Death and the Migrant: Bodies, Borders and Care by Yasmin Gunaratnam
9 Oct 2014Review: Yasmin Gunaratnam (2013) Death and the Migrant: Bodies, Borders and Care, London: Bloomsbury. 198pp ISBN 978 1 7809 3405 1 Hanif Kureishi, venting his anger and dismay at the focus of...
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Undoing Border Imperialism by Harsha Walia
9 Sep 2014Review: Harsha Walia (2012) Undoing Border Imperialism, Oakland CA, Edinburgh, Washington DC: AK Press / Institute for Anarchist Studies. 340 pp. ISBN-13: 9781849351348 On the 2nd May 2014, approximately 150 detainees at Harmondsworth Immigration Detention Centre near London...
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Questions for a prospective Black Professoriate
31 Mar 2014It seems clear there is a desire to address a problem. The implementation of a Black Studies Program at Newman University, the establishment of the...
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Videos off-line
17 Nov 2013Unfortunately, the majority of videos on our darkmatter site are currently off-line. We are working on a fix. Thanks for your patience.
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The Stuart Hall Project (2013) (John Akomfrah – Smoking Dogs Films)
18 Jul 2013“With deepest gratitude and respect” - If there is a moment when the pieces of Akomfrah's The Stuart Hall Project fall into place, it is with this closing note. Gratitude and respect...
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Reviews
Death and the Migrant: Bodies, Borders and Care by Yasmin GunaratnamYasmin Gunaratnam, in her Death and the Migrant takes us back to what feels like a better time, maybe only a few weeks ago it seems, when migrants were not so openly denigrated and politically used, before, in Kureishi’s words they were ‘deposited outside the firmament of the acceptable’, when the sharing of experiences of existentiality seemed possible.
Commons
Higher education: a market for racism?The continued absence of black and minority ethnic professors, the re-made forms of institutional university racism, and the subsequent cover-up provided by hollowed-out institution’s equalities policies have all been addressed.
Media
Stuart Hall in conversation with Les Back [audio]The conversation was published in 2009 in a special edition of Cultural Studies dedicated to Stuart’s life and work. The advantage of the recording available here for the first time is that the listener can access aspects of Stuart’s style of intellectual dialogue that cannot be transposed to the page.
