In this episode Håkan Thörn and Åsa Wettergren interview Professor Paul Gilroy, who is a cultural theorist and sociologist based at University College, London. In a number of books and articles Gilroy has analyzed contemporary society from the viewpoint of colonial history. Topics discussed in the interview are the discourse of anti-semitism in the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict, right-wing populism and the production of ignorance, climate justice and racism, identity politics, and the role of music in connection with black activism.

Literature

Paul Gilroy: There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: the Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (Hutchinson, 1987).

Paul Gilroy: The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Harvard U.P, 1993).

Paul Gilroy: ”Orphic Riddles: The Drums, the Discs and the Critics”, in estetica. studi e ricerche, vol. XI, no 1. 2021, p. 151-182.

Paul Gilroy: “Working with ‘Wogs’: Aliens, Denizens and the Machinations of Denialism”, in Communication, Culture and Critique, no. 15, 2022. 122–138.

Rosi Braidotti and Paul Gilroy (eds): Conflicting Humanities (Bloomsbury, 2016).

Robert N. Proctor and Linda Schriebinger (eds): Agnotology. The making and unmaking of ignorance. (Stanford University Press, 2008).

George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949)

Andri Snaer Magnason: On Time and Water (Serpent’s Tail 2020)

Gayatri Spivak: “Can the Subaltern Speak?”, in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, edited by Larry Grossberg and Cary Nelson, 66–111. (Macmillan, 1988)