Intersectionality,” a concept coined and developed by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, examines how our various identities change in meaning and valence
Soon after I arrived in Ürümchi in 2014 I met a young Uyghur man named Alim. He grew up in a small town near the
A conversation between Michael Dawson (The University of Chicago) and Nancy Fraser (The New School), in which they discuss race and capitalism. They debate Dawson’s
Documentary films addressing the topic of slavery and the slave trade in Africa are rare. As a specialist in slavery and race studies focusing on
Nancy Fraser is a US philosopher, critical theorist, feminist, and the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of
From Jadaliyya. Brahim El Guabli (BEG): Why Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam? Chouki El Hamel (CEH): Written history about Morocco is
Eve Troutt Powell is a professor of History and Middle East and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a MacArthur Fellow