Liz Fekete's guest appearances

Liz Fekete

The Verso Podcast

Surviving Society

Busy Being Black

Francesca Sobande

Gary Younge

Chantelle Lewis

Timothy Morton

Ashley Dawson

Owen Hatherley

Juliet Jacques

Brian Dillon

Bhaskar Sunkara

Tariq Ali

Angela Saini

Aaron Bastani

Dawn Foster

John Rees

Danny Dorling

OwlTail

Liz outlines some of the key moments in the IRR’s history. We discuss both the historical and contemporary role of the institute as specified by the late A. Sivanandan, and Liz provides some important reflections and hopeful possibilities about our present-day political culture.This is a special five part series in collaboration with the official journal of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Race &amp; Class. The series begins with an introduction to the history of IRR with Director Liz Fekete &amp; follows with four episodes about the latest special issue: Race Mental Health, State Violence with editors Eddie Bruce-Jones &amp; Monish Bhatia and contributors Tarek Younis and Vanessa E Thompson. With special thanks to Sophia Siddiqui. https://irr.org.uk https://irr.org.uk/article/race-mental-health-state-violence https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/liz-fekete-the-cradle-and-the-fist/id1355469484?i=1000491033812

Liz outlines some of the key moments in the IRR’s history. We discuss both the historical and contemporary role of the institute as specified by the late A. Sivanandan, and Liz provides some important reflections and hopeful possibilities about our present-day political culture. This is a special five part series in collaboration with the official journal of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Race &amp; Class. The series begins with an introduction to the history of IRR with Director Liz Fekete &amp; follows with four episodes about the latest special issue: Race Mental Health, State Violence with editors Eddie Bruce-Jones &amp; Monish Bhatia and contributors Tarek Younis and Vanessa E Thompson. With special thanks to Sophia Siddiqui. <a href="https://irr.org.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://irr.org.uk</a> <a href="https://irr.org.uk/article/race-mental-health-state-violence" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://irr.org.uk/article/race-mental-health-state-violence</a> <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/liz-fekete-the-cradle-and-the-fist/id1355469484?i=1000491033812" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/liz-fekete-the-cradle-and-the-fist/id1355469484?i=1000491033812</a>

S1/E1 Liz Fekete: A brief history of the Institute of Race Relations

Liz Fekete is the Director of the Institute of Race Relations and head of its European research program. She has worked with the Institute since 1982 and specializes in contemporary racism, refugee rights, far-right extremism and Islamophobia across Europe. She is advisory editor of the Institute’s journal Race &amp; Class and is the author of A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe and Europe’s Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right. We discuss her nearly 40 years working for the UK’s leading race relations educational charity, her mentorship under the late and great A Sivanandan and how the anti-racism movement here in the UK has changed since the 1980s. Importantly, she provides some necessary historical and sociopolitical context for our current moment, including how the rise of the far-right in Europe over the last 30 years has made our communities more vulnerable to Covid-19 today.This conversation forms part of a special series funded by the European Cultural Foundation and exploring queer Black solidarity across Europe during Covid-19.Thank you to our partners, UK Black Pride, BlackOut UK, The Tenth and Schools Out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liz Fekete is the Director of the <a href="https://irr.org.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Institute of Race Relations</a> and head of its European research program. She has worked with the Institute since 1982 and specializes in contemporary racism, refugee rights, far-right extremism and Islamophobia across Europe. She is advisory editor of the Institute’s journal Race &amp; Class and is the author of <a href="https://www.plutobooks.com/9781783713929/a-suitable-enemy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe</a> and <a href="https://www.plutobooks.com/9781783713929/a-suitable-enemy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Europe’s Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right</a>. We discuss her nearly 40 years working for the UK’s leading race relations educational charity, her mentorship under the late and great <a href="https://www.plutobooks.com/author/a-sivanandan/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Sivanandan</a> and how the anti-racism movement here in the UK has changed since the 1980s. Importantly, she provides some necessary historical and sociopolitical context for our current moment, including how the rise of the far-right in Europe over the last 30 years has made our communities more vulnerable to Covid-19 today.This conversation forms part of a special series funded by the <a href="https://www.culturalfoundation.eu/home?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=campaign%204-1&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwwOz6BRCgARIsAKEG4FXn1RK6b1YP9cSp-Uc2JHKSiirJVa2tVft1tnEW3_OM-iC_s8E4NXcaAjFCEALw_wcB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">European Cultural Foundation</a> and exploring queer Black solidarity across Europe during Covid-19.Thank you to our partners, <a href="http://ukblackpride.org.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UK Black Pride</a>, <a href="http://www.blkoutuk.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BlackOut UK</a>, <a href="https://thetenthmagazine.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Tenth</a> and <a href="http://www.schools-out.org.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Schools Out</a>. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Liz Fekete: The Cradle and the Fist

Ash Sarkar

Jumanah Younis

Adam Elliott-Cooper

This focus panel on race and racism was recorded at Foyles, Charing Cross Rd, 23rd March 2016 at the second in the Our London event series in collaboration with Compass and co-hosted by Novara Media.One of the greatest aspects of living in London is its diversity, but at the same time the city is striated by racial politics. In London, as throughout the UK, people from BAME groups have been historically much more likely to be in poverty than white British people, as well as suffer from housing deprivation, homelessness and inferior access to healthcare and education. Meanwhile, racist violence is on the rise, with state racisms against ‘Muslimness’, an institutionally racist police and the ‘extreme centre’ of the British political elite enforcing tensions between race, class and nation in a context of increasing immigration and numerous global crises. In response to all of this, Novara Media, Verso and Compass will be co-hosting a panel that focuses on living in London and some of the intersecting oppressions that increasingly define it. Novara Media's Aaron Bastani chairs the panel and is joined by Jumanah Younis of Sisters Uncut, Ash Sarkar, also from Novara Media, Liz Fekete, Director of the Institute of Race Relations and author of the forthcoming Fault Lines (Verso, 2017)and activist and academic Adam Elliott-Cooper. We remember those who died in police custody and ask: What does it mean to call London a multicultural – or even a post-racial – city in the context of neoliberalism? What is the relationship between race and class in the city in 2016 and how should mayoral candidates be responding to these issues?

This focus panel on race and racism was recorded at Foyles, Charing Cross Rd, 23rd March 2016 at the second in the Our London event series in collaboration with Compass and co-hosted by Novara Media. One of the greatest aspects of living in London is its diversity, but at the same time the city is striated by racial politics. In London, as throughout the UK, people from BAME groups have been historically much more likely to be in poverty than white British people, as well as suffer from housing deprivation, homelessness and inferior access to healthcare and education. Meanwhile, racist violence is on the rise, with state racisms against ‘Muslimness’, an institutionally racist police and the ‘extreme centre’ of the British political elite enforcing tensions between race, class and nation in a context of increasing immigration and numerous global crises. In response to all of this, Novara Media, Verso and Compass will be co-hosting a panel that focuses on living in London and some of the intersecting oppressions that increasingly define it. Novara Media's Aaron Bastani chairs the panel and is joined by Jumanah Younis of Sisters Uncut, Ash Sarkar, also from Novara Media, Liz Fekete, Director of the Institute of Race Relations and author of the forthcoming Fault Lines (Verso, 2017)and activist and academic Adam Elliott-Cooper. We remember those who died in police custody and ask: What does it mean to call London a multicultural – or even a post-racial – city in the context of neoliberalism? What is the relationship between race and class in the city in 2016 and how should mayoral candidates be responding to these issues?

Our London: Aaron Bastani, Ash Sarkar, Liz Fekete, Adam Elliott-Cooper & Jumanah Younis