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Aotearoa New Zealand: Inter and Outernational Struggles
During my five years in Aotearoa New Zealand, I undertook work that helped to retrieve the inter-connections of indigenous struggles in the Pacific with those of the African Diaspora (Outernational). I did this in order to contribute to the appreciation of the global impact/coordinates/influence of/on these indigenous struggles, and also to help to support the…
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A Global Story of Psalms 68:31
Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God Psalms 68:31 is part of the global story of colonialism, enslavement, the “civilizing mission” and self-liberation. We can pick up the story with the King James version of the Bible, translated into the vernacular in 1611. At this time it is…
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Struggling to Remember Slavery
23rd August is the UNESCO sanctioned International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and of its Abolition. Importantly, UNESCO begin their description of the event thus: The night of 22 to 23 August 1791, in Santo Domingo (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic) saw the beginning of the uprising that would play a crucial role…
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Garvey’s Vision
On Sunday 10 June I gave the 3rd Marcus Garvey Annual Memorial Lecture. Convened by the Marcus Garvey Organizing Committee of the Pan Afrikan Society Community Forum, the lecture was held at Birkbeck College, University London. The venue is significant, being the college that Garvey studied at in 1912 during his first sojourn in London.…
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Decolonial aesthetics at Be Bop Black Europe Body Politics
In early May I took part in this: BE.BOP 2012. BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS BE.Bop 2012 is an international transdisciplinary roundtable and screening program in which the (racialized) fantasies of European citizenship are contested. It was curated by Alanna Lockward and affiliated with the Transnational Decolonial Institute. The Transnational Decolonial Institute (TDI) aims to explore…
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Crisis of Europe / Crisis of Theory
Our Crisis of Europe / Crisis of Theory workshop went very well.It was convened by the BSA Theory Study Group in collaboration with the Social Theory Centre, University of Warwick. It happened on 19th May 2012. Scholars, artists, activists from the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland and Sweden made up the workshop group. We talked about…
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Racism, Recession, Riots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSbWivfd0Cg A symposium held at Queen Mary, University of London, on March 14th 2012. Featured speakers: Devon Thomas, Stafford Scott, Lee Lawrence, Mark Thompson. Discussion covers historical comparisons of Brixton and Tottenham riots in 80s and August 2011 London riots; institutional racism; police discrimination and brutality; community leadership; economic and social policies; activism; youth violence;…
Robbie Shilliam 