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Free Thinking: The British Academy Book Prize 2021

The British Academy Book Prize 2021

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, The British Academy Book Prize 2021

New ways of thinking about global problems - Rana Mitter reads this year's shortlist.

James Baldwin's lessons for today's USA, links between the nation state and colonialism, indigenous peoples and maritime history, and the ecology of the Scottish Highlands.

Racial injustice in the USA; ghost towns in post-industrial Scotland; how maritime history looks from the viewpoint of Aboriginal Australians and Parsis, Mauritians and Malays; the roots of violence that has plagued postcolonial society. These are topics covered in the books shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.  Rana Mitter talks to the four authors who are:

Cal Flynn for Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape  	

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. for Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today	
	 
Mahmood Mamdani for Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities		 

Sujit Sivasundaram for Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire

Producer: Ruth Watts 

Previously known as the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize - you can find interviews with previous winners and shortlisted authors on the Free Thinking website. The winner in 2020 was Hazel V. Carby for Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands. Other previous winners include Toby Green, Kapka Kassabova, Neil MacGregor and Karen Armstrong.

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