Surviving Society

Our last chat with Dan was after the UK General Election in December 2019 where he helped us come to terms with the tory landslide. In this pre recorded episode (from early June 2020) we discuss the illuminating fractures of the Left laid bare by COVID-19 and the politics surrounding lockdown. Useful links- https://medium.com/@Dan_Renwick Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic

A very excited Chantelle and Tissot speak with Imogen Tyler about her latest book, Stigma: the Machinery of Inequality Useful links- https://stigmamachine.com/author/drimogentyler https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/stigma/ http://www.morecambebaypovertytruthcommission.org.uk/ Reading: S. Lindqvist, Exterminate All The Brutes M.Rediker, T. Chakraborty M. van Rossum (eds), A Global History of Runaways, A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, P.Mendez, Rainbow Milk N.Machiavelli. The Prince M. Foucault Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison Listening: Tyler, the Creator - EARFQUAKE https://open.spotify.com/album/5zi7WsKlIiUXv09tbGLKsE?highlight=spotify:track:5hVghJ4KaYES3BFUATCYn0 Jarvis Cocker, Domestic Disco (Instagram only!) One tribe ft. Gem – What Have you Done? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u0fAV8igT4 Pulp – A Different Class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fD6kxn1zjI&list=PLWnwmKpuSlyc9-RfYO1zBM0d4bCzhPbsZ *Please note season 9 is recorded entirely via v

Recording from the official book launch of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream. With thanks to Aurelien Mondon, Aaron Winter, Fran Amery, Sophie O'Brien and Catherine Smiles. "Democracy is not necessarily progressive, it will only be so if we make it!" Book - https://www.versobooks.com/books/3173-reactionary-democracy Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic

This week Alana Lentin joined us to discuss key themes within her new book, Why Race Still Matters. Useful links- http://www.alanalentin.net/ https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Why+Race+Still+Matters-p-9781509535712 Reading: J. Kincaid, Lucy K. Reid, Such a Fun Age D. McKinney-Whetstone, Tumbling M. Duneier & O. Carter, Sidewalk A. Whittaker, ‘So White, So What?’ https://meanjin.com.au/essays/so-white-so-what/ S.E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property Listening: John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain & Shankar Mahadevan, ‘Is That So?’ https://www.allmusic.com/album/is-that-so-mw0003322313 Hardrive, Deep Inside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zqyv-RZMqk Time To Talk With Alex Reads, Alex Reads https://open.spotify.com/show/4mDTIvqA2SMTrYziYEoJ2Z Curtain, the podcast, Amy McQuire & Martin Hodgson https://curtainthepodcast.wordpress.com/about/ *Please note season 9 is recorded entirely via video call during the COVID-19 Global Pandemic. Hosts Chantelle and Tissot and executive producer George prid

Founder of Leading Routes, Paulette Williams joined us to discuss UK university responses (so far) to Black Lives Matter. We also continue our discussion about the institutional use of 'BAME' & 'BME' during this moment. Useful links: https://leadingroutes.org Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic.

Joy joined us to discuss her new book; Terraformed, which broadly traces the impact of neoliberalism, regeneration and free markets on young Black lives in Newham, London. Useful links- https://www.joywhite.co.uk https://repeaterbooks.com/product/terraformed-young-black-lives-in-the-inner-city Reading T. Morrison, A mouthful of blood bell hooks, Salvation: Black People and Love bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation Listening Kano ft. Popcaan, Can’t Hold We Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fCQ4drZkOE Say Your mind, Kelechi Okafor https://open.spotify.com/show/7METPisyoK12e2qaKZxn4s MK, Burning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhzl8edCBfw *Please note season 9 is recorded entirely via video call during the COVID-19 Global Pandemic. Hosts Chantelle and Tissot and executive producer George pride themselves on ensuring a comfortable and encouraging recording atmosphere but this is clearly difficult to suffice remotely. Bear with us on this*

Gurminder joined us to discuss the inextricable links between the Brexit discourse,(mis)understandings about the British Empire and the COVID-19 global pandemic Useful links- https://discoversociety.org https://globalsocialtheory.org https://discoversociety.org/2020/04/22/rethinking-brexit-in-the-light-of-covid-19/ Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic.

Cheraine joined us to discuss the juxtaposition of Grime music's growing national appeal and the Conservative led antagonism expressed towards the Black British genre. Cheraine contests how this is revealing of the conflict between life in the UK verses how Britain sees itself. Useful links- http://www.getaperspective.net/p/about-author.html Reading: H. Carby, Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands Wretch 32, Rapthology: Lessons in Life and Lyrics Stormzy & Jude Yawson, Rise up: THE #MERKY STORY SO FAR I, Tyler, Stigma: the Machinery of Inequality M. Wolfman & R.Greenberger, Crisis on Infinite Earths Listening: Dizzee Rascal, Boy Inda Corner https://open.spotify.com/album/0gqO13XAiluex3Ggk49sPd Skepta, Konnichiwa https://open.spotify.com/album/6s4vWWWxNrGcKhrOFYRZzk Craig David, Born to do it https://open.spotify.com/album/5TedEgCbtmvDnXzUtXEFJY Jamelia, Superstar https://open.spotify.com/album/7DbnTwNv9LMPMkEUQjWQwh Satoshi Tomiie & Frankie Knuckles, Tears (live) https://www.youtube

Bev Skeggs joined us to talk about the launch of the Sociological Review's new public platform - Solidarity and Care During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic. Useful links- https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/introducing-solidarity-and-care-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/ https://www.solidarityandcare.org/ Useful stats- Data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), found black males are 4.2 times more likely to die from a COVID-19-related death and black females are 4.3 times more likely than those of white ethnicity . Males in the Bangladeshi and Pakistani ethnicity group are 1.8 times more likely to have a coronavirus related death than white males and females 1.6 times more than white women. The age-standardised mortality rate of deaths involving COVID-19 in the most deprived areas of England was 55.1 deaths per 100,000 population compared with 25.3 deaths per 100,000 population in the least deprived areas Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic.

Lecturer, PhD researcher and curator, Janine joined us to critically examine the role of British art museums in upholding colonial imaginations of art and culture. *Please note season 9 is recorded entirely via video call during the COVID-19 Global Pandemic. Hosts Chantelle and Tissot and executive producer George pride themselves on ensuring a comfortable and encouraging recording atmosphere but this is clearly difficult to suffice remotely. Bear with us on this* Reading: Paul Gilroy, There Aint No Black in the Union Jack, Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter, Reactionary Democracy: How racism and the populist far right became mainstream and Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot and Jessica Hoffman Davis, the Art and Science of Portraiture. Listening: Art in the Age of Black Girl Magic - Bolanle Tajudeen https://open.spotify.com/show/5LojYy6slSP1B6p63n8luy Oscar G - Gotta Keep Movin- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VXfewt6NMU Busy Being Black - Josh Rivers (UK Black Pride) -https://open.spotify.com/show/1sMQ0TkalZ7

‘Telling It Like It Is: Placing Black scholarship during COVID-19’ Janine, Rita and Agostinho deliver a lively conversation drawing upon community, personal and professional experiences as they discuss the impact of COVID-19 globally and the responses of Black scholarship. Guest Hosts Janine Francois is a Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and is a Ph.D student exploring, ‘Can Tate be a ‘safe(r) space’ to discuss race and cultural differences within a teaching and learning context? This is a collaboration between Tate and the University of Bedfordshire. Janine is also a Cultural Producer, working across live events, performance and exhibitions, whose practice is informed by Black Feminism and ethics of ‘care.ʼ You can follow her via twitter and instagram: @itsjaninebtw Rita Gayle is an educator, film-maker and creative working at the intersections of race, gender and cultural geography. Rita is currently investigating the Millennial generation of Black feminist, womxn an

Chantelle and Tissot reflect on academic podcasting and the politics of audio (and visual) representations when trying to produce anti-racist content. This episode was recorded as part Politics of Representation Collective conference - The Visual and Critical Representation in an Age of Impact supported by the Sociological Review and University of Cambridge Education faculty. With thanks to Sharon Walker, Rebecca Gordon, Lakshmi Bose & Arif Naveed. Useful links- politicsofrepresentationcollective.org/ www.thesociologicalreview.com/category/c…sentation/

TW: mental health Chantelle and Ez talk through their own journeys with mental health; how the global pandemic might be impacting young Black and brown women and critically engage with the discourse around mental health week. Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic. Useful links- https://open.spotify.com/show/61NN9bklzhHZs5YvR0jyoT https://blackballad.co.uk/

How can academics use social media in a meaningful way? Is there a way of us working against neo-liberal habits in our use of it as academics? Mark Carrigan helps us think through epistemology, scholarship and labour. This episode was recorded as part Politics of Representation Collective conference - The Visual and Critical Representation in an Age of Impact supported by the Sociological Review and University of Cambridge Education faculty. With thanks to Sharon Walker, Rebecca Gordon, Lakshmi Bose & Arif Naveed. Useful links- https://politicsofrepresentationcollective.org/ https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/category/collections/politics-of-representation/ https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/social-media-for-academics/book261904 https://markcarrigan.net

This week Michaela Benson joined us to talk about her Discover Society article about who is considered 'the good citizen' in pandemic times. Together, we repeat how important it is to be clear on how unevenly felt and experienced both the lockdown and Covid-19 is. Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic. Useful links- https://discoversociety.org/2020/04/16/a-good-citizen-for-pandemic-times/

Amber joined us to talk us through her PhD and the radical possibilities of Black feminism in literature. We also talk about including Black man taking part in conversations on Black feminism and our complicated relationship with academic heroes! Reference list - Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (London: Zed, 1980) Simon Gikandi's chapter in Eva Rask Knudsen and Ulla Rahbek, In Search of the Afropolitan: Encounters, Conversations, and Contemporary Diasporic African Literature (London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016) Achille Mbembe, ‘Afropolitanism’ from Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent (Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2007), pp.26-29 Hazel Carby, Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987) Hortense Spillers, ‘Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book’ Diacritics, 17 (John Hopkins University Press, 1987), 64 —81 Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande, To Exist is

Adam Elliot-Cooper breaks down *what should be* our collective concerns about the increase in police powers during and beyond the global pandemic. Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic. Useful links- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIIaJmJ4zng&feature=youtu.be

This week Fiyory helped us return to a topic we covered a few years ago – how the personal training/gym industry exploits workers. Fiyory talks of how frustrating the health, nutrition and fitness sector is and how through her scholarship she is trying to get adults and young people to think more critically about training and nutrition. Useful links- https://hypekcl.com/

Secondary school teacher, scholar & lecturer Julia Toppin joined us to talk about how unevenly felt the global pandemic is for children and young people living on the margins of society. Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic.

*Listener discretion advised for this episode (domestic violence and sexual harassment)* Sister Uncut, domestic violence and austerity: Aviah breaks down how the combination of austerity and the hostile environment have impacted women’s access to domestic violence services. Chantelle also gets some home truths from Aviah on how we recover from the general election result…