Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the aftermath of Empire

[[{"fid":"15651","view_mode":"small","fields":{"height":"2662","width":"2662","class":"media-element file-small","format":"small","alignment":"left","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Kojo Koram","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"height":"2662","width":"2662","class":"media-element file-small","format":"small","alignment":"left","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Kojo Koram","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"attributes":{"height":"2662","width":"2662","class":"media-element file-small media-wysiwyg-align-left"}}]]Kojo Koram is an academic, teaching at the School of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London. Born in Accra, Ghana and raised on Merseyside, he is now based in London. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in November 2011 and received his PhD in September 2017. In 2018, the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities awarded his PhD the prestigious Julien Mezey Award.

In addition to his academic writing, he has written for the New Statesman, the Guardian, Dissent, The Nation, and The Washington Post and has appeared on CNN and Sky News. He is the editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line (Pluto Press 2019) and author of Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire (John Murray 2022).

[[{"fid":"15652","view_mode":"small","fields":{"format":"small","alignment":"left","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Cecilia","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"small","alignment":"left","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Cecilia","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"attributes":{"height":"4160","width":"6240","class":"media-element file-small media-wysiwyg-align-left"}}]]Cecilia Rikap (PhD in economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires) is associate professor in Economics and Head of Research at IIPP- UCL. Until joining UCL, she was a permanent Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy (IPE) at City, University of London and programme director of the BSc in IPE at the same university. She is a tenure researcher of the CONICET, Argentina’s national research council, and associate researcher at COSTECH lab, Université de Technologie de Compiègne.

Cecilia’s research is rooted in the international political economy of science and technology and the economics of innovation. She currently studies the rising concentration of intangible assets leading to the emergence of intellectual monopolies, among others from digital and pharma industries, the distribution of intellectual (including data) rents, resulting geopolitical tensions and the effects of knowledge assetization on the knowledge commons and development. She has published two books on these topics. 1) “Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism uncovered” (Routledge), recently won the EAEPE Joan Robinson Prize Competition. 2) “The Digital Innovation Race: Conceptualizing the Emerging New World Order” (Palgrave), co-authored with B.A.K. Lundvall, focuses on the artificial intelligence race and clashes of power between the US and Chinese Big Tech, the US state and the Chinese states. Her recent work includes corporate planning of global production and innovation systems driven by intellectual monopolization and how these leading corporations, in particular tech giants, are developing state-like features, thus reshaping core and peripheral states.

[[{"fid":"15764","view_mode":"small","fields":{"format":"small","alignment":"left","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Keith Magee","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"small","alignment":"left","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Keith Magee","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"attributes":{"height":"4104","width":"2736","class":"media-element file-small media-wysiwyg-align-left"}}]]The Reverend Professor Keith Magee, Th.D., FRHistS, FRSA is Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor of Practice in Cultural Justice at University College London (UCL) Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, where he leads Black Britain and Beyond, a think tank and social policy platform. He is also a Fellow at the UCL Centre on US Politics, and Chair and Professor of Practice in Social Justice at Newcastle University Law School.

Noted a public intellectual, theologian, and social justice scholar, Professor Magee has a professional career of over three decades in public theology, public policy and political affairs, all leading to social justice. The Biden-Harris Administration’s US Ambassador to the Court of St James’s has appointed Magee to the US-UK Fulbright Commission, having served on the Biden 2020 President Campaign’s African American Kitchen Cabinet. He is an elected Councillor of Democrats Abroad UK. The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan appointed him as a Commissioner on Diversity in the Public Realm. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and inducted into the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars. He is the Chair of The Guardian Foundation, Trustee of The Gallery of Living History, Trustee of Facing History and Ourselves, and serves on the Board of the Foundation for Louisiana.

Professor Magee's research and teaching interests include social justice, civil rights, and voting rights and the intersection of US race, religion, and politics. He is the author of the award-winning Prophetic Justice: On Race, Religion and Politics, now in its second edition (2024). He is a CNN, NBC, BBC, LSE, and TIME contributor on issues of social justice, politics, race, and religion.