I’ll be using SubStack to write about various matters. Lately I have written on why it is dangerous for antiracist groups to advocate for legislating against ‘hate crimes’ and the bizarre case against journalist Antoinette Lattouf by her former employer, the ABC, which suggested that because it is difficult to…
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I was touched to have been awarded the School of Humanities and Communication Arts Researcher of the Year award 2020 at my institution, Western Sydney University. The prize was awarded for the paper, ‘Looking As White: anti-racism apps, appearance and racialized embodiment’, published in the journal Identities, and soon in…
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Slam, the latest movie by my partner, writer-director Partho Sen-Gupta, is playing at the Sydney Film Festival on June 15 & 16 2019. Described by Rough Cut as, ‘upend[ing] the anodyne images that dominate Australian cinema’ and named in Dirty Movies top ten films of 2018, Slam is an unapologetically…
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Justine Humphry and I have launched a new website for our work on digital antiracisms. Please visit to stay abreast of events, publications and other initiatives including the recent visit tp Sydney of Jessie Daniels, author of White Lies and Cyber Racism. Save
Comments closedI am happy to present the trailer for Sunrise, the beautiful film by my partner, the Indian director Partho Sen-Gupta. The film premiered at the Busan International Film Festival, Mumbai Film Festival, Dharamshala Film Festival, the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights and has just been announced in…
Comments closedI was pleased to find out that my article, ‘Post-Race, Post Politics: the paradoxical rise of culture after multiculturalism’ made the list of ‘most-read’ articles among Taylor and Francis journals. The article was published in Ethnic and Racial Studies in which I have two more articles appearing over the next…
Comments closedThe Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age is finally ready. My co-author, Gavan and I went to pick it up and meet the delightful Zed Books editors at their offices in London last week. Here I am checking it out. The book will be officially out next week…
Comments closedLend your support OK, so you know I really never blog about anything that isn’t about my work, but tonight I am appealing to you to watch the above teaser for the film, Sunrise that my partner, the very brilliant and talented (I would say that, wouldn’t I?), partner, Partho…
Comments closedThe Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age, co-wrtten with Gavan Titley is currently in press and will be published with Zed Books in 2011 with a preface by Gary Younge.
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It’s been such a long time since I last blogged. Over the last few months I have been a visiting fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin during which time I co-wrote a book, The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a neoliberal age with Gavan Titley. Pending readers’ reviews which we are waiting for at the end of November, the book will be out on June 9 2011.
During my time in Berlin, we organised a workshop at the ICI on the book’s theme and were delighted to have Guardian journalist Gary Younge join us. The whole workshop is available to watch online.
Comments closedSorry for the silence on this site due to the birth of my daughter Noam on 27 November 2009. After a heady 4 months I am back to work. From April to July 2010, I am on study leave from Sussex and shall be a visiting fellow at the Institute…
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