Patrick Wright
Patrick Wright is Emeritus Professor of Literature and History at King’s College London and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Books by Patrick Wright
Interviews with Patrick Wright
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Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
by Cal Flyn -
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Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
by Eddie S Glaude Jr -
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Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
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Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire
by Sujit Sivasundaram
The 2021 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, recommended by Patrick Wright
The 2021 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, recommended by Patrick Wright
Through careful research and compelling argument, the books shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding cast light on globally significant problems, says Patrick Wright, chair of the 2021 jury and Emeritus Professor of Literature, History and Politics at King’s College London. Here he talks us through the books that made the 2021 shortlist, works of nonfiction that “speak directly to the urgent challenges of the times in which we live”.
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Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands
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Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent
by Priyamavada Gopal -
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Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power
by Pekka Hämäläinen -
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
by Charles King -
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All Our Relations: Indigenous Trauma in the Shadow of Colonialism
by Tanya Talaga
The best books on Global Cultural Understanding: the 2020 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize, recommended by Patrick Wright
The best books on Global Cultural Understanding: the 2020 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize, recommended by Patrick Wright
Every year the British Academy's Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize is awarded to the best nonfiction book that has contributed to 'global cultural understanding.' This year, the legacies of colonization and empire loom large. Patrick Wright, Emeritus Professor at King's College London and chair of this year's panel of judges, talks us through the books shortlisted for the £25,000 prize.
