Antiracist Becomings

This podcast introduces research on antiracism, solidarity, community-building, time and temporalities. We are interested in antiracist activities and understandings of antiracism in a time when class relations are increasingly racialised and the caring functions of the Nordic welfare state are eroded. The podcast is created by the researchers in the project “Becomings: Temporalities, Solidarities and Social Class in Antiracism”.

The project is funded by the Research Council of Finland and located at The Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN), Swedish School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. We will be recording episodes to the podcast throughout the project period from 2025 to 2028. The podcast is created by professor Suvi Keskinen, postdoctoral researchers Ali Ali and Ameera Masoud-Jaakonaho and doctoral researcher Emma Grillo Kajava .
Episode 1: Introduction

Ali Ali, Emma Grillo Kajava, Suvi Keskinen and Ameera Masoud-Jaakonaho introduce the podcast and the ideas behind it.
Episode 2: The concept of racial time and rest

This episode introduces the concept of racial time, a concept which Ameera Masoud-Jaakonaho will explore and further develop as part of the Becomings project. 

Racial time will be explored in greater depth in later episodes.
Episode 3: Everyday encounters and political action

In this episode, we continue tracing anti-racist becoming. Emma Grillo Kajava interviews Ali Ali, who talks about his research on the political pedagogics and becoming that happens in the mundane and the intimate. Ali asks: how are everyday encounters and personal relations sites and theaters for encountering politics, recognizing the urgency for political action and alliance and acting collectively towards more just and liveable kinship and communal relations.
Episode 4: Antiracist Becomings - Everyday encounters and political action

In this episode Emma Grillo Kajava discusses the politics of time in antiracist and anticolonial movements, exploring how activists reinterpret the past, present, and future to challenge dominant narratives that frame racism as a problem of the past. 

Her work draws on activist knowledge and a “scavenging” methodology that engages with movement archives, cultural production, and lived experience to understand how these movements imagine alternative futures and inform both research and political practice.