Recovering Community
By University of Glasgow, School of Social and Political Sciences
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 where you grew up, or the people you work with?
Recovering Community is a podcast series from the University of Glasgow’s School of Political and Social 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.
Recovering Community is a podcast series from the University of Glasgow’s School of Political and Social 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.
Latest episode
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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 them more inclusive, particularly for the most... -
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 roof over your head. It is also about a denial... -
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 Discomfort Zandra Yeaman and Dr Jay Sarkar to learn more..… -
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 symbol of community than the soup pot? It is... -
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 Colquhoun to talk about the landscape of the city, how… -
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 economy movement and the subject of today’s... -
Coming Back: How Vox Liminis uses creative responses to the criminal justice system to build community
Vox Liminis is a Glasgow based community organisation using creative practices to think differently about the criminal justice system. Anne Kerr meets Fergus, Alison and Iain to find out more. -
Colombia River Stories: The symbiotic relationship between the Río Atrato and the community who call it home
Anne Kerr discovers the stories of the Rio Atrato in Colombia and meets the artist, academics, lawyer and river guardian fighting to uphold its status as a bearer of rights. -
Communities, Identity and Borders: What does the Kenmure Street Protest tell us about belonging to Glasgow?
The story of the May 2021 street protest that stopped a Home Office raid to remove two men from their community -
1. After Auchengeich: Resilience in a Mining Community
Anne Kerr explores how public remembrance of the Auchengeich mining disaster fosters community in the former industrial town of Moodiesburn
