Recovering Community
What does the word 'community' mean to you? An homogenous group of people united by faith, sexuality or another form of identity? Or perhaps it's about the place you grew up, or the people you work with? Recovering Community is a podcast series from the University of Glasgow's School of Social and Political Sciences about community; what it means; how it's formed and how it is rebuilt. Les Back is joined by academics, campaigners, volunteers and artists to talk about how communities respond to social and economic change, who belongs and who is excluded and what this tells us about some of our most pressing social issues.
Episodes
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, University of Maryland College Park, and the Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emerita of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Professor Collins visited Glasgow on 14 October, 2024, to give the ...
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 them more inclusive, particularly for the most marginalised.
Here, the Roots and Futures project is listening to the perspectives of under-served communities, particularly Sheffield's Black, Asian and minority...
Les Back meets with Dr Susan Batchelor, Dr Caitlin 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 roof over your head. It is also about a denial of being, a person out of place to look away from, to ignore and not make eye contact with them as you pass busily through Glasgow's Central Station.
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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 Discomfort Zandra Yeaman and Dr Jay Sarkar to learn more about why history is so important when it comes to meaningful and respectful connection and cohabitation.
Glasgow is famous for its museums and galleries - fro...
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 symbol of community than the soup pot? It is both a distinctive part of Scottish working-class experience and at the same time a universal ritual of solidarity in hard times. Eating a home cooked meal is a k...
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 Colquhoun to talk about the landscape of the city, how it's valued, and who gets to value it.
The story of Glasgow's mixed fortunes is written into its built environment - from the confident grandeur of its Victo...
Gerard McCartney practiced as a GP and trained as an economist before his current role as Professor of Wellbeing ...
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 unique organisation, set up to find creative answers to questions about crime, punishment, reintegration, and community.
Vox is f...
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 essential transport and economic opportunities to the residents.
In today's episode, Anne Kerr meets her colleagues Mo Hume and Allan Gilles, and artist Jan Nimmo t...
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 support - moved to make immigration as difficult as possible. But in contrast, the Scottish government has been more focused on encouraging migration to Scotland to address population decline and contribute...
For this first episode of Recovering Community, we're focusing on Moodiesburn, a former mining town about eight miles north of Glasgow. Moodiesburn was home to the Auchengeich colliery. The danger of mining left its mark on the area. 6 men died in an explosion in 1931. And then, in 1959, the community was struck by disaster when there was a fire in the mine.
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