In this episode Rima Saini supported us to interview Nissa Finney about EVENS which is the largest and most comprehensive survey to document the lives of ethnic and religious minorities in Britain during the pandemic. https://www.ethnicity.ac.uk/research/projects/evens/ Welcome to this collaborative two-part series with the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity at the University of Manchester. In these episodes we explore the research conducted at the centre focused on ethnic, racial and religious...
Nov 28, 2023•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we hear from Bridget Byrne, Alana Lentin and Vron Ware on the history of whiteness studies and what this scholarship has done to both obscure and help us to understand the social reproduction of race. https://www.ethnicity.ac.uk Welcome to this collaborative two-part series with the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity at the University of Manchester. In these episodes we explore the research conducted at the centre focused on ethnic, racial and religious inequalities in the UK. T...
Nov 21, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we hear from Meghan Tinsley, Gary Younge and Chloe Peacock about their research on the activism which surrounds statues of empire and slavery. The research team - which also included Ruth Ramsden-Karelse and Sadia Habib – looked at political discourse and policy literature and conducted interviews with activists to compare the contestation of statues across fifteen sites in the UK, the US, South Africa, Martinique, and Belgium. Welcome to this collaborative two-part series with t...
Nov 14, 2023•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Directors of CoDE, Bridget Byrne, Claire Alexander and James Nazroo introduce a new collaborative series of Surviving Society focused on the research produced within the centre. This episode focuses on the politics of communicating research on ethnic inequalities during political calamities. Links: https://www.ethnicity.ac.uk/ https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/bridget.byrne https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/claire.alexander https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/james...
Nov 07, 2023•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Sita and Chantelle discuss the conversations from the Structure of Feeling series, exploring the impact of urgent political calamities on our everyday lives. About Structure of Feeling In this Surviving Society miniseries, Sita Balani draws on the ideas of socialist thinker Raymond Williams who coined the term ‘structure of feeling’ to capture our collective emotional experience of social change. Interviewing Kieran Yates, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Alfie Bown and Tabitha Lasley, th...
Oct 31, 2023•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast S1/E4 Sita Balani & Alfie Bown: The gamification of social life According to Alfie Bown, we are in the middle of a ‘desirevolution’ — a fundamental and political transformation of the way we desire as human beings. Dream Lovers. The Gamification of Relationships attempts to understand how digital technologies are reshaping our subjectivity. This interview focuses on the unexpected interconnections Bown traces: between dating apps and work, pornography and geopolitics, smart cities and anxiety. L...
Oct 24, 2023•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode Sita is in conversation with Tabitha about her non-fiction debut, Sea State: A Memoir. This book explores the world of North Sea Oil – an industry often overlooked despite its huge economic and ecological significance. Lasley is drawn to the rig workers – working class men who find themselves making big money by living in conditions of isolation, homosociality, and infrastructural negligence. She weaves ethnographic insights with the story of her affair with a married rig worker....
Oct 17, 2023•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Sita is in conversation with Yara on their novels – Stubborn Archivist and There Are More Things. The conversation focuses on transnational circuits of political repression and resistance – in particular the connections between the UK and Brazil. Experimental yet accessible, Fowler’s work captures the rhythms of life in contemporary London and the ways in which the city is shaped by longer historical forces with global reach. The interview focuses on fiction as a form, asking wh...
Oct 10, 2023•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode Sita is in conversation with journalist and author Kieran Yates to discuss her non-fiction debut, All The Houses I’ve Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us. This book offers an acute portrayal of our defining generational experience: insecure housing. Yates not only captures the everyday details of the housing crisis – the constant movement, the mould blooming in the bathroom, the Spare Room housemate auditions – but reveals the historical forces that brought them...
Oct 03, 2023•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Ez, Aaron and Chantelle are in conversation about the state of politics, how we can be better critical friends of each other and what imagining alternatives to the current systems looks like in practice.
Sep 26, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we hear from Malecka about her work as a race equality manager in Liverpool city’s regional combined authority, a cofounder of Elevate (youth mentoring) and her volunteer work at the Caribbean Centre. Malika’s role in the local authority was created in response to the Black Lives Matter uprisings in 2020. Welcome to surviving society presents Hidden Histories. This is a collaborative project focused on histories and contemporary formations of empire, imperialism and slavery in Br...
Sep 19, 2023•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Creative, artist and filmmaker Michelle joined us to talk about how her work and art highlights the holistic experience and identity of Black scousers in Liverpool. Links: https://lbah.co.uk Welcome to surviving society presents Hidden Histories. This is a collaborative project focused on histories and contemporary formations of empire, imperialism and slavery in Britain and the Caribbean. You are listening to season one, Resistance and Restoration in Black Liverpool. In these episodes we locate...
Sep 12, 2023•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast In part 2 Jimi provides us with an overview of the events that took place both before and during the Toxeth uprisings of 1980. Links: https://www.serendipity-uk.com/product/1981-black-liverpool-past-and-present-2/ Welcome to surviving society presents Hidden Histories. This is a collaborative project focused on histories and contemporary formations of empire, imperialism and slavery in Britain and the Caribbean. You are listening to season one, Resistance and Restoration in Black Liverpool. In t...
Sep 05, 2023•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the first of two episodes, Jimi discusses the origins of the Toxeth uprisings through childhood experiences of violent racism inflicted by the police and white people in Liverpool. Shelda asserts that these tensions are still pertinent in Liverpool today. Links: https://www.serendipity-uk.com/product/1981-black-liverpool-past-and-present-2/ Welcome to surviving society presents Hidden Histories. This is a collaborative project focused on histories and contemporary formations of empire, imperi...
Aug 29, 2023•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we hear about Kerry’s long career and activist work in Liverpool around mental, physical and maternal health as well as the wellbeing of Black and Asian populations in the city. Links: Welcome to surviving society presents Hidden Histories. This is a collaborative project focused on histories and contemporary formations of empire, imperialism and slavery in Britain and the Caribbean. You are listening to season one, Resistance and Restoration in Black Liverpool. In these episodes...
Aug 22, 2023•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alan and Shelda explain how the Liverpool African and Caribbean Grassroots initiative formed to retore and bring back to life the Merseyside Caribbean Centre in 2020. Welcome to surviving society presents Hidden Histories. This is a collaborative project focused on histories and contemporary formations of empire, imperialism and slavery in Britain and the Caribbean. You are listening to season one, Resistance and Restoration in Black Liverpool. In these episodes we locate Black Liverpool as a si...
Aug 15, 2023•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Shelda and Stephen locate Liverpool as a city in Europe with one of the oldest Black populations. Expect a conversation which centres Black residents of Liverpool long history of living, resisting and settling in the city. Links: https://www.serendipity-uk.com/product/1981-black-liverpool-past-and-present-2/ Welcome to surviving society presents Hidden Histories. This is a collaborative project focused on histories and contemporary formations of empire, imperialism and slavery in Britain and the...
Aug 08, 2023•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Shelda and Chantelle introduce the Hidden Histories project as a long term collaboration which highlights the various ways in which British colonialism still impacts the lives of Black people in Liverpool and the Caribbean. Hidden Histories has been executively produced by Shelda-Jane Smith, Levi Gahman, Chantelle Lewis & George Ofori-Addo. Branding by Munotida Chinyanga - www.munotida.com
Aug 01, 2023•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Chantelle and Ez are in conversation with James O'Brien. The focus is on how we build solidarity through conversations and practices which are intentionally open, vulnerable and loving. Links: https://www.waterstones.com/author/james-obrien/250836
Jul 25, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ez and Chantelle reflect on the conversations and (love) lessons from the series. The discussion centres bell hooks’ scholarship on love in community, in family and in romance. In these episodes we explore the role of love in social justice spaces. Each guest focuses on how they bring love into their work. With discussion on the possibilities and challenges of centring love in practice; expect nuanced, thoughtful and critical discussions about how we collectively imagine futures of social justic...
Jul 18, 2023•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast This conversation focuses on how we can better connect theory and practice when we talk about love. Ez, Lisa and Yusef discuss the possibilities and limitations of academic work on love, Useful links: https://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/stephen-lawrence-research-centre/index.aspx In these episodes we explore the role of love in social justice spaces. Each guest focuses on how they bring love into their work. With discussion on the possibilities and challenges of centring love in pr...
Jul 11, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alex and Ez talk about race and racialisation in the context of Blackness and masculinity in social justice work. This is a conversation about love, vulnerability and healing together. Useful links: https://healingjusticeldn.org/ In these episodes we explore the role of love in social justice spaces. Each guest focuses on how they bring love into their work. With discussion on the possibilities and challenges of centring love in practice; expect nuanced, thoughtful and critical discussions about...
Jul 04, 2023•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast This conversation focuses on healing and learning together in community. Ifasina talks about how their life and work is grounded in love, understanding and acceptance of our differences. Useful links: https://www.getembodiedsoulmovement.com/ In these episodes we explore the role of love in social justice spaces. Each guest focuses on how they bring love into their work. With discussion on the possibilities and challenges of centring love in practice; expect nuanced, thoughtful and critical discu...
Jun 27, 2023•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ez and Molly discuss the challenges of reparative sexual violence work in social justice spaces. The conversation focuses on how we can better resist carceral logics. Useful links: https://actbuildchange.com/ In these episodes we explore the role of love in social justice spaces. Each guest focuses on how they bring love into their work. With discussion on the possibilities and challenges of centring love in practice; expect nuanced, thoughtful and critical discussions about how we collectively ...
Jun 20, 2023•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the first episode of this series, Ez is joined by Stephanie Wong, the founder and director of Act Build Change. Their conversation centres dignity, anger and love whilst working in service to community. Useful links: https://actbuildchange.com In these episodes we explore the role of love in social justice spaces. Each guest focuses on how they bring love into their work. With discussion on the possibilities and challenges of centring love in practice; expect nuanced, thoughtful and critical ...
Jun 13, 2023•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a keynote conversation hosted by the Identities journal and the British Library. Imogen and Chantelle present a chronology of race and class through histories of both oppression and resistance in Britain and across the Empire. Links: https://www.identitiesjournal.com https://lancasterblackhistorygroup.com https://leadingroutes.org
Jun 06, 2023•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kate and Amy discuss class, gender and inequality in relation to the removal of children from families. Useful links: https://www.reformorg.co.uk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyttx0v6u10
May 30, 2023•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Social justice and climate emergency campaigners, Katherine Egland and Krystal Martin spoke to us about Drax power station's biomass burning in both the US and UK. Katherine Egland and Krystal Martin were in the UK as part of a campaign to draw international connections and solidarity between Selby (UK) and communities of colour in Southern US. They are sharing knowledge concerning the impact of Drax power station's biomass burning on the environment and public health. Links: https://edition.cnn...
May 23, 2023•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Liam, Sophia and Chantelle Lewis reflect on the political climate today and the role of anti-racist organising in contemporary society. Intro music: Passport on our face - John Pandit Links https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/18/unconscious-bias-training-is-nonsense-says-outgoing-race-relations-chair
May 16, 2023•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast A roundtable discussion with key anti-racist organisers who have recently co-written important new books on anti-racism, abolition, feminism and the role of the academy. With Azfar Shafi, Ilyas Nagdee, Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Laura Connelly, Shanice McBean and Jasbinder S. Nijjar Intro music: Passport on our face - John Pandit
May 09, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
