Borderscapes

Borderscapes Season 3 Coming Soon 

Studying abroad is a privilege to expand your knowledge and experience in a foreign country. It has all the perks for an eighteen-year-old to live, laugh, and maybe, find love. But what if I told you that it’s not all about sunshine and rainbows? What if there’s more to face?

This is a podcast which takes the interview format of production to reshape the stereotype views of the able-bodied dominated society in which we live - that focuses on the medical model of impairment rather than the social model of disability. In this episode, Akin and Stephen explore the world of ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) to cross the border of impairment.

Imagine you’re a football player and you’re the main striker in your team. There is five minutes on the clock and it’s a very crucial game. You get the perfect pass and you scored the goal, everyone is happy, the fans are all over the place, you’re happy and your teammates are happy. The whistle blows and you look towards the referee and he calls for VAR. You look up on the screen and the goal is signaled offside by a fingertip. So, imagine the feeling you get when you score that crucial goal but /episode/index/show/5d70eb78-31f1-42ed-b815-b082ecefd79e/id/30848618

Brexit has certainly been a very controversial topic ever since it first began, but did you ever think for a second, that it would have a major impact on the future of the music industry? Very soon musicians will no longer be able to freely travel across the EU to play shows to their fans, instead if they wish to play anywhere within the EU, they will have to have travel visas, which will be very costly for sure.

Violet is a student who also does online cam work. She logs on when she wants to, on a camera room, performs and gets paid for that. She is an animal lover, a vegan, and an anthropologist student with a deep interest in people, their experiences and what they enjoy. This episode explores her story and together, we enroll in a deep, private, and surprisingly revealing conversation where we explore not only her experiences with limits and boundaries as a sex worker, but also how as women, we face so many m /episode/index/show/5d70eb78-31f1-42ed-b815-b082ecefd79e/id/30848643

Laila Hussein, a young woman in her early 20’s who used to live in a highly conservative household in the buzzing city of Cairo, Egypt, rebels against her family values and moves out of her family home. Laila shares her story, a gut-wrenching, heartbreaking series of events consisting of limitation of freedom, erasure of individuality, and cultural oppression in a refreshing fashion.

In 2020, a sudden epidemic swept the world. During the nearly 176 days of lockdown, we rely heavily on various social media to maintain our normal lives. Have you ever thought about how these new media will be like after the epidemic is over? Have they become part of us? Or will they fall quickly?

What is home? Is home only a physical space that we occupy, a space where we feel safe? A space where we are understood and appreciated? Or is it an idea that lives within us? When so many of us have it all, there are a few that are still desperately longing for home.

Using social media enables us to communicate with people anytime and anywhere, and to transmit and obtain information, especially during the pandemic, people are more dependent on seeking contact and information. But have you thought about when you are away from social media, do you really lose contact with the world? Or get back the chance to get along with yourself?

In the past year, county borders gained new importance as suddenly these lines on a map decided if you were allowed out of your house or doomed to stay in.

In January 2021, a specific set of conditions led the price of GameStop stock to skyrocket. It had surface-level news coverage, but how much do you REALLY know about this story? This incredibly abnormal market behaviour saw financial institutions go head-to-head with individual investors, who were fed up with their driving companies into the ground for profit. The resulting chaos produced a Borderscape between these parties, which we’ll explore in-depth in this podcast. You don’t want to miss this. /episode/index/show/5d70eb78-31f1-42ed-b815-b082ecefd79e/id/30848668

A group of 12 clubs from across Europe's biggest leagues announced plans to form a new competition called the Super League. The league had plans to offer permanent spots to some of the world's biggest clubs and play matches midweek, while allowing the involved clubs to remain in their domestic competitions. The plan was opposed by FIFA, the governing body for international football, and UEFA. But that is not fully stopping them from trying to implement this.

The year 2020 and 2021 have been years like no other in living memory. Everyone who lived through them will always remember the places they couldn’t go, things they couldn’t do, families they couldn’t see, loved ones they’ve lost, jobs lost, shattered dreams and opportunities that never came to fruition. For Light Juma, a Kenyan Journalist who travelled 10,000 miles from Nairobi, Kenya to Brighton, England to attend University in a year like no other, she summarized it as “an emotional rollerco /episode/index/show/5d70eb78-31f1-42ed-b815-b082ecefd79e/id/30848683

Political Correctness set out to protect minorities, so why has there been such a backlash to it? Whether you are fiercely for it or against it, it raises many issues surrounding free speech and if it is possible to draw borders around what you can and can’t say in the name of being politically correct.