S2/E1 'Objectivity', scientific racism & racial justice (Furaha Asani & Mwenza Blell)

The Surviving Society team are extremely excited to present #TheSpotlightSeries. In these episodes Chantelle and Tissot take a step back from the mic and handover to both local and global academics, researchers, and community organizers. The Spotlight series continues with the themes from the original Surviving Society podcast focused on race, class, anti- racism and social movements. Guest hosts: Mwenza Blell: Mwenza is a biosocial anthropologist. She is currently a Rutherford Fellow affiliated to Health Data Research UK, a Newcastle University Academic Track Fellow, and a Grant Researcher at Tampere University. Her research draws from ethnography to examine intransigent and often invisible structures of injustice. She is interested in how subjective experience, socio-political structures and technologies, cultural meaning-making, and human biology interrelate to produce states of well-being and ill-being, with a view to understanding mechanisms underpinning both suffering and flourishing. Furaha Asani: Furaha is a mental health advocate, teacher, writer, precarious migrant, and a researcher with a PhD in Infection and Immunity. Her research passions lie in bioethics, liberatory STEM pedagogy, and anything that amplifies the message that no human being is ‘illegal’. Her writing focuses on social justice and equity in healthcare, higher education, and science in pop culture. Furaha loves red lipstick, going to afternoon movies by herself, going for walks, and collecting pineapple ornaments.