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Episode 6

THE TYRANNY OF THE PRESENT

In this sixth episode of Conjuncture, Jordan T. Camp’s guest is Leniqueca A. Welcome. They discuss her ethnographic research in Trinidad, what she calls the “tyranny of the present,” and the possibilities of abolitionist politics today. Conjuncture is a monthly web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton for the Trinity Social Justice Initiative. It features interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and public intellectuals.

Leniqueca A. Welcome is an assistant professor of International and Urban Studies at Trinity College. Her work appears in influential venues such as Small Axe, American Anthropologist, Multimodality and Society, Inquiry, City and Society, as well as edited volumes including Sovereignty Unhinged (Duke, forthcoming). She is currently working on her first book, Come Out of This World: Beyond Terrains of Criminalization to Where Life is Precious.

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Episode 5

POLITICS AS ORGANIZING

In the fifth episode of Conjuncture, Jordan T. Camp speaks with cultural historian and theorist Michael Denning about his work, conjunctural interventions, and Antonio Gramsci’s legacy for politics today.

Michael Denning is Professor and Chair of American Studies, Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, and Coordinator of the Working Group on Globalization and Culture at Yale University.

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Episode 4

RACIAL CAPITALISM AND COUNTERINSURGENCY

In this episode of Conjuncture, Jordan T. Camp speaks with public intellectual Arun Kundnani about his research on racial capitalism, counterinsurgency, Islamophobia, surveillance, and national security policies in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Arun Kundnani is an Associate of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam and a public intellectual. He is the author of The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror (2014), The End of Tolerance: Racism in 21st Century Britain (2007), and is currently completing a new book, Resistance is Not Enough: Radical Anti-Racism in a Neoliberal Age.

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Episode 3

ANTONIO GRAMSCI AND SUBALTERN SOCIAL GROUPS

In this third episode of Conjuncture, Jordan T. Camp speaks with political theorist Marcus Green about Antonio Gramsci, Subaltern Social Groups (Columbia University Press, 2021), the volume he co-edited with the late Joseph Buttigieg.

Marcus E. Green teaches Political Science at Pasadena City College and serves as secretary of the International Gramsci Society. He is the editor of Rethinking Gramsci (2011), and co-editor (with Joseph A. Buttigieg) of Antonio Gramsci’s Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison Notebooks 25, published by Columbia University Press in 2021.

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Episode 2

RESURGENT NATIONALISMS AND THE CHALLENGES OF THE CURRENT CONJUNCTURE

In this second episode of “Conjuncture,” Jordan T. Camp speaks with geographer Gillian Hart about resurgent nationalism and the challenges of the current conjuncture.

Gillian Hart is Professor Emerita and Professor of the Graduate School in Geography, Univ. of California, Berkeley, and Distinguished Professor in the Humanities Graduate Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand.

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Episode 1

THE BLACK RADICAL INTELLECTUAL TRADITION & THE CRITIQUE OF THE PRESENT

In the first episode of Conjuncture, Jordan T. Camp’s guest is political theorist Anthony Bogues, who discusses his research on the Black radical intellectual tradition and its distinctive critique of the present conjuncture.

Anthony Bogues is Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Professor of Africana Studies, and Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University.

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