The Funambulist Podcast

A Moment of True Decolonization, A daily podcast series by The Funambulist in confinement Episode nº07 As many of us are currently confined at home in many places of the world, and while we keep in our minds and in our hearts those who have no choice but to be at risk from the ongoing worldwide pandemic, because they're doctors, nurses, cashiers, workers, homeless, incarcerated, or in any other precarious situation, we wanted to provide you with a daily podcast to use this time to reflect and organizing without talking about the pandemic itself -- there might be already enough about it. The concept is very simple. Every day, we ask one person the same question: "what is for you a moment of true decolonization?" The answer can be a historial moment or something they witnessed; something heroic and grandiose, or rather discreet and mundane; a durable blow to the structures of colonialism or a short instant of liberation. We thank you for listening and wish you and your loved ones the very best wherever you a

A Moment of True Decolonization, A daily podcast series by The Funambulist in confinement Episode nº06 As many of us are currently confined at home in many places of the world, and while we keep in our minds and in our hearts those who have no choice but to be at risk from the ongoing worldwide pandemic, because they're doctors, nurses, cashiers, workers, homeless, incarcerated, or in any other precarious situation, we wanted to provide you with a daily podcast to use this time to reflect and organizing without talking about the pandemic itself -- there might be already enough about it. The concept is very simple. Every day, we ask one person the same question: "what is for you a moment of true decolonization?" The answer can be a historial moment or something they witnessed; something heroic and grandiose, or rather discreet and mundane; a durable blow to the structures of colonialism or a short instant of liberation. We thank you for listening and wish you and your loved ones the very best wherever you a

A Moment of True Decolonization, A daily podcast series by The Funambulist in confinement Episode nº05 As many of us are currently confined at home in many places of the world, and while we keep in our minds and in our hearts those who have no choice but to be at risk from the ongoing worldwide pandemic, because they're doctors, nurses, cashiers, workers, homeless, incarcerated, or in any other precarious situation, we wanted to provide you with a daily podcast to use this time to reflect and organizing without talking about the pandemic itself -- there might be already enough about it. The concept is very simple. Every day, we ask one person the same question: "what is for you a moment of true decolonization?" The answer can be a historial moment or something they witnessed; something heroic and grandiose, or rather discreet and mundane; a durable blow to the structures of colonialism or a short instant of liberation. We thank you for listening and wish you and your loved ones the very best wherever you a

A Moment of True Decolonization, A daily podcast series by The Funambulist in confinement Episode nº04 As many of us are currently confined at home in many places of the world, and while we keep in our minds and in our hearts those who have no choice but to be at risk from the ongoing worldwide pandemic, because they're doctors, nurses, cashiers, workers, homeless, incarcerated, or in any other precarious situation, we wanted to provide you with a daily podcast to use this time to reflect and organizing without talking about the pandemic itself -- there might be already enough about it. The concept is very simple. Every day, we ask one person the same question: "what is for you a moment of true decolonization?" The answer can be a historial moment or something they witnessed; something heroic and grandiose, or rather discreet and mundane; a durable blow to the structures of colonialism or a short instant of liberation. We thank you for listening and wish you and your loved ones the very best wherever you a

A Moment of True Decolonization, A daily podcast series by The Funambulist in confinement Episode nº03 As many of us are currently confined at home in many places of the world, and while we keep in our minds and in our hearts those who have no choice but to be at risk from the ongoing worldwide pandemic, because they're doctors, nurses, cashiers, workers, homeless, incarcerated, or in any other precarious situation, we wanted to provide you with a daily podcast to use this time to reflect and organizing without talking about the pandemic itself -- there might be already enough about it. The concept is very simple. Every day, we ask one person the same question: "what is for you a moment of true decolonization?" The answer can be a historial moment or something they witnessed; something heroic and grandiose, or rather discreet and mundane; a durable blow to the structures of colonialism or a short instant of liberation. We thank you for listening and wish you and your loved ones the very best wherever you a

A Moment of True Decolonization, A daily podcast series by The Funambulist in confinement Episode nº02 As many of us are currently confined at home in many places of the world, and while we keep in our minds and in our hearts those who have no choice but to be at risk from the ongoing worldwide pandemic, because they're doctors, nurses, cashiers, workers, homeless, incarcerated, or in any other precarious situation, we wanted to provide you with a daily podcast to use this time to reflect and organizing without talking about the pandemic itself -- there might be already enough about it. The concept is very simple. Every day, we ask one person the same question: "what is for you a moment of true decolonization?" The answer can be a historial moment or something they witnessed; something heroic and grandiose, or rather discreet and mundane; a durable blow to the structures of colonialism or a short instant of liberation. We thank you for listening and wish you and your loved ones the very best wherever you a

A Moment of True Decolonization, A daily podcast series by The Funambulist in confinement Episode nº01 As many of us are currently confined at home in many places of the world, and while we keep in our minds and in our hearts those who have no choice but to be at risk from the ongoing worldwide pandemic, because they're doctors, nurses, cashiers, workers, homeless, incarcerated, or in any other precarious situation, we wanted to provide you with a daily podcast to use this time to reflect and organizing without talking about the pandemic itself -- there might be already enough about it. The concept is very simple. Every day, we ask one person the same question: "what is for you a moment of true decolonization?" The answer can be a historial moment or something they witnessed; something heroic and grandiose, or rather discreet and mundane; a durable blow to the structures of colonialism or a short instant of liberation. We thank you for listening and wish you and your loved ones the very best wherever you a

Cette mini-série du podcast de The Funambulist — pour une fois en français — est une tentative de mise en valeur des récits de diasporas en France, ou bien de groupes sous domination coloniale française, dont les récits ne nous semblent pas assez relayés en France, y compris parfois dans le milieu militant. Notre espoir pour cette mini-série est de contribuer a notre petite échelle à l'expansion de nos imaginaires politiques, ainsi qu'au développement de solidarités entre groupes qui, d'une manière ou d'une autre, luttent contre les structures racistes et colonialistes françaises. Hugo Dos Santos est diplômé en Histoire contemporaine et en Cinéma. Après un parcours dans le cinéma documentaire où il travaille les archives audiovisuelles sur des films traitant de l’immigration, de l’exil, du colonialisme ou de luttes sociales, il s’oriente parallèlement vers le journalisme. Depuis 2008 il est engagé dans l’association Mémoire Vive/Memória viva et notamment à la constitution d’un fonds d’archive à La Contempora

This conversation between Walter Bgoya and Margarida Waco reflects on the notion of progressive publishing in a post-colonial African context. Advocating for literature as a weapon of liberation, Bgoya examines three key moments in Tanzania’s modern history: colonialism, independency, and neoliberalism. In his account of the political framework, from the structural adjustment policies imposed by the World Bank and the IMF in the 80’s forcing the country on its knees, via the socialist policies deployed by the founding father of the Republic of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere, to the struggles of ideas that emerged during independency and until today still perpetuate the political landscape, Bgoya has devoted a life-long commitment to the questions of North-South relations in terms of knowledge production and dissemination. If imperialism created the structures of self-sustained ideologies which have been preached by Africans in scholarly environments, knowledge production that endeavors to be independent and give ro

Cette mini-série du podcast de The Funambulist — pour une fois en français — est une tentative de mise en valeur des récits de diasporas en France, ou bien de groupes sous domination coloniale française, dont les récits ne nous semblent pas assez relayés en France, y compris parfois dans le milieu militant. Notre espoir pour cette mini-série est de contribuer a notre petite échelle à l'expansion de nos imaginaires politiques, ainsi qu'au développement de solidarités entre groupes qui, d'une manière ou d'une autre, luttent contre les structures racistes et colonialistes françaises. Apinayaa U. est étudiante en relations internationales et membre de la diaspora tamoule d'Îlam en France. Conformément à son souhait et celui de sa famille à l'issue de cet entretien nous avons délibérément retiré toute référence à son nom de famille au sein de cet entretien. Cette conversation a été la première pensée et enregistrée pour cette mini-série et nous remercions Sinthujan Varatharajah et Brintha Koneshachandra pour leur

Cette mini-série du podcast de The Funambulist — pour une fois en français — est une tentative de mise en valeur des récits de diasporas en France, ou bien de groupes sous domination coloniale française, dont les récits ne nous semblent pas assez relayés en France, y compris parfois dans le milieu militant. Notre espoir pour cette mini-série est de contribuer a notre petite échelle à l'expansion de nos imaginaires politiques, ainsi qu'au développement de solidarités entre groupes qui, d'une manière ou d'une autre, luttent contre les structures racistes et colonialistes françaises. Pierre Wélépa est un citoyen calédonien et un militant décolonial kanak. Il est le co-auteur du texte "Vers un dialogue décolonial au pays du non-dit" dans Rencontres radicales: Pour des dialogues féministes décoloniaux édité par Manal Altamimi, Tal Dor & Nacira Guénif-Souilamas (Cambourakis, 2018). Cette conversation avec lui s'adresse principalement à un public en France, en particulier les personnes non-Kanak détentrice de la ci

Cette mini-série du podcast de The Funambulist — pour une fois en français — est une tentative de mise en valeur des récits de diasporas en France, ou bien de groupes sous domination coloniale française, dont les récits ne nous semblent pas assez relayés en France, y compris parfois dans le milieu militant. Notre espoir pour cette mini-série est de contribuer a notre petite échelle à l'expansion de nos imaginaires politiques, ainsi qu'au développement de solidarités entre groupes qui, d'une manière ou d'une autre, luttent contre les structures racistes et colonialistes françaises. https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/diasporas-imaginaire-des-luttes-une-mini-serie-en-francais

Conversation recorded by Léopold Lambert in London with Colin Prescod on February 13, 2020. https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/colin-prescod-justice4grenfell-a-political-walk-in-north-kensington-london

Conversation recorded with Imran Mohammad in Chicago on December 13, 2019. More info here: http://thefunambulist.net/podcast/imran-mohammad-on-genocide-detention-and-refugeehood

An event around the book The Funambulist by its Readers: Political Geographies from Chicago and Elsewhere commissioned by the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Guests are Patricia Nguyen, Jesse Mumm, Maira Khwaja, Benji Hart, and Anjulie Rao. https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/the-funambulist-events-political-geographies-of-chicago

Conversation recorded in Paris with Mpho Matsipa on November 30, 2019. https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/mpho-matsipa-on-spaces-of-possibilities-and-african-mobilities

Conversation recorded in Paris with Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn on November 21, 2019. https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/jacqueline-hoang-nguyen-diasporic-archives-vs-colonial-archives

Conversation recorded in Melbourne with Nadia Ben Youssef on November 8, 2019. https://thefunambulist.net/?post_type=podcast&p=59656&preview=true

Recorded in Paris with Madonna Thunder Hawk and Marcella Gilbert on October 15, 2019.

Conversation recorded in Johannesburg on September 12, 2019.