Black Lives Matter – ‘race’, bodies and biopolitics in the 21st century

Culture, Power, Politics » Podcast · Jul 11, 2018 · 2h 12m

With Sarah Bufkin and Jacob Mukherjee. The Black Lives Matter movement has seen arguably the most significant revival of Black radicalism in the English-speaking world for many years. What has led to this situation and what are the political, historical and theoretical issues raised by it? Is ‘black’ still a meaningful term of political identification for non-white peoples outside the African diaspora? What is the legacy of slavery and colonialism in the contemporary West? Why is racism amongst police forces such a perpetually intractable problem, even in apparently liberal countries like the…