Global Citizens: Recent Episodes
Global Citizens
MT, Maura and Clare, coming respectively from China, Italy and the UK, met in London and Madrid. MT is now a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology in Spain and her Chinese podcast “Universal Residents” has been downloaded more than 10 million times. Maura is a post-graduate student of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham. Clare is living in Madrid now and researches Spanish history after moving from England, where she was a museum curator for more than 20 years.
In this podcast, they bring their conversations on languages, cultural shocks and thinking 'global' on air.
Welcome to Global Citizens, where we discuss transcending borders and thinking global.
In this episode, MT and Clare, two childfree women, discuss freedom and female-centred education. It's a long journey, but fortunately, we can company each other now.
Welcome to Global Citizens, where we discuss transcending borders and thinking global.
Global Citizens has a new host! Clare has lived in Madrid for over 3 years and researches Spanish history after moving from England, where she was a museum curator for more than 20 years. This is the first episode between Clare and MT, we are talking about the relationship between history and women.
Mentioned and recommended books
Culottées by Pénélope Bagieu
The Paston Letters. An archive of 15th to 17th Century letters written by members of a Norfolk family.
The Book of Margery Kempe, a collection of writings by the 15th-century pilgrim and mystic, is possibly the first autobiography in English.
Diaries of Anne Lister of Shibden Hall. From 1806 to 1840 Anne extensively about her life in West Yorkshire.
Anything by Gertrude Bell, writer, traveller, political officer-amongst other things, working in the Middle East in the late 1800s and early 1900s
Clare's history based Instagram and website: www.confusedheapoffacts.com
Welcome to Global Citizens, where we discuss transcending borders and thinking global.
In today’s episode, MT and Maura discuss Women and Economics, the relationship between money and freedom and the effect money had on our choices.
Mentioned and recommended books
Women and Economics by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Women_and_Econom...
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
https://carolinecriadoperez.com › book › invisible-women
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Today's world looks at the nation-state as the most natural polity and, as such, it shapes the way we imagine our future. In this episode, MT and Maura introduce the concept of Political Imagination and discuss what it could mean to live in a world without borders.
References:
Achille Mbembe - The idea of a world without borders
Diana Uribe's Podcast on the History of Latin America (Spanish)
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In this episode, MT and Maura discuss current educational systems, their nationalistic frame and money-driven expectations. They question what it means to get an education and attempt to prospect what a global education could look like.
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In this episode, MT and Maura have a conversation with Jody Day, the founder of Gateway Women, exploring women's education on fertility, motherhood and rethinking womanhood.
Jody's TEDx talk
Gateway Women
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'Global Citizens' is a podcast about languages, cultural shocks and thinking global. In this episode, MT and Maura discuss how people from all over the world can meet and learn to communicate by breaking cultural and linguistic barriers and imagining a new way of thinking.
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