The Clamour of Nationalism... In Conversation with Sivamohan Valluvan

Join Katie Tonkiss, senior lecturer in sociology at Aston University, for the Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement’s (CMFD) first podcast.

Listen to this podcast episode for an evening of conversation with Sivamohan Valluvan, associate professor of sociology at the University of Warwick. The discussion focuses on his recent book The Clamour of Nationalism: Race and Nation in 21st Century Britain.
In his book, Valluvan argues that a meaningful understanding of contemporary nationalism must reckon with the ideological range animating it and the deeply hostile aversion to different racial minorities that pervades it. Drawing on a variety of cultural and political themes – including the cult of Churchillism, the neoliberal fixation with a ‘point-system’ immigration policy, fears that the white working class have been abandoned, and even simply the strange appeal of Harry Potter and Game of Thrones – Valluvan provides a dazzling and detailed study of how nationalism is the politics of today only because it is the politics of everything.

https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526126146/

Sivamohan Valluvan is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Alongside his 2019 Clamour of Nationalism (Manchester University Press), he has written widely on debates of race and racism, nationalism and multiculture, as well as postcolonial and social theory more broadly. He is also the co-author of a British Academy research report titled: ‘Reframing the Left Behind: Race and Class in Post-Brexit Oldham’ and has contributed to Salvage, Red Pepper, The Guardian, Fabian Review, Renewal and Progressive Review.

Sivamohan Valluvan (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/valluvan/)
Katie Tonkiss (@ktonkiss)