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/

S1/E2 Contesting statues of empire and slavery

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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





Episode 1: The Crucible of Modernity with Johannah-Rae Reyes

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.

The Crucible Of Modernity

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.



S1/ E6 Can the Museum be a Site of (Anti-Colonial) Resistance?

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 




S1/E5 Medical Colonial Photography in Malawi & Sudan

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 






S1/E2 Contesting statues of empire and slavery

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