Relational Racisms in a Global Perspective

The conference/workshop situates racisms globally and explores and connects grammars and logics of racism, usually not in conversation with each other.

This conference-workshop was hosted by Professor Mónica Moreno Figueroa, Professor Manali Desai and Professor Yael Navaro, to situate racisms globally and explore grammars and logics of racism and dehumanisation.

The Relational Racisms conference/workshop aimed to de-centre the ways in which racism has been theorized in the Global North, expanding the possibilities for studying racial logics in other social and historical contexts. Some questions included thinking about how have the logics of racism travelled and become embedded in other places? Through what routes has racism traveled and what explains its ability to become imbricated with other logics such as casteism, minoritization, ethnicization and other forms of dehumanization?

The conference/workshop is an experimental space of conversation that creates dialogue and collective thinking across a very diverse group of more than 50 scholars. The first conference/workshop was held in June 30 – July 1, 2025 and was a pilot event that helped model the kinds of conversations we can have at GRIST and how best to nourish them. The Relational Racisms in a Global Perspective conference/workshop was by invitation only. Please, check on updates on the Relational Racisms video archive to be published soon.

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W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Newnham College

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