IRR x Race & Class: Race Mental Health, State Violence

Monish joined us to outline the history and contemporary use of electron monitoring (tagging) for criminal sentencing and punishment which was extended under the Asylum and Immigration Act s36  to ‘immigration controls’ of ‘high risk’ individuals. 

This is a special five part series in collaboration with the official journal of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Race & Class. The series begins with an introduction to the history of IRR with Director Liz Fekete & follows with four episodes about the latest special issue: Race Mental Health, State Violence with editors Eddie Bruce-Jones & Monish Bhatia and contributors Tarek Younis and Vanessa E Thompson. With special thanks to Sophia Siddiqui. 
https://irr.org.uk 
https://irr.org.uk/article/race-mental-health-state-violence

S1/E4 Monish Bhatia: Racial surveillance & electronic monitoring

Vanessa joins us to discuss black feminist abolitionist analysis, intersectional disability justice and its contexts for policing in Europe. 

This is a special five part series in collaboration with the official journal of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Race & Class. The series begins with an introduction to the history of IRR with Director Liz Fekete & follows with four episodes about the latest special issue: Race Mental Health, State Violence with editors Eddie Bruce-Jones & Monish Bhatia and contributors Tarek Younis and Vanessa E Thompson. With special thanks to Sophia Siddiqui. 

https://irr.org.uk  
https://irr.org.uk/article/race-mental-health-state-violence

S1/E5 Vanessa E. Thompson: Policing & abolitionist intersectional care

Liz outlines some of the key moments in the IRR’s history. We discuss both the historical and contemporary role of the institute as specified by the late A. Sivanandan, and Liz provides some important reflections and hopeful possibilities about our present-day political culture.

This is a special five part series in collaboration with the official journal of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Race & Class. The series begins with an introduction to the history of IRR with Director Liz Fekete & follows with four episodes about the latest special issue: Race Mental Health, State Violence with editors Eddie Bruce-Jones & Monish Bhatia and contributors Tarek Younis and Vanessa E Thompson. With special thanks to Sophia Siddiqui. 

https://irr.org.uk  
https://irr.org.uk/article/race-mental-health-state-violence
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/liz-fekete-the-cradle-and-the-fist/id1355469484?i=1000491033812

S1/E1 Liz Fekete: A brief history of the Institute of Race Relations

TW: personal & public histories of deaths in custody 
Eddie joined us to discuss the groundings of the special issue and provides us with an  overview of the recommendations of the - Angiolini Review – the first official review of practices and processes related to and following police related deaths in the UK. 

This is a special five part series in collaboration with the official journal of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Race & Class. The series begins with an introduction to the history of IRR with Director Liz Fekete & follows with four episodes about the latest special issue: Race Mental Health, State Violence with editors Eddie Bruce-Jones & Monish Bhatia and contributors Tarek Younis and Vanessa E Thompson. With special thanks to Sophia Siddiqui. 
https://irr.org.uk 
https://irr.org.uk/article/race-mental-health-state-violence

S1/E2 Eddie Bruce-Jones: Deaths in custody & the Angiolini Review

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