Lecture: The Futures of Racial Capitalism

Welcome to this guest lecture with Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya!

The Research Collective on Housing Justice at IBF, Uppsala University, in collaboration with the Nordic Collective for Critical Race Studies and the department of Social Work at Malmö University, invites you cordially to the lecture “THE FUTURES OF RACIAL CAPITALISM” by professor Gargi Bhattacharyya.

Date: Thursday 30 November at 15.15-17.00
Place: Seminar Room at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research Trädgårdsgatan 18
Pre-registration: Registration to irene.molina@ibf.uu.se

Gargi Bhattacharyya is a professor of sociology at the University of East London. They can count as one of the most important writers and thinkers on racial capitalism today. Their publications revolve around the fields of racism, feminism, and racial capitalism, including the books Dangerous Brown Men (Zed, 2008), Crisis, austerity and everyday life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Rethinking Racial Capitalism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018), and We, the Heartbroken (Hajar Press, 2023).

In this lecture, professor Bhattacharyya will give some updates on their work and will talk about one of their most recent publications The Futures of Racial Capitalism (John Wiley and Sons, 2023).