1 hr 11 min
28. Paul Gilroy Sociologipodden
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- Society & Culture
In this episode Håkan Thörn and Åsa Wettergren interview Professor Paul Gilroy, who is a cultural theorist and sociologist based at University College, London. In a number of books and articles Gilroy has analyzed contemporary society from the viewpoint of colonial history. Topics discussed in the interview are the discourse of anti-semitism in the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict, right-wing populism and the production of ignorance, climate justice and racism, identity politics, and the role of music in connection with black activism.
Literature
Paul Gilroy: There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: the Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (Hutchinson, 1987).
Paul Gilroy: The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Harvard U.P, 1993).
Paul Gilroy: ”Orphic Riddles: The Drums, the Discs and the Critics”, in estetica. studi e ricerche, vol. XI, no 1. 2021, p. 151-182.
Paul Gilroy: “Working with ‘Wogs’: Aliens, Denizens and the Machinations of Denialism”, in Communication, Culture and Critique, no. 15, 2022. 122–138.
Rosi Braidotti and Paul Gilroy (eds): Conflicting Humanities (Bloomsbury, 2016).
Robert N. Proctor and Linda Schriebinger (eds): Agnotology. The making and unmaking of ignorance. (Stanford University Press, 2008).
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
Andri Snaer Magnason: On Time and Water (Serpent’s Tail 2020)
Gayatri Spivak: “Can the Subaltern Speak?”, in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, edited by Larry Grossberg and Cary Nelson, 66–111. (Macmillan, 1988)
In this episode Håkan Thörn and Åsa Wettergren interview Professor Paul Gilroy, who is a cultural theorist and sociologist based at University College, London. In a number of books and articles Gilroy has analyzed contemporary society from the viewpoint of colonial history. Topics discussed in the interview are the discourse of anti-semitism in the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict, right-wing populism and the production of ignorance, climate justice and racism, identity politics, and the role of music in connection with black activism.
Literature
Paul Gilroy: There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: the Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (Hutchinson, 1987).
Paul Gilroy: The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Harvard U.P, 1993).
Paul Gilroy: ”Orphic Riddles: The Drums, the Discs and the Critics”, in estetica. studi e ricerche, vol. XI, no 1. 2021, p. 151-182.
Paul Gilroy: “Working with ‘Wogs’: Aliens, Denizens and the Machinations of Denialism”, in Communication, Culture and Critique, no. 15, 2022. 122–138.
Rosi Braidotti and Paul Gilroy (eds): Conflicting Humanities (Bloomsbury, 2016).
Robert N. Proctor and Linda Schriebinger (eds): Agnotology. The making and unmaking of ignorance. (Stanford University Press, 2008).
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
Andri Snaer Magnason: On Time and Water (Serpent’s Tail 2020)
Gayatri Spivak: “Can the Subaltern Speak?”, in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, edited by Larry Grossberg and Cary Nelson, 66–111. (Macmillan, 1988)
1 hr 11 min