Surviving Society

A panel on the influence and the continued relevance of A. Sivanandan’s key works with Suresh Grover, Miriyam Aouragh, John Narayan, Priya Guns and Jenny Bourne. Intro music: Passport on our face - John Pandit. Links: https://irr.org.uk/

Episode one is a conversation on the transformation of the IRR and what the work has entailed since. With Jenny Bourne, Colin Prescod and John Narayan. Welcome to New Circuits of Anti-Racism, brought to you by Surviving Society and the Institute of Race Relations (IRR). These podcasts are from the IRR’s 50 year anniversary conference. The panels you’ll be hearing from are focused on racism, imperialism, and new lines of resistance. Links: https://irr.org.uk

Gloria Morrison (JENGbA) and Lana Adamou (Liberty) update listeners with details surrounding the legal win for campaigners against the joint enterprise doctrine. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has agreed to a pilot scheme to monitor data on the age, race, sex and disability of those prosecuted under the joint enterprise doctrine. Links: https://jointenterprise.co/ https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/legal-win-for-campaigners-in-racist-joint-enterprise-dispute/

Comfort Moye interviewed Aisha Phoenix on the systemic nature of colourism, specifically here in the UK. They draw on the distinct nature of both colourism and racism and how shade prejudice is a social justice issue for People of Colour globally. Links: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/meet-dr-aisha-phoenix-ukri-future-leaders-fellow-in-social-justice https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00380385211069507

“You won’t break my soul” was a person…Join Paulette and Whitnee as they explore a world where Black women can experience both good health and liberation. Because we deserve them both, right? We sit down with Dr. Uché Blackstock, a physician and thought leader on bias and racism in health care, to hear about her journey in medicine and how she walked away from her day-to-day career to pursue justice and liberation in both career and love. We also get insider's information on her new book that will be a must read. Be sure to tune in to hear the Girl, Yes You Can moment and what Whitnee and Paulette plan to do for themselves during the This One's For Me segment. Let us know what your thoughts. Find Dr. Blackstock, a MSNBC contributor, on social media: Twitter: uche_blackstock. #thisworldisours Follow us on social media. IG and TikTok: worldisourspodcast Twitter: worldisourspod Facebook: This World Is Ours Podcast This World Is Ours Podcast this podcast talks about the global experiences of two Black wome

In this episode Chantelle and Laura discuss the reality of producing a sociological podcast about the British monarchy whilst they have been dominating the contemporary (2023) news media.

This episode speaks to global elite studies scholars to understand the risks of studying the elites, and the burden of care in whose voices we platform. With special guests: Dr Pere Ayling, University of Suffolk Emily Hoyle, Lancaster University Dr Ujithra Ponniah, University of the Witwatersrand

This episode thinks about the role of national identity and social class in understandings of ‘Britishness’ and the monarchy’s role within it. With special guests: Prof Jason Arday, University of Cambridge Prof Jo Littler, City, University of London Dr Sivamohan Valluvan, Warwick University Clips: -ITV NEWS Sept 16th 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJjf_RObni4 -LOOSE WOMEN March 1st 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbpz-ts74ecClip

This episode discusses the role of whiteness and gender inequality in reproducing the monarchy. With Dr Raka Shome (Villanova University) Welcome to Surviving Society Presents - “the global power of the British monarchy’ In these episodes, we will be looking to challenge existing conversations about the British monarchy. Often in popular discourse, the monarchy is taken for granted as a part of British culture. With expert guests, the podcast tells a story of the ‘other side’ of monarchy. From its links to Empire and colonialism, to issues of wealth accumulation and nationalism, the series sets out to disrupt common sense understandings and undertake a critical analysis of the Firm and its various intersections with inequality. This series has been executively produced by Laura Clancy Links: -INSIDE EDITION March 9th 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHz-Kyd-6_g -THE ROYAL FAMILY CHANNEL March 11th 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDC7f7qh4ak 00:19-end Funded by ESRC Impact Acceleration Account

This episode considers the perspectives of Barbados and Australia, as former and present global realms of the British monarchy, and possibilities for republican futures. With Dr Allison Ramsay, (University of the West Indies) and Dr Holly Randell-Moon(Charles Sturt University). Welcome to Surviving Society Presents - “the global power of the British monarchy’ In these episodes, we will be looking to challenge existing conversations about the British monarchy. Often in popular discourse, the monarchy is taken for granted as a part of British culture. With expert guests, the podcast tells a story of the ‘other side’ of monarchy. From its links to Empire and colonialism, to issues of wealth accumulation and nationalism, the series sets out to disrupt common sense understandings and undertake a critical analysis of the Firm and its various intersections with inequality. This series has been executively produced by Laura Clancy Media links: -SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA June 25th 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na

In this episode we address how the monarchy’s historical, and contemporary, relationship to systems of colonialism, imperialism, Empire, and the structures of secrecy make researching the monarchy so challenging. With special guest, Dr Brooke Newman, Virginia Commonwealth University. Welcome to Surviving Society Presents - “the global power of the British monarchy’ In these episodes, we will be looking to challenge existing conversations about the British monarchy. Often in popular discourse, the monarchy is taken for granted as a part of British culture. With expert guests, the podcast tells a story of the ‘other side’ of monarchy. From its links to Empire and colonialism, to issues of wealth accumulation and nationalism, the series sets out to disrupt common sense understandings and undertake a critical analysis of the Firm and its various intersections with inequality. This series has been executively produced by Laura Clancy -WASHINGTON POST (Sept 9th 2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA-mbFTeIj

Award-winning investigative journalist Peter Apps (Inside Housing) joined Chantelle and Dan to outline the specific regulatory and policy failures which led to the Grenfell tower fire. Links: https://www.waterstones.com/book/show-me-the-bodies/peter-apps/9780861546152 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

In the first Alternative to Woman's Hour for 2023, Chantelle and Afua discuss the challenges of setting boundaries with work, creativity, and scholarship. Links: https://www.rivamedia.co.uk/talent/afua-hagan

Lola interviewed Michael and Alex about arguments in their new book - Fractured: Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics. Links https://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/lgbt-gender-studies/fractured-race-class-gender-and,michael-richmond-alex-charnley-9780745346564

The Surviving Society team are extremely excited to present #TheSpotlightSeries. These episodes are guest hosted by local and global academics, researchers, and community organizers. The Spotlight series continues with the themes from the original Surviving Society podcast focused on race, class, anti- racism and social movements. Guest Hosts: Jesús Gregorio Smith is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and an Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) Andrew W. Mellon Fellow. He received his PhD in Sociology in 2017 from Texas A&M University where he studied the intersections of systemic racism, masculinity, and sexuality and how they influence mental and sexual health. Tiago Machado Costa is a sociologist, queer researcher, and anti-racist scholar. They are currently a doctoral research at the University of Nottingham, where they are completing their thesis on racialized desires and sexual racism among gay men’s sexual spaces in the UK. Tiago’s research interests include the sexual geographies of ci

The Surviving Society team are extremely excited to present #TheSpotlightSeries. These episodes are guest hosted by local and global academics, researchers, and community organizers. The Spotlight series continues with the themes from the original Surviving Society podcast focused on race, class, anti- racism and social movements. Guest Hosts: Jesús Gregorio Smith is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and an Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) Andrew W. Mellon Fellow. He received his PhD in Sociology in 2017 from Texas A&M University where he studied the intersections of systemic racism, masculinity, and sexuality and how they influence mental and sexual health. Tiago Machado Costa is a sociologist, queer researcher, and anti-racist scholar. They are currently a doctoral research at the University of Nottingham, where they are completing their thesis on racialized desires and sexual racism among gay men’s sexual spaces in the UK. Tiago’s research interests include the sexual geographies of ci

What on earth can a central bus station have to do with racial capitalism and settler-colonialism? This week’s host, Mor Cohen, tells the story of the Central Bus Station (CBS) in the Tel Aviv neighbourhood Neve Sha’anan. Talking to activist Shula Keshet and academic Sharon Rotbart, Mor learns how the CBS’ fortunes show how Israel concretises its colour lines in the urban environment. These racial divisions pit the wellbeing of Israel’s different precarious communities against one another - in this case, Neve Sha’anan’s largely Mizrahi Jewish residents resisting the station’s polluting effect on their neighbourhood, and Israel’s migrant communities who have eked out precarious ecosystems within the CBS. And, as we’ll learn with Mor, underlying all of this, is the spectre of settler-colonialism. Long before the 1948 nakba (catastrophe), peripheral neighbourhoods such as Neve Sha’anan were planned as front line settlements separating Jews and Palestinians. Still used as a buffer between Jewish cities and Isra

Guantanamo Bay prison leaks. Parts of it are overgrown with weeds. And yet, as of today, 36 detainees still remain imprisoned within its leaking walls. How did the United States of America come to erect this gruesome, derelict, but still operational prison on Cuban soil? In this episode, Shereen Fernandez, tells the story of how the crimes of Guantanamo Bay prison are part of a longer history of American imperialism and racial exclusion. As we will hear, it is also a story of the true crimes of capitalism and privatisation. We’ll learn how big corporations like Kellogg Brown & Root and Mitchell Jessen and Associates have raked in profits off of the detainees' suffering, sustaining GTMO in a state of total disrepair and piloting enhanced interrogation techniques on its prisoners’ bodies. The former detainee Moazzem Begg, and the academic Lisa Hajjar, paint Shereen a vivid portrait of what it is like to be within Guantanamo, making an irrefutable case for why this criminal prison must be shut down. Usef

When Israel’s HaEmek railway reopened in 2016, it served only nine stations and stopped 4km shy of the Jordanian border. Far from more spectacular sites of violence, the train’s inauguration fell below most people’s radar. In this week’s episode, Sharri Plonski tells the story of this “train to nowhere” - of its colonial history, how its logistical future would rewrite the map of the Middle East, and how increased Israeli mobility entails increased Palestinian fragmentation and containment. But, as we’ll hear, as ever Palestinians are powerfully resisting efforts to make their lives unliveable. On the trail of this train, Sharri speaks with Palestinian academics and activists Yara Hawari, Omar Jabary-Salamanca, and Hanna Swaid; as well as Laleh Khalili, Manu Karuka, and Katy Fox-Hoddess. Talking to them, she learns that, though logistical infrastructures are vehicles of state or corporate power, they also make possible forms of international solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom. They also te

On the 10th anniversary of the massacre of 34 striking mine workers at Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, our host for this episode, Daniel Selwyn, investigates the transnational complicity of state and corporate actors, while amplifying voices from the ongoing struggles for justice and reparations. For listeners in London and the UK this episode is particularly close to home, as a massacre at a South African mine unravels into a story about the crimes of global capitalism in which we are all implicated. We’ll learn just how entangled Marikana is with the city of London, the suburbs of Germany, and corporate interests that ensnare the most powerful figure in South African politics. During the episode, Daniel speaks to community activists from Sinethemba Women’s Organisation, Thumeka Magwanqwana and Gabisile Khanyile, as well as a Marikana mine worker Bongisisa Gwiliza. He also speaks with the attorney for hundreds of incarcerated mineworkers, Andries Nkome, and Maren Grimm, who is part of the international so