Reading the Crisis: Brenna Bhandar & Hashem Abushama

Brenna Bhandar’s research and teaching broadly lie within the fields of property studies and legal theory, spanning the disciplines of property law, critical theory, colonial legal history and critical race feminism. Her book Colonial Lives of Property: Law Land and Racial Regimes of Ownership was published in 2018 with Duke University Press, and the co-edited book (with Rafeef Ziadah) Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought was published in 2020 with Verso. She has published widely in various leading academic journals. She is regularly invited to deliver plenary and keynote addresses at academic venues around the globe, and in a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary settings.

Dr Hashem Abushama is an Associate Professor in Human Geography and Tutorial Fellow at St Peter’s College. He holds a DPhil in Human Geography and an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Peace and Global Studies from Earlham College in the United States. He is also a EUME Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin as well as a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies. He has authored several academic and journalistic articles on dispossession, arts, urbanization, the archives, and postcolonial Marxism.

Aasiya Lodhi is a Senior Lecturer in Media at the University of Westminster. Her research is focused on empire and twentieth-century British history. She led an AHRC-funded project on gender, race, and visibility tied to the BBC’s centenary, and she is currently writing a book on BBC Radio, racial liberalism, and the politics of voice in post-war Britain. Aasiya is a former BBC radio producer and journalist.