Surviving Society Productions

In the final episode of this series, Shereen and Chantelle reflect on the possibilities of working within the academy as a way of providing resources for anti-racist endeavours. Welcome to Surviving Society presents: Legacies of the War on Terror. In these episodes we tackle complex questions concerning how the war on terror became a war *of* terror for many negatively racialised communities in ov...

Raheel joined us to discuss the work of a Maslaha, a community led organisation focused on supporting the well-being of a diverse range of Muslim communities through projects in the area of education, gender, health and criminal justice. Welcome to Surviving Society presents: Legacies of the War on Terror. In these episodes we tackle complex questions concerning how the war on terror became a war...

In this episode Kamran provides an analysis of the connections between the racialisation of language, securitisation and islamophobia for Muslims. Welcome to Surviving Society presents: Legacies of the War on Terror. In these episodes we tackle complex questions concerning how the war on terror became a war *of* terror for many negatively racialised communities in over the past 21 years. Through e...

Layla and John outline the process and political detail involved in the People’s Review of Prevent. Welcome to Surviving Society presents: Legacies of the War on Terror. In these episodes, we tackle complex questions concerning how the war on terror became a war *of* terror for many negatively racialised communities in over the past 21 years. Through expert knowledge and the recalling of key event...

Rizwaan joined us to discuss themes from his latest book, The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam, and the Security State Links: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745338484/the-suspect Welcome to Surviving Society presents: Legacies of the War on Terror. In these episodes we tackle complex questions concerning how the war on terror became a war *of* terror for many negatively racialised communities over...

This is an edited episode of highlights from a panel marking the 50th anniversary of the radical transformation of The Institute of Race Relation. Ft. K Biswas, Sophia Siddiqui, Liz Fekete, Chantelle Lewis and Azfar Shafi. Links: https://irr.org.uk This episode was part of a The World Transformed: a festival of radical politics, art and music. In 2022 it was held in Liverpool between 24-27 Septemb...

Chantelle chaired a discussion between Hilary Moore, Roxy Legane, Zahra Bei and Jan Cunliffe focused on joint enterprise, tha gangs matrix, strip searches of minors, racist exclusions and stop and search. This episode was part of a The World Transformed: a festival of radical politics, art and music. In 2022 it was held in Liverpool between 24-27 September Links: https://kidsofcolour.com https://w...

In this episode we hear from Amardeep Singh Dhillon, Roxy Legane, Jeremy Corbyn, Khadija Diskin and Ava Vidal on how the ‘cost of living crisis’ is part of a long term political project relating to austerity, nationalism, policing, hospitality, food, housing, the media and much more. Each interviewee was asked: Phrases like the cost of living crisis end up getting used and repeated so much that th...

Kathryn joined Chantelle to interview Les Back about his career and the future of sociology. Links: https://discoversociety.org/2021/09/20/diversity-conservatism-and-sociable-sociology https://www.open.ac.uk/research/people/km27526 https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/being-measured-and-judged-alongside-friends-and-colleagues-was-too-much

In this episode, Emma helps us to explore how the fight to preserve a bowling alley in North London exemplifies how physical spaces of everyday urban multiculture continue to be under threat. Links: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0038026118772784 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0038038519892528 https://www.gold.ac.uk/sociology/staff/jackson-emma/

5 years of Surviving Society! To celebrate 5 years of the podcast, Chantelle Tissot and George reflect on the journey so far. We share our thoughts on our favourite episodes and most memorable guests. And give a little of preview of what is yet to co me! A massive thank you to all our listeners and guests! From Chantelle, Tissot & George! •This episode was recorded in August before the death of El...

In this week’s episode, we were joined by Shereen Fernandez to talk about the Government’s Counter-Terrorist strategy: PREVENT. We discussed how counter-extremism measures are securitising Muslims in schools and increasing cultures of islamophobia. Links: https://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/people/shereen-fernandez https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/ https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/surviving...

This week in the studio, we were joined by Chas Golding and Lawrence Hoo, co-founders of CARGO (Charting African Resiliance Generating Opportunity). CARGO is a team of poets, videographers and artists who have created an important educational resource, to tell an alternative view of history, that centres the lives of the Africa diaspora. Links https://cargomovement.org/book.html https://www.redpep...

This week we were in discussion with Oliver Durose and his new book – Suburban Socialism. “What is Suburban Socialism?” I hear you say! Listen to the episode and find out, it’s a lively one! Links https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/696636/suburban-socialism-by-oly-durose/ https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/surviving-society/id1291679351

Surviving Society alumni and presenter of podcast Who Do We Think We Are?, Michaela Benson joined us to discuss the UK in the context of ‘Global Britain’, post-Brexit and what this means for nations like Hong Kong. Links https://whodowethinkweare.org/ https://twitter.com/AbtCitizenship?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Live podcast alert! This week we were live podcasting from the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Summer School: Race, Class & Colonialism, with our guest, the legendary Black feminist, Stella Dadize. We discussed a range of issues from cancel culture and education, to self-care. As it’s a live recording we also have a Q & A between Stella and the audience! Links https://www.versobooks.com/books/369...

It’s all about community! This week’s episode we were joined by Farzana Khan from Healing Justice London to discuss how communities can be central to the process of healing, repair and transformation. Healing Justice London builds community-led health and healing to create capacity for personal and structural transformation. They work at the community, structural and movement level to repair the d...

This week we welcome back Surviving Society alumni, Alana Lentin featuring a wide ranging discussion around race, anti-racism and racial literacy. Links https://www.alanalentin.net/ https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Why+Race+Still+Matters-p-9781509535712 To listen to our original conversation with Alana on her book Why Race Still Matters, episode 089, from the Surviving Society archive. https://soundclo...

This week its an episode swap! Surviving Society has joined forces with Michaela Benson’s amazing podcast, Who Do We Think We Are? To bring you one of our favourite episodes from series 2. In this episode Michaela and guests ask what is the UK’s Nationality and Borders Act? How does it relate to previous acts concerned with nationality and immigration legislation? What is the back story to some of...

Alexandra joined Chantelle for a wide-ranging discussion on visual cultures, art and shame as social forces which can both resist and intensify heteropatriarchal reproduction(s) in the media and everyday life. Links https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexandra-Kokoli-2 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0740770X.2015.1057015?journalCode=rwap20

Vron joined us to talk about her new book Return of Native: Learning From The Land, which looks at the connection between the city and the rural, to expose the roots of our current crises. Links: http://vronware.org/return-of-a-native/ https://repeaterbooks.com/product/return-of-a-native-learning-from-the-land/ https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/

Chantelle, Nikki, Tina and Alison discuss the new collective of scholars - Abolition Feminism for Ending Sexual Violence. This episode is part of the Alternative to woman's hour takeover with Tina Sikka, Alison Phipps and Nikki Godden-Rasul. https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/ https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sex-consent-and-justice.html

Alison Phipps hosts an episode with Tina Sikka where they discuss power, consent and inequality in sexual relationships. This episode is part of the Alternative to woman's hour takeover with Tina Sikka, Alison Phipps and Nikki Godden-Rasul. https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/ https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sex-consent-and-justice.html

Chantelle spoke with Tina about her new book - Sex, Consent and Justice: A New Feminist Framework. This episode is part of the Alternative to woman's hour takeover with Tina Sikka, Alison Phipps and Nikki Godden-Rasul. https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/ https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sex-consent-and-justice.html

Rianna joined us to talk about the re-publication of The Colour of Madness: Mental Health and Race in Technicolour with Samara Linton. Links: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/samara-linton/the-colour-of-madness/9781529088496