Surviving Society

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

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 S

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.