Cojo karam is an academic at brickbeck college, university of london. He's the author of uncommonwealth britain in the aftermath of empire. The dig was produced by alex lewis and recorded at w b r u in providence. Our senior advisers are theorio francos and ben maybe. Forposting new episodes every week. Take our vast archives at the dig radio dot com. Follow us on twitter at the de radio. Same on facebook.
Featuring Kojo Koram on his brilliant book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. How neoliberalism reorganized colonial capitalist plunder to survive the Third Worldist challenge, and then boomeranged back into the British metropole—a history obscured by rendering “decolonization” into a symbolic culture war battle.
Check out How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT by Elena Conis hachettebookgroup.com/titles/elena-conis/how-to-sell-a-poison/9781645036753/
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