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Racial justice is never far from the headlines, but, although the ideals of the legal system such as fairness and equality seem allied to the struggle, campaigners have been all too often let down by the system.
In this episode Jess Miles and Bharat Malkani, author of ‘Racial Justice and the Limits of the Law’, talk through cases like those of the Colston Four and Shamima Begum, to explore this paradox and establish where change is possible.
Bharat Malkani is Reader in Law at Cardiff University. His research connects human rights with criminal justice, with a particular focus on racism, miscarriages of justice and the death penalty. Follow him on Twitter: @bharatmalkani.
Find out more about the book: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/racial-justice-and-the-limits-of-law
Timestamps:
01:11 - How does the Colston Four case illustrate the relationship, and the paradox, between racial justice and the law?
04:31 - How do six concepts from critical race theory explain the ways the law is limiting when it comes to racial justice?
36:43 - What is anti-racist lawyering and is it possible within the system?
42:16 - There are structural limits everywhere, not just in law. How does EDI relate to this and what should we think about?
46:40 - If we are concluding that the law is too limited to achieve racial justice, what is there to learn and where can change be made?
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In this episode, George Miller talks to the author of What are Prisons for?, prison inspector and visiting professor of law at Oxford Hindpal Singh Bhui, about why we lock so many people up.
Prison populations have increased hugely in the past fifty years and vast sums of money are spent to keep over 11.5 million people behind bars, so you might think there is overwhelming evidence that prison ‘works’.
However, hard evidence for this claim is lacking. ‘If we are to understand more about the purpose of prisons,’ Hindpal Singh Bhui argues, ‘we need to look much further and deeper than official statements and dominant narratives.’
Dr Hindpal Singh Bhui OBE is an Inspection Team Leader at HM Inspectorate of Prisons and a Visiting Law Professor at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford.
The full transcript of the podcast is available here: https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2024/04/10/podcast-should-we-be-aiming-to-improve-prisons-or-abolish-them/
Timestamps:
1:50 - What was your earliest impressions of prisons?
4:34 - What is your current role?
5:51 - What are prisons for day in and day out?
11:43 - Who gets sent to prison and why they get sent to prison?
16:15 - Do you think that the abolitionist position helps take the debate forward?
20:12 - How do you begin to have a mature debate about change?
24:36 - Are prisons a sort of epiphenomenon on top of deeper, wider social problems?
27:28 - Were there any things that you discovered where you came upon something surprising or enlightening?
30:10 - What is an example that you think is inspiring or points in a positive direction?
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Jessie Abrahams' new book reveals the extent of class inequality in schools in the UK.
By telling Jessie's story and that of one of the young people in her research, this episode untangles the role aspiration plays for young people in school and the significance of the different choices that are available to different pupils in different schools.
Jessie puts forward ideas for changes that we can make, despite the limitations of what is a fundamentally unequal system.
Jessie Abrahams is Lecturer in Education and Social Justice in the School of Education at the University of Bristol. Follow her on Twitter: @AbrahamsJJ.
The full transcript of the podcast is available here: https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2024/03/20/podcast-class-inequality-and-denied-ambition-in-our-schools/
Resources:
Find out more about the book: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/schooling-inequality
Read Jake's story for free: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/asset/12446/jacks-story-schooling-inequality-abrahams.pdf
Learn more about the Paired Peers project: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/projects/paired-peers
Explore the Russel Group’s Informed Choices: https://www.informedchoices.ac.uk/
Discover the facilitating subjects: https://successatschool.org/advice/subjects/what-are-facilitating-subjects/204
Timestamps:
01:58 – Jessie’s story and how she came to write the book
05:37 – It’s about resources given to schools, not individual teachers
08:24 – Jake’s story
22:04 – Aspiration and the surprising difference between working and middle-class children
30:39 – Blocking and the GSCE/A Level options available at different schools
40:19 – The missed chance to level the playing field during COVID
45:12 – Where can change be made?
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In this episode, Richard Kemp speaks with Anna Durnova, one of the guest editors for the Emotions and Society special issue on 'Emotions and the ‘Truths’ of Contentious Politics: Advances in Research on Emotions, Knowledge, and Contemporary Contentious Politics'.
They discuss the weaponisation of truth, the important difference between being told you are safe and feeling you are safe and the need to bring the harnessing of emotions back to democracy.
Read the special issue: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/emsoc/5/3/emsoc.5.issue-3.xml
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In this episode, Richard Kemp speaks with Nigel Thrift, author of The Pursuit of Possibility: Redesigning Research Universities, about research universities and what makes them different.
They discuss the importance of free speech at universities, the many threats research universities face and what can be done about these threats to ensure a thriving future for these essential institutions.
Find out more about the book: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-pursuit-of-possibility
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In this episode, we talk about postracialism and colourblind narratives with Paul Warmington, Visiting Professor at Coventry University, Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths and author of ‘Permanent Racism’.
Britain’s current postracial perspectives are facile so we need to reconceptualise critical race theory from a British standpoint. This means foregrounding the concept of ‘permanent racism’ and decolonising public debate and antiracism itself.
Find out more about the book: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/permanent-racism
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In this episode, Jess Miles speaks with Nick Gibbs, author of ‘The Muscle Trade’, about the rise in the use of image and performance enhancing drugs, why people take them and how they get them.
They talk about how the reasons for people taking these drugs goes beyond sporting skill and physical prowess, the difference between online and offline supply, avenues for future research and ways of reducing the harm caused.
Find out more about the book: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-muscle-trade
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There has been a growing interest in talking about menopause over the last decade, but the impact is still rarely discussed in management and organisation studies, despite having profound implications in this area.
In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Vanessa Beck and Jo Brewis, co-editors of ‘Menopause Transitions and the Workplace’.
They discuss how the menopause can impact work, what support organisations and individuals can offer and the key areas that researchers need to investigate next.
More information about Menopause Transitions and the Workplace edited by Vanessa Beck and Jo Brewis is available at https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/menopause-transitions-and-the-workplace
Useful resources and organisations mentioned in the episode:
Henpicked Menopause in the Workplace https://menopauseintheworkplace.co.uk
MIPO Menopause Information Pack for Organizations https://www.menopauseatwork.org/
Menopause Friendly Accreditation https://menopausefriendly.co.uk/
TUC Education online resources https://www.tuc.org.uk/menopause-work
Chartered Institute for Personnel development menopause resources https://www.cipd.org/uk/topics/menopause/
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In this episode, Ann-Marie Bathmaker, co-author of The Degree Generation: The Making of Unequal Graduate Lives, talks about the transition to the graduate labour market, examined through the eyes of a cohort of middle-class and working-class young people.
They discuss the changing nature of the graduate labour market, the promise of upward mobility that universities and governments failed to deliver on, how graduate life differs for working-class people when compared with their middle-class counterparts and the changes needed to allow future graduates from all backgrounds to benefit equally from the university experience.
Find out more about the book: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-degree-generation
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In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Alison Young, author of Unchecked Power, about the growth of governmental power and erosion of checks and balances over the last 4 years.
They discuss the difference between constitution and law, how the ‘will of the people’ is being homogenised all over the world and how a lack of knowledge and understanding about the constitution helps the government get away with bad behaviour.
Find out more about the book: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/unchecked-power
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In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Olivier De Schutter, Hugh Frazer, Anne-Catherine Guio and Eric Marlier, authors of The Escape From Poverty, about child poverty and intergenerational poverty and things we can do as individuals to make change.
They talk about the evidence in the book, how poverty impacts developed and developing countries differently and programmes that are making a difference.
Despite the fact that tackling child poverty is good for everyone, as the book shows, it can hard to get people to believe that change is possible and not necessarily complicated. What can we do to get them on board?
The Escape from Poverty: Breaking the Vicious Cycles Perpetuating Disadvantage by Olivier De Schutter, Hugh Frazer, Anne-Catherine Guio and Eric Marlier is available to download free via open access from the Policy Press website: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-escape-from-poverty
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In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Rebecca Megson-Smith speaks to Arve Hansen, Ulrikke Wethal, Sophia Efstathiou and Johannes Volden, editors of the special issue of Consumption and Society called ‘Towards Less Meat-intensive Diets? Exploring Everyday Practices of Meat Consumption, Reduction and Substitution’.
They discuss the pressing need for us to reconsider our relationship with meat, particularly in light of its significant impact on climate change. Whilst our attachment to a meat-centric plate is a relatively modern phenomenon it has quickly taken hold in culture and national identity.
The editors share their insights on the need for policies and procedures to be put in place in order for people to feel plantification is achievable, both financially and in terms of cooking skills. As they discuss, the benefits to personal and global health in making these changes are however sizeable.
Find out more about the special issue: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/consoc/2/2/consoc.2.issue-2.xml
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Meet the hosts of the Transforming Society podcast and discover more about the podcast.
Browse Transforming Society: https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/
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In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Julia Mortimer, Journals Director and Head of Open Access at Bristol University Press.
They discuss recent developments in Open Access, including funder mandates, community-led models and the direction Bristol University Press are heading in. In addition, they offer advice for authors, and potential authors, for navigating this fast-moving publishing landscape.
Find out more about Open Access: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/open-access
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In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Steve Cooke, author of What Are Animal Rights For?, talks with George Miller about how the field of animal rights evolved – and continues to evolve as advances in the scientific understanding of animals’ lives expand the rights claims made on their behalf.
Philosophy, Steve suggests, has a critical role to play in proposing what a good future for animals might look like, equipping us with the conceptual tools to imagine a world in which animals have many more rights than they do today.
Find out more about the book: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/what-are-animal-rights-for
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In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Malcolm Evans, former Chair of the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture and author of Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice.
They discuss the traps we fall into when talking about torture, including the disturbing normalisation of torture in television and film, why the distinction between torture and inhuman treatment is a sensitive area and what could be done to help prevent torture more effectively.
Find out more about the book: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/tackling-torture
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Jess Miles speaks with Gerry Mitchell and Marcos González Hernando, authors of ‘Uncomfortably off: Why the top 10% of earners should care about inequality’.
Wealth no longer guarantees security. Gerry and Marcos explain why it's time for higher earners to reset their attitudes towards the lives of others and reexamine their relationship with the private sector, public services and the state.
They explore who the top 10% of earners are, why we should care about this relatively affluent group when there are so many people less well off, and deconstruct the beliefs they hold that prevent them from seeing the benefits of more equality.
Find out more about the book: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/uncomfortably-off
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In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Richard Kemp speaks with Ed Atkins, author of 'A Just Energy Transition: Getting Decarbonisation Right in a Time of Crisis', about what is needed for an energy transition to be just.
They discuss the need to ensure decarbonisation doesn't come at the expense of already marginalised communities, the role that green jobs will play and the importance of acknowledging that while an energy transition will change our everyday lives, it has the potential to change them for the better.
Find out more about the book: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/a-just-energy-transition
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In this episode, Richard Kemp speaks to people from both sides of the Universal Basic Income (UBI) debate from a recent issue of the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice.
Howard Robert Reed and Matthew Thomas Johnson argue that UBI is affordable and feasible, whereas Donald Hirsch believes the necessary funds for UBI could be used to cut poverty in more targeted ways.
They explore the different UBI schemes that have been tested, discuss what an alternative, reformed welfare system may look like, and outline the changes they all agree are needed to improve the lives of people both below, and above, the minimum income standard.
Read the full debate: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/jpsj/31/1/jpsj.31.issue-1.xml
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In this final short conversation with Jack McDonald, author of 'What is War for?', we turn to the part played by technology in war. There’s long been a technological aspect to war, not just in the development of ever more deadly weapons, but also in the way civilian technology, such as railway networks and the telegraph, have shaped the conduct of war.
Today, in the era of drones and smartphones, war continues to evolve, posing new ethical questions on the battlefield and beyond.
Find out more about the book: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/what-is-war-for
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