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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What we talk about when we talk about genocide

Feat. Vasuki Nesiah 11th December 2023 48m

Discussing the concept of genocide; is it an event or process? How do we move from genocide as the exceptional apex crime in international criminal law, to appreciating its role in the structural process of world-making? Vasuki Nesiah gave the London Review of International Law annual lecture at the LSE on these themes. We discuss the implications of her analysis for the war in Gaza.

BIO: Vasuki Nesiah is Professor of Practice at NYU Gallatin where she teaches human rights, and legal and social theory. She is also faculty director of the Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights. A founding member of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), she is co-editing TWAIL: A Handbook with Anthony Anghie, Bhupinder Chimni, Michael Fakhri, and Karin Mickelson (forthcoming from Elgar).

Nesiah was awarded the Jacob Javits Professorship (2022), Gallatin Distinguished Teacher Award in 2021 and the NYU Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award in 2020. Her current book projects include International Conflict Feminism (forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press) and Reading the Ruins: Colonialism, Slavery, and International Law.
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