Race at Boiling Point: Movement We Make

UCHRI Podcast

Ruth Wilson Gilmore (City University of New York), AbdouMaliq Simone (University of Sheffield), Rafeef Ziadah (University of London), and moderator Avery Gordon (UC Santa Barbara) in conversation about movement as a vital keyword for understanding our fractious present— as collective mobilization, as social movements, as the circulation of ideas, as the shifting boundaries of the tolerable and the intolerable, as the movement of displaced populations, as constriction and its networkings of resistance. The wide-ranging conversation emerged out of the national and international uprisings in response to the death of George Floyd and others. These leading critical thinkers engage questions about abolition, resisting the dilution of radical imaginaries into palatable language and action, strategies for building and sustaining infrastructures that foster the emergence of new worlds, how we might recognize movement itself as a map of the critical power relations and their subversion that structures life across the globe.