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Professor Nasar Meer has been invited to deliver the Annual Fuller Lecture at The University of Essex on 28 April 2022.

The online lecture is called ‘Crisis Ordinariness and Racial Justice’ and will explore how societies adapt to ‘crisis ordinariness’.

Nasar is Professor of Sociology and Director of RACE.ED at the University of Edinburgh. He is a leading writer on race, decolonial thought and identity, and a former Essex student.

The event is known as the Fuller Lecture in memory of Mary Fuller, an esteemed benefactor of the University of Essex.

Here are the full details of the lecture from Nasar:

‘Crisis Ordinariness and Racial Justice’ explores how societies adapt to a form of ‘crisis ordinariness’ (Berlant 2011) in which the regularity of racial injustice prevails without the need for choreographed and pre-meditated racist intentionality. Underwritten by a ‘racial contract’ (Mills 1997), and propelled by racial mechanics in seemingly disparate and ancillary social spheres (Meer 2022), the work for a better future nonetheless endures. The argument advanced here is that systems, identities and societies bear the imprints of older racial injustices that are not merely restated but re-articulated in ways that may be novel, and yet share common properties with how other racial projects have been curated and sustained. Seeing racial injustice as systemic, therefore, better allows us to grasp the nature of the challenge we face.’

Details
University of Essex, Department of Sociology Annual Fuller Lecture:
Thursday 28 April 2022, 4.30pm – 6pm

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