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This Black History Month discussion in October 2023 ventured into the challenged idea of leadership within the Black and Afrocentric movements. Moderated by Dr Katucha Bento, panellists included Dr. Tiffany R. Holloman, FRSA - project manager for Brad-ATTIAN and YCEDE in the Centre for Inclusion and Diversity at the University of Bradford; Phoenix Nacto – Traore, Research Impact Officer at the University of Huddersfield’s School of Arts and Humanities; Sharon Anyiam, a passionate Lecturer pursuing a PhD in Sociology and Dr. Dimah Mahmoud, a humanist by practice, actionist by choice, and passionate change-maker by learning.
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This episode of Undersong sheds light on recent research into the historical links between the Royal Edinburgh Infirmary and the Atlantic Slave Trade. Dr Shaira Vadasaria speaks to researcher Dr Simon Buck and Co-Chair of the NHS Lothian Independent Advisory Group, Christine Maitland-Francis, to learn more about the findings of the research and their recommendations for how to acknowledge and address the NHS’s history of racism and inequality.
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In this episode, Shaira Vadasaria is in conversation with three members of Research and Engagement Working Group (REWG)on their work engaging with the University of Edinburgh's historical links to African enslavement and colonialism as well as their racial legacies today. Together with Dr. Nicki Frith, Zaki El-Salahi, and Dr Tommy Curry, this first of two parts introduces the project, its scope and community engagement efforts. The REWG emerged out of a collaboration between the International Network of Scholars and Activists for Afrikan Reparations (INOSAAR) and the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe (PARCOE).
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In this second episode on reparative justice claims at the University of Edinburgh, Shaira Vadasaria is in conversation with Esther Stanford Xosei and Samantha Likonde. Samantha and Esther are two community members who have been driving the work of the Research and Engagement Working Group (REWG) at the University of Edinburgh from a community level. Both have previously involved in advocacy campaigns around reparations within and beyond the university. Together with Shaira Vadasaria, they discuss the complex dynamics between community and institutional demands in addressing the legacy of chattel enslavement.
The REWG emerged out of a collaboration between the International Network of Scholars and Activists for Afrikan Reparations (INOSAAR) and the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe (PARCOE).
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This episode of Undersong brings you an intimate conversation about the different projects, visions, and rhythms that shape Black Feminism(s). Over tea, Dr Katucha Bento, layla-roxanne hill, and Dr Francesca Sobande share experiences from their activism and art, and the ways in which care and presence inform their relations to Black feminism(s).
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Guest's bios:
layla-roxanne hill is a writer, curator and organiser, living in Scotland. Her/their work focuses on anti-colonial cultural contributions + the way our conditions move us to act. She/they is also active in the trade union movement, holding elected positions within the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Scottish TUC (STUC).
Dr. Francesca Sobande is a senior lecturer, researcher, and writer who explores the power and politics of media and the marketplace. Her work focuses on digital remix culture, Black diaspora and archives, feminism, creative work, pop culture, branding and crises, and devolved nations.
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In this follow-up episode with the Sudanese Community in Edinburgh, Zaki El-Salahi speaks to Rachel Hosker, University of Edinburgh Archivist and Collections Manager, about their visit to the Edinburgh archives, the history of Sudan within the archives, and the colonial politics of cultural heritage ownership.
After their conversation, Zaki reflects with two other members of the Sudanese community, who have chosen not to be named, about their visit to the University of Edinburgh's Anatomical Museum's 'collection of African skulls.' Two of the skulls on display were stolen during the Battle of Omdurman, one episode during the British colonial conquest of Sudan.
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The Sudanese Community in Edinburgh can be contacted via: www.facebook.com/TSCIE
www.sudanesedinburgh.org
Instagram: @sdcomedi
Zaki El Salahi can be followed on:
Twitter: @zakielsalahi
www.researchgate.net/profile/Zaki-El-Salahi
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/zaki-el-salahi-5595381b7
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In this first of two parts, Undersong enters into conversation with two members of the Sudanese Community in Edinburgh: Zaki El-Salahi and Ahmed Musa. Together, they reflect on what it takes and what it means to build community in the diaspora and offer insights into their political and artistic interventions in the spaces and events (such as two Sudanese revolutions) that connect Scotland and Sudan.
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The Sudanese Community in Edinburgh can be contacted via: https://www.facebook.com/TSCIE
www.sudanesedinburgh.org
Instagram: @sdcomedi
Ahmad Musa aka Ahmelody's music can be found:
Spotify: Ahmelody
Instagram: @ahmelody249
Zaki El Salahi can be followed on:
Twitter: @zakielsalahi
www.researchgate.net/profile/Zaki-El-Salahi
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zaki-el-salahi-5595381b7
Zaki El-Salahi's poem 'The X in the Saltir' presented at the end of this episode, can be listened to again here:
https://soundcloud.com/user-336255488/the-x-in-the-saltire?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
*** Disclaimer: language used in this episode might be offensive to some***
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This episode of Undersong emerges from a recorded roundtable discussion on the trajectory of the term 'decolonisation', as a political and historical term. The four speakers are in conversation about what forms the term takes on today, as they trace its passing through different people, languages, locations, and institutions.
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Speakers' bios:
Dr Katucha Bento is Associate Director of RACE.ED, and Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. She is a political sociologist focussing on topics around Black diaspora, affective economy, Brazilian institutions, nation, and intersectional oppressions. Her research and teachings are interdisciplinary, exploring Black Feminism, Critical Race Studies, Decolonial Studies, Queer Studies, Critical Rhetorical Analysis and Education.
Jason Arday is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Glasgow, School of Education, College of Social Sciences. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at The Ohio State University in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and a Visiting Professor at Durham University in the Department of Sociology. Jason holds other Visiting Professorships at Coventry University, London Metropolitan University and Nelson Mandela University. He is a Trustee of the Runnymede Trust, the UK’s leading Race Equality Thinktank and the British Sociological Association (BSA).
Dr. Shaira Vadasaria is Associate Director of RACE.ED and a Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research and teaching draws on interdisciplinary thought attentive to race, law and social regulation in the broader context of settler colonial nation building. Her work is anchored in methodologically driven questions concerning circuits of race and racial violence as they travel geographically and epistemically, the persistence of racial violence and freedom under settler colonial life, and the forms of world-making established on the carceral peripheries of empire’s claim to sovereign power. Her working monograph, Temporalities of Return: Race, Redress and Refusal in Palestine, considers what Palestinian return – as enunciated through land-based movements and aesthetic and sensory practice – reveals about the politics of race, redress and refusal at the intersection of humanitarianism and settler colonialism in Palestine.
Dr Ali Kassem is an IASH-Alwaleed postdoctoral research fellow associated with the Institute Project on Decoloniality (IPD ’24). During 2020-2021, Ali was postdoctoral research fellow with the Arab Council for the Social Sciences and the Carnegie Corporation of New York with an affiliation to the Beirut Urban Lab at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Ali received his PhD in 2020 from the School of Law, Politics, and Sociology at the University of Sussex and held teaching appointments at Sussex between 2018-2021. His main interests are in Post-, anti-, and decolonial work, ethnic and racial studies, inequalities, Islam and Knowledge making.
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Mentioned literature and people:
Tuck, E. & K. Wayne Yang. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. In: Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society. Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-40
Franz Fanon
Toni Morisson
Achille Mbembe
Walter D Mignolo
Shirley Tate
Léila Gonzalez
Beatriz Nascimento
Sylva Wynter
Sylvia Rivera Cusicanqui
bell hooks
Angela Davis
Shirley Anne Tate
Palestinian Unity Intifada 2021
Saidiya Hartmann
Chisomo Kalinga
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In the latest Undersong conversation, Katucha Bento speaks to Adam Elliot-Cooper and Jean Beaman about how Blackness travels and takes on different iterations, in different geopolitical contexts. Together, they consider the histories and contingencies of colonialism, and their effects on racialised violence and Blackness in the present.
Speakers' bios:
Jean Beaman is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with affiliations in Black studies, political science, feminist science, and the center for Black Studies research. Her research is ethnographic and focusses on race, ethnicity, racism, international migration, and state sponsored violence in both France and the United States. She’s the author of Citizen Outsider (2017).
Adam Elliot Cooper is a Lecter in public and social policy at Queen Mary. He received his PhD from the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, in 2016 and has previously worked as a researcher in the Department of Philosophy at UCL, as a teaching fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick and as a research associate in the Department of Geography at King's College London.
His first monograph, Black Resistance to British Policing, was published by Manchester University Press in May 2021. He is also co-author of Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (Pluto Press, 2021).
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Resources Mentioned:
The Monitoring Group: https://tmg-uk.org/
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/elliottcooperadam.html
“Empire's Endgame - Racism and the British State"
by Gargi Bhattacharyya, Adam Elliott-Cooper, Sita Balani, Kerem Nişancıoğlu, Kojo Koram, Dalia Gebrial, Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha
Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (University of California Press, 2017), by Jean Beaman
"The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness" (Harvard University Press, 1993), by Paul Gilroy
Edinburgh Black History Walks: https://www.facebook.com/blackhistoryedinburgh/
Listen also to Lisa speak about her work on Undersong:
https://soundcloud.com/raceedpodcast/episode-2-art-race-and-black-scottish-history-with-lisa-williams-and-wezi-mhura
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For the last Undersong episode of 2021, Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Katucha Bento discuss the presence and history of the police as well as policing practices in schools. During their conversation, Katucha and Remi touch on how this presence targets children and students of colour disproportionally, the way in which policing ties in with practices of surveillance and the longer history of the prison industrial complex. Together, they think about the potential role of an engaged academic and activist practice in countering such forms of systemic violence.
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Speaker's Bio:
Remi Joseph-Salisbury is a Presidential Fellow in Ethnicity and Inequalities at the University of Manchester. He is the author of 'Black Mixed-Race Men', and co-editor of 'The Fire Now: Anti-Racism in Times of Explicit Racial Violence'. He has written widely on race and racism, with a particular focus on racism in education. His forthcoming work, with Dr Laura Connelly, focuses on anti-racist scholar-activism in UK universities and will be published as a book in 2021. Remi is active with the Northern Police Monitoring Project, and a founding member of the No Police in Schools campaign. He writes regularly for print and online media.
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Notes on Literature & People mentioned:
No Police in Schools Project (Greater Manchester): https://nopoliceinschools.co.uk
Dr Laura Connelly, Roxy Legane, and Dr. Remi Joseph-Salisbury "Decriminalise the Classroom" (2020)
Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities: The Report (2021)
Patrick Williams & Becky Clarke, "Dangerous associations: Joint enterprise, gangs and racism" (2016)
Alex S. Vitale, "The End of Policing" (2017)
Rebecca Clarke, Kathryn Chadwick & Patrick Williams, "Critical Social Research as a 'Site of Resistance'" (2017)
Remi Joseph-Salisbury & Laura Connelly "Anti-Racist Scholar Activism" (2021)
A. Sivanandan "Communities of Resistance: Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism" (2019).
Robin D. Kelley "Freedom Dreams" (2002)
Dr. Lisa Long, Aimé Césaire, Angela Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Patricia Hill Collins.
Mao Mao Uprising in Kenya
Film: "Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday" (2020).
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Recorded in May 2021, when racist attacks against Asian, South- and East Asian minoritised groups spiked in the U.S., U.K, and elsewhere were exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, this conversation brings together Dr. Katucha Bento, Can Tao, Dr. Sarah Liu and Dr. Nini Fang. Against the background of a violent, racist attack in front of the University of Edinburgh library against a student, this conversation highlights the necessity to recognise the intersecting systems of oppression at work in racism and reflects on political solidarities and action necessary for anti-racist struggles.
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Speakers' bios:
Can Tao:
Can is a PhD researcher in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the everyday nationalism in Chinese high schools. She initiated the solidarity protest last December outside the main library, which she will give us a bit more context in this conversation. After this demonstration she joined the movement “Racism Unmasked Edinburgh” as an admin. Racism Unmasked Edinburgh is a movement to combat racism towards East Asians and South East Asians in Edinburgh, especially during the pandemic. It aims to create a safe space for the community, educate allies, and potentially push for greater policy changes.
Dr Nini Fang:
Dr Nini Fang is a lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Edinburgh. Her work foregrounds lived experiences, examining how the socio-political bears upon the personal-subjective. Her teaching pushes for a more politically sensitive curriculum that addresses social inequality in the consulting room. She is a Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council. She sits on the Executive Board for the Association for Psychosocial Studies, the Editorial Board for New Associations (British Psychoanalytic Council). She is also the Associate Director for the Centre of Creative-Relational Inquiry (UoE).
Dr. Sarah Liu is Lecturer in Gender and Politics in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. Her research and teaching focus on the cross-national comparison of how contexts, namely women’s political representation, social movements, and immigration in the media, shape the gender gaps in political opinion and behaviour. She has published widely in academic journals and has been featured in multiple international media and also appears regularly on BBC Radios London and Scotland. Sarah is the Co-Founder and Chair of the Staff BAME Network at the University of Edinburgh and sits on various equality, diversity, and inclusion task forces both within and outside the University.
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In this episode, Dr. Shaira Vadasaria hosts a conversation with Tanatsei Gambura, Hannah McGurk, Natasha Ruwona, and Lea Gagliardi Ventre of UncoverED, a collaborative student-led and decolonising archival project at the University of Edinburgh. They speak on their history and collective work of placing the University, as an institution and a body of students and staff, within its imperial and colonial legacy, using the University's own archives. Reflecting on race, positionality and the politics of archival interpretation, they discuss what is at stake for them in opening up the university's imperial past and racial present.
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Speakers' bios:
UncoverED Team
Hannah McGurk is a writer and facilitator from South London. She is the Head of Outreach at Project Myopia, an organisation dedicated to decolonising curricula and teaching practices, a Project Coordinator at UncoverEd, and Assistant Director of the Fringe of Colour Films festival 2020. Hannah is currently a final undergraduate student at the university of Edinburgh studying English Literature and German.
Natasha Thembiso Ruwona is a Scottish-Zimbabwean artist, researcher and programmer. They are interested in Afrofuturist storytelling through the poetics of the landscape, working across various media including; digital performance, film, DJing and writing. Their current project Black Geographies, Ecologies and Spatial Practice is an exploration of space, place and the climate as related to Black identities and histories. Natasha is interested in different forms of magic and is in particular drawn to the power of the moon. Natasha completed a curatorship for Africa in Motion Film Festival 2019 and was selected as Film Hub Scotland's New Promoter for Glasgow Short Film Festival's 2020 edition. They are a Project Coordinator for UncoverED, Assistant Producer for Claricia Parinussa, a Committee Member for Rhubaba, Board Member of the CCA, and a Submissions Viewer for Glasgow Short Film Festival. Natasha is co-producing a program for this year's Glasgow Film Festival.
Lea Gagliardi Ventre is a writer and researcher from Italy. Her main writing motif rests on the social anthropology and philosophy of language and fiction, as they relate to the making of material contexts. Lea looks at the construction of histories from a deconstructivist vantage point, focusing on the present and ongoing legacies of imperialism and colonialism in Europe. She is a Project Coordinator for UncoverED, currently researching the colonial anatomy of the University of Edinburgh through the works of medical doctor and philosopher Theophilus Scholes.
Tanatsei Gambura is a contemporary intermedia artist, poet and cultural practitioner. Her interests are drawn from personal experience, exploring the themes of black womanhood through an anti-colonial, transnational lense. Central to her focus are issues of geopolitics, indigineity and futurism. A historian, geographer, and culture theorist at heart, she takes a research-based approach to her practice, often centring archival material as the basis of her work.
Notes and further links:
http://uncover-ed.org
http://clariciaparinussa.com
http://www.rhubaba.org
https://www.cca-glasgow.com/
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In this episode of Undersong - Race and Conversations Other-wise, Dr. Shaira Vadasaria speaks to Dr. rashné limki and Dr. Salima Bhimani about the politics of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion work. What work goes into defining and implementing 'equality' on an institutional level? Who is doing the work and what kinds of effects does it have?
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Speakers' bios:
Dr. Salima Bhimani is the Chief Equity + Inclusion Strategist for the Other Bets at Alphabet (Google). She leads, partners with and enables the Bets to achieve equity, inclusion and increased representation (EID) through systemic change. Her secret sauce as an EID expert comes from merging her praxis as an organizational systemic change designer, advocate, strategist, researcher, educator and consultant.
She came to Alphabet as an award winning social equity practitioner of 23 years having worked in the public, private, international and academic sectors. Some of her work highlights include: Remodeling the Canadian Federal Government’s resourcing channels by exposing racial profiling and structural racism in education systems. Working in the global south, leading efforts on women’s human rights through NGOs. Creating racial and gender equity policy frameworks for large scale institutions. Prior to her role at Alphabet she was the CEO and Founder of Relational, a global institute focused on empowering organizations on the path
of EID.
In addition to her professional background, she brings academic rigor to EID work with a PhD In Education focusing on transforming racial and gender
social exclusion in communities and institutions. A Master in Environmental Studies looking at the agency of women of color in their representation
in public spheres. A Bachelor of Education and Honors
Bachelors in Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies.
Dr. rashné limki:
rashné is an engineering student (Bombay) turned politics major with legal aspirations (Oberlin, Ohio) turned race and ethnic studies scholar (San Diego, California) turned work and management researcher (London/Edinburgh). Her academic thinking and writing focus mainly on the ethics and politics of work and technology in a global context. In particular, she is interested in the role of difference (primarily, race, gender and ability) in the emergence and distribution of new forms of work. She is currently lecturer in Work and Organisation Studies and the Director of Equality and Diversity for the University of Edinburgh Business School.
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In this episode, Nasar Meer speaks to Anya Topolski and Ben Gidley about their efforts to think through antisemitism and islamophobia together. Their work engages with the history of racialisation in Europe, that has shaped current framings of 'the Jew' and 'the Muslim', and in turn, contemporary forms of antisemitism and islamophobia. All references, authors, and thinkers mentioned in this episode can be found below in the podcast notes. ....................................................................................................Anya Topolski is an associate professor in ethics and political philosophy at the Radboud University Nijmegen, where she researches in the field of critical philosophy of race and focuses on the race-religion intersection in Europe. At the Ethics and Politics Department of the Faculty of Philosophy, she is currently the principle investigator for the Race-Religion Constellation Project and coordinator of the Race, religion, Secularism Network.Ben Gidley is a senior lecturer at the Department of Psychosocial Studies, at Birkbeck, University of London. His research engages with the question of how we live together with difference and explores the role of British Jews in the wider European diaspora, as well as in the history and politics of British multiculture. .........................................................................................................Podcast notes:Sylvia WynterEncounters Project: https://www.mmg.mpg.de/640536/encounters-ora-joint-research-projectBrendon Mcgeever David Feldman Les Back Paul Gilroy IHRA Definition of AntisemitismJerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism: https://jerusalemdeclaration.orgAmos Goldberg Franz FanonWalter Mignolo Gil Anidijar James Renton Gidley, Ben & James Renton (Eds.) 2017. Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe – A Shared History?: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137412997Brian Klug: https://www.jmberlin.de/sites/default/files/antisemitism-in-europe-today_2-klug.pdfHannah Arendt Butler, Judith. 2009. Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? Wekker, Gloria. 2016. White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race. Heng, Geraldine. 2018. The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages. Lindsay Kaplan Jansen Y, Meer N. Introduction: Genealogies of ‘Jews’ and ‘Muslims’: Social imaginaries in the race–religion nexus. Patterns of Prejudice. 2020;54(1-2):1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2019.1696046 Meer N. Racialization and religion: race, culture and difference in the study of antisemitism and Islamophobia. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 2012 Nov 12;36(3):385-398. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2013.734392 Meer N, Noorani T. A sociological comparison of anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim sentiment in Britain. The Sociological Review. 2008 May 1;56(2):195-219. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2008.00784.x....................................................................................................The title music of this podcast is "Origin Funk" by Ketsa, provided under the Creative Commons license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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What does speech, intonation, and accent invoke? How are "culture" and "race" understood and analysed through speech in the world and the field of Sociolinguistics? In this episode, Shaira Vadasaria speaks to Dr. Lauren Hall-Lew, a sociophonetician at the University of Edinburgh, about her ongoing work on phonetic variation and the differences in speech amongst speakers of different social backgrounds.
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About the speaker:
Lauren Hall-Lew is a reader in Linguistics and English Language at the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, at the University of Edinburgh. She received her MA and PhD from Stanford University and was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford before joining the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer. Most recently, Lauren has co-initiated the Lothian Lockdown Project, which investigates questions of public health, media and communication among residents of Edinburgh and the Lothians in relation to COVID-19.
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Podcast Notes:
Yaeger-Dror, Malcah, Lauren Hall-Lew, and Sharon Deckert. "It's not or isn't it? Using large corpora to determine the influences on contraction strategies." Language Variation and Change 14, no. 1 (2002): 79-118.
Rosa, Jonathan, and Nelson Flores. "Unsettling race and language: Toward a raciolinguistic perspective." Language in society 46, no. 5 (2017): 621-647.
Rickford, John R., and Sharese King. "Language and linguistics on trial: Hearing Rachel Jeantel (and other vernacular speakers) in the courtroom and beyond." Language 92, no. 4 (2016): 948-988.
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In the second episode of 'Undersong - Race and Conversations Other-wise', Nasar Meer speaks to creative producer Wezi Mhura and arts curator and educator Lisa Williams. Together, they talk about Lisa and Wezi's different artistic and historic interventions into the cityscape of Edinburgh, as well as the history and presence of Black-Scottish life.See below for links to the projects, places, and people mentioned in this episode. ...................................................................................................................About the Speakers: Lisa Williams founded the Edinburgh Caribbean Association in 2016 and curates a range of arts events across Scotland to promote the shared heritage between Scotland and the Caribbean; including film, literature and live music. She runs educational and anti-racist programmes in schools and universities and leads walking tours focusing on Edinburgh's Black History. Lisa has a BA in African and Asian Studies, an MA in Arts, Festival and Cultural Management and is an Honorary Fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. She is currently a member of advisory boards for the V & A Dundee and the National Trust of Scotland among others and works as a consultant to heritage, arts and cultural organisations across the nation. Wezi Mhura is a freelance creative producer, who has initiated and developed projects with widely diverse groups of artists, organisations and artforms including dance, street theatre, circus, physical theatre, digital and music performances.She is the founder of AfriFest, Scotland’s first festival commemoration of African Arts and Culture, and a celebratory showcase of visual, performing arts and culture of the Scottish Pan-African community. Wezi has a passion for cross-artform, multi-disciplinary collaborations and experimenting with new forms, she often works within unconventional, outdoor and site specific spaces. Highlighted achievements include the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad Commission, two critically acclaimed events in the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Culture programme and the 2020 Scotland wide BLM Mural Trail. She is currently a Creative Associate with National Theatre of Scotland and Associate Creative Producer for the Traverse Theatre............................................................................................................................Podcast notes:Afrifest: https://www.afrifestscotland.comBlack History Walks EdinburghBLM Mural Trail Edinburgh (no longer on location)http://curiousedinburgh.org/blm-mural-trail-edinburghhttps://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/news/spotlight-onthe-black-lives-matter-mural-trailThe Writers’ Museum Edinburgh: https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/venue/writers-museum Wezi Mhura’s BLM Mural Trail: https://www.wezi.uk/blm-mural-trail/Kokumo Fadeke Rocks – Contemporary African/Asian/Scottish writer and performance poet: https://www.kokumorocks.net/David Spence – 18th Century anti-slavery/abolitionist activist, Fife. Robert Wedderburn – Jamaican-Scottish 19th Century activist, published The Horrors of Slavery (1824) Vernon, P. & Osborne, A. 2020. 100 Great Black Britons. London: Little, Brown Book Group Frederick Douglass – 19th Century abolitionist and political activist, Massachusetts and New York, USJeda Pearl – a Scottish Jamaican poet, based in Edinburgh. http://www.jedapearl.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JedaPearlEdinburgh Ladies Emancipation Society – 19th Century abolitionist group in Edinburgh.................................................................................................The title music of this podcast is "Origin Funk" by Ketsa, provided under the Creative Commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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In the first episode of 'Undersong', our host Shaira Vadasaria introduces the podcast and speaks to Katucha Bento, Tommy Curry, and Radhika Govinda about the role of intersectionality in their work. Reflecting on what intersectionality's purchase is within and beyond its point of origin, leads the discussants to critically (re)assess the concept's legacy and traction. -
This inaugural episode was created in collaboration with genderED, a cross-University hub for gender and sexualities studies at the University of Edinburgh.
In the first episode of 'Undersong', our host Shaira Vadasaria introduces the podcast and speaks to Katucha Bento, Tommy Curry, and Radhika Govinda about the role of intersectionality in their work. Reflecting on what intersectionality's purchase is within and beyond its point of origin, leads the discussants to critically (re)assess the concept's legacy and traction.
(CW: mentioning of sexual violence including rape)
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About our guests:
Dr Katucha Bento is a Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies at the University of Edinburgh with national and international experience working with the intersections of racialisation politics and race, multiples constructions of gender, formations of nation and nationality, migration, Black diaspora, discourse and affective economy. Her background is rooted in the Black Movement in Brazil, samba community and quilombo territory.
Professor Tommy J. Curry joined the Philosophy Department at the University of Edinburgh in the Fall of 2019. His research interests are in Africana Philosophy and the Black Radical Tradition. His areas of specialization are: 19th century ethnology, Critical Race Theory, Social Political Theory, and Black Male Studies.
Dr Radhika Govinda is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. Her research bridges the fields of sociology of gender, international development and South Asian studies. Radhika’s work demonstrates the importance of understanding gender politics at the intersections of caste, class, race/ethnicity and religion in women’s and social movements, in development policies and practice, in everyday social relations in rural and urban spaces, and in the global dynamics of knowledge production.
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Podcast Notes - references and people mentioned:
Bento, K. (forthcoming) Herstories – Black Brazilian Women Narrating Oppression in the UK. In “Reframing intersectionality” – co-edited volume by Kimberle Crenshaw.
Curry, T. 2017. The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood. Temple University Press.
Truth, Soujourner. 1851. Ain’t I A Woman?
Nira Yuval Davies and Florya Anthias. 1983. Contextualizing Feminism — Gender, Ethnic and Class Divisions. In Feminist Review, Volume: 15 issue: 1, page(s): 62-75
Savitribai Phule, Ruth Manorama, Sharmila Rege, Mary John, Gopal Guru, Ange-Marie Hancock, Patricia Hill Collins, Nivedita Menon, Dr. Sirma Bilge, Gail Lewis, Lélia Gonzalez, Catherine McKinnon, Susan Brownmiller, Susan B. Anthony, Darrin Hutchinson, bell hooks, Devon W. Carbado, Maria Lugones, padê editorial (Publishing house), Frances E. W. Harper, Edward Said, Encarnación Guttierrez Rodriguez, Silvia Riviera Cucicanqui, José Esteban Muñoz, Gloria Anzaldua.
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The title music for this episode is "Origin Funk" by Ketsa, provided under the Creative Commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -
The introductory episode of 'Undersong: Race and Conversations Other-wise' features Shaira Vadasaria (University of Edinburgh) and Katucha Bento (University of Edinburgh), who introduce the podcast and talk about the origin and legacy of the title 'Undersong'.
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References:
Audre Lorde (1973) 'Black Studies.' In Lorde, A. (1992) 'Undersong: Chosen Poems, Old and New.' Norton.
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The title music of this podcast is "Origin Funk" by Ketsa, provided under the Creative Commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
