Orders in Decay

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.

Producer: Hubbab Nasir: Criminals, lazy looters and the mindless underclass; this was the narrative pushed by numerous politicians and academics after the 2011 UK riots. For many, the riots simply boiled down to greed. However, the problem with this perspective is that the spacial dynamics, reactions, and aftermath of the riots reveal a struggle for control between the people and state. The riots were about more than looting and violence, essentially they became a dispute over the streets - territory which belongs to no man.

Ben Potgieter: The Sea Shepherds are a grey area phenomenon. Operating on the high seas their direct action challenges states on the international stage, an arena traditionally off-limits for non-state actors. This podcast looks at the Sea Shepherds through the lens of their iconic anti-whaling campaigns against Japanese whalers, hoping to make sense of their unique form of international disorder.

Ria Dogra: On the 14th August, 1969, British soldiers took to the streets of Northern Ireland to de-escalate ongoing tensions between Catholics and Protestants. With their arrival came a new glimmer of hope. However, this sentiment did not last long. This podcast explores how the British state wrestled carelessly and negligently with the predicament of how to combat a violent and resilient campaign of domestic insurgency. In doing so, it seeks to demonstrate the vast extent to which the British State intensified, rather than de-escalated, violence and division.

A very special thanks to Professor Niall Ó Dochartaigh from the National University of Ireland Galway for his contributions to this podcast.

Producer: Kush Popat. In 1965, Indonesia underwent a seismic period of societal upheaval following a genocide which culled the population by more than 500,000. Freemen roamed freely as gangsters, enlisted by the government to commit incomprehensibly horrific crimes, to murder without repercussion on an industrial scale. Without a doubt, such banal crimes cast a bleak comment on the whole of society. How can openly acknowledged crimes go unpunished, and a regime of impunity prevail, placing the actors in positions of privilege, benefit and veneration? How can punishment for such grave crimes, and by extension feelings of guilt, culpability and responsibility, be evaded? These are the harsh questions this podcast explores, particularly through the lens of Joshua Oppenheimer’s ‘The Act of Killing’ and with an analysis into the human psyche. Having explored such morbidity, what does this hold for the future? What sort of message is portrayed about the world as a whole?

Producer: Drakhshandae Badar. The lawyer’s movement of 2007 in Pakistan managed to revive a judiciary whose independence had been quashed by the military dictator General Pervez Musharraf and it fought to restore democracy in a country plagued by martial law for nearly a decade. But soon after it achieved its two main goals, the movement turned on its head becoming the source of unprecedented levels of unchecked power for the judiciary who now used this power to threaten a newly restored democratic government. So how did this great reversal come to be? This podcast traces the chronology of events that led to the movement itself and the events that led to its unravelling.

SPECIAL THANKS TO

Dr Illan Wall Reader, School of Law, University of Warwick for his support throughout the production process. Dr Hassan Javid Associate Professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences, and Dr Qalandar Memon Assistant Professor, Forman Christian College Lahore for participating as an interviewee and reflecting on his experiences and invaluable information regarding movement of 2007.

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Producer: Victoria Fayemi. This podcast explores the work of Black Panther Women in the 1970s and 80s. To showcase how they organised to liberate the Black community from social, economic and political state oppression. Whilst placing women gendered related issues on the Black Power agenda. The episode analyses the distorted public image of these revolutionary women. Revealing how they managed to produce new models of black womanhood during the Black Power era, using art and methods of resistance.

Special thanks to:

Dr. Mary Phillips: Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Lehman College, City University of New York. With interests in Black Power Studies, Black Feminism. For her contribution, breadth of knowledge and enthusiasm.

Dr. Ashley D. Farmer, Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Historian of black women's history. For her participation, invaluable experience and beautiful modern insight.

Dr Illan Wall, Associate Professor at the School of Law, Warwick University: For his extensive support, resources and attention throughout the construction of this podcast.

Producer: Adaugo Uko. This podcast explores the hyper-normalisation of inequality and injustice through the racial infrastructure established in the US after the abolishment of Slavery. We see the death of Emmett Till, and the extraordinary actions of his mother (Mamie) as a shattering of this hyper-normalisation. With Professor George Lewis and Professor Lydia Plath, we explore how Mamie Till used the physicality of Emmett's mutilated body to breach the hyper-normalisation of the racial infrastructure.

Producer: Chloe Smallwood. On November 24th 2016, a Peace Deal was signed between the FARC and the Colombian State. The agreement sought to disarm combatants and reintegrate ex-guerilla soldiers back into society. But up to 40% of these soldiers were women. The podcast explores the gendered nature of reintegration, examining how traditional gender norms broken or re-inscribed in conflict and transitional justice processes.