Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Tara Fickle about why games are such fruitful sites for understanding racial formations.
Resources: postcolonial studies
Wazhmah Osman on Autoethnography and Afghan Documentary Film
Wazhmah Osman addresses the politics of memoir, what the trauma of war does to archival research, and her critically acclaimed documentary film, Postcards from Tora Bora, which recounts Wazhmah’s return to her childhood home of Kabul, Afghanistan nearly 20 years after her family fled Cold War violence.
Ronak Kapadia on Resisting Imperial Visuality
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Ronak Kapadia about how artists are using visual culture to critique US empire and the global war on terror.
Eric Tang on the Cold War Origins of Refugee Policy
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Eric Tang about activist scholarship and the history of Cold War Cambodian refugee resettlement.