In this this episode of Conjuncture, Jordan T. Camp speaks with public intellectual Arun Kundnani about racial capitalism, counterinsurgency, Islamophobia, surveillance, and national security policies in the United States and the United Kingdom.  

Conjuncture is a monthly web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton for the Trinity Social Justice Initiative. It features interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and public intellectuals. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall’s conceptualization, it highlights intellectual work engaged in struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Amidst a global crisis of hegemony, this web series curates conversations about the burning questions of the conjuncture.  

Arun Kundnani is an Associate of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam and a public intellectual. He is the author of The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror (2014), The End of Tolerance: Racism in 21st Century Britain (2007), and is currently completing a new book, Resistance is Not Enough: Radical Anti-Racism in a Neoliberal Age.

Jordan T. Camp is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Initiative at Trinity College.