Soundings Volume 2024 Issue 88

ISSN 1362-6620

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Contents

Editorial, pages 4‑14
Kirsten Forkert, Sally Davison

Trust, bordering and necro-racism, pages 19‑28
Nira Yuval-Davis Free to download
Disenchantment with government has fuelled the rise and rise of contemporary necropolitics

On black holes, fiscal discipline and investment-led growth, pages 29‑40
David Purdy Free to download
The new Labour government faces daunting challenges on the economic front, some of its own making

More broken promises: the politics of infrastructure, pages 41‑58
Dominic Davies
Infrastructure is a promise to support future life: its neglect or destruction breaks that promise and takes life away

Taking on racism: the role of trade unions and community organising, pages 59‑72
Kirsten Forkert, Dave Featherstone talk to Mohammed Mumit

Review article: Through the looking glass?, pages 73‑82
Debs Grayson Free to download

Statues of empire: questions of race and power, pages 83‑98
Milly Williamson
Instead of asking why people want to remove statues of slavers, we should ask who wanted them erected in the first place – and why

Collective making as resistance? The contemporary appeal of See Red Women’s Workshop, pages 99‑112
Harriet Atkinson
A strong resurgence of interest in the work of the See Red collective reflects continuing gender inequalities

The privilege of anxiety: On censorship, self-censorship and Palestine, pages 113‑129
Anna-Esther Younes talks to Salma Shaka and Mars Zaslavsky
A conversation about the mechanisms of anti-Palestinian repression, intergenerational knowledge transfer and solidarity