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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: The British Academy Book Prize 2021
Description: Racial injustice in USA; ghost towns in post-industrial Scotland; how maritime history looks from the viewpoint of Aboriginal Australians and Parsis, Mauritians and Malays; the roots of violence that has plagued postcolonial society. These are topics covered in the books shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. Rana Mitter talks to the four authors who are:Cal Flynn for Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. for Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today
Mahmood Mamdani for Neither Settler nor Native: The Making an...