The Surviving Society team are extremely excited to present #TheSpotlightSeries. In these episodes Chantelle and Tissot take a step back from the mic and handover to both local and global academics, researchers, and community organizers. The Spotlight series continues with the themes from the original Surviving Society podcast focused on race, class, anti- racism and social movements. Guest Hosts: The Coalition of Anti-Racist Educators (CARE) and Black Educators Alliance (BEA) includes teachers ...
Nov 24, 2020•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast This episode was originally recorded for our patreon subscribers after our interview with Paul Gilroy. We decided to release this for all listeners so we could better contextualise how we interview guests. This is about us publically declaring our reflexive approach to podcasting. We recognise our flaws and imperfections, but our priotity is always about communicating through love, solidarity and resistance. Thanks for stickng with us, Chantelle Tissot and George x
Nov 20, 2020•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Paul joined us discuss how his analysis in the Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness and Between to Camps: Nations, Cultures and the Allure of Race can speak to the resurgence of anti-racist movements.
Nov 17, 2020•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast ...A Kick in the Belly, Women, Slavery and Resistance: Stella Dadzie joined us to explore histories of resistance amongst enslaved West Indian women. Stella also offered some useful considerations for the next generation of anti-racist organisers. Useful links: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3699-a-kick-in-the-belly
Nov 10, 2020•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Keston joined us to talk about legacies of colonialism in the Caribbean and Latin American, the politics of 'development' and how climate change should be understood through its disproportionate impact on previously colonized places. Useful links: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3561121 https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2020/6/4/the-green-new-deal-should-not-be-a-new-imperial-masterplan/ https://sites.law.duke.edu/thefinregblog/2020/08/05/between-the-devil-debt-and-the-d...
Nov 03, 2020•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Levi introduces key arguments from his book - Land, God, and Guns: Settler Colonialism and Masculinity in the American Heartland (2020) - to contextualise the (oppressive) cultures and structures which surround the 2020 USA election. Useful: https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/land-god-and-guns/
Oct 30, 2020•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Prof William Lez Henry joined us to talk about reasoning through crisis and conspiracies and how we live through the legacies of slavery, empire and colonialism. Useful links: https://www.youtube.com/user/lezhenry/videos
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kennetta provides an analysis of the 2020 presidential election focused on histories of democray, representation and slavery.
Oct 23, 2020•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Roxy joined us to talk about her brilliant activist work with Kids of Colour and the No More Police in Schools campaign. Kids of Colour create spaces for young people of colour to come together and explore race, identity and culture and support them to challenge the racism they face. No Police in Schools is a community campaign led by Kids of Colour and the Northern Police Monitoring Project. It is a community campaign united by shared concerns over the increasing presence of police in schools i...
Oct 20, 2020•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kaneesha Johnson joined us to outline how the state suppresses the vote of previously incarcerated people during elections. Useful links: https://scholar.harvard.edu/kaneeshajohnson/home
Oct 16, 2020•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Gary joined us to discuss his latest BBC documentary 'The Empty Cases' which focused on how change might occur in British museums as a result of the Black Lives Matter movement. Useful links: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000lyyd
Oct 13, 2020•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Voting rights editor at the Guardian US , Ankita Rao, joined us to talk about the history and contemporary realities of voter suppression in USA elections. Useful links: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/ankita-rao
Oct 09, 2020•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kathryn spoke to us about her research focused on the history of internal border controls in Britain and resistance to them, as well as current NHS charges for migrant maternity care. Useful links: Docs not Cops Toolkit - https://patientsnotpassports.co.uk/ Foucault in Tunisia (DM us for a free copy): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0038026119870107 Migrants’ Access to Healthcare During the Coronavirus Crisis Interview - https://fass.open.ac.uk/school-social-sciences-global-studies-soci...
Oct 06, 2020•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Luke joined us for a second time to discuss the publication of his book, Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of deportation to Jamaica Useful links: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526143990 https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/aug/18/deportation-jamaica-britain-windrush-scandal-foreign-aid https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/deportation-cuts-black-britons/ https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-guardians-audio-long-reads/id587347784?i=1000491968231
Sep 29, 2020•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Toni gives us a brief introduction to international relations (IR) ongoing confrontation with race and introduces us to the history and contemporary relationship between the European Union and the African Union. Useful links: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/106092/1/WPS_2020_07_28_race_justice_and_new_possibilities_twenty_years.pdf (Global Racial Hierarchies and the Limits of Localization via National Action Plans. New Directions in Women, Peace and Security, (pp 133 – 151)) https://foreignpolicy.com/2...
Sep 22, 2020•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast ...: Race and nation in twenty-first-century Britain. Vallu joined us to discuss keys from his latest book, The Clamour of Nationalism: Race and nation in twenty-first-century Britain. Useful links: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526126146/
Sep 15, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ebun joined us to talk about themes in her latest book, Critical Race Theory and Inequality in the Labour Market: Racial stratification in Ireland. Useful links: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526134394/
Sep 08, 2020•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast East-ender and housing enthusiast, Richard, joined us to critically engage and reflect on the re-generation of the East/East end of London. Although Richard’s specialism is based in Hackney, we think this conversation feeds into debates about social housing more broadly across the UK. Useful links: https://ricyeboah.com
Sep 01, 2020•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ornette joined us for an extensive philosophical reflection about themes in his book, Black Scholarly Activism between the Academy and Grassroots: A Bridge for Identities and Social Justice. Useful links: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-00837-6?utm_source=sn&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=RMarketing&utm_campaign=SBPS_4_CN01_GL_BlackLivesMatter https://critracemmu.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/24th-session-of-the-working-group-wgepad-ohchr-25-29-march-2019-geneva/ https://critracemmu...
Aug 25, 2020•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Surviving Society team are extremely excited to present #TheSpotlightSeries. In these episodes Chantelle and Tissot take a step back from the mic and handover to both local and global academics, researchers, and community organizers. The Spotlight series continues with the themes from the original Surviving Society podcast focused on race, class, anti- racism and social movements. Guest hosts: Mwenza Blell: Mwenza is a biosocial anthropologist. She is currently a Rutherford Fellow affiliated...
Aug 18, 2020•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Scholar- activist and co founder of European Race & Imagery Foundation, Bel joined us to talk about racism in the Netherlands, Blackface and living/growing up in predominately white places. Useful links- https://erifonline.org https://project-parnell.com Reading: Dunn, R.S , A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia https://buff.ly/33qtMWV J. Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe https://buff.ly/39CKVxU D. Owusu, That Reminds Me https://buff.ly/3i2joZR Listening:...
Aug 11, 2020•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast In our final reflection (for now!) we reflect on 20 minisodes of sociologically documenting the lockdown period in the UK. Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic
Aug 07, 2020•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast David provides us with an extensive analysis on Britain’s relationship with the Gulf states from his latest book - AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain. Useful links https://politybooks.com/angloarabia-why-gulf-wealth-matters-to-britain/ https://www.ippr.org/juncture-item/uk-ties-with-saudi-arabia-costs-and-alternatives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkp06Jvh0GU&t= Reading: G. Wekker, White Innocence https://buff.ly/2Br6Efu D. Wearing (article) https://buff.ly/3f9WXjz Anna Stavrianak...
Aug 04, 2020•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Danny Dorling joined us to reflect on the emerging economic recession (or depression?!) and where we might be be able to find some hope... Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic
Jul 31, 2020•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Feminism Interrupted: Lola talks through the radical and imaginative themes within her latest book, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power Useful links- https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340067/feminism-interrupted/ https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/A-Fly-Girls-Guide-To-University-by-Odelia-Younge-editor/9781912565146 Reading: W.E.B DuBois, The Souls of White Folk C. Boyce Davis, Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones – A.Davis , Are Prisons Obsolete? C.S...
Jul 28, 2020•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Khadijah joined us for reflect on how we spiritually, emotionally and intellectually respond to the people around us trying to 'fix' racism. It was a timely discussion for us (we were exhausted!) where we discussed how Blackness transcends modernity. Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic
Jul 24, 2020•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Co-founder of Swimdem Crew -Nathaniel A. Cole - joined us to talk about the organisations brilliant work on swimming, community and belonging in the inner city (London). Useful links- https://linktr.ee/swimdemcrew https://www.swimdemcrew.co.uk/ http://tedxlondon.com/attend/TEDxLondonWomen2019/speakers/NathanielCole Reading C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/775985.The_Black_Jacobins Akala, Natives D.Smith, Ho...
Jul 21, 2020•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Katherine Smith joined us to myth-bust the REF, the impact agenda and the future of university funding. These questions are particular pertinent as the global pandemic is likely to have a dramatic effect on universities and public intellectualism. Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic
Jul 17, 2020•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Brendan McGeever joined us to talk through some of the themes in his latest book Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution. In locating racism(s) and antisemitism on the Left during the Russian Revolution, Brenda’s scholarship helps us to understand race, (anti) racism & politics in contemporary society. Useful links- http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychosocial/our-staff/academic/brendan-mcgeever https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/antisemitism-and-the-russian-revolution/AF5AE3BB29CB5A7909C750366...
Jul 14, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Norman joined us to reflect and discuss who attended the far right demonstrations in June 2020. Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic
Jul 10, 2020•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
