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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

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.

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.

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 

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 

Kelechi Anucha discuses the relationship between time and care in contemporary end of life narratives,. This work is part of the Wellcome Trust-funded research project Waiting Times.  Links: https://wcceh.org/meet-the-team/phd-students/kelechi-anucha/ https://waitingtimes.exeter.ac.uk/ 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 

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Rianna Raymond-Williams discusses how it is essential for access to sexual and reproductive health and support to be initiated through anti-racist policies and frameworks. @BHHproject Links  https://www.shinealoud.co.uk/about-us/founders-story  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 

In this introductory episode, we hear from Arya Thampuran and Kelechi Anucha on why the health of Black African and Caribbean populations in Britain remains an urgent topic of enquiry. @BHHproject Links: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/a-s-thampuran/  https://wcceh.org/meet-the-team/phd-students/kelechi-anucha/  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.

Surviving Society presents... the BBH This series focus on the politics of black health in modern society