28. Paul Gilroy

In this episode Håkan Thörn and Åsa Wettergren interview Professor Paul Gilroy, who is a cultural theorist and sociologist based at University College, London. In a number of books and articles Gilroy has analyzed contemporary society from the viewpoint of colonial history. Topics discussed in the interview are the discourse of anti-semitism in the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict, right-wing populism and the production of ignorance, climate justice and racism, identity politics, and the role of music in connection with black activism.

Literature Paul Gilroy: There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: the Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (Hutchinson, 1987). Paul Gilroy: The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Harvard U.P, 1993).

Paul Gilroy: ”Orphic Riddles: The Drums, the Discs and the Critics”, in estetica. studi e ricerche, vol. XI, no 1. 2021, p. 151-182. Paul Gilroy: “Working with ‘Wogs’: Aliens, Denizens and the Machinations of Denialism”, in Communication, Culture and Critique, no.