Opening up Questions on Movement and Justice
Conversations about migration are often inside the box: numbers, causes, effect on the economy, how to prevent it.
This podcast unboxes migration. It opens up questions on movement and justice and it disrupts conventional thinking to better understand how mobility, in all its forms, is a necessary part of all our lives.
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Latest episode:
Episode 1:
More episodes coming early 2025!
Our approach is creative, making connections between different types of movement, going beyond the human and across time. It is also critical, challenging assumptions and prioritising justice, as well as conceptual and research driven (we are academics after all!). We call this ‘The Bristol Approach’ to migration and mobilities.
Join Bridget Anderson, Director of Migration Mobilities Bristol (MMB), to open the migration box with a diverse group of guests. In each 30-minute episode we invite two experts from different corners of the world to bring us their ideas on movement. Expect lively conversation – and perhaps some arguments too! – about all things migration and mobilities.
Produced by MMB
Edited by Melissa FitzGerald @melissafitzg
Music by Ollie Shaw ollyshawmusic.com
LISTEN NOW ON:
Episode 1 – What is migration and why unbox it?
Host Bridget Anderson asks guests Nandita Sharma and Tim Cole what they think of when they hear the word ‘migration’. Humans have always moved so when and why does moving become described as ‘migrating’? What might we miss if we just accept the term ‘migration’ without questioning it? In this lively conversation, taking us across different histories, landscapes, species and state systems, Bridget, Nandita and Tim take on the challenge of unboxing migration and show why this matters for making a more just world.
Guests:
Nandita Sharma is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She is an activist scholar whose research is shaped by the social movements she is involved in. Nandita was a Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor with MMB in 2022. Tim Cole is Professor of Social History at the University of Bristol. His research ranges across social, landscape and environmental histories with a focus on the Holocaust.
