This blog is about my research. I mainly publish talks and papers from conferences here, and summarise new publications.
You can find writing about cultural politics aimed at a wider (and non-academic) audience on my substack.
The university cannot be decolonized until the world is…
‘Contrivances, Designed and Delegated’: On the theatricality of racial regimes
Call for proposals for a symposium on ‘An Alchemy of the Intentional and the Unintended’: Theoretical and methodological possibilities of Cedric Robinson’s ‘racial regimes’
This interdisciplinary symposium, hosted by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership in collaboration with the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, will explore Cedric Robinson’s concept of the ‘racial regime’ as a theoretical framework for analysing race in the contemporary world.
Resettling the ‘urban colonies’
PhD Seminar: Cultural Studies Now
After the boxes have been ticked…
Conference paper: Death of England, counterinsurgency, and the racial regime
Producing Producers
Liberal Zionists defending the indefensible
I’ve got a short piece out on the blog of Identities, the academic journal of racial, ethnic, national, transnational and postcolonial identities in the contemporary world. It takes Jonathan Freedland’s ‘verbatim’ documentary play Jews. In Their Own Words (Royal Court, 2022) as an example of liberal Zionist culture in the UK…
Theatre, Labour, Race…
New essay: Theatre directing since 1945
Race to the Bottom: Proletarianization and Racialization in the British Theatre
Happy Birthday Michael Chekhov
ACT UP, Derek Jarman, and the Ecopolitics of the AIDS crisis
Substack…
Happy Birthday Jatinder Verma
Happy Birthday Tyrone Guthrie
Happy Birthday Buzz Goodbody
Happy Birthday William Gaskill