Public Reels
Situated at a historical moment of resurgent white nationalism, Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism, a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, undertakes comparative inquiry of imaginations and practices of sanctuary and refuge. Thinking across Europe and the United States, the seminar foregrounds the colonial relationalities and histories of dispossession that constitute the grounds of migration and asylum in the liberal democracies of the West. Seeking to accompany movements that challenge detention and deportation, Sanctuary Spaces has supported scholarship, art, and pedagogy that enact different humanisms and other worlds of political being.
Sanctuary Spaces
Public Programs
Sanctuary Shorts
Sanctuary Shorts is a conceptual conversation with distinguished scholars whose work unravels the logics of racial capitalism, thereby enacting radically different humanisms and liberatory worlds of political being. Filmed in the time of global pandemic, these conversations are meant to bring us together as communities of inquiry. Meant to circulate widely in worlds of freedom struggle and teaching, each Sanctuary Short is accompanied by a toolkit, including syllabus of readings, a playlist, and guided questions.
Watch Anti-Blackness: Transatlantic Worlds of Abolition, a conversation with Eddie Bruce-Jones, Lorgia García Peña, Shana L. Redmond, Vanessa E. Thompson, João H. Costa Vargas, and Françoise Vergès.
Watch Asylum: At the Borders of Humanitarianism, a conversation with E. Tendayi Achiume, Fatima El-Tayeb, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Nicholas De Genova, Mpho Matsipa, and Melanie K. Yazzie.
Watch Enclosure: Geographies of Refusal, a conversation with Tina M. Campt, Camilla A. Hawthorne, Saree Makdisi, Dylan Rodríguez, Audra Simpson, and Rinaldo Walcott.
The #GlobalPOV Project combines critical social theory, improvised art and digital media to explore innovative ways of thinking about poverty, inequality and undertaking poverty action. Developed at the University of California, Berkeley, it is an effort to transform undergraduate education and participate in public debate about wealth, privilege, and power, and the effects on constructions of welfare and equality.
Global POV
“Who Sees Poverty?” With Ananya Roy
“Can Your Point of View Change The World?” with Ananya Roy & Abby VanMuijen
“Can We Shop To End Poverty?”
“Who is Dependent on Welfare?” with Ananya Roy
“Are Slums the Global Urban Future?” with Ananya Roy
“Who Profits From Poverty?”
Abolition Reels is a project of the UCLA DIVEST/INVEST coalition, which formed in opposition to policing at, and by, the University of California, Los Angeles.
Abolition Reels
Serious About Racial Justice? Then Divest From Policing
Ananya Roy, Hamid Khan and Pete White weigh in on the university’s role in defunding the police.
Knock LA | June 22, 2020
Jackie Robinson Stadium: Prisoners Made Here
Ananya Roy on reckoning with stolen lives and stolen land at UCLA.
Knock LA | November 11, 2020
Teach. Organize. Resist
What is the role of the public university on the frontlines of state violence? Teach.Organize.Resist demonstrates how educators and students can come together with movements and communities targeted by fascist power to build knowledge and power.
The Fight for Public Education
In 2009 and 2010, faculty, workers, and students at the University of California, Berkeley, organized to protest a series of budget cuts, fee hikes, worker layoffs, and faculty furloughs. Ananya was a participant in these movements, making the case for public funding for higher education in California. Here are a few glimpses of this uprising.
