Race, Space & Architecture

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Excerpt from Location of Culture (1994) by Homi Bhabha
Reading by Mohsin Ali
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Excerpt from  "Dead Fish on the Beach" by Khensani de Klerk

Reading by Tiisetso Mofokeng

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Excerpt from "Sheikh Jarrah Is Burning" (2021) by Mohammed El - Kurd

Reading by Malak Al-Faraj 

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Excerpt from 'Woza Sweetheart! On Braiding Epistemologies on Bree Street' (2017) by Mpho Matsipa

Reading by Raeesah Jaffer

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Excerpt from The Force of Domesticity (2008) by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas

Reading by Julia Ramos

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Excerpt from 'Choosing the Margin as Space of Radical Openness' (1989) by bell hooks

Reading by Jacqueline Tran

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Excerpt from In The Wake (2016) by Christina Sharpe

Reading by Lauren-Lois Duah

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Excerpt from 'Between Stoves, Across Borders- Cooking as Memory' (2020) by Gloria Pavita

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Excerpt from The Extractive Zone ( 2017) by Macarena Gómez-Barris

Reading by Georgia May Jaeckle

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Excerpt from A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (2019) by Kathryn Yusoff

Reading by Zakiyyah Haffejee

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Excerpt from Mucahit Bilici's "Kürt’e bakan Türklük," (2020) Birikim 371: 54–58.

Reading by Eray Çaylı

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Excerpt from Nisha Kapoor's 'Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism’ (2018)

Reading by Adwoa Agyei

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Excerpt from Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place (1988.)

Reading by Adwoa Agyei.

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Excerpt from AbdouMaliq Simone’s ‘'Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South (2019.)

Reading by Senzo Mamba. @saine_ricochet [IG] @senzo_mam [T]

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Excerpt from Paulo Tavares's Fragments in Earth Archaeology

Reading by Alina Paias. 

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Excerpt from Gloria Anzaldúa's ‘Borderlands/ La Frontera: the new Mestiza’ (1987)

Reading by Catalina Mejía Moreno

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Rebecca E Biron’s essay - Marvel, Monster, Myth: The City in Latin American Literature 

Reading by Maria Jones Delgado. 

Opening of Carlos Fuentes’s Where the Air Is Clear(1958).

Reading by Maria Jones Delgado. 

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Excerpt from Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism(2020).

Reading by Khensani de Klerk . 

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Excerpt from Ferial Haffejee’s 'What if there Were no Whites in South Africa'(2015).

Reading by Nothando Lunga

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Tariq Jazeel speaks on the ideas in his paper “Spatialising Difference beyond Cosmopolitanism: Rethinking Planetary Futures.” (2011), and what to make of a reading of it today. 

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Excerpt from Biao Xiang, and Johan Lindquist’s ‘Migration Infrastructure’ (2014.) 

Reading by Tonderai Maboreke. @tprincem [IG]

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Excerpt from Ivan Vladislavic’s Portrait with Keys: Joburg & What-What (2006)

Reading by Sarah Harding. 

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Excerpt from Raquel Rolnik’s Urban Warfare: Housing Under the Empire of Finance (2019).

Reading by Mayola Tikaka. @mayolatradez [IG]

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Sara Salem speaks on Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s 'Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition in Globalising California'(2007). @radical_reading [IG]

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Excerpt from Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui’s “The Notion of ‘Rights’ and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial Modernity: Indigenous Peoples and Women in Bolivia.” (2010)

Reading by Bryan Espinoza. @bespinoza_1 [IG]

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Excerpt from bell hooks’ “Homeplace:A Site of Resistance.” In Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics. 

Reading by Leo Da Silva. 

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Excerpt from Tracy Shildrick’s “Lessons from Grenfell: Poverty Propaganda, Stigma and Class Power.” (2018). 

Reading by Divya Patel. @_divya404 [IG]

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Excerpt from Chinua Achebe’s Home and Exile (2000).

Reading by Karabo Moumakwe. 

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Excerpt from Paul Gilroy’s There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (1991)

Reading by Ayanna Blair-Ford. @ayanna_creates [IG]

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Excerpt from Tariq Jazeel’s “Spatialising Difference beyond Cosmopolitanism: Rethinking Planetary Futures.” (2011). 

Reading by Zahraa Essa. 

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Excerpt from Shailja Patel’s Migritude (2010).

Reading by Aaron Servant. 

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Excerpt from Mpho Matsipa’s “Woza! Sweetheart! On Braiding Epistemologies on Bree Street”. (2017)

Reading by Folasade Okunribido. @flashok [IG]

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