Secondary school teacher, scholar & lecturer Julia Toppin joined us to talk about how unevenly felt the global pandemic is for children and young people living on the margins of society. Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic.
*Listener discretion advised for this episode (domestic violence and sexual harassment)* Sister Uncut, domestic violence and austerity: Aviah breaks down how the combination of austerity and the hostile environment have impacted women’s access to domestic violence services. Chantelle also gets some home truths from Aviah on how we recover from the general election result…
This week we were joined by journalist and radio host Afua Adom to give some advice on parenting through the pandemic. Tissot ends with a discussion on the anti-Chinese racism we are witnessing both online and interpersonally as a result of Covid-19. Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic.
Karim joined us to discuss his PhD research focused on Muslim communities in Scotland and the impact(s) of systemic, institutional an interpersonal racism (particularly islamophobia) on mental health. Useful links- https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/karim-mitha
Nasar joined us to talk about the often hidden and unprotected refugee populations in camps in Europe and across the world. We also discuss the evolution of nationalism(s) during this time. Useful links- https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/coronavirus-we-are-risking-covid-19-tragedy-europes-refugee-camps-nasar-meer-2532139
Education specialist, Sofia joined us to talk through the Insider/Outsider report and how we all must continue putting pressure on the sector to change and move towards both direct and positive action to challenge racist inequitable structures. Useful links- https://www.gold.ac.uk/racial-justice/insider-outsider/
*Warning* - this episode contains 3 angry Black people!!! This week we were joined by Jade LB from The Echo Chamber podcast to discuss the racialised and classed unevenness of the impact of Covid-19. Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic. Useful links - -The title of the episode is from Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter's new book - Reactionary Democracy https://www.versobooks.com/books/3173-reactionary-democracy (available 28 April 2020) -Ch...
How do we find solidarities on the left in this current moment (2020)? John Narayan joined us to talk through how we can learn from the Black Panthers and Black British Power movement as we seek to move towards a class politics which is anti-racist, anti imperialist and anti-capitalist! Useful links- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0038026119845550 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/metrics/10.1177/0263276417741348 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2017.1374172...
Podcast alumni Dr Yusef Bakkali joined us to talk about the eurocentric nature of the 5G conspiracies and whether lessons will be learnt about the toxicity of capitalism post covid-19 Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic.
PhD researcher, scholar and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioner Carl Mallet joined us to discuss the politics of the sport and how race is reproduced in community spaces in the West Midlands.
*Apologies for the sound quality* Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic.
The body and austerity: Amelia and Chantelle continue Surviving Society Alternative to Woman’s hour regular discussion on body image and how we feel about our complex relationship with weight and exercise. Amelia talks through the connections between class, fat-shaming and austerity. Useful links- https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030136697)
Journalist Luke Butterly joined us to break down who the gilet noirs are and how they are using direct action to seek justice for undocumented migrants in France. Useful links- https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/black-vests-gilets-noirs-190813084140464.html https://lukejbutterly.contently.com/
Following in the footsteps of the plethora of British South Asian creative expression, Adeeb joined us to introduce a new collective of SA artists – Juice. We discuss how his music, poetry and artistic expression have been informed by his multiple identities (The East End of London, Britishness, India, Kerala and Islam) and we all agree on the need to do better in explaining who we mean when we say ‘people of colour’ in the diaspora. Useful links - https://juicedroplet.com https://www.youtube.co...
Guest Hosts - Dr Debbie Bargallie is a descendent of the Kamilaroi and Wonnarua peoples of the North-West and Upper Hunter Valley regions of New South Wales, Australia. Her doctoral thesis is the 2019 winner of the prestigious Stanner Award, and will be published by Aboriginal Studies Press in 2020 as Unmasking the Racial Contract: Indigenous voices on racism in the Australian Public Service. She is currently a Postdoctoral Senior Research Fellow at the Griffith Institute for Educational Researc...
Guest hosts: Shirley Anne Tate is Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Feminism and Intersectionality at the University of Alberta, Edmonton in the Department of Sociology. As a Cultural Sociologist, she is a qualitative researcher interested in intersectional thinking. In her writing, research and teaching she draws on Black feminist, gender, critical ‘race’, queer, post colonial and Caribbean decolonial theory within her overall focus on Black Atlantic diaspora studies and emerging identifications....
Guest hosts: Jalia L. Joseph is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University, additionally obtaining a graduate certificate in Africana Studies with specializations in race/ethnicity, social movements, feminisms, and critical race theory. Their current research address how social movement literature obscures race in the contextualization of race-based social movements. Through this work, Jalia demonstrates how & why the study of social movements must integrate struct...
Guest hosts: Nobubele Phuza is a Research Assistant in the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation (CriSHET). Over the past three years, she has been immersed in women and gender-focused research and action. Her research brings post structural and postcolonial feminist perspectives on the body, space and time to sport and social justice movements. Dr Jason Arday is assistant professor at Durham University, a Visiting Research Fellow at The Ohio State University in the Offic...
Guest hosts: Rianna Walcott is an LAHP-funded PhD candidate at King’s College London researching black identity formation in digital spaces, and a graduate twiceover from the University of Edinburgh. She co-founded projectmyopia.com, a website that promotes diversity in academia and a decolonised curriculum. She frequently writes and interviews about feminism, race and literature for publications including gal-dem, Dazed, The Skinny, Huffpost, Vice, The BBC, the Metro, the Wellcome collection an...
During a brief trip to Durham University, Chantelle spoke with Sol Gamsu about the future of the Labour party, what went wrong in GE19 and whether the left of the party will ever be able to tackle race, class and racism(s).
In this slightly shorter episode (stupid London traffic!), Julia joined us to talk about her long career in media, music and TV and began to talk us through her MA dissertation on women in drum and bass Useful links- https://www.patreon.com/posts/theyre-not-in-it-30057937
This week Darrel joined us to discuss his work with young people in London schools and how studying his BA in Black studies at BCU has helped informed his youth work and activism. Useful links - The Young Readers, Future Leaders Project ://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/youngreaders
This week Utsa joined us to discuss his PhD research on the sociology of the Indian diaspora; leisure practices and identities of Indian diasporic children. A truly fascinating discussion! Useful links- https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/utsa-mukherjee(5a723d97-c57c-4927-9b75-cda6685026c3).html
In this episode we discuss how popular science is re-inscribing race through ancestry tests, DNA and personalised diets. Useful links - https://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/staff/profile/tinasikka.html Sikka T. Against Twenty-First-Century Race Science. Jacobin, 2019. Available at: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/06/racism-science-genetic-testing-racecraft. Sikka T. Politics of Categorization: Race and Blood. Sociology Lens, 2019. Available at: https://www.sociologylens.net/topics/race-and-ethnicity/polit...
Stephen Ashe joined us to discuss the formation of trade unions, how Thatcher attacked them and left wing racism that manifests (and persists) within work and the union movement. Useful links- https://www.ethnicity.ac.uk/research/projects/racism-at-work http://blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/ethnicity/2016/11/racism-at-work-still-persists-time-for-urgent-action/ https://manchester.academia.edu/StephenDAshe
Providing you with a mini and weekly sociological reflection (plus our own thoughts and opinions!) during the 2019 general election campaign. In our final episode of this series Dan Renwick joined us to make sense of the General Election Result 2019. 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
This week were joined by Aurelien and Aaron to discuss the themes in their forthcoming book (2020) - Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream. Useful links - Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter. 2018. ‘Whiteness, Populism and the Racialisation of the Working Class in the United Kingdom and the United States’, Identities, Global Studies in Culture and Power, 26:5: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1070289X.2018.1552440?journalCode=gide20 Aurelien Mondo...
Tissot and Ronda describe the East End through their lived experiences as both young people and adults. In this episode also we also attempt to carefully lay out the class and race(d) dynamics of our own working class roots and explore the tension in trying to talk about racism we have experienced whilst also trying not to demonise and exceptionalise working class (especially white) people.
Providing you with a mini and weekly sociological reflection (plus our own thoughts and opinions!) during the 2019 general election campaign.
In this episode we get very deep and discuss epistemology and social theory. Shamser encourages us to think more critically with how we engage with the production of knowledge within our methodological approach. What is knowledge?! Useful links - Les Back and Shamser Sinha (2019) Migrant City, 2nd ed, London, Routledge (ie paperback) Les Back and Shamser Sinha (2018) Migrant City, London, Routledge John Berger and Jean Mohr (1975) A Seventh Man, London, Granta P.Christensen (2004) Childen’s Part...
