‘Empire, Decline and the Fate of English Nationalism’ Sivamohan Valluvan in conversation with Kojo Koram on his book ‘Uncommon Wealth’.     

In the second conversation in a three-part series on Resisting Nationalism Kojo and Vallu will explore contemporary English nationalism’s morose impasse, an impasse that squats in the legacies of Empire but also bequeaths to its Establishment a particularly anachronistic worldview.

Via Kojo’s book, alongside revisiting thinkers like Tom Nairn and Paul Gilroy, the conversation will chart the melancholic nationalism that has taken England’s political culture hostage.

The conversation will address how hubristic delusions are coupled to moribund fixations with English grievance and victimhood – all of which play upon colonial legacies but also weaken the country’s ability to adjust to the rise of new global powers and wider ongoing reconfigurations in the global economy.

PART OF THE RESISTING NATIONALISM SERIES