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Taboo on the Buswe need to talk about white feminism: from social media ‘feminists’ to the SuffragettesIf your feminism only caters to white, middle class, cis women — is it really feminism? In this episode, we talk about white feminism: a version of feminism that often only represents the experiences of white, cis, middle-class women — leaving out women of colour, LGBTQIA+ women, disabled women, and those impacted by class, colonialism, and systemic oppression. From the exclusion of Black women in the suffragette movement (something your history teacher might not have mentioned) to the often pink, commodified feminism we see from large figures today — let’s deep dive the history and c...2025-04-1129 min
Uncommon SenseJoy, with Akwugo EmejuluWhat comes to mind when you think about joy? And can there be joy in protest and refusal? Someone who’s been asking and trying to answer questions about this is Akwugo Emejulu. She’s been investigating the relationship between Black feminist joy, ambivalence and futures, asking how Black feminists are remixing political media, meanings and messages to co-create manifestos for change. Akwugo has also been mapping the grassroots organising and activism of women of colour for more than 15 years, and in this episode shares her insights about the role of joy and other emotions in understanding soci...2025-01-2458 min
Planetary Planning PodcastMulti-species Architecture - More than a question of stars and form, with Isabelle DoucetIn this episode, we speak with Isabelle Doucet, Professor of theory and history of architecture at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. She here reflects on multi-species perspectives and social and environmental justice. I, Kim, met her at the IRS Academy in Berlin last spring, and am very glad I subsequently asked her to come on the podcast. This episode is a fascinating exploration into a very multi-disciplinary take on architecture, design and how to consider the “other” while de-centering the frequently white, male and human dominant perspectives we are faced with around the world today.Isabelle cites a we...2024-12-0231 min
Den levendeOPGØR MED HVID FEMINISME: »Man kan forsvare utrolig meget racisme med, at der er nogle kvinder man gerne vil hjælpe«(PREMIUM)I ugens ’Den levende’ taler vi om dekolonial feminisme - og i høj grad om, hvad den feministiske retning er en reaktion på.Hvordan kan man se kolonial feminisme udspille sig i dansk politik - i for eksempel ghettoloven og vuggestuetvang?Hvorfor mener pro-palæstinensiske aktivister, at det er hykleri, at Mette Frederiksen taler kvindernes sag den 8. marts, mens kvinder føder i krig i Gaza?Og har to hvide kvinder, som Lotte Folke og Eva Eistrup, overhovedet ret til at forklare, hvad dekolonial feminisme er?Vi diskuterer også mainstream-feminisme, ligestillingsfeminisme og girlboss...2024-04-1105 min
UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre PodcastIn conversation with Akwugo EmejuluGala Rexer welcomes Akwugo Emejulu, Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick and author of Fugitive Feminism (Silver Press, 2022). Discussing the figure of the fugitive from a Black feminist perspective, Akwugo addresses questions about solidarity and coalitional work, strategies of counter-storytelling and playing with new forms of writing, and discusses the difficulties of staying in the liminal space of fugitivity as a mode of experimentation, ambivalence, and disidentification from the figure of the Human. This conversation was recorded on 6th July 2023. Speakers: Dr Gala Rexer, Lecturer at the Sarah Parker Remond C...2023-07-2733 min
UCL Institute of Advanced StudiesIn conversation with Akwugo EmejuluGala Rexer welcomes Akwugo Emejulu, Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick and author of Fugitive Feminism (Silver Press, 2022). Discussing the figure of the fugitive from a Black feminist perspective, Akwugo addresses questions about solidarity and coalitional work, strategies of counter-storytelling and playing with new forms of writing, and discusses the difficulties of staying in the liminal space of fugitivity as a mode of experimentation, ambivalence, and disidentification from the figure of the Human.
Transcript available here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/conversation
www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/2023-07-2633 min
New Books in GenderJo Littler, "Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political" (Lawrence Wishart, 2023)What is the history and future of feminism? In Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political (Lawrence Wishart, 2023), Jo Littler, Professor of Social Analysis and Cultural Politics at City, University of London, collects almost a decade of interviews with key thinkers in contemporary feminism. United by a shared left feminist perspective, interviewees including Nancy Fraser, Akwugo Emejulu, Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Wainwright, Wendy Brown and Angela McRobbie, reflect on their work and thought in conversations that cover politics and praxis as much as theoretical interventions and academic work. The book also engages with earlier career feminists, such as Finn Mack...2023-05-0134 min
New Books in Women's HistoryJo Littler, "Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political" (Lawrence Wishart, 2023)What is the history and future of feminism? In Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political (Lawrence Wishart, 2023), Jo Littler, Professor of Social Analysis and Cultural Politics at City, University of London, collects almost a decade of interviews with key thinkers in contemporary feminism. United by a shared left feminist perspective, interviewees including Nancy Fraser, Akwugo Emejulu, Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Wainwright, Wendy Brown and Angela McRobbie, reflect on their work and thought in conversations that cover politics and praxis as much as theoretical interventions and academic work. The book also engages with earlier career feminists, such as Finn Mack...2023-05-0134 min
New Books in Critical TheoryJo Littler, "Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political" (Lawrence Wishart, 2023)What is the history and future of feminism? In Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political (Lawrence Wishart, 2023), Jo Littler, Professor of Social Analysis and Cultural Politics at City, University of London, collects almost a decade of interviews with key thinkers in contemporary feminism. United by a shared left feminist perspective, interviewees including Nancy Fraser, Akwugo Emejulu, Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Wainwright, Wendy Brown and Angela McRobbie, reflect on their work and thought in conversations that cover politics and praxis as much as theoretical interventions and academic work. The book also engages with earlier career feminists, such as Finn Mack...2023-05-0134 min
New Books in Intellectual HistoryJo Littler, "Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political" (Lawrence Wishart, 2023)What is the history and future of feminism? In Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political (Lawrence Wishart, 2023), Jo Littler, Professor of Social Analysis and Cultural Politics at City, University of London, collects almost a decade of interviews with key thinkers in contemporary feminism. United by a shared left feminist perspective, interviewees including Nancy Fraser, Akwugo Emejulu, Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Wainwright, Wendy Brown and Angela McRobbie, reflect on their work and thought in conversations that cover politics and praxis as much as theoretical interventions and academic work. The book also engages with earlier career feminists, such as Finn Mack...2023-05-0134 min
New Books in Politics and PolemicsJo Littler, "Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political" (Lawrence Wishart, 2023)What is the history and future of feminism? In Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political (Lawrence Wishart, 2023), Jo Littler, Professor of Social Analysis and Cultural Politics at City, University of London, collects almost a decade of interviews with key thinkers in contemporary feminism. United by a shared left feminist perspective, interviewees including Nancy Fraser, Akwugo Emejulu, Sheila Rowbotham, Hilary Wainwright, Wendy Brown and Angela McRobbie, reflect on their work and thought in conversations that cover politics and praxis as much as theoretical interventions and academic work. The book also engages with earlier career feminists, such as Finn Mack...2023-05-0134 min
Pod45Episode 8: Gestures of RefusalThis episode of Pod45 discusses our recent Gestures of Refusal cluster, co-edited by Sarah Bernstein and Yanbing Er.
Contemporaries co-editor Francisco Robles sat down to chat about the cluster (as well as broader questions and themes it suggests) with Sarah and Yanbing, alongside Akwugo Emejulu, who contributed the essay "Ambivalence as Misfeeling, Ambivalence as Refusal" to the cluster, and Xine Yao, whose writing doesn't feature in the cluster but whose work and thought on (dis)affect, (un)feeling, and refusal articulates closely related concerns.
Pod45 host and Contemporaries co-editor Michael Docherty also provides some information o...2022-11-241h 07
On The EngenderTo Exist is To Resist: Black Feminism in EuropeOn International Women's Day, Engender were joined by Professor Akwugo Emejulu and Assa Samaké-Roman to discuss Black feminism in Europe. Listen to their conversation here. To find out more about their work, follow Professor Akwugo Emejulu here, and Assa Samaké-Roman here on Twitter. Find the book, To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe, on Pluto Books here. You can access a transcript of the episode here. On the Engender is produced for Engender by Amanda Aitken. Jingle by Bossy Love.2022-04-0856 min
Culture, Power and Politics » PodcastWoke Capitalism
This is the last in the ‘This Conjuncture’ series of seminars hosted by the journal New Formations in Autumn 2021.
Corporate ‘wokeness’ puts positive messages deriving from radical politics to work in the interests of consumer capitalism. Join Rosalind Gill, Akane Kanai, and Francesca Sobande, who will develop an analysis of ‘woke capitalism’ beyond the reductive charge of selling out.
Speakers:
Rosalind Gill is Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis at City, University of London. She is the author, co-author or editor of many books and articles, including Gender and the Media (2015) and Creative Hubs in Questio...2022-01-151h 22Culture, Power and Politics » PodcastWoke Capitalism
This is the last in the ‘This Conjuncture’ series of seminars hosted by the journal New Formations in Autumn 2021.
Corporate ‘wokeness’ puts positive messages deriving from radical politics to work in the interests of consumer capitalism. Join Rosalind Gill, Akane Kanai, and Francesca Sobande, who will develop an analysis of ‘woke capitalism’ beyond the reductive charge of selling out.
Speakers:
Rosalind Gill is Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis at City, University of London. She is the author, co-author or editor of many books and articles, including Gender and the Media (2015) and Creative Hubs in Questio...2022-01-151h 22
The Grand Thunk24 - SEASON 2 FINALE: A Whopping List of Summer Reads, Judging Books by their Covers and Love Island CommitmentsIt’s the end of Season 2 and to send us on our merry way, Alex has a big list of her favourite books on discount from Verso Books and Pluto Press. Rhiannon has been asking the big question of ‘Who Am I?’ this week and finding out with the help of a couple of quizzes. She has also been loving Billie Piper’s Desert Island Disc and discovering Billie’s past as a child star. Meanwhile, Alex has dived headlong into The Bodyguard and is in love. Rhiannon is debating her commitment to Love Island whilst Alex recounts her enjoyment...2021-06-2847 min
The Bad Vibes ClubOn Adam Curtis Part Two: With Andrea and Oscar FranckeMatt, Andrea and Oscar discuss episode two of Adam Curtis’ new series ‘I Can’t Get You Out of my Head’.We talk about the limits of the BBC archive, and the history of the Black Panthers that Curtis never quite gets into.Links to the stuff we mention in this episode are below.Muub Tube with Ralph Pritchard and Owen - https://muubtube.podbean.com/Community Development as Micropolitics by Akwugo Emejulu (publisher’s site) - https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/community-development-as-micropoliticsErrol Morris and Adam Curtis conversation (full text...2021-03-1038 min
Ufahamu AfricaEp. 108: A conversation with Adom Getachew on postcolonialism, worldmaking, and moreIn our last episode of Black History Month, Rachel interviews political theorist Adom Getachew on her new book, which reconstructs an account of self-determination offered in the political thought of Black Atlantic anticolonial nationalists during the height of decolonization in the 20th century.We have lots of great recommendations for listeners this week, including books on race and feminism, a virtual event on African folktales, a virtual resource for those of us missing travel and fieldwork, podcast episodes you should listen to, and more!Books, Links, & ArticlesWorldmaking after Empire: The Rise...2021-02-2749 min
Surviving Society ProductionsE115 The Surviving Society Alternative to Woman's Hour: Akwugo Emejulu...: Women of colour resist: In the first edition of the Surviving Society Alternative to Woman's Hour for 2021, Akwugo provides some important analysis on women of colour's activism and resistance in UK, Europe & beyond.
*The first direct action of Sisters Uncut was not during the Suffragettes UK red carpet premiere in 2015 - at this point Sisters had already engaged in at least four national actions. Surviving Society unreservedly apologises for this error during the episode. We continue to be very much inspired by the work of activists like Sisters Uncut and our ambition is to show true recognition of this integral...2021-01-1241 min
Surviving Society ProductionsE085 Amber Lascelles: Black feminism, literature & resistanceAmber joined us to talk us through her PhD and the radical possibilities of Black feminism in literature. We also talk about including Black man taking part in conversations on Black feminism and our complicated relationship with academic heroes!
Reference list -
Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (London: Zed, 1980)
Simon Gikandi's chapter in Eva Rask Knudsen and Ulla Rahbek, In Search of the Afropolitan: Encounters, Conversations, and Contemporary Diasporic African Literature (London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016)
Achille Mbembe, ‘Afropolitanism’ from Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent (Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2007), pp.26-29
Hazel Carby, Reco...2020-05-1250 min
Surviving Society ProductionsS1/E1 Black diasporas, anglo-centrism & positionality (ASA, Hawaii)Guest hosts:
Rianna Walcott is an LAHP-funded PhD candidate at King’s College London researching black identity formation in digital spaces, and a graduate twiceover from the University of Edinburgh. She co-founded projectmyopia.com, a website that promotes diversity in academia and a decolonised curriculum. She frequently writes and interviews about feminism, race and literature for publications including gal-dem, Dazed, The Skinny, Huffpost, Vice, The BBC, the Metro, the Wellcome collection and The Guardian. Rianna is co-editor of an anthology about BAME mental health, The Colour of Madness, and in the time left over she moonlights as a professional jazz si...2020-02-0458 min
The Amaliah PodcastHow Do We Resist And Exist Within White Power Structures? | SMALL TALK WITH DR. AZEEZAT JOHNSONIn this episode of #smalltalkpodcast, we talk to Dr Azeezat Johnson about what it means to exist and resist, what whiteness is as a structure and how Islamophobia and anti-blackness are inextricably linked.What is the effect of structural violence on everyday lives and how can we make a change in big and small ways? --If you enjoyed this episode and want to support our production visit amaliah.com/support-An Amaliah PodcastMusic by @iamryanlittle - Soundcloud, Apple Music and SpotifyCHECK THESE OUT:Recent works by Azeezat:Johnson, Azeezat (2019). 'Throwing our bodies against the white background of academia.' Area. https...2020-01-1224 min
Stuk Rood Vlees PodcastEpisode 32 – Intersectionality and activism, with Akwugo EmejuluWe are joined today by Akwugo Emejulu, professor of sociology at the University of Warwick. She was the keynote speaker at the European Conference on Gender and Politics which was held in Amsterdam last week. I asked Professor Emejulu to come on the podcast to talk about intersectionality and more specifically about her research on how women of colour activists in Europe strategize and organize against illiberal practices. We also talk about lots of other stuff, including the ‘arms race’ in academia, intersectionality and academic feminism, the invention of ‘race’ and the concept of ‘whiteness’, and much more.
For the full show no...2019-07-0953 min
Stuk Rood Vlees PodcastAankondiging zomerprogrammaHet was de afgelopen weken wat stil op de feed, maar dat gaat veranderen! U kunt podcasts verwachten met o.a. Akwugo Emejulu, Tamar de Waal, Fenne Pinkster, Christina Wolbrecht en Nadia Brown, en we zullen ongetwijfeld bellen met Rob Ford om zijn stemming te peilen over premier Boris Johnson...2019-07-0503 min
ICAFugitive Feminism, Towards A Fugitive FeminismIn 1851, Sojourner Truth delivered her now iconic speech ‘Ain't I a Woman?’ at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Truth's speech is one of the earliest recorded instances of intersectionality. She demanded the recognition of Black women as women and demonstrated how being positioned at the intersection of race and gender constitutes a double jeopardy which undermines Black women's claims to justice and equality.
In 2018, Black women are still making remarkably similar claims for recognition and respect as women. In this talk, Akwugo Emejulu draws on the work of Black radical theorists such as Saidiya Hartman, Hortense Spillers, Stefano Harn...2018-08-1457 min
Danny DorlingThe causes, effects, and reduction - of inequalityAkwugo Emejulu, Imogen Tyler and Danny Dorling talk about Inequality, its causes, effects and what can be done about it. Public Seminar at City University, May 17th 2018.2018-05-211h 21
New Books in French StudiesLeah Bassel and Akwugo Emejulu, “Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain” (Policy Press, 2017)What is the impact of austerity on minority women? How has this impacted on already long standing forms of social inequality across England, France and Scotland? These questions are the subject of Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (Policy Press, 2017), the new book from Dr. Leah Bassel, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Leicester, and Professor Akwugo Emejulu, a professor of sociology at the University of Warwick. The book foregrounds the narratives and understandings of minority women activists with regard to the current political moment. It challenges contemporary social policy analysis by...2018-04-2741 min
New Books in European PoliticsLeah Bassel and Akwugo Emejulu, “Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain” (Policy Press, 2017)What is the impact of austerity on minority women? How has this impacted on already long standing forms of social inequality across England, France and Scotland? These questions are the subject of Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (Policy Press, 2017), the new book from Dr. Leah Bassel, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Leicester, and Professor Akwugo Emejulu, a professor of sociology at the University of Warwick. The book foregrounds the narratives and understandings of minority women activists with regard to the current political moment. It challenges contemporary social policy analysis by...2018-04-2741 min
Great LivesLaura Serrant on Audre LordeProfessor of Nursing, Laura Serrant, chooses the life of the black, gay poet and activist Audre Lorde who still inspires the women's movement today. She tells Matthew Parris why Audre has meant so much to her both personally and professionally. Professor Akwugo Emejulu of Warwick University is the expert witness.Presented by Matthew Parris. Producer: Maggie AyreFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2018.2018-04-2627 min
Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfCrisis Politics and the Challenge of Intersectional Solidarity [Audio]Speaker(s): Professor Akwugo Emejulu | How might we transform the ways in which we think about ‘crisis’, ‘activism’ and 'solidarity'? Drawing on her new co-authored book, Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain, Akwugo Emejulu's talk will explore the asymmetrical impacts of austerity measures on women of colour and their strategies for resistance in Scotland, England and France. Akwugo Emejulu is Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick. Aisling Swaine is Assistant Professor of Gender and Security in LSE's Department for Gender Studies LSE’s Department of Gender Studies (@LSEGenderTweet) is the largest gender studies centre in Europe. Wi...2018-01-311h 26
ICABlack Feminism And Post-Cyber FeminismAkwugo Emejulu chairs a panel of artists, poets and academics including Siana Bangura, Kiyémis and Francesca Sobande for a discussion of Black feminist uses of digital media. The panel explores new feminist trajectories for how Black women are subverting their misrepresentations to create new depictions of Black womanhood.
https://www.ica.art/whats-on/black-feminism-and-post-cyber-feminism
https://www.ica.art/whats-on/season/post-cyber-feminist-international
Traversing the fields of philosophy, art, performance, politics and gender theory, the Post-Cyber Feminist International advances discourses of technofeminism that have unfolded over the past two decades.
Programmed in partnership with writer Helen Hester, Post-Cyber Feminist International marks t...2017-12-051h 50
Front RowAudre Lorde, Dan Brown, Art Connoisseurship, Harvey WeinsteinAudre Lorde described herself as "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet". A writer of the 70s and 80s, this month her poetry and prose is published in the UK for the first time in a new anthology: Your Silence Will Not Protect You. Akwugo Emejulu, Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick discusses the resurgent interest in Lorde's work and her importance to contemporary activistsDan Brown came to the fame in 2003 with his novel The Da Vinci Code which became a worldwide bestseller and a Hollywood movie. As his latest book, Origin, is published, Brown discusses...2017-10-0931 min
New Books in Western European StudiesAkwugo Emejulu, “Community Development as Micropolitics: Comparing Theories, Policies, and Politics in America and Britain” (Policy Press, 2015)Akwugo Emejulu has written Community Development as Micropolitics: Comparing Theories, Policies, and Politics in America and Britain (Policy Press, 2015). Emejulu is a lecturer at the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, and co-director of the Center for Education for Racial Equality.
What is community development exactly? Emejulu’s book integrates historical, theoretical, and comparative approaches to answering this difficult question. She describes several discourses, including: Democracy, Power, Poverty, Empowerment, and Populist, and maps how community development has changed in the United States and also in Britain. The book informs theoretical questions about how social movements use language to li...2015-03-0923 min