Genocide: How To Challenge Identity Politics In The 21st Century [Podcast]

Safeguarding those compelled to flee as refugees is an international duty. We must never lose sight of the fact that anyone, anywhere, might go through this. Given this reality, we must think about ways to counter identity politics in the twenty-first century, which is the primary global driver of the refugee crisis. Why is protecting refugees important?

2. It is significant because since the Russo-Ukrainian war started in February 2014, over 6 million people have fled; many of them have flown across the globe in search of safety. While some have journeyed as far afield as Japan and Iceland, the majority of the refugees have sought protection in neighbouring European nations like Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic. They represent the largest migration wave to hit Europe since the Second World War, which is currently underway. This is not new, shocking as it may be. During the Second World War, white European refugees found themselves seeking asylum in East and Central British Colonial Africa.

3. I am delighted to introduce to you Dr. Jochen Lingelbach, arguably the most qualified scholar to throw light on the vexing question of our time, namely, how do we challenge identity politics, the key driver of refugees, in the twenty-first century? Dr. Lingelbach is a graduate of the University of Leipzig, where he obtained a PhD in African Studies in 2018. He is now a postdoctoral research assistant at the Chair of African History in the Cluster of Excellence “Africa Multiple, Re-configuring African Studies” at the University of Bayreuth.

4. Jochen is the author of On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War.

5. In this episode, we discuss the topic: Genocide: How to Challenge Identity Politics in the 21st Century.

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Recommended Reading:

1. On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War. (Berghahn Books; 1^st edition, May 1, 2020) By Jochen Lingelbach.

2. Polish Orphans of Tengeru: The Dramatic Story of Their Long Journey to Canada 1941-49. (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2009). By Taylor, Lynne.

3. The Polish deportees of World War II: recollections of removal to the Soviet Union and dispersal throughout the world. (Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2004). By Piotrowski, Tadeusz, Hrsg.

4. War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939–1953. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2021). By Tembo, Alfred.