April-Louise returned to the show to discuss her PhD thesis on the educational trajectories of Black women in the English education system. Later we focus on A-L’s time working for the Welsh government and the legacies of Penrhyn Castle, slavery and the Pennant family. Links: https://podcasts.apple.com/sb/podcast/the-legacy-of-penrhyn-castle-pt-1/id1501716010?i=1000530825810 https://crishet.mandela.ac.za/Staff-Associates/April-Louise-Pennant https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00131857.2020.1769602

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E137 April-Louise Pennant: Black women in education, Wales & reparations

Danny joined us for his annual visit to the show to outline current trends in local and global inequalities with discussions on Brexit, the war on terror, the tories and COVID-19.

E028 The Reflection with Danny Dorling: Beyond peak inequality

Hannah joined us to discuss her conceptualisation of ‘Violent Ignorance’ in her latest book which ‘sets out to examine how the past persists in the present, how trauma is silenced or reappears, and how we might reimagine identity and connection in ways that counter - rather than ignore - historic violence’. Links- https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/violent-ignorance-9781786998613/

E136 Hannah Jones: Violent Ignorance; Confronting Racism & Migration Control

Kieron joined us to outline and explain the history and contemporary activism of the BDS movement. We also explore how supporting Palestinian liberation presents multiple opportunities for international solidarity building. Links: https://palestineaction.org/

E135 Kieron Turner: BDS, racial capitalism & Black Marxism

Rima returns to the show to discuss her research on South Asian middle classes in the context of the current British government, critical race theory, the sewer report and authoritarian capitalism. Useful links: https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/saini-rima

E027 The Reflection with Rima Saini: Race, politics & the South Asian middle classes

Chantelle and Tissot present some anecdotal reflections of the global and local legacies and implications of the war on terror 20 years on from 9/11.

E026 The Reflection with Chantelle & Tissot: 20 years of the war on terror

Guest hosts: Nadya Ali is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex. Her research interests lie at the intersection of border politics, 'race', citizenship, and Britain as a post-imperial nation. She has published on the Prevent strategy, Islamophobia, British Muslims and austerity. Dr Naaz Rashid is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. She is author of Veiled Threats: Representing the Muslim Woman in Public Policy Discourses (Policy Press 2016) and her research interests lie in examining the intersections between race, gender and religion. Dr Waqas Tufail is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University, UK. His research interests primarily concern the policing, racialization and criminalization of marginalized and minority communities and the lived experiences of Muslim minorities. Waqas is a Board Member of the International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee on Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity, serves on the Editorial Board of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and is co-editor of Media, Crime, Racism (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018). Waqas Tufail

S3/E3 Islamophobia & the war on terror (Nadya Ali, Naaz Rashid & Waqas Tufail)

Award winning comedian Twayna Mayne joined us to discuss the craft of (sociological) comedy writing and her lived experience and reflections of transracial adoption. Useful links: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07r9qy3 https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/ask-me-anything-podcast-production/

E134 Twayna Mayne: Sociological comedy & transracial adoption

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

E025 The Reflection with Chantelle & Tissot: Politricks & Patron XO Café

Selma James, Sara Callaway, Shanice Octavia McBean & Aviah Day met the Crossroads Women’s Centre in London to discuss Selma's latest book, Our Time is Now: Sex, Race, Class and Caring for People and Planet https://crossroadsbooksonline.net Guest Hosts: Selma James is an antisexist, antiracist, anti-capitalist campaigner. In 1972 she put forward Wages for Housework (WFH) as a demand and a political perspective that redefined the working class to include all who work without wages, starting with women, the primary carers everywhere. The International WFH Campaign she founded co-ordinates the Global Women's Strike. She co-authored the classic The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community. With her husband and colleague CLR James, she worked in the movement for independence and federation of the English-speaking Caribbean. Her much-anticipated Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet (2021), together with her first anthology, Sex, Race, and Class (2012), focus on what can be learnt from decades of building an international network. Selma James was recently honoured with the Sheila McKechnie Long-term Achievement Award. She is based at the Crossroads Women’s Centre in London. Sara Callaway, Women of Colour Global Women Strike, is an immigrant, active in women’s, anti-racist, environmental justice, anti-war and anti-deportation movements for 40 years. Women of Colour GWS (WoC) organises to end sexism, racism, poverty, and every discrimination, police violence and militarism. We are part of the global Black Lives Matter movement, focusing especially on Haiti and Palestine. We demand a care income for everyone, of all genders, who do caring work, including justice work, for people and the natural world; the funds to come from military budgets and corporations. WoC is part of Global Women Against Deportations (GWAD), a coalition of groups organising for immigrant rights. Aviah Sarah Day is at Birkbeck, University of London teaching and researching as her job, and is community organiser the rest of the time. She is involved in the East End branch of Sisters Uncut, a national direct-action collective fighting cuts to domestic violence services as well as state violence. She is also involved in London Renters Union and the Kill the Bill Coalition, a national movement resisting the Police, Crime and Sentencing Bill. Shanice Octavia McBean is a Black feminist activist and writer currently working in the Kill the Bill Coalition. She describes herself as an Afro-Marxist and is currently working on a book on criminalisation, abolition and Empire. Children in care statistic: the majority of children taken are white, though disproportionately children of colour. But we have figures to show that in some US areas, including in California, the children are largely Black or Native American, a racist tragedy which we must highlight. Also the children in Sherley Oaks in Lambeth, were over 50% Black.

S3/E2 Our Time Is Now (Selma James, Sara Callaway, Shanice Octavia McBean & Aviah Day)

Gurminder and John joined us to discuss arguments and themes from their latest book, Colonialism and Modern Social Theory. Links: https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Colonialism+and+Modern+Social+Theory-p-9781509541294

E133 Gurminder Bhambra & John Holmwood: Colonialism & Modern Social Theory

This is the first of two reflective episodes about arguments and themes in Aaron Winter and Aurelien Mondon’s book - Reactionary Democracy: How racism and the populist far-right became mainstream. Useful links: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3173-reactionary-democracy

E024 The Reflection with Aaron Winter: Liberal & illiberal racisms

Alison reflects on the reception of her 2020 book, Me not you: the trouble with mainstream feminism. We discuss disposability, the connection between t**er*fs and racism (& the far right) and we present some hopeful possibilities for our political culture. Useful links: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526155801/

E024 The Reflection with Alison Phipps: Me,(still) Not You

Joy joined us to discuss the impact of her 2020 book - Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City. We have a wide-ranging conversation about race and class in pandemic times focussing on the intensified neglect and theft of the state, the widening of racialised and classed inequalities during the lockdowns and we interweave some reflections on intergenerational trauma. Useful links: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/terraformed-young-black-lives-in-the-inner-city/

E023 The Reflection with Joy White: Terraformed in pandemic times

We return to themes and lessons from Alana’s 2020 book - ‘Why Race Still Matters’ - to discuss how nations and the far right are attacking the Black Lives Matter movement. We also address how race and power are influencing the Covid-19 conjuncture. Useful links: https://www.alanalentin.net/category/whyracestillmatters/

E022 The Reflection with Alana Lentin: Race, BLM & Covid-19

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