Conjuncture

12/01/2023

“A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn revolutionized the idea of who makes history and how it’s taught in schools. Today, more than 40

11/30/2023

I was excited to be interviewed by Christina Heatherton for a special episode of Conjuncture. We discuss Antonio Gramsci, Stuart Hall, conjunctural analysis, and the politics of the present. We release it in anticipation of the "Gramsci and the Current Conjuncture" conference we're co-hosting with Geography at Berkeley and the International Gramsci Society on Sat., and the Conjuncture track at the Howard Zinn Book Fair on Sunday. Links in comments.

11/29/2023

**Rescheduled from November 17**

Join us for the book launch of "What is Antiracism? And why it means Anticapitalism"-- by Arun Kundnani.

RSVP here: https://buff.ly/3FOFD3f

Liberals have been arguing for nearly a century that racism is fundamentally an individual problem of extremist beliefs. Responding to Na**sm, thinkers like gay rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld and anthropologist Ruth Benedict called for teaching people, especially poor people, to be less prejudiced. Here lies the origin of today's liberal antiracism, from diversity training to Hollywood activism. Meanwhile, a more radical antiracism flowered in the Third World. Anticolonial revolutionaries traced racism to the broad economic and political structures of modernity. Thinkers like C.L.R. James, Claudia Jones, and Frantz Fanon showed how racism was connected to colonialism and capitalism, a perspective adopted even by Martin Luther King.

Arun Kundnani has been active in antiracist movements in Britain and the United States for three decades. He is a former editor of the journal Race & Class and was a scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. The Guardian has described him as "one of Britain’s best political writers.” He is author of The Muslims Are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror (Verso, 2015) and What Is Antiracism?: And Why It Means Anticapitalism (Verso, 2023).

Deepa Kumar is an award-winning scholar, activist, and leading scholar on Islamophobia both nationally and internationally. She is Professor of Media Studies at Rutgers University. Her books include Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and the UPS Strike (University of Illinois Press, 2007) and Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire: 20 Years Since 9/11 (Verso, 2021).

11/28/2023

Christina Heatherton speaks with Jordan T. Camp about Antonio Gramsci, Stuart Hall, conjunctural analysis, and the politics of the present.Conjuncture is a w...

11/22/2023

11/16/2023

Join us Dec 2 - Antonio Gramsci and the Current Conjuncture conference. This one-day symposium considers historical, spatial, and theoretical provocations posed by the Gramscian tradition in order to advance political and social theory for the present. https://events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/222770-antonio-gramsci-and-the-current-conjuncture

11/15/2023

In this talk, Jordan T. Camp will establish a link between W.E.B. Du Bois and Antonio Gramsci through their respective approaches to the “southern question” ...

09/18/2023

Arun Kundnani, author

09/07/2023

Excited to be hitting the road this fall with my wonderful band! Peep our tour dates through December, get your tickets and come see us!

Drop a ❤️ in the comments if you’ll be at one of our shows! We can’t wait to play for you!

🥳❤️🥳

09/06/2023

We open Season 3 with a gorgeous conversation with Leyla McCalla, Grammy-award winning musician, singer-songwriter, former member of the band Carolina Chocolate Drops
and member of Our Native Daughters. You'll want a pencil nearby to jot down these gems. Links in comments.