Recovering Community Podcast
1) Understanding Racism, Transforming University Cultures - Les Back and Professor Patricia Hill Collins in Conversation
Welcome back to Recovering Community. In a special bonus episode, Les Back meet world-renowned sociologist Professor Patricia Hill Collins, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in Sociology, Un...Show More
2) Roots and Futures in Sheffield: Growing Heritage Around Communities
For this special bonus edition of Recovering Community, Les Back travels south of the border, to Sheffield to look at how rethinking the relationship between heritage and local communities can make th...Show More
3) We See You: Exploring the links between violence, homelessness and the drug economy in Scotland
Les Back meets with Dr Susan Batchelor, Dr Cailin Gormley and Jim Thomson to learn more about a new piece of research exploring repeat violence in Scotland. To be homeless is more than not having a ro...Show More
4) The Museum of Discomfort: How Glasgow’s Hunterian is Decolonising through its Collection
Les Back visits the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow to talk about history, and how it impacts our lives and relationships in the 21st century. He meets with Hunterian Curator of Discomfo...Show More
5) The Soup'erheroes: Fostering Food Solidarity in Castlemilk
Les Back swaps his desk for the kitchen table as he travels to Castlemilk in the south of Glasgow to meet a group of remarkable women working together to feed their community. Is there a more powerful...Show More
6) Is Wasteland Ever Wasted? Looking beyond the developer’s view; how brownfield sites add value to the cityscape
In this episode of Recovering Community, Les Back climbs through a hole in a fence to get right to the foundations of urban life. He meets with Dr Ross Beveridge, and artists Mary Redmond and Jim Colq...Show More
7) The Wellbeing Economy: rethinking traditional economic structures to benefit people and planet
What does it take to reconfigure our traditional capitalist economic structures so that people, communities and the environment come before profit? That’s the question at the heart of the wellbeing ec...Show More
8) Coming Back: How Vox Liminis uses creative responses to the criminal justice system to build community
How do you build community after the criminal justice system has removed you from society to serve a prison sentence? Today’s episode of Recovering Community explores the work of Vox Liminis, a uniq...Show More
9) Colombia River Stories: The symbiotic relationship between the Río Atrato and the community who call it home
The 400 mile long Río Atrato is in the Chocó department of northwest Colombia. Chocó is one of the most ethnically diverse regions in the country. It’s also one of the poorest, and the river provides ...Show More
10) Communities, Identity and Borders: What does the Kenmure Street Protest tell us about belonging to Glasgow?
The way we control our borders and treat those who want or need to cross them says so much about our national identity. And for the last 25 years, the U.K. Government has - with significant public sup...Show More