Random Colonialism Podcasts

History X amplifies true stories from history that have been repressed, suppressed, or simply forgotten. Host Russell Cobb discusses how our understanding of history is shifting in popular culture and what to make of the falling statues and renaming of places. History X explores the forgotten corners of dusty archives and talks to people with intimate knowledge of events outside the mainstream.

Categories: Education, History

Tags: archives, colonialism, Education, History, journalism, local, Place, race, reconciliation, storytelling, Truth

“Boys go to Baghdad, but real men go to Tehran” was a joke in neocon circles during the Bush administration. We think it’s a glimpse of how duplicitous U.S. foreign policy is. Here we counter the type of propaganda that justified the invasion of Iraq, and continues to justify bitch-ass policy against Iran and countless other nations today.

Categories: Uncategorised

Tags: anti-war, boys go to baghdad, capitalism, CIA, colonialism, foreign policy, Imperialism, michele greenstein, naomi karavani, neocon, Neoliberalism, News, Propaganda, proxy wars, redacted tonight, regime change, revolution, sanctions, US intervention

MISREPRESENTED tells stories that challenge the way you think about how history gets made. The show was recently awarded the Gotham Film & Media Institute and Variety Magazine’s Audio Honor “in recognition of their innovations in audio storytelling.” It’s also been featured by Apple Podcasts and has become a Top 100 hit in over a dozen countries. MISREPRESENTED is produced by Kahaani, a project to put the world back in world history. Learn more at www.kahaani.io

Categories: Education, History, Society & Culture

Tags: aapi, ap world, asian american, Bangladesh, bipoc, British History, colonialism, decolonize, Desi, diaspora, female podcasters, historiography, History, India, pakistan, poc, representation, South Asian

There’s a lot more to Notting Hill Carnival than a great street party. This album gives you a true insider guide, by some of the people who have made the Carnival what it is today. Its story reaches back to the darkest recesses of European tradition, through Colonialism and slavery, to racist Britain of the 1950’s and 60’s. It merges contemporary ideas with art forms reaching back via the Caribbean slave plantations to tribal Africa. And its setting in West London brings out a history of the area which some of its residents might prefer to forget. The album also contains academic perspectives from Susie West, Lecturer in Heritage Studies at The Open University; Hakim Adi, Reader in the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at Middlesex University; and Ruth Tompsett, Visiting Lecturer in Carnival Studies at Middlesex University. This material forms part of The Open University Course AD281 Understanding global heritage. You can discover something of what it’s like to study the course by using the downloadable ‘activities’ files to explore some ideas which connect carnival with the study of heritage in contemporary society and the way in which heritage is related to multiculturalism and the production of a sense of identity and community.

Categories: Education

Tags: Afro-Carribean, black, colonialism, Culture, heritage, History, Notting Hill Carnival, procession, Racism, slavery

Every object in the Ashmolean has passed from hand to hand to reach the Museum. In a new podcast, we uncover the invisible fingerprints left behind by makers, looters, archaeologists, soldiers, rulers, curators, and many more. These stories of touch reveal the ways in which the forces of conflict and colonialism have shaped Britain’s oldest Museum. Join the Ashmolean’s curators alongside artists, experts, and community members. Fingerprints will be released on the Ashmolean’s website, on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you get your podcasts, weekly from 21 January 2022 until 25 February 2022. Guests include Bénédicte Savoy, co-author of the Report on African Cultural Heritage, commissioned by Emmanuel Macron; Professor Dan Hicks, of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum; and Simukai Chigudu, one of the founding members of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign.

Categories: Arts, History, Society & Culture

Tags: Archaeology, art, art history, Ashmolean, Ashmolean Museum, Benin, Benin Bronzes, British Museum, colonialism, heritage, History, Museum Studies, museums, oxford, Oxford University, Pitt Rivers Museum, restitution, University of Oxford