# Event Details - **Event Name**: Racial Regimes in Rupture in the Cultural Industries - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 18 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Wed, 18 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm - **Event Description**: Dr Roaa Ali, University of ManchesterAbout this EventResearch Seminar - Department of Art History and Cultural Practices, University of ManchesterRacial Regimes in Rupture: Persistence and Contestation in the Cultural and Creative IndustriesDr Roaa Ali, University of ManchesterAbstractThis talk examines how racial regimes adapt, persist, and are contested within the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) during moments of rupture such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the global antiracist uprisings of 2020, and the current nationalist resurgence in the UK. Drawing on empirical research with racialised creatives, critical race theory, and cultural sociology, it argues that crises in the CCIs function less as opportunities for transformation than as mechanisms through which whiteness reasserts itself. The analysis highlights how the pandemic disproportionately undermined the employment, wellbeing, and career trajectories of Black and ethnically minoritised workers in theatre, music, and the visual arts, while initiatives amplified by the Black Lives Matter movement proved largely performative and easily rolled back.These dynamics unfolded within a wider conjuncture where the fleeting insurgent energies of 2020 met a resurgent “anti-woke” backlash and rising nationalist politics, which is impacting CCIs by stalling progress on racial diversity and reshaping equity and inclusion agendas. To interrogate these processes, the talk foregrounds the concept of racial regimes (Omi & Winant, 2015; Goldberg, 2002) and critiques of meritocracy (Littler, 2017) and risk (Erigha, 2021), exposing how the sector’s rhetoric of “talent,” “creativity,” and “risk” aestheticises whiteness while obscuring systemic inequalities. At the same time, it identifies limited but vital spaces where antiracist activists within CCIs disrupt the reproduction of racial hierarchies. Taken together, the analysis shows how crises both reassert and entrench whiteness in the Cultural and Creative Industries while also, at times, creating openings for antiracist intervention. These dynamics underscore the urgent need for structural accountability and genuinely transformative, rather than “non- performative” (Ahmed, 2006), approaches to equity.BiographyRoaa Ali is a Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Manchester, specialising in race and diversity in the cultural sector. Her research focuses on inequality, anti-racism, and the politics of cultural production in the creative industries. Roaa has published in journals such as Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Cultural Trends, and The Sociological Review. She co-edited Arabs, Politics and Performance (Routledge, 2024) and has contributed book chapters on diversity, interculturalism, and censorship. Her upcoming monograph, The Cultural Production of Conditional Visibility: Contemporary Arab American Drama (Routledge, 2026), examines Arab and Arab American creative production within neoliberal and neo-orientalist contexts. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/manchester/racial-regimes-in-rupture-in-the-cultural-industries/100001710033439049 - **Event Categories**: Art, Sports, Theatre, Entertainment, Workshops, fine-arts, performances - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fracial-regimes-in-rupture-in-the-cultural-industries-tickets-1710033439049 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Manchester - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: University Place, 4.205, University of Manchester - **lat**: 53.4662776 - **long**: -2.2338159 - **full address**: University Place, 4.205, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Department of Art History and Cultural Practices (https://allevents.in/org/department-of-art-history-and-cultural-practices/26726864) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/9ac377be3520897b3fcaf7e7d4147ed07fc2c92e7204f8e7bcb0c891d563046b-rimg-w1200-h675-dc008b93-gmir.jpg?v=1758264415 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/e022098f43164d58de7fa9b47a9b9d4d7a682e57183a23aae786c14b7f6f5516-rimg-w400-h400-dc018b93-gmir.jpg?v=1758264413 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Wed, 18 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** University Place, 4.205, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Department of Art History and Cultural Practices - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** Art, Sports, Theatre, Entertainment, Workshops, fine-arts, performances - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Racial Regimes in Rupture in the Cultural Industries ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Racial Regimes in Rupture in the Cultural Industries", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/9ac377be3520897b3fcaf7e7d4147ed07fc2c92e7204f8e7bcb0c891d563046b-rimg-w1200-h675-dc008b93-gmir.jpg?v=1758264415", "startDate": "2026-03-18", "endDate": "2026-03-18", "url": "https://allevents.in/manchester/racial-regimes-in-rupture-in-the-cultural-industries/100001710033439049", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "University Place, 4.205, University of Manchester", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Oxford Road", "postalCode": "M13 9PL", "addressLocality": "Manchester", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "53.4662776", "longitude": "-2.2338159" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Dr Roaa Ali, University of Manchester", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "2026-03-18", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/manchester/racial-regimes-in-rupture-in-the-cultural-industries/100001710033439049" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/manchester/racial-regimes-in-rupture-in-the-cultural-industries/100001710033439049", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Department of Art History and Cultural Practices", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/department-of-art-history-and-cultural-practices/26726864" } ] } ] ```