Writing

And other outputs!

Books


  • Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities By Laura C. Forster and Joel White - June 2025

    • Academic Publications


  • White, J., & Hopkins, P. (2026). Beyond Kenmure Street: lifecycles of antiracism amongst activists in Glasgow. Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • Brewer, H., Kemp, T. Amis, B.P., & White, J. (2024) ‘“Shut them down”: non-reformist reforms in anti-detention organizing’ in Sara Riva, Simon Campbell, Brian Whitener & Kathryn Medien (Eds) Border Abolition Now. Pluto Press
  • White. J, Hopkins P, & Finlay, R. (2024) 'Young Muslims in Scotland: politics, racism, and the media'. Report
  • Hopkins P, White J. (2024). ‘Islamophobia’ in The Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Springer
  • White, J. (2023) ‘Becoming complicit in the UK hostile environment’, in Melissa Demian, Mattia Fumanti and Christos Lynteris (Eds) Responsibility, Association of Social Anthropology Monograph Series. Routledge.
  • White, J. (2022) ‘Vicarious strength: friends and befriending in UK immigration detention’
    • Migrant Mobilities Blog Bristol, University of Bristol, April 2022.
  • White, J. (2020) ‘Whose law is it anyway?’ Nadine El Enany’s (B)ordering Britain, review essay, Radical Philosophy 2.09 (Winter).

    • Other Writing


  • From Scotland to Gaza: A SCALP and Netpol Report on the policing of Palestine solidarity protests in Scotland - Co-authored for SCALP / Netpol with Rosie Thompson & Martha O’Carroll, Sept 2025
  • Resources for Democracy! A People's History of Bradford Resource Centre - Written as part of exhibition & film project, Summer 2025.
  • Counterflows on Paper Zine - Editorial (with Helen Charman and Emmie McLuskey) for Counterflows Festival : 2021 Edition, 2022 Edition, 2025 Edition,
  • White, J. (2022). ‘These are our neighbours’ London Review of Books Blog, May 2022
  • Songs about sewage and space travel? It's prog-folk band Hen Ogledd. The Guardian, September 2020.
  • We’re the explicit Vengaboys’: meet Bad Boy Chiller Crew, Bradford's bassline stars The Guardian, July, 2020.
  • White, J. (2020-21) ‘Criminalising Solidarity’, ‘The Border Business’, ‘Priti Patel’s Asylum Prisons', ‘The Fight for Asylum Seeker Rights Behind Glasgow’s Protests’, selected articles, Tribune Magazine.
  • Various bits of music writing for the legendary (and still very missed) Tiny Mix Tapes, 2013-2018.

    • Film and Animation


  • You Don't Know What You Don't Know, Do You? A Film by Adam Lewis Jacob. Produced by Joel White
  • '10 ways to tackle racism at school' - Scripting: Aaliya, Adam, Chawan, Isabel, and Hannah (all of Shawlands Academy) in collaboration with Dr Joel White and Professor Peter Hopkins. Animation and illustration: Christian Wright, Kaleidoscope CFA. Voiceover - Maryam Almhameed

    • Events and Workshops


  • 29.04.26: Queens Park, - The People's Common - workshop and discussion on friendship, the commons, and public space
  • 09.04.26: Glasgow - Counterflows Festival - Zine Launch
  • 23.03.26: Berlin, Casino for Social Medicine - Friends In Common Talk & Discussion
  • 21.03.26: Brussels, Pianofabriek - Insalaha collective, No Borders Gathering
  • 20.03.26: Brussels, Zig Zag Reading Room - Friends In Common Talk & Discussion
  • MARCH 2026 GLARCIVERSARY - 10 Years of GLARC - Full Programme here
  • 22.02.26: Cowley Club, Brighton, 2pm Friends in Common Book Talk
  • 19.02.26: Left Bank, Leeds, 7pm - Radical Reading Room Book Event on Friends in Common
  • 10.02.26: Making a scene: how DIY gigs happen (and other stuff too) with Han and Joel Music Space Workshop
  • 09.11.25: Everyday Bonds: Solidarities from the Ground up [Edinburgh Radical Book Fair]
  • 05.02.26: Category Is Books, Glasgow - Friends in Common - Queer History Workshop - 7pm
  • 08.02.26: Communal Leisure Day Party 3-11pm
    • Resources For Democracy: A People's History of Bradford Resource Centre Producer. Summer, 2025
  • Four Endings to Begin Event at Arika Festival - with Masa Nazzal, River MacAskill, Hannah Proctor & Gracie Mae Bradley Co-Producer. November, 2024
  • Border Abolition Conference 2021 Co-organizer.