Antonia joined us to discuss how she came to write and research, Race talk: Languages of racism and resistance in Neapolitan street markets. Links: https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526138484/9781526138484.xml?rskey=96wuIY&result=1 https://www.patreon.com/SurvivingSociety
Ben joined us to discuss how housing policies and residential geographies in two south London neighbourhoods, Bermondsey and Camberwell from his co-written and researched project with Ole Jensen -‘They’ve Got Their Wine Bars, We’ve Got Our Pubs’: Housing, Diversity and Community in Two South London Neighbourhoods’ Links: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-23096-2_2#citeas https://www.patreon.com/SurvivingSociety The Housing Series - The right to a safe home should be a multi-cla...
Two members of the No More Exclusions coalition (Zahra & Kadeem) joined us to talk about their growing influence on the abolition of school exclusions in UK schools. Links: https://nomoreexclusions.com https://nomoreexclusions.com/abolition-in-education/ https://www.patreon.com/SurvivingSociety
This episode was recorded across two UCU strike ‘teach outs’ in March 2022 at LSE and Kings College London. We discuss the commodification of education, neoliberalism, intensified marketisation and the possibility of a future university. Ft. Chantelle, Tissot, rémy-paulin twahirwa, Antonia Dawes & ucu strikers! Links: https://www.ucu.org.uk/join https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-2021-issue-79/abstract-9487 AD: Fed up with the mainstream media? Support radical, challenging, independent...
Aleema joined us to discuss her journey through academia and shares some initial findings from her PhD project - Bun Babylon: Rastafari movement in Britain. Links: https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/the-rastafari-in-britain/ https://www.patreon.com/SurvivingSociety
Ben joined us to discuss his intellectual project so far which has centred urban contexts (London), Jewish diasporic formations, racisms, migration and multiculture. AD: Fed up with the mainstream media? Support radical, challenging, independent media instead! Start your subscription to Red Pepper – the magazine at the heart of the movement – today. https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/ Links: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8746457/ben-gidley#research
Dan joined us to outline a brief history of the politics of social and council housing in post-war Britain. We discuss the legacies of the Beveridge report, race, class and why housing in Britain remains an urgent and multi-classed issue. Links: https://www.patreon.com/SurvivingSociety The Housing Series - The right to a safe home should be a multi-classed issue that we can build solidarities from. From the cladding scandal; Grenfell and the lack of affordable housing, this is an ongoing Survivi...
Roaa joined us to discuss how practices in the creative and cultural institutions reproduce ethnic inequality, the trouble with ‘diversity’ and the sector's response to COVID-19 and BLM. Roaa is part of a project team with Anamik Saha, Roaa Ali, Bridget Byrne, Stephanie Guirand titled Diversity in creative and cultural industries https://www.ethnicity.ac.uk/research/projects/diversity-in-creative-industries/ AD: Fed up with the mainstream media? Support radical, challenging, independent media in...
In the first episode of our brand new Housing Series we were joined by activist Kwajo Tweneboa who has been working hard to make public the levels of disrepair and negligence tenants are faced with at the hands of housing associations across the UK. Links: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/19/im-willing-to-take-on-absolutely-everyone-kwajo-tweneboa-on-fighting-for-britains-poorest-tenants https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58572341 https://www.patreon.com/SurvivingSociety The Housing Serie...
Guest Hosts: Antonia Lucia Dawes is an Anglo-Neapolitan writer and academic who works on questions of racism and militarisation. Her book, Race Talk: languages of racism and resistance in Neapolitan street markets, is about racism and multilingual communication. She is currently working on a new collaborative book project about the British military presence on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. Twitter: @AntoniaLucia Mario Badagliacca is a freelance Sicilian photographer. He studied internat...
Our executive producer Adders in the Studio (a.k.a George Ofori-Addo) provided us with highlights from some our favourite conversations from the last few months. Featuring, JENGbA, Malcolm Richards, Franck Magennis, Laura Connelly, Remi Joseph-Salisbury & Tanzil Chowdhury
In the first of two special episodes, our executive producer Adders in the Studio (a.k.a George Ofori-Addo) provided us with highlights from some of our favourite conversations from Season 14. Featuring, Gurminder Bhambra, John Holmwood, April Louise-Pennant, Twayna Mayne, Kieron Turner and Amit Singh
Laura and Remi joined us to talk about their new book Anti-racist scholar-activism which focuses on ‘the praxes of academics working within, and against, their institutions in pursuit of anti-racist social justice’. Links: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157966/
Tanzil breaks down how the law becomes a vehicle to enact systemic oppressions and exploitations despite it consistently being positioned in the public imagination as a force for liberation. Links: http://npolicemonitor.co.uk https://www.routledge.com/Time-Temporality-and-Legal-Judgment/Chowdhury/p/book/9781138324503 https://dogsection.org/press/abolishing-the-police/
James joined us to talk through his discussions on race, class, the state, and solidarity from his latest book - The Empire at Home, Internal Colonies and the End of Britain. Links: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341002/the-empire-at-home/
Franck joined us to discuss his work as a communist lawyer/barrister and the extent to which his and others approach to law can contribute to the international working-class struggle to overthrow imperial and capitalist domination. Links: https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/asylum-conscientious-objectors-israeli-apartheid/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGL2242vHBs
...: with Bernard Coard & Derron Wallace. Guest Hosts: Derron Wallace is an Assistant Professor of Education and Sociology at Brandeis University. Derron is a sociologist of race, ethnicity and education. He specializes in cross-national studies of structural and cultural inequalities in urban schools across global cities, focusing specifically on the experiences of young people of African descent. His current research examines the educational outcomes of Black youth in London and New York City....
In this episode, we mainly use the teachings of Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall and bell hooks to discuss Malcolm's life as a graduate of the supplementary school movement (Hackney) to his present-day as a scholar-activist in Devon. Links: https://linktr.ee/malcolmrichards
Campaigners and activists Gloria and Lisa joined us to break down the history and contemporary injustices of Joint Enterprise. Joint Enterprise is a common law doctrine where an individual can be jointly convicted of the crime of another if the court decides they foresaw that the other party was likely to commit that crime. https://jointenterprise.co/
In this week's episode Tissot and Chantelle spotlight the work of the Good Law project by exploring some of their cases/exposures on the UK government handling of the COVID-19 global pandemic. https://goodlawproject.org
In this episode we draw on themes from Amits's ethnographic PhD research centred on the durability of racialisation and racial habitus in a Muay Thai/Kickboxing Gym in East London. Our discussion centres around arguments in this paper https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/UNEDER6JY83KRD6CA74V/full
David returned to the show to discuss the military withdrawals from Afghanistan and some of the global legacies of the war on terror. We finish by exploring some of our fears around the government and media’s continued rejection of anti-racism and the BLM movement.
April-Louise returned to the show to discuss her PhD thesis on the educational trajectories of Black women in the English education system. Later we focus on A-L’s time working for the Welsh government and the legacies of Penrhyn Castle, slavery and the Pennant family. Links: https://podcasts.apple.com/sb/podcast/the-legacy-of-penrhyn-castle-pt-1/id1501716010?i=1000530825810 https://crishet.mandela.ac.za/Staff-Associates/April-Louise-Pennant https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00131857.2...
Danny joined us for his annual visit to the show to outline current trends in local and global inequalities with discussions on Brexit, the war on terror, the tories and COVID-19.
Hannah joined us to discuss her conceptualisation of ‘Violent Ignorance’ in her latest book which ‘sets out to examine how the past persists in the present, how trauma is silenced or reappears, and how we might reimagine identity and connection in ways that counter - rather than ignore - historic violence’. Links- https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/violent-ignorance-9781786998613/
Kieron joined us to outline and explain the history and contemporary activism of the BDS movement. We also explore how supporting Palestinian liberation presents multiple opportunities for international solidarity building. Links: https://palestineaction.org/
Rima returns to the show to discuss her research on South Asian middle classes in the context of the current British government, critical race theory, the sewer report and authoritarian capitalism. Useful links: https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/saini-rima
Chantelle and Tissot present some anecdotal reflections of the global and local legacies and implications of the war on terror 20 years on from 9/11.
Guest hosts: Nadya Ali is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex. Her research interests lie at the intersection of border politics, 'race', citizenship, and Britain as a post-imperial nation. She has published on the Prevent strategy, Islamophobia, British Muslims and austerity. Dr Naaz Rashid is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. She is author of Veiled Threats: Representing the Muslim Woman in Public Policy Discourses (Policy Press...
Award winning comedian Twayna Mayne joined us to discuss the craft of (sociological) comedy writing and her lived experience and reflections of transracial adoption. Useful links: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07r9qy3 https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/ask-me-anything-podcast-production/
