Surviving Society

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

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

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

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/

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/

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/

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-Multi-Ethnic-Britain-Uncorking-the-Champagne-Supernova/Arday/p/book/9781138217409 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/304502.Salvation

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.

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.

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

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

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 original Surviving Society podcast focused on race, class and anti- racist theory and political movements.These episodes typically feature a variety of conversations around themes of global decolonising movements and pedagogies; feminism, social theory, community organising and overcoming institutional and interpersonal racism(s). This series is about connecting local and global struggles giving us the opportunity to find more solidarities within and beyond the academy and more crucially, beyond borders. Links: https://soundcloud.com/user-622675754/sets/the-spotlight-series-one https://soundcloud.com/user-622675754/sets/thespotlightseries-two https://soundcloud.com/user-622675754/sets/thespotlightseries-three https://www.patreon.com/SurvivingSociety https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/

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 Society podcast focused on race, class, political theory and anti-racist movements. These episodes typically feature a variety of conversations around themes of global decolonising movements and pedagogies; feminism, social theory, community organising and overcoming institutional and interpersonal racism(s). This series is about connecting local and global struggles giving us the opportunity to find more solidarities within and beyond the academy and more crucially, beyond borders. Links: https://soundcloud.com/user-622675754/sets/the-spotlight-series-one https://soundcloud.com/user-622675754/sets/thespotlightseries-two https://soundcloud.com/user-622675754/sets/thespotlightseries-three https://www.patreon.com/SurvivingSociety https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/

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

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

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-classed issue that we can build solidarities from. From the cladding scandal; Grenfell and the lack of affordable housing, this is an ongoing Surviving Society series which features experts, academics and activists to educate us all on how the state and corporate organisations have continued to fraught collective unity on the matter of housing. Exec prod George Ofori – Addo & Dan Renwick Music theme: SHAE OT-super smash bros brawl drill remix

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

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 media instead! Start your subscription to Red Pepper – the magazine at the heart of the movement – today. www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/

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

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

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 Surviving Society series which features experts, academics and activists to educate us all on how the state and corporate organisations have continued to fraught collective unity on the matter of housing. Exec prod George Ofori – Addo & Dan Renwick Music theme: SHAE OT-super smash bros brawl drill remix

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 instead! Start your subscription to Red Pepper – the magazine at the heart of the movement – today. https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/

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 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 Surviving Society series which features experts, academics and activists to educate us all on how the state and corporate organisations have continued to thwart collective unity on the matter of housing. Exec prod George Ofori – Addo & Dan Renwick Music theme: SHAE OT-super smash bros brawl drill remix

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 international relations and politics at the University 'L'Orientale' in Naples and photo-reportage and photojournalism in Rome. Along his photographic activity, he has always collaborated with non-profit organizations and NGOs involved in humanitarian programmes in Europe and in war zones. His work documents migration, life on the borders, human right violations, and social issues. His photographs have appeared in several international newspapers, magazines and broadcast groups such as Le Nouvelle Observateur, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, Warscapes, RAIRadio3, Sky, La Presse Canada, La Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, and on several book covers. He is exhibited in international venues, including the Hopkins Hall Gallery in the USA. He has worked with numerous international research and academic institutions such as New York University, Oxford University, St. Andrews University and San Diego State University. He has been the recipient of several international awards, including the Documentary Photography Audience Engagement Grant (New York 2014) for his project Letters from the CIE and the 2017 ACEP Projecto Media exhibited at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon for the ongoing project The Game. He is the artist-in-residence for the Transnationalizing Modern Language Project sponsored by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, with a work on the Italian diasporic communities in Addis Ababa, London, New York, Buenos Aires and Tunis.

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

In the first of two special episodes, our executive producer Adders in the Studio (a.k.a George Ofori-Addo) provided us with highlights from some of our favourite conversations from Season 14. Featuring, Gurminder Bhambra, John Holmwood, April Louise-Pennant, Twayna Mayne, Kieron Turner and Amit Singh

Laura and Remi joined us to talk about their new book Anti-racist scholar-activism which focuses on ‘the praxes of academics working within, and against, their institutions in pursuit of anti-racist social justice'. Links: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157966/

Tanzil breaks down how the law becomes a vehicle to enact systemic oppressions and exploitations despite it consistently being positioned in the public imagination as a force for liberation. Links: http://npolicemonitor.co.uk https://www.routledge.com/Time-Temporality-and-Legal-Judgment/Chowdhury/p/book/9781138324503 https://dogsection.org/press/abolishing-the-police/

James joined us to talk through his discussions on race, class, the state, and solidarity from his latest book - The Empire at Home, Internal Colonies and the End of Britain. Links: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341002/the-empire-at-home/

Franck joined us to discuss his work as a communist lawyer/barrister and the extent to which his and others approach to law can contribute to the international working-class struggle to overthrow imperial and capitalist domination. Links: https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/asylum-conscientious-objectors-israeli-apartheid/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGL2242vHBs

...: with Bernard Coard & Derron Wallace. Guest Hosts: Derron Wallace is an Assistant Professor of Education and Sociology at Brandeis University. Derron is a sociologist of race, ethnicity and education. He specializes in cross-national studies of structural and cultural inequalities in urban schools across global cities, focusing specifically on the experiences of young people of African descent. His current research examines the educational outcomes of Black youth in London and New York City. Bernard Coard taught at his secondary school in Grenada before studying at Brandeis University (USA) and then Sussex University (UK). During the late 1960s and early ‘70s, Bernard ran youth clubs in South East London for children attending seven so-called ESN schools and taught at two others in East London. He subsequently taught at The University of The West Indies and at the Institute of Higher Studies, Netherlands Antilles. In 1971 he published a 50-page book How the West Indian Child Is Made Educationally Sub-normal in the British School System: The Scandal of the Black Child in Schools in Britain. The book explained that British schools had a pervasive bias toward treating white children as normal, which led to black children being labelled as "educationally subnormal". For 20 years, Coard set up and ran the Richmond Hill Prison Education Programme, Grenada (basic literacy to London University postgraduate degrees). He continues to teach at the university level as a guest lecturer.

In this episode, we mainly use the teachings of Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall and bell hooks to discuss Malcolm's life as a graduate of the supplementary school movement (Hackney) to his present-day as a scholar-activist in Devon. Links: https://linktr.ee/malcolmrichards

Campaigners and activists Gloria and Lisa joined us to break down the history and contemporary injustices of Joint Enterprise. Joint Enterprise is a common law doctrine where an individual can be jointly convicted of the crime of another if the court decides they foresaw that the other party was likely to commit that crime. https://jointenterprise.co/

In this week's episode Tissot and Chantelle spotlight the work of the Good Law project by exploring some of their cases/exposures on the UK government handling of the COVID-19 global pandemic. https://goodlawproject.org

In this episode we draw on themes from Amits's ethnographic PhD research centred on the durability of racialisation and racial habitus in a Muay Thai/Kickboxing Gym in East London. Our discussion centres around arguments in this paper https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/UNEDER6JY83KRD6CA74V/full

David returned to the show to discuss the military withdrawals from Afghanistan and some of the global legacies of the war on terror. We finish by exploring some of our fears around the government and media's continued rejection of anti-racism and the BLM movement.

April-Louise returned to the show to discuss her PhD thesis on the educational trajectories of Black women in the English education system. Later we focus on A-L's time working for the Welsh government and the legacies of Penrhyn Castle, slavery and the Pennant family. Links: https://podcasts.apple.com/sb/podcast/the-legacy-of-penrhyn-castle-pt-1/id1501716010?i=1000530825810 https://crishet.mandela.ac.za/Staff-Associates/April-Louise-Pennant https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00131857.2020.1769602

Danny joined us for his annual visit to the show to outline current trends in local and global inequalities with discussions on Brexit, the war on terror, the tories and COVID-19.

Hannah joined us to discuss her conceptualisation of ‘Violent Ignorance' in her latest book which ‘sets out to examine how the past persists in the present, how trauma is silenced or reappears, and how we might reimagine identity and connection in ways that counter - rather than ignore - historic violence'. Links- https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/violent-ignorance-9781786998613/

Kieron joined us to outline and explain the history and contemporary activism of the BDS movement. We also explore how supporting Palestinian liberation presents multiple opportunities for international solidarity building. Links: https://palestineaction.org/

Rima returns to the show to discuss her research on South Asian middle classes in the context of the current British government, critical race theory, the sewer report and authoritarian capitalism. Useful links: https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/saini-rima

Chantelle and Tissot present some anecdotal reflections of the global and local legacies and implications of the war on terror 20 years on from 9/11.

Guest hosts: Nadya Ali is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex. Her research interests lie at the intersection of border politics, 'race', citizenship, and Britain as a post-imperial nation. She has published on the Prevent strategy, Islamophobia, British Muslims and austerity. Dr Naaz Rashid is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. She is author of Veiled Threats: Representing the Muslim Woman in Public Policy Discourses (Policy Press 2016) and her research interests lie in examining the intersections between race, gender and religion. Dr Waqas Tufail is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University, UK. His research interests primarily concern the policing, racialization and criminalization of marginalized and minority communities and the lived experiences of Muslim minorities. Waqas is a Board Member of the International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee on Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity, serves on the Editorial Board of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and is co-editor of Media, Crime, Racism (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018). Waqas Tufail

Award winning comedian Twayna Mayne joined us to discuss the craft of (sociological) comedy writing and her lived experience and reflections of transracial adoption. Useful links: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07r9qy3 https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/ask-me-anything-podcast-production/

Chantelle and Tissot talk about their visit to the #WarInnaBabylon exhibition, the realities of Brexit (including the shortage of patron shots, nandos & milkshakes) and the myth of global Britain. Useful links: https://www.ica.art/exhibitions/war-inna-babylon

Selma James, Sara Callaway, Shanice Octavia McBean & Aviah Day met the Crossroads Women's Centre in London to discuss Selma's latest book, Our Time is Now: Sex, Race, Class and Caring for People and Planet https://crossroadsbooksonline.net Guest Hosts: Selma James is an antisexist, antiracist, anti-capitalist campaigner. In 1972 she put forward Wages for Housework (WFH) as a demand and a political perspective that redefined the working class to include all who work without wages, starting with women, the primary carers everywhere. The International WFH Campaign she founded co-ordinates the Global Women's Strike. She co-authored the classic The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community. With her husband and colleague CLR James, she worked in the movement for independence and federation of the English-speaking Caribbean. Her much-anticipated Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet (2021), together with her first anthology, Sex, Race, and Class (2012), focus on what can be learnt from decades of building an international network. Selma James was recently honoured with the Sheila McKechnie Long-term Achievement Award. She is based at the Crossroads Women's Centre in London. Sara Callaway, Women of Colour Global Women Strike, is an immigrant, active in women's, anti-racist, environmental justice, anti-war and anti-deportation movements for 40 years. Women of Colour GWS (WoC) organises to end sexism, racism, poverty, and every discrimination, police violence and militarism. We are part of the global Black Lives Matter movement, focusing especially on Haiti and Palestine. We demand a care income for everyone, of all genders, who do caring work, including justice work, for people and the natural world; the funds to come from military budgets and corporations. WoC is part of Global Women Against Deportations (GWAD), a coalition of groups organising for immigrant rights. Aviah Sarah Day is at Birkbeck, University of London teaching and researching as her job, and is community organiser the rest of the time. She is involved in the East End branch of Sisters Uncut, a national direct-action collective fighting cuts to domestic violence services as well as state violence. She is also involved in London Renters Union and the Kill the Bill Coalition, a national movement resisting the Police, Crime and Sentencing Bill. Shanice Octavia McBean is a Black feminist activist and writer currently working in the Kill the Bill Coalition. She describes herself as an Afro-Marxist and is currently working on a book on criminalisation, abolition and Empire. Children in care statistic: the majority of children taken are white, though disproportionately children of colour. But we have figures to show that in some US areas, including in California, the children are largely Black or Native American, a racist tragedy which we must highlight. Also the children in Sherley Oaks in Lambeth, were over 50% Black.

Gurminder and John joined us to discuss arguments and themes from their latest book, Colonialism and Modern Social Theory. Links: https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Colonialism+and+Modern+Social+Theory-p-9781509541294

This is the first of two reflective episodes about arguments and themes in Aaron Winter and Aurelien Mondon's book - Reactionary Democracy: How racism and the populist far-right became mainstream. Useful links: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3173-reactionary-democracy

Alison reflects on the reception of her 2020 book, Me not you: the trouble with mainstream feminism. We discuss disposability, the connection between t**er*fs and racism (& the far right) and we present some hopeful possibilities for our political culture. Useful links: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526155801/

Joy joined us to discuss the impact of her 2020 book - Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City. We have a wide-ranging conversation about race and class in pandemic times focussing on the intensified neglect and theft of the state, the widening of racialised and classed inequalities during the lockdowns and we interweave some reflections on intergenerational trauma. Useful links: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/terraformed-young-black-lives-in-the-inner-city/

We return to themes and lessons from Alana's 2020 book - ‘Why Race Still Matters' - to discuss how nations and the far right are attacking the Black Lives Matter movement. We also address how race and power are influencing the Covid-19 conjuncture. Useful links: https://www.alanalentin.net/category/whyracestillmatters/