Podcasts about Rhodes Must Fall

This episode is the third one this series where we look back over the first principles of the ReOrient project. In previous episodes we have discussed post-orientalism and post-positivism, here we turn to decoloniality. Discussions of decoloniality have become increasingly mainstream since the ‘Decolonise the Curriculum' and ‘Rhodes Must Fall' movements, and calls to decolonise are often heard on pro-Palestine marches around the world. But what is the relationship between the decolonial and the Islamicate? And how do we ensure that as it is mainstreamed, decolonial thought does not lose its meaning? To find out, let's listen in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

This episode is the third one this series where we look back over the first principles of the ReOrient project. In previous episodes we have discussed post-orientalism and post-positivism, here we turn to decoloniality. Discussions of decoloniality have become increasingly mainstream since the ‘Decolonise the Curriculum' and ‘Rhodes Must Fall' movements, and calls to decolonise are often heard on pro-Palestine marches around the world. But what is the relationship between the decolonial and the Islamicate? And how do we ensure that as it is mainstreamed, decolonial thought does not lose its meaning? To find out, let's listen in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/islamic-studies

This episode is the third one this series where we look back over the first principles of the ReOrient project. In previous episodes we have discussed post-orientalism and post-positivism, here we turn to decoloniality. Discussions of decoloniality have become increasingly mainstream since the ‘Decolonise the Curriculum' and ‘Rhodes Must Fall' movements, and calls to decolonise are often heard on pro-Palestine marches around the world. But what is the relationship between the decolonial and the Islamicate? And how do we ensure that as it is mainstreamed, decolonial thought does not lose its meaning? To find out, let's listen in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

This episode is the third one this series where we look back over the first principles of the ReOrient project. In previous episodes we have discussed post-orientalism and post-positivism, here we turn to decoloniality. Discussions of decoloniality have become increasingly mainstream since the ‘Decolonise the Curriculum' and ‘Rhodes Must Fall' movements, and calls to decolonise are often heard on pro-Palestine marches around the world. But what is the relationship between the decolonial and the Islamicate? And how do we ensure that as it is mainstreamed, decolonial thought does not lose its meaning? To find out, let's listen in.

This episode is the third one this series where we look back over the first principles of the ReOrient project. In previous episodes we have discussed post-orientalism and post-positivism, here we turn to decoloniality. Discussions of decoloniality have become increasingly mainstream since the ‘Decolonise the Curriculum' and ‘Rhodes Must Fall' movements, and calls to decolonise are often heard on pro-Palestine marches around the world. But what is the relationship between the decolonial and the Islamicate? And how do we ensure that as it is mainstreamed, decolonial thought does not lose its meaning? To find out, let's listen in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

This episode is the third one this series where we look back over the first principles of the ReOrient project. In previous episodes we have discussed post-orientalism and post-positivism, here we turn to decoloniality. Discussions of decoloniality have become increasingly mainstream since the ‘Decolonise the Curriculum' and ‘Rhodes Must Fall' movements, and calls to decolonise are often heard on pro-Palestine marches around the world. But what is the relationship between the decolonial and the Islamicate? And how do we ensure that as it is mainstreamed, decolonial thought does not lose its meaning? To find out, let's listen in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

Were Irish colonisers too? A new book reveals our forgotten dark historyIn discussions around empire and colonisation, including popular movements such as Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall, Ireland likes to think itself on the “right” side of history, as colonised victims of empire.But as Trinity College Dublin historian Prof Jane Ohlmeyer explores in her new book, Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World, it's not as simple as that.On the island of Monsterrat in the West Indies, for example, St Patrick's Day is a national holiday - the only country outside Ireland to mark the day officially. But the parades there are to celebrate an unsuccessful revolt by enslaved islanders against the European whites - mostly Irish - who colonised it in the 17th century.There are stark examples too of the Irish in India - and other countries too - acting more like colonisers than colonised.Irish Times reporter and historian Ronan McGreevy interviewed Ohlmeyer and talks here about a troubling aspect of Irish history.Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Declan Conlon. This episode was originally published in March 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Att ta ner skulpturer är att förneka historien, sägs det. Men detsamma gäller förstås den som är emot ändringen. Patricia Lorenzoni funderar över poängen med att riva skulpturer och att resa nya. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Ursprungligen publicerad 2017-08-15.Beslutet att plocka ner general Lee och tre andra monument i New Orleans togs i efterdyningarna av massakern i Charleston 2015, då nio personer sköts ihjäl av rasisten Dylann Roof under ett bönemöte i en svart kyrka. Roofs poserande med konfederationens symboler utlöste en debatt om dessas plats i det offentliga rummet. I flera städer har tagits beslut liknande dem i New Orleans. Aggressiva protester har följt – hot mot såväl politiker som byggarbetare, öppet beväpnade demonstranter, nationella mobiliseringar av den US-amerikanska extremhögern vid utvalda monument. I augusti 2017 var en annan staty av general Lee föremål för sådan mobilisering, i Charlottesville, Virginia. När en bil i hög fart körde rätt in i en samling antirasister, med en död och flera skadade som följd, var det bara kulmen på ett våld som redan fått guvernören att utlysa undantagstillstånd i staden.Ibland sägs att bortplockandet av statyer visar på oförmågan att hantera obehagligheter i historien, att dessa istället förnekas. Men vad är i så fall vägran att acceptera vissa statyers fall? Kritik för just historieförnekelse riktades också mot proteströrelsen Rhodes Must Fall i Sydafrika. Sedan 1934 hade Cecil Rhodes tronat över Kapstadens universitet. 2015, efter massiv studentmobilisering, plockades den gamle brittiske imperialisten ner.Den österrikiske författaren Robert Musil skrev 1936 en liten betraktelse över statyer och minnesmärken. Musil hävdar att statyns främsta egenskap, paradoxalt nog, är att den inte märks. Orörlig smälter statyn in i stadslandskapet, och vi passerar den utan att ens notera den. Musil säger att resandet av statyer efter bemärkta personer är en alldeles särskild liten elakhet: Vi kan inte längre skada dem i livet, men med en minnessten om halsen kan vi störta dem i glömskans grav.Försöker jag minnas gestalterna som står staty i städer jag bott, löses många av dem mycket riktigt upp i en anonym massa av sten- och bronsstoder. Kanske var det vad Musil menade. Men rabaldern kring såväl general Lee som Cecil Rhodes kan tyckas motsäga honom. Eller, tvinga fram en precisering: Ibland träder historien in och gör ideologin synlig. Då blir statyerna stötestenar, omöjliga att bara passera.Kampanjen Rhodes Must Fall var del av en bredare studentrörelse med krav på att avkolonisera utbildningssystemet. Den gamle imperialistens tronande över campus var en perfekt bild av de koloniala strukturer som ännu genomsyrar Sydafrikas utbildningssystem. Att avskaffa bilden krossar inte strukturerna, men det är en tydlig signal: Detta må vi förändra.Och i USA, vad åstadkom terroristen Dylann Roof om inte att synliggöra den ideologiska kontinuiteten mellan konfederationens ideal och mord? Mellan en viss historieskrivning och rasismens yttersta konsekvenser? Monument som tidigare kunnat glida in i bakgrunden blev nu allt mer stötande, även för den som inte själv drabbas av rasism.Jag föreställer mig ett de fallna statyernas rike, befolkat av nedrivna och bortplockade bilder. Från de romare som efter sin död dömdes till damnatio memoriae, fördömelse ur det offentliga minnet, till de moderna statsmän som rivits ner vid folkresningar, maktskiften eller som resultat av politiska beslut. Här skulle kejsare Nero samsas med påve Julius II i Michelangelos tappning. Napoleon III skulle finnas i alla de versioner som i de revolutionära turbulenserna mellan 1818 och 1871 störtades och åter restes på Place Vendôme i Paris. Här skulle vi träffa på den Stalin som blott fem år gammal revs ner av Budapestborna 1956, och vars stolta huvud hamnade i spårvagnsspåren med en gatuskylt inborrad mellan ögonen. Kanske skulle han, och alla hans nedrivna kloner, kunna språka med alla de versioner av Saddam som störtades i marken i samband med invasionen av Irak 2003; statyn på Paradistorget i Baghdad var bara den mest medialt uppmärksammade.När en staty faller kan vi diskutera både motiv och legitimitet. Men fällandet av statyer förekommer så rikligt historiskt att det är svårt att hävda att det är ett förnekande av historien. Snarare är det ett av många sätt att göra historia. Eller, som filosofen Achille Mbembe säger i en kommentar till Rhodes Must Fall-kampanjen: ett minnesarbete.Det finns redan mindre versioner av mitt tänkta rike i de gamla öststaterna, där staty- och temaparker på flera håll gett statskommunismens fallna hjältar nya hem. För det Afrika som fortfarande med jämna mellanrum får veta att det ska vara tacksamt för kolonialismen, efterlyser Mbembe ett nytt slags institution; både park och begravningsplats. Här skulle Rhodes och hans likar äntligen kunna läggas till ”vila”.En av de mest talrika invånarna i mitt statyrike skulle för övrigt vara Lenin. Efter murens fall föll han igen och igen i otaliga städer. Kanske till sitt spökes lättnad. Det låg en bitter ironi i att just Lenin skulle bli föremål för statykult. 1918, i revolutionens späda barndom, utfärdade han ett dekret om avlägsnandet av flera av tsartidens statyer. Dessa skulle ersättas med tillfälliga monument, tillverkade i förgängliga material. Ett av revolutionens många sätt att försöka omförhandla relationen till tiden, var att utrusta statyerna med dödlighet.Tanken var radikal, men svårare att förverkliga i tänkt omfattning. I en dikt riktad till Lenin ett drygt halvår efter dekretet skaldar poeten Vladimir Majakovskij otåligt.Men Tsar Aleksander / står än / på Upprorstorget? / Skicka dynamit!Snart skulle också revolutionen själv stelna till ett förvridet jättemonument i vilket personkulten var en central del. Majakovskij tycktes ana denna utveckling när han i en annan tidig dikt ironiskt skildrar Lenin som staty: Kan de inte se att jag är upptagen, klagar den store revolutionären. Jag står som monument!Inte ens Majakovskij slapp undan. 1958 avtäcktes hans staty i sann sovjetisk realism på Majakovskijtorget i Moskva. Den intensiva rörelsens poet var nu stelnad i brons, sannerligen en elakhet.Statyer av bemärkta personer är nästan alltid män. På så vis berättar de också om den glömska som omgärdar kvinnor, men det är en historia som måste pekas ut för att vi ska kunna läsa den. Ett sätt är att resa nya statyer. I centrala Norrköping står Kata Dalström i skulptören Pye Engströms robusta gestaltning från 1984. Dalström var en av den tidiga svenska arbetarrörelsens mest inflytelserika agitatorer, men nämndes inte i en enda bok jag kan minnas från mina studieår. Engström avbildar henne med den knutna näven höjd mot skyn. Bakom henne går en grupp arbeterskor till attack mot ett kreatur i guld på piedestal. En bildstormeriets ursprungsberättelse, störtandet av guldkalven, med arbetarkvinnan som subjekt och kapitalismen som avgud.Både rivandet och resandet av statyer är del av ett minnesarbete, i vilket relationen mellan nuet och det förflutna förhandlas. General Lee faller. Gott så. Jag hoppas att Kata får stå kvar med sin lyfta näve länge än.Patricia Lorenzoniidéhistoriker och författare

In discussions around empire and colonisation, including popular movements such as Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall, Ireland likes to think itself on the “right” side of history, as colonised victims of empire.But as Trinity College Dublin historian Prof Jane Ohlmeyer explores in her new book, Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World, it's not as simple as that.On the island of Monsterrat in the West Indies, for example, St Patrick's Day is a national holiday - the only country outside Ireland to mark the day officially. But the parades there are to celebrate an unsuccessful revolt by enslaved islanders against the European whites - mostly Irish - who colonised it in the 17th century.There are stark examples too of the Irish in India - and other countries too - acting more like colonisers than colonised.Irish Times reporter and historian Ronan McGreevy interviewed Ohlmeyer and talks here about a troubling aspect of Irish history. Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Declan Conlon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cover Photograph: Mr. Sparks: A Quest for Truth & Reconciliation, Copyright Nnebundo Obi 2022.Nnebundo Obi's presentation is available here. To learn more about Nagel Institute's Engaging African Realities project, please visit the following link.Show Notes:0:00 South African revolutionary Robert Sobukwe3:20 Nagel Institute Research Associate - Engaging African Realities Project Presentation from annual conference in Capetown 4:05 Slide 2 - former S. African President Nelson Mandela's cell at Robben Island4:20 history of Robben Island, see slide 25:30 escapee from Robben Island David Stuurman6:10 First female political prisoner on Robben Island, Krotoa or Eva 7:10 1961, Robben Island used as prison for non-white political activists exclusively 8:30 one letter and one visit per year for inmates at Robben Island9:25 Hard labour in the limestone quarry10:00 tour of Robben Island per Mr. Sparks, former inmate and current tour guide at Robben Island -  slide 412:40 Puzamandla: The “energy giving drink”, a hidden poison14:00 Mr. Sparks gives testimony about his suffering at Robben Island to free himself14:50 Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden - see slide 515:00 Lion's Head, Tabletop Mountain Range - see slide 615:30 1800s creation of Van Riebeeck's Hedge to mark Dutch property, shown at slide 616:10 Boulder's Penguin Colony16:25 history of apartheid - see slide 817:20 - 1979 “total strategy” 12 point plan to crush opposition to apartheid18:20 1996 Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) established by Nelson Mandela18:45 hearings for restorative justice19:20 1977 founding of MEDU Art Ensemble 20:30 female anti-pass protestors - see slide 1022:30 1956 women's march - see slide 1123:00 Judy Sideman, member of MEDU Art Ensemble from 1980—1985  - see slide 1124:20 MEDU Art Ensemble history - see slide 1227:00 MEDU Art Ensemble posters - see slides 9, 12, 1329:00 MEDU Art Ensemble targeted by the South African defense force30:15 the power of testimony and collaboration and importance of mobilizing and gathering strength from community30:45 University of Capetown31:00 - 2015 ‘RHODES MUST FALL' movement to remove the statue of British Imperialist Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town - see slide 1434:20 impact of removing statues like those of Cecil Rhodes 38:00 impact of MEDU Art Ensemble on end of apartheid39:00 Terrorism Act 39:45 MEDU's community outreach 41:45 Cohesion and single-minded vision of MEDU 42:30 Nnebundo's way of engaging with social justice issues44:20 definition of justice49:00 Netflix docu-series How To Become a Tyrant 51:00 Jan Felman's comments51:40 Stefania Salles-Bruins' comments 53:25 Jarnick Vitters' comments Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.comTo hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.To view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page.To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com. Thanks so much for listening!© Stephanie Drawdy [2022]

Across the world statues and symbols dedicated to slave owners and colonialists are being removed. But before that movement started in the United States and the United Kingdom, it began in Cape Town. The is the story of #RhodesMust Fall and the South African #FeesMustFall movement that sought to not only remove the symbols of colonialism but demanded that the education system be changed in substance as well.  For more on ChangeMakers check us out:  Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org  On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/  On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Across the world statues and symbols dedicated to slave owners and colonialists are being removed. But before that movement started in the United States and the United Kingdom, it began in Cape Town. The is the story of #RhodesMust Fall and the South African #FeesMustFall movement that sought to not only remove the symbols of colonialism but demanded that the education system be changed in substance as well. For more on ChangeMakers check us out: Via our Website - https://changemakerspodcast.org On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMakersPodcast/ On Twitter - @changemakers99 or @amandatatts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fingerprints Episode 6The country's first major art and antiquities collection now sits in the Ashmolean Museum. It reveals untold stories from the ancient world including shipwrecks, competitively collecting, underhand dealings and how classical art was used by aristocrats at the royal court to boost their status and standing. Join lecturer Alison Pollard, as she takes you on a journey which spans over 2000 years. Find a transcript of this episode hereRead moreRead about the Arundel marbles hereSpeakers in this episode:Series host: Lucie Dawkins, Director & Producer, Ashmolean MuseumDr Alison Pollard, Lecturer in Classical Archaeology, University of OxfordProfessor Peter Stewart, Director of the Classical Art Research Centre, University of OxfordJaś Elsner, Professor of Classics and Art History, University of OxfordPhiroze Vasunia, Professor of Greek, UCLAbout the Fingerprints podcastEvery object in the Ashmolean has passed from hand to hand to reach the Museum. In a new podcast, we uncover the invisible fingerprints left behind by makers, looters, archaeologists, soldiers, rulers, curators, and many more. These stories of touch reveal the ways in which the forces of conflict and colonialism have shaped Britain's oldest Museum. Join the Ashmolean's curators alongside artists, experts, and community members, for our new podcast: Fingerprints.Fingerprints will be released on the Ashmolean's website, on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you get your podcasts, weekly from  21 January 2022 until 25 February 2022.Fingerprints is produced and hosted by Lucie Dawkins. Guests include Bénédicte Savoy, co-author of the Report on African Cultural Heritage, commissioned by Emmanuel Macron; Professor Dan Hicks, of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum; and Simukai Chigudu, one of the founding members of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign.www.ashmolean.org/fingerprints

Fingerprints Episode 5Curator Andrew Shapland shows us a tiny fragment which reveals the story of the man who set out to hunt down the mythical minotaur. Sir Arthur Evans went on to become known as the father of archaeology, but his journey reveals a culture war between empires in the Mediterranean. Find a transcript of this episode hereRead moreRead more about the fragment here or view an image hereSpeakers in this episode:Series host: Lucie Dawkins, Director & Producer, Ashmolean MuseumDr Andrew Shapland, Curator of Bronze Age & Classical GreeceDr Lucia Patrizio Gunning, Modern Historian, UCLDr Antonis Kotsonas, Associate Professor of Mediterranean History and ArchaeologyDr Lisa Bendall, Associate Professor in Aegean Prehistory, University of OxfordDr Athanasia Kanta, archaeologistWith the voice of Jonathan Aris as Arthur EvansAbout the Fingerprints podcastEvery object in the Ashmolean has passed from hand to hand to reach the Museum. In a new podcast, we uncover the invisible fingerprints left behind by makers, looters, archaeologists, soldiers, rulers, curators, and many more. These stories of touch reveal the ways in which the forces of conflict and colonialism have shaped Britain's oldest Museum. Join the Ashmolean's curators alongside artists, experts, and community members, for our new podcast: Fingerprints.Fingerprints will be released on the Ashmolean's website, on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you get your podcasts, weekly from  21 January 2022 until 25 February 2022.Fingerprints is produced and hosted by Lucie Dawkins. Guests include Bénédicte Savoy, co-author of the Report on African Cultural Heritage, commissioned by Emmanuel Macron; Professor Dan Hicks, of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum; and Simukai Chigudu, one of the founding members of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign.www.ashmolean.org/fingerprints

Fingerprints Episode 4Curator Paul Collins takes us on a journey with a 3000 year old king uncovered by an Indian soldier digging a trench in World War I, and explore what he has to tell us about the formation of Iraq as a nation state. Find a transcript of this episode hereRead moreRead more about the sculpture here or see an image hereSpeakers in this episode:Series host: Lucie Dawkins, Director & Producer, Ashmolean MuseumDr Paul Collins, Curator of the Ancient Middle East, Ashmolean MuseumSantanu Das, Professor of Modern Literature and Culture, University of OxfordDr Mehiyar Kathem, Nahrein Network, UCL and Oxford, Researcher on cultural heritage in contemporary IraqAbout the Fingerprints podcastEvery object in the Ashmolean has passed from hand to hand to reach the Museum. In a new podcast, we uncover the invisible fingerprints left behind by makers, looters, archaeologists, soldiers, rulers, curators, and many more. These stories of touch reveal the ways in which the forces of conflict and colonialism have shaped Britain's oldest Museum. Join the Ashmolean's curators alongside artists, experts, and community members, for our new podcast: Fingerprints.Fingerprints will be released on the Ashmolean's website, on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you get your podcasts, weekly from  21 January 2022 until 25 February 2022.Fingerprints is produced and hosted by Lucie Dawkins. Guests include Bénédicte Savoy, co-author of the Report on African Cultural Heritage, commissioned by Emmanuel Macron; Professor Dan Hicks, of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum; and Simukai Chigudu, one of the founding members of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign.www.ashmolean.org/fingerprints

Fingerprints Episode 3Mallica Kumbera Landrus, the Ashmolean's Keeper of Eastern Art, takes us on a journey with 200 clay figures from India, displayed alongside a human zoo at the Colonial and India Exhibition of 1886, and later used to teach young British colonial officers at Oxford's Indian Institute. Find a transcript of this episode hereRead moreView images of some of the sculptures mentioned in the episode hereFind out more about Ali Kazim's exhibition at the Ashmolean hereSpeakers in this episode:Series host: Lucie Dawkins, Director & Producer, Ashmolean MuseumProfessor Mallica Kumbera Landrus, Keeper of Eastern Art at the AshmoleanAli Kazim, one of Pakistan's leading contemporary artists whose work will be on show in the Ashmolean from 7 February 2022Dr Nayanika Mathur, Associate Professor in the Anthropology of South Asia, University of OxfordAbout the Fingerprints podcastEvery object in the Ashmolean has passed from hand to hand to reach the Museum. In a new podcast, we uncover the invisible fingerprints left behind by makers, looters, archaeologists, soldiers, rulers, curators, and many more. These stories of touch reveal the ways in which the forces of conflict and colonialism have shaped Britain's oldest Museum. Join the Ashmolean's curators alongside artists, experts, and community members, for our new podcast: Fingerprints.Fingerprints will be released on the Ashmolean's website, on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you get your podcasts, weekly from  21 January 2022 until 25 February 2022.Fingerprints is produced and hosted by Lucie Dawkins. Guests include Bénédicte Savoy, co-author of the Report on African Cultural Heritage, commissioned by Emmanuel Macron; Professor Dan Hicks, of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum; and Simukai Chigudu, one of the founding members of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign.www.ashmolean.org/fingerprints

Fingerprints Episode 2Dan Hicks takes us on a journey with three bronze masks from the West African city of Benin, through the hands of soldiers, collectors, and curators, and along with special guests considers the responsibility that European museums have towards looted art in their collections. Find a transcript of this episode hereRead moreView the masks spoken about in the episode hereRead the Pitt Rivers' interim report on the provenance of African cultural heritage in their collection here Find out more about the Benin Bronzes and the Benin Dialogue Group hereFind out more about Oxford University's procedures about the return of cultural objects hereAnd find more about Dan Hicks' book, The Brutish MuseumsSpeakers in this episode:Series host: Lucie Dawkins, Director & Producer, Ashmolean MuseumXa Sturgis, Director of the Ashmolean MuseumSimukai Chigudu, Professor of African Politics, University of Oxford and founding member of Rhodes Must FallDan Hicks, Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Pitt Rivers Museum, OxfordVictor Ehikhamenor, artistAdenike Cosgrove, collector and historian of African Art HistorianProfessor Bénédicte Savoy, art historian and co-author of the report, The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage commissioned by President Emmanuel MacronAbout the Fingerprints podcastEvery object in the Ashmolean has passed from hand to hand to reach the Museum. In a new podcast, we uncover the invisible fingerprints left behind by makers, looters, archaeologists, soldiers, rulers, curators, and many more. These stories of touch reveal the ways in which the forces of conflict and colonialism have shaped Britain's oldest Museum. Join the Ashmolean's curators alongside artists, experts, and community members, for our new podcast: Fingerprints.Fingerprints will be released on the Ashmolean's website, on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you get your podcasts, weekly from  21 January 2022 until 25 February 2022.Fingerprints is produced and hosted by Lucie Dawkins. Guests include Bénédicte Savoy, co-author of the Report on African Cultural Heritage, commissioned by Emmanuel Macron; Professor Dan Hicks, of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum; and Simukai Chigudu, one of the founding members of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign.www.ashmolean.org/fingerprints

Fingerprints Episode 1Join the Ashmolean Museum's director, Xa Sturgis, as he questions what a museum is for. He introduces us to Powhatan's Mantle, one of the museum's founding objects, and one inextricably linked with British colonial history. From there, he traces the Ashmolean's story to the present day, as special guests explore how we can transform an uncomfortable past into a more positive future. Find a transcript of this episode hereRead moreSee Powhatan's Mantle hereFind out more about Oxford University's procedures about the return of cultural objects hereSpeakers in this episode:Series host: Lucie Dawkins, Director & Producer, Ashmolean MuseumXa Sturgis, Director of the Ashmolean MuseumSumaya Kassim, writer, curator and museum-scepticReyahn King, CEO of York Museums TrustDr Laura van Broekhoven, Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum, OxfordMustafa Barcho, Oxford-Middle East Community Ambassador, Ashmolean MuseumMarenka Thompson-Odlum, Researcher, Pitt RiversNicola Bird, Community Engagement Officer, Oxford's Gardens, Libraries and MuseumsAbout the Fingerprints podcastEvery object in the Ashmolean has passed from hand to hand to reach the Museum. In a new podcast, we uncover the invisible fingerprints left behind by makers, looters, archaeologists, soldiers, rulers, curators, and many more. These stories of touch reveal the ways in which the forces of conflict and colonialism have shaped Britain's oldest Museum. Join the Ashmolean's curators alongside artists, experts, and community members, for our new podcast: Fingerprints.Fingerprints will be released on the Ashmolean's website, on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you get your podcasts, weekly from  21 January 2022 until 25 February 2022.Fingerprints is produced and hosted by Lucie Dawkins. Guests include Bénédicte Savoy, co-author of the Report on African Cultural Heritage, commissioned by Emmanuel Macron; Professor Dan Hicks, of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum; and Simukai Chigudu, one of the founding members of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign.www.ashmolean.org/fingerprints

Every object in the Ashmolean has passed from hand to hand to reach the Museum. In a new podcast, we uncover the invisible fingerprints left behind by makers, looters, archaeologists, soldiers, rulers, curators, and many more. These stories of touch reveal the ways in which the forces of conflict and colonialism have shaped Britain's oldest Museum. Join the Ashmolean's curators alongside artists, experts, and community members, for our new podcast: Fingerprints.Fingerprints will be released on the Ashmolean's website, on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you get your podcasts, weekly from  21 January 2022 until 25 February 2022.Fingerprints is produced and hosted by Lucie Dawkins. Guests include Bénédicte Savoy, co-author of the Report on African Cultural Heritage, commissioned by Emmanuel Macron; Professor Dan Hicks, of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum; and Simukai Chigudu, one of the founding members of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign.--- Transcript for this trailer ---Voice 1: Every object in the Ashmolean has passed from hand to hand to reach the Museum. In a new podcast, we uncover the invisible fingerprints left behind by makers, looters, archaeologists, soldiers, rulers, curators, and many more.These stories of touch reveal the ways in which the forces of conflict and colonialism have shaped Britain's oldest Museum.Join the Ashmolean's curators alongside artists, experts, and community members, for our new podcast: Fingerprints.Voice 2: It was magical to touch the impressions of someone's hand, who may have made this piece thousands of years ago.Voice 3: There's a large gouge from the front of the statue of the pick that the Indian soldier had been using to dig his trench.Voice 4: Those are signifiers and messages that are embedded, are hidden in them for each generation. So, their importance can never be underestimated even though they have been removed from where they were created.Voice 5: It's obvious that it's the face of the human figure that has been scratched out.Voice 6: One of the main attractions was the live display of 34 human beings who were transported from India.Voice 7: So they'd suggests bribing a local Imam to say that the sculptures are against the tenets of Islam.Voice 8: Although some of these stories can be uncomfortable they're also vital. They're stories which connect us to a vast global web of human experiences that allow the objects to speak to us in different ways and with different voices. Voice 9: Because museums are very political places.Voice 1: So, watch out for Fingerprints on the Ashmolean's website, on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts, for weekly releases from the 21st of January.

Every object in the Ashmolean has passed from hand to hand to reach the Museum. In a new podcast, we uncover the invisible fingerprints left behind by makers, looters, archaeologists, soldiers, rulers, curators, and many more. These stories of touch reveal the ways in which the forces of conflict and colonialism have shaped Britain's oldest Museum. Join the Ashmolean's curators alongside artists, experts, and community members, for our new podcast: Fingerprints.Fingerprints will be released on the Ashmolean's website, on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you get your podcasts, weekly from  21 January 2022 until 25 February 2022.Fingerprints is produced and hosted by Lucie Dawkins. Guests include Bénédicte Savoy, co-author of the Report on African Cultural Heritage, commissioned by Emmanuel Macron; Professor Dan Hicks, of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum; and Simukai Chigudu, one of the founding members of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign.

Every object in the Ashmolean has passed from hand to hand to reach the Museum. In a new podcast, we uncover the invisible fingerprints left behind by makers, looters, archaeologists, soldiers, rulers, curators, and many more. These stories of touch reveal the ways in which the forces of conflict and colonialism have shaped Britain's oldest Museum. Join the Ashmolean's curators alongside artists, experts, and community members, for our new podcast: Fingerprints.Fingerprints will be released on the Ashmolean's website, on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you get your podcasts, weekly from  21 January 2022 until 25 February 2022.Fingerprints is produced and hosted by Lucie Dawkins. Guests include Bénédicte Savoy, co-author of the Report on African Cultural Heritage, commissioned by Emmanuel Macron; Professor Dan Hicks, of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum; and Simukai Chigudu, one of the founding members of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign.

In this episode of the Solutions With David Ansara podcast, I speak to Professor David Benatar about his new book, 'The Fall of the University of Cape Town: Africa's leading university in decline'. Prof. Benatar and I discuss the origins of the Rhodes Must Fall movement in 2015, and how it later metastasized into the Fees Must Fall movement, unleashing a wave of violence, arson and intimidation at UCT. These destructive acts were met with acquiescence by the university authorities, who refused to sanction the protestors despite the widespread havoc on campus. We also discuss the state of UCT today. Prof Benatar is deeply concerned by the climate of intellectual conformity that currently prevails. The costs of going against the grain of orthodox opinion are too great for most academics to resist, he says. Academic freedom is under severe strain. Stringent racial preferences in academic appointments and student admissions have also caused great damage to the quality of the university system, he says. We conclude the discussion by looking at the future of universities more broadly, and whether young people should study philosophy. TIMESTAMPS (00:00) Introduction (00:48) David Benatar on Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall (02:28) David Benatar on the violence at UCT (06:55) David Benatar on UCT's capitulation to lawlessness (10:05) David Benatar on 'decolonisation' (13:43) David Benatar on racial preferences at UCT (20:38) David Benatar on academic appointments at UCT (23:56) David Benatar on Bongani Mayosi (27:26) David Benatar on academic freedom (33:30) David Benatar on freedom of expression (35:46) David Benatar on the state of the Humanities at UCT (38:59) David Benatar on the future of universities (42:55) David Benatar on whether to study philosophy (45:24) David Benatar on resisting group-think (46:55) Conclusion BOOK 'The Fall of the University of Cape Town: Africa's leading university in decline' by David Benatar (PoliticsWeb Publishing): https://www.amazon.com/Fall-University-Cape-Town-university-ebook/dp/B09L96NJRK

In episode three of season two, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, start by shooting the shit with producer, Too Black, about #BlackburnTakeover at Howard University and the neo-colonial make up of HBCUs. They explore the contradictions between the idea of the HBCU vs the way it may be experienced. In her "Planting Thoughts" segment, Layla discusses the Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia Regina's) Mandela's Gold and it's relation to South Africa. Next, the two co-hosts interview Dr. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni. Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. They discuss epistemicide, African intellectual inquiry, the invention of ethnicized tribes, and Rhodes Must Fall. CBS goes off about elected influencers in her segment "Risse's Rants," and CBS and Layla continue their talk about getting back in gear for work in "What We On." Tap in to this episode of LDI--and be sure to subscribe to the channel and consider becoming a Patreon! Reading Material for Dr. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MUdCoi7I4LYdbRob1YYEFRERrJYjhEA Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LDIpodcast Twitter: @ldipodcast Instagram: @ldipodcast

Oxford Rhodes Must Fall protest reimagined by Margaret Fischer.  "Rhythm is such an interesting force - it creates a sense of unity and community, and yet it is also a weapon of war. In this reimagining, I wanted to highlight how the shared mindset and singular purpose of this group of protestors spontaneously and naturally found its collective rhythm. Midway, you'll hear the rhythms of pencil on paper and a typewriter, to represent protesting happening via the written word, as well as highlighting the role higher education has in this movement.  "Since the Rhodes Must Fall movement had its origins in South Africa, the added percussive rhythms are a nod to rhythms found in South African toyi-toyi, perhaps the epitome of a nonviolent call to arms… rhythm and melody as tools for a revolution. The track ends with the sound of a door opening — opening the door for discussion, for reflection, for future change."

A mass protest held at the height of the global Covid-19 pandemic in Oxford, UK. Following the global Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020, there was renewed pressure to remove the statue of slave trader Cecil Rhodes from Oriel College in Oxford.  This translated into a mass protest against the statue and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in central Oxford. Cities and Memory took part in the protest, and recorded its sounds. 

Statues and memorials to famous figures of the past adorn our towns and cities. But what should be done when some of these figures have come to be seen by many people as controversial symbols of oppression and discrimination?In Britain, the Rhodes Must Fall campaign hit the headlines when it demanded the removal of the statue of Cecil Rhodes from Oxford's Oriel College, of which he was a leading benefactor, because of his colonialism. In the US, violent protests in Charlottesville were sparked by a decision to remove from a park a statue of Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general in the American Civil War, because of the association of the Confederacy with slavery.Passions run high on both sides. Are those calling for the removal of controversial statues seeking to right an historical injustice or are they trying to erase history? And are those who object to removing memorials defending the indefensible or are they conserving historical reality, however unpalatable that may be?To discuss these emotive questions and examine the broader cultural conflicts which lie behind them, Intelligence Squared joined forces with Historic England and bringing together a stellar panel including historians David Olusoga and Peter Frankopan, the journalist and author Afua Hirsch and the cultural commentator Tiffany Jenkins. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the wake of Black Lives Matter protests around the world, many institutions looked inward at what they could do or change, PRIO included. Last year PRIO allocated internal funding to develop projects on ethnic, racial, cultural and religious discrimination. One those projects is "Teaching African peace and conflict through European eyes (EruopAcademy)". This project, led by Ilaria Carozza and Marie Sandnes, set out to assess university syllabi from around Europe, before and after 2015 (when the #RhodesMustFall movement started), to see how diverse they were and are. In this episode they share their initial findings from courses on Africa, peace and conflict offered at several European universities, and talk about where they'd like to take the project. You can find PRIO's Collection on Racism, Inequality and Discrimination here: https://blogs.prio.org/2020/10/collection-of-prio-research-on-racism-inequality-and-discrimination/ You can find a policy brief on this topic by Marie and Ilaria here: https://www.prio.org/Publications/Publication/?x=12728

In the wake of the #RhodesMustFall campaign, I chat to Duncan Clarke, author of Rhodes Ghost and try to get to the bottom of Cecil Rhodes – man, myth, legend or monster? This podcast began as an audio version of my book, Mud Between Your Toes – a memoir about my life – a gay, white boy growing up during the 1970s Rhodesian Bush War. It has now evolved into a series of conversations with characters and personalities with stories to tell – occasionally on an African theme. Season 03 - Episode 14 of MUD BETWEEN YOUR TOES CONVERSATIONS WITH PETE WOOD. Cecil Rhodes is never far from the news these days. For all the wrong reasons it seems. His Oxford scholarship legacy, which has been enjoyed by 1000s of students globally, is now controversial and the #RhodesMustFall campaign want his statue torn down at oriel college, Oxford. It seemed appropriate to dig deeper and invite Duncan Clarke, author of Rhodes Ghost, to talk to me about the man, the myth, the legend and to try and disseminate the truth from the fiction. Listen to Mud Between Your Toes podcasts on iPHONE/Apple Podcasts.https://apple.co/32QTumi Listen to Mud Between Your Toes podcasts on Android/Samsung/Nokia. https://shorturl.at/anwFV Listen via the APP: https://mudbetweenyourtoes.podbean.com/ #MudBetweenYourToes  #PeterWood #Petewoodhk #RhodesMustFall #RhodesGhost #CecilJohnRhodes #DuncanClarke #Rhodesia #Zimbabwe #SouthernAfrica #History #Lobengula  

How do we remember those who had a significant impact on the history of our country whilst not necessarily celebrating them? Is it right to simply erase and rename those once celebrated for deeds now condemned? And what do we do with the complexity which history repeatedly throws up wherein our heroes are simultaneously our villains? What do we do when those heroes are also Christians? In this part episode part one of a two-part mini-series, we discuss the legacy of Fees Must Fall and Rhodes Must Fall and the impact that had on both church and community. We discuss the accusation that removing statues is an attempt to erase or rewrite history and how do we reconcile the reality that most of our Christian heroes also have an incredibly dark side from Luther's antisemitism to Whitefield's support of slavery. Audio produced by Exilic Music www.exilic.co.za The work of Isiphambano, including Julle Mense, is advanced through the generous donations and support of those who resonate with a vision of a reconciled and just South Africa. Please consider becoming a partner in this ministry by financial giving either through a once-off gift or regular monthly giving. Donate by following this link www.payfast.co.za/donate/go/isiphambano

Our history is up for grabs. Who do we honour with statues and what do we celebrate in our museums? Join James Harding and guests to debate how we deal with empire, slavery, and all the rights and wrongs of our pastGuests: Bonnie Greer, author and critic; Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, author and Rhodes Must Fall activist; Max Hastings, journalist and author; Zareer Masani, historian. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is a conversation with David Andress. He is a Professor of Modern History at the University of Portsmouth and is the author of the book “Cultural Dementia: How the West has Lost its History and Risks Losing Everything Else“ If you like what I do, please consider supporting this project with only 1$ a month on Patreon or on BuyMeACoffee.com. You can also do so directly on PayPal if you prefer. Patreon is for monthly, PayPal is for one-offs and BuyMeACoffee has both options. If you can't donate anything, you can still support this project by sharing with your friends and leaving a review wherever you get your podcasts! Music by Tarabeat. Topics Discussed What is Cultural Dementia? And why use that term instead of Amnesia? Why focus on France, the UK and the US? The current crises in the three countries George Orwell's reflection on the relationship between imperialism/colonialism, the UK's welfare state and the white working class France's Trente Glorieuses Prospects of Le Pen and the far right winning in France The ‘Brexit spirit' Impact of Trumpism on US politics and what might come next What is neoliberalism and how is that term (mis)used? What is populism and how is that term (mis)used? Berlusconi, the five star movement and racist politics in Italy Canada, Australia and New Zealand's specific contexts with regards to immigration and racism Cambridge Analytica The delusion of ‘socialism in one country' The realities and delusions of Brexit (including example of CANZUK proposals and how India is excluded) Ladybird libertarians (term by Otto English) Isolationism within the British Labour Party Weaknesses within Left parties, especially Labour (Attlee, Wilson, Blair) The specificity of France and republicanism there How Melenchon and Le Pen agree on Vichy's status as ‘not France' Chauvinism on the Left in France The metaphor of the mansion The Rhodes Must Fall protests in the UK The ‘race question' and white supremacy in the US The specificity of the US constitution (and how it is outdated and embeds conservatism) How history is taught (I gave the example of Lebanon) Recommended Books Priya Satia, Time's Monster; History, Conscience and Britain's Empire (Penguin/Allen Lane, 2020) Priyamvada Gopal, Insurgent Empire; Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent (Verso, 2019) Olivette Otele, African Europeans (Hurst, 2020) I also added: The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla Afropean: Notes from Black Europe by Johny Pitts

In the wake of Black Lives Matter protests around the world, many institutions looked inward at what they could do or change, PRIO included. Last year PRIO allocated internal funding to develop projects on ethnic, racial, cultural and religious discrimination. One those projects is "Teaching African peace and conflict through European eyes (EruopAcademy)". This project, led by Ilaria Carozza and Marie Sandnes, set out to assess university syllabi from around Europe, before and after 2015 (when the #RhodesMustFall movement started), to see how diverse they were and are. In this episode they share their initial findings from courses on Africa, peace and conflict offered at several European universities, and talk about where they'd like to take the project.You can find PRIO's Collection on Racism, Inequality and Discrimination here: https://blogs.prio.org/2020/10/collection-of-prio-research-on-racism-inequality-and-discrimination/.

This episode is part of a four-part series in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. In this episode, guest host Simphiwe Laura Stewart talks with Rekgotsofetse Chikane about the "Rhodes Must Fall" movement. They discuss the intersections and tensions of #MustFall with black consciousness, black feminism, and pan-Africanism, and the diverse histories of oppression and resistance across time and borders. Rekgotsofetse Chikane is the author of “Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation: The Politics Behind #MustFall”. He was one of the leading figures of the Rhodes Must Fall movement in South Africa. Hosted and recorded by: Simphiwe Laura Stewart Edited by: Christy Callaway-Gale & Kira Allmann Co-produced by: Natasha Holcroft-Emmess and Sarah Dobbie Executive producer: Kira Allmann Show notes by: Sarah Dobbie Music by: Rosemary Allmann Additional thanks to: Sandra Fredman, Meghan Campbell, Mónica Arango Olaya, and Gauri Pillai

This episode is part of a four-part series in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. In this episode, guest host Simphiwe Laura Stewart talks with Rekgotsofetse Chikane about the "Rhodes Must Fall" movement. They discuss the intersections and tensions of #MustFall with black consciousness, black feminism, and pan-Africanism, and the diverse histories of oppression and resistance across time and borders. Rekgotsofetse Chikane is the author of “Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation: The Politics Behind #MustFall”. He was one of the leading figures of the Rhodes Must Fall movement in South Africa. Hosted and recorded by: Simphiwe Laura Stewart Edited by: Christy Callaway-Gale & Kira Allmann Co-produced by: Natasha Holcroft-Emmess and Sarah Dobbie Executive producer: Kira Allmann Show notes by: Sarah Dobbie Music by: Rosemary Allmann Additional thanks to: Sandra Fredman, Meghan Campbell, Mónica Arango Olaya, and Gauri Pillai

We are raiding the Audio Long Reads archives and bringing you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2015: When a black South African student threw a bucket of excrement over a statue of Cecil Rhodes, it kicked off a protest movement that is shattering the way the country sees its past. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

In Series 02 Episode 09 of MUD BETWEEN YOUR TOES, CONVERSATIONS WITH INNOCENT MUTANGA, I am joined by fellow Zimbabwean, @InnocentMutanga.Mutanga was the first refugee to graduate from a university in Hong Kong – gaining a degree in anthropology from the prestigious Chinese University of Hong Kong – and for the past year he’s worked as an analyst at an investment bank. He discusses everything from refugees, BLM, colonialism, Rhodes Must Fall, re-branding blackness and The Africa Center in Hong Kong.Listen to Mud Between Your Toes podcasts on iPHONE/Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/hk/podcast/mud-between-your-toes-podcasts/id1477432953?l=en Listen to Mud Between Your Toes podcasts on Android/Samsung/Nokia. https://podcasts.google.com?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL211ZGJldHdlZW55b3VydG9lcy9mZWVkLnhtbA%3D%3D Listen via the APP: https://mudbetweenyourtoes.podbean.com/ #MudBetweenYourToes #PeterWood #Petewoodhk #Zimbabwe #Rhodesia #InnocentMutanga #BLM #RhodesMustFall #colonialism #HongKong www.africacenterhk.com 

This episode features CCNY's Dr. Lesley Lokko, Dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. The themes include: the relevance of architecture to human rights; race and architecture as a field of study and practice; inequality in South Africa; and the Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter Movements.  

Image: Tim Waters/FlickrColonial monuments have been in the spotlight since the Rhodes Must Fall movement started in South Africa in March 2015, and have faced renewed focus in 2020 because of the Black Lives Matter protests. Starting with the removal of slaver Edward Colston's statue in Bristol, a number of statues have been pulled down around the world -- but not in Australia.Reema Rattan facilitates a discussion between ANU Professor of History Bruce Scates and  Shanti Sumartojo, Associate Professor of Design Research at Monash University, about what monuments and memorials communicate to try to uncover their role in the public and historical imagination.  

Sarita Fae Jarmack is an anthropologist currently exploring the politics of access, expression, and knowledge within the postcolonial art scene of South Africa for her PhD at the University of Amsterdam. We are talking to Sarita about the making of her PhD and get a glimpse into all the processes that happen on the way, which as she herself admits, are rarely given visibility. Sarita shares how she has come to crystalize the topic, calibrate her personal interests with those of the project as well as the biggest challenges throughout its entirety. Sarita also shares with us the key moments of trust building in oneself as a researcher, academic and individual. She also ponders on the value of her work and its place in the production of knowledge as well as on the feeling that academic space can provide, which as she says, can be both comforting and distracting. At the end we ask Sarita to give advice on what are the questions one should ask oneself before embarking on this long academic journey.Mentioned in Podcast:European Research Council project "Becoming Men", http://www.becoming-men.org/Protest movement sin South Africa in 2015: #RhodesMustFall, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Must_Fall; #FeesMustFall, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeesMustFallSocial media:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saritafaejarmack/https://www.instagram.com/awkward.ethnographer/

The Gary Null Show is here to inform you on the best news in health, healing, the environment.    Our Great Awokening and France's Great Terror samuel gregg As efforts intensify to purge anyone and anything from Western culture that offends the illiberal left's sensitivities, the fanaticism which drives the Great Awokening has become abundantly evident. To question the 1619 project's factual veracity, for example, is seen as evidence of implicit racism. Any confidence that the American Founding has something to teach the world is considered an instance of what Marxists call “false consciousness.” References to reason, evidence, rule of law, or the West's Jewish and Christian heritages are viewed as the language of someone hopelessly in thrall to “Eurocentric” outlooks. What impresses me, however, is less the historically-illiterate justifications offered for the decapitation of statutes of Christopher Columbus, than the righteous fury visible in the eyes of those shouting slogans like “Rhodes Must Fall!” Prudence, circumspection, and subtly are out. Raw emotion and ideological purity are in. You are either with us or against us. And if you don't endorse everything that we—the woke—think, say and do, be prepared to face the consequences. The problem is that once that particular tiger gets out of its cage, putting it back in is extremely difficult. There are always plenty on the left willing to be more radical than thou, and who will interpret any reticence to affirm wholeheartedly their positions as prima facie evidence of backsliding or outright treachery. That's a dynamic which we're seen before with people like Che Guevara and Lenin. But the standard-setter for such behavior was the French Revolution's most violent stage, commonly known as la Terreur. From Hope and Anticipation, to Fear and Trembling Few events have been more thoroughly parsed, praised, and castigated as the French Revolution. That owes something to the sense that the Revolution was one of those rare occasions that represented a decisive break with the past. Contemporary witnesses describe the millenarian-like hopes that permeated French society in the immediate aftermath of 1789. But fascination with the French Revolution also has much to do with another factor: the penchant for frenzied violence which raised its head right from the beginning. Every Revolution has its casualties. Loyalists were among those of the American Revolution. Many of them were subject to anti-Tory laws which ranged from being disenfranchised to large fines. Compared, however, to other revolutions, the Loyalists got off lightly. The Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917 was followed by the targeting of anyone officially designated by the new regime as “former people.” Arbitrary imprisonment, confiscation of property, and terror were used ruthlessly against groups like the nobility, but gradually extended to categories who had hardly been friends of the Czarist regime: classical liberals, constitutionalists, businessmen, etc. It was, however, the French Revolution which established the modern benchmark for systematic violence against anyone insufficiently in sync with the political views of whoever is in charge at any given moment. Many of the Revolution's early leaders—people like the American Revolutionary hero, the Marquis de Lafayette—quickly became persona non grata as the revolutionary tumult escalated through successive thresholds of rage. Those revolutionaries who managed to transition through each stage were few in number. Many eventually found themselves strapped to a guillotine. Others eked out miserable existences in exile alongside the royalists who preceded them. Over the past two centuries, many explanations have been offered for the frantic character of the Revolution's violence. They include pent-up resentment against the old regime, fears of fifth columnists who might help invading foreign armies, concerns about counter-revolutionary plots, and the outbreak of full-scale popular uprisings in 1793 against the Paris government in provinces ranging from the Vendée to Brittany and cities like Marseille and Lyon. Virtually all historians of the Revolution underscore the widespread paranoia that occupied the minds of Revolutionary leaders but also many ordinary citizens, particularly those living in cities and for whom politics had become the be-all and end-all of life. There was, however, something else at work which became apparent after Louis XVI's execution on January 21, 1793, and the subsequent acceleration of tensions between the two groups which then dominated Revolutionary politics: the Girondins and the Jacobins. While the former were considered more moderate than the latter, both groups were firmly on the left of the revolutionary scale. That, however, didn't save the Girondins from being destroyed by the logic that came to direct French political life and which resulted in thousands being executed before the Terror ended with the guillotining of the man most associated with it on July 28, 1794. One Single Will Given his public reputation as the Terror's chief architect, many are surprised to learn that Maximilian Robespierre wasn't the most extreme Jacobin. As a group, those associated with the Jacobin Club were divided into factions constantly at odds with each other. Some like Jacques Hébert, leader of the Hébertistes and editor of the radical newspaper Le Père Duchesne, were far to Robespierre's left. Neither the Hébertistes' inclination to militant atheism nor their desire for direct state control of much of the economy were to Robespierre's taste. Others, such as Georges Danton, eventually gravitated to Robespierre's right. Danton had played a major role in the Monarchy's overthrow in August 1792 and did nothing to stop the September Massacres which followed. By late-1793, however, Danton had become convinced of the folly of persecuting the Church and was calling for an end to extreme revolutionary violence. In a way, however, the details of these policy differences were unimportant to Robespierre and close allies like Louis Antoine de Saint-Just. What really mattered to Robespierre was that there could be no differences. According to Robespierre, France needed what he famously called une volonté une (one single will). In this ideal, he believed, was to be found the Revolution's ultimate security and salvation from its enemies, foreign and domestic. As a scholarship boy at one of France's most prestigious schools, the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Robespierre had been influenced by two sets of writings which featured significantly during the late-French Enlightenment. The first were classical texts which extolled the virtues of the Roman Republic and its leaders. The second were the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, especially his 1762 book Du contrat social(The Social Contract), and his popularization of what was called la volonté générale. For Rousseau, the “general will” didn't necessarily mean what an actual majority of people in a given political society wanted. Rather, it was the basis for the legitimacy of any government that acted for the well-being of all the people rather than sectional interests. Robespierre took this concept of the general will, but conflated the government and the people at the expense of the latter. “The Government,” he once proclaimed, “has to defend itself against all the factions which attack it; the punishment of the people's enemies is death.” To criticize the government was thus to be against the people. Ergo, the government could claim that any strike which it launched against its opponents was a strike against “the people's enemies.” As Robespierre saw it, Revolutionary France was riddled with factions (including those which split the Jacobins) and threatened by those who wished to overthrow the government. Consequently, it was the responsibility of the virtuous to strike ruthlessly, in a manner akin to Marcus Junius Brutus' slaying of Gaius Julius Caesar, against those who stood in the way of the “one single will.” For Robespierre, such enemies of the Republic included those Girondins who had compromised their revolutionary credentials by working with Louis XVI before August 1792, promotors of faction like Danton and Hébert, and those simply incapable of attaining republican virtue (nobles, old regime officials, clergy loyal to Rome, etc.). Expelling these disparate groups from the body politic was how you ensured the general will prevailed and finally realized a united, indivisible and virtuous Republic—that is, one single will. Naturally, there was a raw power-play dimension to all this. Robespierre saw people like Hébert and Danton as threating his dominance of the government. But it is impossible to underestimate the effects of the depth of Robespierre's commitment to his ideology: one which led to the inexorable conclusion that being a virtuous citizen of the Republic (like Brutus) meant being willing to use extreme violence (like Brutus) against its foes. Robespierre spelt this out in a speech in February 1794 when the Terror was at its height: If virtue be the spring of a popular government in times of peace, the spring of that government during a revolution is virtue combined with terror: virtue, without which terror is destructive; terror, without which virtue is impotent. Terror is only justice prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. Such thinking is what resulted in about 17,000 people being officially “kissed by Madame Guillotine,” as the saying went, in the name of virtue. Beware the Coming of the Reign of Wokedom Two things eventually brought Robespierre undone. The first was the economic crisis which engulfed France in the form of food-shortages and rampant inflation throughout 1794. Given his preeminence in the revolutionary regime, Robespierre become increasingly unpopular among Paris's hyper-politicized population. More importantly, enough Revolutionary leaders recognized that the logical conclusion of Robespierre's outlook was the destruction of anyone who did not fully adopt his positions, and therefore a series of continuous purges with no apparent endpoint. On July 26, 1794, Robespierre effectively confirmed such trepidations when he gave a speech to the National Convention and then to the Jacobin Club arguing that the time had come to “Punish the traitors, purge the bureau of the Committee of General Security, purge the Committee itself, and subordinate it to the Committee of Public Safety, purge the Committee of Public Safety itself and create a unified government under the supreme authority of the Convention!” This call for the elimination of anyone not 100 percent behind Robespierre led enough Convention members to summon up the courage to purge the master-purger himself. After a short and violent political struggle, Robespierre and 21 of his supporters were guillotined on July 28 at the Place de la Révolution. The Terror was over. But it seared France's political culture for decades afterward. The parallels between the France of 1793-1794 and our present Great Awokening are not exact. The historical circumstances are very different. We are not living in the shadow of an old regime. The woke have not seized the levers of political power in the way that Robespierre and his followers did. The primary similarity between revolutionaries like Robespierre and twenty-first century wokedom is a yearning for ever-increasing ideological purity, something which lends itself to identifying more and more categories of people and ideas as unacceptable. That generates chronic instability as people can never quite know if they and their ideas remain among the elect. Indeed, cancel culture cannot help but actively seek out opponents whose existence is seen as obstructing the creation of a new world purified of error. For without new enemies, it loses its raison d'être. In this light, those contemporary Girondins who dominate larger municipal governments throughout America and who rule the universities throughout Western countries, would be foolish to imagine that the illiberal left can somehow be placated by letting them riot, loot small businesses, and destroy public monuments. Words like “compromise,” “tolerance,” and “moderation” do not form part of the lexicon of wokery. After all, once “one single will” has been established, such habits become superfluous. Perhaps at some point, the woke will turn on themselves as they try to outdo each other in showing whose consciousness has been raised the most. Unless or until that happens, however, anyone who sits on the vast spectrum from the liberal-minded left through to conservative traditionalists should have no illusions that the woke—like Robespierre—will be satisfied with anything less than complete submission. And that would represent the end of liberty in any meaningful sense as well as the civilization which gave rise to it. 

Reflecting on the toppling of some statues and the protecting of others, Charles Adrian shares what he remembers of three books given to him at the beginning of the second season of the podcast.   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 52 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/52-vera-chok/), Page One 53 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/53-paula-varjack/) and Page One 54 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/54-catherine-payton/).   Correction: Edward Colston’s Royal African Company was active in the 17th century and not the 18th. You can read Gurminder K Bhambra on Edward Colston and the glorification of the British Empire in the New York Times here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/edward-colston-statue-racism.html?smid=tw-share and Priyamvada Gopal on the relationship between statues and our idea of history in The Huffinton Post here: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/statues_uk_5ee33c50c5b609f241c952b7?sl9. You can watch Afua Hirsch talking to PoliticsJOE about Black Lives Matter and British history, including some reflection on the theatrical boarding-up of the Churchill statue in Westminster, on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXY5BfpcAlQ&feature=youtu.be.   Between recording and releasing this episode, the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol was briefly replaced by a statue of Jen Reid by Marc Quinn. You can read about it in the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/15/the-day-bristol-woke-up-to-a-new-statue and you can read thoughts on it by Thomas J. Price in The Art Newspaper here: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/a-votive-statue-to-appropriation-the-problem-with-marc-quinn-s-black-lives-matter-sculpture   You can read more about the Rhodes Must Fall movement, meanwhile, in The New Statesman here: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2020/06/rhodes-must-fall-oxford-slavery-statue-oxford-university-oriel-black-lives-matter   For some reflection on racism and anti-racism in Europe and the UK, you can read Musa Okwonga in Byline Times here: https://bylinetimes.com/2020/06/05/white-complicity-matters-the-nazis-by-the-lake/ and Gary Younge in The New York Review Of Books here: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/06/what-black-america-means-to-europe/   You can read June Tuesday writing about J.K. Rowling and the so-called reasonable concerns in Medium here: https://medium.com/@june.tuesday/jk-rowling-and-the-reasonable-bigotry-43bc2c6d3c2b, you can read Evan Urquhart on J.K. Rowling and her obsession with trans men in Slate here: https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/06/jk-rowling-trans-men-terf.html and you can read an open letter from the charity Mermaids to J.K. Rowling here: https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/news/dear-jk-rowling/   And, in case you are worried about how the kids are doing, you can read Katelyn Burns’ profile of New York’s Gender And Family Project in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jun/15/trans-transgender-children-gender-family-project   The Page One podcast began as a project recorded at the Wilton Way Cafe for London Fields Radio, which is now called Fields Radio (https://fields.radio/). From the second season onwards, however, the podcast was produced independently by Charles Adrian.   Correction: The film adaptation of The Talented Mr Ripley Charles Adrian talks about seeing came out in 1999.   You can read about the theatre adaptation of The Master And Margarita made by Théâtre de Complicité here: http://www.complicite.org/productions/TheMasterandMargarita   Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian   Episode recorded 13th June, 2020   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/     Book listing:   Shopgirl by Steve Martin (Page One 52) The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (Page One 53) The Master And Margarita by Mikail Bulgakov (trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) (Page One 54)

The killing of George Floyd in the United States earlier this year, has put the issue of racism and prejudice back in the headlines. There has been an outpouring of rage and protests around the globe, as many tried to come to terms with racism on a personal and an institutional level. Today on the podcast we look at prejudice and why and how human beings discriminate against each other. We also look at what we as a society  can do to address that. As statues of slave owners are being torn down all across the world, on today's episode we want to know if this is the most effective way to tackle racism and address the wrongs of our past. I spoke to political activist Chumani Maxwele and Heriot-Watt University's Sir Geoff Palmer to find out more. Sir Geoff tells us about the injustices he had to face living in Britain and brings home the weight of the problem in the UK [01:55]. Chumani Maxwele is a part of the Rhodes Must Fall movement, who are responsible for bringing down the statue of 19th century colonialist Cecil John Rhodes at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.  The two men passionately debate the merits of taking down statues and the effectiveness of removing statutes of slave owners in an attempt to address systemic racism in society [04:02]We also speak to Mary Kite, co-author of the key university textbook The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination who tells us about the psochological origins of prejudice and what we can do to try and address it on a personal level [12:07]. 

Dean Dorsett is my oldest friend! He was my companion, confidante, and comrade-in-arms during my 3 years at Oriel College, Oxford, very much in the news now due to the Rhodes Must Fall campaign. In this episode we try to understand what Oxford was, its intellectual culture, the racism we both encountered and were hurt by, and Dean explains his initial transition from being a Jehovah's Witness in Dominica to a medical student at one of the most right-wing institutions in Britain. He ends by explaining how his experience as a doctor in Ipswich, during the Covid pandemic, aligns perfectly with everything else he has learned about how western civilisation functions.  https://www.burlingtonprimarycare.co.uk/team/dr-dean-dorsett

We are joined by Alastair Donald, the Associate Director of the Academy of Ideas, as we discuss the latest on the COVID crisis, a potential new trade deal with Australia and the news that Oriel College Oxford have decided that Rhodes Must Fall. We then chat with Alastair about his role with the Academy of Ideas, the Cancellation Culture and the future for free speech and thought in the UK.Get in Touch::Twitter: @CroydonConst Email: croydonconstitutionalists@gmail.comFacebook: facebook/CroydonConstitutionalistshttp://croydonconstitutionalists.uk/

Schools have been closed for almost three months - what is the true cost of these closures on pupils (1:00)? Plus, have Brexit negotiations started looking up (13:15)? And last, are the statue-topplers of Rhodes Must Fall going about their mission the wrong way (22:45)?With teacher Lucy Kellaway; the IFS's Paul Johnson; the Spectator's political editor James Forsyth; the FT's public policy editor Peter Foster; journalists Tanjil Rashid and Nadine Batchelor-Hunt.Presented by Cindy Yu.Produced by Cindy Yu and Gus Carter.Click here to try 12 weeks of the Spectator for £12 and get a free £20 Amazon gift voucher.

Schools have been closed for almost three months - what is the true cost of these closures on pupils (1:00)? Plus, have Brexit negotiations started looking up (13:15)? And last, are the statue-topplers of Rhodes Must Fall going about their mission the wrong way (22:45)? With teacher Lucy Kellaway; the IFS's Paul Johnson; the Spectator's political editor James Forsyth; the FT's public policy editor Peter Foster; journalists Tanjil Rashid and Nadine Batchelor-Hunt. Presented by Cindy Yu. Produced by Cindy Yu and Gus Carter. Click here (https://subscription.spectator.co.uk/?prom=A521B&pkgcode=03) to try 12 weeks of the Spectator for £12 and get a free £20 Amazon gift voucher.

The killing of George Floyd unleashed a huge global uprising. Black Lives Matter has become a global movement against racism and for social and political justice. In Britain and across Europe discussion of American politics can sometimes serve as a convenient way to avoid discussing the issues faced by people of colour on this side of the Atlantic. In this podcast we set out to challenge this tendency by politely pointing out that black lives often don't matter in Europe too. And mass movements have erupted to demand that we too have a reckoning with the huge injustices faced by ethnic minorities. To explore these linkages we talk to Ndindi Kitonga, a Black Lives Matter activist based in Los Angeles, Quinsy Gario, a performance artist and activist in the movement against Zwarte Piet from Amsterdam. And Shaista Aziz, a Labour councillor in Oxford involved in the Rhodes Must Fall campaign.  This podcast is part of an on-going collaboration between the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and Another Europe Is Possible.

This week on the podcast we discuss OfS' new guidance on student consumer protection and wonder whether it's possible to offer the certainty that the law suggests they are entitled to. We also look at this year's iteration of the HEPI / Advance HE Student Academic Experience Survey, Onward and British Council reports on China, and the Rhodes Must Fall protests. With Shân Wareing, Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Northampton and Aaron Porter, Governor of Goldsmiths & BPP universities.

On 9 June 2020, following two weeks of global Black Lives Matters protests, and following the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol, UK, more than a thousand protesters gathered in Oxford city centre to demand the removal of a statue of the colonialist Cecil Rhodes from Oriel College in the centre of the city. The peaceful protest took place in the midst of the coronavirus lockdown, with around 9 out of 10 protesters wearing masks and face coverings, and observing social distancing where possible. This recording contains excerpts from speeches and chants across the crowd, and throughout you can hear the buzzing of helicopters from the press filming the protest from above.  Recorded by Cities and Memory. Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds

Shaista Aziz, the Oxford, England Councillor for Labour and racial justice advocate, speaks to Omar Moore about the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK and the removal of statues of colonialist, imperialist enslavers and white racists in England and elsewhere in the UK. June 10, 2020. Check your voter registration and register to vote at iwillvote.com, rockthevote.org, whenweallvote.org. MOORE THOUGHTS: moore.substack.com. The Politicrat YouTube page: bit.ly/3bfWk6V The Politicrat Facebook page: bit.ly/3bU1O7c The Politicrat blog: politicrat.politics.blog SUBSCRIBE to this podcast! Follow/tweet Omar at: http://twitter.com/thepopcornreel Follow/tweet The Politicrat at: twitter.com/the_politicrat

On this edition of the Sky News Daily podcast with Dermot Murnaghan, we examine the violent clashes seen during UK protests following the death of George Floyd in the US with home affairs correspondent Mark White.Plus, do statues of controversial historical figures still have a place in British society? We are joined by historian Alex von Tunzelmann, academic Dalia Gebrial and The Times' Red Box columnist Mercy Muroki to discuss the debate after a statue of slave trader Edward Colston was pulled down by protesters and dumped in Bristol's harbour on Sunday.

Capitalism and patriarchy are intrinsically linked. In this episode with Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African-American Studies Anne-Maria Makhulu, we explore the origins of wealth suppression and oppression across gender, race, and class.---Twitter: @DrMackMackWebsite: https://culturalanthropology.duke.edu/people/anne-maria-b-makhulu Bio: Anne-Maria Makhulu is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies at Duke University with additional appointments in Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies and Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Makhulu has conducted research for over two decades in South Africa and is author of Making Freedom (Duke University Press 2015) about South Africa’s transition to democracy. She is also co-editor of a collection entitled Hard Work, Hard Times (University of California Press 2010), which examines African migration, the global search for livelihood, and questions of cultural resilience. A second monograph in preparation, tentatively entitled South Africa After the Rainbow and supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, looks at the rise of new social movements in South Africa—#FeesMustFall and #RhodesMustFall among them—against the backdrop of the state’s “capture.” Makhulu has published articles in Anthropological Quarterly and PMLA, served as special issue guest editor for South Atlantic Quarterly and special theme section guest editor of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. She is a self-described: cosmopolitan, world traveler, in exile. Africanist, urbanist, radical theorist. Almost newly-wed, late bloomer, dog owner, food lover, and OCD-er.

The resilience of colonialism and its expression as black on black, Afrophobic violence, has plagued South Africa post-apartheid. In this episode, Ayanda and Dambudzo detail the fatal consequences of creating ‘insider' and ‘outsider' identities, challenging the Church to walk in the way of Jesus in creating an inclusive identity.   Resources mentioned in the episode:   Sisonke Msimang - Always another country - a memoir of exile and home   Francis Nyamnjoh -  #RhodesMustFall - nibbling at resilient colonialism in South Africa   Emmanuel Katongole - The sacrifice of Africa Prof. T. Maluleke - Look at the kwerekwere in the mirror    V.Y. Mudimbe - The idea of Africa  Music:   Special thanks to Stevener - https://music.apple.com/us/album/black-excellence-600-single/1369528549

The Germans have a word for it—can the rest of the world learn from them, too? Philosopher Susan Neiman joins the Prospect podcast to discuss her book Learning From the Germans. From her travels in the American South to the complex arguments over Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung, and from Hannah Arendt to the Enlightenment focus on happiness, Professor Neiman explores what it means to work with our history. Plus: Rebecca Liu and Stephanie Boland talk Rhodes Must Fall—and a strange Lithuanian tourist attraction. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

ASC and Oxford Africa Society special lecture with Dr Max Price, former Vice Chancellor of UCT. Dr Max Price gives a topical lecture in Oxford about his experience as Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town during the national student protests which took place between 2015 and 2017, speaking about the meanings, issues and dilemmas of 'decolonisation' in the UCT context.

ASC and Oxford Africa Society special lecture with Dr Max Price, former Vice Chancellor of UCT. Dr Max Price gives a topical lecture in Oxford about his experience as Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town during the national student protests which took place between 2015 and 2017, speaking about the meanings, issues and dilemmas of 'decolonisation' in the UCT context.

“Whiteness seeks to remove us from its embrace because we threaten it. We place its position at the centre at risk when we dare to usurp it rather than simply remain constant in relation to it. Exerting my identity undermines the identity of whiteness. Yet exerting my identity calls into question my commitment to follow this feeling of emancipation from whiteness to its natural conclusion. It challenges whether or not I am willing to dismantle the system in which I exist to place myself in the centre at the expense of whiteness and the social leverage it has afforded me. This uncertainty of the coconut's commitment begs the question: as a coconut, are you willing to slide down the snake to join those who have been excluded from the born-free ladder and assist them in the revolution, the chimurenga?' - Rekgotsofetse Chikane These words end the first chapter of Rekgotsofetse Chikane's Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation: #The Politics behind #MustFallMovements Rekgotsofetse Chikane found his passion in the field of youth development and politics since 2009. He is a University of Oxford graduate with a Master's in Public Policy. This book is a first-hand account of the university protests that gripped South Africa between 2015 and 2017, widely known as #FeesMustFall. In this book, Rekgotsofetse delves into what he calls the politics behind #MustFall movements. He explores – through a musical and biblical language –themes around fighting the perpetual sense of survival, challenging the score and setting of the stage for #RhodesMustFall, identities in the movements from Black radical thought to Black Radical Feminism and ends the book with the question “Should Coconuts be Trusted with the Revolution?” In this podcast, we sat and dive deep into the work that Rekgotsofetse puts into the book. We speak about double consciousness, his relationship with his father, party politics, and who has the right to tell the story of #FeesMustFall. We also challenge him on certain framings in the book that could be read as further marginalising certain voices that uplifted the movement. This conversation reminds us of the richness that comes from telling our own stories and creating our own narratives. As youth month ends, we thought to share with you some reflections on youth politics.

On this episode, we're in conversation with Thato Pule (IG: @roguethato). Thato is a transgender woman who works in the corporate world as an Actuarial Reporting Consultant. Thato also has a strong commitment to social justice based on her upbringing as a transgender woman and has been involved in the Rhodes Must Fall movement as the Chair of the Intersectionality Audit Committee and also currently sits on the board of Iranti Org which helps local and regional lesbian, trans, intersex and gender non-conforming movements in South Africa. Don’t forget to let us know what you think of this episode by tweeting us or (@SheBrigade) or Instagramming (@SheBrigade) and do leave us a review on iTunes. www.shebrigade.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/shebrigade/message

In the past four years the call to decolonize universities has grown louder. What started with the student protest movement #RhodesMustFall in South Africa in 2015, quickly lead to students world-wide demanding their universities to be decolonized. What does it mean for education to be decolonized? What would the decolonization of Radboud University entail? Philosopher Josias Tembo was part of the protest movement in South Africa and is currently doing PhD research on race and religion at Radboud University. Social geographer Kolar Aparna was involved with protest movements at Radboud University. Come and listen to what they think decolonization has got to teach. #AquinasMustFall? Decolonizing Radboud University | Academic Affairs with philosopher Josias Tembo and social geographer Kolar Aparna Thursday 23 May | 12:30 – 13:15 hrs | Collegezalencomplex, Radboud University Read the review: https://www.ru.nl/radboudreflects/terugblik/terugblik-2019/terugblik-2019/19-05-23-aquinasmustfall-decolonizing-radboud/ Never want to miss a podcast again? Subscribe to this channel. Radboud Reflects organizes in-depth lectures about philosophy, religion, ethics, society and culture. www.ru.nl/radboudreflects Wil je op de hoogte blijven van onze activiteiten? Schrijf je dan in voor de tweewekelijkse nieuwsbrief: https://www.ru.nl/radboudreflects/nieuwsbrief/aanmelden-mailnieuwsbrief-radboud-reflects/ Do you want to stay up to date about our activities? Please sign in for the English newsletter: https://www.ru.nl/radboudreflects/nieuwsbrief/subscribe-to-newsletter/

How do class, race and gender impact on the production of knowledge? Is it enough to include those who have been excluded from advanced knowledge? Or has knowledge itself been tainted by the exclusions of class, race, gender and colonial conquest? How to proceed with such realisations? How do we decolonise our minds and our universities? Should we repudiate existing knowledge and start again at zero? Or should we return to the indigenous knowledge of our ancestors? Or should we engage in a radical and critical transformation? How has Rhodes Must Fall dramatised these dilemmas? What does Marxism have to offer in working through these issues? About the Speaker: Professor Helena Sheehan is emeritus professor at Dublin City University where she taught history of ideas. Her books include: Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History, Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories, The Syriza Wave and Navigating the Zeitgeist. Her publications also include many journal articles, book chapters and conference papers. Her most recent articles have appeared in Monthly Review and Jacobin. She has lectured in many countries, from the US to the USSR, from Ireland to South Africa. She has come to South Africa five times previously, including two sabbaticals, to study transformation in higher education. She has been active on the left for many years, beginning with the US new left in the 1960s and persisting through many campaigns, movements and parties. She believes that Marxism is the unsurpassed philosophy of our times.

South African work of documentary theatre The Fall captures a movement to decolonise their institutions, Gabrielle Wang's novel for younger readers A Ghost in My Suitcase has been adapted for the stage by Barking Gecko Theatre, we check in to an upmarket hotel to learn about Wiradjuri dancer and choreographer Joel Bray's work Biladurang, and White Pearl takes us into the world of skin whitening cosmetics and pan-Asian race relations.

CliffCentral.com — Social activist and author, Kgotsi Chikane chats to the team about his new book 'Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation', a four-part retelling of the events that took place amongst the protesting students during #RhodesMustFall, moving onto university management responses and what ultimately led to the nationwide #FeesMustFall. Having compared 1976 student politics with this generation, Kgotsi poses a very controversial question: Can 'coconuts' be trusted with the revolution?

Professor Lawrence Goldman explores the issues surrounding monuments to controversial historical figures in light of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign and other recent debates See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

South African work of documentary theatre The Fall captures its creators' involvement in a movement to decolonise their institutions, a staged reading of dialogues written by artificial intelligence at the Melbourne Writers Festival asks the question: Is the playwright redundant? Fiona Gruber reviews the Melbourne Theatre Company's production of A Doll's House, Part 2, and Tim Winton's That Eye, The Sky returns to the stage in a new State Theatre Company of South Australia production.

In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from their campus. The battle cry ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ heralded an international movement calling for the decolonisation of the world’s universities. Over the last three years this movement has grown, voicing a radical call for a new era of education, and an end to coloniality both inside and outside the classroom. Unpacking the 'decolonise' framework, and exploring questions of curriculum, neoliberalism and the legacy of empire, we are joined by Gurminder Bhambra, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies at the University of Sussex, and Dalia Gebrial, a PhD student at the London School of Economics, and an editor at Novara Media, who was formerly involved with the Rhodes Must Fall campaign at Oxford University. Decolonising the University is published on 20th August 2018.

Statues and memorials to famous figures of the past adorn our towns and cities. But what should be done when some of these figures have come to be seen by many people as controversial symbols of oppression and discrimination?In Britain, the Rhodes Must Fall campaign hit the headlines when it demanded the removal of the statue of Cecil Rhodes from Oxford’s Oriel College, of which he was a leading benefactor, because of his colonialism. In the US, violent protests in Charlottesville were sparked by a decision to remove from a park a statue of Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general in the American Civil War, because of the association of the Confederacy with slavery.Passions run high on both sides. Are those calling for the removal of controversial statues seeking to right an historical injustice or are they trying to erase history? And are those who object to removing memorials defending the indefensible or are they conserving historical reality, however unpalatable that may be?To discuss these emotive questions and examine the broader cultural conflicts which lie behind them, Intelligence Squared joined forces with Historic England to bring together a stellar panel including historians David Olusoga and Peter Frankopan, the journalist and author Afua Hirsch and the cultural commentator Tiffany Jenkins. The event was chaired by Guardian columnist, broadcaster and author Jonathan Freedland. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In a speech delivered in 1971 in Cape Town, South Africa, Steve Bantu Biko proclaimed that the “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” This time-less expression is undoubtedly just as important today, than when these words were first uttered. More importantly, they are fueling grassroots organizing and resistance efforts in South Africa, as well as in Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Brazil and other places. We see the echoes of this axiom in movements across South Africa from the Rhodes Must Fall uprisings to the organizational expressions of resistance of organizations such as Black Frist, Land First. Today, in South Africa…the tide is changing. Many are developing a critical consciousness that is informing their resistance to the failures of post-Apartheid South Africa, with support and solidarity from around the African world…the people of South Africa are no longer sitting idly by waiting for justice and equality to be legislated for them. Important to note, the historical timeline is just 23 years since…this point is vital to highlight for a number of reasons… They are responding to what some analysts call…the neocolonial policies that maintains the deadly economic and sociopolitical structure of apartheid that is bolstered by still present white supremacist ideological practices, which continually exacerbate inequalities and class divisions in a "new" South Africa. Chris Hani, another one of South Africa's important radical activist intellectuals is vital to examine in tandem with Steve Biko. Often, intentionally left out of any conversation about the struggle against the racist apartheid regime, Chris Hani praxis brings a clarity to the resistance within South Africa today, as it did when he was alive. The ability of Chris Hani to galvanize masses, his ideological clarity, and full commitment to the people of South Africa was clear. It was so clear that it, of course, threaten the “broker” peace between the apartheid government and the ANC. According to a 1991 confidential cable by a Pretoria-based US diplomat, "[He] often appears on public platforms in the townships wearing quasi-combat fatigues and delivering fiery speeches that arouse and delight the audience…the cable goes on to highlight that...“many observers believe that Hani would trounce Mbeki if there were a popular vote among ANC supporters.” This method of response by perceived power elites, is not relegated to African radical activist/intellectuals. This response is global. Nevertheless, Chris Hani and Steve Biko provide a deep and clear archetype of what it means to the change we wish to see. It is our job to expand, evolve the path that has been set. What we will hear next is Steve Biko explore Black Consciousness, in his own words, and then Chris Hani. Listen intentionally. Clearly. But most importantly, listen for and to extract the ideas…understand the historical continuities, to see toward a different future. Our show was produced today in solidarity with the native, indigenous, African and Afro-descended communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; and Ghana; and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all people. Enjoy the program.

Our conversation with Cape Town based hip hop and spoken word artist Nazlee Saif centers on discussions of race, gender, religion, sexuality, and activism. This conversation centers on the use of hip hop as a cultural space within which to engage several different social issues, and to deconstruct social taboos that continue to exist within hip hop culture. Nazlee Saif is a spoken word and hip hop artist originally from Durban, who moved to Cape Town and attended the University of Cape Town (UCT) during the height of the #RhodesMustFall movement. Nazlee, who was already a socially conscious artist, was an activist and organizer in the movement on the UCT campus. Nazlee, as a queer identified, Muslim, MC, also brings those intersecting identities into the hip hop, a culture that has historically been very patriarchal, very misogynistic, and hostile to queer voices. In the conversation Nazlee Saif talks about several topic, including the #RhodesMustFall movement at UCT, intersectionality, being Black & Coloured, queer identities, being a Muslim & queer MC, Steve Biko and Black consciousness, the term “Hoteps”, and feminism. Nazlee Saif's presence in hip hop challenges hip hop's masculine, heteronormative culture. Nazlee Saif expresses strong stances on topics of race, sexuality, and religion. The artist's discussion of a level of frustration with Black Consciousness, as well as the term "Hoteps", may put Nazlee Saif at odds with some Pan Africanists. Nazlee on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNoj0WTO0fAoKG0fagDFxQ Nazlee on Twitter: @NazleeArbee Readings Clark, Msia Kibona. 2014. “Gendered Representations among Tanzanian Female Emcees”. In Ni Wakati: Hip Hop and Social Change in Africa, edited by Msia Kibona Clark and Mickie Koster. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press. Haupt, Adam. 2016. Queering Hip-Hop, Queering the City: Dope Saint Jude’s Transformative Politics. M/C Journal, 19(4). Smith, Marquita R., 2014. “Or a Real, Real Bad Lesbian”: Nicki Minaj and the Acknowledgement of Queer Desire in Hip-Hop Culture. Popular Music and Society, 37(3), pp.360-370.Continue reading

This week we spoke with Mbalenhle Matandela who was an active voice in the Right to Protest and Rhodes Must Fall campaigns in South Africa and is now a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. We discussed the various modes of protest and resistance, artificial impositions of notions of order, the politics of space and why 'armchair activists' have a crucial role to play.

As part of a project connecting to Professor of Political Science Emily Paddon-Rhoads’ class on the Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa, several Swatties examine the recent wave of student protests fighting against continued educational inequity that haunts post-Apartheid South Africa. We speak to four alumni of the University of Cape Town who were each affected by the #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movements of 2015 and 2016. We learn more about the Equal Education movement that has developed to promote equitable basic education for young learners across the country, and examine the role of media activism in a changing world.

In the build up to the World Radio Day Event 2017 the SOAS Radio Team will be interviewing community radio, representatives of communication for development organisations, radio industry professionals and academics on this years theme of ‘Radio and Global Transitions’ in a series of podcasts. In this episode, Joe Smith talks to Noma Masina. Noma is the Current Affairs Producer for ZiFM Stereo, the first independent, non-state radio station to be set up in Zimbabwe in 2012, a senior teaching fellow at the centre for Media Studies at SOAS, and was formerly a writer for the Zimbabwe Independent Newspaper. Noma talked with Joe about the role of a private radio in the context of the history of Zimbabwe’s State broadcasting dominance, pre- and post-independence, the role of alternative broadcasting in the build up to elections and social media and its usefulness and limitations in youth uprisings, with specific reference to the #Rhodesmustfall and #feesmustfall movements in South Africa. The World Radio London 2017 event will be hosted by SOAS Radio on Friday 10th February, in the Brunei Gallery at SOAS, University of London from 3-8pm. For more information about the event, click here. Sign up to the event for free here. Music in Jingle – The New Mastersounds – Miracle

One of Dre's favourite Laws, this one treads the fine line between performing, lying, and simply showing the side of yourself that you most want the world to see. Are you ready to escape the roles and limitations that other people foist upon you? Well, here's a newsflash: it all starts with you and how you present yourself. Kings can be unmade if they do not act like kings, and power can be gained if you act like it's yours already. Dre reads this Law through the prism of Superman (Jon's least favourite superhero), but what does it really mean to be a king or a hero? How can you push for more without upsetting (and being held down by) jealous people around you? And if you end up a martyr, did you really achieve what you wanted? This is a wide-ranging episode, taking us from Christopher Columbus to Buddhist psychology; how to react when the world tells you to 'Be Less You'; plus we break down the intense complexity of choosing handshakes or hugs in Britain and elsewhere. We get into a pretty intense debate over whether it's ever OK to pull down statues; if having the right accent is the real key to using this Law; and Jon tells the story of how he rejected two contracts from a major publisher because they seriously undervalued him and his work. We also dig into the dangers of agreeing to work for free or for less than you're worth: it's almost impossible to escape the resulting perception that you're actually not worth anything. In between nearly choking to death over the course of the episode, Dre makes a strong case that hard work is a tool, not a truth; we ponder the importance of reconnecting with your inner child (with psychedelics or otherwise) to (re)discover your creative freedom; and insist that you need to say the word 'cunt' if you want to get into Jon's good books. This episode includes: Setting an example without becoming a martyr The Rhodes Must Fall controversy Christopher Columbus: cunt or kingly? Be prepared to fail if you ever want to get anywhere How to successfully set your own price The difference between being angry and experiencing anger The need to believe in yourself precisely when you're trying to convince others The recursive mirror of dickheadedness The importance of psychedelics to your mental health Finding and holding to your own integrity Beware of permitting bad precedents – and never leave them unpunished Act with dignity, no matter the circumstances The difference between being vulgar and being crass and weird Mentioned in the episode: Ryan Adams and his love of cats The former country of Rhodesia The autobiography of WWE superstar, Daniel Bryan: Yes! The Tim Ferriss book, Tools of Titans – highly recommended 'This is Fine' The episode of Sherlock we discussed Our awesome interview with Jamie Alderton – Mindset With Muscle 'Violence is the last resort of the incompetent' – from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy Snoop Dogg's super-smooth handshake recovery The article Jon mentioned on leaders using vulgar language Jon's own piece on whether humour does or should have limits   Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. Join us as we continue our 48 Laws of Power review, exploring Robert Greene’s provocative and compelling book, in which he lays bare the history, practice, psychology, and philosophies of power that ultimately shape all human relations. Often seen as a handbook for the ‘modern Machiavelli’, we take a closer look, beyond the hyperbole, and discuss how understanding and implementing these Laws can actually enrich your life personally, professionally and spiritually. Jon and Dre aim to get to the heart of each of the Laws, grapple with their sometimes disturbingly amoral nature, and discuss what the Laws mean in everyday life (often revealing their own experiences – good and bad – when they’ve either observed or transgressed them).

This is a special episode of the Hip Hop African Podcast. This episode is an airing of an event we sponsored: #BlackLivesMatter and #FeesMustFall: A Panel Discussion on Black Activism in the US and South Africa held on the 29th of November at Howard University in Washington, DC. The event brought together activists for a discussion on two pivotal movements for Black lives in the U.S. and South Africa: Black Lives Matter in the U.S. and #FeesMustFall/#RhodesMustFall in South Africa. Both movements are changing dialogues around race, gender, class, violence, and oppression. The panelists were: Dr. Melina Abdullah, a professor of Pan African Studies at California State University Los Angeles and national organizer with #BlackLivesMatter. Kealeboga Mase Ramaru, an organizer with #RhodesMustFall at the University of Cape Town and the Deputy Head for the Western Cape office at Equal Education. Nana Afua Y. Brantuo, a 2016 fellow with the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) and a mindfulness coach for Black Girl Brilliance. Song List "Must Fall" by Java, Emile YX?, Linkris The Genius, Black Athena, Daddy Spencer, Crosby, and Khusta "Fees Will Fall" by Gigi Lamayne Article "Songs of Black Lives Matter: 22 New Protest Anthems" in Rolling Stone MagazineContinue reading

The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Simamkele Dlakavu live from South Africa. A student activist, storyteller, rape survivor, Ms. Dlakavu invests her time and energy in educating and empowering black people with special concern for the uplift for black females. She was recently a guest on Al Jazeera's The Stream to discuss the 40 year anniversary of the Soweto student uprisings of 1976. We're anxious to hear her reflections on the Apartheid era of White Supremacy in contrast to present conditions. We'll discuss her involvement with #RhodesMustFall as well the Economic Freedom Fighters. Ms. Dlakavu has been charged with being "prejudiced" against White people; we'll ask her if this accusation is true. We'll also address Brexit and it's potential impact on the continent in addition to her perspective on international star Trevor Noah. #RacismIsNotAPrivilege INVEST in The COWS - http://paypal.me/GusTRenegade CALL IN NUMBER: 641.715.3640 CODE 564943# The C.O.W.S. archives: http://tiny.cc/76f6p

Institute of Commonwealth Studies #ApartheidMustFall to #RhodesMustFall? The Soweto uprising of 1976 and 'unfinished business' Roundtable Discussion

Following a highly successful crowdfunding campaign, Roman Cabanac and Jonathan Witt reflect on the experience, the irrational hatred from social justice warriors, as well as their brief conflict with the Rhodes Must Fall hate group. Sihle Ngobese joins the show to discuss the inception of the tip raising campaign and the collectivist criticism levelled by the left. The Obz Café waitress, Ashleigh, is also interviewed as the hosts attempt to refocus the attention onto the real victim here.

This week, Owen Bennett Jones and guests are at the Oxford Literary Festival. Across the world student bodies have been have been asking universities to distance themselves from historical symbols of oppression. In Oxford, the protests took the form of the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ campaign which began in South Africa and targeted statues of Cecil Rhodes - a committed champion of the British Empire. How representative are these protests of current sentiments in Britain and its former colonies? So how Britain should acknowledge this part of its identity? Should it apologise and pay reparations, or embrace its history with pride? Photo Credit: Getty Images

Claire Fox and Ian Dunt discuss the Rhodes Must Fall movement In this edition of the Podcast of Ideas, David Bowden talks to Claire Fox and journalist Ian Dunt about the Rhodes Must Fall movement, which has swept campuses from Cape Town to Oxford demanding that vestiges of colonialism be removed from colleges, notably statues of Cecil Rhodes. Does the movement represent young people boldly trying to shape the world around them? Or, is it a misguided attempt by privileged students to rewrite the past by shutting down debate and making anachronistic claims to be victims of historical wrongs?

Should we be more militant in the how we deal with racial tension, or should we still follow Mandela's non-violent strategy? This week's episode Koketso Sachane chat's to Prof Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and activist Lovelyn Nwadeyi about navigating the complicated and complex journey towards what we need in order to live in a non racial democratic society.

This is the the first Renegade Report which begins with an introduction about how and why the show came about. The main discussion focuses on the #RhodesMustFall movement, the ideology, fascist overtones and behaviour. Jonathan Witt and Roman Cabanac chat to guest Michael Cardo. He is the Shadow Minister of Economic Development and a DA MP, who has strongly rebuffed the Rhodes Must Fall movement.

One person has been arrested following violent clashes between police and protesting University of Cape Town students last night. Police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse a group of students on the main campus. Police were called in, to help a private company demolish a shack erected by members of the Rhodes Must Fall movement. Lyndon Khan reports from the university..

Oxford DPhil student and Vice President of Oxford's African Society Simukai Chigudu discusses institutionalized racism and the necessary decolonization of academia following the controversy over a racist poster at the Oxford Union. To learn more about the Rhodes Must Fall Movement: Twiter: @RMF_Oxford Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rhodes-Must-Fall-In-Oxford/1599672910303410?fref=ts For more information on the Oxford Union controversy: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jun/01/oxford-union-racist-colonial-cocktail-poster. On decolonizing knowledge: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_1q81bg0r_FZ0RtMy1uVXFtUWs/view

As the year draws to a close, Siya Sangweni-Fynn and his interesting panel look at some of 2015's biggest headlines - everything from #RhodesMustFall to Saint West! www.cliffcentral.com

CliffCentral.com — As the year draws to a close, Siya Sangweni-Fynn and his interesting panel look at some of 2015's biggest headlines - everything from #RhodesMustFall to Saint West!

CliffCentral.com — As the year draws to a close, Siya Sangweni-Fynn and his interesting panel look at some of 2015's biggest headlines - everything from #RhodesMustFall to Saint West!

As the year draws to a close, Siya Sangweni-Fynn and his interesting panel look at some of 2015's biggest headlines - everything from #RhodesMustFall to Saint West! www.cliffcentral.com

Schalk Bezuidenhout is ’n aspirant akteur maar meer as dit is hy ’n standup comedian wat nou baie vinnig begin naam maak het in die land.  Sy gesig is op Comedy Central billboards, hy’t onlangs ’n Savana Comics’ Choice Award gewen, hy feature op Aromat adverts, hy doen Youtube skits, hy emcee musical festivals en dan open hy sommer ook vir Trevor Noah op sy nasionale toere voor duisende mense. En hy is nou eers 23 jaar oud. Hy kom plak in die garage laat een aand saam met Willim en ’n bottel goedkoop vonkelwyn en hulle gesels oor comedy vs. acting, kampuslewe op UCT, sy connection met Trevor Noah, Afrikaans vs. Engelse comedy, Gemengde Vrugte, corporate gigs en hecklers. Hulle riff ook oor #RhodesMustFall, Engelse kinders en sy dae op Hoërskool waar alles begin het. Hierdie episode is met trots geborg deur Zone Fitness, waar somerlywe in die winter gevorm word. As lid van Zone Fitness kan jy ’n hele maand gratis oefen as jy jou vriend kan kry om ook by Zonefitness aan te sluit.Dit is baie maklik – al wat jy moet doen is om jou vriend se kontakbesonderhede na zone@lumico.co.za te stuur en hulle sal jou terug kontak of besoek www.zonefitness.co.zavir meer besonderhede.

CliffCentral.com — Prof. Block is joined by special guest Adv. George Bizos and they delve into the issue of #RhodesMustFall, a movement by UCT students for the removal of Cecil John Rhodes' statue. They also speak on Adv. Bizos' campaign against apartheid in South Africa, most notably during the Rivonia Trial.

CliffCentral.com — Phumi chats to Vangi Gantsho, a poet, about #RhodesMustFall and how she tackles daily issues through her poetry. She's also joined by a group of young ladies from Leading Voices of Tomorrow and they tell us about the programme.

CliffCentral.com — When bad guys do good things! What do we do about it and how do we treat their legacies? We have representatives from the ANC, DA and UCT debating the issue of #RhodesMustFall.