Surviving Society Productions

Arshad and Thom joined us to outline how the EU utilise a form of liberal violence to border, reject and harm refugees attempting to enter one of its European Nations. Useful links: No Name Kitchen i http://www.nonamekitchen.org/

Lucy critically outlines some of the remaining colonial entanglements of asylum & refugee policies from the 1951 Geneva Convention, the New Labour years and more contemporary violence enacted by the Home Office. Useful links: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/people/academic-staff/lucy-mayblin https://politybooks.com/?s=Migration+Studies+and+Colonialism https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781783486168/A...

The Surviving Society team are extremely excited to present #TheSpotlightSeries. In these episodes Chantelle and Tissot take a step back from the mic and handover to both 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:...

Zavier joined us to discuss his ongoing research on how changing Ottoman elite conceptions of race, slavery, and blackness in the Ottoman Empire contributed to new forms of racialization of enslaved and manumitted Africans between the 1840s and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Useful links: https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/departments/meis/people/students/zavier-wingham.html https:...

Michael joined us to discuss themes and arguments about the Labour Party, anti-racism & antisemitism from two of his articles: On "Black Antisemitism" and Antiracist Solidarity - https://newsocialist.org.uk/black-antisemitism-and-antiracist- solidarity Anti-Racism as Procedure - https://prtcls.com/article/richmond_labour-antisemitism/

Emmanuel joined us to talk about the strategic and grassroots community responses to Covid-19 in informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Emmanuel later shares more about his work in community organisations in Africa focused on disaster risk reduction, poverty reduction, and climate change adaption. Useful links: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/openhe-2020-0005/html https://w...

In this episode of the Surviving Society Alternative to Woman’s Hour, we explore some themes from the interviews Brenna and Rafeef conducted in their edited collection Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought. Useful links: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3182-revolutionary-feminisms https://www.dukeupress.edu/colonial-lives-of-property https://www.thesociol...

In this episode of the Surviving Society Alternative to Woman’s Hour we explore some of the key themes from Francesca’s latest book - The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain (2020). Useful links: https://www.francescasobande.com/newbook https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030466787

John joined us to discuss his role as an expert witness for the defence in the professional misconduct cases brought against Birmingham teachers following (false) accusations that they were part of a 'plot to Islamicise schools'. Useful links: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/countering-extremism-in-british-schools https://johnholmwood.net/birmingham-trojan-horse-affair-resources/

Pat joined us to outline some themes, debates and evidence from her latest book, School Scandals: Blowing the Whistle on the Corruption of Our Education System. Useful links: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/school-scandals https://patthomson.net/

...Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos: Malcolm joined us to discuss Black diasporic music, culture, politics, and raving from the 1980s and 1990s. Useful links: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sonic-intimacy-9781501320736

...Black women, education & neurodiversity: In this episode, Chantelle and Vivienne (ADHD Babes) discuss their personal experiences of navigating both life and education with multiple neurodiverse traits. ADHD Babes: ADHD Babes is a community group for Black Women and Black Non-Binary people with ADHD. We create safe spaces for us to flourish and live our lives to their greatest potential. We aim...

Vanessa joins us to discuss black feminist abolitionist analysis, intersectional disability justice and its contexts for policing in Europe. This is a special five part series in collaboration with the official journal of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Race & Class. The series begins with an introduction to the history of IRR with Director Liz Fekete & follows with four episodes about the...

Monish joined us to outline the history and contemporary use of electron monitoring (tagging) for criminal sentencing and punishment which was extended under the Asylum and Immigration Act s36 to ‘immigration controls’ of ‘high risk’ individuals. This is a special five part series in collaboration with the official journal of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Race & Class. The series begins w...

TW: institutional racism & islamophobia Tarek provides listeners with a brief history of PREVENT and explores how public bodies are ‘trained’ to identify ‘at risk’ individuals in the war on terror. We discuss the racialisation of Muslims, ‘colourblindness’ and how Britain has ‘managed’ dissent. This is a special five part series in collaboration with the official journal of the Institute of Race R...

TW: personal & public histories of deaths in custody Eddie joined us to discuss the groundings of the special issue and provides us with an overview of the recommendations of the - Angiolini Review – the first official review of practices and processes related to and following police related deaths in the UK. This is a special five part series in collaboration with the official journal of the Inst...

Liz outlines some of the key moments in the IRR’s history. We discuss both the historical and contemporary role of the institute as specified by the late A. Sivanandan, and Liz provides some important reflections and hopeful possibilities about our present-day political culture. This is a special five part series in collaboration with the official journal of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR),...

TW: homophobia in Hip Hop music and culture Battle rap champion, poisonous poet and educator Tony D joined us to talk about rap, hip hop, cultural production and its historical and contemporary contribution to Black liberation movements and discourses. Useful links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MVfs6dC4UY

Levi returns to the show to continue our discussions about key arguments from his book - Land, God, and Guns: Settler Colonialism and Masculinity in the American Heartland (2020) - in the context of the violence at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Useful: https://soundcloud.com/user-622675754/e004-the-usa-election-reflection-with-levi-gahman-settler-colonialism-masculinity-class www.z...

The Surviving Society team are extremely excited to present #TheSpotlightSeries. In these episodes Chantelle and Tissot take a step back from the mic and handover to both 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:...

Leighan joined us to break down the concept of matrifocality and provides some analysis from her PhD research on the representation of Caribbean families in contemporary Caribbean fiction. Useful links: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/leighan-m-renaud https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/beyond-the-nuclear-the-caribbean-family/ https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.7...

Gavan joined us to discuss some of the themes from his latest book - Is Free Speech racist? Discount code: POL20 is valid until 31/03/2021 via https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509536153 Useful links: (1) The most recent 'free speech crisis', an analysis from myself and Privyamvada Gopal: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/18/free-speech-row-cambridge-restrict-expression...

The Surviving Society team are extremely excited to present #TheSpotlightSeries. In these episodes Chantelle and Tissot take a step back from the mic and handover to both 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:...

Gurpreet is the founder of blminthestix and joined us to discuss the realities of tackling racism amongst rural and mainly white communities in the UK. Useful links: https://linktr.ee/blmstix

...: Women of colour resist: In the first edition of the Surviving Society Alternative to Woman's Hour for 2021, Akwugo provides some important analysis on women of colour's activism and resistance in UK, Europe & beyond. *The first direct action of Sisters Uncut was not during the Suffragettes UK red carpet premiere in 2015 - at this point Sisters had already engaged in at least four national act...