The ISARN Recordings
On the International Solidarity Action Research Network podcast, we take you through a series of stories on the ins and outs of solidarity, from the frontlines, the sidelines, behind the scenes and in the quiet after the lights go down, to figure out better ways we can all stay grounded in solidarity.
Episodes
Wednesday Oct 30, 2024
Wednesday Oct 30, 2024
In this episode (recorded June 2024), we speak to Andrew Ross and Sherene Seikaly, two of the organizers of Faculty for Justice in Palestine, about the story of the network, its relationship to student organizing, and its aims and challenges going forward. For more information about the network, resources, and more, visit https://www.fjp-network.org/.
Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
In this episode (recorded 2022), Sophie Chamas and Ghiwa Sayegh reflect on the experience of listening back to our conversation about the Lebanese revolution of 2019-20 at a much less hopeful moment. They consider the importance of looking back, both historically and globally, and argue for the value of affect in revolutionary thought and practice. Title inspired by Mariame Kaba.
Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
In this episode (recorded Nov 2019 and Feb 2020), the writer-activists Sophie Chamas, Nizar Hassan, Joseph Salloum, and Ghiwa Sayegh discuss the popular revolution that was taking place across Lebanon at the time and share their hopes and fears about what might happen next. Title inspired by Susan Meiselas. Music credits https://isarn.org/.
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Monday Jun 12, 2023
This is our second installment with Robyn Spencer, author of The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland (2016) and Angela Davis: Radical Icon (2023). In this episode, Spencer considers the question of solidarity from several angles, discussing her collaborative scholarship and activism, the Black Panthers’ ways of working together and with other movements, and the scholar-activist Angela Davis. Music credits https://isarn.org/.
Sunday Jun 11, 2023
Sunday Jun 11, 2023
This is the first installment of a two-part conversation with Robyn Spencer, author of The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland (2016) and Angela Davis: Radical Icon (2023). This episode focuses on Spencer’s work on the history of Black organizing in the United States, looking particularly at the Black Panther Party and the anti-imperialist writer and activist Patricia Murphy Robinson. Music credits https://isarn.org/.
Sunday Jun 11, 2023
Sunday Jun 11, 2023
What role does culture play in creating, transforming, and sustaining political solidarity? In this episode (recorded 2019), we speak to Anne Garland Mahler, author of From Tricontinentalism to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and International Solidarity (2018), and Debra Lennard, curator of the exhibition ‘Notes on Solidarity: Tricontinentalism in Print’ (2019), about their work on the cultural history of the Tricontinental movement.
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