Antiracist Becomings

In this episode, Suvi Keskinen interviews Nirmal Puwar about using creative methods and rethinking social research through collaboration with various communities. Nirmal tells about the work behind her remarkable projects, such as Noise of the Past, and the collectively written book Racist Tones. The episode shows how research designs and relationships provide possibilities to develop ‘contact zones’ of exchange that open up to dialogue, different modes of telling (or not telling) and reflexive practices for expanding places together.

In this episode Emma Grillo Kajava discusses the politics of time in antiracist and anticolonial movements, exploring how activists reinterpret the past, present, and future to challenge dominant narratives that frame racism as a problem of the past. Her work draws on activist knowledge and a “scavenging” methodology that engages with movement archives, cultural production, and lived experience to understand how these movements imagine alternative futures and inform both research and political practice.

In this episode, we continue tracing anti-racist becoming. Emma Grillo Kajava interviews Ali Ali, who talks about his research on the political pedagogics and becoming that happens in the mundane and the intimate. Ali asks: how are everyday encounters and personal relations sites and theaters for encountering politics, recognizing the urgency for political action and alliance and acting collectively towards more just and liveable kinship and communal relations.

Ali Ali, Emma Grillo Kajava, Suvi Keskinen and Ameera Masoud-Jaakonaho introduce the podcast and the ideas behind it.

This podcast introduces the concept of racial time, which Ameera Masoud-Jaakonaho will explore and further develop as part of the Becomings project. This episode will briefly introduce the concept, which will be explored in-depth in later episodes.