This week we welcome back Surviving Society alumni, Alana Lentin featuring a wide ranging discussion around race, anti-racism and racial literacy. Links https://www.alanalentin.net/ https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Why+Race+Still+Matters-p-9781509535712 To listen to our original conversation with Alana on her book Why Race Still Matters, episode 089, from the Surviving Society archive. https://soundcloud.com/user-622675754/e089-alana-lentin-why-race-still-matters
Aug 02, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week its an episode swap! Surviving Society has joined forces with Michaela Benson’s amazing podcast, Who Do We Think We Are? To bring you one of our favourite episodes from series 2. In this episode Michaela and guests ask what is the UK’s Nationality and Borders Act? How does it relate to previous acts concerned with nationality and immigration legislation? What is the back story to some of the central changes that this act introduces? They cover all of this and more in this bumper episod...
Jul 26, 2022•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alexandra joined Chantelle for a wide-ranging discussion on visual cultures, art and shame as social forces which can both resist and intensify heteropatriarchal reproduction(s) in the media and everyday life. Links https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexandra-Kokoli-2 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0740770X.2015.1057015?journalCode=rwap20
Jul 19, 2022•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Vron joined us to talk about her new book Return of Native: Learning From The Land, which looks at the connection between the city and the rural, to expose the roots of our current crises. Links: http://vronware.org/return-of-a-native/ https://repeaterbooks.com/product/return-of-a-native-learning-from-the-land/ https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/
Jul 12, 2022•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chantelle, Nikki, Tina and Alison discuss the new collective of scholars - Abolition Feminism for Ending Sexual Violence. This episode is part of the Alternative to woman's hour takeover with Tina Sikka, Alison Phipps and Nikki Godden-Rasul. https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/ https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sex-consent-and-justice.html
Jul 05, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alison Phipps hosts an episode with Tina Sikka where they discuss power, consent and inequality in sexual relationships. This episode is part of the Alternative to woman's hour takeover with Tina Sikka, Alison Phipps and Nikki Godden-Rasul. https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/ https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sex-consent-and-justice.html
Jun 28, 2022•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chantelle spoke with Tina about her new book - Sex, Consent and Justice: A New Feminist Framework. This episode is part of the Alternative to woman's hour takeover with Tina Sikka, Alison Phipps and Nikki Godden-Rasul. https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/ https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sex-consent-and-justice.html
Jun 21, 2022•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rianna joined us to talk about the re-publication of The Colour of Madness: Mental Health and Race in Technicolour with Samara Linton. Links: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/samara-linton/the-colour-of-madness/9781529088496
Jun 14, 2022•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Xine Yao joined us to discuss their book, Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America. https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/
Jun 07, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Laura Clancy joined us to discuss her book, Running the Family Firm: How the royal family manages its image and our money. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526158758/ https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/
May 31, 2022•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Roxy joined us to outline the details of a guilty by association case in Manchester crown court concerning 10 young boys. The case has been constructed as a 'gang case' where all the boys have been found guilty under conspiracy charges. Under conspiracy charges the prosecution does not have to prove violence. links: https://kidsofcolour.com/
May 26, 2022•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chantelle delivers the key note speech at the PSA Women & Politics and PSA Race, Migration & Intersectionality ‘At the Intersections Conference 2022’ (Political Studies Association) with a discussion titled, ‘Beyond the academic insurance policy: Not Enough, Love & Understanding’. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1350506820951937 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWG7LsIo6nU https://www.versobooks.com/books/3182-revolutionary-feminisms https://www.routledge.com/Cool-Britannia-and-Mult...
May 24, 2022•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chantelle and Julia discuss their relationship with cancer. The conversation focuses on treatment, diagnosis, the impact of the lockdown and being part of working-age families navigating cancer. This episode was produced in memory of Matt Miller.
May 17, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Live podcast! Surviving Society is back on the road!!! We kicked off our first in a series of tours to university’s around the UK with staff and students of Northumbria University Department of Social Sciences. We discussed how we can collectively resist present day local and global political calamities by grounding our conversations around the concepts of love, hope and solidarity.
May 10, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Listen back to some of our best bits of The Surviving Society Alternative to Woman's Hour. Featuring discussions on race, class, gender, history, activism, Marxism and much more. For our full ATWH playlist - https://soundcloud.com/user-622675754/sets/alternative-to-womans-hour
May 03, 2022•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Listen back to some of our best bits of The Surviving Society Alternative to Woman's Hour. Featuring discussions on race, class, gender, history, activism, Marxism and much more. For our full ATWH playlist - https://soundcloud.com/user-622675754/sets/alternative-to-womans-hour
Apr 26, 2022•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Listen back to some of our favourite clips from out guest hosted spotlight series. Part two features Srila Roy, Carmen Geha, Nadya Ali, Selma James, Sara Callaway, Shanice McBean, Aviah Day, Alana Lentin, Debbie Bargallie, Naaz Rashid and Waqas Tufail. What is the Spotlight Series? In these episodes Chantelle and Tissot take a step back from the mic and handover to both local and global academics, researchers and community organisers. The Spotlight series continues with the themes from the origi...
Apr 19, 2022•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Listen back to some of our favourite clips from our guest hosted Spotlight Series. Part one features Jason Arday, Nobubele Phuza, Rianna Walcott, Francesca Sobande, Yomaira Figueroa, Furaha Asani and Mwenza Blell. (Convos from 2019-2021!) What is the Spotlight Series? In these episodes, Chantelle and Tissot take a step back from the mic and handover to both local and global academics, researchers and community organisers. The Spotlight series continues with the themes from the original Surviving...
Apr 12, 2022•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ayesha joined us to discuss themes from her PhD research which explores the BBC in everyday life in Britain within the current online digital media landscape. Links: https://thevoicesofblackbritain.weebly.com https://www.acrcollective.com/meet-our-members/ayesha-taylor-camara
Apr 05, 2022•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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
Mar 29, 2022•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Mar 22, 2022•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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
Mar 15, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Mar 08, 2022•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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
Mar 01, 2022•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast 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
Feb 22, 2022•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Feb 15, 2022•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Feb 08, 2022•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Feb 01, 2022•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jan 25, 2022•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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
Jan 18, 2022•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
