S2/E3 Critical whiteness studies, racism & militirisation (Vron Ware & Luke de Noronha) 

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: Vron Ware has worked as a journalist, photographer and academic in the field of cultural geography and sociology. Her books include Beyond the Pale: white women, racism and history (Verso 1992/2015), Out of Whiteness: color, politics & culture (with Les Back, Chicago 2002), Military Migrants: fighting for YOUR country (Palgrave 2012). Currently professor of sociology & gender studies at Kingston University, she is now working on a book about the English countryside. Luke de Noronha's research focuses on the politics of immigration, racism and deportation, and his book Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica is out in June 2020 with Manchester University Press.This ethnographic monograph tells the life stories of four men who grew up in the UK, and were banished to Jamaica following criminal conviction. Luke has written for the Guardian, Verso blogs, VICE, Red Pepper, Open Democracy, The New Humanist, and Ceasefire Magazine. He has also produced a podcast with deported people in Jamaica, Deportation Discs (a play on desert island discs).