In Praise of the Margin

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Learning to Transgress (with Leigh Patel)

Leigh Patel (Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Author of No Study without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education) discusses how learning and struggle intertwine. What is the role of institutions of higher education in settler colonialism? We tal ... Show more

. 26min 25sec

The Fragmentary Social Life of the Metroscene (with Rashmi Sadana)

Rashmi Sadana (Author and Associate Professor at George Mason University) talks about the metroscene in Delhi and how mega-infrastructure projects (re)shape cities and crowds, based on her extensive research and recent book The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Soc ... Show more

. 27min 20sec

Blackness (Re)making Place and Poetic Rhymes (with Dr. Rashad Shabazz)

Dr. Rashad Shabazz (Associate Professor in African American studies and geography at Arizona State University) walks us through how urban planning and policing social relations are mobilised to create spaces and policies of confinement and carcerality to contain Black communities ... Show more

. 33min 40sec

Reading Southern Theory and Knowledge Hegemony Through Informality (with Dr. Nipesh Palat Narayanan)

Dr. Nipesh Palat Narayanan (Research fellow at the Laboratory for Social Geography at the University of Florence in Italy) talks about his transition from architecture/urban planning in India to academic research on southern theory, knowledge hegemony, and informal food-vending p ... Show more

. 29min 54sec

Uncovering Colonial Violence in the Public Space (with Françoise Vergès)

Françoise Vergès, writer, historian, activist and public educator, walks us through the mise en scène of ‘the colonial triangle’ in the 12th Arrondissement in Paris. Between le Palais de la Porte Dorée (former Musée des Colonies, inaugurated in 1931 for the Exposition Coloniale I ... Show more

. 37min 36sec