Achille Mbembe, author, commentator and philosopher, addresses his recent work The Universal Right to Breathe and Brutalisme in the context of the racial disparity of deaths and racially inflicted violence; speaking on the power of witnessing in preventing others from being expropriated of their breath, and the significance of respiration at the beginning and end of life.
Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-achille-mbembe
This conversation was recorded on 17th June 2020
Speakers: Paul Gilroy, Director of the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre // Achille Mbembe, Research Professor at the Wits Institute For Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Producer and Editor: Kaissa Karhu
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