Producer Eva Djukic explains that it’s difficult to imagine a world in which AIDS isn’t normalised. This podcast tells the untold struggle that non-hegemonic classes went through to thrust AIDS onto the political agenda. Not everyone can remain anaesthetised to public order – for the suspect population it becomes a matter of life and death. This podcast explores the social and political pedagogies that defined and confined early AIDS activism and looks at the changing momentum in 1987 that led to the formation of ACT UP. It uses Resource Mobilisation and Collective Identity Theory to establish how the movement arose and how its tactics and ideologies were shaped.

The podcast challenges the dominant discourse which confines the movement’s legacies as catalysts for gay and lesbian rights. It seeks to establish that ACT UP’s greatest achievement was the deconstruction of the knowledge-power dichotomy which helped change global health policy, gave rise to ‘AIDS exceptionalism’ and led to the largest international commitment of resources to a health crisis in history.

Special Thanks to Dr Illan Wall, Associate Professor at the School of Law, Warwick University: For his consistent extensive support throughout the production of the podcast. And to Professor Patricia Siplon, Professor of Political Science and Director of Public Health, Saint Michael’s College Vermont: For participating as an interviewee and sharing her valuable expertise.

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• Eurostar – Eurostar train arrives (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)

• Traffic – Night traffic – Trafalgar Square, London- 1972 (1R2, reprocessed) (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)

• Vocal & Heart Effects – Heart beating, 18 year old male’s heart (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)

• Crowds, Children & Footsteps – Industrial Dispute, chanting among marchers (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)

• Electrical Radiation – Radio Interference (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)

• Betting Shop – Atmosphere with public address (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)

• German Crowds- German crowd, exterior, mixed angry crowd (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)

• Manual Typewriter (Close Perspective) – Manual Typewriter: Close Perspective, fast typing (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)

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• Gongs & Cymbals – Gong rolls (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)

• Motor horns – American Police Siren being sounded (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)

• Skids – Car approach & skid (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)

• Motor Horns (electric) – Multitone Motor Horn, impatient blasts sounded (Electrical motor horn) (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)

• Pulleys, Winches & Chains – Chains rattling (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)

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Music

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• O Fortuna – MIT Concert Choir

• Patience – Sergey Cheremisinov

• Songs for a Sad Guitar – Rest you Sleeping giant

• Acoustic Mediation – Jason Shaw

• To live – Sergey Cheremisinov

• Breakthrough – Pictures of the Floating world

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• The last Guardian – Dream Machine

• There is no way back – Ilya Marfin

• Circadian – Anatu

• The world light – Les Temps Modernes

• Radiant – Dream Machine

• Perfect Time – Svyat Ilin

Sacha Houghton: One murder victim. Two detectives. Three suspects.... Except, this time, there’s no murder victim. In this unconventional and dry-humoured podcast, you will determine the cause of riots the only way you know how - via a murder mystery.

In order to solve the puzzle, the impact of the police, crowd psychology, and grievance shall all be considered, leading to a startling conclusion as to who the true culprit is.

Sacha Houghton

Catherine Nkuo: Racism continues to play a significant role in the arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment of black citizens. This podcast explores the question of whether there is systematic racism in US law enforcement, and how this facilitates mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex in America. It analyses the emergence of the US carceral state and how policing has become an ongoing concern for black people during anti-police movements in the 1960s to the Black Live Matter movements today.

Acknowledgements:

Special thanks to Interviewees: Dr Lydia Plath Associate Professor of US History at the University of Warwick

Dr Eduardo Mendieta Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University

Dr Max Felker Kantor Assistant Professor of History at Ball State University

Producer: Catherine Nkuo

Celine Dib: This podcast will centre around the protests that began in October 2019 in Beirut, Lebanon. The aim of the protests, or ‘Al-Thawra’ in arabic, is the decentralisation and uprooting of Lebanon’s corrupt government. Women have been an essential part of the revolution. Mothers, daughters and even grandmothers have been seen on the frontlines. As the protests grew in size, photographs spread on social media of young women and girls forming barriers between the army and their people. The podcast will focus on the protective nature of women, their ability to organise and lead protests and how a woman's revolution emanated within the Lebanese one.

I would like to specially thank Mona Fawaz, a professor of urban studies and planning at the American University of Beirut. Her knowledge as both an academic and Lebanese woman was a great help with putting in perspective the true role and effect of women during the protests.

Celine Dib

Zahra Abdul-Malik: Apartheid remains. Even decades after its formal end, it is still interwoven in South African politics. This podcast explores the spatial politics of South Africa's transition from apartheid. It explores the history of land dispossession to establish the strong relationship between geographic space and inequality. It analyses how promises from the post-apartheid government and constitutional provisions contributed to enabling the continuance of the socio-spatial legacy of Apartheid.

Special thanks to

Dr. Zachary Levenson, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg.

Dr. Illan rua Wall, Reader, University of Warwick School of Law

Zahra Abdul-Malik

Andrada Tudose: After nine days of violent protests and over one thousand deaths, the Romanian Revolution finally ended with the execution of the dictator, on 25th December 1989. Many years after the fall of the regime, evidence has come to the surface that manipulation techniques have been used on the population in order to achieve chaos during the revolution. So, were the events as simple as presented? Or were the people made to fight in a revolution that was used by politicians to achieve political power? Until this day there is much uncertainty surrounding the days of December 1989. This podcast will explore the events of the 1989 Romanian Revolution and the role of its live broadcasting.

Special thanks to Viorel Domenico for agreeing to participate in this podcast and to Eduard Voinea for voicing the English translation of the interview.

Producer: Andrada Tudose

Alaa Fawaz: The remnants of the Lebanese Civil War and its wounds remain visible in Lebanon today. In August 2020, the devastating Beirut port explosion caused the death of over 200 hundred people in the capital city and shook the nation to its core. Yet, the process of mourning has been interrupted by the spread of the pandemic, unprecedented economic crisis and social injustice. Alaa Hatim Fawaz explores the changing nature of the protests prior and following the explosion, reflecting the ever-increasing public discontent. We will examine the roles of various political actors, not limited to the Lebanese government, who are involved in the very structures which enabled the explosion to occur. To the Lebanese people, all of them, means all of them.

Emma Baker produces a podcast on legal abortion in Argentina and the social movements which lead to this change. From colonial influences on gender norms and the strong Catholic Church that came with the Spanish colonisers, to women’s rights developments post-WW2 suddenly brought to a halt by the military dictatorship, this podcast episode explores the long way that Argentinian women had to come to achieve the legalisation of abortion in 2020. Abortion openly counters the traditional family values that have played such a deep-rooted role in Argentinian society for centuries. The Madres de la Plaza de Mayo during the dictatorship years were the first group of women to ask for justice and stand up for their rights, and the everydayness of activism and protesting that grew since then is something that the Ni Una Menos developed even further since 2015. They united Argentinian women and fought towards the final success in 2020.

Many thanks to the experts I had the honor of interviewing:

- Dr. Silvana Tapia Tapia, assistant professor of socio-legal studies at the University of Azuay in Ecuador.

- Dr. Cora Fernandez Anderson, assistant professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts and author of ‘Fighting for Abortion rights in Latin America – Social Movements, State Allies and Institutions.’

And to Illan Wall for the continued support, advice, and lecture material provided throughout the module.

Producer: Esther Ofulue. The negative consequences that flow from the abundance of crude oil in this region has been popularly termed as “The Niger Delta Conflict”. However, what this podcast aims to show is that whilst oil is a key component of this conflict, it over simplifies what is in effect a multi-layered conflict. There is not just a singular conflict in the Delta, there are conflicts. From the environmental devastation, to the destruction of livelihoods, the rise of armed insurgency and corrupt governance.

My thanks to Dr Elias Courson for offering his time to be part of this podcast.

Producer: Linzi Bandtock: Not your average war story. An expose of the racial, class and gendered inequity that was shrouded within the Vietnam wars anti-war movement. Through the exploration of civil disobedience and the student movement, I uncover the history of the social struggles of those not fighting in the war; but fighting to get out of fighting.