Surviving Society Productions
346 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAward winning, weekly political podcast exploring the local and global politics of race & class from a sociological perspective.
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Presenter: Dr Chantelle J Lewis
Executive Producer: Adders
Design: Evelyn Miller
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The Crucible Of Modernity
April 25, 2024 23:00 - 43 seconds - 685 KBThese episodes feature activists and scholars who are on the frontlines of grassroots struggles for dignity, justice, and self-determination in the Caribbean. Rooted in a convivial spirit of creative resistance and collective healing, each guest shares insights into the region’s lasting legacies of colonialism as a means of confronting and ultimately ending the enduring aftermaths of empire.
S1/ E6 Can the Museum be a Site of (Anti-Colonial) Resistance?
April 22, 2024 23:04 - 24 minutes - 23.2 MBChantelle and Kelechi interview Lennon Mhishi about the ‘Re-connecting "Objects’ project at the Pitt Rivers Mueseum (University of Oxford). We explore the functioning of museums as ‘containers’, consisting of colonial collections as products of violence, extraction and dispossession. https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/reconnecting-objects Summary:In this series we introduce the work of researchers from the Black Health and the Humanities Network. Each episode uncovers the different ways that raci...
S1/E5 Medical Colonial Photography in Malawi & Sudan
April 16, 2024 00:00 - 21 minutes - 18.8 MBChantelle and Kelechi interview Chimwemwe Phiri about her PhD research based on the colonial histories and ethical dimensions of medical photography, questions of ownership, and the afterlives of archival material. https://www.blackhealthandhumanities.org Summary:In this series we introduce the work of researchers from the Black Health and the Humanities Network. Each episode uncovers the different ways that racist environments impact the health of Black African and Caribbean people. Exp...
S1/E4 Black Joy As Resistance
April 09, 2024 00:00 - 37 minutes - 33.6 MBTanisha Spratt and Arya Thampuran discuss the importance of Black joy, sprituality and care as crucial to Black health and healing. Links https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/a-s-thampuran/ https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/tanisha-spratt Summary: In this series we introduce the work of researchers from the Black Health and the Humanities Network. Each episode uncovers the different ways that racist environments impact the health of Black African and Caribbean people. Expect conversation cent...
S1/E3 End-of-Life Care & Waiting Times
April 02, 2024 00:00 - 35 minutes - 34 MBKelechi Anucha discuses the relationship between time and care in contemporary end of life narratives,. This work is part of the Wellcome Trust-funded research project Waiting Times. Links: https://wcceh.org/meet-the-team/phd-students/kelechi-anucha/ https://waitingtimes.exeter.ac.uk/ Summary: In this series we introduce the work of researchers from the Black Health and the Humanities Network. Each episode uncovers the different ways that racist environments impact the health of Black...
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S1/E2 Black Sexual and Reproductive Health
March 26, 2024 01:00 - 26 minutes - 23.6 MBRianna Raymond-Williams discusses how it is essential for access to sexual and reproductive health and support to be initiated through anti-racist policies and frameworks. @BHHproject Links https://www.shinealoud.co.uk/about-us/founders-story Summary: In this series we introduce the work of researchers from the Black Health and the Humanities Network. Each episode uncovers the different ways that racist environments impact the health of Black African and Caribbean people. Expect conv...
S1/E1 Black Health is an Urgent Social and Political Issue
March 19, 2024 07:00 - 19 minutes - 19.9 MBIn this introductory episode, we hear from Arya Thampuran and Kelechi Anucha on why the health of Black African and Caribbean populations in Britain remains an urgent topic of enquiry. @BHHproject Links: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/a-s-thampuran/ https://wcceh.org/meet-the-team/phd-students/kelechi-anucha/ Summary: In this series we introduce the work of researchers from the Black Health and the Humanities Network. Each episode uncovers the different ways that racist environments...
Black Health & Humanities
March 18, 2024 18:53 - 17 seconds - 267 KBSurviving Society presents... the BBH This series focus on the politics of black health in modern society
S1/E3 Francesca Sobande: Consuming Crisis: Commodifying Care and COVID-19
March 12, 2024 01:00 - 37 minutes - 32.4 MBIn this episode, we take a deep dive into the marketisation and capitalist exploitation of care during the COVID-19 pandemic. We return to the inequitable ways the pandemic impacted people and how we continue to live through a care crisis both locally and globally. Links: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/consuming-crisis/book280021 https://www.francescasobande.com Summary In this collaborative podcast series with Sage Publishing we take a closer look at the books currently being pub...
S1/E2 Tarek Younis: The Muslim, State and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia
March 05, 2024 01:00 - 46 minutes - 41.6 MBIn this episode we hear from Tarek Younis on his own experiences of challenging islamophobia in the discipline of psychology. We explore the ongoing consequences of the connection between racism, islamophobia and mental health for Muslims in contemporary society. Links: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-muslim-state-and-mind/book279425 Summary In this collaborative podcast series with Sage Publishing we take a closer look at the books currently being published in the Social Science...
S1/E1 Delayna Spencer, Meredith Clark & Jason Arday: Social Science for Social Justice?
February 27, 2024 01:00 - 36 minutes - 35.7 MBIn this introductory episode, we speak to the editors of Sage’s Social Science for Social Justice book series about the long history of social scientists contributing to community work and organising. Links: https://www.meredithdclark.com https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/arday https://group.sagepub.com/social-science-for-social-justice Summary In this collaborative podcast series with Sage Publishing we take a closer look at the books currently being published in the Social ...
Surviving Society presents Social Science for Social Justice
February 23, 2024 00:00 - 38 seconds - 595 KBSurviving Social presents a brand new series in partnership with Sage coming soon.....
E190: Skinfolk, but not kinfolk? Ethnic minority conservative political elite actors
February 20, 2024 01:00 - 49 minutes - 37.9 MBThe recent increase in ethnic minority representation in right-wing, conservative parties has been of note. In this episode, Neema Begum, Michael Bankole, Dan Godshaw and Rima Saini discuss how this substantive representation for ethnic minorities is challenged by ethnic minority politicians on the political right pushing for anti-immigration policies while denouncing anti-racism. This episode is based on findings from a forthcoming article: Skinfolk, but not kinfolk? Paradoxical represen...
Joe Appiah, Kim Johnson MP & Gloria Morrison: Joint Enterprise
February 13, 2024 01:00 - 38 minutes - 40.1 MBThe episode begins with Joe Appiah describing the events that led to him becoming a victim of a miscarriage of justice through the Joint Enterprise Doctrine. Kim Johnson MP and Gloria Morrison (Jengba campaigner) later provided us with some updates on the campaign to end guilty by association. https://jengba.co.uk
S1/E5 Andy Young: Royal Mail
February 06, 2024 00:00 - 53 minutes - 54.3 MBRoyal Mail remains a key institutions within the UK delivery services. In this episode Andy explains exactly what is at stake for the organisation and its workers as they continue to navigate the pressures of privatisation. Summary In this Red Pepper and Surviving Society collaboration we platform workers and academics to explore the history of trade unions and industrial action in Britain. Executively produced by Liam Kennedy. Many of us within society feel disconnected from the politics ...
S1/E4 Mel Mullins and Sherelle Cadogan: Railway Workers
January 30, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBMel and Sherelle explain their personal histories of working on the railways and the history of Black and anti-racist organising amongst workers. https://www.redpepper.org.uk Summary In this Red Pepper and Surviving Society collaboration we platform workers and academics to explore the history of trade unions and industrial action in Britain. Executively produced by Liam Kennedy. Many of us within society feel disconnected from the politics of the workplace. Whilst action is at its hig...
S1/E3 Vik Chechi-Ribeiro: School Teachers
January 23, 2024 00:00 - 38 minutes - 33.5 MBIn this episode Vik explains to us some of the current pressures and working conditions faced by school teachers and why striking remains essential to the future of our education system. https://www.redpepper.org.uk Summary In this Red Pepper and Surviving Society collaboration we platform workers and academics to explore the history of trade unions and industrial action in Britain. Executively produced by Liam Kennedy. Many of us within society feel disconnected from the politics of the...
S1/E2 Holly Turner & Andrew Meyerson: The National Health Service
January 16, 2024 00:00 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MBLiam is joined by special guest host Ez Chigbo to learn more about the current working conditions faced by doctors and nurses and why striking is essential for the future of the NHS. https://www.redpepper.org.uk Summary In this Red Pepper and Surviving Society collaboration we platform workers and academics to explore the history of trade unions and industrial action in Britain. Executively produced by Liam Kennedy. Many of us within society feel disconnected from the politics of the work...
S1/E1 Lydia Hughes & Lord John Hendy: The History of Trade Unions
January 09, 2024 02:00 - 56 minutes - 49.9 MBIn this first episode of this new series, we explore the history of trade unions in Britain. We learn about the decades of restrictions imposed on workers and how people continue to find ways to resist workplace inequities. Summary In this Red Pepper and Surviving Society collaboration we platform workers and academics to explore the history of trade unions and industrial action in Britain. Many of us within society feel disconnected from the politics of the workplace. Whilst action is a...
E188 Jason Arday & Chantelle Jessica Lewis: Surviving Society (then and now)
January 02, 2024 00:00 - 46 minutes - 43.7 MBIn our first episode of 2024, Jason interviews Chantelle about the history of Surviving Society. As we reflect on the 7th year of the podcast, we explore the political, radical and loving groundings of the show.
E187 Adom Philogene Heron: Surviving Storms
December 26, 2023 00:00 - 52 minutes - 79 MBAdom returns to the show to share details of the Surviving Storms project which has mapped hurricane impacts and processes of repair in Dominica following Hurricane Maria in 2017. Links: https://survivingstorms.com
E186 Nicholas Cole: Why constitutional law matters
December 19, 2023 00:00 - 43 minutes - 63 MBNicholas explains to us why constitutional law (or a lack of) in the UK and US matters for elections and modern democracy. Links: https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/person/dr-nicholas-cole https://www.quill.pmb.ox.ac.uk/
S1/ E6 From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter with Gary Younge
December 12, 2023 02:00 - 55 minutes - 81.9 MBIn the final episode of this series, we explore themes from Gary Younge’s latest book Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter. Links: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571376827-dispatches-from-the-diaspora 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 relig...
S1/E5 Diversity in theatre & the cultural industries with Sudha Bhuchar
December 05, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes - 53.4 MBWith Sudha Bhuchar and Roaa Ali, we explore the tension between diversity and anti-racism in theatre and the cultural industries. 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. This collaborative series takes a close look at the research produced at the centre from issues ranging from st...
S1/E4 Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS)
November 28, 2023 02:00 - 46 minutes - 67.2 MBIn 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 reli...
S1/E3 A chronology of whiteness studies
November 21, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 93.7 MBIn 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...
S1/E2 Contesting statues of empire and slavery
November 14, 2023 02:00 - 33 minutes - 47.3 MBIn 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 ...
S1/E1 Introduction to the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity, University of Manchester
November 07, 2023 00:00 - 55 minutes - 73.1 MBDirectors 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/...
S1/E5 Sita Balani & Chantelle Lewis: Crisis & everyday life
October 31, 2023 00:00 - 43 minutes - 68.3 MBIn 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...
S1/E4 Sita Balani & Alfie Bown: The gamification of social life
October 24, 2023 00:00 - 24 minutes - 39.9 MBS1/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 anxiet...
S1/E3 Sita Balani & Tabitha Lasley’s: Gender, class and (North Sea) Oil
October 17, 2023 00:00 - 38 minutes - 57.4 MBIn 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 work...
S1/E2 Sita Balani & Yara Rodrigues Fowler: Protest and the novel
October 10, 2023 00:00 - 38 minutes - 59.8 MBIn 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...
S1/E1 Sita Balani & Kieran Yates: All the Homes I’ve Ever Lived
October 03, 2023 00:00 - 39 minutes - 61.9 MBIn 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 t...
E184 Aaron Winter: Factional regrouping & UK politics
September 26, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBThis 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.
E185 Aaron Winter: Factional regrouping & UK politics
September 26, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBThis 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.
S1/E8 Malecka Egeonu-Roby: Social & community activism in Liverpool
September 19, 2023 00:00 - 24 minutes - 29.1 MBIn 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 i...
S1/E7 Michelle Peterkin-Walker: Black scousers, art & identity
September 12, 2023 00:00 - 17 minutes - 15.4 MBCreative, 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...
S1/E6 Jimi Jagne & the Toxteth uprisings (part 2)
September 05, 2023 00:00 - 41 minutes - 48 MBIn 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...
S1/E5 Jimi Jagne & the Toxteth uprisings (part 1)
August 29, 2023 00:00 - 27 minutes - 30.8 MBIn 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, i...
S1/E4 Shelda-Jane Smith & Kerry Nugent: Liverpool Black Sisters, health & racism
August 22, 2023 00:00 - 44 minutes - 29.8 MBIn 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 ep...
S1/E3 Alan Crawford: Restoring Merseyside Caribbean Centre
August 15, 2023 00:00 - 25 minutes - 19.7 MBAlan 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...
S1/E2 Shelda-Jane Smith & Stephen Small: Liverpool is an African City
August 08, 2023 00:00 - 37 minutes - 26.7 MBShelda 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 a...
S1/E1 Shelda-Jane Smith & Chantelle Lewis: Hidden Histories, Liverpool & the Caribbean
August 01, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutes - 25.7 MBShelda 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
E184 James O'Brien: The Art of Changing Your Mind
July 25, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 98.6 MBThis 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
S1/E6 Ez Chigbo & Chantelle Jessica Lewis: Learning & loving together
July 18, 2023 00:00 - 38 minutes - 36.5 MBEz 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 j...
S1/E5 Lisa Palmer & Yusef Bakkali: Love in theory & practice
July 11, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBThis 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 lov...
S1/E4 Alex Augustin: Blackness, masculinity & somatics
July 04, 2023 00:00 - 47 minutes - 41.5 MBAlex 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...
S1/E3 TaMeicka Ifasina Clear: Healing, gender & identity
June 27, 2023 00:00 - 53 minutes - 48.3 MBThis 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 ...
S1/E2 Molly Ackhurst: Sexual violence & abolition
June 20, 2023 00:00 - 48 minutes - 45.1 MBEz 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 collect...