Episode 3: Pavithra Vasudevan and Sara Smith, ‘The domestic geopolitics of racial capitalism.’

Our third episode features Pavithra Vasudevan and Sara Smith. Pavi is Assistant Professor in the Department of African & African Diaspora Studies and the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Sara is Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They tell the inside story of researching writing and publishing their article, “The domestic geopolitics of racial capitalism.” Introduction to the podcast: 00:00 The authors & their article: 3:25 The article’s focus & purpose 5:42 Writing together (as mentor & mentee): 12:48 Addressing comments from reviewers & others: 21:05 Revising strategies & writing styles: 27:44 The importance of journal editors: 35:26 Wise advice for fellow authors: 40:55 Authors’ hopes for their article, once published: 46:05 Podcast credits & further information: 52:40 The article was published in 2020, in Volume 38 Issue 7-8 of Politics & Space. It is part of a theme issue on “Feminist Political Geographies: Critical Reflections, New Directions,” which was guest edited by Caroline Faria, Vanessa A. Massaro, Jill M. Williams. The article is free to access on the journal's website so you can read along: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2399654420901567