{"title":"Books by Nadine El-Enany","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780745339580","title":"After Grenfell – Violence, Resistance and Response","description":"On the 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed a tower block in West London, seventy-two people lost their lives and hundreds of others were left displaced and traumatised. The Grenfell Tower fire is the epicentre of a long history of violence enacted by government and corporations. On its second anniversary activists, artists and academics come together to respond, remember and recover the disaster.   The Grenfell Tower fire illustrates Britain's symbolic order; the continued logic of colonialism, the disposability of working class lives, the marketisation of social provision and global austerity politics, and the negligence and malfeasance of multinational contractors. Exploring these topics and more, the contributors construct critical analysis from legal, cultural, media, community and government responses to the fire, asking whether, without remedy for multifaceted power and violence, we will ever really be 'after' Grenfell?With poetry by Ben Okri and Tony Walsh, and photographs by Parveen Ali, Sam Boal and Yolanthe Fawehinmi.   With contributions from Phil Scraton, Daniel Renwick, Nadine El-Enany, Sarah Keenan, Gracie Mae Bradley and The Radical Housing Network.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297665429877,"sku":"9780745339580","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780745339580_8eee4ab6-bb0a-42dc-890e-62f88569adaf.jpg?v=1786015092"},{"product_id":"9781526155795","title":"Bordering Britain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e(B)ordering Britain\u003c\/i\u003e argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn announcing itself as postcolonial through immigration and nationality laws passed in the 60s, 70s and 80s, Britain cut itself off symbolically and physically from its colonies and the Commonwealth, taking with it what it had plundered. This imperial vanishing act cast Britain's colonial history into the shadows. The British Empire, about which Britons know little, can be remembered fondly as a moment of past glory, as a gift once given to the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile immigration laws are justified on the basis that they keep the undeserving hordes out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn fact, immigration laws are acts of colonial seizure and violence. They obstruct the vast majority of racialised people from accessing colonial wealth amassed in the course of colonial conquest. Regardless of what the law, media and political discourse dictate, people with personal, ancestral or geographical links to colonialism, or those existing under the weight of its legacy of race and racism, have every right to come to Britain and take back what is theirs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56303097414005,"sku":"9781526155795","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57688201232757,"sku":"9781526145420","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781526155795.jpg?v=1792686123"},{"product_id":"pelican-daughter","title":"Pelican Daughter","description":"Joint winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize 2024. The poems of Nadine El-Enany’s debut collection Pelican Daughter are imbued with tenderness and fuelled by a hunger for justice, connection and a more empathic world. With stunning lyricism she fiercely probes the pain of being powerless in the face of global catastrophes – genocide, climate crisis – without tilting into despair. These poems do not divide the personal and political – indeed, boundaries are met with love and defiance, even when they appear immutable. The voice that permeates is as inviting as it is brave, through the book’s expansive terrain, from the “hopscotch puddles” of childhood to peace marches that do ‘something\/to time and space, like we’re here together \/ but we’re also there’, to a militarised border where people pass ‘prickly pears \/ over razor wire, sacks of apples and bread’. El-Enany ushers our attention to the vulnerable and the small, the ‘wail of forgotten things’, waking us to what we cannot hear, the ‘woodlice walking \/ and spiders making silk’. Hers is a poetry of clarity, compassion and enduring love for the world.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57507718693237,"sku":"9781780377780","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781780377780.jpg?v=1787042858"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-nadine-el-enany.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}