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Robbie McVeigh & Bill Rolston /// Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution - THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE
▻https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/the-funambulist-podcast/robbie-mcveigh-bill-rolston-ireland-colonialism-and-the-unfinished-r

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This relatively long conversation with Robbie McVeigh & Bill Rolston only evokes fragments of their comprehensive book “Anois ar theacht an tSamhraidh”: Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution, which resituates Irish history within the global history of colonialism. We talk about Gorta Mór (the Great Hunger), the Irish Revolution, the Partition, as well as the contemporary forms of struggle and internationalist solidarity in the North of Ireland.

Special thanks to Osloob for his precious help with editing the quality of this episode’s sound.

Robbie McVeigh & Bill Rolston are the authors of “Anois ar theacht an tSamhraidh”: Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution (Beyond the Pale, 2021). Robbie McVeigh is a researcher based in Edinburgh, who has written extensively on equality and human rights in the context of the North of Ireland. Bill Rolston is a former professor and director of the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University in Belfast.

Histoires diasporiques de Puducherry et du Tamil Nadu, entretien avec Priya Ange et Anita Kittery
▻https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/diasporas-et-imaginaires-des-luttes/priya-ange-anita-kittery-histoires-diasporiques-de-puducherry-et-du-

Implanté dans les cinq colonies de Chandernagor, Yanaon, Mahé, Karikal et Pondicherry (Puducherry), le colonialisme français en Inde a duré près de 300 ans, laissant des traces de la hiérarchie sociale ainsi créée jusqu’à aujourd’hui, sur le sous-continent indien et dans la diaspora. Durée : 1h. Source : Funambulist

DE LA COMMUNE À AUJOURD’HUI, interviews de Mogniss H. Abdallah et Hajer Ben Boubaker les 22 janvier et 7 mars 2021. THE FUNAMBULIST PODCAST - SÉRIE QUARTIERS POPULAIRES Nº10
▻https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/quartiers-populaires-10-mogniss-h-abdallah-hajer-ben-boubaker-de-la-

Pour le numéro de mars-avril 2021 du magazine The Funambulist, nous tenions, comme beaucoup d’autres, à célébrer les 150 ans de la Commune de Paris. Il nous semblait néanmoins crucial d’extraire son histoire et son héritage des imaginaires des gauches blanches du Nord global et à les faire dialoguer avec des expériences communales du passé ou du présent de Martinique, de Syrie, de Chine, du Mexique, du Venezuela, de Tunisie, ou encore de Hong Kong. A cette approche résolument internationaliste, nous voulions ajouter une lecture intrinsèque aux quartiers populaires de l’Est et du Nord parisiens associant l’histoire de la Commune aux luttes de l’immigration et antiracistes de ces cinquante dernières années. C’est ainsi que j’ai proposé aux ami.e.s Mogniss H. Abdallah et Hajer Ben Boubaker de contribuer une nouvelle fois à nos projets éditoriaux en accomplissant ensemble deux marches sur les traces de ces histoires. Les deux enregistrements que ces marches ont produit peuvent être quelque peu déroutants, tant nous passons d’une époque à une autre au fil de nos conversations. Ce qui crée leur cohérence néanmoins est la progression spatiale que nous accomplissons, ainsi que l’excavation de différentes strates de la géologie politique de Paris à chaque endroit où nous nous arrêtons. (...) nous vous proposons de suivre les cartes tracées pour l’occasion (...).

Diasporas et imaginaires de luttes, épisode 4 du podcast de @TheFunambulist_ avec @hoogo2

Hugo Dos Santos est diplômé en Histoire contemporaine et en Cinéma. Après un parcours dans le cinéma documentaire où il travaille les archives audiovisuelles sur des films traitant de l’immigration, de l’exil, du colonialisme ou de luttes sociales, il s’oriente parallèlement vers le journalisme. Depuis 2008 il est engagé dans l’association Mémoire Vive/Memória viva et notamment à la constitution d’un fonds d’archive à La Contemporaine et à une campagne d’entretiens. En 2018, il signe dans Le Monde une tribune avec l’historien Victor Pereira qui s’oppose à l’instrumentalisation de l’histoire de l’immigration portugaise qui stigmatise les autres immigrations. En 2019 il est le commissaire de l’exposition « Refuser la guerre coloniale » qui revient sur l’exil parisien des déserteurs de la guerre coloniale portugaise (1961-1974). Il réalise en ce moment le film « 15 rue du Moulinet » qui ravive la mémoire d’un réseau informel de soutien à la désertion de la guerre coloniale.

▻https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/diasporas-imaginaire-des-luttes-une-mini-serie-en-francais

#immigration #portugaise #postcolonial

SARA FARRIS /// European Femonationalism and Domestic Violence Against Women - THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE
▻https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/sara-farris-european-femonationalism-domestic-violence-women

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This conversation with Sara Farris was recorded on August 7, 2017 to be featured as a transcript in the 13th issue of The Funambulist Magazine (Sept-Oct. 2017) Queers, Feminists & Interiors. It attempts to link the work she presents in her book, In the Name of Women’s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism (Duke University Press, 2017) with the violence against women that femonationalist discourses deliberately ignore (as these violences are exercised through what we could call “a universalist patriarchy”): domestic violence. The conversation first presents the political concept of femonationalism in the context of Europe, and then proceeds to describe the several dimensions of violence against women in domestic spaces.

Sara Farris is a senior lecturer in the sociology department at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Max Weber’s Theory of Personality. Individuation, Politics and Orientalism in the Sociology of Religion (Brill 2013) and In the Name of Women’s Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism (Duke 2017). Sara’s work to date has focused on the orientalist underpinnings of sociological theory, which she explored in my first monograph on Max Weber’s sociology of religion, and on theories of gender, race and social reproduction, particularly as they apply to the analysis of migrant women in Western Europe. Through these theoretical lenses and interests, Sara has examined theories of racism and nationalism; the specific gendered forms of Orientalist/Westocentric representations of women in the Western public discourse; the mobilization of women’s rights by right-wing nationalist parties within xenophobic campaigns (which Sara calls ‘Femonationalism’)

MAYANTHI FERNANDO /// Muslim French and the Contradiction of Secularism - THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE
▻https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/mayanthi-fernando-muslim-french-contradiction-secularism
▻https://anthro.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=mfernan3

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This conversation with Mayanthi Fernando constitutes a new episode in a series of discussions with US-based researchers whose terrain of political investigations is situated in France. After Crystal Marie Flemming and Mehammed Amadeus Mack, Mayanthi describes her methodology and her work that she articulated in her book, The Republic Unsettled that was published in 2014. We talk about the ideological, legal, and discursive framework through which secularism (laicité) is approached, and often politically instrumentalized in the French Republic. In a second part, we describe the aspirations of the Muslim French community between “a right to difference” and “a right to indifference,” as well as the political activism that is undertaken in resistance to structural islamophobia in France.

Mayanthi Fernando is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her first book, The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism (Duke University Press, 2014), alternates between an analysis of Muslim French politics, ethics, and social life and the contradictions of French secularity (laïcité) that this new Muslim subjectivity reflects and refracts. It explores how Muslim French draw on both Islamic and secular-republican traditions as they create new modes of ethical and political engagement, reconfiguring those traditions to imagine a future for France. It also examines how the institutions, political and legal practices, and dominant discourses that comprise French secularity regulate and govern–and profoundly disrupt–Muslim life. In so doing, it traces a series of long-standing tensions immanent to laïcité, tensions not so much generated as precipitated by the presence of Muslim French. It argues, ultimately, that “the Muslim question” is actually a question about secularism.

FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS OF DESIGNED DESTRUCTIONS IN GAZA
▻https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/eyal-weizman-forensic-investigations-designed-destructions-gaza

▻https://soundcloud.com/the-archipelago/eyal-weizman-forensic-investigations-of-designed-destructions-in-gaza

“This conversation with Eyal Weizman was recorded in February 2017 in order to be featured as a main component of the 12th issue of The Funambulist Magazine, entitled “Designed Destructions.” In it we address both descriptively and analytically the work of Forensic Architecture, a research agency at Goldsmiths, University of London, that he founded and directs, gathering architects, artists, filmmakers, and authors to investigate geopolitical crimes in which architecture or territorial components can be approached as witnesses and evidences. Although the agency’s investigations involves a variety of geographies (Guatemala, Syria, Serbia, Pakistan, etc.), this conversation mostly focuses on Palestine in general, and Rafah, Gaza in particular.”