Surviving Society

This week we were joined by journalist and radio host Afua Adom to give some advice on parenting through the pandemic. Tissot ends with a discussion on the anti-Chinese racism we are witnessing both online and interpersonally as a result of Covid-19. Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic.

Karim joined us to discuss his PhD research focused on Muslim communities in Scotland and the impact(s) of systemic, institutional an interpersonal racism (particularly islamophobia) on mental health. Useful links- https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/karim-mitha

Nasar joined us to talk about the often hidden and unprotected refugee populations in camps in Europe and across the world. We also discuss the evolution of nationalism(s) during this time. Useful links- https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/coronavirus-we-are-risking-covid-19-tragedy-europes-refugee-camps-nasar-meer-2532139

Education specialist, Sofia joined us to talk through the Insider/Outsider report and how we all must continue putting pressure on the sector to change and move towards both direct and positive action to challenge racist inequitable structures. Useful links- https://www.gold.ac.uk/racial-justice/insider-outsider/

*Warning* - this episode contains 3 angry Black people!!! This week we were joined by Jade LB from The Echo Chamber podcast to discuss the racialised and classed unevenness of the impact of Covid-19. Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic. Useful links - -The title of the episode is from Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter's new book - Reactionary Democracy https://www.versobooks.com/books/3173-reactionary-democracy (available 28 April 2020) -Check out Jade's article in Black Ballad - https://blackballad.co.uk/views-voices/capitalism-and-the-politics-of-the-coronavirus

How do we find solidarities on the left in this current moment (2020)? John Narayan joined us to talk through how we can learn from the Black Panthers and Black British Power movement as we seek to move towards a class politics which is anti-racist, anti imperialist and anti-capitalist! Useful links- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0038026119845550 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/metrics/10.1177/0263276417741348 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2017.1374172

Podcast alumni Dr Yusef Bakkali joined us to talk about the eurocentric nature of the 5G conspiracies and whether lessons will be learnt about the toxicity of capitalism post covid-19 Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic.

PhD researcher, scholar and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioner Carl Mallet joined us to discuss the politics of the sport and how race is reproduced in community spaces in the West Midlands.

*Apologies for the sound quality* Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic.

The body and austerity: Amelia and Chantelle continue Surviving Society Alternative to Woman’s hour regular discussion on body image and how we feel about our complex relationship with weight and exercise. Amelia talks through the connections between class, fat-shaming and austerity. Useful links- https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030136697)

Journalist Luke Butterly joined us to break down who the gilet noirs are and how they are using direct action to seek justice for undocumented migrants in France. Useful links- https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/black-vests-gilets-noirs-190813084140464.html https://lukejbutterly.contently.com/

Following in the footsteps of the plethora of British South Asian creative expression, Adeeb joined us to introduce a new collective of SA artists – Juice. We discuss how his music, poetry and artistic expression have been informed by his multiple identities (The East End of London, Britishness, India, Kerala and Islam) and we all agree on the need to do better in explaining who we mean when we say ‘people of colour’ in the diaspora. Useful links - https://juicedroplet.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRD-TNDXFsw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvWlfcHpFbQMlH-BT3Rm-ww

Guest Hosts - Dr Debbie Bargallie is a descendent of the Kamilaroi and Wonnarua peoples of the North-West and Upper Hunter Valley regions of New South Wales, Australia. Her doctoral thesis is the 2019 winner of the prestigious Stanner Award, and will be published by Aboriginal Studies Press in 2020 as Unmasking the Racial Contract: Indigenous voices on racism in the Australian Public Service. She is currently a Postdoctoral Senior Research Fellow at the Griffith Institute for Educational Research at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. Dr Alana Lentin is Associate Professor in Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University. She is a European and West Asian Jewish woman who is a settler on Gadigal land. She works on the critical theorization of race, racism and antiracism. Her new book Why Race Still Matters is out in the UK in April 2020 (Polity). She is a graduate of the European University Institute where she earned her PhD in political and social sciences in 2002, and the London Schoo

Guest hosts: Shirley Anne Tate is Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Feminism and Intersectionality at the University of Alberta, Edmonton in the Department of Sociology. As a Cultural Sociologist, she is a qualitative researcher interested in intersectional thinking. In her writing, research and teaching she draws on Black feminist, gender, critical ‘race’, queer, post colonial and Caribbean decolonial theory within her overall focus on Black Atlantic diaspora studies and emerging identifications. Professor Tate's research interests include the body, ‘mixed race’, domestic and care work, beauty, Black intersectional identifications, migration, affect, the culture of Britishness, food, ‘race’ performativity, decoloniality, transracial intimacies, skin bleaching/lightening/toning and the politics of skin. She has for some time been developing an area of work on racism's affects within the micro-practices of institutional racism which has an academic and practitioner/ activist audience in South Africa, The USA, B

Guest hosts: Jalia L. Joseph is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University, additionally obtaining a graduate certificate in Africana Studies with specializations in race/ethnicity, social movements, feminisms, and critical race theory. Their current research address how social movement literature obscures race in the contextualization of race-based social movements. Through this work, Jalia demonstrates how & why the study of social movements must integrate structural theories of race and racism to advance the “development of methodological and theoretical tools that should be available to students of social movements on the whole” (Bell 2016:2). Their research appears in a co-authored paper in Women’s Studies in Communication, a co-authored chapter in Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis (forthcoming), and a solo-authored debate article in Ethnic and Racial Studies (forthcoming). Robert F. Carley is an Assistant Professor of International Studies at Texa

Guest hosts: Nobubele Phuza is a Research Assistant in the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation (CriSHET). Over the past three years, she has been immersed in women and gender-focused research and action. Her research brings post structural and postcolonial feminist perspectives on the body, space and time to sport and social justice movements. Dr Jason Arday is assistant professor at Durham University, a Visiting Research Fellow at The Ohio State University in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and a Trustee of the Runnymede Trust. Jason recently completed an edited collection with Professor Heidi Mirza (Goldsmiths, University of London) entitled Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy (Palgrave).

Guest hosts: Rianna Walcott is an LAHP-funded PhD candidate at King’s College London researching black identity formation in digital spaces, and a graduate twiceover from the University of Edinburgh. She co-founded projectmyopia.com, a website that promotes diversity in academia and a decolonised curriculum. She frequently writes and interviews about feminism, race and literature for publications including gal-dem, Dazed, The Skinny, Huffpost, Vice, The BBC, the Metro, the Wellcome collection and The Guardian. Rianna is co-editor of an anthology about BAME mental health, The Colour of Madness, and in the time left over she moonlights as a professional jazz singer. Her work can be found at riannawalcott.com and she tweets at @rianna_walcott. Francesca Sobande is a Lecturer in Digital Media Studies/Director of the BA Media, Journalism and Culture programme at Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Media and Culture. Francesca is author of The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain (forthcoming, 2020) an

During a brief trip to Durham University, Chantelle spoke with Sol Gamsu about the future of the Labour party, what went wrong in GE19 and whether the left of the party will ever be able to tackle race, class and racism(s).

In this slightly shorter episode (stupid London traffic!), Julia joined us to talk about her long career in media, music and TV and began to talk us through her MA dissertation on women in drum and bass Useful links- https://www.patreon.com/posts/theyre-not-in-it-30057937

This week Darrel joined us to discuss his work with young people in London schools and how studying his BA in Black studies at BCU has helped informed his youth work and activism. Useful links - The Young Readers, Future Leaders Project ://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/youngreaders