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Lola interviewed Michael and Alex about arguments in their new book - Fractured: Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics. Links https://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/lgbt-gender-studies/fractured-race-class-gender-and,michael-richmond-alex-charnley-9780745346564

The Surviving Society team are extremely excited to present #TheSpotlightSeries. These episodes are guest hosted by 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: Jesús Gregorio Smith is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and an Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) Andrew W. Mellon Fellow. He received his PhD in Sociology in 2017 from Texas A&M University where he studied the intersections of systemic racism, masculinity, and sexuality and how they influence mental and sexual health. Tiago Machado Costa is a sociologist, queer researcher, and anti-racist scholar. They are currently a doctoral research at the University of Nottingham, where they are completing their thesis on racialized desires and sexual racism among gay men’s sexual spaces in the UK. Tiago’s research interests include the sexual geographies of cities, queer conviviality, sexual racism, and the social dynamics of eroticism. C. Winter Han is a professor of sociology at Middlebury College. He is the author of Geisha of a Different Kind: Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America (New York University Press) and Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire (University of Washington Press). Prior to becoming an academic, he was an award winning journalist and served for three years as the editor and chief of the International Examiner, the oldest continuously publishing pan-Asian Pacific American newspaper in the US.

What on earth can a central bus station have to do with racial capitalism and settler-colonialism? This week’s host, Mor Cohen, tells the story of the Central Bus Station (CBS) in the Tel Aviv neighbourhood Neve Sha’anan. Talking to activist Shula Keshet and academic Sharon Rotbart, Mor learns how the CBS’ fortunes show how Israel concretises its colour lines in the urban environment. These racial divisions pit the wellbeing of Israel’s different precarious communities against one another - in this case, Neve Sha’anan’s largely Mizrahi Jewish residents resisting the station’s polluting effect on their neighbourhood, and Israel’s migrant communities who have eked out precarious ecosystems within the CBS. And, as we’ll learn with Mor, underlying all of this, is the spectre of settler-colonialism. Long before the 1948 nakba (catastrophe), peripheral neighbourhoods such as Neve Sha’anan were planned as front line settlements separating Jews and Palestinians. Still used as a buffer between Jewish cities and Israel’s dwindling Palestinian urban areas, Mor tries to understand the significance of Neve Sha’anan today as an expression of Israel’s settler-colonial violence in the present. Useful links Hotline for Refugees and Migrants (in Israel): https://hotline.org.il/en/about-us/ Further Reading Roṭbard Sharon. “White City, Black City: Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa,” (London: PlutoPress, 2018). Tali Hatuka. “Violent Acts and Urban Space in Contemporary Tel Aviv,” (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010). Yara Sa'di-Ibraheem. “Jaffa’s Times: Temporalities of Dispossession and the Advent of Natives' Reclaimed Time,” Time and Society 29:2 (2020), pp.340-361 Shula Keshet. “Israel's "Backyard": First South Tel Aviv then Holot,” +972 magazine, November 11, 2014 https://www.972mag.com/israels-backyards-first-south-tel-aviv-then-holot/ Additional Notes: *Additional voice Rosie MacLeod

Guantanamo Bay prison leaks. Parts of it are overgrown with weeds. And yet, as of today, 36 detainees still remain imprisoned within its leaking walls. How did the United States of America come to erect this gruesome, derelict, but still operational prison on Cuban soil? In this episode, Shereen Fernandez, tells the story of how the crimes of Guantanamo Bay prison are part of a longer history of American imperialism and racial exclusion. As we will hear, it is also a story of the true crimes of capitalism and privatisation. We’ll learn how big corporations like Kellogg Brown & Root and Mitchell Jessen and Associates have raked in profits off of the detainees' suffering, sustaining GTMO in a state of total disrepair and piloting enhanced interrogation techniques on its prisoners’ bodies. The former detainee Moazzem Begg, and the academic Lisa Hajjar, paint Shereen a vivid portrait of what it is like to be within Guantanamo, making an irrefutable case for why this criminal prison must be shut down. Useful links CAGE: https://www.cage.ngo/ Further Reading Mohamedou Ould Slahi. “The Mauritanian” (originally published as Guantánamo Diary), (London: Little, Brown, 2015). Mansoor Adayfi. “Don't Forget Us Here,” (London: Hachette Books, 2021). Nikòl Payen. “Lavalas: The Flood after the Flood,” Calaloo 25: 3 (2000), pp. 759-771. Joseph Hickman. “Murder at Camp Delta,” (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016). Additional Notes: *Additional Voices: Maia Holtermann-Entwistle, Chantelle Lewis and Tissot Regis

When Israel’s HaEmek railway reopened in 2016, it served only nine stations and stopped 4km shy of the Jordanian border. Far from more spectacular sites of violence, the train’s inauguration fell below most people’s radar. In this week’s episode, Sharri Plonski tells the story of this “train to nowhere” - of its colonial history, how its logistical future would rewrite the map of the Middle East, and how increased Israeli mobility entails increased Palestinian fragmentation and containment. But, as we’ll hear, as ever Palestinians are powerfully resisting efforts to make their lives unliveable. On the trail of this train, Sharri speaks with Palestinian academics and activists Yara Hawari, Omar Jabary-Salamanca, and Hanna Swaid; as well as Laleh Khalili, Manu Karuka, and Katy Fox-Hoddess. Talking to them, she learns that, though logistical infrastructures are vehicles of state or corporate power, they also make possible forms of international solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom. They also tell her that to fully understand Israel’s normalisation project it is essential to look at these less visible, but no less violent, material crimes. Useful links Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network: https://al-shabaka.org/en/ Arab Center for Alternative Planning (AC-AP): https://www.ac-ap.org/en/ BDS Movement: https://bdsmovement.net/ Who Profits: The Israeli Occupation Industry: https://www.whoprofits.org/ Further Reading Rana Barakat, 2021. “Ramadan Does Not Come for Free”: Refusal as New and Ongoing in Palestine. Journal of Palestine Studies, 50(4), p. 90-95. Deborah Cowen. “Following the Infrastructures of Empire: Notes on Cities, Settler Colonialism, and Method,” Urban Geography, 41:4 (2020), pp. 469-486 Yara Hawari. “The Stone House,” (London: Hajar Press, 2021). Manu Karuka. “Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad,” (Berkeley: California University Press, 2019). Laleh Khalili. “Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabiuan Peninsula,” (London: Verso, 2020). Additional Notes: *Additional Voice George “Adders” Ofori-Addo **Research for this episode was supported by an ESRC New Investigator Grant: “From Walls to Corridors: The Global Logistics of Israel’s HaEmek Railway” (ES/S01439X/1). ***The episode author would like to acknowledge the support and contributions of the Arab Center for Alternative Planning (AC-AP), without which this episode, and the larger project of which it is a part, would not have been possible.

On the 10th anniversary of the massacre of 34 striking mine workers at Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, our host for this episode, Daniel Selwyn, investigates the transnational complicity of state and corporate actors, while amplifying voices from the ongoing struggles for justice and reparations. For listeners in London and the UK this episode is particularly close to home, as a massacre at a South African mine unravels into a story about the crimes of global capitalism in which we are all implicated. We’ll learn just how entangled Marikana is with the city of London, the suburbs of Germany, and corporate interests that ensnare the most powerful figure in South African politics. During the episode, Daniel speaks to community activists from Sinethemba Women’s Organisation, Thumeka Magwanqwana and Gabisile Khanyile, as well as a Marikana mine worker Bongisisa Gwiliza. He also speaks with the attorney for hundreds of incarcerated mineworkers, Andries Nkome, and Maren Grimm, who is part of the international solidarity movement with the communities in Marikana. Useful Links: London Mining Network: https://londonminingnetwork.org Marikana Solidarity Collective: https://www.facebook.com/MarikanaSolidarity Plough Back the Fruits: http://basflonmin.com/home/who-we-are/ Further Reading Kerima Modideen and Richard Harkinson. “London’s Mining History, From Colonialism to Apartheid: Why Rhodes Must Fall,” 10 February 2016, https://londonminingnetwork.org/2016/02/londons-mining-history-from-colonialism-to-apartheid-why-rhodes-must-fall/ Hennie van Vuuren. “Apartheid, Guns and Money: A Tale of Profit,” (London: Hurst, 2018). Marinovich, Greg. “Murder at Small Koppie: The Real Story of the Marikana Massacre,” (London: Penguin Random House, 2016). Maren Grimm, Britta Becker and Jakob Krameritsch. “Business as Usual after Marikana: Corporate Power and Human Rights,” (South Africa: Jacana Media, 2018).

In this episode, Surviving Society hosts Chantelle Lewis and Tissot Regis talk with Maia Holtermann Entwistle and Sharri Plonski about what it was like to create and produce the Material Crimes series. They discuss how each episode feeds into an intellectual arc that tries to understand the relationship between colonialism, capitalism, and the material infrastructures that shape everyday life. Straddling the “infrastructural crimes” highlighted by each episode, they discuss how states and corporations profit from infrastructure, but also how infrastructure creates opportunities for powerful people-led movements that challenge infrastructural violence and impunity. You’ll also hear them talk about the joys and difficulties of intellectual collaboration, and how it can help us survive the academy!

In this episode takeover, Cheraine Donalea Scott, Julia Toppin & Rita Gayle discuss the state of the UK democracy, politics, racism and the tory party. The New Nationwide Project is a discussion and exploration of 21st century popular culture https://repeater-radio.com/shows/new-nationwide-project/

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 over the past 21 years. Through expert knowledge and the recalling of key events, we’ll be speaking with academics and activists who are pushing back against the War on Terror’s carceral logics. Executively produced by Dr Shereen Fernandez. Funded by CIVICA.

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 *of* terror for many negatively racialised communities in over the past 21 years. Through expert knowledge and the recalling of key events, we’ll be speaking with academics and activists who are pushing back against the War on Terror’s carceral logics. Executively produced by Dr Shereen Fernandez. Funded by CIVICA. Links: https://www.maslaha.org

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 expert knowledge and the recalling of key events, we’ll be speaking with academics and activists who are pushing back against the War on Terror’s carceral logics. Executively produced by Dr Shereen Fernandez. Funded by CIVICA. Links: https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/34251/chapter/290390155

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 events, we’ll be speaking with academics and activists who are pushing back against the War on Terror’s carceral logics. Executively produced by Dr Shereen Fernandez. Funded by CIVICA. Links: https://peoplesreviewofprevent.org

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 the past 21 years. Through expert knowledge and the recalling of key events, we’ll be speaking with academics and activists who are pushing back against the War on Terror’s carceral logics. Executively produced by Dr Shereen Fernandez. Funded by CIVICA.

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 September

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://www.rosalux.eu/en/article/1588.burning-earth-changing-europe.html https://www.nomoreexclusions.com/ https://jointenterprise.co/ https://theworldtransformed.org/twt-22/programme/from-child-q-to-the-manchester-10-police-violence-against-kids

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 the meaning and lives behind the issue get missed. What do you see as the urgent matters concerning the cost of living crisis and what would you do or advise to alleviate them? This episode was part of a mini-series recorded at The World Transformed: a festival of radical politics, art and music. In 2022 it was held in Liverpool between 24-27 September.

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 Elizabeth II Links https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/ https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/surviving-society/id1291679351

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-society/id1291679351