Remi Joseph-Salisbury - Antiracist scholar-activism...

...a call to action.
Building on the 2021 book Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism, this talk considers the praxes of academics working within, and against, their institutions in pursuit of anti-racist social justice. To do so, it draws upon data from interviews with antiracist ‘scholar-activists’ in British universities.
The presentation explores key themes from that research and offers key principles that may be taken to define antiracist scholar-activism. In so doing, it considers the challenges and contradictions that arise from working in neoliberal-imperial-institutionally-racist universities, whilst also suggesting that there remain pockets of possibility to subvert the institution and work in service to communities of resistance. whilst inviting attendees to reflect on their own contexts and forms of praxis, the talk calls for scholars to take up the cause of antiracist social justice.