Surviving Society Productions

In this episode, Johannah, as co-producer and co-host, introduces the series and provides a general overview of the complexities, challenges, and diverse forms of resistance that define the Caribbean. Links: https://caisott.org/mapping-injustice/ and https://caisott.org/sign-together-project/ Summary These episodes feature activists and scholars who are on the frontlines of grassroots struggles for dignity, justice, and self-determination in the Caribbean. Rooted in a convivial spirit of creative resistance and collective healing, each guest shares insights into the region’s lasting legacies of colonialism as a means of confronting and ultimately ending the enduring aftermaths of empire. Guest co-producers, Levi Gahman, Johannah-Rae Reyes, Adaeze Greenidge

These episodes feature activists and scholars who are on the frontlines of grassroots struggles for dignity, justice, and self-determination in the Caribbean. Rooted in a convivial spirit of creative resistance and collective healing, each guest shares insights into the region’s lasting legacies of colonialism as a means of confronting and ultimately ending the enduring aftermaths of empire.

Chantelle and Kelechi interview Lennon Mhishi about the ‘Re-connecting "Objects’ project at the Pitt Rivers Mueseum (University of Oxford). We explore the functioning of museums as ‘containers’, consisting of colonial collections as products of violence, extraction and dispossession. https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/reconnecting-objects Summary:In this series we introduce the work of researchers from the Black Health and the Humanities Network. Each episode uncovers the different ways that racist environments impact the health of Black African and Caribbean people. Expect conversation centred around resistance creativity and imaginative futures. The Black Health and the Humanities network emerged in part from the crisis caused by 2020’s global Covid-19 pandemic, the transnational Black Lives Matter movement, and the intersections between racism and health inequalities that, although not new, these events highlighted.

Chantelle and Kelechi interview Chimwemwe Phiri about her PhD research based on the colonial histories and ethical dimensions of medical photography, questions of ownership, and the afterlives of archival material. https://www.blackhealthandhumanities.org Summary:In this series we introduce the work of researchers from the Black Health and the Humanities Network. Each episode uncovers the different ways that racist environments impact the health of Black African and Caribbean people. Expect conversation centred around resistance creativity and imaginative futures. The Black Health and the Humanities network emerged in part from the crisis caused by 2020’s global Covid-19 pandemic, the transnational Black Lives Matter movement, and the intersections between racism and health inequalities that, although not new, these events highlighted. https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/people-and-projects/grants-awarded/comparative-investigation-visual-representations

Tanisha Spratt and Arya Thampuran discuss the importance of Black joy, sprituality and care as crucial to Black health and healing. Links https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/a-s-thampuran/ https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/tanisha-spratt Summary: In this series we introduce the work of researchers from the Black Health and the Humanities Network. Each episode uncovers the different ways that racist environments impact the health of Black African and Caribbean people. Expect conversation centred around resistance creativity and imaginative futures. The Black Health and the Humanities network emerged in part from the crisis caused by 2020’s global Covid-19 pandemic, the transnational Black Lives Matter movement, and the intersections between racism and health inequalities that, although not new, these events highlighted. https://www.blackhealthandhumanities.org

Kelechi Anucha discuses the relationship between time and care in contemporary end of life narratives,. This work is part of the Wellcome Trust-funded research project Waiting Times. Links: https://wcceh.org/meet-the-team/phd-students/kelechi-anucha/ https://waitingtimes.exeter.ac.uk/ Summary: In this series we introduce the work of researchers from the Black Health and the Humanities Network. Each episode uncovers the different ways that racist environments impact the health of Black African and Caribbean people. Expect conversation centred around resistance creativity and imaginative futures. The Black Health and the Humanities network emerged in part from the crisis caused by 2020’s global Covid-19 pandemic, the transnational Black Lives Matter movement, and the intersections between racism and health inequalities that, although not new, these events highlighted. https://www.blackhealthandhumanities.org

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Rianna Raymond-Williams discusses how it is essential for access to sexual and reproductive health and support to be initiated through anti-racist policies and frameworks. @BHHproject Links https://www.shinealoud.co.uk/about-us/founders-story Summary: In this series we introduce the work of researchers from the Black Health and the Humanities Network. Each episode uncovers the different ways that racist environments impact the health of Black African and Caribbean people. Expect conversation centred around resistance creativity and imaginative futures. The Black Health and the Humanities network emerged in part from the crisis caused by 2020’s global Covid-19 pandemic, the transnational Black Lives Matter movement, and the intersections between racism and health inequalities that, although not new, these events highlighted. https://www.blackhealthandhumanities.org

In this introductory episode, we hear from Arya Thampuran and Kelechi Anucha on why the health of Black African and Caribbean populations in Britain remains an urgent topic of enquiry. @BHHproject Links: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/a-s-thampuran/ https://wcceh.org/meet-the-team/phd-students/kelechi-anucha/ Summary: In this series we introduce the work of researchers from the Black Health and the Humanities Network. Each episode uncovers the different ways that racist environments impact the health of Black African and Caribbean people. Expect conversation centred around resistance creativity and imaginative futures. The Black Health and the Humanities network emerged in part from the crisis caused by 2020’s global Covid-19 pandemic, the transnational Black Lives Matter movement, and the intersections between racism and health inequalities that, although not new, these events highlighted.

Surviving Society presents... the BBH This series focus on the politics of black health in modern society

In this episode, we take a deep dive into the marketisation and capitalist exploitation of care during the COVID-19 pandemic. We return to the inequitable ways the pandemic impacted people and how we continue to live through a care crisis both locally and globally. Links: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/consuming-crisis/book280021 https://www.francescasobande.com Summary In this collaborative podcast series with Sage Publishing we take a closer look at the books currently being published in the Social Science for Social Justice book series. This book series is an interdisciplinary and international contribution to the long history of Black, Asian and minority ethnic voices producing radical and rigorous scholarship within and beyond the university and academy. https://group.sagepub.com/social-science-for-social-justice

In this episode we hear from Tarek Younis on his own experiences of challenging islamophobia in the discipline of psychology. We explore the ongoing consequences of the connection between racism, islamophobia and mental health for Muslims in contemporary society. Links: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-muslim-state-and-mind/book279425 Summary In this collaborative podcast series with Sage Publishing we take a closer look at the books currently being published in the Social Science for Social Justice book series. This book series is an interdisciplinary and international contribution to the long history of Black, Asian and minority ethnic voices producing radical and rigorous scholarship within and beyond the university and academy. https://group.sagepub.com/social-science-for-social-justice

In this introductory episode, we speak to the editors of Sage’s Social Science for Social Justice book series about the long history of social scientists contributing to community work and organising. Links: https://www.meredithdclark.com https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/arday https://group.sagepub.com/social-science-for-social-justice Summary In this collaborative podcast series with Sage Publishing we take a closer look at the books currently being published in the Social Science for Social Justice book series. This book series is an interdisciplinary and international contribution to the long history of Black, Asian and minority ethnic voices producing radical and rigorous scholarship within and beyond the university and academy. https://group.sagepub.com/social-science-for-social-justice

Surviving Social presents a brand new series in partnership with Sage coming soon.....

The recent increase in ethnic minority representation in right-wing, conservative parties has been of note. In this episode, Neema Begum, Michael Bankole, Dan Godshaw and Rima Saini discuss how this substantive representation for ethnic minorities is challenged by ethnic minority politicians on the political right pushing for anti-immigration policies while denouncing anti-racism. This episode is based on findings from a forthcoming article: Skinfolk, but not kinfolk? Paradoxical representation among ethnic minority conservative political elites in the UK The recent increase in ethnic minority representation in right-wing, conservative parties has been of note. Cross-party diversity especially in high office is increasingly the norm. However, whether this signifies substantive representation for ethnic minorities is challenged by ethnic minority politicians on the political right pushing for anti-immigration policies while denouncing anti-racism. The increasing presence of ethnic minorities is no guarantee of racial justice. Instead, we argue some minority politicians can act as ‘post-racial gatekeepers’ pushing the line that race no longer shapes the lives of ethnic minorities today, thereby minimising the existence of racism. They do this by aligning themselves with a ‘model minority’ archetype, but attributing their success to conservative values of hard work and entrepreneurship which they present as having been made possible in a post-racial world where they have transcended racial categories. Rather than representing ethnic minorities substantively, this allows them to advocate for politics that are harmful to most ethnic minorities. Focusing on the UK and immigration policy, we explain the government’s Illegal Migration Bill, as an example of ethnic minority politicians as ‘post-racial gatekeepers’. The Illegal Migration Bill has been criticised as amounting to a refugee ban and contravening the UK’s human rights obligations. These immigration policies are being formulated by ethnic minority politicians in power who are children or grandchildren of immigrants. Assumptions that ethnic minorities in positions of power will advocate more strongly for ethnic minorities due to shared experiences is subverted by ethnic minority politicians as post-racial gatekeepers. Paradoxically working against rather than for marginalised ethnic minority groups, ethnic minority conservative political elites sustain, rather than disrupt, white supremacist systems of domination. Authors: Dr Neema Begum, Assistant Professor in British Politics, University of Nottingham Dr Rima Saini, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Middlesex University London Dr Michael Bankole, Lecturer in Politics, Royal Holloway University of London Dr Dan Godshaw, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Bristol Dr Shardia Briscoe-Palmer, Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of Nottingham

The episode begins with Joe Appiah describing the events that led to him becoming a victim of a miscarriage of justice through the Joint Enterprise Doctrine. Kim Johnson MP and Gloria Morrison (Jengba campaigner) later provided us with some updates on the campaign to end guilty by association. https://jengba.co.uk

Royal Mail remains a key institutions within the UK delivery services. In this episode Andy explains exactly what is at stake for the organisation and its workers as they continue to navigate the pressures of privatisation. Summary In this Red Pepper and Surviving Society collaboration we platform workers and academics to explore the history of trade unions and industrial action in Britain. Executively produced by Liam Kennedy. Many of us within society feel disconnected from the politics of the workplace. Whilst action is at its highest level in decades, there remains very little substantive analysis of the backgrounds and longer histories that has led to specific strikes. The series places industrial action into wider debates about public ownership, capitalism and the economy.

Mel and Sherelle explain their personal histories of working on the railways and the history of Black and anti-racist organising amongst workers. https://www.redpepper.org.uk Summary In this Red Pepper and Surviving Society collaboration we platform workers and academics to explore the history of trade unions and industrial action in Britain. Executively produced by Liam Kennedy. Many of us within society feel disconnected from the politics of the workplace. Whilst action is at its highest level in decades, there remains very little substantive analysis of the backgrounds and longer histories that has led to specific strikes. The series places industrial action into wider debates about public ownership, capitalism and the economy.

In this episode Vik explains to us some of the current pressures and working conditions faced by school teachers and why striking remains essential to the future of our education system. https://www.redpepper.org.uk Summary In this Red Pepper and Surviving Society collaboration we platform workers and academics to explore the history of trade unions and industrial action in Britain. Executively produced by Liam Kennedy. Many of us within society feel disconnected from the politics of the workplace. Whilst action is at its highest level in decades, there remains very little substantive analysis of the backgrounds and longer histories that has led to specific strikes. The series places industrial action into wider debates about public ownership, capitalism and the economy.

Liam is joined by special guest host Ez Chigbo to learn more about the current working conditions faced by doctors and nurses and why striking is essential for the future of the NHS. https://www.redpepper.org.uk Summary In this Red Pepper and Surviving Society collaboration we platform workers and academics to explore the history of trade unions and industrial action in Britain. Executively produced by Liam Kennedy. Many of us within society feel disconnected from the politics of the workplace. Whilst action is at its highest level in decades, there remains very little substantive analysis of the backgrounds and longer histories that has led to specific strikes. The series places industrial action into wider debates about public ownership, capitalism and the economy.