Recovering Community
5 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago -What does the word ‘community’ mean to you? An homogenous group of people united by faith, sexuality or another form of identity? Or perhaps it’s about the place where you grew up, or the people you work with?
Recovering Community is a podcast series from the University of Glasgow’s School of Political and Social Sciences about community; what it means, how it’s formed and how it is rebuilt.
Anne Kerr is joined by academics, campaigners, volunteers and artists to talk about how communities respond to social and economic change, who belongs and who is excluded and what this tells us about some of our most pressing social issues.
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The Wellbeing Economy: rethinking traditional economic structures to benefit people and planet
June 10, 2022 19:07 - 26 minutes - 25.6 MBWhat does it take to reconfigure our traditional capitalist economic structures so that people, communities and the environment come before profit? That’s the question at the heart of the wellbeing economy movement and the subject of today’s episode. Gerard McCartney practiced as a GP and trained as an economist before his current role as Professor of Wellbeing Economy at the University of Glasgow. Gerry’s work explores the connections between health outcomes, community, and our working and ...
Coming Back: How Vox Liminis uses creative responses to the criminal justice system to build community
February 03, 2022 17:55 - 30 minutes - 57.6 MBHow do you build community after the criminal justice system has removed you from society to serve a prison sentence? Today’s episode of Recovering Community explores the work of Vox Liminis, a unique organisation, set up to find creative answers to questions about crime, punishment, reintegration, and community. Vox is for people who have all kinds of experiences of criminal justice; from children with parents in prison, to academic researchers and social workers. It hosts a number of...
Colombia River Stories: The symbiotic relationship between the Río Atrato and the community who call it home
November 05, 2021 16:20 - 30 minutes - 56.4 MBThe 400 mile long Río Atrato is in the Chocó department of northwest Colombia. Chocó is one of the most ethnically diverse regions in the country. It’s also one of the poorest, and the river provides essential transport and economic opportunities to the residents. In today’s episode, Anne Kerr meets her colleagues Mo Hume and Allan Gilles, and artist Jan Nimmo to hear about the project Colombia River Stories. This interdisciplinary research project, which is a collaboration between the u...
Communities, Identity and Borders: What does the Kenmure Street Protest tell us about belonging to Glasgow?
October 08, 2021 12:33 - 34 minutes - 64.7 MBThe way we control our borders and treat those who want or need to cross them says so much about our national identity. And for the last 25 years, the U.K. Government has - with significant public support - moved to make immigration as difficult as possible. But in contrast, the Scottish government has been more focused on encouraging migration to Scotland to address population decline and contribute to the Scottish economy. This episode of Recovering Community begins with the Kenmure Str...
1. After Auchengeich: Resilience in a Mining Community
September 14, 2021 12:28 - 33 minutes - 31.8 MBFor this first episode of Recovering Community, we’re focusing on Moodiesburn, a former mining town about eight miles north of Glasgow. Moodiesburn was home to the Auchengeich colliery. The danger of mining left its mark on the area. 6 men died in an explosion in 1931. And then, in 1959, the community was struck by disaster when there was a fire in the mine. It claimed the lives of 47 men, and Auchengeich became one of the UK's worst mining disasters of the 20th century. But during the...