S1/E5 Sita Balani & Chantelle Lewis: Crisis & everyday life

In this episode, Sita and Chantelle discuss the conversations from the Structure of Feeling series, exploring the impact of urgent political calamities on our everyday lives. About Structure of Feeling In this Surviving Society miniseries, Sita Balani draws on the ideas of socialist thinker Raymond Williams who coined the term ‘structure of feeling’ to capture our collective emotional experience of social change. Interviewing Kieran Yates, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Alfie Bown and Tabitha Lasley, these conversations reveal how writing can help us to trace the texture of everyday life, the rhythms of relationships forged as the old social contract frays, and the moments of possibility that emerge in this time of political rupture. These writers document the ways in which powerful political forces are felt in the tempo of an individual life, and the kinds of agency we have to shape this changing world.