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Laurie Taylor talks to Susan Neiman, philosopher and director of the Einstein Forum, about her analysis of the concept of 鈥榳oke鈥�.

Woke: Laurie Taylor talks to Susan Neiman, philosopher and director of the Einstein Forum about her analysis of the concept of 鈥榳oke鈥�. Contrary to popular assumption, she argues, it is not a set of attitudes which belong on the left of the political spectrum, but is rather an attack on progressive, universal values and the Enlightenment.

They're joined by Huw Davies, lecturer in digital education at the University of Edinburgh, who offers a dissection of the British 鈥榳ar on woke鈥�, suggesting that it is an intensive ideological campaign that is mobilising reactionary tropes within mainstream British political discourse.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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Guests and further reading

-听, Lecturer in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh

(with Sheena E MacRae) in the Journal of Race and Class (May 2023)


- , Philosopher and Director of the Einstein Forum, Germany

Woke is not Left (Polity Press)

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