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Safouan Azouzi: Lessons of Desert Oases for Eco-Resilient Transformation
Episode 52
Safouan Azouzi, a Tunisian scholar of the commons and participatory social design, discusses how cultural traditions in desert oases hold important s…
1 year, 8 months ago
Camila Vergara's Vision of Plebeian Constitutionalism
Episode 51
Chilean political philosopher Camila Vergara boldly argues in her book 'Systemic Corruption' that decay and corruption are inevitable even in liberal…
1 year, 9 months ago
Cooking Sections Serves Up Art, Eco-Activism & Local Food
Episode 50
The artistic duo known as Cooking Sections -- Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernández Pascual of the Royal College of Art in London -- use their virtuoso v…
1 year, 10 months ago
Nathan Schneider on Building Democratic Governance on the Internet
Episode 49
To counter the "implicit feudalism" that is the norm on the Internet, activist-scholar Nathan Schneider explains the potential of democratic governan…
1 year, 11 months ago
WIll Ruddick on 'Commitment Pooling' to Build Economic Commons
Episode 48
Will Ruddick, development economist and founder of Grassroots Economics, has spent the past 16 years in Kenya developing innovative "community inclus…
2 years ago
Kathryn Milun: Sharing the Sun's Energy through Solar Commons
Episode 47
Kathryn Milun, a community-engaged scholar, writer, and energy democracy advocate at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, has spent the past 15 years…
2 years, 1 month ago
Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann's Project to Reimagine Economics Education
Episode 46
Appalled by the dismal state of economics education for young people, Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann, an international secondary school educator, has …
2 years, 2 months ago
Aaron Perzanowski on Bottom-up Creativity & the Right to Repair
Episode 45
Professor Aaron Perzanowski of the University of Michigan Law School explains how many artistic communities flourish as commons, without copyright pr…
2 years, 3 months ago
Shane O'Donnell: The Breakthrough Insulin Device Developed by Commoners
Episode 44
Shane O'Donnell, a sociologist and researcher, has been at the forefront of the "device activism" and #WeAreNotWaiting movement, a globe-spanning com…
2 years, 4 months ago
Mihnea Tanasescu on the Need for 'Ecocene Politics'
Episode 43
The best term for this era of geological history is not the Anthropocene, says Mihnea Tănăsescu, a research professor at the University of Mons in Be…
2 years, 5 months ago