Philosopher/Writer Workshop - Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams in discussion with Olivia Rutazibwa

In June 2023 in collaboration with Brighton Book Festival, the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE), University of Brighton hosted a discussion between Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams and Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa. 

This recording is the first in a series of collaborative workshops involving authors whose novel (s) test the boundaries of the political, and an established political theorist whose work contributes to contemporary debates about the nature of the political.

Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams won the Goldsmith's Prize in 2022 for their groundbreaking co-authored novel, Diego Garcia. The book explores the British government's expulsion of the Chagossian people from the Chagos Islands at the insistence of the US government.

Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa explores with the authors the relationship between fiction, formal radicalism and politics and how the novel ‘as a political tool for putting possibilities into language’ can provide us with ways to ‘to reimagine the structures of our world’.