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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 ...
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We See You: Exploring the links between violence, homelessness and the drug economy in Scotland
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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 p…
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The Museum of Discomfort: How Glasgow’s Hunterian is Decolonising through its Collection
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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 cohabitat…
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The Soup'erheroes: Fostering Food Solidarity in Castlemilk
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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 …
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Is Wasteland Ever Wasted? Looking beyond the developer’s view; how brownfield sites add value to the cityscape
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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 bu…
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The Wellbeing Economy: rethinking traditional economic structures to benefit people and planet
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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 economy movement and the subject of today’s episode. Gerard McCartney practiced as a GP and trained as an economist before his current role as Professor…
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Coming Back: How Vox Liminis uses creative responses to the criminal justice system to build community
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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 for people who have all kind…
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Colombia River Stories: The symbiotic relationship between the Río Atrato and the community who call it home
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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 arti…
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Communities, Identity and Borders: What does the Kenmure Street Protest tell us about belonging to Glasgow?
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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 …
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1. After Auchengeich: Resilience in a Mining Community
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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…
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