Miscellaneous
Our guest today is Professor Tom Selwyn, who is Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, and Visiting Professor at Breda University, the Netherlands, and Bethlehem University, Palestine. His article “Brexit, Grenfell, Windrush, and the mooring, un-mooring, and re-mooring of home” argues that those three events, which have all shaped the consciousness of British people, derive from closely related sources deep in the foundations of British political culture, one source being contempt by the British ruling class for the working class and migrants. The article also discusses how we conceive of home and how this has played a part in these seismic events of the last few years. He joined us to discuss his article and issues related to it. Articles discussed in this podcast: Tom Selwyn, 2019, "Brexit, Grenfell, Windrush, and the mooring, un-mooring, and re-mooring of home", Ethnoscripts, Volume 21, Issue 1. Tom Selwyn, 2021, "Foreword", in Hazel Andrews, Tourism and Brexit: Travel, Borders and Identity, Bristol, Channel View Publications. If you'd like to be involved in the movement for a closer relationship with Europe and for a Labour government, join Labour for a European Future today: https://donorbox.org/lef-membership