Event overview
Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya on racism in a moment of financial crisis and governance by neglect. With Emily Rosamond, Janna Graham and Dhanveer Brar.
Emily Rosamond introduces Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya (University of East London), who presents her recent work on racism in a moment of financial crisis and governance by neglect. With respondents Janna Graham and Dhanveer Brar. This lecture is associated with our "Globalisation and Transcultural Practices" research cluster.
Biographies
Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya is Professor of Sociology at the Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East London. She has published widely on the topics of ‘race’ and racisms; sexualities; global cultures; the ‘War on Terror’; and, increasingly, austerity and racial capitalism. Her recent books include Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival (2018); Crisis, Austerity, and Everyday Life: Living in a Time of Diminishing Expectations (2015); How Media and Conflicts Make Migrants (with Kirsten Forkert, Federico Oliveri and Janna Graham, Manchester University Press, 2020); and Race and Power: Global Racism in the Twenty First Century (with John Gabriel and Stephen Small, Routledge, 2016).
Emily Rosamond is a writer, artist and lecturer in the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths. Her current writings focus on the implications of financialization and metrification for recent art practices that explore online identity and selfhood. She is currently writing a monograph on online reputation (forthcoming from Zone Books) and producing a body of artwork on bio-technical signalling and prediction-rich environments. She was the co-host of the 2020 Critical Finance Studies online conference.
Dhanveer Brar is a lecturer in the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths working across the fields of Black Studies, Cultural Studies,and Critical Theory. He has recently published a short book with The 87 Press, Beefy’s Tune (Dean Blunt Edit). Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early Twenty-First Century is coming out with Goldsmiths Press/MIT Press in 2021.
Janna Graham is a lecturer in the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths. Her research interrogates how art, radical education and research methodologies are mobilised to respond to contemporary social urgencies including the struggles around migration, gentrification and anti-racism. A founding member of both the Network for Institutional Analysis and the Another Roadmap for Arts Education research groups, she is a co-author of How media and conflicts make migrants (MUP, 2020).
Image: An adaptation of Movement of the DJIA between January 2017 and April 2020, showing the all-time high on 12 February, and the subsequent crash during the COVID-19 pandemic. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Oct 2020 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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