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Orders in Decay
by General
This is a podcast about disorder: about protest, riot and revolt; about law, the state and the international realm, It is about the people who revolt and disobey, about the ideas that bring people to the streets or explain why they are there, and about the way that the state responds to them.
Episodes
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#52: Criminalising the Catcall in Abolitionist Times
Catcalling is a form of gender-based social control that results in many people, especially women, feeling unsafe in their environment. Despite affecting many across the entire world with sometimes lifelong consequences, most countries do not have laws against certain forms of street harassment....
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#51: The Politics of Hunger
The 1981 hunger strikes in Northern Ireland were more than a political protest. They were lived, contested, and remembered in deeply personal ways. The hunger strikes reshaped politics, identity, and memory in Northern Ireland and beyond. With Professors Niall O Dochartaigh and Marie Breen-Smyth,...
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#50: Scenes of Disappearance
The podcast explores the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico, and the Ayotzinapa Protests which have unfolded over the last decade.
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#49: Racialised Traffic Stops and the Killing of Philando Castile
#49: Racialised Traffic Stops and the Killing of Philando Castile by General
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#48: The Unliving: Spycops
Produced by Ollie Sanderson-Nichols: Following the incendiary revelations in 2011 that members of the Metropolitan Police Service, posing as activists, had been tasked with implanting themselves within protest groups and social movements between the years of 1968 and 2010, producer Ollie...
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#47: Vigilantism, Villainy and the Dark Knight
Producer Precious Odunaiya explains that in popular culture, vigilantes are imagined as heroes who fight for a form of justice that the legal system fails to achieve. Drawing on Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, this podcast investigates the thin line between vigilantism and villainy, as a...
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#46 The Power of Bereavement
Producer Lucy Knollys explores the movement of the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. During the Argentinian ‘Dirty War’ 1976-83, around 30,000 people were disappeared by the state. Mothers took to the streets to demand justice for their missing children and grandchildren. With Professor Fernando J...
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#45 Gilet Jaunes
Producer Zuzu Walker explores the significance of costume in political protest. With help from Prof Andy Lavender, the podcast specifically examines the gilet jaunes (yellow Vests) used across the French protests from 2018-2021. Using the work of Ernesto Laclau and Jacques Ranciére, this podcast...
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#44 The Dying Art Of Protesting
#44 The Dying Art Of Protesting by General
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#43 Kettling
Producer Ashvin Kapilan explores the use of police power in the UK, focussing on the controversial technique of 'kettling'. Featuring the work of Prof Mark Neocleous, the podcast exposes how the concept of security is often used to increase and entrench police power power at worrying levels....
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#42 The Crime of Silence
Producer: Maya Viswa. This podcast will explore the 26 year Sri Lankan Civil War and its’ repercussions in modern day Sri Lanka. It will focus on the concept of disappearance as a symbol of a never ending conflict. It connects together a lack of closure, lack of truth and a mask of the true...
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#41 The Horrors of Tulsa
Produced by Zosha Elleston, the podcast will explore and analyse the 1921 Tulsa riots and massacre. Shooting, theft and unlawful detention were just some of the atrocities that arose from the conflict between the prosperous black neighbourhood and the white neighbourhood within Tulsa. We will...
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#40 ACT UP, Fight Back
Producer Eva Djukic explains that it’s difficult to imagine a world in which AIDS isn’t normalised. This podcast tells the untold struggle that non-hegemonic classes went through to thrust AIDS onto the political agenda. Not everyone can remain anaesthetised to public order – for the suspect...
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#39 Riots - Who Dunnit?
Sacha Houghton: One murder victim. Two detectives. Three suspects.... Except, this time, there’s no murder victim. In this unconventional and dry-humoured podcast, you will determine the cause of riots the only way you know how - via a murder mystery. In order to solve the puzzle, the impact of…
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#38 American Chains and Prison Cells
Catherine Nkuo: Racism continues to play a significant role in the arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment of black citizens. This podcast explores the question of whether there is systematic racism in US law enforcement, and how this facilitates mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex...
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#37 Al-Thawra; The Lebanese Revolution is a Woman
Celine Dib: This podcast will centre around the protests that began in October 2019 in Beirut, Lebanon. The aim of the protests, or ‘Al-Thawra’ in arabic, is the decentralisation and uprooting of Lebanon’s corrupt government. Women have been an essential part of the revolution. Mothers, daughters...
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#36 Remnants Of Apartheid
Zahra Abdul-Malik: Apartheid remains. Even decades after its formal end, it is still interwoven in South African politics. This podcast explores the spatial politics of South Africa's transition from apartheid. It explores the history of land dispossession to establish the strong relationship...
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#35 Behind the Curtains a Revolution - Romania
Andrada Tudose: After nine days of violent protests and over one thousand deaths, the Romanian Revolution finally ended with the execution of the dictator, on 25th December 1989. Many years after the fall of the regime, evidence has come to the surface that manipulation techniques have been used…
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#34 Mourning Interrupted: Lebanon's Deep Wounds
Alaa Fawaz: The remnants of the Lebanese Civil War and its wounds remain visible in Lebanon today. In August 2020, the devastating Beirut port explosion caused the death of over 200 hundred people in the capital city and shook the nation to its core. Yet, the process of mourning has been...
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#33 Argentina: The Birth of Legal Abortion
Emma Baker produces a podcast on legal abortion in Argentina and the social movements which lead to this change. From colonial influences on gender norms and the strong Catholic Church that came with the Spanish colonisers, to women’s rights developments post-WW2 suddenly brought to a halt by the...
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#32 Conflicts of the Niger Delta
Producer: Esther Ofulue. The negative consequences that flow from the abundance of crude oil in this region has been popularly termed as “The Niger Delta Conflict”. However, what this podcast aims to show is that whilst oil is a key component of this conflict, it over simplifies what is in effect…
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#31 No Dam About Nam
Producer: Linzi Bandtock: Not your average war story. An expose of the racial, class and gendered inequity that was shrouded within the Vietnam wars anti-war movement. Through the exploration of civil disobedience and the student movement, I uncover the history of the social struggles of those…
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#30 No Man's Land - The London Riots
Producer: Hubbab Nasir: Criminals, lazy looters and the mindless underclass; this was the narrative pushed by numerous politicians and academics after the 2011 UK riots. For many, the riots simply boiled down to greed. However, the problem with this perspective is that the spacial dynamics,...
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#29 Chaos on the High Seas: The Sea Shepherd
Ben Potgieter: The Sea Shepherds are a grey area phenomenon. Operating on the high seas their direct action challenges states on the international stage, an arena traditionally off-limits for non-state actors. This podcast looks at the Sea Shepherds through the lens of their iconic anti-whaling...
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#28 Troubles: Escalation & Militarisation
Ria Dogra: On the 14th August, 1969, British soldiers took to the streets of Northern Ireland to de-escalate ongoing tensions between Catholics and Protestants. With their arrival came a new glimmer of hope. However, this sentiment did not last long. This podcast explores how the British state...
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#27 The Cracks of Impunity
Producer: Kush Popat. In 1965, Indonesia underwent a seismic period of societal upheaval following a genocide which culled the population by more than 500,000. Freemen roamed freely as gangsters, enlisted by the government to commit incomprehensibly horrific crimes, to murder without repercussion...
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#26 The Great Betrayal - The Lawyer's Movement
Producer: Drakhshandae Badar. The lawyer’s movement of 2007 in Pakistan managed to revive a judiciary whose independence had been quashed by the military dictator General Pervez Musharraf and it fought to restore democracy in a country plagued by martial law for nearly a decade. But soon after it...
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#25 A Force: The Black Panther Women
Producer: Victoria Fayemi. This podcast explores the work of Black Panther Women in the 1970s and 80s. To showcase how they organised to liberate the Black community from social, economic and political state oppression. Whilst placing women gendered related issues on the Black Power agenda. The...
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#24: (Un)American: Racial Infrastructures
Producer: Adaugo Uko. This podcast explores the hyper-normalisation of inequality and injustice through the racial infrastructure established in the US after the abolishment of Slavery. We see the death of Emmett Till, and the extraordinary actions of his mother (Mamie) as a shattering of this...
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#23 Colombia- A Gendered Reintegration?
Producer: Chloe Smallwood. On November 24th 2016, a Peace Deal was signed between the FARC and the Colombian State. The agreement sought to disarm combatants and reintegrate ex-guerilla soldiers back into society. But up to 40% of these soldiers were women. The podcast explores the gendered…
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#22: Cuéntalo - The Feminist Anti-Violence Anthem
Producer: Olivia Stanek. On 18th November 2019, in the city of Valparaíso, the women of Chile used their voices and dancing bodies to speak the truth of their fate. The Chilean anti-rape anthem, ‘Un Violador En Tu Camino’/ ‘A Rapist in Your Path’, sought to speak for the women whose voices have...
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#21: Rape and Rebellion
Producer: Payal Shah. In 2012 a horrific gang rape in Delhi lead silenced women all over the country to raise their voices against cultural oppression and gender-based violence. Massive protests spread across the country, demanding justice, protections against sexual violence and igniting a new...
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#20: The Colours of the Black Protest
Producer: Ala Alysik. The Black Protests took to the streets of Poland in October 2016, challenging a new legislative initiative to ‘Stop Abortion’. The podcast explores the movement, unraveling the 'style' of the strike by decoding its symbols. Coat hangers and umbrellas were the material…
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#19: Someone Else's River
Producer: Saskia Kaltenbrunner. The River Cauca in Colombia has become a graveyard. Until recently, the bodies of unnamed victims of the armed conflict were thrown in the river. Now, Colombia is trying to recover from the violence of the last decades. New economic projects are being set up, but…
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#18 Anatomy Of A Coup
Producer: Laman Ahmed. One doesn't have to look very far to understand the complexities that disorders encapsulate; simply point to one moment of unrest and a map opens up that lays bear the reasons and intersecting factors that lead up to its eruption and to its end. 'Anatomy of a Coup' seeks to...
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#17 South African Land Reform & the Myth of White Genocide
Producer: Sika Agopome. In an era of virulent and sensational news, stories surrounding the plight of white South African farmers and how their land is being forcibly taken from them – through the process of land expropriation without compensation – have been emerging. Some argue that these land...
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#16 Welcome to the Miss America Cattle Auction
Producer: Marina Pinedo Ocaña. A giant Miss America puppet, a trash can, a very peculiar sheep and around 400 women were enough to make history on September 7, 1968. On this day, theatre and rebellion converged to bring forth one of the most memorable protests of American feminism. This podcast...
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#15 Lebanon: We Remember so as not to Repeat
Producer: Tehran Saleh Azzam. Lebanon today is a haunted house: it stands, haunted by the ghosts of a civil war it has yet to recover from and a constitution that discriminates against its own people based on their religious sect. In this podcast, we go on a journey from the Holiday Inn in…
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#14 Disconnected: Zimbabwe’s Internet Shutdown
Producer: Anoshamisa Gonye. In January 2019, Zimbabwe's busiest cities were rocked by turbulent demonstrations and clashes between protestors and police. The images and messages of resistance in the streets were projected to the world through the Internet and social media—until the ZANU–PF...
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#13 A Black Day in May: Malaysia 1969
Malaysia’s first national election of 1969 was a momentous one, ending with the greatest record of political violence and death in its history. 60 years later, the events transpiring May 13 still haunt its citizens and the memory of which has been used to justify radical legal, economical and...
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#12 The Soviet Coup
Producer: Dasha Diachenko. The podcast will explore the tragi-comedic elements of the 1991 Soviet Coup that unfolded between the 19th and the 22nd August 1991 – an event that drastically changed the course of world history and ultimately led to the fall of the Soviet Union. Professor Mark Kramer…
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#11 The Brixton Riots
Producer: Jade James. The Brixton Riots of 1981 were a conflict between the Brixton community and the Metropolitan Police Force. This podcast explores how a variety of factors such as institutionalised racism which resulted in the marginalisation of the black community, racial tensions between…
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#10 Exarcheia From Romance To Anarchy
Producer: Tina Kondouli. Athens has a long history of escalating tension between protesting crowds and police forces, but nowhere more so than the district of Exarcheia. From the Polytechnic Uprising of 1973 to the anti-Prespa Agreement protest in January of 2019, the area of Exarcheia has...
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#9 The Water War: David & Goliath
Producer: Joseph Gitata. At the turn of the 21st century, decades of political turmoil, economic instability and neoliberal development policy in Bolivia resulted in a battle that pitted corporate interests against the basic needs of everyday life. In one corner, a corporate behemoth backed by...
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#8. Students of the Eros Era
Producer: Erika Grimshaw. Students have always taken to the streets; from as early as the Middle Ages, students have exercised their political voices. But the student protests of the 20thcentury were beyond movements that were at one time fleeting, and fragmented. This podcast takes the listener...
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#7: Beyond Your Command: Soweto Uprising
Producer: Winnie Orbih On the morning of June 16, 1976, thousands of students from the African township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, gathered at their schools to participate in a student-organized protest demonstration against the imposition of Afrikaans. It was meant to be a peaceful protest...
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#6: Hooligans in Revolt
Producer: Segun Awolowo Football goes further than which team scored the most goals. Football has the power to bring people together like no other sport. But what happens when these people are together not to celebrate but for other reasons? This podcast considers the phenomenon that is football...
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#5: Gender & Colombian Reintegration
Producer: Suvi Jokinen On November 24th 2016 the Colombian Congress ratified a peace treaty with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. This lead to the disarmament of thousands of guerrilla soldiers. However, the reintegration of these former guerrilla combatants in Colombia has failed to...
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#4: Paramilitary Police & Protest
Producer: Riya Bains This podcast investigates the use of para-military policing techniques in protests. It aims to understand the origins of these methods and reasons behind their increasing use. The latter half explores the use of these methods in the USA at protests such as Ferguson. Riya…
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#1: Tiananmen: Constituent Sculpture
Producer: Renée Liew This podcast explores the 1989 Tiananmen Square student protest by focusing on the Goddess of Democracy sculpture created by the protestors. It develops two different timeframes of Tiananmen Square: It begins with the student-made sculpture as part of the battle of space…
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This is a podcast about disorder: about protest, riot and revolt; about law, the state and the international realm, It is about the people who revolt and disobey, about the ideas that bring people to the streets or explain why they are there, and about the way that the state responds to them.
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