Podcast
Race, bordering and disobedient knowledge
Hosted by Studio Sockom · EN
This podcast introduces research on racism, border politics and knowledge created in activism and everyday struggles. We study social movements, encounters with authorities and antiracism education. The podcast is created by the researchers in the project “Intersectional Border Struggles and Disobedient Knowledge in Activism”. The project is funded by the Academy of Finland and located at the Swedish School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki.
You can read more about the project at https://blogs.helsinki.fi/borderstruggles/
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#3: Towards developing racial equality data
Aug 31, 202200:28:26Tap to summarizeNelli Ruotsalainen interviews Amiirah Salleh-Hoddin about her research on racial equality data and how to collect data about discrimination in an ethical way. Amiirah explains that racial equality data is used as an equality tool for antiracist and anti-discrimination legislation.
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#6: Disobedient knowledge in antiracist activism
Aug 31, 202200:33:19Tap to summarizeIn the Nordic countries, many social media platforms, activist groups and arts events are organised by Black, Brown and other People of Colour. Some of the activities are framed around antiracist feminism or African diaspora, others build for example on urban activism in racialised and marginalised areas. In this episode, Minna Seikkula interviews Suvi Keskinen about her research on this kind of activism and the ways that research can be part of social change.
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#4: Creating the first antiracism app in Finland: Finland Without Racism (SILRAS)
Aug 31, 202200:22:32Tap to summarizeDiscussion between Minna Seikkula and Aminkeng Atabong Alemanji. Amin reflects on using Participatory action research techniques and working with students to design the mobile app Finland Without Racism. Finland Without Racism can be downloaded on the Google Play and iOS stores.
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#2: Whiteness and feminism
Aug 31, 202200:23:25Tap to summarizeAmiirah Salleh-Hoddin interviews Nelli Ruotsalainen about her research on contesting normative whiteness in the feminist movement in Finland. Nelli is interested in how different kinds of feminist actors incorporate antiracism in their activities and how that looks like.
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#1: About race, bordering and disobedient knowledge
Aug 31, 202200:02:17Tap to summarizeAmiirah Salleh-Hoddin and Nelli Ruotsalainen introduce the podcast and the ideas behind it.
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#5: Research on asylum should go against the grain
Aug 31, 202200:18:46Tap to summarizeAminkeng Atabong Alemanji interviews Minna Seikkula on her research on administrative border struggles. The discussion focuses on questions of methodology in critical research on migration related topics.
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