Surviving Society Productions

Xine Yao joined us to discuss their book, Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America. https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/

Laura Clancy joined us to discuss her book, Running the Family Firm: How the royal family manages its image and our money. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526158758/ https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/

Roxy joined us to outline the details of a guilty by association case in Manchester crown court concerning 10 young boys. The case has been constructed as a 'gang case' where all the boys have been found guilty under conspiracy charges. Under conspiracy charges the prosecution does not have to prove violence. links: https://kidsofcolour.com/

Chantelle delivers the key note speech at the PSA Women & Politics and PSA Race, Migration & Intersectionality ‘At the Intersections Conference 2022’ (Political Studies Association) with a discussion titled, ‘Beyond the academic insurance policy: Not Enough, Love & Understanding’. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1350506820951937 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWG7LsIo6nU https://www...

Chantelle and Julia discuss their relationship with cancer. The conversation focuses on treatment, diagnosis, the impact of the lockdown and being part of working-age families navigating cancer. This episode was produced in memory of Matt Miller.

Live podcast! Surviving Society is back on the road!!! We kicked off our first in a series of tours to university’s around the UK with staff and students of Northumbria University Department of Social Sciences. We discussed how we can collectively resist present day local and global political calamities by grounding our conversations around the concepts of love, hope and solidarity.

Listen back to some of our best bits of The Surviving Society Alternative to Woman's Hour. Featuring discussions on race, class, gender, history, activism, Marxism and much more. For our full ATWH playlist - https://soundcloud.com/user-622675754/sets/alternative-to-womans-hour

Listen back to some of our best bits of The Surviving Society Alternative to Woman's Hour. Featuring discussions on race, class, gender, history, activism, Marxism and much more. For our full ATWH playlist - https://soundcloud.com/user-622675754/sets/alternative-to-womans-hour

Listen back to some of our favourite clips from out guest hosted spotlight series. Part two features Srila Roy, Carmen Geha, Nadya Ali, Selma James, Sara Callaway, Shanice McBean, Aviah Day, Alana Lentin, Debbie Bargallie, Naaz Rashid and Waqas Tufail. What is the Spotlight Series? In these episodes Chantelle and Tissot take a step back from the mic and handover to both local and global academics,...

Listen back to some of our favourite clips from our guest hosted Spotlight Series. Part one features Jason Arday, Nobubele Phuza, Rianna Walcott, Francesca Sobande, Yomaira Figueroa, Furaha Asani and Mwenza Blell. (Convos from 2019-2021!) What is the Spotlight Series? In these episodes, Chantelle and Tissot take a step back from the mic and handover to both local and global academics, researchers...

Ayesha joined us to discuss themes from her PhD research which explores the BBC in everyday life in Britain within the current online digital media landscape. Links: https://thevoicesofblackbritain.weebly.com https://www.acrcollective.com/meet-our-members/ayesha-taylor-camara

Antonia joined us to discuss how she came to write and research, Race talk: Languages of racism and resistance in Neapolitan street markets. Links: https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526138484/9781526138484.xml?rskey=96wuIY&result=1 https://www.patreon.com/SurvivingSociety

Ben joined us to discuss how housing policies and residential geographies in two south London neighbourhoods, Bermondsey and Camberwell from his co-written and researched project with Ole Jensen -‘They’ve Got Their Wine Bars, We’ve Got Our Pubs’: Housing, Diversity and Community in Two South London Neighbourhoods’ Links: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-23096-2_2#citeas https://...

Two members of the No More Exclusions coalition (Zahra & Kadeem) joined us to talk about their growing influence on the abolition of school exclusions in UK schools. Links: https://nomoreexclusions.com https://nomoreexclusions.com/abolition-in-education/ https://www.patreon.com/SurvivingSociety

This episode was recorded across two UCU strike ‘teach outs’ in March 2022 at LSE and Kings College London. We discuss the commodification of education, neoliberalism, intensified marketisation and the possibility of a future university. Ft. Chantelle, Tissot, rémy-paulin twahirwa, Antonia Dawes & ucu strikers! Links: https://www.ucu.org.uk/join https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-2021-is...

Aleema joined us to discuss her journey through academia and shares some initial findings from her PhD project - Bun Babylon: Rastafari movement in Britain. Links: https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/the-rastafari-in-britain/ https://www.patreon.com/SurvivingSociety

Ben joined us to discuss his intellectual project so far which has centred urban contexts (London), Jewish diasporic formations, racisms, migration and multiculture. AD: Fed up with the mainstream media? Support radical, challenging, independent media instead! Start your subscription to Red Pepper – the magazine at the heart of the movement – today. https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/ Links: h...

Dan joined us to outline a brief history of the politics of social and council housing in post-war Britain. We discuss the legacies of the Beveridge report, race, class and why housing in Britain remains an urgent and multi-classed issue. Links: https://www.patreon.com/SurvivingSociety The Housing Series - The right to a safe home should be a multi-classed issue that we can build solidarities from...

Roaa joined us to discuss how practices in the creative and cultural institutions reproduce ethnic inequality, the trouble with ‘diversity’ and the sector's response to COVID-19 and BLM. Roaa is part of a project team with Anamik Saha, Roaa Ali, Bridget Byrne, Stephanie Guirand titled Diversity in creative and cultural industries https://www.ethnicity.ac.uk/research/projects/diversity-in-creative-...

In the first episode of our brand new Housing Series we were joined by activist Kwajo Tweneboa who has been working hard to make public the levels of disrepair and negligence tenants are faced with at the hands of housing associations across the UK. Links: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/19/im-willing-to-take-on-absolutely-everyone-kwajo-tweneboa-on-fighting-for-britains-poorest-tenan...

Guest Hosts: Antonia Lucia Dawes is an Anglo-Neapolitan writer and academic who works on questions of racism and militarisation. Her book, Race Talk: languages of racism and resistance in Neapolitan street markets, is about racism and multilingual communication. She is currently working on a new collaborative book project about the British military presence on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England...

Our executive producer Adders in the Studio (a.k.a George Ofori-Addo) provided us with highlights from some our favourite conversations from the last few months. Featuring, JENGbA, Malcolm Richards, Franck Magennis, Laura Connelly, Remi Joseph-Salisbury & Tanzil Chowdhury

In the first of two special episodes, our executive producer Adders in the Studio (a.k.a George Ofori-Addo) provided us with highlights from some of our favourite conversations from Season 14. Featuring, Gurminder Bhambra, John Holmwood, April Louise-Pennant, Twayna Mayne, Kieron Turner and Amit Singh

Laura and Remi joined us to talk about their new book Anti-racist scholar-activism which focuses on ‘the praxes of academics working within, and against, their institutions in pursuit of anti-racist social justice’. Links: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157966/

Tanzil breaks down how the law becomes a vehicle to enact systemic oppressions and exploitations despite it consistently being positioned in the public imagination as a force for liberation. Links: http://npolicemonitor.co.uk https://www.routledge.com/Time-Temporality-and-Legal-Judgment/Chowdhury/p/book/9781138324503 https://dogsection.org/press/abolishing-the-police/