E005 The T&C's: The General Election Reflection
Providing you with a mini and weekly sociological reflection (plus our own thoughts and opinions!) during the 2019 general election campaign.
Episodes
Surviving Society Productions
We produce award- winning podcasts focused on history, sociology, love, politics, healing, holistic knowledges and neurodiversity
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Presenter: Dr Chantelle Jessica Lewis
Executive Producer: George Ofori-Addo
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Episodes
E066 Rianna Walcott: Decolonising, Project Myopia and the Colour of Madness
This week were joined by the Rianna who is the co-founder of Project Myopia; co-editor of the Colour of Madness and PhD researcher at Kings College London. We discuss whiteness within the academy, decolonising H.E and mental health and illness for Black and Brown people in the UK. We are particularly passionate during this episode so expect some strong language! Useful links - http://www.riannawalcott.com https://projectmyopia.com https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-colour-of-madness-anthology/...
E004 The T&C's: The General Election Reflection
Providing you with a mini and weekly sociological reflection (plus our own thoughts and opinions!) during the 2019 general election campaign.
E065 The Surviving Society Alternative to Woman's Hour: Jenny Thatcher
Jenny joined Chantelle to talk through class and the sociology of working in wedding boutiques and hair and beauty salons. Expect laughter and rage as they both narrate their lived experiences of working in these spaces as working class teenagers and women. Useful links- https://www.routledge.com/The-Wedding-Spectacle-Across-Contemporary-Media-and-Culture-Something/Kay-Kennedy-Wood/p/book/9781138586239 The Sociological Review article: Disgusted subjects: the making of middle‐class identities, by...
E003 The T&C's: The General Election Reflection
Providing you with a mini and weekly sociological reflection (plus our own thoughts and opinions!) during the 2019 general election campaign.
E064 Surviving Society x The Echo Chamber: Black History Month
In this special collaborative episode with Ez and Jade (The Echo Chamber podcast), we discuss the merits and shortcomings of Black History month in the British context. Purposefully released outside of October, we discuss our own reflections (and differing opinions) on the politics around the month. Useful links - https://soundcloud.com/user-628553882
E002 The T&C's: The General Election Reflection
Providing you with a mini and weekly sociological reflection (plus our own thoughts and opinions!) during the 2019 general election campaign.
E063 Ibtehal Hussain: Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT)
Ibtehal joined us to discuss the activist work of Campaign Against the Arms Trade which is a UK-based organisation working to end the international arms trade. Useful links - https://www.caat.org.uk/ https://twitter.com/CAATuk/status/1169874976410755073 https://twitter.com/CAATuk/status/1169874976410755073
E001 The T&C's: The General Election Reflection
Providing you with a mini and weekly sociological reflection (plus our own thoughts and opinions!) during the 2019 general election campaign.
E062 Adom Philogene Heron: Fatherhood, Dominica & hurricanes
Caribbeanist anthropologist Adom joined us to discuss fatherhood, kinship, the life-course and hurricanes in the Caribbean (Dominica). Useful links- http://fathermen.blogspot.com Philogene Heron, A. (2018). Surviving Maria from Dominica: Memory, Displacement and Bittersweet Beginnings Transforming Anthropology, 26(2), 118-135. Adom Philogene Heron. (2019). Coming to Terms with Caribbean Families Suomen Antropologi, 43(4), 41-47.
E061 Norman Riley: Football hooliganism, the far right & racism
Norman Riley joined us to discuss the connections between the Far right in Europe, football hooliganism and racism. We also locate some of the genealogies of racism in English football. Useful links- http://www.true-faith.co.uk/ http://www.true-faith.co.uk/sjp-charity-match-true-faith-vs-crisis/ http://www.true-faith.co.uk/opinion-songs-glorifying-tommy-robinson-dont-speak-for-newcastle-united-fans/ http://www.true-faith.co.uk/podcast-true-faith-meet-kick-it-out/
E060 Danny Dorling: Brexit, Austerity & the Conservative Merchants of Chaos
This week we visited Danny Dorling at University of Oxford to talk about the important histories that help to locate how Leave marginally won the EU referendum in 2016. Expect an extensive discussion on voting demographics/patterns; the Conservative party (and its leaders!), Empire, and racism.
E059 The Surviving Society Alternative to Woman's Hour: Alison Phipps
Chantelle visited the University of Sussex to speak with Prof Alison Phipps about her forcoming book (March 2020) - Me, Not You: The trouble with mainstream feminism. Useful links - https://www.redpepper.org.uk/the-political-whiteness-of-metoo https://genderate.wordpress.com/
E058 Angela Saini: Superior
...:the return of race science. Award winning science journalist, writer and broadcaster, Angela Saini joined us to discuss her latest book on the history and contemporary re-emergence of scientific (and intellectualized)racism(s). Useful links- https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0008zc7/eugenics-sciences-greatest-scandal https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/03/eugenics-francis-galton-science-ideas https://www.angelasaini.co.uk https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/18/rac...
E057 Chloe Peacock: Criminal Justice responses to the riots (2011)
Chloe talks through her PhD research where she has been interviewing civil servants; prosecutors, judges, defence lawyers, magistrates and probation services who were directly involved in the criminal justice response to the unlawful killing of Mark Duggan and the subsequent riots that followed in 2011. Useful links- Michael Gove’s rhetoric on prisons -http://research.gold.ac.uk/23722/1/Chloe%20Peacock%202017%20Curative%2C%20regenerating%2C%20redemptive%20and%20liberating_.pdf) OpenDemocracy art...
E056 Tom Mills: Reforming the BBC
Tom gives us an extensive genealogy of the BBC to help us understand why so many of us are frustrated with its current formation. Tom makes the case for how the BBC can be reformed. Useful links- https://www.versobooks.com/books/2243-the-bbc https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ourbeeb/bbc-is-neither-independent-or-impartial-interview-with-tom-mills/ https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/tom-mills-there-doubt-bbc-biased-corbyn/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0791603517696319?journalCode=irja...
E055 Michael Hobson: White privilege & teaching the sociology of sport
Michael joined us to talk through what it means to be a white academic teaching ‘race’, racism and the sociology of sport. Useful links - https://www.stmarys.ac.uk/staff-directory/michael-hobson#research https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319602608
E054 Maitrayee Basu: Indian marginalised identities on Instagram
Maitrayee talked us through her PhD research on Indian marginalised identities on instagram and we debate the ethics and role of social media in contemporary society. Useful links: 1) Internet and children: (Sonia Livingstone's work on Global Kids Online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qssk79scds&feature=youtu.be and Parenting: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/) 2) Digital Suicide and leaving Facebook: https://bit.ly/2ZyUFSW 3) Children and digital politics: https://bit.ly/2ZGnX...
E053 Dan Renwick: Grenfell, neoliberalism & state containment
Beginning with the 72 names we must never forget (recorded at the silent walk in July 2019), Dan Renwick joined us to talk through how the Grenfell tower fire was facilitated by neoliberal policies and purposeful state/local council neglect. Dan Renwick is a visual creative, videographer, youth worker, contributing author to After Grenfell, producer of Failed by the State, and supporter and official videographer of Grenfell United Useful Links - Failed by the State pt 1 -https://www.youtube.com/...
E052 Ali Meghji: Histories of sociology and decolonising education
Ali joined us to discuss how sociology was formally institutionalised in the West during the height of imperialism. We also break down a few of our concerns about the current decolonising moment in British universities. Useful links - Bhambra: post colonialism https://globalsocialtheory.org/topics/postcolonialism/ Connell: decolonising sociology: http://www.raewynconnell.net/2018/07/decolonising-sociology.html Go: postcolonial thought and social theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4RmaYRt6p...
E051 Kate Haddow: Austerity, food banks and de-industrialization
Kate joined us to discuss her PhD research on the use of food banks in Middlesbrough. Useful links - https://bsapgforum.com/2019/07/01/what-i-want-you-to-know-about-foodbank-use-and-food-insecurity-in-the-uk-by-kate-haddow/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
E050 Luke de Noronha: Detention, deportation and state violence
Featuring extracts from Denico and Chris from Deportation Discs, Luke de Noronha joined us to discuss his on going research (and forthcoming book) on detention, deportation, bordering and the racialised violence of the state. Useful links - https://soundcloud.com/deportationdiscs https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2019.1585559?af=R https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3675-race-class-and-brexit-thinking-from-detention https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/07/windrush-...
E049 Dr Yusef: Road life, street culture & the munpain
Dr Yusef (Bakkali) breaks down his conceptualisation of the munpain as both a structural and felt social phenomena experienced by those on Road. Useful Links- http://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/7316/ *Our use of ‘towards a more sociable sociology’ was inspired by our reading & studying of Migrant City by Les Back, Shamser Sinha, Charlynne Bryan, Vlad Baraku & Mardoche Yembi. *For an audible introduction to Sociable Sociology check out this podcast with Les Back and Charlynne Bryan posted by Mark C...
E048 Bakita Kasadha: HIV activism, research and valuing community knowledge(s)
Artist, poet, academic and HIV activist Bakita Kasadha gives us an introduction to her ongoing journey with research and grassroots community organising. *Make sure you listen till the end for some beautiful poetry!* Useful links- Sophia Forum and Terrence Higgins Trust collaboration - Invisible No Longer (first UK wide study on women and HIV): https://sophiaforum.net/index.php/hiv-and-women-invisible-no-longer/ Bakita's blog posts can be found here: https://www.bakitakk.com/mediacoverage/ Globa...
The T&C's : #FckBoris Protest (Free Bonus Episode)
Surviving Society Presents the T&C's Protest. The T&C's is usually only available got our Patreon supporters: Tissot and Chantelle join the #FckBoris Protest and reflect on the "election" of Boris Johnson as PM
E047 Zahra Bei: U.K secondary education, pupil referral units (PRUs) & No More Exclusions
*This episode contains quite a lot of laughter so adjust your volume accordingly* Zahra Bei from No More Exclusions joined us to talk about her career teaching in secondary schools in London, pupil referral units (PRU’S) and the development of the community activist coalition group - No More Exclusions. Useful links- https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/secure-schools-oasis-charity-students-prison-criminal-justice-system-a8993676.html https://nomoreexclusions.com/what-we-do/ https://www.georgepa...
E046 Michaela Benson: Retrieving (e)migration histories
Friend of the podcast Dr Michaela Benson joined us to talk about the durability of (mis)recognitions of British emigration histories, the Brexit Brits Abroad Project and the missed opportunity for migrant solidarities following the EU referendum. Useful links – https://brexitbritsabroad.com https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2019.159914 *Our use of ‘towards a more sociable sociology’ was inspired by our reading & studying of Migrant City by Les Back, Shamser Sinha, Charlynne B...
E045 Paulette Williams: Widening participation, Leading Routes & #BlackinAcademia
Friend of the podcast Paulette Williams joined us to talk about the recent history of widening participation in UK Higher education, founding Leading Routes and her ambitions for #PathstoUniversity and #BlackInAcademia as way to help strengthen the academic lifecycle for Black African and Caribbean students. Useful links/reading – https://leadingroutes.org https://www.redpepper.org.uk/the-political-whiteness-of-metoo/ *Our use of ‘towards a more sociable sociology’ was inspired by our reading & ...
E044 Surviving Society with the BSA: Hannah Jones
The murder of Jo Cox and white supremacy: Hannah talks us through the domestication of misogynist white supremacy and the assassination of Jo Cox during the EU referendum campaign. See Hannah's published paper here -https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2019.1577474?journalCode=rers20 Special thanks to Aaron Winter, Nasar Meer and the BSA for the support and funding that made our trip to Glasgow possible!
E043 Surviving Society with the BSA: Jessica Penney
Settler colonialism and Inuit communities in Canada: Jessica talks us through her PhD research on how global issues (e.g. climate change, shifting energy priorities) and structures (e.g. colonialism, imperialism, globalisation) impact Inuit health on a local level. Find out more about her essential research here - https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c11015e12b13f76eb3f52e7/t/5c66da66b208fc928deb262e/1550244456128/MuskratFalls_Health_JPenney_Feb2019.pdf Special thanks to Aaron Winter, Nasar M...