Citizenship, 'Race' and Belonging research group

Launch of Culture Bars Podcast

CRaB recently launched a new podcast series – Culture Bars. Culture Bars is a collaborative project realized by international scholars, educators, artists and grassroots community
STEAM Education: A Global HipHop Perspective

This workshop explores how HipHop can reconfigure educational practices by taking an artistic approach to educational and social reforms. Time & Location: Tuesday 10th of
Call for Papers: Exploring the Edges of Citizenship, Workshop 1: Nationhood and Nationalism

Call for Papers: Exploring the Edges of Citizenship, Workshop 1: Nationhood and Nationalism International Interdisciplinary Workshop at the University of Portsmouth on 4th July 2019

Living with One China as a Migrant Wife in Taiwan

24th February 2017 CRaB admin Blogs, Uncategorised

By Isabelle Cheng Officially, since 1949 at the end of the Chinese Civil War, Taiwan and China do not talk to each other, partly due to the ongoing dispute over the sovereignty of Taiwan. When they talk to each other, they often use a messenger (publicly or privately) since there is no official political contact between the two, in spite of the intensive socio-economic and cultural interactions after the resumed contact in 1987. Would it be a good idea to have Donald Trump as their go-between? Apparently not. The tensions across the Taiwan Strait after Trump talked to Taiwanese President

Handsworth, 1985: Thatcher’s government and the criminalisation of young black men

16th February 2017 CRaB admin Blogs

By Jodi Burkett As part of my ongoing research into the creation of post-imperial Britain, particularly in changing conceptions of ‘race’ and attitudes to immigration, I have recently been reading reports by the Thatcher government regarding the ‘race riots’ in Handsworth in 1985. These documents, released after the 30th anniversary of the riots, reveal a government confident and self-assured in its belief that it was right in its handling of social and economic policies. However, there are hints that they were aware that something was not right in British society, although they fail to put a finger on what exactly

Race in your Face 2: Liberate My Degree

10th February 2017 Charles Leddy-Owen News and Events, What's On

This event organised by University of Portsmouth students may be of interest to CRaB members/followers: “Calls for the decolonization of the curriculum have become a global anthem amongst University students today. Perhaps the most profound movement of decolonization has been the Rhodes Must Fall movement in South Africa. This movement galvanized students throughout the UK to ask; why is my curriculum white? More recently at SOAS and LSE calls for decolonization have helped catalyze protests and discussion. Our objective for this open Panel Q&A is to ask: what is decolonization? Is there a need to decolonize? What is missing from