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The Death Studies PodcastDr. Yasmin Gunaratnam on transnational dying, end-of-life care, being a carer, education with end-of-life-care professionals, art methods, anti-colonial death studies, genocide, yoga, and ADHDIn this episode, hear Yasmin Gunaratnam discuss transnational dying and end-of-life care in cities, ethnography, being a carer, writing, education with end-of-life-care professionals, artful risky care, using art methods in social sciences research, palliative art, hospitality, migration and death, an anti-colonial death studies and climate crisis, the genocide in Gaza, yoga, and being an academic with ADHD
Who is Yasmin?
Yasmin Gunaratnam is a sociologist interested in how different types of inequality and injustice are produced, lived with and remade and how these processes create new forms of local and global inclusion and dispossession. Yasmin is...2024-05-021h 35
Spatial DelightTime to ThinkOver the course of this series, we’ve talked about the importance of education beyond the university. We've taken you to a public park, a cathedral, an art gallery, a library, a living room, a laundromat and to the streets. But universities do matter, as institutions and as places. In our final episode, we visit two – Goldsmiths, University of London, and Bard College Berlin – and listen to conversations taking place in- and outside their lecture halls. First, host Agata Lisiak travels to Goldsmith’s Centre for Urban and Community Research to take part in an event with sociologi...2023-05-2636 min
Uncommon SenseListening, with Les BackWhat does it mean to really listen in a society obsessed with spectacle? What’s hidden when powerful people claim to “hear” or “give voice” to others? And what’s at stake if we think that using fancy recording devices helps us to neatly capture “truth”?Les Back – author of “The Art of Listening” – tells Alexis and Rosie why listening to society is crucial, but cautions that there’s nothing inherently superior about the hearing sense. Rather, we must “re-tune our ears to society” and listen responsibly, with care, and in doubt.Plus: why should we think critically before acc...2023-01-2045 min
Spatial DelightWorld CityDoreen Massey once wrote that “it is (or ought to be) impossible even to begin thinking about Kilburn High Road without bringing into play half the world and a considerable amount of British imperialist history.” In this episode, urban sociologist Emma Jackson joins us to unpack London’s entanglements with places elsewhere. London’s imperialist and colonialist legacies are evident not only on the city’s streets, but also reach behind closed doors: into our classrooms, living rooms, offices, shops, and hospital wards. We speak to sociologist Yasmin Gunaratnam to discuss these lasting bonds. In her book Wor...2022-12-3033 minUncommon SenseEmotion, with Billy HolzbergEmojis! Feminism! Rage! Sociologist Billy Holzberg joins us to talk about emotion. Why is it dismissed as an obstacle to progress and clear thinking – and to whose benefit? How can we let anger into politics without sanctioning far-right violence? And why are some of us freer than others to play with emotional abjection? Billy reflects on all this and more with Alexis and Rosie, celebrating thinkers from Sara Ahmed to Karl Marx, W.E.B. Du Bois to Yasmin Gunaratnam.Billy also reflects on queerness, childhood and shame; the emotional precarity of TV’s Fleabag; the playfulness of e...2022-11-1846 min
Spatial DelightFull of PowerIn this first episode, you will learn who Doreen Massey was and get a sneak peek at her politics. We’ll hear from Massey’s former collaborators, friends and colleagues. And from Massey herself.For nearly three decades, Massey was a professor at The Open University and “loved every minute of it”. The OU’s aim has been to literally open up access to higher education for a wider variety of people. Our approach with this podcast is similar: you don’t need to come prepared – and you certainly don’t need an academic degree to listen to it. 2022-10-2829 min
Spatial DelightIntroducing Spatial DelightSpatial Delight is a podcast about the politics of space inspired by the life and work of British geographer Doreen Massey. Over the course of ten episodes (eight in English, two in Spanish), we engage with Massey’s enduring concepts – a global sense of place, geometries of power, space invaders, geographies of responsibility, and more – to challenge the way we think about the world today. As we travel from a London laundromat to a public park in Berlin, and invite listeners to take a closer look at a contested waterfront in Kochi and the Egyptian desert, we learn that “the way w...2022-09-2101 min
lumbung kontekslumbung konteks: Navigating Systems of Care and ControlWith Trampoline House and Project Art Works
In conversation with Yasmin Gunaratnam
The seven-part conversation series lumbung konteks takes place each month until June 2022. Each session invites two documenta fifteen lumbung members to introduce, expand, and reflect on each other’s practice and their wider ecosystems. Through sharing stories, songs, and tools for living and working in community, the lumbung members discuss the differences and affinities between their contexts.
Sunday, April 10, 2022 at 1.30 pm CEST, 6.30 pm WIB
In English with simultaneous translation into German language and International Sign
More info on our we...2022-05-0900 minlumbung konteksTrailer – lumbung konteks: Navigating Systems of Care and ControlWith Trampoline House and Project Art Works
In conversation with Yasmin Gunaratnam
The seven-part conversation series lumbung konteks takes place each month until June 2022. Each session invites two documenta fifteen lumbung members to introduce, expand, and reflect on each other’s practice and their wider ecosystems. Through sharing stories, songs, and tools for living and working in community, the lumbung members discuss the differences and affinities between their contexts.
Sunday, April 10, 2022 at 1.30 pm CEST, 6.30 pm WIB
In English with simultaneous translation into German language and International Sign
More info on our we...2022-04-0500 min
The LRB PodcastIn Conversation: On John BergerTo mark John Berger’s 90th birthday, the London Review Bookshop and Verso Books organised a discussion of his work with Mike Dibb, Yasmin Gunaratnam and Tom Overton, hosted by Gareth Evans.Read John Berger in the LRB: https://lrb.me/bergerpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-01-041h 18
London Review Bookshop PodcastJohn Berger at 90: the Verso podcast in collaboration with London Review BookshopPoet, essayist, novelist, broadcaster, artist and film-maker John Berger celebrates his 90th birthday this month. To mark the occasion we have declared him our Author of the Month for November. John Berger’s work, across a range of media, has been transforming the way we look at art, life and everything else, from Ways of Seeing in 1972 to the present day. In our latest podcast in collaboration with Verso, Gareth Evans, Tom Overton, Yasmin Gunaratnam and Mike Dibb discuss Berger's art and politics and its continuing relevance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2016-11-011h 18
The Verso PodcastJohn Berger at 90John Berger has revolutionised our understanding of art, language, media, society, politics and everyday experience itself since his landmark book and TV series Ways of Seeing over forty years ago.
As the internationally influential critic, novelist, film-maker, dramatist and, above all, storyteller enters his ninetieth year, the latest Verso podcast in collaboration with the London Review Bookshop celebrates his life and work.
Gareth Evans is joined by Tom Overton, editor of Landscapes: John Berger on Art, Yasmin Gunaratnam, editor of A Jar of Wild Flowers, and Mike Dibb, film-maker and director of Ways of Seeing, to explore Berger's art and...2016-10-311h 18
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)The time of our lives: Migration and slow painYasmin Gunaratnam, Goldsmiths College, gives a talk for the COMPAS seminar series.2016-01-2732 min
Spring 2015 | Public lectures and events | VideoLiterary Festival 2015: Communicating Chronic PainContributor(s): Dr Yasmin Gunaratnam, Dr Deborah Padfield, Jude Rosen | Pain is notoriously hard to communicate to others. Scholars have debated the relationship between pain and language: does pain require a shared language and common understanding to be explicable, or does hearing about the pain of others always entail doubt? What kinds of communication best enable us to express and hear about pain? On what foundations can we build understanding? This session will explore the capacities of stories, poems and photographs as forms of pain communication, and the possible relations between them. Yasmin Gunaratnam is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology...2015-02-281h 33Spring 2015 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfLiterary Festival 2015: Communicating Chronic PainContributor(s): Dr Yasmin Gunaratnam, Dr Deborah Padfield, Jude Rosen | Pain is notoriously hard to communicate to others. Scholars have debated the relationship between pain and language: does pain require a shared language and common understanding to be explicable, or does hearing about the pain of others always entail doubt? What kinds of communication best enable us to express and hear about pain? On what foundations can we build understanding? This session will explore the capacities of stories, poems and photographs as forms of pain communication, and the possible relations between them. Yasmin Gunaratnam is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology...2015-02-281h 33
Medicine UnboxedFRONTIERS - Daljit Nagra and Yasmin Gunaratnam - CROSSINGDaljit Nagra was born and brought up in West London and Sheffield. In 2003, he won the Smith/Doorstop pamphlet competition with Oh my Rub!, under the pseudonym Khan Singh Kumar, the pamphlet going on to become a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice and chosen as one of The Guardian's Poetry Books of the Year. In 2004, his poem Look We Have Coming to Dover! won the Forward Prize (Best Single Poem), and this became the title of his first collection, published in 2007. It went on to win the 2007 Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection) and the 2008 Arts Council England Decibel Award...2014-11-281h 06