LIVE RECORDING: Finding agency and bridging worlds in challenging times.

People vs Inequality Podcast

In a time of crisis and conflict, how can we find agency and work together across spaces in ways that contribute to a more just, caring and equal world?

Join us for our very first LIVE recording, straight from the Politics of Inequality Conference at the London School of Economics in London, where we speak with the amazing Lyla Adwan-Kamara and Dr. Philippa Mullins. Two people bringing unique personal and professional perspectives to these questions, with a level of depth and care that we wish everyone to hear.

Lyla is a Ghana-based Palestinian-Irish mental health and disability rights activist and leader who doesn't shy away from speaking out with great clarity. Philippa is a researcher and educator in disability and resistance studies with a clear vision for equity in knowledge production.

We talk about working from a place of hurt and joy, how to navigate these challenging times whilst recognizing the injustices we see are not new, what it means to stand in solidarity and address inequalities in our everyday life, work and the institutions we are a part of. We hear about the importance of rest and kindness, understanding and honoring our values whilst recognizing fluidity and mess, and - of course - being in community.

References coming up in the conversation:

Tuck and Yang - Paris I Proof

bell hooks - Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Dionne Brand – “One enters a room and history follows; one enters a room and history precedes. [...] How do I know this? Only by self-observation, only by looking. Only by feeling. Only by being a part, sitting in the room with history.” From: Brand, D. (2001). A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging. Doubleday Canada

Esther Arma - Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing | Penguin Random House South Africa

Philippa’s essay: Epistemic injustice and unwellness in the classroom: Creating knowledge like we matter

Mimi Khúc - on 'a pedagogy of unwellness—the recognition that we are all differentially unwell' - dear elia, Duke University Press

Lyla's Memory Stitches - more information and pictures in this blog post

Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE) | https://afsee.atlanticfellows.lse.ac.uk/

Politics of Inequality conference and programme - https://www.lse.ac.uk/International-Inequalities/Research/Politics-of-Inequality

More about Lyla: https://afsee.atlanticfellows.lse.ac.uk/en-gb/fellows/2023/lyla-adwan-kamara

More about Philippa: https://www.lse.ac.uk/International-Inequalities/People/Philippa-Mullins/Philippa-Mullins

This podcast is a joint production of Barbara van Paassen (creator, host), Elizabeth Maina (producer) and Alex Akenno (editor). For more information see https://peoplevsinequality.blogspot.com/ or contact us at [email protected].

This episode was supported by the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity.