UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre Podcast

Laleh 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 water around which a politics has taken shape, Laleh discusses the tension of the sea as a romanticised incredible and abstract space, yet also a space of death, exploitation, slavery and colonialism, highlighting the geoeconomical inequalities in the world.Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-laleh-khaliliThis conversation was recorded on 30th June 2021Speakers: Luke de Noronha, Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity & Postcolonial Studies, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre//Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of LondonExecutive producer:Paul GilroyProducer:Kaissa KarhuEditor:Amie Liebowitzwww.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/podcasts

Alexis 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, enslavement and the plantation economy resulted in the extinction of the Caribbean monk seal. Alexis also talks about her forthcoming biography of Audre Lorde and deep diving into Lorde’s life and love of geology.Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-alexis-pauline-gumbsThis conversation was recorded on 29th July 2021Speakers: Ashish Ghadiali, Activist-in-Residence, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre//Alexis Pauline Gumbs, writer, independent scholar, poet and activistExecutive producer:Paul GilroyProducer:Kaissa KarhuEditor:Kaissa KarhuandAmie Liebowitzwww.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/podcasts

Luke de Noronha welcomesNandita 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 live in a worldly space in which the fundamental political foundation is freedom from exclusion, freedom from dispossession and freedom from displacement.Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-nandita-sharma This conversation was recorded on21stJune 2021Speakers:Luke de Noronha, Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity & Postcolonial Studies, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre//Nandita Sharma, Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaExecutive producer:Paul GilroyProducer and Editor:Kaissa Karhuwww.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/podcasts

We’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 geological agency and the geomorphological role we play that is changing the landscape of the planet, we won’t realise the depth of the predicament that we’re in.”Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-dipesh-chakrabartyThis conversation was recorded on 13th June 2021Speakers: Ashish Ghadiali, Activist-in-Residence, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre//Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of ChicagoExecutive producer:Paul GilroyProducer:Kaissa KarhuEditors:Amie Liebowitzwww.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/podcasts

Luke 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 state response and policing throughout the pandemic, race disproportionality, and the trend towards pre-criminalisation.Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-gracie-mae-bradleyThis conversation was recorded on 24th June 2021Speakers: Luke de Noronha, Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity & Postcolonial Studies, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre//Gracie Mae Bradley, policy expert, writer and campaigner, and Interim Director of LibertyExecutive producer:Paul GilroyProducer and Editor:Kaissa Karhuwww.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/podcasts

Shabaka 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, Shabaka reflects on how “…being in a metropole makes you think that you understand what culturally is vital in the world, where actually we aren’t in the centre of the world, musically or socially, and there are cultures that are formulating real vital relations between music and living.”Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-shabaka-hutchingsThis conversation was recorded on 17th June 2021Speakers: Ashish Ghadiali, Activist-in-Residence, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre//Shabaka Hutchings, jazz saxophonist, clarinettist and band leader of ‘Sons of Kemet’, ‘The Comet Is Coming’ and ‘Shabaka and the Ancestors’Image: © Pierrick GuidouExecutive producer:Paul GilroyProducer:Kaissa KarhuEditors:Kaissa Karhu and Anita Langarywww.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/podcasts