I teach a final year module on Globalisation. This past year, in the last session of this module, one of my most engaged students challenged my dismissal of conspiracy theories. He drew a similarity between the academic critique of power, hegemony, capitalism, and globalisation and the purpose of conspiracy theories to not accept reality but […]
To make the issue of in/visibility depend on physical appearance is to bracket out the historical realities of racist representation “And that is the point. Visibility is socially constructed and can change over time. For example, Irish immigrants were singled out by the authorities as a specially ‘dangerous’ class in the 1850s, whereas in the […]
In Daniel Randall’s review of my book for our shared organisation Workers’ Liberty, he raises the following critique: “One cannot hold water in one’s hands; a too fluid conception of the construction and reconstruction of “race” risk depriving it of any explanatory value whatsoever. In my own book, Confronting Antisemitism on the Left: Arguments for Socialists, […]
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This is a recording of the “Antisemitism as racism” panel with myself, Dr Dave Rich and Professor Dibyesh Anand at the University of Westminster on 11th May 2023.
Anaemic On A Bike 