Borderscapes

You and everyone around you has played a role in maintaining white supremacy. Whether this is from the perspective of a victim or the perpetrator, both consciously and unconsciously. The insidious effects of white supremacy continue to affect our society from progressing and causing harmful damage to minority groups. So I want to talk about how you can be more aware about your actions in order to...

All people belong to a border – a nationality, a citizenship, an identity. The process of being contained with a likeminded community impacts us all, on a local and national level. However, there are moments where borders feel invisible, that one belongs to no borders at well. Those who hold a second-generation identity, namely those who hold citizenships in both an Eastern and Western context, of...

Motherhood crossing borders' is a journey of two women who were standing on a threshold a year back. Prisca from Zambia returned to college after a gap of more than 15 years. But she had a lot at stake; her family, her husband, the society, and her two young children who didn't really understand why their mother wanted to leave them and travel thousands of miles to a different continent. Not very...

Borderscapes Season 3 Coming Soon 

Studying abroad is a privilege to expand your knowledge and experience in a foreign country. It has all the perks for an eighteen-year-old to live, laugh, and maybe, find love. But what if I told you that it's not all about sunshine and rainbows? What if there's more to face? Well, welcome to a life of an international student. Where we talk about the hard truth one faces. Aside from an eye-openin...

This is a podcast which takes the interview format of production to reshape the stereotype views of the able-bodied dominated society in which we live - that focuses on the medical model of impairment rather than the social model of disability. In this episode, Akin and Stephen explore the world of 'Artificial Intelligence (AI) to cross the border of impairment. This episode is highly recommended...

Imagine you're a football player and you're the main striker in your team. There is five minutes on the clock and it's a very crucial game. You get the perfect pass and you scored the goal, everyone is happy, the fans are all over the place, you're happy and your teammates are happy. The whistle blows and you look towards the referee and he calls for VAR. You look up on the screen and the goal is...

Brexit has certainly been a very controversial topic ever since it first began, but did you ever think for a second, that it would have a major impact on the future of the music industry? Very soon musicians will no longer be able to freely travel across the EU to play shows to their fans, instead if they wish to play anywhere within the EU, they will have to have travel visas, which will be very...

Violet is a student who also does online cam work. She logs on when she wants to, on a camera room, performs and gets paid for that. She is an animal lover, a vegan, and an anthropologist student with a deep interest in people, their experiences and what they enjoy. This episode explores her story and together, we enroll in a deep, private, and surprisingly revealing conversation where we explore...

Laila Hussein, a young woman in her early 20's who used to live in a highly conservative household in the buzzing city of Cairo, Egypt, rebels against her family values and moves out of her family home. Laila shares her story, a gut-wrenching, heartbreaking series of events consisting of limitation of freedom, erasure of individuality, and cultural oppression in a refreshing fashion. We discuss ou...

What is home? Is home only a physical space that we occupy, a space where we feel safe? A space where we are understood and appreciated? Or is it an idea that lives within us? When so many of us have it all, there are a few that are still desperately longing for home. On this episode of Borderscapes, Tousif explores the idea of home as a way to come in terms with his life long struggle to find hom...

In 2020, a sudden epidemic swept the world. During the nearly 176 days of lockdown, we rely heavily on various social media to maintain our normal lives. Have you ever thought about how these new media will be like after the epidemic is over? Have they become part of us? Or will they fall quickly? This episode is going to talk about people 's experience from unfamiliar to skillful application of t...

Using social media enables us to communicate with people anytime and anywhere, and to transmit and obtain information, especially during the pandemic, people are more dependent on seeking contact and information. But have you thought about when you are away from social media, do you really lose contact with the world? Or get back the chance to get along with yourself? This episode focuses on the f...

In the past year, county borders gained new importance as suddenly these lines on a map decided if you were allowed out of your house or doomed to stay in. However, in this episode of Borderscapes, Katherine examines the meaning of these borders beyond the experiences of 2020. Having grown up in the Kentish countryside, she had always assumed that she didn't have any kind of county identity. This...

A group of 12 clubs from across Europe's biggest leagues announced plans to form a new competition called the Super League. The league had plans to offer permanent spots to some of the world's biggest clubs and play matches midweek, while allowing the involved clubs to remain in their domestic competitions. The plan was opposed by FIFA, the governing body for international football, and UEFA. But...

In January 2021, a specific set of conditions led the price of GameStop stock to skyrocket. It had surface-level news coverage, but how much do you REALLY know about this story? This incredibly abnormal market behaviour saw financial institutions go head-to-head with individual investors, who were fed up with their driving companies into the ground for profit. The resulting chaos produced a Border...

The year 2020 and 2021 have been years like no other in living memory. Everyone who lived through them will always remember the places they couldn't go, things they couldn't do, families they couldn't see, loved ones they've lost, jobs lost, shattered dreams and opportunities that never came to fruition. For Light Juma, a Kenyan Journalist who travelled 10,000 miles from Nairobi, Kenya to Brighton...

Political Correctness set out to protect minorities, so why has there been such a backlash to it? Whether you are fiercely for it or against it, it raises many issues surrounding free speech and if it is possible to draw borders around what you can and can't say in the name of being politically correct. Despite the initial backlash, many people have lost their credibility and jobs due to the power...

An inside listen on what's coming soon. Season Two of Borderscapes is almost here! Tune in this May 11th to the most diverse stories on borders and limits! 

Coming this May, series 2 of Borderscapes. The wide range of topics covered in the episodes, from social media detoxes to the issues surrounding VAR in football, reflects the variety of the backgrounds and interests the team has and their own takes on all the borders that shape our day-to-day lives.

Every year, countries like US, UK, Canada and Australia import hundreds of thousands of students from all around the world, promising them a quality education and a global experience in return for hefty amounts of money. Away from their families, socially isolated, financial burden combined with the challenges of online learning, it has been a rough year for international students. In this episode...

For millions of women across the world, hair is serious business. In many communities hair is considered by many as a definitive statement about who you are, who you think you are, and who you want to be. Coarse hair in its myriad forms, from the natural to twists and locks, has long been and remains a kind of bounced check on the acquisition of benefits of that same enduring cultural mythology. L...

We define dreams as sensations or images passing through the mind of a sleeping person. We oppose dreams to waking reality. The border between the two worlds only dissolves when we fall asleep and wake up. Somehow music recreates the state of liminal dreaming. When we listen to music, we float somewhere between the waking and sleeping worlds. Do dreams penetrate our waking life more than we think?...

At the 2019 Golden Globes, South Korean director, Bong Joon-ho, explained that "Once you overcome the one-inch tall barriers of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films". This podcast endeavours to explore the issues that surround the lack of recognition of non-English language film in Western awards shows and, in addition, lack of distribution in both cinemas and streaming...

Though tribal nations barely contribute to emissions, they disproportionately feel the negative effects of climate change. Once the impacts are felt on reservations, can tribal nations hold the United States to account? This episode of Borderscapes will explore the effect of climate change on tribal nations in the United States and take a look at the complex web of cultural and legal issues at pla...