Surviving Society Productions

Chantelle and Tissot talk about their visit to the #WarInnaBabylon exhibition, the realities of Brexit (including the shortage of patron shots, nandos & milkshakes) and the myth of global Britain. Useful links: https://www.ica.art/exhibitions/war-inna-babylon

This conversation focuses on how we can better connect theory and practice when we talk about love. Ez, Lisa and Yusef discuss the possibilities and limitations of academic work on love, Useful links: https://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/stephen-lawrence-research-centre/index.aspx In these episodes we explore the role of love in social justice spaces. Each guest focuses on how they bring love into their work. With discussion on the possibilities and challenges of centring love in practice; expect nuanced, thoughtful and critical discussions about how we collectively imagine futures of social justice work.

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 damage of modern living and build the conditions for health and healing justice that dignify and support all of us to be well. Links https://healingjusticeldn.org/

Episode one is a conversation on the transformation of the IRR and what the work has entailed since. With Jenny Bourne, Colin Prescod and John Narayan. Welcome to New Circuits of Anti-Racism, brought to you by Surviving Society and the Institute of Race Relations (IRR). These podcasts are from the IRR’s 50 year anniversary conference. The panels you’ll be hearing from are focused on racism, imperialism, and new lines of resistance. Links: https://irr.org.uk

In this episode we hear from Meghan Tinsley, Gary Younge and Chloe Peacock about their research on the activism which surrounds statues of empire and slavery. The research team - which also included Ruth Ramsden-Karelse and Sadia Habib – looked at political discourse and policy literature and conducted interviews with activists to compare the contestation of statues across fifteen sites in the UK, the US, South Africa, Martinique, and Belgium. Welcome to this collaborative two-part series with the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity at the University of Manchester. In these episodes we explore the research conducted at the centre focused on ethnic, racial and religious inequalities in the UK. This collaborative series takes a close look at the research produced at the centre from issues ranging from statues, racism, the cultural industries and COVID-19. Links: https://www.ethnicity.ac.uk/research/projects/contesting-statues/