Surviving Society

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.

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/

Nicky joined us to discuss her scholarship on race in both London and Johannesburg and what can be learnt from future and existing anxieties in the largest and wealthiest city in South Africa as a case study for the contemporary global south city. Useful links: https://witspress.co.za/catalogue/anxious-joburg/ https://nickyfalkof.com

In this episode, we present some critiques of the Left and alternative media responses to both COVID-19 and Grenfell. Our focus is on some lessons from A. Sivanandan: to abandon knee-jerk politics and reject ‘left interventions' on the 24-hour news cycle.

Arshad and Thom joined us to outline how the EU utilise a form of liberal violence to border, reject and harm refugees attempting to enter one of its European Nations. Useful links: No Name Kitchen i http://www.nonamekitchen.org/

Lucy critically outlines some of the remaining colonial entanglements of asylum & refugee policies from the 1951 Geneva Convention, the New Labour years and more contemporary violence enacted by the Home Office. Useful links: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/people/academic-staff/lucy-mayblin https://politybooks.com/?s=Migration+Studies+and+Colonialism https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781783486168/Asylum-after-Empire-Colonial-Legacies-in-the-Politics-of-Asylum-Seeking https://www.routledge.com/Impoverishment-and-Asylum-Social-Policy-as-Slow-Violence/Mayblin/p/book/9780367423100

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: Karis Campion - Karis is a Legacy in Action Research Fellow at the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre. Her current research focuses on barbershops and examines their function as counter-hegemonic spaces and key social institutions for Black communities in Britain. She is currently writing a book entitled Making Mixed Race: A Study of Time, Place and Identity (Routledge). Her research interests span areas of (mixed) race/ethnic identity, geographies of race in urban space, intersectional inequalities, youth identities, anti-racism and institutional racism in education. Stephen Ashe - Stephen Ashe is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Durham University. Prior to joining the Sociology Department, Stephen was a Research Associate in the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity at the University of Manchester where he conducted research on untold stories in the anti-racist and anti-imperial struggle for civil rights and social justice in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s (with Satnam Virdee), workplace racism (with James Nazroo), and the relationship between race and class in post-Brexit Britain (with James Rhodes and Sivamohan Valluvan). Since 2018, Stephen has carried out research on different aspects of racial inequality and institutional whiteness in higher education at four different universities in England. This included research on the awarding gap in the social sciences, the effectiveness of widening participation schemes and the transition to undergraduate student life, and the impact of programmes designed to empower students racialised as non-white through the creation of safe spaces and a sense of belonging. Stephen co-edited and contributed to Routledge's recently published edited collection, Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice (Ashe, Busher, Macklin and Winter, 2020). Remi Joseph-Salisbury - Remi is a Presidential Fellow in Ethnicity and Inequalities at the University of Manchester. He is the author of 'Black Mixed-Race Men', and co-editor of 'The Fire Now: Anti-Racism in Times of Explicit Racial Violence'. He has written widely on race and racism, with a particular focus on education and policing. His forthcoming work, with Dr Laura Connelly, focuses on anti-racist scholar-activism in UK universities and will be published as a book in 2021. Race and Ethnicity in British Sociology Report: https://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/25345/bsa_race_and_ethnicity_in_british_sociology_report.pdf

Zavier joined us to discuss his ongoing research on how changing Ottoman elite conceptions of race, slavery, and blackness in the Ottoman Empire contributed to new forms of racialization of enslaved and manumitted Africans between the 1840s and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Useful links: https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/departments/meis/people/students/zavier-wingham.html https://twitter.com/zwingham/status/1303346717715247109 https://twitter.com/AjamMC/status/1267806300618006528 https://csalateral.org/forum/cultural-constructions-race-racism-middle-east-north-africa-southwest-asia-mena-swana/myths-haji-firuz-racist-contours-iranian-minstrel-baghoolizadeh/#fn-7891-4 https://csalateral.org/forum/cultural-constructions-race-racism-middle-east-north-africa-southwest-asia-mena-swana/opposing-spectacle-blackness-arap-baci-kalfa-dad-african-presence-turkey-willoughby/#fn-7954-6

Michael joined us to discuss themes and arguments about the Labour Party, anti-racism & antisemitism from two of his articles: On "Black Antisemitism" and Antiracist Solidarity - https://newsocialist.org.uk/black-antisemitism-and-antiracist- solidarity Anti-Racism as Procedure - https://prtcls.com/article/richmond_labour-antisemitism/

Emmanuel joined us to talk about the strategic and grassroots community responses to Covid-19 in informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Emmanuel later shares more about his work in community organisations in Africa focused on disaster risk reduction, poverty reduction, and climate change adaption. Useful links: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/openhe-2020-0005/html https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/development/people/emmanuel-osuteye https://www.urban-know.com https://www.urbanark.org

In this episode of the Surviving Society Alternative to Woman's Hour, we explore some themes from the interviews Brenna and Rafeef conducted in their edited collection Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought. Useful links: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3182-revolutionary-feminisms https://www.dukeupress.edu/colonial-lives-of-property https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/organised-state-abandonment-the-meaning-of-grenfell/ http://www.rafeefziadah.net/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMhbTEMORTWzFv9AVGvDhWQ https://open.spotify.com/artist/54RzaHhyTUTV6yxtF2lPFx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvNb1E2l9JE&list=RDCMUCjysWHblpCcVA5rmLX-84sg&start_radio=1&t=4 *Between 43-44mins Chantelle mixes her words in the ordering of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's full name. Sincerest apologies from us for this error.

In this episode of the Surviving Society Alternative to Woman's Hour we explore some of the key themes from Francesca's latest book - The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain (2020). Useful links: https://www.francescasobande.com/newbook https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030466787

John joined us to discuss his role as an expert witness for the defence in the professional misconduct cases brought against Birmingham teachers following (false) accusations that they were part of a 'plot to Islamicise schools'. Useful links: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/countering-extremism-in-british-schools https://johnholmwood.net/birmingham-trojan-horse-affair-resources/

Pat joined us to outline some themes, debates and evidence from her latest book, School Scandals: Blowing the Whistle on the Corruption of Our Education System. Useful links: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/school-scandals https://patthomson.net/

...Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos: Malcolm joined us to discuss Black diasporic music, culture, politics, and raving from the 1980s and 1990s. Useful links: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sonic-intimacy-9781501320736

...Black women, education & neurodiversity: In this episode, Chantelle and Vivienne (ADHD Babes) discuss their personal experiences of navigating both life and education with multiple neurodiverse traits. ADHD Babes: ADHD Babes is a community group for Black Women and Black Non-Binary people with ADHD. We create safe spaces for us to flourish and live our lives to their greatest potential. We aim to empower people with community, tools, learning and healing spaces to redefine ADHD, tackle its difficulties and utilise its strengths. We aim to create a society that embraces neurodiversity. We aim to raise awareness and educate people on the truth and reality of how ADHD affects neurodiverse people, and how best to support them. Vivienne Isebor: Vivienne Isebor is a Trainee Clinical Associate in Psychology, currently studying part-time at UCL and working for the NHS with individuals with Complex Emotion Needs in East London. She is also Founder of ADHD Babes - the first support group for Black Women and Black Non-binary people with ADHD, where she is the Director of Community Outreach and Wellbeing. Since being diagnosed in her early 20's with ADHD and living with mental health difficulties Vivienne has run awareness sessions and advocated on platforms such as BBC, Mental Health Today and Mind. Besides working in mental health Vivienne is a performing artist and organises events and creative workshops with special focus on Black British history. Useful links: https://linktr.ee/adhdbabes https://blackgirllostkeys.com https://psychiatry-uk.com/right-to-choose https://aadduk.org https://www.accessdocsforartists.com/homepage

Vanessa joins us to discuss black feminist abolitionist analysis, intersectional disability justice and its contexts for policing in Europe. This is a special five part series in collaboration with the official journal of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Race & Class. The series begins with an introduction to the history of IRR with Director Liz Fekete & follows with four episodes about the latest special issue: Race Mental Health, State Violence with editors Eddie Bruce-Jones & Monish Bhatia and contributors Tarek Younis and Vanessa E Thompson. With special thanks to Sophia Siddiqui. https://irr.org.uk https://irr.org.uk/article/race-mental-health-state-violence

Monish joined us to outline the history and contemporary use of electron monitoring (tagging) for criminal sentencing and punishment which was extended under the Asylum and Immigration Act s36 to ‘immigration controls' of ‘high risk' individuals. This is a special five part series in collaboration with the official journal of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Race & Class. The series begins with an introduction to the history of IRR with Director Liz Fekete & follows with four episodes about the latest special issue: Race Mental Health, State Violence with editors Eddie Bruce-Jones & Monish Bhatia and contributors Tarek Younis and Vanessa E Thompson. With special thanks to Sophia Siddiqui. https://irr.org.uk https://irr.org.uk/article/race-mental-health-state-violence

TW: institutional racism & islamophobia Tarek provides listeners with a brief history of PREVENT and explores how public bodies are ‘trained' to identify ‘at risk' individuals in the war on terror. We discuss the racialisation of Muslims, ‘colourblindness' and how Britain has ‘managed' dissent. This is a special five part series in collaboration with the official journal of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Race & Class. The series begins with an introduction to the history of IRR with Director Liz Fekete & follows with four episodes about the latest special issue: Race Mental Health, State Violence with editors Eddie Bruce-Jones & Monish Bhatia and contributors Tarek Younis and Vanessa E Thompson. With special thanks to Sophia Siddiqui. https://irr.org.uk https://irr.org.uk/article/race-mental-health-state-violence

TW: personal & public histories of deaths in custody Eddie joined us to discuss the groundings of the special issue and provides us with an overview of the recommendations of the - Angiolini Review – the first official review of practices and processes related to and following police related deaths in the UK. This is a special five part series in collaboration with the official journal of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Race & Class. The series begins with an introduction to the history of IRR with Director Liz Fekete & follows with four episodes about the latest special issue: Race Mental Health, State Violence with editors Eddie Bruce-Jones & Monish Bhatia and contributors Tarek Younis and Vanessa E Thompson. With special thanks to Sophia Siddiqui. https://irr.org.uk https://irr.org.uk/article/race-mental-health-state-violence

Liz outlines some of the key moments in the IRR's history. We discuss both the historical and contemporary role of the institute as specified by the late A. Sivanandan, and Liz provides some important reflections and hopeful possibilities about our present-day political culture. This is a special five part series in collaboration with the official journal of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Race & Class. The series begins with an introduction to the history of IRR with Director Liz Fekete & follows with four episodes about the latest special issue: Race Mental Health, State Violence with editors Eddie Bruce-Jones & Monish Bhatia and contributors Tarek Younis and Vanessa E Thompson. With special thanks to Sophia Siddiqui. https://irr.org.uk https://irr.org.uk/article/race-mental-health-state-violence https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/liz-fekete-the-cradle-and-the-fist/id1355469484?i=1000491033812

TW: homophobia in Hip Hop music and culture Battle rap champion, poisonous poet and educator Tony D joined us to talk about rap, hip hop, cultural production and its historical and contemporary contribution to Black liberation movements and discourses. Useful links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MVfs6dC4UY

Levi returns to the show to continue our discussions about key arguments from his book - Land, God, and Guns: Settler Colonialism and Masculinity in the American Heartland (2020) - in the context of the violence at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Useful: https://soundcloud.com/user-622675754/e004-the-usa-election-reflection-with-levi-gahman-settler-colonialism-masculinity-class www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/land-god-and-guns/

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: Nneka Dennie Nneka D. Dennie is assistant professor of history at Washington & Lee University, specializing in nineteenth-century Black women's intellectual thought. Her article, “Black Male Feminism and the Evolution of Du Boisian Thought, 1903-1920,” appeared in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International. Additional work is forthcoming in Atlantic Studies: Global Currents and The Routledge Companion to Black Women's Social and Cultural Histories. Dr. Dennie is co-founder and president of the Black Women's Studies Association. Jallicia Jolly Jallicia A. Jolly is a writer and post-doctoral fellow in American Studies and Black Studies at Amherst College, specializing in HIV/AIDS, Black women's health and activism, transnational feminisms and reproductive (in)justice in the African Diaspora. Her article, "From “at Risk” to Interdependent: The Erotic Life Worlds of HIV+ Jamaican Women," appeared in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. Dr. Jolly connects academic work to community interventions that advances equity, reproductive justice, & community-building within and beyond the U.S.

Leighan joined us to break down the concept of matrifocality and provides some analysis from her PhD research on the representation of Caribbean families in contemporary Caribbean fiction. Useful links: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/leighan-m-renaud https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/beyond-the-nuclear-the-caribbean-family/ https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.770978

Gavan joined us to discuss some of the themes from his latest book - Is Free Speech racist? Discount code: POL20 is valid until 31/03/2021 via https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509536153 Useful links: (1) The most recent 'free speech crisis', an analysis from myself and Privyamvada Gopal: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/18/free-speech-row-cambridge-restrict-expression-minorities-freedom-thought (2) Freedom of speech 'crises' as exercises in public-making and boundary struggle (open access book) Boundary Struggles: Contestations of Free Speech in the Norwegian Public Sphere https://press.nordicopenaccess.no/index.php/noasp/catalog/book/16 (3) Very insightful discussion of problems with how free speech is generally conceptualised: Anshuman A. Mondal (2018) The shape of free speech: rethinking liberal free speech theory https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10304312.2018.1480463 (4) Further analysis of how digital media is shifting the nature of public debate, and the impact on racist politics, and anti-racism: Racism and Media, Gavan Titley, https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/racism-and-media/book243579#reviews

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: Carmen Geha is an Associate Professor of Public Administration, Leadership, and Organizational Development at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She is also a co-founder and Research Associate at the Center for Inclusive Business & Leadership (CIBL) for women, a regional reference for readying gender-inclusive employers across the Arab MENA region. At CIBL for Women, Dr. Geha oversees research team of 40 across 11 countries in the MENA on developing inclusive policies at the organizational and national levels. Carmen is also co-founder and Deputy Director of Khaddit Beirut (the shake-up) a transdisciplinary team born in the wake of the Beirut port explosion to create a systematic and community-led roadmap for recovery in the areas of: community health, community education, environmental health, and inclusive businesses. Between 2018 and 2020, she served as Founding Director of “Education for Leadership in Crisis” Scholarship Program for Afghan women at AUB securing and managing $4.6 in tuition funding for students. Carmen's research examines the nexus between politics and public institutions with a focus on three areas of specialization: 1- women's political and economic participation, 2- refugee crisis politics and policies, and 3- civil society and protest movements. Carmen has held Vising Research positions at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. She is the 2018-2019 Fellow in the Program in Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Carmen is a revolutionary activist and an advocate of gender equity and refugee protection. In addition to her academic track, she has several years of practitioner experience having worked as a consultant and adviser to international organizations, UN agencies, and government institutions in Myanmar, Tunisia, Libya, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Lebanon. Srila Roy: Srila Roy is Associate Professor of Sociology, and heads Development Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She is the author of Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence and Subjectivity in India's Naxalbari Movement (Oxford, 2012), editor of New South Asian Feminisms (Zed, 2012) and co-editor of New Subaltern Politics (Oxford 2015). She is currently writing a monograph on feminist and queer politics in globalised India and co-editing a volume of essays on MeToo in India and South Africa. At Wits, she leads the Andrew W. Mellon funded Governing Intimacies project, which promotes new scholarship on gender and sexuality in Southern Africa and India.

Gurpreet is the founder of blminthestix and joined us to discuss the realities of tackling racism amongst rural and mainly white communities in the UK. Useful links: https://linktr.ee/blmstix

...: Women of colour resist: In the first edition of the Surviving Society Alternative to Woman's Hour for 2021, Akwugo provides some important analysis on women of colour's activism and resistance in UK, Europe & beyond. *The first direct action of Sisters Uncut was not during the Suffragettes UK red carpet premiere in 2015 - at this point Sisters had already engaged in at least four national actions. Surviving Society unreservedly apologises for this error during the episode. We continue to be very much inspired by the work of activists like Sisters Uncut and our ambition is to show true recognition of this integral organising. Useful links: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/akwugoemejulu

Lowkey joined us for our first episode of 2021 to consider the realities of the Biden administration and the ever-expanding geopolitical influence of China.

Lisa explores the history of racist discourses and interventions on 'population control', anti-poor Malthusianism and eugenics. Lisa helps us to connect all this to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Useful links: https://discoversociety.org/2020/04/06/saying-the-quiet-part-out-loud-eugenics-and-the-aging-population-in-conservative-pandemic-governance/ https://discoversociety.org/2018/12/04/populist-academics-colonial-demography-and-far-right-discursive-ecologies/

We decided to release the patreon episode for this week to all listeners! We enjoyed taking to Leila so much and thought we would give you all an xmas treat of a super excited Chantelle and Tissot.

Leila Hassan Howe joined us to talk about her life story beginning in the East End of London and Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania). We talk about her activism, organising and radical action via the Black Unity and Freedom party, National Black People's Day of Action and the Race Today Collective. Useful links: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339757/here-to-stay-here-to-fight https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/oct/08/leila-hassan-howe-black-power-london-revolution-black-lives-matter

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: Vron Ware has worked as a journalist, photographer and academic in the field of cultural geography and sociology. Her books include Beyond the Pale: white women, racism and history (Verso 1992/2015), Out of Whiteness: color, politics & culture (with Les Back, Chicago 2002), Military Migrants: fighting for YOUR country (Palgrave 2012). Currently professor of sociology & gender studies at Kingston University, she is now working on a book about the English countryside. Luke de Noronha's research focuses on the politics of immigration, racism and deportation, and his book Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica is out in June 2020 with Manchester University Press.This ethnographic monograph tells the life stories of four men who grew up in the UK, and were banished to Jamaica following criminal conviction. Luke has written for the Guardian, Verso blogs, VICE, Red Pepper, Open Democracy, The New Humanist, and Ceasefire Magazine. He has also produced a podcast with deported people in Jamaica, Deportation Discs (a play on desert island discs).

Bolaji (Bob) joined us to talk through histories of Poland's colonial extraction and the impact of whiteness, religion and (polish) centrism on racialisation and racism. *We want to be clear that we understand and do not make light of Jewish persecution in Poland. We are always looking to improve our racial literacy especially in relation to Jewish populations across the world* Useful papers/links: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography/people/academic-staff/bolaji-balogun Balogun, B. (2018) ‘Polish Lebensraum: The Colonial Ambition to Expand on Racial terms', Ethnic & Racial Studies, 41: 14, pp. 2561-2579. Balogun, B. (2020) ‘Race and racism in Poland: Theorising and contextualising ‘Polish-centrism', The Sociological Review. pp. 1-16. Balogun, B. (forthcoming) ‘The Racial Contract, The Whiteness Contract'

Steve joined us to discuss the fluidity of masculinity and the social consequences of its violence and perversions. We also chat about our collective homogenizing of groups into distinctive generations. Useful links: https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/steven-roberts

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 who work in primary and secondary schools. Camille London-Miyo has been an English teacher, Head of English, and Deputy Headteacher in inner-city schools for the past thirty years. She is a Community Activist who actively builds parent/community networks to support and challenge the negative narratives about Black communities in Education Her understanding of the complexity and importance of involving students, parents and communities in order to achieve genuine and sustained progress in UK education at all levels has been the foundation to her work, to date, within teacher networks and professional development programmes across the UK. She was elected the first Black President in the history of Leicester's teaching unions ( that spans over a hundred years) in 2018. Camille is also one of the co-founders of the Black Educators Alliance and the Leicester Black Educators Network. Her interests include Black teachers in education - recruitment, retention and progression, radical pedagogies that challenge empirical ideas about teaching and learning; Developing a Global "English" Literature Curriculum as part of a holistic anti-racist strategy in Schools. She has written a chapter entitled "Education, race and the decolonisation of the Curriculum" in Beyond the Blockade - Education in Cuba(2019) and a recent article for the Independent on the impact of the PSHE Guidance. She is one of the co-editors of the upcoming 'History of Black Teachers in the NEU' to be published in 2021. Aliyah York is a 17 year old A-level student, Activist and founder of @ThePupilPower. Her award winning work and contributions to educational change seek to centre youth voice, challenging the status quo and encouraging her peers to reimagine the 21st century education system. She tweets at @aliyahiyork Ilyas Nagdee is a writer and activist with a focus on policing, security and antiracism. He has written for outlets such as The Independent, Guardian, Tribune, Red Pepper and other publications. He tweets at @ilyas_nagdee Useful links: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/liberate-our-classrooms/ https://nomoreexclusions.com/care/ https://blackeducatorsalliance.org/ https://www.gov.uk/guidance/plan-your-relationships-sex-and-health-curriculum

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

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.

...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