Join us for this online event, where Hannah Jones will discuss her new book with convenors Chloe Peacock and Julia O’Connell Davidson from the University of Bristol. This event is co-hosted by the South West Doctoral Training Partnership, Migration Mobilities Bristol, and SPIN. 

About the book

Violent Ignorance sets out to examine these questions through an understanding of how the past persists in the present, how trauma is silenced or reappears, and how we might reimagine identity and connection in ways that counter - rather than ignore - historic violence.

In particular Hannah Jones shows how border controls and enforcement, and its corollary, racism and violence, have shifted over time. Drawing on thinkers from John Berger to Ben Okri, from Audre Lorde to Susan Sontag, the book questions what it means to belong, and discusses how hierarchies of belonging are revealed by what we can see, and what we can ignore. 

Biography

Hannah Jones is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. She writes, researches and teaches on racism, belonging and migration, and on critical public sociology.

Please register for this event at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-discussion-violent-ignorance-confronting-racism-migration-control-tickets-270868273297