​This episode is based on a panel session from the symposium, ‘The Contested Conjuncture – Authoritarian Populism and Progressive Possibilities’, co-convened by Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power and The Stuart Hall Archive Project in June 2024. The panel connects discussion of ‘conjunctures’ to contemporary crises and their respective terrain of struggle, in policing the crisis in the 21st century (Montel Gordon, University of Glasgow), class and everyday life (Kirsteen Paton, University of Glasgow), populism and the far right (Aaron Winter, Lancaster University), and articulations of resistance in music (Les Back, University of Glasgow). Chaired by Nasar Meer (University of Glasgow).