Jo Littler: Against Meritocracy

Jo Littler discusses her book Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power, and Myths of Mobility with Chris Richardson. Jo Littler is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Gender and Sexualities Research Centre at City, University of London, UK. Her work on in/equality and cultural politics is wide-ranging and includes Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power and Myths of Mobility, Routledge (2018) Radical Consumption? (2008) and with Roshi Naidoo (2005) The Politics of Heritage: The legacies of ‘race’ (2005). She is a co-editor of the European Journal of Cultural Studies and part of the editorial collective of Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture. She is currently working on a book of interviews with left feminist academics and, as part of ‘The Care Collective’, The Care Manifesto (Verso, 2020).