Recovering Community - a podcast about community, what it means, how it’s formed and how  it is rebuilt

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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 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. 

Recovering Community is produced by Freya Hellier. 

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Season 2

Join Professor Les Back in Season 2 of Recovering Community as he takes us on a journey with each episode filled with heart and thought-provoking stories as we seek to uncover what builds and binds community.

Learn from Les on how and why Recovering Community was made

Wastelands: Is Wastelands 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 the fence to get right to the foundations of urban life. 

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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 remarable women working together to feed their community.

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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.

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Episode 4 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.

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Roots and Futures in Sheffield: Growing Heritage Around Communities

Sheffield resident and dedicated community volunteer Aisha Jones talks to Les Back about the invisible role migrant communities have played in building the heritage of their city.

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Season 1

In Season 1 of Recovering Community, Professor Anne Kerr 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.

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After Auchengeich: Resilience in a Mining Community

Professor Anne Kerr explores how public remembrance of the Auchengeich mining disaster fosters community in the former industrial town of Moodiesburn

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Protests against deportation at Kenmure Street Glasgow

Communities, Identity and Borders: What does the Kenmure Street Protest tell us about belonging to Glasgow?

This episode considers the ways that community activism in Glasgow sets the city apart from wider UK sentiment towards immigration

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Columbia River Stories: The symbiotic relationship between the Río Atrato and the community who call it home

Professor 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.

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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

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Babs and Leigh from Green City with Gerry McCartney

The Wellbeing Economy: rethinking traditional economic structures to benefit people and planet

Anne Kerr and Gerry McCartney explore the wellbeing economy movement, its ethos and vision. And Gerry visits one of Glasgow’s longest running workers co-ops: Greencity Wholefoods to see the wellbeing economy in action.

Listen to episode 5