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Back to Search347) Kai Bosworth: Mobilizing through pipeline populism
Episode 347
"That neoliberal, technocratic environmentalism is also what we would call depoliticizing... it avoids the more transformative types of policies or s…
4 years, 7 months ago
346) Emma Dowling: Understanding the care crisis
Episode 346
Emma Dowling IS a sociologist at the University of Vienna in Austria. She has previously held academic positions in Britain and Germany, and her most…
4 years, 7 months ago
345) Bram Ebus: Power, poverty, and criminality in the gold industry
Episode 345
Bram Ebus has worked on resource conflicts, drug policies, and state-corporate crimes in Latin America since 2010. He holds a master's degree from th…
4 years, 8 months ago
344) Scott Timcke: Algorithmic capitalism and digital dehumanization
Episode 344
Scott Timcke, Ph.D., is a comparative historical sociologist who studies race, class, and technology in modernity. He is a research associate with th…
4 years, 8 months ago
343) Beatriz Caiuby Labate: Sacred plant medicines and healing psychedelics
Episode 343
Dr. Beatriz Caiuby Labate (Bia Labate) has her core interests in the study of psychoactive substances, drug policies, shamanism, ritual, and religion…
4 years, 8 months ago
342) Harriet Washington: Confronting medical apartheid and the medical-industrial complex
Episode 342
In this episode, we revisit our past conversation with Harriet Washington, an award-winning medical writer and editor and the author of the best-sell…
4 years, 8 months ago
341) John Hausdoerffer: Re-embodying our roles as placelings
Episode 341
What does it mean to understand our roles not as Earthlings but as “Placelings”? And as we deepen into the work of collective healing, what underlies…
4 years, 8 months ago
340) Liam Campling + Alex Colás: A tragedy of the commodity at sea
Episode 340
How might we re-envision “international collaboration” beyond the political framework of nation-state institutions? And what could it mean to work mo…
4 years, 9 months ago
339) Vanessa Raditz: Queering resilience in the face of climate catastrophes
Episode 339
What does it mean to queer resilience in the face of climate catastrophes? And how might the dominant modes of disaster relief reinforce the centrali…
4 years, 9 months ago
338) Vanessa Andreotti: Allowing Earth to dream through us
Episode 338
What might it mean for humanity to reach a level of maturation to be able to confront the multilayered crises we now face—calling upon us to “grow up…
4 years, 9 months ago