Countersign

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Fukushima – the art of staying with the trouble

Feat. Jason Waite 6th March 2026 1h 10m More Information

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Countersign is a podcast hosted by Stewart Motha, Professor of Law at Birkbeck. Stewart and guests discuss books, films, and other materials from across disciplines to consider new perspectives on law, difference, and being in common.

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Fukushima – the art of staying with the trouble

Feat. Jason Waite 06 Mar 26 1h 10m Information

Materialities of State Surveillance

Feat. Bernard Keenan 21 Jan 26 1h 3m Information

A Burden of Unmourned Deaths

Feat. Naeem Mohaiemen 03 Nov 25 1h 5m Information

The Tyranny of the Deal: Race, Contract, and the Spirit of the Law

Feat. Patricia J. Williams 27 Mar 25 1h 3m Information

‘When the trees have gone’ – Veraibari and the Pacific at the International Court of Justice

Feat. Alofipo So'oalo Fleur Ramsay & Watna Mori 11 Feb 25 1h 4m Information

‘The Wall’: Human/Animal Ethics for Catastrophic Times

Feat. Anna Richards 05 Dec 24 45m Information

Animals as Food: Violence, Labour, Capital

Feat. Dinesh Wadiwel 05 Aug 24 1h 6m Information

Frances Power Cobbe: Animals, Vivisection, and a Row with Darwin

Feat. Alison Stone 26 Jan 24 1h 5m Information

What we talk about when we talk about genocide

Feat. Vasuki Nesiah 11 Dec 23 48m Information

What is the Matter with New Materialism?

Feat. Richard A. Lee Jr. 23 May 23 1h 11m Information
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A Ship as Archive of the Present

Feat. Renisa Mawani 19th August 2020 1h 8m

Discussing Mawani’s book Across Oceans of Law – concerning issues of migration, Empire, and indigenous peoples as encapsulated in the story of the 1914 voyage of the ship, Komagata Maru.

BIO Renisa Mawani is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Law and Society Program at the University of British Columbia. She works in the fields of critical theory and colonial legal history and has published widely on law, colonialism, and legal geography.

She is the author of ‘Colonial Proximities’ (University of British Columbia Press, 2009) and ‘Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire’ (Duke University Press, 2018), which won the Association for Asian American Studies Book Prize for Outstanding Contribution to History (2020) and is shortlisted for the U.K. Socio-Legal Studies Association Theory and History Book Prize (2020).
CAPTION Renisa Mawani – Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire (Duke University Press, 2018)
CAPTION Renisa Mawani