L-R: Kehinde Andrews, Michael McMillan, Christine Cecinska, Shona Hunter, Karamat Iqbal . 2019 Performing Race. Curation Javeria Khadija Shah.
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Decolonising the Civic: Redefine, reclaim, relegate Tribe Arts. Civilising Civilisation: Who Defined the Civic? In conversation with Tribe Arts. 06.10.2021.
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Explanation of the White Saviour Industrial Complex and Voluntourism
Interview with Waqar Rizvi for Pakistani Indus News on the question of: Is the UK a Model of Racial Equality? In the wake of the publication of the UK Government Report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. for Scope (Episode 384)
Decolonising Education Podcast hosted by Muna Abdi.
Episode on 'The Challenge of Whiteness'.
In this episode we have Kay Sidebottom, Michael Cole and Shona Hunter sharing their insights and experiences of doing the work of unpack and challenging Whiteness.
The coversation covers Whiteness, white allyship and power, collective grief and harm. How Whiteness works through systems, ideas and bodies and the implications in the education space.
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Right Rising Podcast from the Research Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right
Season 2, Episode 11
New Book Spotlight – Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness.
Guests Shona Hunter, Christi van der Westhuizen, and Ashley Mattheis join Right Rising to discuss their new edited volume Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness, which seeks to understand whiteness as a manifestation of power. Along with host Augusta Dell'Omo, Shona, Christi, and Ashley explore everything from TradWives to international conspiracies to volksmoeders, to understand how whiteness operates in a global perspective. Shona, Christi, and Ashley conclude with a discussion on how these radical right movements - and their shared emphasis on whiteness - interlock throughout the United States, Britain, and South Africa.
In conversation with Christi van der Westhuizen on Rethinking Critical Whiteness Studies for Beckett Talks Podcast (Episode 17).
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How Whiteness Dominates Education. In conversation with Will Tosh for the Shakespeare’s Globe Podcast: Such Stuff (Season 6, Episode 3) 26.08.2020.
Interview with Journalist Antoine Giniaux for French national radio station France inter on the extreme right at the heart of the Brexit campaign on the eve of the UK's Referendum vote in 2016 and in the wake of the murder of the MP Jo Cox.
"The debate over numbers of refugees is pointless anyway," notes Shona Hunter, professor of political sociology at the University of Leeds. "There are only a few hundred Syrian refugees in Bradford today. But whatever the numbers, what matters in the current political climate is how they are perceived."
There's a gap between perception and reality. Even with a realistic view (based on figures, for example, and policies and practices that promote integration), the way we perceive things is increasingly linked to Islamophobia and the question: "Who is the good migrant and who is the bad migrant?" We focus on the one who isn't white, the one whose behaviour we imagine is problematic.
And the academic concludes: "It is above all about the image that the British have of themselves. The loss of bearings, the nostalgia for an empire , and for a time when Great Britain controlled (in part) the world.
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In 2022 Racism is back on the agenda. Since 2009 the White Spaces project has been exploring how to make sysemic diversification of the curriculum and education space stick.
The project's key lesson has been to shift the conversation about racialised inequality away from defecits, problems and gaps that need to be filled (consider the oft-cited 'disadvantage gap', or the Covid experience of the digital divide). Instead we should re-focus our attention away from deficits and onto how power is consolidated through our institutions.
Says Shona Hunter in her column for Schools Week on tackling systemic inequality in education.
Double page spread on Handbook of Critical Whiteness Studies in the Culture Section of Swedish national news The Expressen ‘Whiteness Studies in Free Fall’. 02.05.2022
At a time when universities are emphasising their commitments to equality and diversity, Adam Smith asks: why are they still so white?
Shona Hunter, a sociologist at the University of Leeds, argues that a university’s self-belief that it is the benevolent host of debates about how to restructure society is one reason why it is reluctant to let go of its own structures. “When you start to apply radical knowledge to a university, it destabilises the institution,” Hunter says. “So the institution resists, and refuses to reorganise the way power is distributed.”
Adam Smith in Research Fortnight on the matter of Whitewash why are universities still so white?