BBESW Podcast EP2: Feature, Not A Bug

BBESW Podcast EP2: Feature, Not A Bug

Shada, Emmanuel, and William are back! If you liked our pilot episode, you will really enjoy this one. Together, we connect contemporary policing in Europe to its colonial continuities, anti-immigrant politics, and the securitization of everything that seems to have no end. Repression of pro-Palestinian activism is only the tip of the imperial iceberg. Anyone who contests the status quo of state power—climate campaigners, workers, artists—risks facing its wrath. The problems aren’t individual. They’re structural. That means the solutions need to be, too. Ultimately, we ask: Can the European “peace project” be truly democratic when wedded to a capitalist system of extraction, subjugation, and racialized control? To get all our episodes right away and for free, don’t forget to subscribe! Join us as we confront the imperial core with its multifaceted peripheries. And remember: Solidarity means moving through the world together, so be sure to share us with an ally or two—or someone who could become one with a little nudge. Don’t miss us on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/blackandbrowneu/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet], YouTube [http://youtube.com/@bbeswpod], Apple Podcasts, and Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/033eib1509voqi52ma7qx3 Spotify episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/37tfxoqA6WP5Xebi4LCvJT?si=IGdiXxr4TMeom5TFDeneQw]. NB: Transcripts are auto-generated and subject to errors. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bbeswpod.substack.com [https://bbeswpod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

BBESW Podcast EP1: Introductions

Greetings! Where else to begin this new podcast series than in the beginning? Shada, Emmanuel, and William trace their divergent yet overlapping paths to “Europe”—a place and an idea that can be difficult to define, except to say that you know it when you see it [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it]. Our experiences and trajectories are neither individual nor accidental. They reflect larger social structures: products of racial hierarchies, colonial continuities, and (geo)political power dynamics. The European Union likes to think it’s beyond all that, when in fact it is built on and replicates these very logics. How we are simultaneously agents of and subjects to them—and how we can resist them to imagine new possibilities of organizing human life—is the subject of this podcast. To get all our episodes right away and for free, don’t forget to subscribe! Join us as we confront the imperial core with its multifaceted peripheries. And remember: Solidarity means moving through the world together, so be sure to share us with an ally or two! Don’t miss us on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/blackandbrowneu/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet], YouTube [http://youtube.com/@bbeswpod], and Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/033eib1509voqi52ma7qx3 Spotify episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/37tfxoqA6WP5Xebi4LCvJT?si=IGdiXxr4TMeom5TFDeneQw]. NB: Transcripts are auto-generated and subject to errors. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bbeswpod.substack.com [https://bbeswpod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]