Season One: Resistance & Restoration in Black Liverpool

From community activism and organising via the Merseyside Caribbean Centre to the Toxeth riots, this series covers the ongoing collective respones to the legacies of slavery and colonialism in Liverpool. Each episode contains a local history lesson on Liverpool covering issues relating to housing, policing, food, art and mental health.

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Season Two: Confronting Colonial Knowledge: Contesting Convention and Unsettling Orthodoxy

Knowledge, as innocuous as the term may seem, is a deeply power-laden and intensely contested topic. Whether discussing taken-for-granted notions of science, health, or environment, numerous critical voices argue that colonial worldviews, masculinist conventions, bourgeois individualism, and Eurocentrism all continue to determine what gets constructed, legitimated, and even funded as “objective” and “universal” knowledge.

As a political response, this season of Surviving Society will provide listeners with transformative ideas and radical provocations from scholars and activists who are confronting the colonial order of knowledge, unsettling limited definitions of health, and taking orthodox approaches to science and the environment to task.