Introducing Politics After the Pandemic

In Politics After the Pandemic, anthropologist of social movements Erica Lagalisse thinks transnationally with both social scientists and political activists about recent cultural shifts in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic, capitalism and other structures of oppression, and how social movements, educators, and researchers might respond.  Diverse guest researchers speak with Lagalisse as global analysts and local experts as well as cultural and linguistic translators.  

Find more about Politics After the Pandemic at The Sociological Review.

Credits:
Executive Producer & Host: Erica Lagalisse
Guest: Elżbieta Drążkiewicz
Sound Engineer: Clara-Swan Kennedy
Illustrator: Laura Arlotti 
Musicians: Excerpts from AV materials submitted to the Solidarity and Care During the Covid-19 Pandemic publishing platform and research archive:

• "The Lightwell (Boşluk)", by Begüm Özden Fırat, Sound mix: Sair Sinan Kestelli (Independent film, Turkey, 2020), published at Solidarity and Care During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Dec. 2020.
• "Know place like home: The 82.3m2 Project" — Dan Lovesey, autistic musician who crafted soundscape of domestic recordings during lockdown, published at Solidarity and Care During the Covid-19 Pandemic, 31 August, 2020.
• “Walking Through Lockdown – An Exercise in Care” by Kim Harding, who took soundscape recordings of South London during lockdown, published at Solidarity and Care During the Covid-19 Pandemic, July 22, 2022. 

Additional open source audio elements from freesound.org users Halima Ahkdar and Graham Makes. 

Transcript

Erica Lagalisse: 0:14

You're listening to Politics after the Pandemic, where we think transnationally with social scientists and political activists about recent cultural shifts in their relation to COVID-19, capitalism and other structures of oppression and how social movements, educators and researchers might respond. One important feature of post-pandemic politics in many places –perhaps especially throughout the Global North – is controversy over the question of conspiracy theory. But what makes a theory a "conspiracy theory"? The contention over the category of conspiracy theory is highly charged. And for all of these reasons, we're devoting our first 3 episodes to bringing some critical social science into the mix.

Clara-Swan Kennedy: 1:09

Politics after the Pandemic is brought to you by the Sociological Review Foundation in collaboration with the British Academy, as part of the special section, Solidarity and Care during the COVID 19 pandemic. Erica Lagalisse is an anthropologist and researcher at the London School of Economics, and Loughborough University, and author of the book "Occult Features of Anarchism".