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Podcast: Democratize Work!
Episode: #20.2 Migrant Labour and Organizing in the Platform Economy
Pub date: 2022-09-09
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The workers of today’s digital factory – which includes those in Amazon warehouses, delivery drivers, Chinese gaming workers, Filipino content moderators, and rural American search engine optimisers – are not as far removed from a typical auto assembly line as we might think.
DEUTSCHE ÜBERSETZUNG ZUM NACHLESEN Die deutsche Übersetzung dieses zweiten Teils der zweiteiligen Folge zu migrantischer Arbeit und der Plattformökonomie kannst du in Kürze hier nachlesen.
In part two of this two-part episode with Gabriella (Gorillas Workers’ Collective) and sociologist Dr. Moritz Altenried (Humbolt University Berlin) we address the challenges and chances of organizing migrant workers in the platform economy.
(ADDITIONAL) SOURCES Gorillas Workers’ Collective is active on Twitter: @GorillasWorkers You can find Moritz' article on the relationship between migration and the gig economy here (open access). In his recently published book “The Digital Factory: The Human Labor of Automation” Moritz reveals the hidden human labor behind today’s digital tools, plattforms and services.
ANNOUNCMENTS On September 16. & 17. the Conference “Gute Arbeit in der Transformation” / “Decent work in Transformation” takes place at the TU Berlin (in German). Check out the program and register here!
On October 1. & 2. the Conference “Basis Stärken” of "Organisieren-Kämpfen-Gewinnen" takes place in Berlin. Check out the Program and register here
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Podcast: ChinaTalk (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: AI and the Future of War
Pub date: 2022-09-04
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Addressing how the future of war will look like as militaries around the world adopt AI technologies; why using AI in warfare isn't as easy as people think; how supply chains can be used as a form of arms control; and even recapping some historical weapons so horrible people simply didn't use them.
AI safety is having a moment. To discuss why AI safety matters for national security, today I have on Paul Scharre (@Paul_scharre). He’s the Vice President and Director of Studies at CNAS. He previously served in OSD Policy and as a US Army Ranger.
We discuss
- What the future of war looks like as militaries around the world adopt AI technologies
- Why using AI in warfare isn't as easy as people think
- How supply chains can be used as a form of arms control
- Historical weapons so horrible people simply didn't use them
- How to get a job at CNAS (they're hiring at cnas.org/careers)
Outro music: A.I. 爱 by 王力宏 Wang Leehom, a very much cancelled Taiwanese pop star https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4DuqEL0ChQ.
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Podcast: Burning Platforms
Episode: Algorithmic Asylum
Pub date: 2022-09-04
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
With a proliferation of wellness technologies, the human mind is emerging as the latest frontier in the spread of tech solutionism. How have algorithmic solutions had both a positive and negative impact on mental health?
With a proliferation of wellness technologies, the human mind is emerging as the latest frontier in the spread of tech solutionism.
This week’s Burning Platforms digs deep into a new report ‘Digital Futures in the Mind’ which looks at how algorithmic solutions can have both a positive and negative impact on mental health.
Our special guest is report co-authorDr. Piers Gooding from Melbourne University Law School.
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Podcast: Lekh
Episode: Gowri Vijayakumar - At Risk
Pub date: 2022-09-05
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Showing how India’s AIDS response from the 1990s onward presented opportunities for social and political mobilisation for sexually marginalised groups, in turn, affecting the Indian government's AIDS strategy and response.
In the 29th episode, I speak to Gowri Vijayakumar, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University, on her recent book At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis published by Stanford University Press in 2021. The book shows how India’s AIDS response from the 1990s onward presented opportunities for social and political mobilisation for sexually marginalised groups, in turn, affecting the Indian government's AIDS strategy and response; India’s AIDS strategies, unfolding within a global AIDS field, transformed the space on which sex workers, sexual minorities and other groups engaged the Indian state, generating new demands and claims being made. The conversation begins by asking how Vijayakumar got interested in these issues, global health, social movements, and India’s AIDS crisis. Next, Vijayakumar describes the state of India’s sexual politics before the AIDS crisis, focusing on the Indian states approach to issues like HIV/AIDS before presenting the book’s argument. Then, we discuss the relational aspect covered in the book, influence of India’s HIV strategies on Kenya. Vijayakumar explains why she used a global ethnographic approach that required unpacking different sites, their actors and motivations and what this approach adds to the narrative. The next part of the conversation focuses on what Vijayakumar’s book and work tells us about the Indian state - how it functions, responds, adapts, and the relationship between politics and how the state addresses public health challenges like AIDS. The conversation ends by exploring Vijayakumar’s fieldwork, the hardest part of writing the book, and her future work.
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Podcast: New Books in Genocide Studies (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Ken MacLean, "Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar" (U California Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-09-01
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Though human rights monitors talk of fact-finding missions and reports, human rights facts are, like all social phenomena, not in fact found but made — through processes by which we come to know and talk about them. But how exactly does that happen?
Though human rights monitors talk of fact-finding missions and reports, human rights facts are, like all social phenomena, not in fact found but made — through processes by which we come to know and talk about them. But how exactly does that happen? And how, by attending to these processes, might we arrive at a more robust understanding of human rights facts? These are the kinds of questions animating Ken MacLean’s new book, Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production and Myanmar (University of California Press, 2022). In this episode Ken joins New Books in Southeast Asian Studies to explore some of the answers he arrived at after years of research on the complexities of human rights fact production about crimes against humanity in eastern Myanmar, or Burma, and to discuss how it is possible to cast a critical eye over how human rights facts are made and not only remain engaged in causes for human rights, but to make them even stronger at a time that human rights facts are sorely tested, and the truth about facts has never been more contested.
Like this interview? If so you might also be interested in:
- Lynette Chua, The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilisation and Human Rights as a Way of Life
- Tyrell Haberkorn, In Plain Sight: Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand
- Ken MacLean, The Government of Mistrust: Illegibility and Bureaucratic Power in Socialist Vietnam
Nick Cheesman is Associate Professor, Department of Political & Social Change, Australian National University and Senior Fellow, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University at Buffalo (Fall 2022). He hosts the New Books in Interpretive Political & Social Science series on the New Books Network.
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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The floods in Pakistan
Pub date: 2022-09-03
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
It has been called 'a monsoon on steroids' by one United Nations chief after record-breaking rainfall and floods destroyed over a million homes in Pakistan, leaving many homeless. Buildings, crops, and vital infrastructure have been damaged, destroyed, or submerged in water – the damage has affected about 33 million Pakistanis. Hear from volunteers who have started working to support those in flooded villages.
It has been called "a monsoon on steroids" by one United Nations chief after record-breaking rainfall and floods destroyed over a million homes in Pakistan leaving many homeless. Buildings, crops and vital infrastructure have been damaged, destroyed or submerged in water affecting about 33 million Pakistanis. Nauroz Jamali helped start a group to support those in the flooded villages. Abraham Buriro is also a volunteer and host James Reynolds hears what the situation is like for them and where they need the most help.
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Podcast: Sur-Urbano
Episode: Land Policy in Latin America with Martim Smolka
Pub date: 2022-09-06
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Discussing the Georgist theoretical underpinnings of progressive land policy, the history of these policies in Latin American cities, and why tax-increment financing may well be understood as the 'anti-christ' of land value capture.
This week we are talking to Martim Smolka, the man who has been the director of the Latin American and Caribbean program at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy since it was made, 27 years ago. This is no minor thing: four of our guests on this podcast have worked or published with the Lincoln Institute, and its impact on Latin American land policy is profound - Martim has truly played an important role in the history of land policy in Latin American cities. In this episode, Flavia Leite and I talk with Martim about the Georgist theoretical underpinnings of progressive land policy, the history of these policies in Latin American cities, and why TIF may well be understood as the “anti-christ” of land value capture.
On the subject of TIF, check out Flavia and Bridget Fisher's critical analysis of the camouflaged risks and costs of TIF in Hudson Yards that we mention in the episode: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264275122001007
Martim is a Brazilian economist, with a Ph.D. in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania (1980). He was the director of the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy for 27 years. At the LILP he developed (and lectured in) many educational programs for high-level public officials, members of academia, NGOs leaders and other professionals throughout Latin America.
Flávia is a PhD student in City & Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. Her research interest revolves around the relationship between formal and informal housing markets, with a specific focus on housing financialization, access to credit, and housing policy in Latin America.
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Podcast: Michael and Us (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: #361 - In Old Brazil (w/ Violet Lucca)
Pub date: 2022-09-01
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
One of the key films of Brazil's Cinema Novo movement, Glauber Rocha's 1967 masterpiece 'Terra em transe' (or 'Entranced Earth') envisions a fictional Latin American country where the left- and right-wing parties both feed from the same trough, and asks what role art can play in revolution, if any. This episode places the film within the context of Brazil after the 1964 coup that led to decades of military dictatorship.
One of the key films of Brazil's Cinema Novo movement, Glauber Rocha's masterpiece TERRA EM TRANSE aka ENTRANCED EARTH (1967) envisions a fictional Latin American country where the left- and right-wing parties both feed from the same trough, and asks what role art can play in revolution, if any. Friend-of-the- show Violet Lucca returns to place the film within the context of Brazil after the 1964 coup that led to decades of military dictatorship.
"Revolutionary Lessons" by Robert Stamm - https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC10-11folder/TerraTranseStam.html
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Paul A. Silverstein, "Postcolonial France: The Question of Race and the Future of the Republic" (Pluto Press, 2018)
Pub date: 2022-09-02
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
France is a bellwether for the postcolonial anxieties and populist politics emerging across the world today. Despite the barriers, which include neo-nationalist racism and Islamophobia, French citizens of various backgrounds have found ways to build flourishing lives. A recent book shows how they have responded to urban marginalisation, police violence, and institutional discrimination in remarkably creative ways.
France is a bellwether for the postcolonial anxieties and populist politics emerging across the world today. Postcolonial France: The Question of Race and the Future of the Republic (Pluto Press, 2018) explores the dynamics and dilemmas of the present moment of crisis and hope in France, through an exploration of recent moral panics.
Taking stock of the tensions as they have emerged over the last quarter of a century, Paul Silverstein looks at urban racial violence, female Islamic dress and male public prayer, anti-system gangster rap, and sporting performances in and around which debates over France's multicultural future have arisen. It traces these conflicts to the unresolved tensions of an imperial project, the present-day effects of which are still felt by many.
Despite the barriers, which include neo-nationalist racism and Islamophobia, French citizens of various backgrounds have found ways to build flourishing lives. Silverstein shows how they have responded to urban marginalisation, police violence and institutional discrimination in remarkably creative ways.
Paul Silverstein is Professor of Anthropology at Reed College, USA. He is author of Postcolonial France (Pluto, 2018) and Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race and Nation (Indiana UP, 2004). He writes on identity politics, postcoloniality, and diasporic popular culture in France and North Africa.
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Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Artificial intelligence and job quality
Pub date: 2022-07-27
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Artificial intelligence and automation are increasing in their roles, and no industry is immune. From doctors to gig workers, advances in AI are becoming a key determinant of job quality. This episode discusses how technology affects work, whether in a good or bad way, and what we should take into consideration for the future.
Artificial intelligence and automation are increasing in role, and no industry is immune. From doctors to gig workers, advances in AI are becoming a key determinant of job quality. This week on The Sound of Economics, Giuseppe Porcaro is joined by Laura Nurski and Mia Hoffmann, to discuss how technology affects work, whether good or bad, and what should we take into consideration for the future?
This podcast was produced within the project “Future of Work and Inclusive Growth in Europe“, with the financial support of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.
Relevant Publications:
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/german-facebook-probe-links-data-protection-and-competition-policy | German Facebook probe links data protection and competition policy
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/uber-and-economic-impact-sharing-economy-platforms | Uber and the economic impact of sharing economy platforms
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/economic-value-personal-data-online-platforms-firms-and-consumers | The economic value of personal data for online platforms, firms and consumers
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/rise-sharing-economy-indonesia | The rise of the sharing economy in Indonesia
https://www.bruegel.org/comment/european-union-course-become-big-loser-global-tech-race | Is the European Union on course to become the big loser in the global tech race?
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/practical-arrangement-cooperation-between-digital-economy-regulators | A practical arrangement for cooperation between digital economy regulators
https://www.bruegel.org/working-paper/market-power-and-artificial-intelligence-work-online-labour-markets | Market power and artificial intelligence work on online labour markets
https://www.bruegel.org/podcast/technology-product-unequal-power | Technology: a product of unequal power?
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/opening-digital-platforms-and-reducing-anticompetitive-risks | Opening up digital platforms and reducing anticompetitive risks
https://www.bruegel.org/working-paper/platform-mergers-and-antitrust-0 | Platform mergers and antitrust
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/self-employment-covid-19-and-future-work-knowledge-workers | Self-employment, COVID-19, and the future of work for knowledge workers
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/regulating-big-tech-digital-markets-act | Regulating big tech: the Digital Markets Act
https://www.bruegel.org/working-paper/platform-mergers-and-antitrust | Platform mergers and antitrust
https://www.bruegel.org/working-paper/digital-platforms-and-antitrust | Digital platforms and antitrust
https://www.bruegel.org/report/effect-digitalization-energy-consumption-passenger-transport-analysis-future-scenarios | The effect of digitalization in the energy consumption of passenger transport: An analysis of future scenarios for Europe
https://www.bruegel.org/policy-brief/bridging-divide-new-evidence-about-firms-and-digitalisation | Bridging the divide: new evidence about firms and digitalisation
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/work-protection-digital-age-towards-new-social-contract | Work Protection in the Digital Age: Towards a new social contract
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/era-digitalisation-single-market-needs-software-update | In an era of digitalisation, the Single Market needs a software update
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/breaking-big-companies-and-market-power-concentration | Breaking up big companies and market power concentration
https://www.bruegel.org/report/vertical-restraints-and-e-commerce | Vertical restraints and e-commerce
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/how-e-commerce-reshapes-markets-and-firms-strategies | How e-commerce reshapes markets and firms’ strategies
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/big-data-and-first-degree-price-discrimination | Big data and first-degree price discrimination
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/industrial-internet-will-transform-policymaking | The industrial internet will transform policymaking
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/apple-discord | The Apple of Discord
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/new-eu-net-neutrality-guidelines-are-pragmatic-next-step | New EU net neutrality guidelines are a pragmatic next step
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/european-e-commerce-needs-better-visibility-cross-border-delivery-prices | European e-commerce needs better visibility into cross-border delivery prices
https://www.bruegel.org/policy-brief/e-commerce-europe-parcel-delivery-prices-digital-single-market | E-commerce in Europe: parcel delivery prices in a digital single market
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/e-commerce-opportunity-growth-europe-people-and-business | E-commerce: an opportunity for growth in Europe, for people and business
https://www.bruegel.org/policy-brief/better-pensions-european-unions-self-employed | Better pensions for the European Union’s self-employed
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/inclusive-european-union-must-boost-gig-workers-rights | An inclusive European Union must boost gig workers’ rights
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/making-antitrust-work-not-against-gig-workers-and-self-employed | Making antitrust work for, not against, gig workers and the self-employed
https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/which-platforms-will-be-caught-digital-markets-act-gatekeeper-dilemma | Which platforms will be caught by the Digital Markets Act? The ‘gatekeeper’ dilemma
https://www.bruegel.org/policy-brief/policies-support-self-employed-labour-markets-future | Policies to support the self-employed in the labour markets of the future
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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Social media and political publics in Kenya
Pub date: 2022-07-25
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Discussing the way social media use operates in Kenya, the difference between physical and digital public spaces, how Big Tech corporations’ designs affect political discourse, and what we can learn about social media by looking outside the Western context.
On this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata talks to Steph Diepeveen, a senior research associate at Cambridge University, research fellow in digitalization at ODI and the author of the book “Searching for a New Kenya: Politics and Social Media on the Streets of Mombasa.” They discuss the way social media use operates in Kenya, the difference between physical and digital public spaces, how Big Tech corporations’ designs affects political discourse and what we can learn about social media by looking outside the Western context.
You can order Steph's book here. For a complete reading list from the episode, check out the Anti-Dystopians substack at bit.ly/3kuGM5X.
You can follow Steph on Twitter @sdiep, Alina Utrata @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcast @AntiDystopians.
All episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production to the show, visit our patreon at bit.ly/3mQFByq.
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Podcast: Global Research News Hour (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Restoration of Indigenous Rights and the Fall of the Colonial Hand
Pub date: 2022-07-22
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
This episode focuses on the state of the present situation facing indigenous people all around the world.
The state of the present situation facing indigenous people all around the world is the focus of the episode of the Global Research News Hour. And without negating persistent racist themes, this is a positive and hopeful episode. Part one is a conversation with Dr Rudolph Ryser, the chair of the Center for World Indigenous studies. Dr Ryser has for more than forty-five-years worked in the field of Indian Affairs as a writer/researcher and as Indian Rights advocate. Part two is a documentary put together in the past month. An example of the current threat posed to the people of Hollow Water First Nation as they face a company called Canadian Premium Sands seeking to mine huge amounts of silica sand from the territory and the devastation critics say would result for their land, their water and their health.
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Podcast: The French History Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Imperial Connections: Syria, Lebanon and French West Africa with Dahlia El Zein
Pub date: 2022-06-18
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
This story is not about the metropole or mainland France at all. Rather, it is a story about empire from below, from the perspective of the colonies, and most of all about the cross-colonial exchanges between colonial peoples under the same French imperial order.
Today’s guest episode is by Dahlia El Zein. Dahlia is a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania focusing on race, migration, and empire between sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries. Dahlia is currently writing her dissertation on the cross-colonial relationships and racial constructions of Lebanese Shi’i […]
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Podcast: Rules Based Audio (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The scramble for information control over Africa
Pub date: 2022-07-27
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
There has been increasing concern that Russia and China are using state-owned media companies, social media campaigns, and proxy actors to manipulate public discourse in Africa. This episode discusses how Russia and China calibrate their messaging to different nation states, and how Chinese state-owned media in Africa is replicating and reinforcing Russian narratives around Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
There has been increasing concern that Russia and China are using state-owned media companies, social media campaigns and proxy actors to manipulate public discourse in the global south.
In this episode, Sasha Fegan discusses the influence of disinformation in the media landscape in Africa.
Her guests will talk about how Russia and China calibrate their messaging to different nation states, and how Chinese state-owned media in Africa is replicating and reinforcing Russian narratives around Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Idayat Hassan, is a lawyer, development expert and director of the Center for Democracy and Development in Abuja, Nigeria.
Dani Madrid-Morales, is a lecturer in the Department of Journalism Studies at The University of Sheffield. He is an expert on Africa-China mediated relations, particularly in Kenya and South Africa. His latest book is Disinformation in the Global South.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Podcast: Brazil Unfiltered (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: How Brazil Became a Black Country with Márcia Lima
Pub date: 2022-07-24
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Exploring the politics of racial inequality, the role played by gender and race in everyday life, the real progress that has been made by affirmative action programs in Brazil, and more.
In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Márcia Lima. Márcia is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of São Paulo and the coordinator of the Afro Research Center on race, gender, and racial justice at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (AFRO-CEBRAP). In her interview, Márcia offered her insight into the politics of racial inequality, the role played by gender and race in everyday life, the real progress that has been made by affirmative action programs in Brazil, and more.
Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.
Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.
➡️ https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities
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Podcast: RightsUp (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: A Historic Moment: The Drafting of the New Chilean Constitution
Pub date: 2022-07-22
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
In advance of a nationwide referendum on the new draft Chilean Constitution, scheduled for the 4th of September, the guest speaks about the writing of this Constitution, its place in the history of Latin American constitutionalism, and the reasons why the draft Constitution deserves to be supported.
In advance of a nationwide referendum on the new draft Chilean Constitution, scheduled for the 4th of September, Gautam Bhatia interviews Professor Roberto Gargarella about the writing of this Constitution, its place in the history of Latin American constitutionalism, and the reasons why the draft Constitution deserves to be supported.
Transcript available on the Oxford Human Rights Hub website: ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk
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Podcast: The Fire These Times (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 117/ The Impossible Cities: Hong Kong & Beirut w/ Karen Cheung
Pub date: 2022-07-15
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The host and guest end up finding a lot of things in common between their two cities and experiences.
This is a conversation with Karen Cheung, author of the book "The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir." As you'll hear, we ended up finding a lot of things in common between our two cities and experiences.
You can support The Fire These Times on Patreon with a monthly or yearly donation. You can also find it on Twitter @firethesetimes, Instagram @firethesetimes and TikTok @thefirethesetimes. Joey Ayoub can be found on Twitter @joeyayoub and Instagram @joeyayoub91. The newsletter is available on Subtack @ thefirethesetimes.substack.com
Recommended Books:
- Hong Kong Without Us:A People's Poetry edited by The Bauhinia Project
- Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
- Either/Or by Elif Batuman
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Podcast: Philosophy For Our Times (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Human justice and machine intelligence | Joanna Bryson
Pub date: 2022-07-12
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The guest discusses how she became interested in the ways different species use intelligence, how the typical tropes in science fiction misunderstand AI, and the problem of anthropomorphism. This episode explores the most pressing ethical challenges concerning the future of artificial intelligence and whether or not we can stabilise democracy when we have so much information about each other.
Should we be scared of AI?
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Joanna Bryson discusses how she became interested in the ways different species use intelligence, how the typical tropes in science fiction misunderstand AI and the problem of anthropomorphism. In this interview, Bryson discusses the most pressing ethical challenges concerning the future of artificial intelligence and whether or not we can stabilize democracy when we have so much information about each other. She also touches on how the problems that arise with AI aren't always to do with the technology itself but with the social conditions that often produce it.
Joanna Bryson is professor at Hertie School in Berlin. She works on Artificial Intelligence, ethics and collaborative cognition. She advises governments, corporations, and other agencies globally, particularly on AI policy.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Profit Uber Alles - The Uber Files / Dean Starkman
Pub date: 2022-07-18
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A conversation with a journalist from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to talk about the coverage of the Uber Files, detailing the misdealings and corruption that the rideshare giant engages in.
We welcome Dean Starkman of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to talk about the coverage of the Uber Files, detailing the misdealings and corruption that the rideshare giant engages in. Producer Seb Wuepper gets on his soapbox to talk about the old question whether or not the United States is a democracy, we present your hangover cure for this week, and also introduce this week's Question from Hell!
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Podcast: HARDtalk (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Meaza Ashenafi: What are the prospects for peace in Ethiopia?
Pub date: 2022-07-15
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The conflict in Ethiopia between the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front and government forces is one of many challenges to the country’s stability. Now, there is a glimmer of hope, with both sides saying they are willing to start efforts to end the war. What are the prospects for peace and justice in a conflict that has killed tens of thousands?
The conflict in Ethiopia between the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front and government forces is one of many challenges to the country’s stability. Now, there is a glimmer of hope, with both sides saying they are willing to start efforts to end the war. Zeinab Badawi speaks to Meaza Ashenafi, the Chief Justice of the Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia. What are the prospects for peace and justice in a conflict that has killed tens of thousands?
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Podcast: The Gateway - A Podcast from the Middle East (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Mapping Israel/Palestine, with Christine Leuenberger and Izhak Schnell
Pub date: 2022-07-19
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Considering the birth of mapping and the nation-state using early maps of the State of Israel as a case study. How have maps been used to form public perceptions of nationhood, particularly concerning Palestine?
This week we’re joined by Christine Leuenberger and Izhak Schnell, the authors of The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine, published by Oxford University Press in 2020.
They discuss the birth of mapping and the nation-state, early maps of the State of Israel, and how maps are used to form public perceptions of nationhood, particularly concerning Palestine.
Christine Leuenberger is a Senior Lecturer at Cornell University, and Izhak Schnell is an Emeritus Professor of Geophysics at Tel Aviv University.
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Podcast: The New Arab Voice (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: States of Journalism: A growing demand in a shrinking space
Pub date: 2022-07-15
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Exploring the rise and repression of citizen journalists in Egypt and the changes to press freedoms seen in Tunisia.
Motivated by the recent killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in occupied Palestine and what many have described as double standards in international media narratives on Ukraine versus the Middle East, The New Arab's States of Journalism series is a sustained, ongoing exploration of freedom, repression, and accountability in MENA and beyond, in global media landscapes.
On this week's episode of The New Arab Voice, we're examine two stories from the Middle East and the ongoing struggle to secure press freedoms.
First we explore the rise and repression of citizen journalists in Egypt.
When the uprisings against President Hosni Mubarak began, numerous activists took it upon themselves to document the violations being committed, report on the changing landscape of the country, and the issues that mattered most to Egyptians.
Since the overthrow of the president, online space and the abilities of citizen journalists have been severely repressed by the government of President Sisi.
We spoke with Dr. Courtney Radsch (@courtneyr), a journalist and a fellow at the UCLA Institute for Technology Law and Policy. Courtney focuses on the intersection of technology, media, and rights, and is the author of Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and Political Change.
Secondly, we examined the changes to press freedoms seen in Tunisia.
The uprisings in Tunisia, and what followed after, were often held up as an example for the rest of the Arab world to follow. But, in the intervening years, the north African country has taken worrying steps back to a one-man rule system.
Amid the political changes and uncertainty, Fadil Aliriza (@FadilAliriza) founded Meshkal (@meshkaltn), an online independent news outlet.
We spoke with Fadil about Meshkal, the challenges they have faced, the changing media landscape in Tunisia, and what the future may hold for press freedoms in the country.
You can purchase Dr. Courtney Radsch's book here.
You can support Meshkal via their Pateron page.
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Podcast: World in Progress | Deutsche Welle (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Brazil's Karipuna fighting for their forest
Pub date: 2022-07-20
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Indigenous communities are the guardians of the Amazon Forest. In Brazil, their lands are legally protected. But since President Jair Bolsonaro came to power, that's of little help anymore. Deforestation in the Amazon has reached record levels. Loggers, miners, ranchers, and other land grabbers are taking what they want, with no concern about indigenous people and their reserves.
On this show: In Brazil, the Karipuna people are threatened by criminal gangs as they try to protect their ancient forest from destruction, despite death threats ++ From her exile in the US, a journalist from Iran is fighting for women's rights ++ Nigerian tiktok star uses humour to expose people's strange ideas about Africa
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Podcast: Money on the Left (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Superstructure: Bitcoin in El Salvador
Pub date: 2022-07-16
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A discussion of recent protests against Bitcoin in El Salvador, in which the guest weighs the fraught legacy of left politics in and beyond El Salvador, analyses the conspicuous convergence of 'tech-bro' boosterism across the Global South, considers tensions between imperial domination and quotidian safety that attend El Salvador’s dollarisation in 2001, and contemplates the future promise of left politics in El Salvador.
Ricardo Valencia joins co-hosts Andrés Bernal and Scott Ferguson to discuss recent protests against Bitcoin in El Salvador. Adopted as legal tender by the authoritarian President Nayib Bukele in September 2021, Bitcoin has become an emblem in El Salvador for U.S. corporate imperialism, public mismanagement, and anti-democratic rule. Whereas mainstream accounts of cryptocurrency tend to flatten stories in Latin America to matters of success and failure, Ricardo draws upon rich critical approaches in Cultural Studies developed by the likes of Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy to situate current events in El Salvador within histories of global governance, political conflict, and cultural identity. During the conversation, Ricardo weighs the fraught legacy of left politics in and beyond El Salvador. He analyses the conspicuous convergence of “tech-bro” boosterism coming from the U.S. with right-wing regimes in vulnerable countries across the Global South. He considers tensions between imperial domination and quotidian safety that attend El Salvador’s dollarization in 2001, including the large role that remittances play in the everyday lives of the Salvadoran people. Finally, Ricardo contemplates the future promise of left politics in El Salvador. This promise, he explains, hinges upon feminist, queer and environmental movements, which are now demanding democratic and just uses of public money.
Dr. Ricardo Valencia is an assistant professor of public relations in the Department of Communications at California State University, Fullerton. Between 2010 and 2014, Dr. Valencia was the head of the communication section at the Embassy of El Salvador to the United States. He has also worked as a reporter covering international and domestic politics for Salvadoran and global media outlets such as La Prensa Gráfica, German Press Agency (DPA), and El Faro. Follow Ricardo on Twitter @ricardovalp.
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Podcast: Network Capital (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Gambling on Development: Understanding Elite Bargain with Professor of Economic Policy at the Oxford Blavatnik School of Government Stefan Dercon
Pub date: 2022-07-16
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Exploring why some countries have managed to settle on elite bargains favouring growth and development, and why others have not.
Stefan Dercon is Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Economics Department, and a Fellow of Jesus College. He is also Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies.
He combines his academic career with work as a policy advisor, providing strategic economic and development advice, and promoting the use of evidence in decision making. Between 2011 and 2017, he was Chief Economist of the Department of International Development (DFID), the government department in charge with the UK’s aid policy and spending. Between 2020-2022, he was the Development Policy Advisor to successive Foreign Secretaries at the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
His research interests concern what keeps some people and countries poor: the failures of markets, governments and politics, mainly in Africa, and how to achieve change.
His latest book, Gambling on Development: Why some countries win and others lose was published in May 2022. It draws on his academic research as well as his policy experience across three decades and 40-odd countries, exploring why some countries have managed to settle on elite bargains favouring growth and development, and others did not. Previously, Dull Disasters? How Planning Ahead Will Make A Difference was published in 2016, and provides a blueprint for renewed application of science, improved decision making, better preparedness, and pre-arranged finance in the face of natural disasters.
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Podcast: Team Human (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Janelle Orsi
Pub date: 2022-08-10
Playing for Team Human today, Co-Founder of the Sustainable Economies Law Center and Senior Advisor to the Institute For The Future’s Equitable Enterprise Initiative, Janelle Orsi helps Rushkoff overcome his dream for a turn-key solution for greater wealth distribution.
🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how we can transcend both denial and distraction when the world seems to be coming apart.
📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, That Queasy Feeling, on Medium.
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Podcast: For Land & Life: The Oakland Institute Podcast
Episode: Agroecology: The Solution to the Food Price Crisis ft. Luwayo Biswick, Malawian Permaculture Farmer
Pub date: 2022-07-20
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The world is currently in the midst of a food price crisis, with prices of staple foods and agricultural inputs such as fertilisers and pesticides skyrocketing on global markets. As usual, the most vulnerable are being hit the hardest by these rising prices. The good news is that more and more farmers are breaking free from the reliance on expensive and polluting pesticides and fertilisers to feed themselves and their communities
The world is currently in the midst of a food price crisis, with prices of staple foods and agricultural inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides skyrocketing on global markets. As usual, the most vulnerable are being hit the hardest by these rising prices.
The good news is that more and more farmers are breaking free from the reliance on expensive and polluting pesticides and fertilizers to feed themselves and their communities.
In Malawi, Luwayo and Grace Biswick run the Permaculture Paradise Institute. By using agroecological practices, they have transformed their land to produce an abundant diversity of crops year-round. They have also made their livelihoods resilient to climate shocks and market volatility, while saving on agricultural inputs.
Hear their story and how they are helping scale up agroecology in a country in urgent need of a new path forward on the latest episode of For Land & Life – The Oakland Institute Podcast.
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Podcast: New Books in Geography (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Lorna Down and Therese Ferguson, "Education for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean: Pedagogy, Processes and Practices" (U West Indies Press, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-07-15
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Offering a unique perspective on educational approaches to creating a sustainable world.
Education for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean: Pedagogy, Processes and Practices (University of the West Indies Press, 2022) offers a unique perspective on educational approaches to creating a sustainable world. Lorna Down and Therese Ferguson complement their theoretical discussions with practical, “real world” engagements. Case studies and current research ground teaching and learning for sustainability and enable diverse communities of learners, inside and outside of classrooms, to transform their societies.
With its emphasis on the crucial role of education for the transformation to a peaceful, just, inclusive and environmentally sustainable world, this book is a valuable resource for students, lecturers and researchers working in education for sustainable development across disciplines. It also is a significant text for those working in community-based, non-governmental and intergovernmental fields.
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Podcast: Seriously... (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ceausescu's Children
Pub date: 2022-07-05
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Today, the guest lives with her family in the North Yorkshire countryside – but her life could have turned out wildly different. Until the age of two-and-a-half, she lived in an orphanage, in Transylvania, north-western Romania. She explores what child care and protection looks like in Romania today, meets someone who grew up in the state system his entire childhood, and has an emotional encounter of her own.
Today, the actor Ionica Adriana lives with her family in the North Yorkshire countryside - but her life could have turned out wildly different. Until the age of two-and-a-half, Ionica lived in an orphanage, in Transylvania, north-western Romania. From 1965-1989, the Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu enforced a strict set of policies to set about vastly increasing the Romanian population. But widespread poverty meant it was impossible for many Romanian parents to look after their newborn children - and so many ended up in state-run institutions, where they received little care and attention, and where they were left in dirty clothes, to feed and fend for themselves. Ionica returns to Romania to uncover her past and the history of Ceaușescu’s barbaric orphanages. She explores what childcare and protection looks like in Romania today, meets someone who grew up in the state system his entire childhood and has an emotional encounter of her own. Producer: Sasha Edye-Lindner A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4
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Podcast: The Week in Art (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Summer of Seoul: why the South Korean capital is a new art world hub
Pub date: 2022-06-30
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On the contemporary art scene in Seoul and beyond, and the story of its origins in 1990s globalisation.
On 29 June, Frieze announced the details of the first edition of its art fair in Seoul, South Korea. So for this last episode of the current season, we’re exploring the art scene and market in the Korean capital. Ben Luke talks to the art historian and curator Jiyoon Lee about contemporary art in Seoul and beyond, and the origins of the current art scene in 1990s globalisation. The Art Newspaper’s associate editor, Kabir Jhala, speaks to two gallerists—Joorhee Kwon, deputy director at the Kukje Gallery and Emma Son, senior director at Lehmann Maupin, about the growing market and collector base, and the effect Frieze may have on the existing scene. And this episode’s Work of the Week is Dahye Jeong’s A Time of Sincerity, a basket made with horsehair that this week won the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize. Kabir talks to the creative director at the fashion brand Loewe, Jonathan Anderson, about Jeong’s piece.
Frieze Seoul, COEX, Seoul, 2-5 September.
The Space Between: The Modern in Korean Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 11 September-19 February 2023.
The 2022 Loewe Foundation Craft Prize, Seoul Museum of Craft Art, until 31 July.
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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Ethiopia’s Disinformation War
Pub date: 2022-06-30
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When President Abiy Ahmed came to power in Ethiopia he was seen as a reformer who was heralding a new era of hope. But less than a year later he ordered a military offensive against regional forces in Tigray in the north of the country. It’s a conflict that has been characterised by an almost constant media blackout in Tigray. In the absence of detailed reporting – rumour, denial and misinformation has been rife. But a few dedicated journalists have been working hard to get at the truth.
When President Abiy Ahmed came to power in Ethiopia he was seen as a reformer who was heralding a new era of hope. In 2019 he was even awarded the Nobel Peace prize. But less than a year later he ordered a military offensive against regional forces in Tigray in the north of the country. He said he did so in response to an attack on a military base housing government troops there. It’s a conflict that has been characterised by an almost constant media blackout in Tigray. In the absence of detailed reporting, rumour, denial and misinformation has been rife. But a few dedicated journalists have been working hard to get at the truth. Chloe Hadjimatheou hears from one of them as she tries to unpick fact from fiction in Ethiopia’s information war. Produced and presented by Chloe Hadjimatheou Editor Penny Murphy Studio mix by Neil Churchill Production coordinators Iona Hammond and Gemma Ashman
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Podcast: Invisible Institutions
Episode: E7 Life and Death in Canada’s Institutions
Pub date: 2022-07-07
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In 2021, Canada expanded access to medical assistance in dying to all people with disabilities who suffer as a result of their condition. These expansions to MAiD come at a time when people labeled with intellectual and developmental disabilities are criminalised and institutionalised.
In 2021, Canada expanded access to medical assistance in dying to all people with disabilities who suffer as a result of their condition. These expansions to MAiD come at a time when people labeled with intellectual and developmental disabilities are criminalized and institutionalized.
Featuring footage from the Freedom Tour documentary, and the Disability Filibuster. Featuring testimonies by Catherine Frazee, Sarah Jama, and Jonathan Marchand. Interview with Inclusion Canada’s Natalia Hicks.
Transcript and full show notes available at invisibleinstitutions.com
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Elsa L. Fan, "Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-07-04
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Examining the unanticipated effects of global health interventions, ideas, and practices as they unfold in communities of men who have sex with men (MSM) in China.
Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China (U Minnesota Press, 2021) examines the unanticipated effects of global health interventions, ideas, and practices as they unfold in communities of men who have sex with men (MSM) in China. Targeted for the scaling-up of HIV testing, Elsa L. Fan examines how the impact of this initiative has transformed these men from subjects of care into commodities of care: through the use of performance-based financing tied to HIV testing, MSM have become a source of economic and political capital.
In ethnographic detail, Fan shows how this particular program, ushered in by global health donors, became the prevailing strategy to control the epidemic in China in the late 2000s. Fan examines the implementation of MSM testing and its effects among these men, arguing that the intervention produced new markets of men, driven by the push to meet testing metrics.
Fan shows how men who have sex with men in China came to see themselves as part of a global MSM category, adopting new selfhoods and socialities inextricably tied to HIV and to testing. Wider trends in global health programming have shaped national public health responses in China and, this book reveals, have radically altered the ways health, disease, and care are addressed.
Adam Bobeck is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. His PhD is entitled “Object-Oriented Azadari: Shi’i Muslim Rituals and Ontology”. For more about his work, see www.adambobeck.com.
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Podcast: LSE: Public lectures and events (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Age of Refugees
Pub date: 2022-06-18
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As so many are forced to leave their homes, not all refugees gain the same level of visibility, welcome, and recognition. What are the consequences for the lives of those who move and those who receive them? How do media representations of refugees affect their reception? And how do refugees use digital media to themselves tell their stories of uprooting and migration?
Contributor(s): Rob Sharp, Dr Eva Polonska-Kimunguyi, Professor Myria Georgiou, Abdulrahman Bdiwi | Over the past decades, and across continents, numerous refugee “crises” have led to the explosion of the global refugee population, which has more than doubled in the last ten years. As so many are forced to leave their homes, not all refugees gain the same level of visibility, welcome, and recognition. What are the consequences for the lives of those who move and those who receive them? How do media representations of refugees affect their reception? And how do refugees use digital media to themselves tell their stories of uprooting and migration?
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Podcast: Ethics of AI in Context
Episode: Conference: Trust and the Ethics of AI
Pub date: 2022-07-08
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Addressing some of the insights that we have gained about the ethics of AI and the concept of trust. This workshop critically explores practical and theoretical issues relating to values and frameworks, engaging with carebots, evaluations of decision support systems, and norms in the private sector.
This workshop aims to address some of the insights that we have gained about the ethics of AI and the concept of trust. We critically explore practical and theoretical issues relating to values and frameworks, engaging with carebots, evaluations of decision support systems, and norms in the private sector. We assess the objects of trust in a democratic setting and discuss how scholars can further shift insights from academia to other sectors. Workshop proceedings will appear in a special symposium issue of C4eJournal.net.
Speakers: Judith Simon (University of Hamburg), Can and Should We Trust AI? Vivek Nallur (University College Dublin), Trusting a Carebot: Towards a Framework for Asking the Right Questions Justin B. Biddle (Georgia Institute of Technology), Organizational Perspectives on Trust and Values in AI Sina Fazelpour (Northeastern University), Where Are the Missing Humans? Evaluating AI Decision Support Systems in Content Esther Keymolen (Tilburg University), Trustworthy Tech Companies: Talking the Talk or Walking the Walk? Ori Freiman (University of Toronto), Making Sense of the Conceptual Nonsense “Trustworthy AI”: What’s Next?
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Podcast: Digital Planet (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Are internet shutdowns evolving?
Pub date: 2022-07-12
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Internet shutdowns have been a global issue for many years, from Cuba and Myanmar to Iran. A new UN report now warns of their dramatic real-life effects on millions worldwide. Why do internet shutdowns occur, and how have they changed over time?
Internet shutdowns have been a global issue for many years, and Digital Planet has reported on many of them, from Cuba and Myanmar to Iran. A new United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) report now warns of the dramatic real-life effects. Gareth speaks to Peggy Hicks, one of the authors of the report, about how internet shutdowns impact the lives of millions worldwide. In addition, Rest of World journalist Peter Guest, and #KeepItOn campaign manager at AccessNow, Felicia Anthonio, join live in the studio to discuss why internet shutdowns occur, and whether they have changed over time.
Quantum-safe algorithms The encryption methods we currently use keep our data safe and secure, but this could be a thing of the past soon. Experts expect quantum computers to be able to crack these encryption codes quite easily in the future, which could have devastating consequences. After a six year selection process, the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States has chosen four initial algorithms for their quantum-safe cryptography standards. Gareth speaks to Anne Dames, an engineer at IBM, where three of the final four were developed.
Mobile app for tinnitus Hearing a ringing or buzzing in your ear can be very difficult to deal with. A number of mobile tinnitus apps are now promising help. One of them, called TinniBot, even includes an AI chatbot that provides support whenever it is needed. Our reporter Fern Lulham has been finding out more.
The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell with expert commentary from Bill Thompson
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Podcast: Lekh
Episode: Andrea Wright - Between Dreams and Ghosts
Pub date: 2022-07-10
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Around a million Indians travel to the Gulf per year to work in oil and gas projects, largely men without formalised skills or education. A new book uses ethnography to capture their journey through the men making the trips, the recruiting agents and intermediaries enabling their employment, and government bureaucrats regulating such migrations.
In the 27th episode, I speak to Andrea Wright, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at William & Mary, on her recent book Between Dreams and Ghosts Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil (Stanford University Press, 2021). The book's an ethnography of Indian migration to the Gulf, focusing on workers in oil and gas projects in UW and Kuwait. Around a million Indians travel to the Gulf per year to work on such projects, largely men without formalized skills or education. The book captures their journey through the men making the trips, the recruiting agents and intermediaries enabling their employment, and government bureaucrats regulating such migrations. Such processes, as Wright argues, are part of larger trends related to global capitalism and neoliberalism that necessitate the need and demand for such labour and the actors who serve specific functions to fuel capital accumulation. The conversation begins by asking what led to Wright's interest in migration and Indian migration to the Gulf before exploring how this issue has been covered and explained by various literatures and why a different take was needed. Next, we unpack the book's arresting title and how poetics related to 'dreams and ghosts' are crucial to how migrants themselves situate their role in this process. Then we move to understand the methodology behind the project that involves multiple sites and the difficulties inherent in designing and implementing such a research exercise across countries. Conceptually, the book looks at migration through specific economic systems or logics, namely neoliberalism and Wright explains how this framing helped her think through the project. We close by understanding the role of the Indian state in this project/process, the role that gold plays in sustaining relations across continents, and what Wright thought was the hardest part of writing the book.
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Podcast: Global Research News Hour (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Canadian Mining in Africa: Looting a Continent
Pub date: 2022-07-08
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A conversation exploring the role of the Canadian mining companies’ heavy investment in mineral extraction from the continent of Africa.
Today’s episode is a recording of a conversation exploring the role of the Canadian Mining companies heavy investment in mineral extraction from the continent of Africa. The role of these companies and of the Canadian government is quite abysmal in terms of their abuse of human rights and the ecological damage done to the environment. We will host conversations about the operations at hand, how they got to the extent of the current enterprise, and about ways we could conceivably reverse course. Speakers in this episode include Jamie Kneen of MiningWatch Canada, Phyllia Ngoatje of Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA) and Yves Engler, a researcher and author . The talk was moderated by Bianca Mugyenyi, who is also Director of the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute which together with Mining Watch Canada sponsored this event
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Podcast: New Books in Law (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Reshaping the Politics of Science: Bioscience Governance in Indonesia
Pub date: 2022-07-08
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Discussing the crucial role of biological materials exchange for scientific research, what rules govern their use, and the history of inequality that has underpinned scientific use of biological materials.
The last few years have brought to the fore the brilliant work of scientists as they worked to find a vaccine for Covid-19. But have you ever stopped to think about the role of biological materials in this and other science- and health-related research?
In this episode of SSEAC Stories, Dr Natali Pearson is joined by Associate Professor Sonja van Wichelen to take a close look at the complex world of global health governance, with a particular focus on biotechnology and bioscience governance in Indonesia. They discuss the crucial role of biological materials exchange for scientific research, what rules govern their use, and the history of inequality that has underpinned scientific use of biological materials. Taking Indonesia’s recent efforts to gain leverage in the uneven space of the global bioeconomy, they explore how bioscience governance mechanisms can perpetuate, or sometimes help address, global power inequalities in the way biological material is used.
About Sonja van Wichelen:
Sonja van Wichelen is Associate Professor with the School for Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney. She researches the social implications of biotechnology and law and has focused on reproductive technologies in previous projects. More recently she is examining bioscience governance in Southeast Asia. Focusing on Indonesia, she is particularly interested in the relationship between regulatory frameworks and global inequality. She is the author of Legitimating Life: Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology (Rutgers University Press, 2019), and Religion, Gender, and Politics in Indonesia: Disputing the Muslim Body (Routledge, 2010).
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Podcast: The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: What the world can learn from South Africa
Pub date: 2022-07-08
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
As countries around the world confront rising authoritarianism, one country may offer insight into how democracy can triumph over minority rule. South Africa was supposed to go up in flames when Nelson Mandela became president in 1994. Instead, Mandela oversaw a peaceful transition to democracy. A quarter century after that negotiated transfer of power, a multiracial democracy took root and blossomed.
As countries around the world, including the U.S., confront rising authoritarianism, one country may offer insight into how democracy can triumph over minority rule.
South Africa was supposed to go up in flames when Nelson Mandela became president in 1994. White people feared that the Black majority would take their revenge on those who long oppressed them.
Instead, Mandela oversaw a peaceful transition to democracy. A quarter century after that negotiated transfer of power, a multiracial democracy took root and blossomed.
I witnessed this remarkable democratic transformation when I reported from South Africa in the late 1990s and wrote a book about the transition from apartheid.
Evan Lieberman offers a fresh take on South Africa’s journey to democracy in his new book, “Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa After Apartheid.” Lieberman is a total professor of political science and contemporary Africa at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“At this time when the idea of democracy is under assault, South Africa shows us that (democracy) is still a really promising and probably our best political solution, particularly in diverse societies,” Lieberman said. South Africa offers “a reminder that we can solve our problems through a combination of elections, good institutions, deliberation and a public spiritedness that is intrinsic to democratic practice.”
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Podcast: War in Ukraine: Update from Kyiv
Episode: 60. DEEP DIVE: Matthew Ford and Andrew Hoskins on Radical War - data, digitization, smartphones and war - the new war ecology of the 21st Century
Pub date: 2022-06-25
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Examining the digital explosion that has ripped across the battlefield, weaponising our attention and making everyone a participant in wars without end. 'Smart' devices, apps, archives and algorithms remove the bystander from war, collapsing the distinctions between audience and actor, soldier and civilian, media and weapon, rupturing our capacity to make sense of war. Now we are all either victims or perpetrators.
Matthew Ford, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, and Andrew Hoskins, Professor of Global Security at the University of Glasgow discuss Radical War - the way in which data and digitization are transforming warfare in the twenty-first century - smartphones in war, the new war ecology and the nature of attention.
FYI - for non-Brits - 'a bit marmite' translates as 'a divisive issue' - you love it or you hate it! (you have to try marmite to get it) 😁
Matt and Andrew's book Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century
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Podcast: Pakistonomy (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Pakistonomy - Episode 114 - Political Parties and Violence
Pub date: 2022-06-24
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Political violence has been a major issue facing Pakistan's flawed and floundering democracy for decades. From Karachi to South Punjab, political actors have overtly and covertly deployed violence to gain influence, votes, and power. But why do political actors use violence to achieve these goals? And what are ways to deal with this issue?
Political violence has been a major issue facing Pakistan's flawed and floundering democracy for decades. From Karachi to South Punjab, political actors have overtly and covertly deployed violence to gain influence, votes, and power. But why do political actors use violence to achieve these goals? And what are ways to deal with this issue?
In this episode, Uzair talks to Dr. Nilofer Siddiqui about political parties and violence. Dr. Siddiqui is an Assistant Professor at the University of Albany. She is also a Nonresident Fellow at the Stimson Center and a Fellow at the Mahbub ul Haq Centre at LUMS. She is author of the book Under the Gun: Political Parties and Violence in Pakistan, which examines why political parties engage in violence and the variation in violence strategies that they employ.
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Podcast: It Could Happen Here (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Struggle for Abortion Rights in Mexico
Pub date: 2022-06-29
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Talking to the feminist and human rights activist in Mexico about the struggle for abortion rights and what we can learn from the Green Tide.
We talk to Erika Yamada, a feminist and human rights activist in Mexico about the struggle for abortion rights and what we can learn from the Green Tide.
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Podcast: Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 362) Catriona Sandilands: Botanical colonialism and biocultural histories
Pub date: 2022-06-28
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
An exploration of cultivating plurality within the stories we tell, remembering histories of reciprocity coming from Western traditions, the connection between how we relate to the more-than-human world and our views of and experiences with sexuality, and more.
"We sometimes forget that the knowledge systems we use to conceptualize the world are not necessarily exactly the same thing as the world that we're conceptualizing. We mistake the model of the model for the thing that is being modeled. We mistake the map for the territory. We mistake the word for the thing."
In this episode, we welcome Catriona Sandilands, a professor of environmental arts and justice at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University. Having written, edited, or co-edited four books and close to 100 essays and articles, her research areas include queer and feminist posthumanities, critical plant studies, biocultural histories, ecocriticism, and public environmental engagement through literature and storytelling.
Some of the topics we explore in this conversation include cultivating plurality within the stories we tell, remembering histories of reciprocity coming from Western traditions, the connection between how we relate to the more-than-human world and our views of and experiences with sexuality, and more.
(The musical offering featured in this episode is Everyday Magic by Luna Bec. The episode-inspired artwork is by Ellie Yanagisawa.)
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Podcast: Paris Institute for Critical Thinking
Episode: The Last Ottoman #2: Mortaza Behboudi, Afghanistan: Diversity & Disintegration
Pub date: 2022-06-28
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Nothing that was built over centuries can collapse overnight. And while the paper on which the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist in 1923 degrades a little more with each passing day, the legacy of the empire it officially ended is very much alive today.
Our second guest is Mortaza Behboudi, journalist (Kabul, Afghanistan) Friday, June 3, 2022
Nothing that was built over centuries can collapse overnight. And while the paper on which the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist in 1923 degrades a little more with each passing day, the legacy of the empire it officially ended is very much alive today. Welcome to The Last Ottoman, with David Selim Sayers, a podcast series in which we take a critical look at the Ottoman Empire and its place in our world today.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Radical Human Rights / Zachery Manfredi
Pub date: 2022-06-28
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The political theorist and legal scholar talks about his recent Boston Review article.
We welcome political theorist and legal scholar Zachari Manfredi to talk about his Boston Review article "Radicalizing Human Rights." Then we have more of your answers to this week's Question from Hell!, as well this week's installment of Rotten History.
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Podcast: Brazil Unfiltered (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Is Brazil a Democracy with Lilia Schwarcz
Pub date: 2022-06-27
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Speaking with the professor of Anthropology, who is a pioneer and model of how academics can use social media platforms like youtube and Instagram to increase historical consciousness.
In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Lilia Schwarcz. Lilia is a professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and the University of São Paulo. She is the author of many books in Portuguese and in English on the history and culture of Brazil. Some of her books available in English include: The Spectacle of Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930; The Emperor’s Beard: D. Pedro II and His tropical Monarchy in Brazil; Lima Barreto: A Sad Visionary in Brazil at the Beginning of the XX Century; Brazil: A Biography – co-written with Heloisa Starling. And, coming out in English very soon: Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past and Present. Lilia regularly writes for popular Brazilian newspapers such as Folha de S. Paulo, Estado de S. Paulo, and Nexo. Also, Lilia is a pioneer and model of how academics can use social media platforms like youtube and Instagram to increase historical consciousness.
Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.
Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.
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Podcast: The Gateway - A Podcast from the Middle East (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Hacking the Middle East, with Ahmed Al-Rawi
Pub date: 2022-06-27
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Looking at how different actors in the Middle East, from states to activists, use hacking as a form of political disruption. Nation-states as well as their affiliated hacking groups like cyber warriors employ hacking as offensive and defensive tools against other nation-states. Some states use hacking to target their own citizens. But there are also politically independent hackers who target their own government or ordinary citizens.
This week we are joined by Ahmed Al-Rawi who has written a book called Cyberwars in the Middle East, published by Rutgers University Press in 2021.
The book looks at how different actors in the Middle East, from states to activists, use hacking as a form of political disruption.
Ahmed is an Assistant Professor of News, Social Media, and Public Communication at Simon Fraser University.
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Podcast: Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 427: Colombian Literature and the Human Experience
Pub date: 2022-06-07
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Literature in Colombia has always responded to attention from beyond the country – attention that manifested itself in single-crop farming (monocultivo) and extractive industries. From palm oil to coca, bananas to oil coltan, coal to rubber – each resource defines a different decade in the Colombian literary experience.
Colombian writer, journalist, philosopher and art deal Juan Pablo Plata joins us on this week's Colombia Calling podcast (Episode 427) to discuss Colombia as a literary experience and how literature in Colombia has been defined over each decade by single-crop farming (monocultivo) and extractive industries. Perhaps, says Plata, we can look at Palm Oil, Coca (for cocaine), Bananas, Coal, Oil Coltan, Ribber and beyond as defining literature in Colombia depending on the era? And certainly, Jorge Isaacs, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Laura Restrepo and others can be linked directly to this phenomenon. "We already know that the best Colombian history is written by anglosaxons," said Plata. We discuss anglosaxon literature on Colombia, such as by authors such as Malcolm Deas, Davd Bushnell and Wade Davis before plunging into Colombia's new literary frontier of ELO (literatura electonica colombiana). Check out Juan Pablo Plata on Twitter: @jppescribe and his literary magazine: Colina Revista - https://revistalcolina.blogspot.com Colombia News Brief from journalist Emily Hart.
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Podcast: Global Development Institute podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Urban metabolism, water scarcity & seawater desalination in Chile | Maria Christina Fragkou
Pub date: 2022-05-18
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The increasing water shortages along Chile, and the consequent pressure on the country’s continental water sources, has resulted in the consolidation of seawater desalination as the Chilean State’s main strategy for supplying drinking water to coastal populations in arid areas. Despite the growing expansion of this technology, the social implications of desalinated water distribution for human consumption in Chilean cities have not yet been studied. What can we expect?
GDI’s Resources, Environment, and Development research group have recently organised a series of talks on ‘Red Talks: on the Politics of Resources, Environment and Development’
The first event welcomed Dr Maria Christina Fragkou, an environmental scientist currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Chile to discuss ‘Urban metabolism, water scarcity and seawater desalination in Chile under a neoliberal paradigm’
In her talk, Maria shared her research on the current water crisis in Chile, and the hydro-social implications of desalination (widely promoted as a solution to the crisis) from an urban socio-economic metabolism perspective. The increasing water shortages along Chile, and the consequent pressure on the country’s continental water sources, has resulted in the consolidation of seawater desalination as the Chilean State’s main strategy for supplying drinking water to coastal populations in arid areas. Despite the growing expansion of this technology, the social implications of desalinated water distribution for human consumption in Chilean cities have not yet been studied.
A transcript of the talk can be found here: https://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/gdi/research/transcripts/urban_metabolism_water_scarcity_and_seawater_desalination_in_chile_fragkou.pdf
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Podcast: The Springer Math Podcast
Episode: Mathematics in Latin America: Challenges and Perspectives. Marcelo Viana interviewed by Robinson dos Santos
Pub date: 2022-06-03
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
On the challenges and the opportunities of doing research in mathematics in Latin America, the role of Rio de Janeiro's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics in the development of mathematical research in the region, and the perspectives of regional and global cooperation.
In this month’s podcast, our guest is Marcelo Viana, researcher and director of the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, IMPA, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
In this episode, we've invited him to talk about the challenges and the opportunities of doing research in mathematics in Latin America, the role of IMPA in the development of mathematical research in the region, and the perspectives of regional and global cooperation.
Marcelo Viana obtained his PhD at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, in 1990, six years after finishing his undergraduate studies at the University of Porto, Portugal. His main research interests are in Dynamical Systems and Theory of Chaos. He has received many prizes and distinctions, among them the Ramanujan Prize from the International Center for Theoretical Physics of Trieste, in 2005, and the Grand Prix Scientifique Louis D. from the Academy of Sciences of Paris, France, in 2016. He has supervised over forty PhD students and published over sixty papers and more than ten books. Viana is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society.
He will be hosted by Robinson dos Santos, Editor for Mathematics.
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Podcast: The China in Africa Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: U.S.-China Tech Competition in the Middle East
Pub date: 2022-05-27
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Chinese influence in the Mideast and Persian Gulf regions has been steadily rising over the two years, particularly in the tech sector where firms like Huawei, ZTE, and Hikvision among others are rapidly expanding. In fact, China is so far ahead that, unless the U.S. radically changes its policy, it may be too late to catch up.
While U.S. President Joe Biden is stepping up his efforts to confront China's dominance in the Asia-Pacific, he might also want to pay attention to what's happening in the Middle East.
Chinese influence in the Mideast and Persian Gulf regions has been steadily rising over the two years, particularly in the tech sector where firms like Huawei, ZTE, and Hikvision among others are rapidly expanding. In fact, China is so far ahead, according to Mohammed Soliman, a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C., that unless the U.S. radically changes its policy, it may be too late to catch up.
Mohammed joins Eric & Cobus to discuss his urgent warning for U.S. policymakers about China's growing technology dominance in the Middle East and what they need to do to meet the challenge.
Show Notes:
- The National Interest: China Is Winning the Middle East’s Data, Cyber, and Technology Race by Mohammed Soliman: https://bit.ly/3MVCIYi
- Middle East Institute: The GCC, US-China tech war, and the next 5G storm by Mohammed Soliman
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Privatizing the Internet Was a Mistake w/ Ben Tarnoff
Pub date: 2022-06-09
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Discussing why the problems with the modern internet, including its excessive concentration in the hands of a few companies and the way its dominant firms shape our interactions to generate profit, find their root in the decision to privatise the network. To fix them, that needs to be changed
Paris Marx is joined by Ben Tarnoff to discuss why the problems with the modern internet, including its excessive concentration in the hands of a few companies and the way its dominant firms shape our interactions to generate profit, find their root in the decision to privatize the network. To fix them, that needs to be changed.
Ben Tarnoff is the author of Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future and the co-founder of Logic Magazine. Follow Ben on Twitter at @bentarnoff.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
- An excerpt of Ben’s book was published in the New York Times.
- Victor Pickard wrote about the history of public media in Democracy Without Journalism.
- Newt Gingrich and George Gilder, once featured by Wired for their visions for the internet, have now become big crypto fans.
- The United States has terrible broadband access.
- Major tech companies are buying up undersea internet cables.
- Tarleton Gillespie wrote about the politics of platforms and what the term suggests.
- Jathan Sadowski compares platforms to shopping malls.
- Tressie McMillan Cottom wrote about the predatory inclusion of the internet.
- Community internet has shown success in the United States, while provincial public telcos have a history of positive outcomes in Canada.
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Operation Condor: A History of a Dirty War in Latin America
Pub date: 2022-06-09
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The guest discusses her latest book, which shows how networks of justice seekers gradually materialised and effectively transcended national borders to achieve justice for the victims of the transnational repression masterminded by South American dictators between 1969 and 1981
Guest: Francesca Lessa is a lecturer in Latin American studies and development University of Oxford. She is the author of Memory and Transitional Justice in Argentina and Uruguay (2013) and The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America (2022). [1]She is the honorary president of the Observatorio Luz Ibarburu (Uruguay).
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Podcast: A World to Win with Grace Blakeley (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The TikTok-ification of Colombia's Election w/ David Adler
Pub date: 2022-06-09
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
This conversation, recorded before Petro's come-from-behind victory, reflects on what the results of the first-round voting taught us about the role of social media platforms like TikTok in the global political discourse
This week, Grace talks to David Adler, General Coordinator of the Progressive International, about the ongoing Colombian presidential election and what the results of its first round say about the role of social media platforms like TikTok in the global political discourse.
Thanks to producer Sarah Hurd for filling in this week and to the Socialism Conference for making this episode possible.
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Podcast: Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 428: Bogotá's Recent Past and Colombia's Future
Pub date: 2022-06-14
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Over the last fifteen years Colombia has moved from an ostensibly failed state to an emerging market and tourist destination, providing Nobel-endorsed evidence that peace and reconciliation are possible after decades of brutalisation. It may be more governable than it used to be, but not because the passengers are happier with the pilot.
Over the last fifteen years Colombia has moved from ostensibly failed state to emerging market and tourist destination, providing Nobel-endorsed evidence that peace and reconciliation are possible after decades of brutalization. But while Colombia may no longer be the country that former president Ernesto Samper described in 2002, where governing was like trying to pilot an airplane in a storm while the passengers were rioting, neither is it the wonderland depicted in official propaganda. Many Colombians live badly; many more, well into the nominal middle class, live precariously; and still more structure their lives around minimizing their chances of falling victim to crime—something the poorest are unable to do. Unhappiness about the present and pessimism about the future are rampant across the social scale, focused precisely on those themes the Juan Manuel Santos government (2010–2018) touted as successes: the peace process, “social inclusion,” and infrastructure and public services. Much can be blamed on the administration of President Ivan Duque and the continual spectre of uribismo in addition to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Colombia may be more governable than it used to be, but not because the passengers are happier with the pilot—with the qualified (and to many Colombians highly suspicious) exception of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Tune in for a profound historical and amusing anecdotal look at Colombia through the eyes and experience of an expert Latin Americanist. Dr. Richard Stoller is Coordinator of Academic Advising and International Programs, Schreyer Honors College, Pennsylvania State University. Colombia news brief from journalist Emily Hart.
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Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Brazil: From Hope to Fascism with Daniel Conceição
Pub date: 2022-06-11
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Delving into the mechanics of the Brazilian currency – the real – as well as how the central bank manages it, this conversation discusses balance of payment and foreign exchange situations; and explains why the issue of 'monetary sovereignty' is part of Brazil's story, but not the end of it.
Dr. Daniel Negreiros Conceição developed an interest in economics at a young age, having experienced the consequences of inflationary crises during his formative years. After being entranced by the writings of MMT economists as an undergrad studying economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, he came to the US to do his graduate studies at UMKC where he became a friend and colleague of so many of our favorite guests on this podcast. He left determined to use what he learned to help his own country achieve its potential.
He spoke with us about the recent political and historical context for background into the broader political economic situation and the stances of the major political actors towards it. He pointed out the closely matching parallel track with our own political developments in the US and the economic underpinnings. He also discussed many similarities in the state of the discourse and misinformation in discussions of finance and government budgets.
He then explained the mechanics of the Brazilian currency, the real, and discussed how the central bank manages it. He discussed balance of payment and foreign exchange situations, and explained why the issue of “monetary sovereignty” is part of the story, but not the end of it. He spoke of a country with monetary sovereignty and abundant natural resources. A country whose government accidentally proved with a massive pandemic economic bailout of the financial sector that the government can indeed do big things and better the lives of its people, if it really wants to.
Daniel Negreiros Conceição is an associate professor at the Unicamp Institute of Economics. A professor at the Institute of Research and Urban and Regional Planning (IPPUR) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He is one of the authors of the book “Modern Monetary Theory: The Key to an Economy at the Service of People”. He is president of the executive board of Institute of Functional Finance for Development Brasil.
https://iffdbrasil.org
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Podcast: New Books in Gender (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Moisés Lino e Silva, "Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-06-01
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
In this visceral ethnography of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the guest explores what happens when liberalism is challenged by people whose lives are impaired by normative understandings of liberty.
Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rights—usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois—at the expense of marginalized groups, such as Black people, children, LGBTQ people, and slum dwellers. In this visceral ethnography of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Moisés Lino e Silva explores what happens when liberalism is challenged by people whose lives are impaired by normative understandings of liberty. He calls such marginalized visions of freedom “minoritarian liberalism,” a concept that stands in for overlapping, alternative modes of freedom—be they queer, favela, or peasant.
In Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela(University of Chicago Press, 2022), Lino e Silva introduces readers to a broad collective of favela residents, most intimately accompanying Natasha Kellem, a charismatic self-declared travesti (a term used in Latin America to indicate a specific form of female gender construction opposite to the sex assigned at birth). While many of those the author meets consider themselves “queer,” others are treated as “abnormal” simply because they live in favelas. Through these interconnected experiences, Lino e Silva not only pushes at the boundaries of anthropological inquiry, but also offers ethnographic evidence of non-normative routes to freedom for those seeking liberties against the backdrop of capitalist exploitation, transphobia, racism, and other patterns of domination.
Moisés Lino e Silva is tenured faculty in the department of anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in Brazil.
Armanc Yildiz is a doctoral candidate in Social Anthropology with a secondary field in Studies in Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University. He is also the founder of Academics Write, where he supports scholars in their writing projects as a writing coach and developmental editor.
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Podcast: Law and the Future of War (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: War Algorithms - Dustin Lewis
Pub date: 2022-06-15
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
How can we ensure greater respect for international law when states deploy their algorithmic capabilities? And how can this same objective lend itself to securing peace, protecting civilians, regulating hostilities, safeguarding the environment, and ending armed conflicts?
In this episode, Dr Lauren Sanders speaks with Dustin Lewis, of Harvard Law School's Project on International Law and Armed Conflict about war algorithms and his recent project on pathways for using AI, and how to ensure greater respect for international law when states use these algorithmic capabilities.
Dustin is the Research Director at the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (PILAC). With a focus on public international law sources and methods, Dustin leads research into several wide-ranging contemporary challenges related to securing peace, protecting civilians, regulating hostilities, safeguarding the environment, and ending armed conflicts.
Additional Resources:
PILAC - Three Pathways to Secure Greater Respect for International Law Concerning War Algorithms
SIPRI - Emerging Military and Security Technologies Project
ASSER Institute - Designing International Law and Ethics into Military Artificial Intelligence (DILEMA)
Geneva Institute - Lethal Autonomous Weapons and War Crimes Project
AutoNorms - Weaponised AI, Norms and Order
ICRC Background Papers on LAWS: ICRC Position on Autonomous Weapons
Suchman - Human-Machine Reconfigurations (CUP, 2012)
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Podcast: New Models (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Depeche Modem w/ Kevin Driscoll on early net culture (NM44)
Pub date: 2022-05-23
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
On the physical — and social — technology that underpinned the DIY side of networked technology’s evolution in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Parallel to institutional network culture were systems ranging from FidoNet to De Digitale Stad (DDS) Netherlands. To map out this early territory is also to ask ourselves what it really means to be 'autonomous' online, and what alternate conceptions of 'the internet' might be possible when we consider the broader origin story of the digital social sphere.
NM speaks with Kevin Driscoll, author of The Modem World: A Pre-history of Social Media (Yale Univ. Press, 2022), which examines the physical — and social — technology that underpinned the DIY side of networked technology’s evolution in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Parallel to institutional network culture were the proto-dark-forest communities of BBS networks and other pre-www systems. From FidoNet to De Digitale Stad (DDS) Netherlands, Kevin maps out this early territory, with a brief history of the French Minitel system along the way.
Through his work, Kevin asks us to consider what it really means to be “autonomous” online and what alternate conceptions of “the internet” might be possible when we consider the broader origin story of the digital social sphere.
For More: https://kevindriscoll.info/ https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/minitel https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248142/modem-world/
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Podcast: Big Ideas (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: AI and the rise of smart machines
Pub date: 2022-06-01
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
AI will revolutionise medicine, and help to combat climate change. But it also threatens to usher in a new age of automated drone warfare. With smart machines poised to take more decisions out of our hands, how can we ensure these decisions are ethical, moral, and in our interest?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) will revolutionise medicine, and help to combat climate change. But it also threatens to usher in a new age of automated drone warfare. With smart machines poised to take more decisions out of our hands, how can we ensure these decisions are ethical, moral, and in our interest? Paul Barclay talks to Professor Toby Walsh.
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Phil Klay on Citizenship in an Age of Endless Invisible War
Pub date: 2022-05-27
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Discussing a number of topics, ranging from the concept of the citizen soldier, to a history of the AR-15. The guest talks about his experience as a public affairs officer in the Marine Corps, the way that America chooses to exercise its power, and the obligations of citizenship.
Bryce Klehm sat down with Phil Klay, the author of the new book, “Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless Invisible War.” Klay is a winner of the National Book Award for fiction and a veteran of the war in Iraq. His latest book is a collection of essays from the past ten years that deal with the consequences of America's endless wars. His essays cover a number of topics, ranging from the concept of citizen soldier, to a history of the AR-15. Phil and Bryce talked about a number of themes in the book, including Phil’s experience as a public affairs officer in the Marine Corps, the way that America chooses to exercise its power and the obligations of citizenship.
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Chiara Bonacchi, "Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data" (UCL Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-05-27
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
What are the connections between the past and modern politics? Drawing on ‘big data’ sources, including Facebook and Twitter, along with a deep theoretical engagement with digital humanities and heritage, the guest's recent book compares and contrasts key political events in Italy, the US, and the UK to show how the ancient world is deployed by both politicians and audiences.
What are the connections between the past and modern politics? In Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data(UCL Press, 2022), Chiara Bonacchi, a Chancellor's Fellow in Heritage, Text and Data Mining and Senior Lecturer in Heritage at History, Classics & Archaeology and Edinburgh Futures Institute at University of Edinburgh, explores the uses of heritage by contemporary populist politics. Drawing on ‘big data’ sources, including Facebook and Twitter, along with a deep theoretical engagement with digital humanities and heritage, the book compares and contrasts key political events in Italy, USA, and the UK to show how the ancient world is deployed by both politicians and audiences. The book is essential reading for both humanities and political science scholars, along with anyone interested in understanding the current populist moment. The book is available open access here.
Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield.
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Podcast: The Compass (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: High lives
Pub date: 2022-06-01
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Spanning five countries, the Himalaya is home to peoples who have adapted – both genetically and practically – to living in the harshest of conditions. But today, seismic political and economic shifts, taking place in lands far below, are forcing fundamental changes in their way of life up above.
Spanning five countries, the Himalaya is home to peoples who have adapted to living in the harshest of conditions. Journalist and broadcaster Ed Douglas, author of the first major history of the Himalaya has been visiting these remote communities for 30 years. Now they are opening up to him about the challenges of living on the roof of the world.
Ed's friends from the Sherpa and Rai groups in Nepal reveal how genetically and practically they have evolved to be able to live long term at such altitudes and how seismic political and economic shifts in lands far below are forcing fundamental changes in their way of life up above. Ed also reveals the often overlooked cultures and achievements of the diverse ethnic groups that make up this region including interviews with artists, musicians and record breaking athletes.
Presenter: Ed Douglas Producer: Clem Hitchcock A Just Radio Ltd production for BBC World Service
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Podcast: POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: States of Subsistence & the Politics of Bread in Egypt (S. 11, Ep. 33)
Pub date: 2022-05-26
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Why is it that the state is best understood as the product of routine practices and actions, through which it becomes a stable truth in the lives of citizens? The politics of bread in both Jordan and Egypt offer an explanation
José Ciro Martínez of the University of Cambridge joins Marc Lynch on this week's podcast to discuss his new book, States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan. The book argues that the state is best understood as the product of routine practices and actions, through which it becomes a stable truth in the lives of citizens. (Starts at 0:57). Jessica Barnes of the University of South Carolina and author of Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt discusses the politics of bread in Egypt (Starts at 31:21).
Music for this season's podcast was created by Bashir Saade (playing Ney) and Farah Kaddour (on Buzuq). You can find more of Bashir's work on his YouTube Channel.
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Podcast: Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Holger Droessler on Coconut Colonialism, Labor, and Globalization in Samoa
Pub date: 2022-05-27
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Examining the effects of capitalism and globalisation on the islands of Samoa at the turn of the 20th century. This conversation pays close attention to the lives of workers – including plantation labourers, ethnographic edutainers, and service workers – revealing how Samoans contested exploitative conditions, while, at the same time, articulating their own forms of Oceanian globality.
This month's episode centers Samoa, including the Pacific islands comprising the present-day independent country of Samoa and American Samoa, examining capitalism, globalization, and coconut colonialism at the turn of the 20th century. In doing so, it pays close attention to the lives of workers, including plantation laborers, ethnographic edutainers, and service workers, revealing how Samoans navigated colonialism and capitalism, contesting exploitative labor conditions, while, at the same time, articulating their own forms of Oceanian globality.
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Podcast: The Gateway - A Podcast from the Middle East (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Libyan Detention Centers, with Sally Hayden
Pub date: 2022-05-26
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Discussing the horrors of Libyan detention centres and the complicity of European powers who knowingly send people to places where they will face horrendous abuse
In this episode, we hear from Sally Hayden, the author of My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route, published by Penguin in March 2022.
The book portrays the horrors of Libyan detention centers and the complicity of European powers who knowingly send people to places where they will face horrendous abuse. Furthermore, it’s a rare piece of investigative journalism that captures the lives of human beings suffering under extreme circumstances, together with a moral outlook matched by the power of its reporting.
Sally is a journalist covering migration, conflict, and humanitarian crises. Sally has written for several publications, including Vice, the Guardian, the Irish Times, Al Jazeera, and Foreign Policy.
This episode includes an audio recording sent to Sally by a man in a detention center in Tripoli.
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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Lorena Cuya Gavilano, "Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-05-10
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
This episode analyses the impact of political and economic trends on migration narratives and films in Peru and Bolivia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is a critical exploration of the affects and epistemologies of migration in Peru and Bolivia through cultural productions such as films, novels, and short stories in the context of regional neoliberal re-arrangements.
In this episode of the New Books in Latin America podcast, Kenneth Sánchez spoke with Lorena Cuya Gavilano about her interesting new book Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia published in 2021 by the Ohio State University Press.
This book analyses the impact of political and economic trends on migration narratives and films in Peru and Bolivia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is a critical exploration of the affects and epistemologies of migration in Peru and Bolivia through cultural productions such as films, novels, and short stories in the context of regional neoliberal re-arrangements.
Dr. Cuya Gavilano is an Assistant Professor of Latin American Cultures at Arizona State University. Her areas of specialization are migration studies, film analysis, contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies, and Human Geography.
Kenneth Sánchez is a Peruvian journalist that works as a freelance journalist and as a multi-platform content curator for the Peruvian media outlet Comité de Lectura. He is a host of the New Books in Latin American Studies podcast and the movies & entertainment podcast Segundo Plano. He holds a master’s degree in Latin American Politics from University College London (UCL), is a Centre for Investigative Journalism masterclass alumni and is part of the 6th generation of Young Journalists of #LaRedLatam of Distintas Latitudes. He has won several awards including the prestigious Amnesty Media Award given out by Amnesty International UK.
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Podcast: Appearance Matters: The Podcast! (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 70: Racism, Colourism, and Constructing Whiteness in Indonesia
Pub date: 2022-05-10
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Having light-coloured skin has been a key feature of societal appearance ideals for women in many parts of the globe, including Indonesia – the world's fourth-most populous country. This episode reveals that the preference for lighter skin predates Dutch colonialism, and that lighter skin is not always considered better if the racialised group is not also positioned as desirable.
Having light-coloured skin has been a key feature of societal appearance ideals for women in many parts of the globe, including Indonesia - the world's fourth most populated country.
On this episode, we hear from CAR-collaborator Dr Ayu Saraswati, Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawaii to learn more about the light skin appearance ideal in Indonesia. We discover that the preference for lighter skin predates European(specifically Dutch) colonialism and that, lighter skin is not always considered better if the racialized group is not also positioned as desirable. Ayu also explains why the promotion of skin lightening products and the promotion of skin tanning products are not two sides of the same coin, though both are rooted anti-blackness.
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Rana Siu Inboden, "China and the International Human Rights Regime: 1982–2017" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-05-23
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The author examines the evolution of China’s posture towards the U.N. human rights system since the early 1980s, provides fresh insights into the motivations and influences driving China's conduct and explores China's rising position as a global power.
In China and the International Human Rights Regime(Cambridge University Press, 2021), Rana Siu Inboden examines the evolution of China’s posture towards the U.N. human rights system since the early 1980s. The book examines in unprecedented details China’s role and impact on the complex negotiations between U.N. members over the International Covenant Against Torture and its optional protocol; the establishment of the U.N. Human Rights Council; and the monitoring powers of the International labour Organization. A former U.S. State Department official in the Bureau of Democracy, Labor and Human Rights, Inboden shows how China, through subtle yet persistent efforts, largely but not entirely successfully managed to constrain the U.N. human rights system. Based on a range of documentary and archival research, as well as extensive interview data, Inboden provides fresh insights into the motivations and influences driving China's conduct and explores China's rising position as a global power. In this interview, Inboden discusses her findings as well as more recent developments under the leadership of President Xi Jinping.
Nicholas Bequelin is a human rights professional with a PhD in history and a scholarly bent. He has worked about 20 years for Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, most recently as Regional director for Asia. He’s currently a Visiting Scholar and Lecturer at Yale Law School.
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Podcast: Know Your Enemy (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: UNLOCKED: A New Pink Tide? (w/ Thea Riofrancos & David Adler)
Pub date: 2022-05-25
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Hope for the American left is at a fairly low ebb, at the moment, but our counterparts in Latin America are on the march and succeeding at beating back repressive right wing governments across the region. What can we learn from them? And given extremely volatile global conditions — and the continued role of the US in defending the interests of capital in the region — what can these new left-wing governments hope to accomplish?
A conversation with David Adler and Thea Riofrancos about the return of the Latin American left — unlocked from Patreon in advance of hugely consequential elections in Colombia this weekend!! (Originally published May 15, 2022.)
Hope for the American left is at a fairly low ebb, at the moment, but our counterparts in Latin America are on the march and succeeding at beating back repressive right wing governments across the region. What can we learn from them? And given extremely volatile global conditions — and the continued role of the US in defending the interests of capital in the region — what can these new left-wing governments hope to accomplish?
Sam is joined by political scientist Thea Riofrancos and David Adler, the General Coordinator of the Progressive International, to discuss left populism in Chile, Colombia, Brazil, and elsewhere.
Further Reading:
Thea Riofrancos & David Adler, "Gabriel Boric and Latin America’s new pink tide," New Statesman, Mar 11, 2022.
Thea Riofrancos, "The rush to ‘go electric’ comes with a hidden cost: destructive lithium mining," Guardian, Jun 14, 2021.
— "The View from Latin America," Boston Review, Apr 27, 2020.
— "Ecuador After Correa," n+1, Fall 2017.
John Bartlett, "Chilean journalist dies after being shot while covering Workers’ Day marches," Guardian, May 12, 2022
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Podcast: Intelligence Squared (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Afghan Women Writing for Freedom, with Marie Bamyani, Zarghuna Kargar and Lucy Hannah
Pub date: 2022-05-18
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Afghan women’s voices are at increasing risk of being silenced and as more of their rights slip away, so do their stories.
Afghan women’s voices are at increasing risk of being silenced and as more of their rights slip away, so do their stories. In this episode we hear from three women from the UNTOLD writers programme, who are the co-creators of My Pen is the Wing of a Bird, a new anthology of Afghan women's fiction. Lucy Hannah is founder of UNTOLD, Zarghuna Kargaar is a journalist, translator and author of Dear Zari: Hidden Stories from Women of Afghanistan, and Marie Bamyani is a contributing author featured in My Pen is the Wing of a Bird. Hosting the discussion is Halima Kazem, Afghanistan Oral Histories Project Manager at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California Santa Cruz.
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Podcast: Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 356) Rami Barhoush: Occupation, identity, and olive trees in Palestine
Pub date: 2022-05-17
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The guest is president of the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature – an independent non-profit organisation which seeks to enhance the capacity of Arab peoples, including those living under occupation and armed conflicts, to protect, sustain, and establish sovereignty over their natural resources and food, while strengthening the advocacy efforts of civil society organisations on regional and global environmental issues.
“For Palestinians, agriculture seems to be the only option. This is why we see the vicious, atrocious, and systematic attacks against Palestinian farmers.” In this episode, we welcome Rami Barhoush, an activist and president of the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature, known as APN, based in Amman, Jordan. The independent non-profit organization seeks to enhance the capacity of Arab peoples, including those living under occupation and armed conflicts, to protect, sustain, and establish sovereignty over their natural resources and food, while strengthening the advocacy efforts of civil society organizations on regional and global environmental issues.
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Podcast: Our Curious Amalgam (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: #168 Is Antitrust Really Apolitical? Autocracy, Populism, and Antitrust
Pub date: 2022-05-16
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Tumultuous political change, including the rise of populism in Central Europe, has been one of the key trends of the past decade. How do the shifting political winds affect antitrust, the largely technocratic domain some consider to be apolitical? This episode details how political change in Poland and Hungary has affected the antitrust world, and what lessons antitrust enforcers and practitioners can draw from this experience.
Tumultuous political change, including the rise of populism, has been one of the key trends of the past decade. How do the shifting political winds affect antitrust, the largely technocratic domain some consider to be apolitical? University of Warsaw Professor Maciej Bernatt joins Christina Ma and Sergei Zaslavsky to discuss the interrelationship between rising autocracy and populism in Central Europe (and other parts of the world) and competition policy and enforcement. Listen to this episode to learn how political change in Poland and Hungary has affected the antitrust world, and what lessons antitrust enforcers and practitioners can draw from this experience.
With special guest:
Maciej Bernatt, University of Warsaw
Related Link:
Maciej Bernatt's book, Antitrust and Populism (enter the code BERNATT22 at checkout for a 20% discount)
Hosted by:
Sergei Zaslavsky and Christina Ma
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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Fiori S. Berhane on the End of Asylum
Pub date: 2022-05-16
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The guest studies the ways in which Eritrean refugee activists engage with colonial, post-colonial and neo-colonial policies and embedded histories in Italy within efforts to redress multi-modal violence – that which takes place in their country of origin, transit, and settlement.
Fiori Berhane is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at USC. Fiori Berhane broadly researches the ways in which African refugees challenge discursive and legal-juridical frameworks that undergird the Central Mediterranean crossing. In particular, she studies the ways in which Eritrean refugee activists engage with colonial, post-colonial and neo-colonial policies and embedded histories in Italy within efforts to redress multi-modal violence-- that which takes place in their country of origin, transit and settlement.
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Podcast: New Books in Environmental Studies (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Irune Gabiola, "Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres" (Peter Lang, 2020)
Pub date: 2022-05-18
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Examining the power of affect in structuring decolonising modes of resistance performed by social movements such as COPINH (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organisations of Honduras)
In Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres (Peter Lang, 2020), Irune del Rio Gabiola examines the power of affect in structuring decolonizing modes of resistance performed by social movements such as COPINH (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras). Despite a harsh legacy of colonialism, indigenous communities continue suffering from territorial displacements, dispossession, and human rights abuses due to extractivist projects that are violently destroying their land and, therefore, the environment. In particular, the Lenca communities in Honduras have been negatively affected by Western ideas of progress and development that have historically eliminated ancestral knowledges and indigenous ecological cosmologies while reinforcing Eurocentrism. Nevertheless, by reflecting on and articulating strategies for resisting neoliberalism, COPINH and its cofounder Berta Cáceres' commitment to environmental activism, ecofeminism, and intersectional struggles has contributed affectively and effectively to the production of democratic encounters in pursuit of social justice. In homage to Berta, who was brutally assassinated for her activism in 2016, this book takes the reader on an affective journey departing from the violent affects experienced by the Lencas due to colonial disruption, contemporary industrialization, and criminalization, towards COPINH's political and social intervention fueled by outrage, resistance, transnational solidarity, care, mourning, and hope. In this way, subaltern actors nurture the power to--in line with Brian Massumi's interpretation of affect--transform necropolitics into natality with the aim of creating a fairer and better world
The host, Elize Mazadiego, is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the University of Amsterdam and author of Dematerialization and the Social Materiality of Art: Experimental Forms in Argentina, 1955-1968 (Brill, 2021). She works on Modern and Contemporary art, with a specialization in Latin American art history.
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Podcast: Today in Focus (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Marcos’ myths: the dictator’s son rewriting history in the Philippines
Pub date: 2022-05-16
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos is on course for a landslide victory in the Philippines presidential election. For those who grew up under the martial law of his father, the result brings up the horrors of the past. How did misinformation and the rewriting of history during the campaign make this result possible?
Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos is on course for a landslide victory in the Philippines presidential election. For those who grew up under the martial law of his father, the result brings up the horrors of the past. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Podcast: In Common (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 095: Agrarian reforms and the property rights gap with Mike Albertus
Pub date: 2022-05-16
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Discussing the results of agrarian reforms in Latin America, which are designed to redistribute land to rural peasants. Many of these reforms have left a ‘gap’, or a lack of formalisation, defensibility, and alienability of these new rural land rights
In this episode, Michael speaks with Mike Albertus, associate professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. They talk about Mike’s most recent book, Property Without Rights: Origins and Consequences of the Property Rights Gap. In the book, Mike is studying the results of agrarian reforms in Latin America, which are designed to redistribute land to rural peasants. Many of these reforms have left a “gap”, or a lack of formalization, defensibility, and alienability of these new rural land rights. Mike’s main thesis of the book is that this gap has persisted in large part because of strategic decisions by national governments to keep rural landowners dependent on the state for their livelihood. Mike and Michael discuss this thesis as well as several other related arguments in the book.
Mikes website: http://www.michaelalbertus.com/
References:
Albertus, M. 2021. Property without Rights: Origins and Consequences of the Property Rights Gap. Cambridge University Press.
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Podcast: Tech Empire with Michael Kwet and Tshi Malatji
Episode: Facebook's African Sweatshop with Billy Perrigo
Pub date: 2022-04-29
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Exposing how Facebook outsources content moderation on the cheap to a company called Sama in Kenya. Facebook's relationship with Sama has translated to low pay and exploitative working conditions faced by content moderators – as well as the repression of worker resistance.
Today we welcome Billy Perrigo to discuss the exploitation of African workers performing content moderation for Facebook. Billy is a staff writer at TIME covering social media companies, with a focus on content moderation and responsible AI.
In this episode, we cover Billy's article at TIME, "Inside Facebook's African Sweatshop", which exposes how Facebook outsources content moderation on the cheap to a company called Sama in Kenya. Billy explains how he discovered the story, Facebook's relationship to Sama, the low pay and exploitative working conditions faced by content moderators at Sama, how the company is alleged to repress worker resistance, and more.
Tech Empire is part of the Yale Podcast Network, and can be found on Soundcloud, iTunes, and YouTube, with additional outlets coming soon. You can follow Billy on Twitter at @billy_perrigo. Follow Tech Empire at @TechEmpireCast, Michael Kwet at @Michael_Kwet, and Tshi Malatji at @tshimalatji.
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Podcast: Harvard Divinity School (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Islamic Self-Help, Gendered Anxieties, and Racial Capitalism in Singapore
Pub date: 2022-05-02
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
This lecture delves into how Islam offers resources for linking mental health to everyday precarity
Nurhaizatul Jamil, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Islam and 2021-22 Women's Studies in Religion Program Research Associate, delivered the lecture, "Islamic Self-Help, Gendered Anxieties, and Racial Capitalism in Singapore."
This event took place on April 12, 2022.
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Podcast: POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Protesting Jordan, Climate Change in the Gulf, and Social Development in Iran (S. 11, Ep. 29)
Pub date: 2022-04-28
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Examining protests as they are situated in the built environment, bringing together considerations of networks, spatial imaginaries, space and place-making, and political geographies at local, national, regional, and global scales.
Jillian Schwedler of Hunter College joins Marc Lynch on this week's podcast to discuss her new book, Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent. In the book, Schwedler examines protests as they are situated in the built environment, bringing together considerations of networks, spatial imaginaries, space and place-making, and political geographies at local, national, regional, and global scales. (Starts at 0:31). Deen Sharp of the London School of Economics discusses climate change in the Gulf, and references his report, "The Quiet Emergency: Experiences and Understandings of Climate Change in Kuwait." (Starts at 31:41). Ali Kadivar of Boston College discusses his new article, "Social Development and Revolution in Iran." (Starts at 47:53).
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Podcast: The Gateway - A Podcast from the Middle East (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: How Everyday People Shaped the Arab Uprisings and Changed the World, with Asef Bayat
Pub date: 2022-04-28
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Looking at how the working class, women, and other marginalised groups were vital to the Arab Uprisings. Focusing on Tunisia and Egypt, the guest shows how the uprisings changed society for millions of people in the region.
This week we hear from Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology, and the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the Department of Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
He’s a renowned scholar whose work on the contemporary Middle East has had an enormous impact on how revolutions and social movements are understood. In this episode, he talks about his new book, Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring, published by Harvard University Press in 2021.
In the book, Asef looks at how the working class, women, and other marginalized groups were vital to the Arab Uprisings. Focusing on Tunisia and Egypt, he shows how the uprisings changed society for millions of people in the region.
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Podcast: ODI live events podcast
Episode: Venezuelan Migrants In Colombia: An Inclusive Humanitarian Response? ENGLISH
Pub date: 2022-04-29
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
This event will explore the situation of marginalised Venezuelan migrants in Colombia and what more could be done to better understand and meet their needs
Venezuelan Migrants In Colombia: An Inclusive Humanitarian Response? ENGLISH by Overseas Development Institute
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Podcast: Brazil Unfiltered (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: How Bolsonarismo Has Changed Brazil with Andre Pagliarini
Pub date: 2022-05-02
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
As Brazil nears presidential elections in October, this podcast explores some of the more significant and long-lasting effects of its current president. Will Bolsonariso survive, mutate, or disappear?
In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Andre Pagliarini professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia and the co-editor of the Washington Brazil Office's weekly "Brazilian Election Bulletin." In addition to writing widely for general audiences in the United States and Brazil in outlets like The Guardian, New Republic, Folha de S. Paulo, and Piauí, Andre is preparing a book manuscript on the contested politics of nationalism in twentieth-century Brazil.
Brazil is going through turbulent times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.
Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office, and produced by Camarada Productions.
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Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Harsha Walia on Border Imperialism
Pub date: 2022-04-28
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Borders are intended to maintain the power relationships of race, class, caste, and gender – this guest argues that the history, politics, and ideology of borders show how they are even intended to kill.
“Borders are intended to kill,” says migrant rights activist Harsha Walia. “They are intended to maintain the power relationships of race, class, caste, gender, and more.”
Today, Harsha Walia joins Thursday host Allen Ruff to talk about the history, politics, and ideology of borders and bordering through the lens of her latest book, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism.
Harsha Walia is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice and anti-capitalist, feminist, and anti-imperialist movements, including No One Is Illegal and Women’s Memorial March Committee. She is the author of Undoing Border Imperialism (AK Press, 2013) and Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (Haymarket Books, 2021).
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Christopher Tounsel, "Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan" (Duke UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-04-28
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Investigating the centrality of Christian worldviews to the ideological construction of South Sudan and the inability of shared religion to prevent conflict.
On July 9, 2011, South Sudan celebrated its independence as the world's newest nation, an occasion that the country's Christian leaders claimed had been foretold in the Book of Isaiah. The Bible provided a foundation through which the South Sudanese could distinguish themselves from the Arab and Muslim Sudanese to the north and understand themselves as a spiritual community now freed from their oppressors. Less than three years later, however, new conflicts emerged along ethnic lines within South Sudan, belying the liberation theology that had supposedly reached its climactic conclusion with independence. In Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan(Duke UP, 2021), Christopher Tounsel investigates the centrality of Christian worldviews to the ideological construction of South Sudan and the inability of shared religion to prevent conflict. Exploring the creation of a colonial-era mission school to halt Islam's spread up the Nile, the centrality of biblical language in South Sudanese propaganda during the Second Civil War (1983--2005), and postindependence transformations of religious thought in the face of ethnic warfare, Tounsel highlights the potential and limitations of deploying race and Christian theology to unify South Sudan.
Christopher Tounsel is Catherine Shultz Rein Early Career Professor in the College of the Liberal Arts and Assistant Professor of History and African Studies at Pennsylvania State University.
Thomas Zuber is a PhD Candidate in History at Columbia University.
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Orbanism - Europe's post-neoliberal future? w/ Dorit Geva
Pub date: 2022-04-21
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
How did Orban secure such a convincing electoral victory in spite of the opposition highlighting government corruption and Orban's friendly relations with Putin? It has to do with the innovative character of Orban's post-neoliberal rule, which involves not merely the erosion of democratic norms, but also the combining of certain elements of a neoliberal marketisation agenda with efforts to promote national capital at the expense of foreign corporations and the radical centralisation of state power.
Dorit Geva joins PTO to talk about the recent re-election victory of Viktor Orbán in Hungary and Dorit's article, 'Orban’s Ordonationalism as Post-Neoliberal Hegemony' which is published in the journal Theory, Culture and Society. We discussed why Orban secured such a convincing electoral victory in spite of the opposition's highlighting of government corruption and Orban's friendly relations with Vladimir Putin. We went on to talk about the innovative character of Orban's post-neoliberal rule which involves not merely erosion of democratic norms but also the combining of certain elements of a neoliberal marketisation agenda with efforts to promote national capital at the expense of foreign corporations and the radical centralisation of state power.
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Podcast: Tech Tent (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Facial recognition technology and the war in Ukraine
Pub date: 2022-04-15
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A controversial facial recognition company helps identify the dead in Ukraine. This episode also looks at whether age verification tech can stop children viewing pornography online.
A controversial facial recognition company helps identify the dead in Ukraine. And a look at whether age verification tech can stop children viewing pornography online.
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Podcast: Global Development Institute podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order with Yeling Tan
Pub date: 2022-04-19
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
This episode breaks open the black box of the massive Chinese state and unpacks the economic strategies that central economic agencies, as well as subnational authorities, adopted in response to WTO rules demanding far-reaching modifications to China’s domestic institutions
Yeling Tan discusses her book, Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order. China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 represented an historic opportunity to peacefully integrate a rising economic power into the international order based on market-liberal rules. Yet rising economic tensions between the US and China indicate that this integration process has run into trouble. To what extent has the liberal internationalist promise of the WTO been fulfilled?
To answer this question, this podcast breaks open the black box of the massive Chinese state and unpacks the economic strategies that central economic agencies as well as subnational authorities adopted in response to WTO rules demanding far-reaching modifications to China’s domestic institutions. Tan explains why, rather than imposing constraints, WTO entry provoked divergent policy responses from different actors within the Chinese state, in ways neither expected nor desired by the architects of the WTO.
Yeling Tan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at The University of Oregon
Read a transcript of the podcast: https://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/gdi/research/transcripts/disaggregating_china_inc_yeling_tan.pdf
Intro music Anna Banana by Eaters
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Podcast: Maghrib in Past & Present | Podcasts (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: From Palestine to North Africa and Back: Transnational Solidarity in the Arts in the 1970s
Pub date: 2022-04-14
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The International Art Exhibition for Palestine opened in Beirut in 1978 with nearly 200 artists from 30 countries. For over a decade, a research project has worked to uncover the history of this and other art collections/museums built in solidarity with political causes, and map out the networks of artists, intellectuals, and activists that extended from these projects.
Episode 139: From Palestine to North Africa and Back: Transnational Solidarity in the Arts in the 1970s
The International Art Exhibition for Palestine opened in Beirut in 1978 with nearly 200 artists from 30 countries. For over a decade, Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri led a research project to uncover the history of this and other art collections/museums built in solidarity with political causes, and map networks of artists, intellectuals and activists that extended from these projects. The Moroccan chapter revealed links and practices from publications like Souffles, to proximity of the PLO’s office to writers and artists, and the work and interventions by artists bringing work to public space and out of the galleries.
Kristine Khouri is a researcher whose background is in Arab cultural history and art history. Her interests began in the history of arts circulation, exhibition and infrastructure in the Middle East and North Africa as well as archives, practices in and with them, and knowledge dissemination. In the past few years, she has been focused on critical engagement with digital archives, and issues that emerge from them including rights, access, and language. She co-led, with Rasha Salti, the Past Disquiet research project unearthing the histories of exhibitions and museums in exile, and transnational solidarity in the arts in the 1970s. Kristine is currently a board member of the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut.
This episode is part of the Modern Art in the Maghrib series, and was recorded on March 3, 2022, via Zoom. This is part of a larger Council of American Overseas Research Centers program organized by the Centre d'Études Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT) and financed by the Andrew Mellon Foundation that seeks to collaborate with local institutions for a greater awareness of art historical research in North Africa.
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Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Jonathan Beller, "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-04-15
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Out of the omnipresent calculus imposed by commodification, information emerges historically as a new money form. Investigating its subsequent financialisation of daily life and colonisation of semiotics, this conversation situates the development of myriad systems for quantifying the value of people, objects, and affects as endemic to racial capitalism and computation.
In The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism (Duke UP, 2021) Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodification generates information itself. Out of the omnipresent calculus imposed by commodification, information emerges historically as a new money form. Investigating its subsequent financialization of daily life and colonization of semiotics, Beller situates the development of myriad systems for quantifying the value of people, objects, and affects as endemic to racial capitalism and computation. Built on oppression and genocide, capital and its technical result as computation manifest as racial formations, as do the machines and software of social mediation that feed racial capitalism and run on social difference. Algorithms, derived from for-profit management strategies, conscript all forms of expression-language, image, music, communication-into the calculus of capital such that even protest may turn a profit. Computational media function for the purpose of extraction rather than ameliorating global crises, and financialize every expressive act, converting each utterance into a wager. Repairing this ecology of exploitation, Beller contends, requires decolonizing information and money, and the scripting of futures wagered by the cultural legacies and claims of those in struggle.
Marci Mazzarotto is an Assistant Professor of Digital Communication at Georgian Court University in New Jersey. Her research interests center on the interdisciplinary intersection of academic theory and artistic practice with a focus on film and television studies.
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Podcast: Conversations in Atlantic Theory
Episode: Kir Kuiken and Deborah Elise White on Haiti's Literary Legacies: Romanticism and the Unthinkable Revolution
Pub date: 2022-04-19
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Discussing the place of Haiti and the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic world’s literary imagination, the long shadow and persistence of romanticism, and the enduring significance of Haitian history and thought for thinking through issues of race, nation, revolution, literature, and conceptions of the new.
A discussion is with Kir Kuiken and Deborah Elise White, editors of a new collection titled Haiti’s Literary Legacies: Romanticism and the Unthinkable Revolution, out with Bloomsbury Publishing in late-2021. Kir teaches in the Department of English at State University of New York at Albany in Albany, New York, and is the author of numerous articles and the book Imagined Sovereignties: Toward a New Political Romanticism, published by Fordham University Press, 2014. Deborah teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she has written widely on 19th and 20th century literature and thought, and is the author of Romantic Returns: Superstition, Imagination, History, published by Stanford University Press in 2000. In this conversation, we discuss the place of Haiti and the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic world’s literary imagination, the long shadow and persistence of romanticism, and the enduring significance of Haitian history and thought for thinking through issues of race, nation, revolution, literature, and conceptions of the new.
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Podcast: Democracy Nerd (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 53: Democracy in Real Time: An Update on Chile's New Constitution w/ Jennifer Piscopo & Peter Siavelis
Pub date: 2022-04-15
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
At a time when global democracy is backsliding into authoritarianism, Chile is currently engaged in the process to draft a new constitution, one that is more representative of indigenous people and other marginalised communities. Very rarely do we get to see ‘democracy operate in real time’.
At a time when global democracy is backsliding into authoritarianism, Chile is currently engaged in the process to draft a new constitution, one that is more representative of indigenous people and other marginalized communities. Very rarely do we get to see "democracy operate in real time." Returning to the podcast to provide an update on the drafting of Chile's new Constitution are noted Latin American experts Jennifer Piscopo, Professor at Occidental College, and Peter Siavelis, Professor at Wake Forest University, who provide first-hand insights of the process to draft Chile's constitution.
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Podcast: AnthroPod (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 66. The Sound of Borders, Pt. 2: Active Citizenship
Pub date: 2022-04-19
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
This discussion unpacks the concept of active citizenship and the ways that sound can challenge the static character of border regimes in Greece and throughout the Mediterranean.
In part 2 of our series on sound and borders, cultural geographer Tom Western talks with Nick Smith about the work of the Syrian and Greek Youth Forum (SGYF) in Athens, Greece. Featuring sound clips created by the SGYF team, the discussion unpacks the concept of active citizenship and the ways that sound can challenge the static character of border regimes in Greece and throughout the Mediterranean. For show-notes visit
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Podcast: The Prospect Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Samuel Moyn: How to stop a new Cold War
Pub date: 2022-04-19
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Putin's grotesque invasion of Ukraine should not lead us to rehabilitate old, failed ideas about the international order, argues the guest in his provocative cover story for Prospect.
Putin's grotesque invasion of Ukraine should not lead us to rehabilitate old, failed ideas about the international order, argues Samuel Moyn in his provocative cover story for Prospect. He joins editor Alan Rusbridger on the podcast.
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Podcast: Ethics of AI in Context
Episode: Kamilah Ebrahim & Erina Moon, Building Algorithms that Work for Everyone
Pub date: 2022-04-01
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Oftentimes, the development of algorithms are divorced from the environments where they will eventually be deployed. This talk will seek to explain the status quo of child welfare algorithms, what we miss when we fail to include context in the development of algorithms, and how the addition of qualitative text data can help to make better algorithms.
Oftentimes, the development of algorithms are divorced from the environments where they will eventually be deployed. In high stakes contexts, like child welfare services, policymakers and technologists must exercise a high degree of caution in the design and deployment of decisionmaking algorithms or risk further marginalising already vulnerable communities. This talk will seek to explain the status quo of child welfare algorithms, what we miss when we fail to include context in the development of algorithms, and how the addition of qualitative text data can help to make better algorithms.
Kamilah Ebrahim iSchool University of Toronto
Erina Moon iSchool University of Toronto
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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Precarity of Tech’s Shadow Workforce
Pub date: 2022-04-01
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Earlier this year, a nonprofit organisation called the TechEquity Collaborative published an investigation into the 'shadow workforce' that powers many tech firms. This episode discusses the report which describes a range of challenging conditions and inequities, particularly relative to the lavish pay and perks for full time employees of companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon
Earlier this year, a nonprofit organization called the TechEquity Collaborative released the results of its Contract Worker Disparity Project, an investigation into the “shadow workforce” that powers many tech firms. The culmination of a year of research into the disparities in contract work, the report features survey data and first-hand accounts from contract workers in tech who describe range of challenging conditions and inequities, particularly relative to the lavish pay and perks that are offered to full time employees of companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon.
To learn more about the key findings of the report, to hear more about what it's like to make your living in one of these roles, and to get a sense of the types of policy solutions that would address these inequities, we spoke with:
- Samantha (Sam) Gordon, Senior Vice President of Programs TechEquity Collaborative
- Shannon Wait, Campaign Assistant with Alphabet Workers Union, part of the Communications Workers of America Local 1400
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Web3 is Not Going Great w/ Molly White
Pub date: 2022-04-01
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Discussing the big Axie Infinity hack, what’s wrong with the New York Times’ 'Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto', and what guest's years as a Wikipedia editor have taught her about the problem with Web3’s vision of total commercialisation.
Paris Marx is joined by Molly White to discuss the big Axie Infinity hack, what’s wrong with the New York Times’ Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto, and what Molly’s years as a Wikipedia editor have taught her about the problem with web3’s vision of total commercialization.
Molly White is a software engineer and the creator of web3 is going just great. Follow Molly on Twitter at @molly0xFFF.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
- Molly and a bunch of other crypto critics put together an (Edited) Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto.
- You can read Kevin Roose’s original Latecomer’s Guide here.
- Molly wrote about the $625 million Axie Infinity hack and harassment on the blockchain.
- Interest in NFTs and their values have plummeted in recent months.
- Tech Won’t Save Us has a new website. Check it out at techwontsave.us.
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Podcast: ChinaTalk (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Taiwan indie music 101, the Taipei underground and tankie rappers
Pub date: 2022-03-31
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The guest provides a tour of the local indie music scene and explains what some of last year’s top tunes can tell us about Taiwanese politics and culture – from the influence of indigenous communities to attitudes towards China.
Taipei-based DJ and New Bloom editor Brian Hioe (@brianhioe) takes us on a tour of the local indie music scene and explains what some of last year’s top tunes can tell us about Taiwanese politics and culture, from the influence of indigenous communities to attitudes towards China.
We also discuss
- Earning a living making music in Taiwan v China
- Brian’s twitter fights with tankie rappers
- Taiwan’s indie music dating app
- How Wang Leehom’s divorce drama overshadowed a national referendum
Song links"
拍謝少年 Sorry Youth - 歹勢中年 Sorry No Youth
TALACOWA - Collage
ABAO阿爆（阿仍仍)【tjakudain 無奈】 feat. 李英宏 aka Dj Didilong
Sonia Calico - Mukbang Roller
無妄合作社 No-nonsense Collective - 平靜的告別 Quiet Farewell
鍾翔宇 Xiangyu - 流言蜚語 Rumors and Slanders
Rainbow Chan - Stanley
Outro Music: The Moon Represents My Heart by Teresa Teng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk3VQoAKMUI
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Podcast: Reimagining Soviet Georgia (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 17: Human Rights are Not Enough with Samuel Moyn
Pub date: 2022-04-01
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The guest discusses the political history of human rights and in particular how this relates to the Cold War, Soviet collapse, and neoliberalism as a politics in the post-Cold War era.
On today's episode we welcome Samuel Moyn, professor of Law and History at Yale, to discuss the political history of human rights and in particular how this relates to the Cold War, Soviet collapse, and neoliberalism as a politics in the post-Cold War era.
Here's an article by Samuel Moyn based on his book Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/human-rights-are-not-enough/
And here is a description of his book Not Enough :
The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. Even as state violations of political rights garnered unprecedented attention due to human rights campaigns, a commitment to material equality disappeared. In its place, market fundamentalism has emerged as the dominant force in national and global economies. In this provocative book, Samuel Moyn analyzes how and why we chose to make human rights our highest ideals while simultaneously neglecting the demands of a broader social and economic justice.
In a pioneering history of rights stretching back to the Bible, Not Enough charts how twentieth-century welfare states, concerned about both abject poverty and soaring wealth, resolved to fulfill their citizens’ most basic needs without forgetting to contain how much the rich could tower over the rest. In the wake of two world wars and the collapse of empires, new states tried to take welfare beyond its original European and American homelands and went so far as to challenge inequality on a global scale. But their plans were foiled as a neoliberal faith in markets triumphed instead.
Moyn places the career of the human rights movement in relation to this disturbing shift from the egalitarian politics of yesterday to the neoliberal globalization of today. Exploring why the rise of human rights has occurred alongside enduring and exploding inequality, and why activists came to seek remedies for indigence without challenging wealth, Not Enough calls for more ambitious ideals and movements to achieve a humane and equitable world.
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Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The Foundations of Modern India
Pub date: 2022-04-03
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Discussing the major history of the political thought that laid the foundations of modern India - from the dawn of the twentieth century to the independence of India and the formation of Pakistan in 1947.
The greatest anti-imperial rebellion of the nineteenth century, The Indian Rebellion of 1857, witnessed mass violence against the British. Ninety years later, Indian freedom was founded on a deadly fratricide that singularly spared the outgoing masters. As a result, India’s founding fathers were tasked with how to steer the new nation in a context rife with hatred and violence.
Shruti Kapila, Associate Professor in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, joins Dan on the podcast. They discuss the major history of the political thought that laid the foundations of modern India - from the dawn of the twentieth century to the independence of India and the formation of Pakistan in 1947.
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Podcast: The afikra Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: JILL JARVIS | Aesthetics and Politics of North Africa | Conversations
Pub date: 2022-04-01
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Talking about the aesthetics and politics of North Africa and the guest's forthcoming book, which brings together close readings of fiction with analyses of juridical, theoretical, and activist texts to illuminate both the nature of violence and the stakes of literary study in a time of unfinished decolonisation.
Jill Jarvis talked about the aesthetics and politics of North Africa and her book “Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony.”
Jill Jarvis specializes in the aesthetics and politics of North Africa. Her forthcoming book, Decolonizing Memory : Algeria and the Politics of Testimony, brings together close readings of fiction with analyses of juridical, theoretical, and activist texts to illuminate both the nature of violence and the stakes of literary study in a time of unfinished decolonization. She is also at work on a second book project, Signs in the Desert: An Aesthetic Cartography of the Sahara, which envisions the Sahara as a site of material, intellectual, and linguistic exchanges that challenge both disciplinary boundaries and received notions of African studies. Other work appears in New Literary History, PMLA, The Journal of North African Studies, and Expressions maghébrines.
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Podcast: New Books in Gender (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Hugo Ceron-Anaya, "Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Pub date: 2022-04-06
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Focusing on the class, racial, and gender dynamics that underpin privilege. An analysis of gender relations shows how men maintain a dominant position over their fellow female golfers despite the similar upper-class origins of both male and female golf club members.
Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico(Oxford University Press, 2019) is a book about inequalities, social hierarchies, and privilege in contemporary Mexico. Based on ethnographic research conducted in exclusive golf clubs and in-depth interviews with upper-middle-class and upper-class golfers, as well as working-class employees, Cerón-Anaya’s book focuses on the class, racial, and gender dynamics that underpin privilege. This study makes use of rich qualitative data to demonstrate how social hierarchies are relations reproduced through a multitude of everyday practices. The vast disparities between club members and workers, for example, are built on traditional class indicators, such as wealth, and on more subtle expressions of class, such as notions of fashion, sense of humour, perceptions about competition, and everyday oral interactions. The book incorporates race and gender perspectives into the study of inequalities, illustrating the multilayer condition of privilege. Although Mexicans commonly attributed racial relations a marginal role in the continuation of inequities, the book explains how affluent individuals frequently express racialized ideas to describe and justify the impoverished condition of workers. In doing so, Privilege at Play demonstrates the necessity of considering the role of racialized dynamics when studying social inequalities in Mexico. An analysis of gender relations shows how men maintain a dominant position over their fellow female golfers despite the similar upper-class origins of both male and female golf club members. This book pays particular attention to the spatial dynamics that reinforce social inequalities, arguing that the apparent triviality of space makes it a highly effective way to mark social inequalities and, hence, emphasise privilege.
Rituparna Patgiri, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She has a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research interests lie in the areas of food, media, gender and the public. She is also one of the co-founders of Doing Sociology. Patgiri can be reached at @Rituparna37 on Twitter.
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Podcast: Yale Religion
Episode: A conversation with Yale’s Abdul-Rehman Malik: Ramadan, Islamophobia, and the Islamic Roots of Coffee
Pub date: 2022-04-04
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Talking about the significance of the holy Islamic month of Ramadan, the Islamic origins of coffee popularised in Yemen as a means of staying awake for nightly prayers, and combating Islamophobia based on the supposed inherent link between violence and Islam.
Yale Lecturer Abdul-Rehman Malik discusses the significance of the holy Islamic month of Ramadan, the Islamic origins of coffee, and combating Islamophobia.
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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dig: Clash of Empires w/ Ho-fung Hung
Pub date: 2022-03-23
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On Chinese political and economic history, in particular covering the 2008 financial crisis; how China’s response deepened global and domestic economic imbalances; and (alongside the US) how it heightened geopolitical conflicts, including Russia's invasion
The second of our two-part interview with sociologist Ho-fung Hung on Chinese political and economic history. This episode covers the 2008 financial crisis, how China’s response deepened global and domestic economic imbalances and (alongside the US) heightened geopolitical conflict, the current situation—including Russia’s invasion—and a lot more. Listen to part one first if you haven't already.
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Podcast: The China in Africa Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: China, Europe and the Geopolitics of African Renewable Energy
Pub date: 2022-03-18
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It's not surprising renewable energy is now being seen as yet another front in the larger great power rivalry dynamic with African countries stuck in the middle. A new report argues that it would be a huge mistake for EU leaders to frame green energy transition initiatives in Africa in competition with China.
Both China and the European Union have identified renewable energy as a key part of their engagement strategies with Africa. At FOCAC last year, the Chinese vowed to increase investment in solar, hydro, and other green technologies while the EU made sustainability a centerpiece of its new Global Gateway development initiative.
With both sides pursuing similar objectives, it's not surprising renewable energy is now being seen as yet another front in the larger great power rivalry dynamic with African countries stuck in the middle.
But a trio of authors at the European Center for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), a Brussels-based think tank, argues in a new report that it would be a huge mistake for EU leaders to frame green energy transition initiatives in Africa in competition with China. One of the authors of that report, Alfsono Medinilla, ECDPM's Head of Climate and Green Transition, joins Eric & Cobus to explain why.
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Podcast: FreshEd (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: FreshEd #274 - Transitional Justice and Education in South Africa (Natasha Robinson)
Pub date: 2022-03-20
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Talking about transitional justice, the role of truth telling in historical memory, and how education can help or hinder the process
Today we talk about transitional justice, the role of truth telling in historical memory, and how education can help or hinder the process. With me is Natasha Robinson who has written a new book chapter entitled “Developing Historical Consciousness for Social Cohesion: How South African Students Learn to Construct the Relationship Between Past and Present.” Natasha Robinson is a Postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University and ESRC Fellow.
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Podcast: 13 (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Refugee Housing and the Global Shelter Imaginary with Prof. Daniel Bertrand Monk
Pub date: 2022-03-21
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Discussing a newly published work that takes a critical eye toward refugee housing efforts of the United Nations and its partnership with IKEA
Join Colgate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Geography Daniel Bertrand Monk as he discusses a newly published work that takes a critical eye toward refugee housing efforts of the United Nations and its partnership with IKEA.
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Podcast: Upstream (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 13: Stories of Indigenous Resistance and Regeneration
Pub date: 2022-03-22
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Taking a deep dive into Indigenous resistance against colonialism, capitalism, and climate change – from the Amah Mutsun’s fight to save their most sacred site in California to the Wet’suwet’en’s battle against a gas pipeline on Canada’s western coast.
Standing Rock was a pivotal moment in regards to Indigenous resistance — but it was just one in a long line of battles that Indigenous peoples have been fighting against the twin forces of colonialism and capitalism since first contact.
In this episode, we’re taking a deep dive into Indigenous resistance against colonialism, capitalism, and climate change — from the Amah Mutsun’s fight to save their most sacred site in California to the Wet’suwet’en’s battle against a gas pipeline on Canada’s western coast, and then up into the North American tundra and across into Northern Europe’s arctic circle where the Inuit and Sámi peoples are fighting to save the ice that they rely on.
What parallels lie between the struggles of the Amah Mutsun Costanoan Ohlone, the Wet’suwet’en First Nation, the Inuit, and the Sámi peoples of northern Europe? How have the forces of capitalism and colonialism led to the destruction of Indigenous lives, land, language and culture? What can tens of thousands of years of a diversity of Indigenous insights, knowledge, and wisdom — along with a more modern amalgamation of Indigenous-Marxism — teach us about it? And what invitations for paths forward can we take to lead us to a future committed to solidarity, healing, and ecological restoration? Join us in exploring these questions with guests:
Valentin Lopez: Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band of the Costanoan Ohlone Eleanor Castro: Amah Mutsun Costanoan Ohlone Elder Sleydo' (Molly Wickham): Member of the Wet'suwet'en Nation and spokesperson for the Gidimt’en Checkpoint Sungmanitu Bluebird: Oglala Lakota activist, researcher, writer, member of The Red Nation and the host of the Bands of Turtle Island podcast for The Red Media Sheila (Siila) Watt-Cloutier: Canadian Inuit activist, political representative for Inuit, International Chair for Inuit Circumpolar Council, and author of The Right to be Cold Beaska Niillas: Northern Sámi traditional handicrafter, hunter and gatherer, activist, Sámi school kindergarten teacher, politician, and the host of the SuperSápmi Podcast Florian Carl: Indigenous ally and member of the Cloudberry Collective Alberto Saldamando — Indigenous Environmental Network’s Counsel on Climate Change and Indigenous and Human Rights
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Podcast: Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 349) Amalia Leguizamon: A mass consent for socio-ecological injustice
Pub date: 2022-03-22
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Why is it important to focus on regular people, people in the in-between, people who bear some cost but also reap some profit? Because it gives us an insight into most people’s lives. As long as we don’t understand how we become acquiescent, not much will change
"Why is it important to focus on regular people, people in the in-between, people who bear some cost but also reap some profit? Because it gives us an insight into most people’s lives. As long as we don’t understand how we become acquiescent, not much will change."
In this episode, we welcome Amalia Leguizamón, Associate Professor of Sociology and core faculty at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. Her research examines the political economy of the environment in Latin America, particularly Argentina’s swift agrarian transformation based on the early adoption and intensive implementation of genetically modified soybeans. She is also the author of Seeds of Power: Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina (Duke University Press, 2020).
The song featured in this episode is Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution by Father John Misty.
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Podcast: The Economy, Land & Climate Podcast
Episode: Is climate modelling undermined by economics and ideology?
Pub date: 2022-03-18
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Discussing offset markets, carbon removal technologies, and IPCC modelling. Are scientists watering down recommendations to make them politically palatable? How are neoclassical economics affecting the world's approach to climate mitigation? Why do the IPCC working groups have contradictory messages on saviour tech?
Alasdair MacEwen talks to Associate Professor Wim Carton of Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies about offset markets, carbon removal technologies, and IPCC modelling.
They wade into some tricky questions: are scientists watering down recommendations to make them politically palateable? How are neoclassical economics affecting the world's approach to climate mitigation? Why do the IPCC working groups have contradictory messages on saviour tech?
Further reading
- Carbon Unicorns and Fossil Futures: Whose Emission Reduction Pathways Is the IPCC Performing?
- Seize the Means of Carbon Removal: The Political Economy of Direct Air Capture
- Undoing Equivalence: Rethinking Carbon Accounting for Just Carbon Removal
- The meaning of net zero and how to get it right
- Social Science Sequestered
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Podcast: Radio Free Humanity: The Marxist-Humanist Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 63: Bitcoin and Cyber-libertarianism—Interview with David Golumbia
Pub date: 2022-03-04
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Discussing cyber-libertarian ideology and how the rise of Bitcoin has made it mainstream by influencing many supposedly non-ideological Bitcoin enthusiasts. This episode also talks about what Bitcoin is, whether it is money, whether it is decentralised, as well as blockchain technology, fact-checking and theory-checking a good deal of the nonsense said about Bitcoin.
The co-hosts interview David Golumbia, author of The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism. They discuss cyber-libertarian ideology and how the rise of Bitcoin has made it mainstream. David argues that many supposedly non-ideological Bitcoin enthusiasts have been influenced by cyber-libertarianism. He and the co-hosts also discuss what Bitcoin is, whether it is money, whether it is decentralized, and blockchain technology. David fact-checks and theory-checks a good deal of the nonsense said about Bitcoin.
The episode’s current-events segment is on the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign’s statement of solidarity with the people of Ukraine against Russian imperialism.
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Podcast: We Be Imagining (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: On Caste and The Digital (Feat Riya Singh and Murali Shanmugavelan)
Pub date: 2022-03-07
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How does caste get articulated on the internet? Where does caste creep in to our studies of media and technology? Can you dismantle Hindutva without dismantling caste? Black women organisers have emphasised police abolition in their work with survivors of sexual atrocities in the US. What are the overlaps and distinctions in how Dalit women activists' projects are engaging with these political projects in the Indian context?
How does caste get articulated on the internet? Or where does caste creep in to our studies of media and technology? Can you dismantle Hindutva without dismantling caste? Black women organizers like Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie have emphasized police abolition in their work with survivors of sexual atrocities in the US, what are the overlaps and distinctions in how Dalit women activists are engaging with these political projects in the Indian context. This inaugural episode of season 4 for the We Be Imagining podcast interweaves commentary from Riya Singh, the founder of Dalit Women Fight, Murali Shanmugavelan, resarcher at Data and Society alongside some provocations from Thenmozhi Soundararajan of Equality Labs and the concluding plenary of the Dismantling Hindutva conference.
Please write us at WeBeImagining@gmail.com with feedback on this episode or to share your perspective on caste and the digital :)
**Please note, there are some descriptions of sexual violence and killings within the episode due to the realities of caste violence and brahminism.
Riya Singh is a doctoral researcher in Women & Gender Studies at Centre for Women’s Development Studies, Delhi - Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Delhi. She is a part of Core Leadership Group in India’s single and largest Dalit women-led collective, Dalit Women Fight. She works on ground with the survivors of caste based atrocities of Dalit community in six states of Northern India.
Murali Shanmugavelan isa Faculty Fellow, Race and Technology at Data and Society. He researches caste in media and communication studies and digital cultures. Murali is currently working on the re-manifestation of caste and social hierarchies in digital cultures such as hate speech and platform economies. At Data & Society, Murali’s work will scrutinise communication and technology studies from (anti)caste perspectives. His work will analyse everyday casteism on the Internet and develop actionable policy recommendations and build pedagogic content about caste in communications and technology studies.
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Cast(e)ing Indian Media: Unsettling Secular Mythologies
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Podcast: CSDS-Asia Matters Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Women's Lives In Modern China
Pub date: 2022-03-04
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
What kind of position do women hold in the modern Chinese state? How has the country's extraordinary economic growth over the last few decades affected them both professionally and socially? With the birth rate in China having dropped to its lowest level on record, what impact is the government's push to increase it having on women?
On the eve of International Women's Day, we're bringing you a special podcast in collaboration with King's College London's Lau China Institute, looking at the lives of women in China today.
In this episode we look at the challenges facing young Chinese women in balancing their jobs and home lives, and the prejudices they often face in the workplace, with a particular look at the effects of China's massive internal migration in recent years.
What kind of position do women hold in the modern Chinese state? How has the country's extraordinary economic growth over the last few decades affected them both professionally and socially? With the birth rate in China having dropped to its lowest level on record, what impact is the government's push to increase it having on women?
To answer these questions and more, we spoke to Ye Liu, a senior lecturer in international development at King's College London. Her research has focused on education and gender inequalities in China.
She was joined by Deborah Davis, professor of sociology at Yale University, whose 2014 book, ‘Wives, Husbands and Lovers’ focused on marriage and sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and urban China.
Over the course of the year we'll be bringing you a special series of China focused episodes, working with the Lau China Institute, the largest centre of its kind in the UK. It exists to build a greater understanding of China, both in the UK and across the globe through education, research and outreach. To find out more, please visit www.kcl.ac.uk/LCI.
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Podcast: In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Lost Idea of Hindustan: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Manan Ahmed Asif
Pub date: 2022-03-07
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Did South Asia have a shared regional identity prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late 15th century? The guest argues that Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Republic of India share a common political ancestry: they are all part of a region whose people understand themselves as Hindustani. This episode describes the idea of Hindustan as reflected in the work of native historians from roughly 1000 CE to 1900 CE, and how that idea went missing.
In Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Manan Ahmed Asif, Associate Professor of History at Columbia University and co-executive editor of the JHI, about his book, The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India (Harvard University Press, 2020).
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Podcast: Democracy Paradox (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Ilia Murtazashvili on Afghanistan, Local Institutions, and Self-Governance
Pub date: 2022-03-08
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
It wasn't that Afghan social norms don’t support democracy. They do. And Afghans understood well what they were supposed to have but they never got what the constitution promised. What has been the role of shuras, maliks, and mullahs in local governance, how can property rights help explain it, and are local, self-governing institutions in Afghanistan democratic?
It wasn't because Afghan social norms don’t support democracy. They do. And Afghans understood darn well what they were supposed to have. But they never even got the minimum of what they were promised in the constitution.
Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of Land, the State, and War: Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan here.
Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Ilia Murtazashvili are associate professors at the University of Pittsburgh and the authors of the recent book Land, the State, and War: Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan. Jen is also the founding director and Ilia is an associate director of the Center for Governance and Markets.
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- Description of the role of shuras, maliks, and mullahs in local governance
- How property rights help explain local governance
- Why has the state always been ineffective in Afghanistan
- A little history on Afghanistan
- Are local, self-governing institutions in Afghanistan democratic?
Key Links
Land, the State, and War: Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan by Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Ilia Murtazashvili
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Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: It’s Time to Hold the Pandemic Profiteers Accountable
Pub date: 2022-03-07
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The global death toll from Covid-19 has reached six million – and nearly one million of those deaths are from the US alone. That means the US accounts for 4 percent of the world population but nearly 17 percent of its Covid deaths. Why is that?
The global death toll from COVID-19 has reached six million—and nearly one million of those deaths are from the United States alone. Let’s do the math: that means the U.S. accounts for 4 percent of the world population but nearly 17 percent of its COVID deaths. Why is that?
“We should recognize that disasters can be better or worse depending on how those in government and those with economic power respond,” says journalist John Nichols. “They too frequently failed the American people [during the pandemic], and that’s why we have a higher death rate than other countries.”
Meanwhile, as vulnerable Americans have suffered devastating health and economic consequences from two years of COVID, the billionaire class has expanded.
It’s time to hold these pandemic profiteers accountable, says John Nichols. That’s the theme of his latest book, Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis. Today, he joins guest host Bert Zipperer to discuss.
John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation, a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times, and the associate editor of the Cap Times. He’s the author of over a dozen books, including Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis (Verso, 2022).
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Podcast: Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 415: Gender, participation, and the pandemic's impacts on peace
Pub date: 2022-03-08
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Talking to two global experts on women in peacebuilding processes about their research into the pandemic and its effects on key actors in Colombia’s peace process – women
This week on Episode 415 of the Colombia Calling podcast, Emily Hart talks to two global experts on women in peacebuilding processes about their research into the pandemic and its effects on key actors in Colombia’s peace process – women. As the fourth peak of the covid19 cases fades, the dust is starting to settle on pandemic management worldwide – how the lockdowns and movement restrictions affected peacebuilders and their crucial work, and how Colombia’s peace could suffer in the long term as a result – how it may already be suffering: Last week, the Transitional Justice Tribunal – the JEP, announced a ‘reactivation’ of conflict in various parts of the country with various spikes in indicators for violence, this week and UN warned of levels of violence not seen in Colombia since 2014 - now NGO Frontline Defenders have released their annual report on the murders of human rights defenders – Colombia was not only host to more of those murders than any country in the world yet again, but accounted for nearly 40% of the global total of murders of human rights defenders in 2021. Katherine Ronderos is a Colombian researcher with over 15 years working in the sector of women's rights, peace, security and development, from Colombia to Korea. For seven years, Katherine was the Director of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in Colombia and is now an independent consultant working for UN agencies. Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos is a gender in peacebuilding expert who has worked in more than 15 countries - formerly Director of Programs at the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders, she is now researching her PhD.
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Podcast: TRASHFUTURE (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Lithium Rush ft. Thea Riofrancos
Pub date: 2022-03-08
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Discussing why 'onshoring' the mining of critical minerals is all the rage now that the world's security and energy orders have both been thrown into disarray, and why it doesn't address the root causes of predatory extraction
Riley, Alice, and Milo look at the ongoing descent of the UK pundit class into embodying the global death drive, and take a look at a story of a certain kind of British Guy achieving apotheosis (spending £218 of Bolton Council's money meant for excluded children at the Spar in Praia du Luz in Portugal). In between, Riley talks to academic Thea Riofrancos about why "onshoring" mining is all the rage now that the world's security and energy orders have both been thrown into disarray.
The interview with Thea starts at 23:16 and ends at 53:45!
Read Thea's article on mining here (paywalled): https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/07/renewable-energy-transition-critical-minerals-mining-onshoring-lithium-evs-climate-justice/
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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Chris Bail on How To Make Social Media Platforms Less Polarizing
Pub date: 2022-02-23
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. But they function more like a prism that distorts our identities, empowers status-seeking extremists, and renders moderates all but invisible. This conversation challenges common myths about echo chambers, foreign misinformation campaigns, and radicalising algorithms, revealing that the solution to political tribalism lies deep inside ourselves.
Chris Bail is Professor of Sociology, Public Policy, and Data Science at Duke University, where he directs the Polarization Lab. A leader in the emerging field of computational social science, Bail’s research examines fundamental questions of social psychology, extremism, and political polarization using social media data, bots, and the latest advances in machine learning.
Bail is the recipient of Guggenheim and Carnegie Fellowships. His research appears in top journals, such as Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Sociological Review.
ContributeA note from Lev:
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The podcast seeks to provide a substantive alternative to mainstream economics media; to communicate information and ideas that contribute to equitable and peaceful solutions to political and economic issues; and to improve the teaching of high school and university political economy.
I am looking to be able to raise money in order to improve the technical quality of the podcast and website and to further expand the audience through professionally designed social media outreach. I am also hoping to hire an editor.
Our goal is to raise $12,000 this year. If you can donate a few dollars each month it will help us reach that goal. And if you know of a family foundation that might be interested in donating to A Correction please be in touch. Thank you! (And a huge thank you to all of the people who have already supported the podcast!)
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Podcast: New Books in Journalism
Episode: Stanislav Aseyev, "In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas" (HURI, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-02-22
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The guest helps understand the highly entangled and complicated background of the current Russo-Ukrainian war, documenting how the Donbas turned into another flashpoint following Crimea, whose emergence is directly connected to the Russian Federation.
Stanislav Aseyev is a Ukrainian journalist and writer born in Donetsk, which at present remains occupied by Russia-backed militants. Sometime after the beginning of the occupation, he was captured for his political views by the militants of the occupied parts of the Donbas and sentenced to 15 years. On the eve of 2020, Aseyev was released in a prisoner exchange. Currently Stanislav Aseyev lives in Kyiv. Aseyev received a number of awards recognizing his active social and political position (including the Free Media Award (2020), the National Freedom of Expression Award (2020). He is also a recipient of the Shevchenko National Prize, the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts.
Stanislav Aseyev’s In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2022; translated into English by Lidia Wolanskyj) helps understand a highly entangled and complicated background of the current Russo-Ukrainian war. This book—a chronological account of the events that started in November of 2013, on the one hand, and a collection of journalistic reflections that attempt to explain almost surreal and absurd developments, on the other—documents how the Donbas turned into another flashpoint, following Crimea, whose emergence is directly connected to the Russian Federation and provides commentaries on Russia’s role in sustaining the current war. In Isolation is written from within the zone of conflict; it emerges from the very epicenter of the war that signals not only interstate rifts but also splits that tear apart families and cause uneasiness in long-term friendships.
Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed is a PhD candidate in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Indiana University.
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Manata Hashemi, "Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity" (NYU Press, 2020)
Pub date: 2022-02-22
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Crippling sanctions, inflation, and unemployment have increasingly burdened young people in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The guest takes us inside the lives of poor Iranian youth, showing how these young men and women face their future prospects.
In Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity(NYU Press, 2020), Manata Hashemi takes readers inside the lives of Iranian youth. Drawing on first-hand accounts, Hashemi shows how the young Iranian men and women known as the “burnt generation”—those between the ages of 15 and 29, who came of age after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution—face their future prospects.
With a compassionate eye, Hashemi paints a nuanced portrait of their day-to-day struggles in Iran. Hashemi spent months with these youth, observing them at bazaars, hair salons, parks, and mosques, tutoring them in English and sharing meals in their family homes. Many young Iranian men and women are jobless, living with their parents, and delaying marriage, ultimately failing to meet what they consider the traditional benchmarks of adulthood. Hashemi follows their stories, one by one, as they try to climb up the proverbial ladder of success.
Coming of Age in Iran sheds light on the inner lives of a new generation of Iranian youth as they struggle in the face of ongoing economic crisis.
Manata Hashemi is a sociologist, ethnographer, and the Farzaneh Family Associate Professor of Iranian Studies in the Department of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is also the co-editor of Children in Crisis: Ethnographic Studies in International Contexts (2013, Routledge). Website: www.manatahashemi.com.Twitter: @ManataHashemi.
Amir Sayadabdi is Lecturer in Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington. He is mainly interested in anthropology of food and its intersection with gender studies, migration studies, and studies of race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Journalists in Mexico
Pub date: 2022-02-19
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Outside a war zone, Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries to be a journalist. In 2021, seven journalists were murdered. In the first few weeks of this year alone, the killing of five journalists has prompted an outcry and concern. This episode hears what it is like when your job is to try and tell stories in a country where four people are killed every hour and where violent crimes fill your news-feeds.
Outside a war zone, Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries to be a journalist. In 2021, seven journalists were murdered. In the first few weeks of this year alone, the killing of five journalists has prompted an outcry and concern. We hear what it is like when your job is to try and tell stories in a country where four people are killed every hour and where violent crimes fill your news-feeds. For Adrián López Ortiz, the CEO and editor of Noroeste newspaper in the state of Sinaloa, north-western Mexico, it is a long standing problem since he still suffers from injuries during an attack in 2014.
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Podcast: The Arts of Travel (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Sabina Knight on China's Literature (Part 1 - Daoism, Confucianism & Anti- War Poetry)
Pub date: 2022-02-20
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
DIscussing the historic and contemporary influence that Daoism, Confucianism and Anti-War Poetry have had on China's literature and literary culture
We spoke to Dr. Sabina Knight of Smith for a two-part conversation on her book: Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction.
In part one, we discuss the historic & contemporary influence that Daoism, Confucianism & Anti-War Poetry have had on China's literature & literary culture.
For more w. Dr. Knight you can find her book here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/chinese-literature-a-very-short-introduction-9780195392067?cc=us⟨=en&
And on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/SabinaKnight1
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Greg de St Maurice and Beth M. Forrest, "Food in Memory and Imagination: Space, Place and Taste" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-02-22
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
How do we engage with food through memory and imagination? The guests have brought together first-class contributions, from both established and up-and-coming scholars, to consider how imagination and memory intertwine and sometimes diverge.
How do we engage with food through memory and imagination? Food in Memory and Imagination: Space, Place and, Taste (Bloomsbury, 2022) spans time and space to illustrate how, through food, people have engaged with the past, the future, and their alternative presents. Beth M. Forrest and Greg de St. Maurice have brought together first-class contributions, from both established and up-and-coming scholars, to consider how imagination and memory intertwine and sometimes diverge. Chapters draw on cases around the world-including Iran, Italy, Japan, Kenya, and the US-and include topics such as national identity, food insecurity, and the phenomenon of knowledge. Contributions represent a range of disciplines, including anthropology, history, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. This volume is a veritable feast for the contemporary food studies scholar.
Beth Forrest is Professor of Liberal Arts and Applied Food Studies at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY with a PhD in History from Boston University. She is also the president of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS). She is currently working on an edited volume that considers the role of sauces and condiments in the west (Oxford UP). Twitter: @BettafrmdaVille
Greg de St. Maurice is Tenured Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Business and Commerce at Keio University. He earned his PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh in 2015. His key research interests include place and place brands, globalization, taste, craft, chefs and cuisine. Greg serves as Vice President of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS). Twitter: @burgersandsushi
Amir Sayadabdi is Lecturer in Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington. He is mainly interested in anthropology of food and its intersection with gender studies, migration studies, and studies of race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Anna Isabella Grimaldi on Rethinking Human Rights
Pub date: 2022-02-19
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Focusing on the formation of transnational advocacy and solidarity networks and the spread of ideas about human rights and development from the Global South
Anna Grimaldiis Lecturer of Modern Latin American History at King’s College London. Her research focuses on the formation of transnational advocacy and solidarity networks and the spread of ideas about human rights and development from the Global South.
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DONATE TODAYA note from Lev:
I am a high school teacher of history and economics at a public high school in NYC, and began the podcast to help demystify economics for teachers. The podcast is now within the top 2% of podcasts worldwide in terms of listeners (perListen Notes) and individual episodes are frequently listed by The Syllabus (the-syllabus.com) as among the 10 best political economy podcasts of a particular week. The podcast is reaching thousands of listeners each month.
The podcast seeks to provide a substantive alternative to mainstream economics media; to communicate information and ideas that contribute to equitable and peaceful solutions to political and economic issues; and to improve the teaching of high school and university political economy.
I am looking to be able to raise money in order to improve the technical quality of the podcast and website and to further expand the audience through professionally designed social media outreach. I am also hoping to hire an editor.
Our goal is to raise $12,000 this year. If you can donate a few dollars each month it will help us reach that goal. And if you know of a family foundation that might be interested in donating to A Correction please be in touch. Thank you! (And a huge thank you to all of the people who have already supported the podcast!)
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Podcast: The Dig (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Feminist International w/ Verónica Gago
Pub date: 2022-02-19
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The guest discusses Argentina’s massive feminist movement and strike, the ties that bind domestic labour and financial exploitation, neoliberalism from below, and more.
Feminist political theorist and organizer Verónica Gago on Argentina’s massive feminist movement and strike, the ties that bind domestic labor and financial exploitation, neoliberalism from below, and more.
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Podcast: New Books in African Studies (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Afe Adogame, "Indigeneity in African Religions: Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and Religious Cultures" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-02-11
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and archival data, Afe Adogame explores the historical origins, worldviews, cosmologies, ritual symbolism and praxis of the indigenous Oza people in South West Nigeria.
Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and archival data, Afe Adogame,Indigeneity in African Religions: Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and Religious Cultures(Bloomsbury, 2021) explores the historical origins, worldviews, cosmologies, ritual symbolism and praxis of the indigenous Oza people in South West Nigeria. The author's locationality and positionality plugs the book within decolonizing knowledges and indigeneity discourses, thus unpacking the complexity of “indigeneity” and contributing to its conceptual understanding within socioreligious change in contemporary Africa. The future of Oza indigeneity in the face of modernity is illuminated against the backlash of encounters, contestations with multiple hegemonies, transmissions of Christianity and Islam and indigenous (re)appropriations. Thus, any theorizations of such encounters must be cognizant of instantiations of indigeneity politics and identity, culture, tradition and power dynamics. Through decolonizing burdens of history, memory and method, Afe Adogame demonstrates a framework of understanding Oza indigenous religious,sociocultural and political imaginaries.
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Podcast: Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 412: Protests in Colombia: the urgent need for police reform
Pub date: 2022-02-15
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Discussing the urgent need for police reform in Colombia following the Paro Nacional protests in 2021. The guest talks not only about the need for police reform in Colombia, but also about the failure of relevant entities to investigate and prosecute members of the force guilty of killing protestors during the unrest.
Further to our series in 2021, regarding some of the intricacies and causes of the Paro Nacional or national demonstrations in Colombia which brought much of the country to a standstill, we have decided to follow these up in 2022 with equally pressing issues. This week on episode 412 of the Colombia Calling podcast, we are honoured to welcome Juan Pappier, Senior Investigator for Human Rights Watch on Colombia Calling to talk about the urgent need for police reform in Colombia. Pappier has a special focus on Cuba and Colombia and talks to us about not only a need for police reform in Colombia but also the failure by the relevant entities in investigating and prosecuting members of the force guilty of killing protestors during the unrest. Tune in for an informative and interesting episode and follow Juan Pappier @JuanPappierHRW
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Crypto Winter Is Coming w/ Jacob Silverman
Pub date: 2022-02-03
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The guest discusses the huge drop in crypto prices, the coming threat (to crypto) of interest rate hikes and regulation, the human impact of crypto schemes, and where things may be going next
As the podcast celebrates episode 100, Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss the huge drop in crypto prices, the coming threat (to crypto) of interest rate hikes and regulation, the human impact of crypto schemes, and where things may be going next.
Jacob Silverman is a staff writer at The New Republic and writes about crypto with the actor Ben McKenzie. Follow Jacob on Twitter at @SilvermanJacob.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
- Jacob and Ben McKenzie wrote about Tether. Zeke Faux also wrote an essential article on the stablecoin, and Jacob recommends Crypto Critics Corner.
- Crypto prices have plunged, and that’s hurt regular people.
- New York’s Attorney General reached a settlement with Tether last year.
- VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is making a big lobbying push in Washington, DC to get favorable crypto regulations.
- Matt Damon and Spike Lee are among the celebrities to take crypto money and help pump the industry.
- US regulators are looking at crypto regulations, and Biden administration is planning an executive order to move it forward.
- China banned crypto mining, Russia proposed a ban on crypto, and many countries have suffered power outages due to crypto mining.
- Stephen Diehl wrote explained how crypto is about arbitraging securities regulation.
- Diane Jeantet wrote about a massive series of Bitcoin pyramid schemes in Brazil.
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Podcast: Sinica Podcast (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why the law matters in China, with Jeremy Daum of Yale's Paul Tsai China Law Center
Pub date: 2022-02-03
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The guest talks about why the law remains important despite frequent assertions that there is no rule of law in China, critiques the ‘techno-authoritarian’ narrative on China, and offers an informed take on the much-maligned ‘social credit system’
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Jeremy Daum, senior research scholar in law and senior fellow at Yale University's Paul Tsai China Center. Jeremy runs ChinaLawTranslate.com, a Wiki-style resource for translations of Chinese laws and regulations and an invaluable resource not just for legal scholars but for anyone interested in understanding China's policy direction. In a wide-ranging conversation, Jeremy talks about why the law remains important despite frequent assertions that there is no rule of law in China, critiques the "techno-authoritarian" narrative on China, and offers an informed take on the much-maligned "social credit system." Jeremy's work on the social credit system has earned him a reputation as a debunker, and in this episode, he makes clear what the system is and is not.
3:28 – The ChinaLawTranslate.com project and its origins
5:21 – Why does the law matter in China?
10:09 – The technology narrative in Xinjiang
13:12 – Can the U.S. learn anything from Chinese law?
17:59 – Juvenile law and the Chinese conception of the state's role in the family
24:13 – The paternalistic conception of law and the COVID-19 response in China
28:49 – Mythbusting and the social credit system
42:21 – China's Plea Leniency System and the case for engagement in jurisprudence
A transcript of this interview is available on SupChina.com.
Recommendations:
Jeremy: The Fixer, a novel by Bernard Malamud
Kaiser: Going back to basics: Chinese stir-fry lessons on the YouTube channel "Chinese Cooking Demystified"
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Podcast: POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Queer Activism in Lebanon, Refugee Aid in Jordan, and East Jerusalem (S. 11, Ep. 18)
Pub date: 2022-02-03
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Examining feminist and LGBTQ social movements in the context of Lebanon's postwar sectarian system, the political economy of refugee aid coordination in Jordan, and the recent Palestinian mobilisation in East Jerusalem.
John Nagle of Queens University Belfast and Tamirace Fakhoury of Aalborg University join Marc Lynch on this week's podcast to discuss their new book, "Resisting Sectarianism: Queer Activism in Postwar Lebanon." In the book, Nagle and Fakhoury examine feminist and LGBTQ social movements in the context of Lebanon's postwar sectarian system. Reva Dhingra of Harvard University discusses her latest article, "Coordination in practice or performance? The political economy of refugee aid coordination in Jordan," published in the Journal of Refugee Studies. Dana el-Kurd of the University of Richmond about recent Palestinian mobilization in East Jerusalem.
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Podcast: The afikra Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: BILAL ORFALI & ENAM AL-WER | Future of the Arabic Language | Tasmeem
Pub date: 2022-02-05
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
In this event, the professor of linguistics and the professor and chair of Arabic language and literature talk about the future of the Arabic language
In this event, we talked to professor of linguistics Enam Al-Wer and professor and chair of Arabic language and literature Bilal Orfali about the future of the Arabic language.
Created & Hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikra
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About Tasmeem Doha 2022: Radical Futures:
Tasmeem Doha 2022: Radical Futures is an inclusive and multi-faceted view of the future, one that not only speculates on technological advancements—but on future threats and changes whether environmental, geographical, cultural, or social. Now more than ever, we must ask pertinent questions, raise critical dialogues, and respond with clarity. Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp
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Podcast: The History Hour (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Kazakhstan's new capital
Pub date: 2022-02-05
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
How Kazakhstan's strongman president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, created a new capital, which would eventually be named after him
How Kazakhstan's strongman president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, created a new capital, which would eventually be named after him; transformation in the UEA - the first Emirati female teacher in the 1960s; the murder of American journalist, Daniel Pearl; from 70 years ago, the passing of Britain’s King George VI; and a once-in-a-lifetime transit of Venus.
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Podcast: New Books in African Studies (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: James S. Williams, "Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Pub date: 2022-02-08
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The guest explores an exciting new generation of African directors who have begun to reassess and embrace the concept of cinematic beauty by not reducing it to ideological critique or the old ideals of pan-Africanism
Since the beginnings of African cinema, the realm of beauty on screen has been treated with suspicion by directors and critics alike. In Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty(Bloomsbury, 2019),James S. Williams explores an exciting new generation of African directors, including Abderrahmane Sissako, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Fanta Régina Nacro, Alain Gomis, Newton I. Aduaka, Jean-Pierre Bekolo and Mati Diop, who have begun to reassess and embrace the concept of cinematic beauty by not reducing it to ideological critique or the old ideals of pan-Africanism. Locating the aesthetic within a range of critical fields - the rupturing of narrative spectacle and violence by montage, the archives of the everyday in the 'afropolis', the plurivocal mysteries of sound and language, male intimacy and desire, the borderzones of migration and transcultural drift - this study reveals the possibility for new, non-conceptual kinds of beauty in African cinema: abstract, material, migrant, erotic, convulsive, queer. Through close readings of key works such as Life on Earth (1998), The Night of Truth (2004), Bamako (2006), Daratt (Dry Season) (2006), A Screaming Man (2010), Tey (Today) (2012), The Pirogue (2012), Mille soleils (2013) and Timbuktu (2014), Williams argues that contemporary African filmmakers are proposing propitious, ethical forms of relationality and intersubjectivity. These stimulate new modes of cultural resistance and transformation that serve to redefine the transnational and the cosmopolitan as well as the very notion of the political in postcolonial art cinema.
James S. Williams is Professor of Modern French Literature and Film at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he is also director of the Centre for Visual Cultures.
This interview was conducted by Santiago Fouz-Hernandez, Professor in Film Studies and Iberian Studies at Durham University (UK). Santiago's main work is on masculinites and male bodies on film. His interests include contemporary Spanish and European cinemas, queer cinema, LGBTQ+ studies, popular culture, comics and popular music.
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Podcast: ArchitectureTalk (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 120. Part 1: Mental Landscapes and the Architectural Archipelagos of Indian Modernism with William J.R. Curtis
Pub date: 2022-02-03
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Exploring the life and work of Aditya Prakash, the nature and production of Modernism in India, and today's guest’s own engagement with Indian Modernism.
This week, we travel back in time with architectural historian and theorist William J.R. Curtis and his reading of the narrative of Indian Modernism. Part one of a two part series, Curtis and Prakash focus today’s conversation on the life and work of Aditya Prakash, the nature and production of Modernism in India, and Curtis’ own engagement with Indian Modernism.
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-01-20
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
AI changes our experience of time and the future and challenges our identities, yet we are blinded by its efficiency and fail to understand how it affects us. At the heart of our trust in AI lies a paradox: we leverage AI to increase our control over the future and uncertainty, while at the same time the performativity of AI, the power it has to make us act in the ways it predicts, reduces our agency over the future.
Today I talked to Helga Nowotny about her new book In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms (Polity, 2021).
One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI - and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our institutions and for what it means to be human. AI changes our experience of time and the future and challenges our identities, yet we are blinded by its efficiency and fail to understand how it affects us.
At the heart of our trust in AI lies a paradox: we leverage AI to increase our control over the future and uncertainty, while at the same time the performativity of AI, the power it has to make us act in the ways it predicts, reduces our agency over the future. This happens when we forget that that we humans have created the digital technologies to which we attribute agency. These developments also challenge the narrative of progress, which played such a central role in modernity and is based on the hubris of total control. We are now moving into an era where this control is limited as AI monitors our actions, posing the threat of surveillance, but also offering the opportunity to reappropriate control and transform it into care.
As we try to adjust to a world in which algorithms, robots and avatars play an ever-increasing role, we need to understand better the limitations of AI and how their predictions affect our agency, while at the same time having the courage to embrace the uncertainty of the future.
Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch.
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Podcast: Hopkins Podcast on Foreign Affairs (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Future of Hong Kong
Pub date: 2022-01-19
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
In May 2020, the Chinese Communist Party announced a sweeping new National Security Law for Hong Kong. The law ambiguously outlaws separatism, subversion, and terrorism and has been used to widely crack down on Hong Kong’s civil institutions. This episode discusses how Hong Kong has changed since the law’s passage and what the future of the territory may hold
In May 2020, the Chinese Communist Party announced a sweeping new National Security Law for Hong Kong. The law, enacted in July, ambigulously outlaws separatism, subversion, and terrorism. When the law was enacted, experts debated over how forcefully Beijing and Hong Kong authorities would enforce the law, and how that enforcement would affect the civil … Continue reading The Future of Hong Kong
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Podcast: Democracy Paradox (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Bilal Baloch on Indira Gandhi, India's Emergency, and the Importance of Ideas in Politics
Pub date: 2022-01-25
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
This conversation explores the guest’s insights about political decision-making through two examples out of Indian political history, both involving two different anti-corruption movements. But the concern for Bilal is more about how leaders react to what he calls a credibility crisis.
We have core ideas that form a part of our worldview, but those core ideas are not fixed in the way in which we talk about rationality and interest in that they can evolve. And we have to, when we think about human behavior, political behavior, we have to give serious attention to those ideas and go beyond just fixed material interests.
Bilal Baloch
A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of When Ideas Matter: Democracy and Corruption in India here.
Bilal Baloch is the Co-Founder and COO of Enquire, formerly GlobalWonks. He is also a non-resident visiting scholar at the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of When Ideas Matter: Democracy and Corruption in India.
Key Highlights
- What was the Jayaprakash Narayanan Movement?
- Why did the State of Emergency happen in India?
- How do ideas influence governance?
- The differences between technocratic and political leadership
- Is it more important to foster a diversity of ideas or support the best ideas?
Key Links
When Ideas Matter: Democracy and Corruption in India by Bilal Baloch
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Christophe Jaffrelot on Narendra Modi and Hindu Nationalism
Kajri Jain Believes Democracy Unfolds through the Aesthetic
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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians
Episode: Grab ‘em by the data: gender, technology and systems of oppression
Pub date: 2022-01-22
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Discussing gender and technology, the myth of neutral tech, how technology is embedded in systems of oppression, why using a dishwasher isn't considered 'technological innovation', and whether some AI is just machine learning for eugenics.
On this week’s episode, Alina Utrata talks to Stefanie Felsberger, a PhD in Gender Studies at Cambridge University, and Muskan Shafat, an MS in Data and Society at the London School of Economics, about gender and technology. They discuss the myth of neutral tech, how technology is embedded in systems of oppression, why using a dishwasher isn’t considered “technological innovation” and whether some AI is just machine learning for eugenics.
You can follow Stefanie Felsberger on Twitter @Flsbrgr, Muskan Shafat @muskanmaraz, Alina Utrata @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcast on Twitter @AntiDystopians. Or sign up for the AD email newsletter: bit.ly/3kuGM5X
All episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata, and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production to the show, visit: bit.ly/3AApPN4
Books mentioned in the podcast:
Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin
Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Noble
Programmed Inequality by Mar Hicks
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neill
What Tech Calls Thinking by Adrian Daub
Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod
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Podcast: The Affect and Colonialism Podcast
Episode: Revenge in colonial modernity
Pub date: 2022-01-20
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It is seen as one of the great achievements of European modernity to have cast out revenge from law and politics. The colonial narrative says: where revenge rules, and thus affect, modernity is absent. But is revenge actually outside of modernity or is it rather one of its blind spots? What is the real place of revenge in colonial modernity?
It is seen as one of the great achievements of European modernity to have cast out revenge from law and politics. The colonial narrative says: where revenge rules, and thus affect, modernity is absent. But is revenge actually outside of modernity or is it rather one of its blind spots? Today, we talk with philosopher Fabian Bernhard about the place of revenge in colonial modernity.
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Podcast: POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Revolutionary Life, Unlikely Feminist Coalitions, and the Houthi Movement (S. 11, Ep. 16)
Pub date: 2022-01-20
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Exploring how the practice of everyday life in Egypt and Tunisia was fundamentally altered by revolutionary activity, the unlikely feminist coalitions emerging from Islamist and secularist women's organising in Tunisia, and the Houthi movement and recent developments in the war in Yemen.
Asef Bayat of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign joins Marc Lynch on this week's podcast to discuss his new book, Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring. In the book, Bayat seamlessly blends field research, on-the-ground interviews, and social theory to show how the practice of everyday life in Egypt and Tunisia was fundamentally altered by revolutionary activity. (Starts at 0:39). Maro Youssef of University of Southern California discusses her latest article, "Unlikely Feminist Coalitions: Islamist and Secularist Women’s Organizing in Tunisia," published in Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society. (Starts at 33:00). Thomas Juneau of the University of Ottawa discusses the Houthi movement and recent developments in the war in Yemen (Starts at 47:56).
Music for this season's podcast was created by Bashir Saade (playing Ney) and Farah Kaddour (on Buzuq). You can find more of Bashir's work on his YouTube Channel.
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Podcast: Millennials Are Killing Capitalism (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: “Against Alienation” - Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi on their book Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine
Pub date: 2022-01-24
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Anti-colonial or decolonial theories of psychoanalysis overturn the historical relations between psychoanalysis and colonialism and in this context the relations forged between Palestinian clinicians and their Palestinian clients. Both are subjected to the same colonial apartheid regime that requires a struggle for national liberation.
In this episode we talk to Lara and Stephen Sheehi about their recently published book Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine. Lara Sheehi is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University Professional Psychology Program.
Stephen Sheehi is a Professor of Middle East Studies and Director of the Decolonizing Humanities Project at William & Mary.
Full bios here
Their work in this text is heavily influenced by Frantz Fanon and critically engages theories of decoloniality and Liberatory psychoanalysis. It centers the stories and struggles of clinicians and their clients in Palestine.
In this conversation Lara & Stephen talk about the historical relationship between psychoanalysis and colonialism, and how power relations and epistemology structure those relations.
Upending those relations of course are anti-colonial or decolonial theories of psychoanalysis and in this context relationships forged between Palestinian clinicians and their Palestinian clients. Both are subjected to the same settler colonial apartheid regime that necessitates a national liberation struggle.
Along the way they talk about the different forms of every day and extreme oppression faced by Palestinian people, we talk about the work of Palestinian clinicians to confront that harm, and how confronting that requires transgressive acts, organization and ultimately resistance.
We take up problems like ideological misattunement between Israeli clinicians and Palestinian clients, talk about concepts like disalienation, and conscientisation and other key concepts in Fanonian and decolonial psychoanalytic theory. Providing key insights for resisting individuation, alienation and colonial oppression.
Lara Sheehi also mentions that she and others have some networks of anti-colonial and anti-capitalist therapists and BIPOC anti-imperialist therapists for folks who are looking for that you can connect with Dr. Sheehi to find out more information.
Also just a note, we realize that this book is priced too high for most people to purchase it for themselves. You can ask your public or school library to purchase a copy - as this was really the publishing model that the publisher chose for this text. The authors are committed however to making sure that anybody who wants to read it can find a way to get access to the text. So if you aren’t able to get your hands on it, please reach out to Lara.
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Links & Resources:
Palestinian Global Mental Health Network
Gaza Community Mental Health Programme
Maana Centre
Palestinian Counseling Center
The Guidance and Training Center for the Child and Family
Cafe Palestine Index
Stephen Sheehi's website
Twitter Handles:
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Stephen: @zghartawi
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@psychoanalystactivist, @decolonizingphotography, and bipocanalysis
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Podcast: LSE Middle East Centre Podcasts (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: The Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics and Militant Femininities
Pub date: 2022-01-21
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Amidst ongoing wars and insecurities, female fighters, politicians, and activists of the Kurdish Freedom Movement are building a new political system that centres gender equality. Since the Rojava Revolution, the international focus has been especially on female fighters, a gaze that has often been essentialising and objectifying, brushing over a much more complex history of violence and resistance.
This event was the launch of Isabel Käser's latest book 'The Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics and Militant Femininities' published by Cambridge University Press.
Amidst ongoing wars and insecurities, female fighters, politicians, and activists of the Kurdish Freedom Movement are building a new political system that centres gender equality. Since the Rojava Revolution, the international focus has been especially on female fighters, a gaze that has often been essentialising and objectifying, brushing over a much more complex history of violence and resistance.
Going beyond Orientalist tropes of the female freedom fighter and unpacking the movement's own discourse and practices around the 'free woman', Isabel Käser's new book looks at personal trajectories and everyday processes of becoming a militant in this movement. Based on in-depth ethnographic research in Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan, with women politicians, martyr mothers and female fighters, she looks at how norms around gender and sexuality have been rewritten and how new meanings and practices have been assigned to women in the quest for Kurdish self-determination. Her book complicates prevailing notions of gender and war and creates a more nuanced understanding of the everyday embodied epistemologies of violence, conflict, and resistance.
'The highly original ethnography and bold ethnography of Isabel Käser sheds new light on the evolution of the Kurdish conflict and allows us to understand the complexity of gender-based emancipatory projects emerging in a Near East under fire.' Hamit Bozarslan - EHESS, Paris
Isabel Käser is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern and a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre. She is the Principal Investigator of the collaborative project between the LSE, the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH), and Culture Project entitled ‘The Kurdistan Region of Iraq Post-ISIS: Youth, Art and Gender’. Isabel gained her PhD at SOAS University of London and has previously worked in journalism and diplomacy, most recently leading the research project ‘Art in Peace Mediation’ for the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.
Zeynep Kaya is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sheffield. Her main research areas involve borderlands, territoriality, conflict, peace, political legitimacy and gender in the Middle East. She has recently published a monograph entitled Mapping Kurdistan: Territory, Self-Determination and Nationalism with Cambridge University Press. Zeynep is co-editor of I.B. Tauris-Bloomsbury's Kurdish Studies Series and is also a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre and an Academic Associate at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.
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Podcast: TIC Talk du laboratoire LIG
Episode: Episode 26 - L. Mucchielli - TIC et sociologie de la sécurité
Pub date: 2022-01-26
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Information and communication technologies have changed our relationship to security. Whether from a personal point of view, we have access to more information in real time, or from a societal point of view, by setting up surveillance of movements during episodes of confinement, we can clearly see the central importance of these technologies. Similarly, the role of each individual has evolved: the smartphone is used both to monitor and to be monitored. The whole security sphere has been impacted.
Laurent Muchielli est directeur de recherche au CNRS (Centre Méditerranéen de Sociologie, de Science Politique et d'Histoire) est spécialiste des questions de sécurité. Il vient de publier "La Doxa du COVID" aux éditions Eoliennes.
Les technologies de l'information et de la communication ont changé notre rapport à la sécurité. Que ce soit d'un point de vue personnel, nous avons accès à plus d'information en temps réel, ou sociétal, en mettant en place une surveillance des déplacements lors d'épisodes de confinement, on voit bien l'importance centrale qu'ont ces technologies. De même le rôle de tout un chacun à évolué : le smartphone sert aussi bien à surveiller qu'à être surveillé. C'est toute la sphère sécuritaire qui a été impactée et dont nous parlons dans cet épisode.
Liens en référence avec le podcast:
- Les techniques et les enjeux de la mesure de la délinquance - Laurent Mucchielli Dans Savoir/Agir 2010/4 (n° 14), pages 93 à 101.
- L'empire des chiffres - Olivier Martin chez Armand Colin 2020.
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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Tech, Democracy and Market Power
Pub date: 2021-12-12
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Discussing the recent Summit for Democracy as well as market and monopoly power, tech platforms and antitrust. How should the market power be measured in light of platform multi-sidedness, and why are existing antitrust tools, caselaw, and the economic assumptions underlying not well-suited to the task?
We’ve got two segments today. First up, Alexandra Reeve Givens, President and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) discusses last week’s Summit for Democracy and what it accomplished. Second, we speak with Marshall Steinbaum, an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah about market and monopoly power, tech platforms and antitrust.
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Podcast: Lekh
Episode: Sandeep Mertia - Lives of Data
Pub date: 2021-12-11
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Exploring India’s current computational culture encapsulated by big data and its historical and emergent dynamics on India’s politics and society. How did data become so powerful in India? How do the lineages, affinities, networks and layers add to data’s value in the Indian context?
In the 21st episode, I speak to Sandeep Mertia, PhD Candidate, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University on his new edited volume Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India published by the Institute of Network Cultures (2021). The edited volume brings together chapters from fifteen interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners who provide cutting analyses on India’s current computational culture encapsulated by big data and its historical and emergent dynamics on India’s politics and society. The volume emerged out of discussions and workshops at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) Sarai Programme. The volume offers us critical ways of considering and analyzing India’s big data moment and how it manifests relationally through different political and cultural nodes in India’s socio-political context. The conversation begins by asking Mertia about the origins of the volume before unpacking how data became so powerful in India. Next, we cover how data derives value from its relational nature or the lineages, affinities, networks and layers that add to data’s value in the Indian context. Mertia then historicizes data in India going back to the 1950s to trace how distinct domestic computing histories led to the current one. The conversation then moves to understand the role data practitioners play and whether it makes sense to view technological progress through their stand alone perch or collaboratively. We end with some thoughts on specific chapters including the last few that use ethnographic accounts to map the everyday aspects of data in India today and what Mertia thinks could be India’s data future.
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Podcast: The BMJ Podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Covid and conflict In South Asia
Pub date: 2021-12-10
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
In this second podcast focusing on the Covid response in South Asia, the guests discuss the intersection of conflict and Covid in the region.
In this second podcast focussing on the covid response in South Asia, we’re focussing on the intersection of conflict and covid in the region. The pandemic has highlighted the underlying weaknesses in many health systems - but could it also be used as a catalyst for change, and be a step towards easing tensions?
To discuss this, Kamran Abbasi, executive editor of The BMJ, is joined by Zulfiqar Bhutta, head of the Institute for Global Health and Development, Aga Khan University, and Arun Mitra senior vice president of Indian Doctors for Peace & Development.
To read more; Conflict, extremism, resilience and peace in South Asia; can covid-19 provide a bridge for peace and rapprochement? https://www.bmj.com/content/375/BMJ-2021-067384
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Podcast: New Naratif's Political Agenda (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Race and Solidarity in Singapore
Pub date: 2021-12-10
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Exploring the narratives about Singapore's Malay community in the mainstream media in Singapore. We discuss racial stereotypes, the challenges facing the Malay community, the systemic and historical underpinnings of racism, and how racism can be overcome.
Mysara Aljaru talks to PJ Thum about her research into narratives about Singapore's Malay community in the mainstream media in Singapore. They discuss racial stereotypes, the challenges facing the Malay community, the systemic and historical underpinnings of racism, and how racism can be overcome.
In particular, they argue about whether racism is a cause or a symptom of the oppression of Malays in Singapore, the role of neoliberal capitalism and nationalism in that oppression, and whether it is possible to end discrimination over identity.
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Decolonial AI 101 with Raziye Buse Çetin
Pub date: 2021-12-08
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What is Decolonial AI? How can we apply a postcolonial lens to AI design? In this episode we address these questions through postcolonial studies, intersectional feminism and science and technology studies to develop critical thinking about AI technologies and narratives around it.
What is Decolonial AI? How can we apply a postcolonial lens to AI design?
In this episode we interview Raziye Buse Çetin about Colonial, Decolonial, and Postcolonial AI -- and the Newly released Decolonial AI Manyfesto.
Buse is an AI policy and ethics researcher and consultant. Her work revolves around ethics, impact, and governance of AI systems. She combines her lived experience with her interest in postcolonial studies, intersectional feminism and science and technology studies (STS) to develop critical thinking about AI technologies and narratives around it.
Full show notes for this episode can be found at Radicalai.org.
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Podcast: Gatty Lecture Rewind Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 62: Sandy Chang, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Florida
Pub date: 2021-12-14
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The guest discusses her current book project on British Malaya, focusing on female Chinese migrants and their roles as sex workers in the brothel economy.
In our latest episode, Michael and Unaizah chat with Sandy Chang, Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, to discuss her current book project on British Malaya (1870s-1930s), focusing on female Chinese migrants and their roles as sex workers in the brothel economy.
Research and lecture summary: 1:45
Advice for researchers and recommendations: 25:55
Sandy Chang's Top Recommendation:
- Fluid Jurisdiction by Nurfadzilah Yahaya (link)
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Podcast: Intercepted (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Life After Guantánamo: “It Doesn’t Leave You”
Pub date: 2021-12-08
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After 20 years in arbitrary detention, former Guantánamo detainee Abdulqadir al Madhfari was released from a United Arab Emirates prison to his family’s care in Yemen. His freedom lasted less than a week. Suffering the mental impact of long-term detention and torture, al Madhfari fled from his own family and was captured and detained by Houthi rebels in Yemen.
On Tuesday, with 39 men remaining at Guantánamo Bay, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on closing the infamous military prison. This week on Intercepted: Intercept photo editor Elise Swain breaks down the horrifying story of one Yemeni man after being released from Guantánamo. After 20 years in arbitrary detention, former Guantánamo detainee Abdulqadir al Madhfari was released from a United Arab Emirates prison to his family’s care in Yemen. His freedom lasted less than a week. Suffering the mental impact of long-term detention and torture, al Madhfari fled from his own family and was captured and detained by Houthi rebels in Yemen. Swain discusses the consequences of life after Guantanamo with Mansoor Adayfi, a former detainee and author of the memoir “Don't Forget Us Here.” Mansoor calls for accountability and reparations to the men detained and tortured, describing how his life and those of others now resemble "Guantánamo 2.0." join.theintercept.com/donate/now
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Podcast: Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: How Military Funding Shapes What We Know About The Oceans
Pub date: 2021-12-12
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
As much as we may not like to admit it, science does not happen in a vacuum. How much does funding affect the course of scientific discovery?
How Military Funding Shapes What We Know About The Oceans
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Podcast: New Books in Chinese Studies
Episode: Chun-Yi Peng, "Mediatized Taiwanese Mandarin: Popular Culture, Masculinity, and Social Perceptions" (Springer, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-12-15
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Gangtaiqiang, the Hong Kong-Taiwan accent, is a recognisable form of mediatised Taiwanese Mandarin and has become a stereotype for many mainlanders who have little real-life interaction with Taiwanese people. They perceive gangtaiqiang as pretentious, babyish, and emasculated – mirroring the power dynamics between Taiwan and China. What is the role of televised media in the formation of language attitudes?
Mediatized Taiwanese Mandarin: Popular Culture, Masculinity, and Social Perceptions (Springer, 2021) explores how language ideologies have emerged for gangtaiqiang through a combination of indexical and ideological processes in televised media. Gangtaiqiang (Hong Kong-Taiwan accent), a socially recognizable form of mediatized Taiwanese Mandarin, has become a stereotype for many Chinese mainlanders who have little real-life interaction with Taiwanese people. Using both qualitative and quantitative approaches, the author examines how Chinese millennials perceive gangtaiqiang by focusing on the following questions: 1) the role of televised media in the formation of language attitudes, and 2) how shifting gender ideologies are performed and embodied such attitudes. This book presents empirical evidence to argue that gangtaiqiang should, in fact, be conceptualized as a mediatized variety of Mandarin, rather than the actual speech of people in Hong Kong or Taiwan. The analyses in this book point to an emerging realignment among the Chinese towards gangtaiqiang, a variety traditionally associated with chic, urban television celebrities and young cosmopolitan types. In contrast to Beijing Mandarin, Taiwanese Mandarin is now perceived to be pretentious, babyish, and emasculated, mirroring the power dynamics between Taiwan and China.
Chun-Yi Peng is an Associate Professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. His primary research interests are in the fields of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology.
Li-Ping Chen is Postdoctoral Scholar and Teaching Fellow in the East Asian Studies Center at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include literary translingualism, diaspora, and nativism in Sinophone, inter-Asian, and transpacific contexts.
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Podcast: The Dig (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Bolsonarismo with Rodrigo Nunes
Pub date: 2021-12-10
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A Bolsonaro-based analysis of how neoliberal conditions create popular constituencies, ideologies, and subjectivities among poor and working-class people for a violent, mean, and repressive neoliberalism — and how those reactionary politics from below converge with those generated from above.
How neoliberal conditions create popular constituencies, ideologies, and subjectivities among poor and working-class people for a violent, mean, and repressive neoliberalism—and how those reactionary politics from below converge with those generated from above. Political theorist Rodrigo Nunes analyzes Bolsonarismo (the ideology and politics surrounding far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro) and far-right politics everywhere.
Read Rodrigo's essays: radicalphilosophy.com/article/of-what-is-bolsonaro-the-name publicbooks.org/are-we-in-denial-about-denial
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Podcast: recode.law Podcast
Episode: Prof. Dr. Joachim Englisch - Besteuerung der großen Digitalkonzerne
Pub date: 2021-12-06
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
How is digitalisation changing the legal industry? Will artificial intelligence make lawyers unemployed? Which business models will prevail? What skills will be in demand in the future?
In dieser Folge spricht Tim mit Prof. Joachim Englisch über die Besteuerung der Digitalwirtschaft. Prof. Englisch ist Direktor des Instituts für Steuerrecht der Universität Münster und einer der führenden Experten auf dem Gebiet des internationalen Steuerrechts. Er erläutert, warum Google, Facebook (Meta) u.v.m. so niedrige Steuern auf ihren Gewinn zahlen und welche Antworten die internationale Staatengemeinschaft darauf gefunden hat. Es wird aufgezeigt, welche Besonderheiten der Digitalwirtschaft diese steuerlichen Vorteile ermöglichen. Außerdem wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob nicht auch klassische Industriekonzerne längst dabei sind, zu Digitalkonzernen zu werden. Zum anderen wird betrachtet, wie eine als gerecht empfundene Aufteilung des weltweiten Steueraufkommens in einer globalisierten und digitalisierten Welt aussehen kann.
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Podcast: Des Colonisations
Episode: "La colonisation et je ne sais quoi encore" - partie 1
Pub date: 2021-12-06
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Colonisation, 'colonial' or 'decolonial' are terms that are increasingly heard in the media or in political discourse. They are associated, in a jumble, with several subjects: "national identity", "immigration", "race". These subjects, often formulated in polemical terms, trivialise a discourse that was previously reserved for the extreme right. This leads to a paradox. On the one hand, colonial issues are increasingly visible in the public space. On the other hand, politicians and the media maintain a dangerous vagueness around these issues.
La colonisation, le « colonial » ou le « décolonial » sont des termes qu’on entend de plus en plus dans les médias ou dans les discours politiques. Ils sont associés pêle-mêle, au gré de l’actualité, à une quantité de sujets : « l’identité nationale », « l’immigration », la « race ». Ces sujets, souvent formulés dans des termes polémiques, banalisent un discours autrefois réservé à l’extrême-droite. On en arrive donc à un paradoxe. D’un côté, les questions coloniales sont de plus en plus visibles dans l’espace public. De l’autre, politiques et médias maintiennent un flou dangereux autour de ces thématiques. Cet épisode propose d’examiner ce qu’a été concrètement la colonisation et de donner une perspective historique aux débats actuels.
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Podcast: CBRL Sound
Episode: The metamorphising struggle for Syria: proxy war, sanctions and stalled reconstruction
Pub date: 2021-11-23
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Syria’s conflict has metamorphised into a hybrid: a partially frozen proxy war over territory combined with a battle over sanctions and reconstruction. This lecture explores three aspects: the stalemated proxy war; the effort of the regime to use reconstruction to consolidate its power and marginalize opposition and the US effort to obstruct this.
Syria’s conflict has metamorphised into a hybrid: a partially frozen proxy war over territory combined with a battle over sanctions and reconstruction. This lecture will explore three aspects of this contest. The lecture will look at the stalemated proxy war; the effort of the regime to use reconstruction to consolidate its power and marginalize opposition and the US effort to obstruct this. At stake is whether Syria’s sovereignty will survive and in what form or whether it’s statehood will further fail, with likely waves of spill-over to neighbours. But Syria is also a test case of the global order: whether the US can use its dominance of the world financial system to sustain its world hegemony or whether its reinvention as a “sanctions hegemon” is the last episode in the transition to a multipolar world.
This lecture was given by Professor Raymond Hinnebusch (University of St Andrews) as CBRL's AGM lecture on 17 November, 2021.
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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: John D. French, "Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil" (UNC Press, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-11-30
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing São Paulo. He learned to read at ten years of age, left school at fourteen, became a skilled metalworker, rose to union leadership, helped end a military dictatorship - and in 2003 became the thirty-fifth president of Brazil. During his administration, Lula led his country through reforms that lifted tens of millions out of poverty.
Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing São Paulo. He learned to read at ten years of age, left school at fourteen, became a skilled metalworker, rose to union leadership, helped end a military dictatorship--and in 2003 became the thirty-fifth president of Brazil. During his administration, Lula led his country through reforms that lifted tens of millions out of poverty.
In Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), John D. French, one of the foremost historians of Brazil, provides the first critical biography of the leader whom even his political opponents see as strikingly charismatic, humorous, and endearing. Interweaving an intimate and colorful story of Lula's life--his love for home, soccer, factory floor, and union hall--with an analysis of large-scale forces, French argues that Lula was uniquely equipped to influence the authoritarian structures of power in this developing nation. His cunning capacity to speak with, not at, people and to create shared political meaning was fundamental to his political triumphs. After Lula left office, his opponents convicted and incarcerated him on charges of money laundering and corruption--but his immense army of voters celebrated his recent release from jail, insisting that he is the victim of a right-wing political ambush. The story of Lula is not over.
Candela Marini is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Spanish at MSOE University.
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Podcast: Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Deepfakes: Have We Crossed The Uncanny Valley?
Pub date: 2021-12-05
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The guest discusses the scary reality of deepfakes, examining cases that demonstrate the threats presented by morally dubious creators.
Michael Grothaus Novelist, Journalist and Author of ‘Trust No One: Inside the World of Deepfakes’ joined Jonathan McCrea to discuss his book and the scary reality of deepfakes currently. Grothaus examines cases that demonstrate the threats presented by morally dubious creators. From the personal to political, the impact of deep fakes is considered carefully by Grothaus, both on the victims and on society as a whole, creating an essential picture of a growing trend in disinformation. The image for this podcast is a Collage of hyperrealistic AI-generated human faces so the images you see are not real people. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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Podcast: Wonks and War Rooms (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Surveillance Capitalism with Vass Bednar (re-release)
Pub date: 2021-12-08
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Taking a few Canadian examples, the guest talks about how tech companies collect and use data about their users, how privacy policy might be a red herring, and how incentive structures in the tech industry contribute to the system of surveillance capitalism.
Elizabeth chats with public policy expert Vass Bednar about surveillance capitalism. Taking a few Canadian examples, they talk about how tech companies collect and use data about their users, how privacy policy might be a red herring and how incentive structures in the tech industry contribute to the system of surveillance capitalism.
Additional Resources:
- Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is the key text. There are also a lot of summaries of the book in blog posts, podcasts, and videos. One of my favourite short reviews of the concept comes from the Fortune Magazine YouTube channel, found here.
- Check out Vass's newsletter, Regs to Riches - of particular interest to this conversation are her pieces on Laying down the Loblaw and Loblaw media.
- Vass also wrote a piece in the Globe and Mail: Loblaw’s points economy for private-health data follows Big Tech’s playbook.
- In the episode Vass mentioned a weather app - check out The Weather Network's description of their "precise location forecast" which includes information about user privacy.
- Vass also mentions that Facebook offers information about why you might see certain ads. Find out more here.
- Not sure what the bread memories of 2017 Elizabeth is talking about? Here’s the wiki.
- Also, wondering about GDPR? It’s Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, which came into effect in May 2018. Find out more.
- Vass mentions the Shopify breakup with Mail Chimp, which happened in November 2019. Since this episode originally aired, the two have gotten back together.
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Coming of age at the end of history w/ Lea Ypi
Pub date: 2021-12-04
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A story of growing up in Stalinist Albania, the end of communist party rule in 1990, and the country's slide into violent chaos in 1997. What has liberalisation meant for Albania and why has our guest's experience of the post-communist transition left her profoundly sceptical about liberal notions of what constitutes a truly free society?
Lea Ypi joins PTO to talk about her new book Free: Coming of Age at the End of History. It tells Lea's story of growing up in Stalinist Albania, the end of communist party rule in 1990, and the country's slide into violent chaos in 1997. We talked about Albania's isolation during the cold war after schisms with first the Soviet Union, and then with China, and how the regime made sense of Albania's place in the world. We also discussed Lea's childhood and her reaction to learning that her parents were not the communist true believers she'd thought them to be. Finally, we talked about Lea's views on what liberalisation meant for Albania and why her experience of the post-communist transition left her profoundly sceptical about liberal notions of what constitutes a truly free society.
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Podcast: The CGD Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Lagos to Mombasa: What Does the Climate Crisis Mean for Africa?
Pub date: 2021-12-02
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Discussing the implications of the European Green Deal for Africa, the outcomes of COP26, and the impacts of the climate crisis on pandemic recovery.
Zainab Usman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Olumide Abimbola of the Africa Policy Research Institute join Gyude to discuss the implications of the European Green Deal for Africa, the outcomes of COP26, and the impacts of the climate crisis on pandemic recovery.
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Till F. Paasche and James Derrick Sidaway, "Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-12-02
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The guests stress the need for ethnographic, embodied, affective, and place-based approaches to conflict. The result is a sustained theoretical critique of abstract research on geopolitical conflict and security that pretends to be able to know and analyse conflict ‘from above’.
In this interview, I speak with Till F. Paasche and James D. Sidaway about their new book, Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique (University of Georgia Press, 2021). In addition to the book's methodological and theoretical contributions, we also discussed the extensive field research and important personal experiences informing this project.
This is an innovative book on the everyday life of security, told via an examination of three sites: Cambodia, the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and Mozambique. The authors' study of how security is enacted differently in these three sites, taking account of the rich layers of context and culture, enables comparative reflections on diversity and commonality in "securityscapes."
The book puts into practice a diverse and contextual approach to security that contrasts with the aerial, big-picture view taken by many geopolitics scholars. In applying this grounded approach, Paasche and Sidaway develop a method of urban and territorial transects, combined with other methods and modes of encounter. The book draws on a broad range of traditions, but it speaks mostly to political geography, urban studies, and international relations research on geopolitics, stressing the need for ethnographic, embodied, affective, and place-based approaches to conflict. The result is a sustained theoretical critique of abstract research on geopolitical conflict and security-mainstream as well as academic-that pretends to be able to know and analyze conflict "from above."
Please note: the second half of this podcast includes discussion of combat, death and loss.
Till F. Paasche is Associate Professor of political geography at Soran University.
James D. Sidaway is Professor of political geography at the National University of Singapore.
Catriona Gold is a PhD candidate in Geography at University College London, researching security, subjectivity and mobility in the 20-21st century United States. Her current work concerns the US Passport Office; she has previously published on US Africa Command and the 2013-16 Ebola epidemic. She can be reached by email or on Twitter.
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Podcast: Law Report - Full program podcast (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Could AI help make the law more accessible for disabled people?
Pub date: 2021-11-30
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Could ‘chatbots’, a form of artificial intelligence technology, help make the legal system more accessible for people living with disabilities?
Could ‘chatbots’, a form of artificial intelligence technology, help make the legal system more accessible for people living with disabilities?
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Podcast: Tech Tent (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: A volcano-powered Bitcoin city?
Pub date: 2021-11-26
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
El Salvador's president made Bitcoin legal tender, now he wants to build a city. A Salvadoran-American cryptocurrency enthusiast and investor speaks about the Central American country's experience with Bitcoin since its introduction earlier this year.
El Salvador's president made Bitcoin legal tender, now he wants to build a city. Joe Tidy speaks to Salvodoran-American cryptocurrency enthusiast and investor Gerson Martinez about the Central American country's experience with Bitcoin since its introduction earlier this year. Plus 193 member states of the UN agency Unesco say they want a more ethical approach to the development of artificial intelligence. We hear from Unesco's Gabriella Ramos about the problems with AI use today. And our own Jane Wakefield investigates the community of tweeters and YouTubers helping others find the latest Playstation and XBox consoles amid a global computer chip shortage in the run-up to Christmas.
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Podcast: In Machines We Trust (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How pricing algorithms learn to collude
Pub date: 2021-10-27
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
With so-called dynamic pricing, algorithms adjust what things cost according to current market conditions in order to increase profits. The rise of ecommerce has propelled pricing algorithms into an everyday occurrence – whether you're shopping on Amazon, booking a flight, hotel, or Uber.
Algorithms now determine how much things cost. It’s called dynamic pricing and it adjusts according to current market conditions in order to increase profits. The rise of ecommerce has propelled pricing algorithms into an everyday occurrence—whether you’re shopping on Amazon, booking a flight, hotel or ordering an Uber.
We Meet:
- Lisa Wilkins, UX designer
- Gabe Smith, chief evangelist, Pricefx
- Aylin Caliskan, assistant professor, University of Washington
- Joseph Harrington, professor of business, economics and public policy, University of Pennsylvania
- Maxime Cohen, Scale AI Chair professor, McGill University
Credits:
This episode was reported by Anthony Green and produced by Jennifer Strong and Emma Cillekens. We’re edited by Mat Honan and our mix engineer is Garret Lang, with sound design and music by Jacob Gorski.
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Podcast: The Verdict: Law & Society
Episode: The Verdict: Regulating the internet Part II
Pub date: 2021-11-09
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A conversation with the experts behind the Aequitas Project, a legal digital-human-rights project with a mission to regulate the online world. They discuss the growing trend toward responsibility on internet platforms, issues that come with 'overblocking' and 'underblocking' in digital regulation, and the cultural challenges of attempting to create a single way of regulating online materials.
This week, Anna speaks to the experts behind the Aequitas Project, a legal digital-human-rights project with a mission to regulate the online world.
This is part two of a conversation on the project with The Verdict - go back and listen to the last episode to hear Professor Mostert introduce the project.
Listen as the group discuss:
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The 'Aequitas Project' - a set of online regulations and procedures
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Growing trend toward responsibility on internet platforms
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Issues that come with 'overblocking' and 'underblocking' in digital regulation
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The global perspective - the challenges that faced when attempting to create a single way of regulating online materials, due to cultural differences
The team includes:
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Frederick Mostert, Professor of Practice in Intellectual Property Law at King’s College London
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Professor Martin Senftleben, Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director, University of Amsterdam - Professor Marketa Trimble, who is the Samuel S. Lionel Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Nevada
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Professor Eleonora Rosati, Full Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Market Law at Stockholm University
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Discover the Aequitas Project
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UK Government Online Safety Bill
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Reaction to the Draft Online Safety Bill: a reading list
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Online Safety Bill Update, May 2021
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Podcast: Haymarket Books Live (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sudan: Revolution & Counter-Revolution
Pub date: 2021-11-30
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In 2019, Sudan's mass democratic uprising toppled the country’s despised dictator, Omar al-Bashir, and secured a power sharing agreement. In October 2021, the military reneged on that pledge and carried out a coup, arresting activists across the country. The people have now returned to the streets in mass numbers to defend their revolution.
Join us for this forum on the military coup in Sudan and the mass resistance against it.
In 2019, Sudan's mass democratic uprising toppled the country’s despised dictator, Omar al-Bashir, and secured a power sharing agreement between civilian leaders and the military with the promise of elections for a new government. In October 2021 the military reneged on that pledge and carried out a coup, arresting activists across the country. The people have now returned to the streets in mass numbers to defend their revolution.
Speakers:
Raga Makawi is a Sudanese democracy activist living in London. She is principal editor on the Debating Ideas platform at African Arguments, as well as leading publications and website administrator at the Rift Valley Institute (RVI). She is co-author of Sudan’s Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People's Revolution (forthcoming in March from Hurst Publishers) and Honorary Research Associate at the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA). Previously, she was a commissioning editor with Zed Books.
Muzan Alneel is an activist and writer in Sudan. She is co-founder and Managing Director of the Innovation, Science and Technology Think Tank for People-Centered Development (ISTiNAD) in Khartoum and is a non-resident Fellow of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP), focusing on a people-centric approach to economy, industry and the environment in Sudan. She also consults on industrial policy at the Industrial Research and Consultancy Center (IRCC) in Sudan.
Jean-Baptiste Gallopin is a researcher working on the Horn of Africa. The former Sudan researcher at Amnesty International, he has written on the role of the UAE and Saudi Arabia in Sudan’s counter-revolution and the political economy of the Sudanese transition. His writing has appeared in Le Monde Diplomatique, the London Review of Books, Democracy & Security, and the Project on Middle East Political Science. He holds a PhD in sociology from Yale.
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Podcast: EXALT Podcast
Episode: Antti Tarvainen - Is settler colonialism at the heart of the US and Israeli tech sectors?
Pub date: 2021-11-26
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Exploring some of the myriad colonial imaginaries that play out in the mythology and material culture of Silicon Valley. The effect of tech on the polis is not just gentrification, but rather more akin to settler colonialism in urban as well as rural areas. How and where is settler colonialism present as the tech industry expands in Israel and Palestine?
This month we were delighted to be joined by Antti Tarvainen, a fellow doctoral candidate in Global Development Studies at University of Helsinki. His work examines the innovation economy (think Steve Jobs, apps, smart everything, etc.) and the colonial violence that that underpins its expansions. We started the discussion talking about the colonial utopia history of California and by extension in Silicon Valley. We explore some of the myriad colonial imaginaries that play out in the mythology and material culture of Silicon Valley. Antti points out that “tech” does not exist only on a digital or immaterial layer but is deeply connected to physical place and space. The effect of tech on the polis is not just gentrification, but rather more akin to settler colonialism. However, it is not just the polis that is made by this tech expansion, but rural spaces and nature itself are also made. We uncover the global geography of the resources that are extracted to build the physical infrastructure and components of the tech industry. This takes us to a broader discussion of the continued spread and influence of the tech sector. Antti shares with us his experiences doing fieldwork in the Silicon Wadi and how and where settler colonialism is present as the tech industry expands in Israel and Palestine.
Links:
Anti-eviction mapping project – urban effects of the tech sector in California
Antti’s Academic Profile and for our Finnish speaking listeners Antti’s most recent article (in Finnish).
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Podcast: Middle East Centre (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Tunisian Political Crisis; the end of Democracy?
Pub date: 2021-11-25
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
On 25 July 2021, Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed the government and suspended parliament. How did Tunisia – long hailed as a democratic model in the region – reach such a stage? Who is President Saied and what does he plan on doing? What are his sources of power and support? And does his power grab mean the end of Tunisian democracy?
On 25 July 2021 Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed the government and suspended parliament, subsequently employing the army and security forces around government buildings to thwart any opposition to his power grab. How did Tunisia – long hailed as a democratic model in the region – reach such a stage? Who is President Saied and what does he plan on doing? What are his sources of power and support, both within Tunisia and internationally? And does his power grab mean the end of Tunisian democracy? This panel will tackle these questions and more.
Youssef Cherif runs the Columbia Global Centers | Tunis, the North and West African research centre of Columbia University. He is a Tunis-based political analyst, member of Carnegie’s Civic Activism Network, and a regular contributor to number of think-tanks (Carnegie, ISPI, IAI, IEMed, etc.). He consulted previously for IWPR, IACE, the United Nations, The Carter Center, and the Tunisian Institute for Strategic Studies (ITES). He comments on North African affairs for several media outlets, including Al Jazeera, BBC, DW, France 24, among others. He holds a Chevening Master of Arts in International Relations from the Dept. of War Studies of King's College London, and a Fulbright Master of Arts in Classical Studies from Columbia University. Youssef is the editor of the book The Modern Arab State: A Decade of Uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2021.
Dr Anne Wolf is a Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, where she teaches Authoritarian Politics. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford (St Antony’s College) and an MPhil in Politics and International Relations from the University of Cambridge (Clare College), where she was previously the Margaret Smith Research Fellow in Politics and International Relations (Girton College). Her 2017 book Political Islam in Tunisia: The History of Ennahda, published by Oxford University Press, won the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. Her second book, Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime is forthcoming with OUP. Wolf has published numerous journal articles on Authoritarian Politics in the Arab world. She is an Associate Editor at the Journal of North African Studies and a Senior Research Fellow at the Project of Middle East Democracy.
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Podcast: Ideas Matter: the boi podcast
Episode: Ideas Matter: ‘The insecurity of the ruling class and the rise of the cultural elite’
Pub date: 2021-11-26
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
How do we understand the ‘elite’ and what gives them power? Has the elite changed its character and, if so, then how, and from when? This lecture examines the role of culture in elite self-understanding and self-definition and looks at how culture became a key battleground in challenges to their authority.
From the series ‘The elite: old and new’, theme of the boi charity’s event The Academy, held online in November 2021.
Political discourse revolves around questions of power relations. Yet defining who really has power over society seems harder than ever. How do we understand the ‘elite’ and what gives them power? Has the elite changed its character, and if so how, and from when? This lecture examines the role of culture in elite self-understanding and self-definition and looks at how culture became a key battleground in challenges to their authority.
Lecture by Professor Frank Furedi, sociologist and social commentator; author, 100 Years of Identity Crisis: culture war over socialisation
THE ACADEMY ONLINE IV: The elite: old and new To view the full programme and some suggested background reading to the talks, please visit https://theboi.co.uk/academy-online-iv
ASSOCIATED READING
For this lecture you may wish to read:-
- ‘The Power Elite’ by C. Wright Mills, 1956 https://amzn.to/2ZpC1TB
- ‘100 years of the culture war’, Frank Furedi, spiked, 17 September 2021 https://bit.ly/3E0Tscg
THE ACADEMY In the context of today’s instrumental approaches to knowledge, The Academy summer school is a modest attempt to demonstrate the value of scholarship, and of the worth of the university as a place of free enquiry dedicated to the pursuit of truth.
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Podcast: A World to Win with Grace Blakeley (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: THE FIGHT FOR DEBT JUSTICE: An interview with Heidi Chow
Pub date: 2021-11-24
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Discussing the legacy of Thomas Sankara, the neocolonial nature of debt, and how debt reproduces global inequality and poverty.
This week, Adele Walton, filling in for Grace Blakeley, speaks with Heidi Chow, executive director at Jubilee Debt Campaign, which works to end poverty, inequality, and exploitation caused by unjust debt. They discuss the neocolonial nature of debt, how debt reproduces global inequality and poverty, the legacy of Thomas Sankara, and more.
You can support our work on the show by subscribing to our Patreon, where you'll get access to full-length versions of the interviews. Thanks to producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.
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Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Why is China cracking down on big tech?
Pub date: 2021-11-10
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A wave of government regulations is being imposed on China’s digital sector, from gaming platforms to GDPR-like privacy regulations, to a draft regulation cracking down on recommendation algorithms.
This episode is part of the ZhōngHuá Mundus series of The Sound of Economics.
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A wave of government regulations is being imposed on China’s digital sector, from gaming platforms to GDPR-like privacy regulations, to a draft regulation cracking down on recommendation algorithms. In the meantime, we have also seen a wave of crackdowns on big tech, from Jack Ma of Alibaba, to the case of Didi. What is going on in China's digital space? What is the general direction going forward? In this episode Giuseppe Porcaro is joined by Bruegel senior fellows Alicia García-Herrero and Mario Mariniello and by guest speaker Rui Ma, creator of Tech Buzz China which educates investors, funds and entrepreneurs on Chinese tech companies.
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: ‘We are so divided now’: how China controls thought and speech beyond its borders – podcast
Pub date: 2021-11-12
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The arrest of a Tibetan New York City cop on spying charges plays into the community’s long-held suspicions that the People’s Republic is watching them.
The arrest of a Tibetan New York city cop on spying charges plays into the community’s long-held suspicions that the People’s Republic is watching them. By Lauren Hilgers. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: Middle East Centre (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Politics of Water Scarcity in the Case of Jordan
Pub date: 2021-11-11
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
This talk investigates the construction of the discourse of water scarcity in Jordan and the political economy of the water sector. The water insufficiency narrative is deployed to emphasise factors external to the responsibility of the Jordanian government as reasons for water scarcity, like nature, refugees, and neighbouring countries.
Dr Hussam Hussein investigates the construction of the discourse of water scarcity in Jordan, and the political economy of the water sector. This is a recording of a live webinar held on 22nd October 2021 for the MEC Friday Seminar Michaelmas Term 2021 series on the overall theme of The Environment and The Middle East. Dr Hussam Hussein (Lecturer in International Relations at DPIR, Oxford Martin School Fellow in Water Diplomacy, and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College) presents the politics of water scarcity in the case of Jordan.
Dr Neil Ketchley (St Antony’s College, Oxford) chairs this webinar and Dr Michael Willis (St Antony’s College, Oxford) moderates the Q&A.
This talk investigates the construction of the discourse of water scarcity in Jordan, and the political economy of the water sector. It identifies the actors constructing the discourse and the elements comprising the discourse. The research finds that there is a single dominant discourse of water scarcity, which is composed of two narratives: water insufficiency and water mismanagement. The water insufficiency narrative is constructed to emphasise factors external to the responsibility of the Jordanian government as reasons for water scarcity, like nature, refugees, and neighbouring countries. It is mainly constructed by governmental aligned actors and deployed to open solutions on the supply and conservation sides and ultimately to maintain the status quo of the current water uses. The water mismanagement narrative is constructed to emphasise as reasons for water scarcity factors of mismanagement of water resources and deployed to increase economic efficiency in the water sector, challenging existing uses, allocations, and benefits.
Dr Hussam Hussein’s research focuses on the role of discourses in shaping water policies in the Middle East, on transboundary water governance, and on issues related to the political economy of water resources in arid and semi-arid regions. Hussam has also worked on issues of sustainable development and environmental governance for the Italian Embassy in Jordan, the European Parliament, the World Bank and UNICEF. He obtained his PhD from the University of East Anglia with a thesis on hydropolitics and discourses of water scarcity in the case of Jordan.
Dr Neil Ketchley is Associate Professor in Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) and the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA). His research focuses on the dynamics of protest and activism in the Arabic-speaking Middle East and North Africa. His most recent book, Egypt in a Time of Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2017), won the Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association. His work has appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and Mobilization. Neil's current research interests include episodes of historic mass protest in the MENA, the rise of political Islam in Egypt, and the changing profiles of regional political elites.
Dr Michael J. Willis is Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford and King Mohammed VI Fellow in Moroccan and Mediterranean Studies. His research interests focus on the politics, modern history and international relations of the central Maghreb states (Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco). He is the author of Politics and Power in the Maghreb: Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco from Independence to the Arab Spring (Hurst and Oxford University Press, 2012) and The Islamist Challenge in Algeria: A Political History (Ithaca and New York University Press, 1997) and co-editor of Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring: Triumphs and Disasters (Oxford University Press, 2015).
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Podcast: Haymarket Books Live (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Punishing Immigrants: U.S. Immigration Enforcement and the Prison Industrial Complex
Pub date: 2021-11-17
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
An educational lecture on immigration enforcement, the criminal punishment system, and data literacy, seeking to encourage political literacy regarding the intersection of the US criminal justice system and US immigration enforcement.
Join us for an educational lecture on immigration enforcement, the criminal punishment system, and data literacy.
Calls for abolition and defund the police have at times been coupled with calls to abolish ICE and organizing against criminalization and punishment often includes targeting immigration enforcement. Immigrant rights work is increasingly connecting to the decades-long movement to abolish the prison industrial complex. This educational lecture seeks to support these efforts by encouraging political and data literacy regarding the intersection of the U.S. criminal punishment system (often called the criminal justice system) and U.S. immigration enforcement.
Topics that will be covered are some of the differences between immigration law and criminal law, a brief overview of the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration enforcement agencies, contemporary policies and programs that involve cooperation between immigration enforcement and police and the criminal punishment system, various categories of immigrants/immigration programs, patterns of detention and deportation, and differences between criminal and non-criminal deportations. We will also learn about some of the relevant data sources.
While this event and all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able please make a solidarity donation in support of this important work. Part of the proceeds from this event will go to the UndocuBlack Network (UBN) and the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI).
Speaker:
Tamara K. Nopper is a sociologist, writer, educator, and editor with experience in Asian American community organizing, immigrant rights, and anti-war activism. She is the editor of We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice, a book of Mariame Kaba’s writings and interviews (Haymarket Books), and researcher and writer of several data stories for Colin Kaepernick’s Abolition for the People series. She is a Fellow at Data for Progress, an Affiliate of The Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies, a member of the inaugural cohort of the NYU Institute for Public Interest Technology, and a 2021-2022 Faculty Fellow at Data & Society as part of a cohort focused on race and technology.
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Podcast: New Books in Gender (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Michelle Téllez, "Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect" (U Arizona Press, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-11-10
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Highlighting the US-Mexico borderlands as a space of resistance, conviviality, agency, and creative community building where transformative politics can take place. The guest shows that there is hope, struggle, and possibility in the context of the gendered violences of racial capitalism on the Mexican side of the border.
Near Tijuana, Baja California, the autonomous community of Maclovio Rojas demonstrates what is possible for urban place-based political movements. More than a community, Maclovio Rojas is a women-led social movement that works for economic and political autonomy to address issues of health, education, housing, nutrition, and security.
Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect(U Arizona Press, 2021) tells the story of the community’s struggle to carve out space for survival and thriving in the shadows of the U.S.-Mexico geopolitical border. This ethnography by Michelle Téllez demonstrates the state’s neglect in providing social services and local infrastructure. This neglect exacerbates the structural violence endemic to the border region—a continuation of colonial systems of power on the urban, rural, and racialized poor. Téllez shows that in creating the community of Maclovio Rojas, residents have challenged prescriptive notions of nation and belonging. Through women’s active participation and leadership, a women’s political subjectivity has emerged—Maclovianas. These border women both contest and invoke their citizenship as they struggle to have their land rights recognized, and they transform traditional political roles into that of agency and responsibility.
This book highlights the U.S.-Mexico borderlands as a space of resistance, conviviality, agency, and creative community building where transformative politics can take place. It shows hope, struggle, and possibility in the context of gendered violences of racial capitalism on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
David-James Gonzales (DJ) is Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He is a historian of migration, urbanization, and social movements in the U.S., and specializes in Latina/o/x politics and social movements.
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Podcast: The Funambulist Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jessica Namakkal /// On French Colonialism in India
Pub date: 2021-11-18
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A conversation about French colonialism on the Indian subcontinent, part of a broader effort to render the complexity of the subcontinent's recent history, which is usually depicted under the sole and uniform history of British colonialism.
When, in October 2021, we interviewed Priya Ange and Anita Kittery for our francophone show "Diasporas et Imaginaires des Luttes" about the Tamil diaspora from Puducherry or Tamil Nadu at large in France, we relied a lot on the work of Jessica Namakkal, who dedicated a book to "the making and unmaking of French India." We are therefore happy to provide you with an anglophone conversation with her about French colonialism on the Indian Subcontinent. This is part of a broader effort to render the complexity to the Subcontinent's recent history, which is usually depicted under the sole and uniform history of British colonialism.
Jessica Namakkal is associate professor of the practice in international comparative studies, gender, sexuality, and feminist studies, and history at Duke University. She is the author of the book Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India, published by Columbia University Press is 2021. In addition, she is a member of the Radical History Review editorial collective, one of the co-editors of the Abusable Past, and a member of the South Asian American Digital Archive’s academic council.
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Podcast: Notes from Poland (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: "They'll be sending people to their death": migrant crisis on Poland's border
Pub date: 2021-11-01
This week, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill talks with Mateusz Wodziński, a Polish citizen reporting on the current migration crisis from his home inside the restricted zone on Poland’s border with Belarus.
They discuss what the crisis looks like on the ground, the challenges faced by migrants in the forest, the state of emergency declared by Poland's government, and the danger of a humanitarian disaster.
Mateusz Wodziński, known on social media as Exen, is a wildlife photographer in the area of the Białowieża Forest. He has published some of his photographs with Notes from Poland.
Also check out our previous podcast about the latest developments in Polish politics.
Producer: Sebastian Leśniewski
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Marlene Laruelle, "Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia" (UCL Press, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-11-01
This month we are delighted to host one of the most important voices in Central Asian Studies worldwide: Professor Marlene Laruelle from George Washington University in DC, to discuss her latest, Open Access book Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia (UCL Press 2021).
This is a much-anticipated book, which is going to become the go-to resource for every reader interested in nationalism in Central Asia. Bringing together for the first time Laruelle's articles on Central Asian nationalism, the book offers an intriguing overview of 30 years of nation-building in the region, linking back the choices made in the different nationalising states to concepts and constructs of nationhood developed during the Soviet era.
The first part of this very readable book looks comparatively at the nationalism processes as developed in the southern part of the region [Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan. Uzbekistan] while the second segment features a collection of Laruelle's writing on the many complexities associated with nation-building in Kazakhstan, Central Asia's multi-national state par excellence.
Marlene Laruelle is Director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. Her latest books include Is Russia Fascist? Unraveling Propaganda East and West (Cornell University Press, 2021) and Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Luca Anceschi is Professor of Eurasian Studies at the University of Glasgow, where he is also the editor of Europe-Asia Studies. Follow him on Twitter @anceschistan
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Podcast: Amandla! Media
Episode: What will it take to fix our municipalities?
Pub date: 2021-10-29
Yesterday, we launched the 78th issue of Amandla magazine that focuses on the local government. Amandla Collective’s Shaeera Kalla was in conversation with Issue #78 contributor Ayabonga Cawe.
We are in the middle of what some call the ‘silly season’, while the poor are plunging deeper into the abyss of poverty due to the high unemployment rate and severe joblessness aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic, politicians are out in full force waxing lyrical about what they plan to do in addressing this calamity as they campaign for the upcoming local government elections. These are empty promises poor communities receive every five years when politicians are on the campaign trail. Very little has changed since the dawn of democracy but every five years brings a glimpse of hope to some neglected and excluded communities as they believe things will change for the better once they vote.
In this special issue of Amandla, we featured a different crop of leaders. Community leaders who have been active in our communities for years, campaigning for decent housing, land, affordable basic services, jobs and against corruption have decided to come together to campaign in this year’s local government election under a common banner – the Cry of the Xcluded. They are not politicians but activists. They affirm that their campaign is not only about the crisis of local government or for the delivery of better services, but for a SOCIALIST South Africa where the enormous wealth of this country would be freed from the greed of the few and be used to ensure that everyone has a decent life, a life of dignity.
Also in this issue, Ayabonga Cawe delves deeper into municipal dysfunction and how it negatively impacts economic production. Poor service delivery does not only affect households but some municipalities are also losing investors as factories are closing down and moving production to towns with better infrastructure and this has a negative impact on job-creation efforts and poverty alleviation. Cawe states that no industrialist will locate themselves in an area without roads for example.
Lastly, we also looked at water scarcity in Eastern Cape and Gauteng. Our constitution states that everyone has the right to clean water and basic sanitation and Chapter 4 of the National Development Plan envisages a South Africa that recognises the importance of secure and equitable access to water and sanitation as catalysts for socio-economic development. But for communities like Lurholweni township, in the Amadiba administrative area in Mbizana, Eastern Cape this is nothing but a pipe dream as their taps run dry. Twenty years later, there is no free basic water in Lurholweni. Water provision is private, via the informal economy.
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Podcast: The afikra Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: ANISSA HELOU | Middle Eastern and North African Cuisine | Matbakh
Pub date: 2021-10-29
In this Matbakh event, we talked to Anissa Helou about how her work and writings on cuisines and culinary heritage of the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa. She is the author of award-winning cookbooks “Sweet Middle East”, “Levant”, “The Fifth Quarter”, “An Offal Cookbook,” and more.
Created & Hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikra
Edited by: Ramzi Ramman
Theme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/
About Matbakh:
Matbakh is a conversation series that focuses on food and drink of the Arab world. The series will be held with food practitioners who study how food and the kitchen have evolved over time in the Arab world. The guests will be discussing the history of food and what its future might be, in addition to a specific recipe or ingredient that reveals interesting and unique information about the history of the Arab world. Guests will be chefs, food critics, food writers, historians, and academics. Following the interview, there is a moderated town-hall-style Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience on Zoom. Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp
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afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity.
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Podcast: POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Arab Spring Abroad, The Syrian Uprising, and Sudan's Transitional Crisis (S. 11, Ep. 8)
Pub date: 2021-10-28
Dana Moss of University of Notre Dame discusses her latest book, The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. The book presents a new framework for understanding the transnational dynamics of contention and the social forces that either enable or suppress transnational activism, examining Libyan, Syrian, and Yemeni mobilization from the US and Great Britain before and during the revolutions. (Starts at 0:42). Wendy Pearlman of Northwestern University speaks about her new article entitled, "Mobilizing From Scratch: Large-Scale Collective Action Without Preexisting Organization in the Syrian Uprising," published in Comparative Political Studies. (Starts at 30:23). Salah Ben Hammou of University of Central Florida talks about the crisis unfolding in Sudan following the military coup. (Starts at 47:17).
Music for this season's podcast was created by Bashir Saade (playing Ney) and Farah Kaddour (on Buzuq). You can find more of Bashir's work on his YouTube Channel.
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Podcast: Carnegie Council Podcasts (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Doorstep: The Evangelical Right Takes Latin America, with Francisco de Santibañes
Pub date: 2021-10-28
It's election season in the U.S. and around the world. Wilson Center's Francisco de Santibañes joins Doorstep co-hosts Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin to discuss the rise in popular conservatism across Latin America and how new evangelical-church-supported, anti-establishment leaders are changing the conversation and winning elections in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. De Santibañes connects the dots of right-wing movements around the globe sparked by Donald Trump's election to the U.S. presidency in 2016.
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Podcast: Talking Indonesia (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Academic Freedom - Dr Robertus Robet
Pub date: 2021-11-01
Dr Robertus Robet – Academic Freedom
Recently, a number of high-profile cases have highlighted growing threats to academic freedom in Indonesia, amid a broader environment of shrinking civic space. Last month, the imprisonment of Dr Saiful Mahdi from Syaih Kuala University in Aceh, under the draconian Law on Information and Electronic Transactions (known as ITE Law), brought condemnation from academics and civil rights groups across Indonesia and abroad.
In the face of widespread agreement that authorities had overreached, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo eventually granted Saiful amnesty. But this was just one example of the pressure academics and students have faced under the Jokowi administration. And while the government has acknowledged the need for reform of the ITE Law, serious structural, legal and cultural restrictions remain in the higher education sector, and beyond. What is driving these limits on academic freedom? What has been the impact of the ITE Law on academic freedom? What topics are off limits, and are curbs on academic freedom part of Indonesia’s broader democratic decline?
In this week’s Talking Indonesia podcast, Dr Jemma Purdey discusses these issues and more with Dr Robertus Robet, head of sociology at the State University of Jakarta (UNJ), and a frequent contributor to Indonesia at Melbourne.
The Talking Indonesia podcast is co-hosted by Dr Dave McRae from the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute, Dr Jemma Purdey from Monash University, Dr Annisa Beta from the University of Melbourne, and Dr Charlotte Setijadi from the Singapore Management University.
Look out for a new Talking Indonesia podcast every fortnight. Catch up on previous episodes here, subscribe via iTunes or listen via your favourite podcasting app.
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Podcast: CCYSC Awaaz
Episode: Ep. 27 Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine
Pub date: 2021-10-30
This episode features a conversation with Dr. Hedi Viterbo and Ekta Oza. They discuss Dr. Viterbo's new book, Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Bridging disciplinary divides, and drawing on hundreds of previously unexamined sources (many of which are not publicly available), this book radically challenges our picture of childhood, human rights, and law, both in and beyond the Israel/Palestine context. In the book, Dr. Viterbo reveals how Israel, rather than disregarding children's rights and international law, has used them to hone and legitimize its violence against Palestinians. Further, he exposes the human rights community's complicity in this situation, due to its problematic assumptions about childhood, its uncritical embrace of international law, and its recurring emulation of Israel's security discourse.
Hedi Viterbo is Senior Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary University of London. His research examines issues concerning childhood, state violence, and sexuality from an interdisciplinary and global perspective. He is the author of Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and co-author of The ABC of the OPT: A Legal Lexicon of the Israeli Control over the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Ekta Oza is a PhD Scholar at the School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London. Her PhD focuses on geographies of childhood and political agency in India-occupied-Kashmir. She is the lead researcher and author of the book, Restless in the City: Conversations with Young People in Resettlement Colonies (SAGE-Yoda Press, 2021).
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Podcast: LSE Middle East Centre Podcasts (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Navigating Collapse: Where Next for Lebanon?
Pub date: 2021-10-08
Over a year ago, on 4 August 2020, one of the world’s most powerful non-nuclear explosions devastated Beirut, killing 218 people. While Lebanon dominated global news headlines then, attention has since fizzled. Amidst political stagnation, disastrous inflation and shortages in basic commodities from fuel to medicine, Lebanon seems in free fall.
In this webinar, nearly two years on from the 17 October Revolution, we hear from speakers active in the fields of politics, labour union organising, urban space and law, who will address the aftermath of the Beirut explosion, the future of political activism, the upcoming elections and what may be emerging in Lebanon.
Ghida Frangieh is a lawyer and researcher based in Beirut. She has been a member of the Legal Agenda since 2011 and is currently the head of its Strategic Litigation Unit. The Legal Agenda is a law and society research and advocacy organization with offices in Beirut and Tunis. Ghida recently worked on producing a legal guide for the victims of the Beirut blast of 4 August 2020 to support their path to justice. She holds a Master’s degree in Applied Human Rights from France and has produced various publications related to social justice and human rights issues. She is also a founding member of Ruwad Al-Houkouk Association and the Lawyers Committee for the Defense of Protesters.
Ibrahim Halawi is a Teaching Fellow in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests focus on theories and histories of counterrevolution and revolution, with an emphasis on counterrevolution and revolution in the Middle East. He has published in peer-reviewed journals and established outlets on Lebanon, as well as revolution and sectarianism more broadly. Ibrahim is also the Secretary of Foreign Relations for Citizens in a State party, a progressive secular Lebanese party.
Abir Saksouk graduated as an architect in 2005, and later did her masters in Urban Development Planning. She is co-founder and co-director of Public Works Studio, a research-based organization that addresses spatial inequality in Lebanon. Her primary focus includes urbanism and law, property and shared space, and right to the city of marginalized communities. Abir is also a member of the Legal Agenda and co-founder of Dictaphone Group.
Omar Al-Ghazzi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. His work focuses on questions around the global power asymmetries in the reporting and representation of conflict. He researches digital journalism, the politics of time and memory, and the geopolitics of popular culture, with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa.
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Podcast: Marketplace Tech (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Algorithms are often biased. What if tech firms were held responsible?
Pub date: 2021-10-18
We talk a lot on this show about the unintended consequences of using technology, and who is harmed by that technology. Marketplace’s Marielle Segarra speaks with a scholar who thinks about this a lot: Safiya Noble. She’s an associate professor of gender studies and African American studies at UCLA. Noble is also the author of the book “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” and a 2021 MacArthur fellow.
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Podcast: The China in Africa Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Messy Politics of Building a Railway in Kenya With Chinese Money
Pub date: 2021-10-20
Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is the showcase in Africa for China's debt-led infrastructure development drive. While critics accuse China of saddling Nairobi with unsustainable levels of debt to build the rail line that goes from the port of Mombasa to the capital Nairobi and then on to Naivasha in the Rift Valley, the reality is actually a lot more complicated.
It turns out that Kenya lawmakers worked hard to circumvent their own laws, conceal the terms of the deal and, most likely, pocketed millions for themselves along the way.
Oscar Otele, a political science lecturer at the University of Nairobi, has been studying the complex, messy politics surrounding the SGR for the past eight years and summarized some of his research's key findings in a recent article published on the Council on Foreign Relations website. Oscar joins Eric & Cobus from Nairobi to discuss why the simple narratives about the SGR are not even remotely accurate.
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Podcast: LSE: Public lectures and events (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why is Latin American Inequality So Extreme? Introducing LAC Inequality Review
Pub date: 2021-09-29
Contributor(s): Dr Santiago Levy, Professor Nora Lustig, Dr Marcela Meléndez, Professor James Robinson | For as long as data on income inequality has been available, Latin America has stood as one of the world’s two most unequal regions (along with sub-Saharan Africa). Despite some promising declines during the 2000s, inequality in many countries remains higher today than it was in the 1970s, suggesting a persistent high-inequality political economy equilibrium. Inspired by the Deaton Review of inequality in the UK, an independent group of scholars from across many countries and disciplines – co-sponsored by the International Inequalities Institute at LSE; the InterAmerican Development Bank; Yale University; and the Institute for Fiscal Studies – is launching a five-year review of what we know – and what we need to learn – about the nature, causes and consequences of the high-inequality equilibrium in Latin America. In this public launch event, three of the Review Panel members and two eminent discussants will present and debate some of the core questions of the nascent LAC Inequality Review. Meet our speakers and chair Santiago Levy is a Non-resident Senior Fellow with the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution and former president of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association. He is former Vice President for Sectors and Knowledge at the IADB. Nora Lustig (@noralustig) is Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics and the founding Director of the Commitment to Equity Institute (CEQ) at Tulane University. Her research is on economic development, inequality and social policies with emphasis on Latin America. Marcela Meléndez (@MelendezMarcela) is UNDP Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and is an Economist from Universidad de los Andes. James Robinson is Institute Director of The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts at the University of Chicago. His work explores the underlying relationship between poverty and the institutions of a society and how institutions emerge out of political conflicts. Andrés Velasco (@AndresVelasco) is Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Francisco Ferreira (@fhgferreira) is the Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies and Director of the International Inequalities Institute at LSE. More about this event The International Inequalities Institute (@LSEInequalities) at LSE brings together experts from many LSE departments and centres to lead cutting-edge research focused on understanding why inequalities are escalating in numerous arenas across the world, and to develop critical tools to address these challenges. This event marks the launch of their Latin America and Caribbean Inequality Review. This event forms part of LSE’s Shaping the Post-COVID World initiative, a series imagining what the world could look like after the crisis, and how we get there. Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSELACIR
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Podcast: Assembly
Episode: S3 E5 – Race, Theodicy, & Philosophy with Anthony Paul Smith
Pub date: 2021-10-04
Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Fight for Gig Workers’ Rights in Europe w/ Ben Wray
Pub date: 2021-10-07
Paris Marx is joined by Ben Wray to discuss the state of the gig economy in Europe, including the Spanish riders law, recent court ruling on employment status in the Netherlands, strikes in Germany and Greece, and the forthcoming platform workers directive from the European Commission.
Ben Wray is a coordinator at the Gig Economy Project and a freelance journalist. Follow Ben on Twitter at @Ben_Wray1989.
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- A Dutch court ruled that Uber drivers are employees.
- Spain’s Riders Law came into effect, but the companies didn’t comply.
- Glovo dark supermarkets workers in Barcelona went on strike in August.
- E-food workers in Greece went on strike and won a huge victory.
- Gorillas fired workers for wildcat strikes.
- The European Commission will deliver platform work regulations in December. It’s been meeting a lot with gig companies.
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Podcast: The History Hour (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Photographing Brazil's Yanomami
Pub date: 2021-10-02
In 1971 photographer Claudia Andujar began documenting the lives of a remote indigenous tribe in the Brazilian Amazon jungle. Her photographs helped the campaign for recognition of the Yanomami's rights over their own land. Chris Feliciano Arnold, writer and reporter specializing in the Amazon, describes the new threats facing the many indigenous communities in the region. Plus, remembering Petra Kelly - one of the influential founders of the German Green party, tracing the birth of the Taliban, and a survivor of of the Tanker Wars in the 1980s describes the moment his ship was attacked.
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Podcast: The Indicator from Planet Money (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Japanese Anime, Made In China
Pub date: 2021-09-30
Anime is a twenty-billion-dollar industry and it is growing fast. But traditionally, anime is produced in Japan. What happens when other countries try producing Japanese-style animation?
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Podcast: LSE Middle East Centre Podcasts (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Iraq’s Climate Crisis: Environmental challenges and ways forward
Pub date: 2021-10-06
This is the English recording of Panel 2 from the 29th September Conflict Research Programme-Iraq Conference 'Iraq on the Eve of Elections: A new era or return to the status quo?'.
Iraq is considered to be one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the Middle East. By 2059, temperatures in the country are set to rise by 2.53 degrees, while rainfall will decline by around nine percent. Already, water in Iraq’s rivers and lakes are at critical levels and mismanagement of water resources coupled with outdated farming methods have resulted in increasing rates of desertification. Among the biggest challenges that Iraq will face in the coming decades is how to adapt to its drastically altered climate and mitigate the effects of climate change. Failure to effectively deal with the impacts of the climate crisis will only exacerbate existing socio-economic instability, with high temperatures and the government’s inability to provide services such as electricity and water being historical triggers for civil upheavals in Iraq’s recent past. In this session panellists will discuss the environmental challenges facing Iraq and examine ways to tackle them going forward.
Chair: •Michael Mason – LSE Middle East Centre
Speakers: • Maha Yassin – Clingendael Institute • Basima Abdulrahman – KESK • Azzam Alwash –Nature Iraq
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Podcast: IT'S GOING DOWN (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Anti-Pipeline Resistance and Organizing for Indigenous Survival: A Discussion
Pub date: 2021-10-03
On this episode of It’s Going Down, we speak with Lakota ‘Black Elk’ Maroon, an Indigenous organizer in so-called Minnesota and the author of a recent piece on resistance to the Line 3 pipeline. Recorded as the pipeline neared completion, we discuss the scope of the various resistance camps, the role of non-profits, the impact and legacy of Standing Rock, moving social movements beyond pressuring Democrats, and how anti-pipeline struggles could serve as the launch pad for greater self-organization, mutual aid, and action in Native communities.
After nearly 8 years of fierce resistance, we learned that Line 3 will become operational this weekend.
This fight is not over, only shifted, so it's a good time for a refresher: what is Line 3, why should it be stopped, and how can you help? A thread 🧵 (1/9)#StopLine3 pic.twitter.com/kCNpCna7wV
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More Info: Perspective from the Bordertown, Against Colonial Logics: Rethinking Resistance to Resource Extraction on Indigenous Action, Stop Line 3 Bailfunds
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Podcast: Climate Emergency (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Disha Ravi on youth climate activism, dissent and role of the global south
Pub date: 2021-09-30
Almost every year since 1995, politicians and representatives from all over the world have been meeting in the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP) to discuss ways to reduce CO2 emissions which cause climate change. Scientists have been producing reports in a collaborative manner and all say the same “Climate change is happening” and over years only say that it is worsening. All the countries came to an agreement in the 21st year of meetings in COP 21 called the “Paris agreement”. The sense of urgency with which climate change has to be addressed seems limited to words and not actions.
Since climate change affects all the countries in the world and the vulnerable the most and climate change is so interdisciplinary, there has always been some pressure from civil society. But for the last few years youth from across the world has played a very important role in bringing this issue forward. In this episode of Climate emergency, Rakesh Kamal talks to climate change activist Disha Ravi on youth climate activism, dissent and the role of the global south.
This episode also features a poem by feminist & activist Kamla Bhasin who passed away recently.
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Podcast: Conversations
Episode: Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
Pub date: 2021-09-15
My guest in this episode is Professor Diego Sánchez-Ancochea. Diego is a Professor of Political Economy of Development at the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the issue of income inequality with a regional focus on Latin America. We discussed COVID-19 and inequality, trends in inequality, and political and social implications of inequality. We also discussed his latest (2020) book, The Costs of Inequality in Latin America: Lessons and Warnings for the Rest of the World
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Podcast: The Fire These Times (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 86/ Environmentalism, ‘Post-Truth’ and Platform Capitalism (With Bram Büscher)
Pub date: 2021-09-03
This is a conversation with Bram Büscher around the topics discussed in his book ‘The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism, in the Era of Post-Truth Politics and Platform Capitalism‘
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- Meaning of ‘post-truth’ and platform capitalism
- Environmentalism, political action and social media
- Mediating knowledge and politics through new media platforms
- “Doom and gloom” versus “being optimistic”
- Temporality on social media and the urge of the ‘now’
- New media platforms are not neutral platforms
- Alienation, politics and new media
- Can it be good?
- The role of new media in the conservation and environmental movements
- South Africa’s Kruger National Park, new media and racial politics
- The difference between understanding and knowledge, and how new media plays into that
Recommended Books:
- Platform Capitalism by Nick Srnicek
- Darwin’s Hunch by Christa Kuljian
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Podcast: Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Biggest, Most Inhuman Power in America: Amazon
Pub date: 2021-09-07
The dehumanized Amazon warehouse as pictured in the movie Nomadland is more benign than reality. There is an “existential bleakness” where every instant is being watched, humans serve robots, and one can be fired by algorithm. In his powerful new
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Adam Tooze on Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
Pub date: 2021-09-07
Adam Tooze joins PTO to talk about his new book, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy. We talked about the problems and pitfalls of writing instant history, why 'shutdown' is a more useful way of thinking about how governments and ordinary people responded to the Covid19 crisis than 'lockdown'. And finally, we chatted about why China's radical efforts to suppress the virus in Wuhan, Hubei province and beyond was not as typical of the regime as is commonly supposed.
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Podcast: The Nordic Asia Podcast
Episode: Porn, Privacy and Pain: The Rise of Image-based Abuse in Asia
Pub date: 2021-09-10
What is image-based abuse? Why has it been on the rise in Asia, especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic? What has been done to tackle the issue? Raquel Carvalho, Asia Correspondent for the South China Morning Post, shares the story of how a group of journalists across some Asian newsrooms collaborated in a months-long investigation and uncover the stories inside the online groups spreading stolen sexual images of women and children, how the victims are struggling to have such content removed from online platforms, and how sextortion syndicates in Asia and Africa are raking in millions from targets around the world.
In a conversation with Joanne Kuai, a visiting PhD Candidate at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, the Portuguese journalist currently based in Hong Kong tells about why the cases of women threatened with the release of their intimate photos or videos have increased in recent years, how this type of abuse tears the victims’ lives apart, and how ill-equipped authorities are struggling to deal with the cases. Advocates and survivors say too little is being done to stop the abuse. While the cases proliferated in countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, and South Korea, some women – and a few men – have decided to take action.
The SCMP’s series of stories on image-based abuse is supported by the Judith Neilson Institute’s Asian Stories project, in collaboration with The Korea Times, Indonesia’s Tempo magazine, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, and Manila-based ABS-CBN. Most of Raquel Carvalho’s investigative and in-depth stories have been focused on human rights, cross-border security, illicit trade and corruption. She was previously the chief reporter at a Portuguese daily newspaper in Macau, where she moved to from Europe in 2008.
The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, Asianettverket at the University of Oslo, and the Stockholm Centre for Global Asia at Stockholm University.
We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia.
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Podcast: Ottoman History Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Politics of Mass Violence
Pub date: 2021-08-13
with Laura Robson hosted by Sam Dolbee and Deren Ertaş
| Depictions of the Middle East as a space of timeless violence pervade media, popular culture, and scholarship. In The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East, Laura Robson offers a rejoinder to such misconceptions while providing a historical explanation of these distinctly modern forms of violence in greater Syria and Iraq, also known as the Mashriq. In this episode, we discuss how a new kind of territoriality in the late nineteenth century combined with imperialist interventions to transform violence into a way of making political claims through the twentieth century and up to the present across the region. We additionally talk about historical research and writing more generally, and how Robson’s past as a trained pianist has shaped her work. « Click for More »
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: With Disinformation, The Past Isn’t Past
Pub date: 2021-08-12
We live in the Disinformation Age. The internet has revolutionized our information ecosystem and caused disruption totally unprecedented in human history, and democracy may not survive. ... Just like it didn’t survive the television, radio, telegram and printing press before it. Right?
When it comes to talking about the internet, all too often history is either completely ignored with bold claims about how nothing like this has ever happened before—or it’s invoked with simple analogies to historical events without acknowledging their very different contexts. As usual, the real answer is more complicated: talking about history can inform our understanding of the dilemmas we face today, but it rarely provides a clear answer one way or another to contemporary problems. This week on our Arbiters of Truth series on our online information ecosystem, Quinta Jurecic spoke with Heidi Tworek, an associate professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and History at the University of British Columbia. In a recent essay, she made the case for how a nuanced view of history can better inform ongoing conversations around how to approach disinformation and misinformation. So how do current discussions around disinformation leave out or misinterpret history? What’s the difference between a useful historical comparison and a bad one? And why should policymakers care?
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Podcast: Foreign Policy Playlist (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: On Israeli Surveillance and Israeli Diplomacy
Pub date: 2021-08-11
Foreign Policy recommends: Haaretz Weekly
This week, Foreign Policy Playlist features the Haaretz Weekly podcast, in an episode about the NSO Group and its surveillance software Pegasus.
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Podcast: The Committee Program
Episode: Neostatism, Pandemic, Populism, and Paolo Gerbaudo's The Great Recoil
Pub date: 2021-08-20
Arun Chaudhary chats with sociologist and author Paolo Gerbaudo
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Podcast: 1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast
Episode: 1869, Ep. 108 with David Wight, author of Oil Money
Pub date: 2021-08-11
Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/V9_hJ8g_LNN_6GbE3BthCMqRXmU
This episode we speak with David Wight, author of Oil Money: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire, 1967–1988: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501715723/oil-money/
David M. Wight is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
We spoke to David about how the sheer number of Arab and Iranian petrodollars in the 1970s and 80s inspired the interest and even awe of many Americans, the wealth of new information from declassified governmental records and popular Arab and Iranian media that David uncovered in his research, and the radical proposal then White House chief of staff Donald Rumsfeld made in 1974 for a very unique collaboration between the United States and the oil-exporting countries of the Middle East.
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Podcast: Lekh
Episode: Pradip Ninan Thomas - The Politics of Digital India
Pub date: 2021-08-17
In the eighteenth episode, I speak to Pradip Ninan Thomas, Associate Professor, University of Queensland, about his recent book The Politics of Digital India: Between Local Compulsions and Transnational Pressures published by Oxford University Press in 2019. The book situates and locates Digital India in a global and local context by identifying the pressures, local and transnational, affecting India’s digital trajectory. The conversation begins by tracing Pradip’s journey with this book covering his previous works on media and telecommunications in India. Next, we historicise India’s current digital moment by covering the ’technological' continuities from the British Raj to the newly independent Indian government. The conversation then moves to understand what Thomas means by ‘digital’, how it manifests in India and how the 'digital' is negotiated, shaped and contested by political and geopolitical considerations including the Indian state and the United States. The conversation ends by wading into the importance of data to India’s digital economy, the potential and implications of the Indian state’s digital infrastructure projects and how digital governance aids surveillance.
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Podcast: The Swaddle (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: In Conversation With Dr. Urvashi Aneja
Pub date: 2021-08-09
Dr. Urvashi Aneja, founding director at Tandem Research, is in conversation with Shrishti Malhotra, producer at The Swaddle, on how Big Tech shapes public discourse in India, the power asymmetry between Big Tech creators and consumers, and why AI isn't a magic bullet that will address all our problems.
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Podcast: In Machines We Trust (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Beating the AI hiring machines
Pub date: 2021-08-04
When it comes to hiring, it’s increasingly becoming an AI’s world, we’re just working in it. In this, the final episode of Season 2, and the conclusion of our series on AI and hiring, we take a look at how AI-based systems are increasingly playing gatekeeper in the hiring process—screening out applicants by the millions, based on little more than what they see in your resume. But we aren’t powerless against the machines. In fact, an increasing number of people and services are designed to help you play by—and in some cases bend—their rules to give you an edge.
We Meet:
Jamaal Eggleston, Work Readiness Instructor, The HOPE Program
Ian Siegel, CEO, ZipRecruiter
Sami Mäkeläinen, Head of Strategic Foresight, Telstra
Salil Pande, CEO, VMock
Gracy Sarkissian, Interim Executive Director, Wasserman Center for Career Development, New York University
We Talked To:
Jamaal Eggleston, Work Readiness Instructor, The HOPE Program
Students and Teachers from The HOPE Program in Brooklyn, NY
Jonathan Kestenbaum, Co-founder & Managing Director of Talent Tech Labs
Josh Bersin, Global Industry Analyst
Brian Kropp, Vice President Research, Gartner
Ian Siegel, CEO, ZipRecruiter
Sami Mäkeläinen, Head of Strategic Foresight, Telstra
Salil Pande, CEO, VMock
Kiran Pande, Co-Founder, VMock
Gracy Sarkissian, Interim Executive Director, Wasserman Center for Career Development, New York University
Sounds From:
- Curious Thing AI (Sound from their AI tool)
- HireVue Video Interview: How To Beat The Algorithm and Get The Job: https://youtu.be/jn0dc1cOctA
- HIREVUE Interview Questions, Tips and Answers! How to PASS a HireVue Interview!: https://youtu.be/ycG5_uccoNk
- Video Interview Techniques - 3 Easy Hacks To Prepare for Hirevue / Spark Hire / VidCruiter: https://youtu.be/tp0jt4hoHsI
- How to PASS Psychometric Tests | Tips & Tricks for Aptitude Tests, Numerical Reasoning, Game Based: https://youtu.be/u_nWOnJevaA
Credits:
This miniseries on hiring was reported by Hilke Schellmann and produced by Jennifer Strong, Emma Cillekens, Anthony Green and Karen Hao. We’re edited by Michael Reilly.
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Podcast: The Slavic Connexion (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Decolonization in Eastern Europe: A Critical Geographer's Perspective with Zoltán Ginelli
Pub date: 2021-07-30
Zoltán Ginelli from Budapest joins Zach and Cullan to talk about his field of critical geography and the framing of colonial history of Central Europe following both World War II and the Cold War. We hope you enjoy this conversation!
ABOUT THE GUEST
Zoltán Ginelli is an independent researcher and a critical geographer, historian of science and global historian. His research is in the geographies of knowledge, world-systems analysis, and the histories of geography, colonialism and racism, with a focus on the historical relations between Eastern Europe and the Global South or the Third World. Zoltán presented his work at numerous international academic conferences and taught at various universities and colleges, including Milestone Institute and guest lectures at The University of Manchester and Rutgers University. Between 2015 and 2019, he worked as an assistant researcher in the 1989 After 1989 and Socialism Goes Global projects at The University of Exeter. In 2020, his project Postcolonial Hungary: Eastern European Semiperipheral Positioning in Global Colonialism in the EEGA program at The University of Leipzig explored Hungarian colonial history from a world-systemic perspective. Recently, he co-curated with art historian Eszter Szakács the exhibition Transperiphery Movement: Global Eastern Europe and Global South in May 2021 for the OFF-Biennale Budapest. Zoltán is currently working on two books. One for Cambridge University Press with James Mark and Péter Apor about the global histories of Hungarian relations to colonialism and anti-colonialism in the long 20th century, entitled "Che in Budapest: Hungary Between the Colonial and Anti-Colonial Worlds". The other is his individual book project based on his doctoral research about the global histories of the "quantitative revolution" in geography. Whenever he can, Zoltán enjoys doing research, but he also loves teaching, travelling, art, music and Mediterranean cuisine. On gloomy evenings he plays Texas blues on his prized American Fender Stratocaster guitar.
Check him out on his website at zoltanginelli.com and on Twitter: @ZGinelli.
And also check out the Decolonizing Eastern Europe group on Facebook and Twitter: @DecolonizingE as well as the Transperiphery Movement: Global Eastern Europe and Global South exhibition at transperiphery.com, Twitter: @transperiphery, Instagram: transperiphery.
NOTE: This episode was recorded on June 21st, 2021 via Zoom.
CREDITS
Co-Producer: Lera Toropin
Co-Producer/Host: Cullan Bendig
Associate Producer/Host: Zach Johnson
Assistant Producer: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate
Admin Assistant: Katherine Birch
Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper
Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Blue Dot Sessions)
Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com
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Podcast: Turkey Book Talk (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Nicholas Danforth on memory and modernity in contemporary Turkey
Pub date: 2021-08-02
Nicholas Danforth on “The Remaking of Republican Turkey: Memory and Modernity since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire” (Cambridge University Press). The book upends conventional wisdom about social and political shifts from 1945 to 1960, with many implications for our understanding of today's Turkey.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Oaxaca's indigenous insurrection / A. S. Dillingham
Pub date: 2021-08-04
Historian A.S. Dillingham on his book "Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico" from Stanford University Press.
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29754
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Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Are robots taking our jobs?
Pub date: 2021-07-20
In the future, what forces will cause the economy to grow and stagnate? What impact will AI and automation have on the economy? Is capitalism a sustainable economic model?
Today on The Sound of Economics, we're asking the big questions. In order to find answers, our own Giuseppe Porcaro hosts Aaron Benanav, recent author of Automation and the Future of Work. Benanav argues that the "rise of the robots" may not really explain future employment crises, or our failure to move into a post-scarcity era.
Meanwhile, Bruegel Research Fellow Laura Nurski adds insight from her own research at Bruegel's Future of work and inclusive growth project, and Alexis Moraitis at Lancaster University considers how advances in technology could impact the international political economy.
If you want to learn more about the possible robot uprising, check out our work on artificial intelligence in the workplace, or listen to our past podcast, The Skills of the Future.
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Podcast: Everybody Hates Me: Let's Talk About Stigma (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Calvin Hudson Hwang: Anti-Asian Racism & COVID-19
Pub date: 2021-07-17
Calvin Hudson Hwang is an award winning Taiwanese Canadian director, producer and founder of SUPRE. SUPRE aims to empower underpowered voices and present often unheard points-of-view with insight, vulnerability and authenticity. They find unconventional ways to produce films to make them openly accessible for everyone to watch. Calvin's directorial work includes What Flowers They Bloom (2021), Miracle, Baby (2019), Exiting Hell Bar (2017), My Best Dress (2013), and Vestiaire (2011). You can follow SUPRE on Twitter here.
In this podcast we talk about Calvin's new documentary 'What Flowers They Bloom' (2021) on anti-Asian racism and COVID-19. Calvin discusses the importance of addressing both disinformation as well as pre-existing stigma, discrimination and bias toward Asian communities that has been amplified in the pandemic. What Flowers They Bloom explores the trauma created by anti-Asian racism, as well as the importance of solidarity and community in fighting back against this stigma.
Episode hosted by Dr. Carmen Logie. Supported by funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and Canada Research Chairs program. Original music and podcast produced by Jupiter Productions, who have various production services available to support your podcast needs.
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Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Seized Up
Pub date: 2021-07-20
Pooja Bhatia talks to Thomas Jones about the assassination of President Moïse in Haiti, the recent history of US involvement in the country, and the difference between elections and democracy.
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Podcast: Front Burner (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: What’s behind Cuba’s protest movement
Pub date: 2021-07-19
Cuba’s historic protests — and the government crackdown that followed — have shone a new light on the crisis currently facing the island. But questions about how to fix that crisis, and who’s to blame, are hotly disputed. Journalist Ed Augustin on what the protesters want, and how Cuba got to this point.
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Podcast: Red Menace (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A Decolonial Feminism w/ Françoise Vergès
Pub date: 2021-07-09
In this special crossover episode between Guerrilla History and Red Menace, Alyson and Henry come together to interview Dr. Françoise Vergès about her new book A Decolonial Feminism.
Françoise Vergès is an activist, public educator, and is the author of many books including Resolutely Black: Conversations with Aime Cesaire (Polity, 2019), The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism & Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Metissage.
A Decolonial Feminism, is available from Pluto Press https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341125/a-decolonial-feminism/
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Podcast: Philosophy Exchange Podcast
Episode: PX on AI - Edinburgh’s Shannon Vallor on AI and Society
Pub date: 2021-07-14
In this episode Karl and Roze are joined by Philosophy Exchange member Johanna Sarisoy to interview Shannon Vallor, Professor at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI). Together, they discuss the future of artificial intelligence (AI) from a variety of perspectives such as what it means to develop moral AI. Further, they discuss how experts can dialogue within academia and to the broader public.
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Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #48 - Has Big Tech oversold its productivity? - w/ Victor Menaldo
Pub date: 2021-07-12
In this episode, Victor Menaldo speaks to Nicolas Wittstock about his forthcoming book on productivity within the US technology sector. Robert Solow famously declared in 1987 that “you can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics”. Extending this observation to the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution, economists like Robert Gordon have voiced similar skepticism. Victor Menaldo presents preliminary results from his forthcoming book on productivity within the US technology sector.
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Podcast: Money Talks from The Economist (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Money Talks: China Inc stays global
Pub date: 2021-07-14
Can a new generation of Chinese multinational companies learn to adapt and even thrive in a hostile environment at home and abroad? Also, how Europe’s latest green plan aims to plug the leaks in the world’s biggest carbon market. And, why online shopping is about to become a whole lot more chatty. Simon Long hosts
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Podcast: Beyond Japan with Oliver Moxham
Episode: [S1E43] Bronze Age Globalization with Dr Mark Hudson
Pub date: 2021-07-08
This week we are joined by Dr Mark Hudson, archaeologist in the interdisciplinary Eurasia3angle research group at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, to discuss Bronze Age Globalization. Mark’s research of Jōmon-era Japan has indicated that socio-cultural exchange occurred between the Japanese archipelago and mainland Eurasia, followed by a re-Jōmonization where external cultures were rejected in a return to the local. I will be asking Mark what prehistoric globalization looked like and how it relates to our contemporary understanding of the process today.
Read Mark's article, Bronze Age Globalisation and Eurasian Impacts on Later Jōmon Social Change
For a comprehensive list of Japanese time periods, please see Japanese History: A Timeline of Periods and Events
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Podcast: Around The Empire (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 227 Consolidation of Political Power in Iran feat Neda Bolourchi
Pub date: 2021-07-13
Guest: Dr. Neda Bolourchi. We talk about the recent election in Iran: a deep dive about the background, the people involved, the consolidation of power and the outlook for the future. In a bonus segment we talk about the US shifting priorities toward great power competition and what this means for policy and strategy with respect to Iran.
Dr. Neda Bolourchi is an assistant professor and Associate Director of Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Her research travels include years in Iran, Syria, and Armenia, has peer reviewed work on religion, politics, legal systems, and the modern Middle East and She also has a J.D. in International Law and her legal work includes international and comparative analysis of human rights violations in the Middle East.
Find Neda at LinkedIn and find her work on her Rutgers University Center for Middle Eastern Studies web page.
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Reference Links:
- In Focus South Asia | Iran’s Presidential Elections | Episode 164 | Indus News
- The who’s who of Iranian players behind the new president, Muhammad Sahimi
- "Seeing Red, Hearing the Revolution" (chapter by Neda Bolourchi) Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses: Sensory Readings of Persian Literature and Culture by Leiden University Press
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Podcast: SikhArchive (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Green Revolution in Punjab with Dr. Divya Sharma
Pub date: 2021-07-09
Hi, I’m Sukhraj Singh from Sikh Archive and welcome to the 27th episode of our Podcast series of conversations with historians, authors, academics, researchers and activists on topics related to their areas of expertise on Sikh or Panjabi history.
In this episode we are joined by Dr. Divya Sharma, who is a lecturer in Sustainable Development and the Co-Director of the Sustainable Development masters course at the University of Sussex.
We discuss the Green revolution as a regime that swept the global south, its particular manifestation in Punjab not just as a whole but also in its local regions and also towards the end a comparative analysis that can be made between Punjab and Tamil Nadu.
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Podcast: What Next | Daily News and Analysis (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Drugs and the Olympics
Pub date: 2021-07-12
Olympics officials have created an anti-doping system to crack down on cheaters. We have no idea if it’s working. And it’s ensnaring athletes for seemingly bizarre infractions.
Guest: Lindsay Crouse, writer and producer for the New York Times Opinion section.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1365: Connected in crisis / Tanvi Misra
Pub date: 2021-07-19
Writer Tanvi Misra on her article "Broader Crises" for The Baffler.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/broader-crises-misra
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Podcast: The Fire These Times (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 80/ Syria, State Ideology and Climate Politics (With Marwa Daoudy)
Pub date: 2021-06-27
This is a conversation with professor Marwa Daoudy, associate professor at Georgetown University and the author of the recently published book The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security.
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Topics Discussed:
- Climate change did not cause the Syrian revolution, despite this narrative continuing to dominate in many circles, and why this deterministic narrative strips away the agency of Syrian revolutionaries
- The ‘securitization’ of language, how refugees and migrants going to global north countries are treated through militarized language, and how calling them ‘climate migrants’ can be problematic
- How did the pre-2011 drought affect the uprising, if at all?
- Bashar Al-Assad urban/rural divide and conquer strategy
- Assad’s neoliberal reforms and their impacts on water and food politics
- The role of ideology (baathism, neoliberalism etc) in Syria
- The issue of ‘state security’ rhetoric and how a Human-Environmental-Climate Security (HECS) framework can help understand reality better
- The relationship between the World Bank and the Syrian regime
- Neo-Malthusian politics and its presence in international politics
- Europe’s extractivist economies and the complicity in scapegoating ‘climate migrants’
- The idea of ‘climate security’ and why it’s problematic
Book Recommendations:
- Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
- Martin Eden by Jack London
- The Crossing by Samar Yazbeck
- The Impossible Revolution by Yassin Haj-Saleh
- The Shell by Mustafa Khalifa
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- Samira’s Letters on Al Jumhuriya
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Podcast: CCYSC Awaaz
Episode: Ep. 21 'Winning Lebanon': 20th Century Youth Politics in the Middle East
Pub date: 2021-06-26
In this episode Peter Wien hosts Dylan Baun for a discussion of 20th century youth politics in the Middle East based on Baun's recent book Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920-1958 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). The conversation covers Lebanese youth organizations from their inception in the period of French Mandate rule between the two World Wars to the first Lebanese civil war of 1958. Despite the similarities between the youth movements in terms of rituals, appearances, and comportment, they played an essential role in the drawing of sectarian boundaries foreshadowing decades of violent conflict.
Dylan Baun is an Assistant Professor of Modern Middle East and Islamic World History at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Dylan received his Ph.D. in Middle Eastern and North African Studies from the University of Arizona. His first book, published with Cambridge University Press in 2021, is titled Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920-1958.Peter Wien is Professor for Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Maryland in College Park. His latest book is Arab Nationalism: The Politics of History and Culture in the Modern Middle East (London: Routledge, 2017). Wien serves as President of The Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII).
Edited by: Sanjana Bajaj
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Podcast: THIS IS REVOLUTION >podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 148: Colombia's Battle for Economic Humanity w/ Ajamu Baraka and Charo Mina Rojas
Pub date: 2021-06-27
Currently in Colombia protesters are facing brutal reprisals by the U.S. backed regime. Like in many countries in the global south the austerity imposed state policies to protect the ravages of capitalism post 2008 crash are causing citizens from broad sectors of society to form coalitions to challenge government agendas to bleed the poor even further to cover for the abuses of capital that have brought forth the push towards austerity. On this episode, we will investigate Colombia's battle for economic humanity.
About Ajamu Baraka: Ajamu Baraka is a geopolitical analyst, organizer, writer, and human rights defender with over 48 years of movement work in the U.S. and internationally. Baraka is the national organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and was the 2016 candidate for vice president on the Green Party ticket. Baraka serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Peace Council and leadership body of the United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC) and the steering committee of the Black is Back Coalition and an editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report. Baraka was awarded the US Peace Memorial 2019 Peace Prize and the Serena Shirm award for uncompromised integrity in journalism.
About Charo Mina-Rojas: Charo Mina-Rojas is a Colombian human rights defender with nearly 30 years of activism with the Black Communities Process –PCN. Mina-Rojas has served as National Coordinator of Advocacy and Outreach in the U.S, for PCN. She was part of the Ethnic Commission that worked to ensure the inclusion of the Ethnic Chapter in the Final Peace Agreement, which contains specific provisions to ensure the protection and advancement of Afro-descendant collective rights. Currently, she coordinates the "Afro-Colombian Initiative for Gender and Peace Justice, 2021". Mina-Rojas has authored several articles on the plight of Afro-Colombia women and women in Latin America, and has provided expert testimony on human rights before the committees of the United States Congress, Inter American Commission for Human Rights, and various organs of the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council where she became the first Afro-descendant woman to testify as such before the United Nations Security Council on racial and gender violence against black/afro descendant women in Colombia and Latin America.
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The death truck: how a solution to Mexico’s morgue crisis created a new horror – podcast
Pub date: 2021-06-28
How did a lorry carrying 273 dead bodies end up stranded on the outskirts of Guadalajara? By Matthew Bremner. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: Make Me Smart (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Fossil fuel is under pressure
Pub date: 2021-06-30
No pun intended. Big Oil has hit a number of setbacks recently, but there’s still huge demand for fossil fuels. Jason Bordoff, director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, gives us a more holistic view of the fight against climate change and fossil fuels’ role in it. Because even as electric cars and solar batteries become more accessible, massive industries like steel and cement still run through a lot of oil. So, too, will emerging economies in Africa and Southeast Asia.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- Read more of Bordoff’s work here
- “Scrap the sale of gasoline cars and stop investing in fossil fuels to meet net-zero targets, IEA says” from CNBC
- “Big Setbacks Propel Oil Giants Toward a ‘Tipping Point’” from The New York Times
- “Oil Price Hits Pandemic High as Investors Bet on Green Energy” from The Wall Street Journal
- “LA County urges indoor mask wearing as Delta variant spreads” from the Los Angeles Times
- “Inside the risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan” from MIT Technology Review
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Podcast: The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: #103 Ndongo Samba Sylla: The CFA Franc & The Movement For Monetary Sovereignty In Africa
Pub date: 2021-06-02
Patricia and Christian talk to Senegalese development economist and author Ndongo Samba Sylla about the political challenges facing countries with limited financial sovereignty and Africa’s last colonial currency - the CFA Franc.
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Podcast: The East is a Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The ecumenical frame w/ Ussama Makdisi
Pub date: 2021-06-13
Ussama Makdisi is the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University.
Check out his book, Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World
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Podcast: Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 380: Protests in Colombia: Graffiti and Urban Artwork in the context of the Paro Nacional
Pub date: 2021-06-15
In the context of the on-going #paronacional protests in Colombia, it's time for the Colombia Calling podcast to take a look at another angle of what is going on in the streets, on the walls and all over the underpasses in the country. In short, during the unrest, which began on 28 April 2021, urban art, protest art and graffiti have proliferated to extend and spread the message of the youths' discontent with the status quo in Colombia. This is our chance to chat to Jahir (Jay) Dimate of the Bogotá Graffiti Tour (http://bogotagraffiti.com) to discuss what is going on with reference to this genre of art, the cultural movement of graffiti and enjoy a conversation that this national strike is far from a: "left versus right debate." About the Bogotá Graffiti Tour Bogotá Graffiti Tour started in 2011 when a Aussie street artist and a Canadian graffiti writer decided they wanted to share Bogota’s unique, prolific urban art scene and help expose local artists to a wider international audience. The tour has changed a bit over the years, and it’s now considered one of the best things to do in Bogotá. The team (a group of artists and creative minds) get together just about every week to talk about graffiti, plan how to best help out artists’ projects, and to brainstorm the best ways to bring our own projects to life.
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Podcast: Time To Say Goodbye (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Chelsea Schieder on Comfort Women denialism, the Japanese Right, the Asia-Pacific, and Coed Revolution
Pub date: 2021-06-11
Chelsea Szendi Schieder, historian of Japan at Aoyama Gakuin University on fact-checking Comfort Women denialism, Japanese history, and Japanese society
Podcast: The China in Africa Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Chinese Cyber Sovereignty & Nigeria's #Twitterban
Pub date: 2021-06-11
The Nigerian government justified the banning of Twitter on the basis of protecting the country's national interest, security, and sovereignty. Although the move was done for purely domestic political reasons, the government's defense is strikingly similar to the language that China pioneered more than a decade ago when it first introduced its "Cyber Sovereignty" model for internet governance.
It shouldn't come as a surprise, though, that Nigeria may be following China's example by making the state a central actor in determining what its constituents can see and do online. Senior Nigerian officials for years have openly expressed admiration for China's rigid system of internet censorship and control.
Emeka Umejei, a lecturer at the University of Ghana and an expert in Chinese media and communications, said the fact that China has been able to impose its will on the internet while at the same time fostering digital innovation presents a very appealing model for some African leaders. He joins Eric & Cobus to discuss the Nigerian Twitter ban and what connection, if any, it has with China's approach to online sovereignty.
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Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #43 - The Digitization of State Repression - w/ Steven Feldstein
Pub date: 2021-06-07
In this episode, Senior Fellow Steven Feldstein of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program discusses his new book, The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance, with Forum Affiliate Morgan Wack. The conversation touches on the recent spread and use of digital repression technologies around the world. Rooted in Steven’s own research, the episode and the book detail the real world consequences of extant technologies while debating the impending consequences of AI and big data while providing a look at active forms of resistance being undertaken by governments and civil society actors.
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Podcast: The Big Green Discoveries
Episode: Evangelicals and The Religious Right
Pub date: 2021-06-16
Why did white evangelicals overwhelmingly turn out for Trump in the 2016 election? Did they always lean republican? Find out more in the first episode of this season with our featured guest: Dr. Randall Balmer, professor of religion at Dartmouth College.
Recent Books by Dr. Balmer (All available on audible):
Solemn Reverence (2021)
God in the White House (2020)
Evangelicalism in America (2016)
Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter (2014)
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Podcast: Know Your Enemy (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Long Farewell to Majority Rule? (w/ Joshua Tait)
Pub date: 2021-05-18
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A conversation about the intellectual origins of the American Right's hostility to democracy—from John C. Calhoun's invention of the filibuster in the 19th century, to the mid-20th-century writings of conservatives like Russell Kirk, James Burnham, and Willmoore Kendall.
In this follow-up episode to "Democracy and Its Discontents" (listen here), historian Joshua Tait joins Matt and Sam for a conversation about the intellectual origins of the American Right's hostility to democracy—from John C. Calhoun's invention of the filibuster in the nineteenth century to the writings of conservatives like Russell Kirk, James Burnham, Willmoore Kendall, and others, in the 1950s and '60s.
Sources and Further Reading:
Adam Jentleson, Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy(Liveright Books, January 2021)
James Burnham, Congress and the American Tradition(Regnery, 1959)
Willmoore Kendall, The Conservative Affirmation(Regnery Publishing, 1963)
Willmoore Kendall & George W. Carey, Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition(Louisiana State University Press, 1970; reprint, The Catholic University of American Press, 1995)
Saul Bellow, "Mosby's Memoirs," The New Yorker, Jul 12, 1968
John A. Murley & John E. Alvis, eds., Willmoore Kendall: Maverick of American Conservatives (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002)
Harry V. Jaffa, "Equality as a Conservative Principle," Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, June 1, 1975
Joshua Tait, "Why Willmoore Kendall and James Burnham are the Prophets of Modern Conservatism," National Interest, April 30, 2021
Joshua Tait, "The Long History of Fighting Over the Term 'Conservative,'" The Bulwark, April 2, 2021
Matthew Sitman, "Farewell to a Constitutional Conservative," The American Conservative, June 27, 2013
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Podcast: Chain Reaction (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: The Rise of Digital Repression
Pub date: 2021-05-14
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Detailing how the emergence of advanced digital tools adds new dimensions to political repression, with examples from Thailand, the Philippines, and Ethiopia.
This week, Aaron spoke with Steven Feldstein, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about his new book, The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2021).
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Podcast: Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 147 | Rachel Laudan on Cuisine, Culture, and Empire
Pub date: 2021-05-17
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
For as much as people talk about food, we still don’t give it the attention or respect it actually deserves. How we go about the process of creating and consuming food—from agriculture to distribution to cooking to dining—touches the most mundane aspects of our daily routines as well as large-scale questions of geopolitics and culture.
For as much as people talk about food, a good case can be made that we don’t give it the attention or respect it actually deserves. Food is central to human life, and how we go about the process of creating and consuming it — from agriculture to distribution to cooking to dining — touches the most mundane aspects of our daily routines as well as large-scale questions of geopolitics and culture. Rachel Laudan is a historian of science whose masterful book, Cuisine and Empire, traces the development of the major world cuisines and how they intersect with politics, religion, and war. We talk about all this, and Rachel gives her pitch for granting more respect to “middling cuisine” around the world.
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Rachel Laudan received a Ph. D. in History and Philosophy of Science from University College London. She retired from academia after teaching at Carnegie-Mellon, the University of Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech, and the University of Hawaii. Among her awards are the Jane Grigson/Julia Child prize of the International Association of Culinary Professionals and the IACP Cookbook Award for Best Book in Culinary History.
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Podcast: Mind the Shift
Episode: 58. China’s model is not Africa’s – Nic Cheeseman
Pub date: 2021-05-19
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
It is patronising to think that African nations can’t reach the same level of democracy as Europe has. The best model for the continent's future is to see development and democracy side by side.
When we hear about rigged elections in Sub-Saharan Africa, many say: ”Well, what can you expect?”
The underlying assumption is that it is sad but unavoidable that democratic flaws have to be tolerated in immature and poor countries.
Wrong, thinks Nic Cheeseman, professor of democracy at the university of Birmingham, UK. All countries must be measured with the same democratic yardstick.
”Many African elections are actually more advanced than elections in Europe. British elections are very manual and old-fashioned”, says Cheeseman.
Fraud and rigging is not an African problem. All the main tricks described in Cheeseman’s and Brian Klaas’ book ”How to Rig an Election” have been used in Europe and America.
Some subtle ways are still used on every continent, like ”gerrymandering” and putting up high identification and registration thresholds for voters, which typically disfavors minorities, the poor and the less educated.
”In which country in the world every main party has been fined by the electoral commission for breaching campaign finance laws in the last three years? The answer is the UK”, says Cheeseman.
”It is patronizing to think that African nations can’t reach the same level of democracy as Europe has. Look at countries like Ghana, South Africa, Botswana and Mauritius.”
Democracy is also what Africans want. This is what polls on the continent consistently show.
It is of course true that democracy in Africa is young and still feeble in many places. Hence the idea some have that maybe electoral democracy is premature. Maybe there should be another order of events: first wealth and health, then elections.
But this is also a flawed idea, according to Nic Cheeseman. There is no order of events. Democracy and development happen in tandem.
”It is not true that poor people are not able to make informed choices about their future. Look at Zambia and Benin which were very poor when they made their transition to democracy.”
”And there is no particular connection between wealth and the possibility to hold elections.
If you really want to, you can hold a piece-of-paper-and-pen election extremely cheaply.”
Also: holding free and fair elections and building accountability has shown to be a driving force for governments to perform better.
”If we go back to the 70s and 80s, in none of the countries that had the most benign autocrats we can imagine today, like Nyerere and Kaunda, we saw the development of thriving conditions for democracy”, says Nic Cheeseman.
”It's the curse of low expectations.”
Democracy creates a stronger rule of law, which addresses corruption, which enhances economic growth, which gives rise to stronger civil society. It becomes a virtuous circle.
”The best model for the future is to see development and democracy side by side. The China model is nothing that works in Africa.”
Nic’s personal website: https://profcheeseman.wordpress.com/
Nic’s site Democracy in Africa: http://democracyinafrica.org/
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Podcast: Middle East Centre Booktalk
Episode: Making Film in Egypt
Pub date: 2021-05-18
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Providing a glimpse into the lived reality of commercial film production in today’s Cairo, with an emphasis on labour hierarchies, production practices, and the recent transition to digital technologies.
Join us as we listen to Dr Chihab El Khachab (King’s College, Cambridge) in conversation about his new book – Making Film in Egypt: How Labor, Technology, and Mediation Shape the Industry. Published by American University in Cairo Press. Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, Oxford) chairs the discussion.
The book is available for purchase from the book distributors of the publisher, email: IPSUK.orders@ingramcontent.com and quote discount code AUCPRESS20 for your 20% discount. Offer available until 31st July 2021.
Chihab El Khachab is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. He holds a DPhil in Anthropology from the University of Oxford (2017), and was a Junior Research Fellow in Christ Church, Oxford, between 2016 and 2020. His first book, Making Film in Egypt: How Labor, Technology and Mediation Shape the Industry, was published by the American University in Cairo Press in 2021. His broader research interests include Egyptian popular culture, technology, humor, and bureaucracy.
Professor Walter Armbrust is a Hourani Fellow and Professor in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. He is a cultural anthropologist, and author of Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt (1996); Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution (2019); and various other works focusing on popular culture, politics and mass media in Egypt. He is editor of Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond (2000).
Extract from publisher’s website:
The enormous influence of the Egyptian film industry on popular culture and collective imagination across the Arab world is widely acknowledged, but little is known about its concrete workings behind the scenes. Making Film in Egypt provides a fascinating glimpse into the lived reality of commercial film production in today’s Cairo, with an emphasis on labor hierarchies, production practices, and the recent transition to digital technologies. Drawing on in-depth interviews and participant observation among production workers, on-set technicians, and artistic crew members, Chihab El Khachab sets out to answer a simple question: how do filmmakers deal with the unpredictable future of their films? The answer unfolds through a journey across the industry’s political economy, its labor processes, its technological infrastructure, its logistical and artistic work, and its imagined audiences. The result is a complex and nuanced portrait of the Arab world’s largest film industry, rich in ethnographic detail and theoretical innovations in media anthropology, media studies, and Middle East anthropology.
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Podcast: Columbia Energy Exchange (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Lessons from Colonial: Risks to America’s Energy System
Pub date: 2021-05-18
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline system forced the shutdown of critical energy infrastructure, spurring price spikes and panicked buying to fill up tanks. While the pipeline is back up and running, the lasting significance of the Colonial outage — the largest attack on the US energy system in history — should not be overlooked.
Last week, a cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline system forced the shutdown of one of the nation’s most critical pieces of energy infrastructure, spurring price spikes and panicked buying to fill up tanks. While the pipeline is back up and running, the lasting significance of the Colonial outage--the largest attack on the US energy system in history--should not be overlooked.
In this edition of Columbia Energy Exchange, host Jason Bordoff is joined by Bob McNally and Adam Segal, leading experts on energy and cybersecurity, respectively, to examine what happened with the Colonial Pipeline system and what lessons should be drawn about the vulnerability and resilience of critical energy infrastructure.
Bob McNally is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy, and the founder and President of the Rapidan Energy Group. From 2001 to 2003, Bob served as the top international and domestic energy adviser on the White House staff. He is the author of the book Crude Volatility, published through the Center on Global Energy Policy book series.
Adam Segal is the Ira A. Lipman chair in emerging technologies and national security, and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is the author of the book The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age. Before coming to CFR, Adam was an arms control analyst for the China Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He has been a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and Tsinghua University in Beijing.
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Evren Savci, "Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam" (Duke UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-05-03
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Analysing the travel and translation of Western LGBT political terminology to Turkey, in order to illuminate how sexual politics have unfolded under Erdoğan's AKP government.
In Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam(Duke UP, 2021), Evren Savcı analyzes the travel and translation of Western LGBT political terminology to Turkey in order to illuminate how sexual politics have unfolded under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's AKP government. Under the AKP's neoliberal Islamic regime, Savcı shows, there has been a stark shift from a politics of multicultural inclusion to one of securitized authoritarianism. Drawing from ethnographic work with queer activist groups to understand how discourses of sexuality travel and are taken up in political discourse, Savcı traces the intersection of queerness, Islam, and neoliberal governance within new and complex regimes of morality. Savcı turns to translation as a queer methodology to think Islam and neoliberalism together and to evade the limiting binaries of traditional/modern, authentic/colonial, global/local, and East/West—thereby opening up ways of understanding the social movements and political discourse that coalesce around sexual liberation in ways that do justice to the complexities both of what circulates under the signifier Islam and of sexual political movements in Muslim-majority countries.
This interview is part of an NBN special series on “Mobilities and Methods.”
Evren Savcı is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University.
Alize Arıcan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on urban renewal, futurity, care, and migration in Istanbul, Turkey. Her work has been featured in Current Anthropology, City & Society, Radical Housing Journal, and entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography.
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Podcast: Coffee and Books (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Marc and Anthea Butler discuss Anthea's book; White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America
Pub date: 2021-05-03
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
By acting as a unified bloc in support of conservative policies, white Evangelicals play a key role in US politics. This talk details what binds this group together: the way they use racism to benefit from the privileges of whiteness.
On this episode, Marc sits down with Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies, Anthea Butler to unpack her book White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America. The two dive into what it means to be an evangelical and the power and clout they have, writing about faith in public, and Marc has a little fun at Anthea's expense with Buy It, Borrow It, Burn It.
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Podcast: LSE IQ podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Do algorithms have too much power?
Pub date: 2021-05-04
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Computer algorithms shape our lives and increasingly control our future. How much power should we give to them? Have we let things go too far already?
Contributor(s): Ken Benoit, Andrew Murray, Seeta Peña Gangaradhan, Alison Powell, Bernhard Von Stengel | Computer algorithms shape our lives and increasingly control our future. They have crept into virtually every aspect of modern life and are making life-changing choices on our behalf, often without us realising. But how much power should we give to them and have we let things go too far? Joanna Bale talks to Ken Benoit, Andrew Murray, Seeta Peña Gangaradhan, Alison Powell and Bernhard Von Stengel. Research links: Hello World by Hannah Fry; Information Technology Law: The Law and Society by Andrew Murray; Explanations as Governance? Investigating practices of explanation in algorithmic system design by Alison Powell (forthcoming).
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Podcast: Press the Button (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Advocating for Diplomacy in East Asia
Pub date: 2021-05-04
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Discussing how the Biden administration should approach North Korea in the wake of decades of failed policy from previous administrations, as well as how hawkish views on China in the US government have led to increased violence against Asian Americans.
Dr. David Kang, director of the Korean Studies Institute and Maria Crutcher Professor of International Relations at University of Southern California, joins Press the Button for a discussion on how the Biden administration should approach North Korea in the wake of decades of failed policy from previous administrations and how hawkish views on China in the US government have led to increased violence against Asian Americans. A special Early Warning focuses on the lack of diversity and perspectives during last week's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on nuclear weapons.
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Podcast: The Indicator from Planet Money (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: A 21st Century Union
Pub date: 2021-05-03
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Google's new union isn't focussed on negotiating benefits. We're witnessing a different kind of union, led by white collar workers who are thinking not just about money, but about the control workers should have over what they produce.
A new union was formed earlier this year. Why has it caught our attention? Some of its members make more than $300,000 a year, and they all work at Alphabet, Google's parent company.
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Podcast: Unreserved (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Indigenous musicians are using song to reclaim their identities
Pub date: 2021-05-02
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Indigenous people have rich and complex relationships with music. As communities grow and change, so does the music being made.
Indigenous people have rich and complex relationships with music, and as our communities grow and change, so does the music we make. Today on Unreserved, how Indigenous musicians are reclaiming their identities through music.
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Podcast: RadicalxChange(s) (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Yakov Feygin and Nick Vincent: On Data Dividends
Pub date: 2021-05-03
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The data dividend is a simple, implementable tax that would go to the heart of the economic distortion caused by the data economy. This conversation expands on how data and other assets get their value, and considers how data policy compares to Depression-era industrial policy.
The backstory to this episode is a lengthy research collaboration focused on how the value of data gets captured. With that in mind, how to design a tax that would fairly redistribute it. You can see the collaboration results at Datadividends.org -- a proposal for a simple, eminently implementable tax that would go to the heart of the economic distortion caused by the data economy. In this conversation with Yakov Feygin and Nick Vincent, we focus on how data and other assets get their value; compare data policy to the industrial policy of the depression era; and much more.
Yakov Feygin is responsible for developing the research plan, projects, initiatives, and partnerships for the Future of Capitalism program at the Berggruen Institute. Before joining the Berggruen Institute, Yakov was a fellow in History and Policy at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and managing editor of The Private Debt Project. Yakov holds a Ph.D. in History with a focus on economic history from the University of Pennsylvania. His forthcoming book, Building a Ruin: The International and Domestic Politics of Economic Reform in the Soviet Union, will be published by Harvard University Press. He has taught courses in international political economy, money and banking, and business history and held fellowships from the Institute for New Economic Thinking, The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Nick Vincent is a Ph.D. student in Northwestern University's Technology and Social Behavior program and is part of the People, Space, and Algorithms Research Group. His broad research interests include human-computer interaction, human-centered machine learning, and social computing. His research focuses on studying the relationships between human-generated data and computing technologies to mitigate the negative impacts of these technologies. His work relates to concepts such as "data dignity," "data as labor," "data leverage," and "data dividends."
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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Andrew Konove, "Black Market Capital: Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City" (U California Press, 2018)
Pub date: 2021-05-03
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Tracing the history of illicit commerce in Mexico City from the 17th century to the 20th, showing how it became central to the economic and political life of the city.
In Black Market Capital Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City (University of California Press, 2018), Andrew Konove traces the history of illicit commerce in Mexico City from the seventeenth century to the twentieth, showing how it became central to the economic and political life of the city. The story centers on the untold history of the Baratillo, the city’s infamous thieves’ market. Originating in the colonial-era Plaza Mayor, the Baratillo moved to the neighborhood of Tepito in the early twentieth century, where it grew into one of the world’s largest emporiums for black-market goods. Konove uncovers the far-reaching ties between vendors in the Baratillo and political and mercantile elites in Mexico City, revealing the surprising clout of vendors who trafficked in the shadow economy and the diverse individuals who benefited from their trade.
Andrew Konove, he is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas, San Antonio. He is Ph.D. in History by Yale University and his research focuses on the political, economic, and social history of urban Mexico and Spanish America in the late colonial and early national periods. Konove's Black Market Capital Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City received the Social Science Book Prize from the Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association and was a finalist for the Business History Conference’s Hagley Prize.
Paula De La Cruz-Fernandez is an economic and business historian. She is also the CEO of Edita.
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Podcast: The Irish Tech News Podcast
Episode: Understanding the American Resistance, how climate activism and #blacklivesmatter must not be seen in isolation, insights with Dana R. Fisher
Pub date: 2021-04-22
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
On questions related to democracy, activism, and environmentalism—most recently anchored in climate activism, protests, and the 'American Resistance'.
Interesting and timely conversation for Earth Day 2021 with Professor Dana Fisher.
Dana R. Fisher is a Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Program for Society and the Environment at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on questions related to democracy, activism, and environmentalism — most recently studying climate activism, protests, and the American Resistance. Her research employs a mixed-methods approach that integrates data collected through open-ended semi-structured interviews and participant observation with various forms of survey data.
Fisher's work has been published in over 65 peer-reviewed articles and chapters. She is the author of: National Governance and the Global Climate Change Regime(Rowman and Littlefield Press 2004), Activism, Inc. (Stanford University Press 2006), the Practice of Research (with Shamus Khan, Oxford University Press 2013), Urban Environmental Stewardship and Civic Engagement (with Erika S. Svendsen and James Connolly, Routledge Press 2015) and American Resistance (Columbia University Press 2019). (For details on this book and links to reviews, go here). She is the editor, along with Stewart Lockie and David Sonnenfeld, of the Routledege International Handbook of Social and Environmental Change (2013). Fisher also serves as a Series Editor for the Series on Society and the Environment at Columbia University Press along with Lori Peek and Evan Schofer.
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Website: www.drfisher.umd.edu
Blog/American Resistance book site: http://americanresistancebook.com
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Podcast: Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Louis Menand on The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Pub date: 2021-04-19
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas―economic and political, artistic and personal. This episode looks at the story of American culture in the pivotal years from the end of World War II to the Vietnam War.
(4/19/21) The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas―economic and political, artistic and personal. In his new book The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar and critic and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard University Louis Menand tells the story of American culture in the pivotal years from the end of World War II to the pivotal years of the Vietnam War. Join us for a look at how changing economic, technological and social forces put their mark on that era’s creations of the mind in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.
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Podcast: Around The Empire (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 215 Turkey’s Geopolitical History & Role in the World Today feat Isa Blumi
Pub date: 2021-04-22
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Providing historical background on Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, some further context for Turkey's relationship with NATO, and also an analysis of Turkey’s current involvement in the crisis surrounding Russia's presence in Ukraine. Also explored is Erdogan's role and what it means when people say that he and his political allies have neo-Ottoman aspirations.
Isa Blumi provides some historical background on Turkey and Ottoman empire, some more current history of Turkey and NATO and also an analysis of Turkey’s current involvement in the rising crisis between US/NATO and Russia in Ukraine. We also explore the role of Turkey’s president Erdogan and what it means when people say that he and his political allies have neo-Ottoman aspirations.
Dr. Isa Blumi is an historian, an author and Professor of Global History, Islamic World, Ottoman Empire, Yemen, Albania. His most recent Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World tells the story of the wars in Yemen but also “ultimately tells an even larger story of today’s political economy of global capitalism, development, and the war on terror as disparate actors intersect in Arabia.” He also authored the book Ottoman Refugees, 1878-1939: Migration in a Post-Imperial World
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Podcast: Carnegie Council Podcasts (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Are Americans Facing an Undemocratic Future? with Jason Stanley
Pub date: 2021-04-16
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
It's important to remember that the US is one of the younger democracies in the world—it has been a democracy only since the 1960s, when the Voting Rights Act was passed; it was a partial democracy before then, and remains a deeply flawed one today
U.S. democracy is at a dangerous inflection point. As America emerges from the January 6th assault on the Capitol, society faces a critical question: Can democracy bounce back or are Americans facing an undemocratic future? Carnegie Council President Joel Rosenthal and Yale's Jason Stanley discuss how to undo the damage done to U.S. institutions and the rise of nationalism around the world, from India to Brazil to Hungary.
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Podcast: Intersectionality Matters! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 35. The Story Of Us (Part 2)
Pub date: 2021-04-16
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
What is Hollywood’s role in writing and rewriting history? How are these scripted stories reproduced and popularised? How can we begin writing new stories that tell our full story?
With Bryan Stevenson, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Ruha Benjamin, and David Blight
In the second half of a two-part episode on the stories that shape our understanding of America, Kimberlé Crenshaw and special guests explore the ways that film and other technologies have reproduced and popularized these dominant stories. The episode examines Hollywood’s role in writing and rewriting history, and asks how we can begin writing new stories that tell the full story of us.
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Podcast: Outa-Space
Episode: Brazil - The power of art movements from the street (Ep.3.6)
Pub date: 2021-04-17
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Discussing the political art movements in the periphery of São Paulo, including the Sarau poetry movement and their grassroots art festivals, plus what all this means for the struggle against capitalism.
We talk to Tatiana Minchoni about the political art movements in the periphery of San Pablo, Brazil. We focus on the Sarau poetry movement there, the art festivals that build from below and what all this means for the struggle against capitalism.
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Podcast: All In The Mind (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 'I'm going to cook my baby'
Pub date: 2021-04-04
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Exploring what an unexpected source—dolls—can tell us about how kids see themselves, race, and the world around them. And how the very first ‘doll study’ changed the course of American history.
A few years back, Dr Toni Sturdivant was looking for a preschool for her three-year-old daughter. After considering a few schools around their Texas suburb, she thought she’d found the perfect place.
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Podcast: Rear Vision (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How the death of local news is destroying democracy.
Pub date: 2021-03-28
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For the last few hundred years, rural and urban communities have relied on their local paper for the news that mattered to them. Now those papers are shutting down, and readers are turning to sites like Facebook for information. But this has troubling consequences for democracy.
For a couple of hundred years rural and urban communities relied on their local paper for the news that mattered to them. Now those papers are shutting down readers are turning to sites like Facebook for information. But that has troubling consequences for democracy.
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Podcast: Then & Now (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Path to Peace Runs Through Culture: A Conversation with André Azoulay, Senior Advisor to King Mohammed VI of Morocco
Pub date: 2021-04-05
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From his childhood in Essaouira, Morocco, to his adolescence involved in Marxist politics, to his time as a successful banker in Paris, to his advocacy for peace and cross cultural understanding as senior advisor to two Moroccan kings, this interviewee speaks to the importance of cultural connection and identity.
From his childhood in Essaouira, Morocco, to his adolescence involved in Marxist politics, to his time as a successful banker in Paris, to his advocacy for peace and cross cultural understanding as senior advisor to two Moroccan kings, André Azoulay has lived an extraordinary life. He joins Then & Now in conversation with LCHP Director David Myers and Professor Aomar Boum (UCLA Department of Anthropology), to discuss his personal path, the importance of cultural connection and identity, his perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and his hopes for the future of Morocco and the world.
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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Border Outsourcing and the Rise of Racist Nationalism & A History of the White Power Movement
Pub date: 2021-04-05
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
How is migration a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation? Not only is US border policy a product of violent territorial expansion, but Fortress Europe and White Australia are also using immigration diplomacy and externalised borders to maintain a colonial present.
Part I - Border Outsourcing, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
Guest: Harsha Walia is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013). Trained in the law, she is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice, anti-capitalist, feminist, and anti-imperialist movements, including No One Is Illegal and Women’s Memorial March Committee. Her latest book is Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism [1].
Part II - The White Power Movement
Guest: Kathleen Belew [2] is a historian, author, and teacher. She is the author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America.
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Podcast: Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society: Audio Fishbowl (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: COVID-19 from the Margins: Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society
Pub date: 2021-04-05
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
In the first pandemic of the datafied society, the disempowered were denied a voice in the heavily quantified mainstream narrative. So what did it look like from the perspective of communities and individuals at the margins in the Global South and beyond?
In the first pandemic of the datafied society, the disempowered were denied a voice in the heavily quantified mainstream narrative. Diego Cerna Aragón, Shyam Krishna, Silvia Masiero, Stefania Milan, Irene Poetranto, and Emiliano Treré invited participants to explore the pandemic from the perspective of communities and individuals at the margins in the Global South and beyond. It introduces the editorial project of the same title.
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Podcast: Discovery (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Lithium: Chile’s white gold
Pub date: 2021-04-05
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In the SQM mine of Chile's Atacama Desert, the source of much of the world’s supply, lithium is evaporated out of huge brine lakes. How has the element lithium become so important in the world today?
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2019 was awarded to John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino "for the development of lithium-ion batteries." These rechargeable batteries are in our phones, and in our laptops. And they will be the batteries powering electric vehicles which we are being urged to use in place of ones fuelled by gasoline and diesel. Jane Chambers finds out how the element lithium has become so important in the world today. She lives in Chile, where lithium is called the country’s white gold, as it is the source of much of the world’s supply. Jane travels to the Atacama Desert and visits the SQM mine where lithium is evaporated out of huge brine lakes.
She talks to Professor Clare Grey of Cambridge University about her research into improving the efficiency of lithium ion batteries. And Dr Paul Anderson of Birmingham University explains what needs to be done for more lithium to be recycled.
Editor: Deborah Cohen
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Podcast: Cuerpa Politica
Episode: What’s so political about reproduction in Latin America? With Professor Laura Briggs
Pub date: 2021-03-17
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A discussion ranging from neoliberalism's intensification and distortion of care labour, the separation and monetisation of children during the Guatemalan civil war, and the intersection of race science with empire and reproductive control in Puerto Rico.
Professor Laura Briggs teaches and researches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is an authoritative voice in several fields relating to reproductive politics across the Americas. She is the author of several monographs, including the landmark 2003 book Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, the 2017 book How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump, and most recently, Taking Children: A History of American Terror.
In this broad-ranging conversation, we discuss the many ways that reproduction shapes politics, and vice versa. Professor Briggs first describes how neoliberalism intensifies and distorts care labour. We also discuss the separation of children from their families by paramilitaries during the Guatemalan civil war, in processes that became monetised through the transnational adoption industry. The conversation also centres on how race science intersected with empire and reproductive control in Puerto Rico, and how historic dynamics weigh on contemporary debates surrounding reproduction - such as representations of the nation as a “welfare island”.
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Podcast: Smarty Pants (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: #171: Our One-Click World
Pub date: 2021-03-19
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Amazon’s shadow extends beyond the warehouses to the cardboard factories that supply its packaging, the local stores it’s crowded out, and the affordable housing that’s flipped to luxury condos near its headquarters. A new book uses Amazon as a frame to chronicle the widening gap between winner-take-all-cities and the regions left behind.
In the past year of the pandemic, Amazon has added more than 500,000 jobs, mostly in its various warehouses. During the same period, more than 20,000 of its frontline workers tested positive for Covid-19. Their boss, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, saw his net worth rise by $67 billion. Amazon’s shadow extends beyond the warehouses, though, to the cardboard factories that supply its packaging, the local stores it’s crowded out, and the affordable housing that’s flipped to luxury condos near its headquarters. In his new book, Fulfillment, ProPublica reporter Alec MacGillis uses Amazon as a frame to chronicle the widening gap between winner-take-all-cities and the regions left behind.
Go beyond the episode:
- Alec MacGillis’s Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
- Read his piece in The New York Times, “Amazon and the Breaking of Baltimore”
- German novelist Heike Geissler worked at an Amazon fulfillment center to make ends meet—and wrote about the brutal experience in her novel Seasonal Associate
- Learn more about the high-stakes fight for a union at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama; ballots are due for the first-ever warehouse-wide union vote by March 29
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Podcast: Podcast Archives - Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Oxford Energy Podcast – The Middle East and the Geopolitics of the Energy Transition
Pub date: 2021-03-23
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
How are the Middle East oil and gas exporters dealing with the energy transition? Will the hydrocarbon sector continue to play a key role? Will oil and gas exporters struggle or thrive in a carbon-constrained world?
How are the Middle East oil and gas exporters dealing with the forces shaping the energy transition? Will the hydrocarbon sector continue to play a key role in the economies of the Middle East? Will oil and gas exporters struggle or thrive in a carbon-constrained world?
In this podcast, Bassam Fattouh and Ahmed Mehdi tackle these questions and offer a contrarian perspective on the pathways ahead for Middle East oil and gas exporters. They provide a snapshot into the adaptation strategies being deployed by the various Middle East hydrocarbon producers and the challenges and opportunities ahead. Both Fattouh and Mehdi argue that hydrocarbons will remain a core competitive advantage of Middle East oil and gas exporters’ economies and a critical tool for adapting to the challenges faced by the energy transition. Technological deployment, the falling costs of renewables and the growing role of gas in the global energy system provide opportunities to capture cost efficiencies, reduce emissions and build resilience. The policies and decision-making of Middle East exporters will not only have implications for oil and gas markets going forward, but for the pathway of the energy transition itself.
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Podcast: TALKING POLITICS (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Technopopulism
Pub date: 2021-03-25
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
On how technocracy and populism have come together to create a new form of democratic politics—from New Labour and Macron's En Marche to Dominic Cummings and Five Star. What do these different forms of politics have in common? Has the pandemic entrenched the hold of technopopulism? Or are we on the brink of something new?
David and Helen talk to Chris Bickerton about how technocracy and populism have come together to create a new form of democratic politics. From New Labour to Macron's En Marche, from Dominic Cummings to Five Star, we discuss what these different forms of politics have in common and whether the pandemic has entrenched the hold of technopopulism or whether we are on the brink of something new.
Technopopulism: The New Logic of Democratic Politics
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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Yana Stainova on Musical Enchantment in Venezuela
Pub date: 2021-03-18
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Studying how young people in the urban barrios of Caracas use music and stories to push back against everyday violence, social exclusion, and state repression.
Yana Stainova is a sociocultural anthropologist and an Assistant Professor at McMaster University. She is interested in art, urban poverty, social inequality, migration, and the lived experience of violence in Latin America. Her research explores how people summon music practices to pursue visions of social justice in the face of political turmoil and barriers to immigration. Her first book project entitled Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela studies how young people coming of age in the urban barrios of Caracas use music and stories to push back against the forces of everyday violence, social exclusion, and state repression. Her second book project, tentatively titled The Politics of Joy: Collective Art Practices across the US-Mexico Border focuses on Latinx migration and artistic practices in North America.
A correction: El Sistema was founded in 1975. Hugo Chávez won the Venezuelan election held in 1998 but officially assumed power in 1999.
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Podcast: Social Distance (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A History of Pandemic Xenophobia & Racism
Pub date: 2021-03-24
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The recent shootings in Atlanta highlighted a surge of anti-Asian violence in the United States throughout the pandemic. Disease stigma and racism have together shaped pandemic response and policy for centuries. How can this legacy of prejudice lead us to reexamine our response when outbreaks occur?
The recent shootings in Atlanta highlighted a surge of anti-Asian violence in the United States throughout the pandemic. Disease stigma and racism have together shaped pandemic response and policy for centuries.
And so to better understand this history, Jim and Maeve speak with Alexandre White, a sociologist and medical historian at Johns Hopkins University. He shares his views on how a legacy of prejudice tied to disease should lead us to reexamine how we respond when outbreaks occur.
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Podcast: Champagne Sharks (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: CS 362: New Age Of Empire
Pub date: 2021-03-19
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This conversation expands on an updated conception of imperialism: one in which the US and not Europe is at the center of Western dominion, and where imperial power looks more like racial capitalism than the expansion of colonial holdings.
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This episode is hosted by Trevor. Today we have Kehinde Andrews on the show to talk about his new book "New Age Of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World". Kehinde Andrews is an academic, activist and author whose previous books include Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century (2018) and Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement (2013).
Kehinde led leading the development of the Black Studies degree and is director of the Centre for Critical Social Research; founder of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity; and co-chair of the Black Studies Association. You can find his newest book over at Penguin Books.
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Podcast: Matriarch Movement (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Sierra Tasi Baker: decolonizing urban design
Pub date: 2021-03-08
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Sharing stories of Indigenous women—from Canada to Turtle Island and beyond—through interviews that bring to light the issues they face, and portraits that challenge the mainstream narrative around Indigenous identity.
This first episode of Matriarch Movement features a conversation with Sierra Tasi Baker, lead design consultant at Sky Spirit Studio, the urban planning organization founded by her family on principles of ancestral governance, Indigenous law and respectful protocols. Sierra is from the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and is also xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Kwakwaka’wakw/Musgamagw Dzawada'enuxw, Tɫingit, Xaayda (Haida) and Magyar (Hungarian). Her Kwak'wala name is "Gesuqwaluck" which means "Creator or Creative one" and was given to her by her late grandmother and Grand-Matriarch Chief Emily Nelson Baker, T̓łaḵwagila̱'og̱wa.
Sierra studied Environmental Design at UBC and completed a Masters of Science in Sustainable Urbanism at the Bartlett School of City Planning at University College London, UK, one of the top ten universities in the world for the built environment. Her work focuses on decolonization through design; she has worked extensively with museums, universities, municipalities, and businesses to further Indigenous lead design and engagement. Sierra is also one of the choreographers for Butterflies in Spirit, a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's advocacy and dance group founded by #MMIW advocate Lorelei Williams.
In this conversation with host Shayla Oulette Stonechild, Sierra shares the meaning of her work, where she implements a Two-Eyed seeing approach to research and honour her lineage and traditions; she addresses the importance of decolonization, the need for preserving mental health, and her commitment to community and matriarchy.
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Podcast: The EcoPolitics Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 2.6: Great Power Politics and the Environment
Pub date: 2021-03-09
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What influence do the world's most powerful nations have on global environmental politics? This conversation looks to the growth of the BRICS and corporate power, and how each has shifted who can sway climate change policy on the global stage.
Dr. Yixian Sun (University of Bath), and Dr. Matthew Paterson (University of Manchester), explain how the world’s most powerful countries – from Great Powers in the G7 to emerging powers in the BRICS – shape ecopolitical outcomes on the global stage.
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Podcast: Everything Co-op with Vernon Oakes (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Author and Educator Dr. Douglas Rushkoff, discusses Economic Cooporativism and Circular Economics
Pub date: 2021-03-06
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
If the rest of the US replicated the economic strategies used within Black communities, runs the premise of this conversation, the country could resolve many of the challenges it faced.
Dr. Douglas Rushkoff, author and educator discusses economic "cooporativism" and circular economics. Dr. Rushkoff sets the premise that if the rest of the Country replicated many of the economic strategies used in Black communities, we could resolve many of the challenges being faced.
Winner of the Media Ecology Association’s first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Dr. Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other’s values. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens, where he founded the Laboratory for Digital Humanism. He is a columnist for Medium, technology and media commentator for CNN, a research fellow at the Institute for the Future, and a lecturer on media, technology, culture and economics around the world.
His new book, a manifesto called Team Human, calls for the retrieval of human autonomy in a digital age. Prior to that, his book Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity argued that we have failed to build the distributed economy that digital networks are capable of fostering, and instead doubled down on the industrial age mandate of growth above all.
Rushkoff has taught regularly for NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, The New School University, the MaybeLogic Academy and the Esalen Institute. He also lectures about media, art, society, and change at conferences and universities around the world. He has been awarded a Fullbright Scholarship, and Senior Fellowships by the Markle Foundation, the Center for Global Communications, and the International University of Japan. He served as an Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture and regularly appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News and Larry King to the Colbert Report and Bill Maher. Rushkoff is on the board of several new media non-profits and companies, and regularly speaks about media, society and ethics to museums, governments, synagogues, churches, universities, and companies.
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Podcast: Checkmate (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Rise and Dominance of Lottery Scamming In Jamaica
Pub date: 2021-03-06
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Exploring the origin of lottery scamming in Jamaica, the rise of the practice, and how it has provided agencies of reparation, crime, and violence.
On this episode, our guest is Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis, anthropologist and an assistant professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the author of Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair. In Scammer’s Yaad, Dr. Lewis tells the story of three young and poor men striving to make a living in Montego Bay, where call centers and tourism are the two main industries in the struggling economy. We spoke to Dr. Lewis on the origin of lottery scamming in Jamaica, the rise of the practice and how it has provided agencies of reparation, crime and violence; and societal satire in Jamaica.
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Podcast: Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India, with Andrew B. Liu
Pub date: 2021-03-05
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Analysing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, this episode challenges past economic histories premised on technical 'divergence', arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia.
Speaker: Andrew B. Liu, Assistant Professor of History, Villanova University
Tea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical “divergence” between the West and the Rest, arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia. He shows how competitive pressures compelled Chinese merchants to adopt abstract industrial conceptions of time, while colonial planters in India pushed for labor indenture laws to support factory-style tea plantations. Characterizations of China and India as premodern backwaters, he explains, were themselves the historical result of new notions of political economy adopted by Chinese and Indian nationalists, who discovered that these abstract ideas corresponded to concrete social changes in their local surroundings. Together, these stories point toward a more flexible and globally oriented conceptualization of the history of capitalism in China and India.
Andrew B. Liu is assistant professor of history at Villanova University, where his research focuses on China, transnational Asia, political economy, and comparative history.
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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Saudis and the superpower
Pub date: 2021-03-06
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Joe Biden promised to be tough on Saudi Arabia. But this week, he stopped short of punishing the kingdom's crown prince despite US intelligence holding him responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. This is Biden's first foreign policy challenge.
Joe Biden promised to be tough on Saudi Arabia. But this week, he stopped short of punishing the kingdom's crown prince despite US intelligence holding him responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Ros Atkins looks at the President's first foreign policy test, and the Washington-Riyadh alliance.
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Podcast: Unraveling the Anthropocene: Race, Environment, and Pandemic
Episode: Altermundos in the comics of Chile, Argentina, and Brazil
Pub date: 2021-03-07
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Discussing how contemporary graphic narratives from Chile, Argentina, and Brazil offer non-Western and alter-native views on the interactions between species, time, and spaces.
In a conversation with LAC member Camila Gutiérrez (Penn State), Javiera Irribarren (Columbia University) discusses how contemporary graphic narratives from Chile, Argentina and Brazil offer non-western views on the interactions between species, time, and spaces. She argues that South American artists make a decolonial move in these comics; questioning historical and contemporary conflicts. In these materials, Irribarren finds powerful alter-native critiques of the current neoliberal State, which she describes as driven by politics of consumption in the age of the Anthropocene or Capitalocene. Irribarren also talks about her experience using these materials in the Spanish-language classroom at Columbia.
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Podcast: Imagining Latinidades (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Latina/o/x Cultural Citizenships and Popular Belonging
Pub date: 2021-03-05
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Talking popular culture, cultural citizenship, and regimes of belonging.
Today, we have a very special program planned for you. A year ago, we were supposed to host my guests for a one-day Symposium in Iowa City on the topic of LATINA/O/X CULTURAL CITIZENSHIPS & POPULAR BELONGING. After having addressed issues surrounding formal citizenship and national belonging in the Fall 2019 semester, this one-day symposium was supposed to bring subject area experts (our guests, today) to discuss modalities of popular belonging (television, sports, music, literature, and more) in Latina/o/x contexts in the U.S. Alas, that symposium was the first thing we had to cancel due to the emerging coronavirus pandemic. So after Ariana and I had a chance to start settling into our new locations after our moves, we realized that one of the best ways we could make up the symposium was with a couple of episodes of this podcast. In this episode, we’ll be sticking to the subject matter of the symposium. After I introduce them, each of my guests will have a chance to offer short opening statements and then we’ll proceed into some questions about cultural citizenship and popular belonging. In the NEXT episode, we’ll do our traditional “roundtable” format and dive into what we’ve called their “origin stories” as well as their thoughts on the importance of Latinx Studies education.
★ Thanks to our sponsors ★* The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward. * The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.
Show notes:Our guests today included… Frederick Luis Aldama is an academic and award-winning author of over 40 books, including the International Latino Book Award and Eisner Award for Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics. He is editor of the trade press, Latinographix, creator of the first documentary on the history of Latinx superheroes, and co-founder & director of SÕL-CON: Brown, Black, & Indigenous Comix Expo & Symposium. This fall, Frederick will publish a Spanish translation of his kid’s book The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie (2020) as well as join UT Austin as the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and launch his Latinx Pop Lab. * Adrian Burgos, Jr., is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, specializing in US Latino history, sport history, and urban history. He is the author of Cuban Star: How One Negro League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball (2011) and Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line (2007), which won the Latina/o Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association and was a Seymour Medal finalist from the Society of American Baseball Research. He has consulted on the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Viva Baseball exhibit, Smithsonian’s Latinos and Baseball exhibit, and on numerous documentaries. He was founding editor-in-chief of La Vida Baseball, a multiplatform digital brand in partnership with the Baseball Hall of Fame that produces daily content on Latinos and baseball through a cultural lifestyle perspective. * Ed Morales is an author and journalist who has written for The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and the Guardian. He was staff writer at The Village Voice and columnist at Newsday. He is the author of Latinx: The New Force in Politics and Culture (Verso Books 2018), and Living in Spanglish (St. Martins 2002). And most recently, he saw publication of his book Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the betrayal of Puerto Rico — I book I’m very excited to read as it’s close to some of my current research interests. Morales wrote and directed Whose Barrio? (*2009) an award-winning documentary about the gentrification of East Harlem. Morales is a lecturer at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
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Podcast: Queens Podcast Lab
Episode: Rating British Departments
Pub date: 2021-02-22
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
How does the British system of evaluating departments’ scholarly productivity shape intellectual production?
In this episode of The Annex Sociology Podcast, we discuss the British system of evaluating departments’ scholarly productivity with JP Pardo-Guerra from the University of California, San Diego. JP recently authored “Research Metrics, Labor Markets, and Epistimc Change: Evidence from Britain, 1970 – 2018“. Pardo-Guerra explains how the system works, and how it shapes intellectual production. Special guest co-host Charles Gomez (CUNY Queens College).
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Podcast: Bridges to the Future (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Is social mobility really a myth?
Pub date: 2021-02-23
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
What is wrong with the notion of social mobility? What do we mean by it? How do people perceive it? And when does it come into conflict with notions of meritocracy? A new book shows how a powerful elite on the top rungs have clung to their perch and prevented others ascending.
Global crises cause big changes and reveal deep structural weaknesses.
In this special interview series from the RSA its chief executive, Matthew Taylor, puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for one big idea to help build effective bridges to our new future.
Selina Todd is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. Her latest book is Snakes and Ladders: The Great British Social Mobility Myth.
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Podcast: This Week in Black History, Society, and Culture
Episode: Race and Comics in World History
Pub date: 2021-02-22
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Discussing the intersection of comics, race, and world history. How does graphic representation help us better understand race?
In this episode, Dr. Maryanne Rhett discusses race and comics in world history with Trevor R. Getz. Dr. Rhett is a Professor of World History at Monmouth University where she is the Director of the Graduate Program in History. She is the author of Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1822 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). Getz is a Professor of History in the Department of History at San Francisco State University. He is also the author of the award-winning text Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History (Oxford University Press, 2011), principle content manager for the World History Project and the series editor for Oxford University Press’s Uncovering History series.
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Podcast: At Liberty (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Google This: Algorithmic Oppression
Pub date: 2021-02-18
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Is Google an ad company, not an information company, that’s replicating the discrimination of the world it operates in? How can this discrimination be addressed and who is responsible for it?
Imagine you’ve forgotten once again the difference between a gorilla and a chimpanzee, so you do a quick Google image search of “gorilla.” But instead of finding images of adorable banana-obsessed animals, photos of a Black couple pop up.
Is this just a glitch in the algorithm? Or, is Google an ad company, not an information company, that’s replicating the discrimination of the world it operates in? How can this discrimination be addressed and who is accountable for it?
Our guest today, UCLA professor and best-selling author of “Algorithms of Oppression,” Dr. Safiya Noble answers these questions.
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Podcast: LIVE! From City Lights
Episode: Joshua Bennett, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Jesse McCarthy, and Simone White
Pub date: 2021-02-18
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
On the intersection between politics and aesthetics in African American literature, postwar literary history, and Black Studies—and making the case for why blackness continues to act as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.
Joshua Bennett is joined in conversation with Tongo Eisen Martin, Jesse McCarthy, and Simone White to discuss his new book "Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man" published by Belknap Press/Harvard University Press. The prize-winning poet Joshua Bennett argues that blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal. This event was originally broadcast live via Zoom and hosted by Josiah Luis Alderete.
Joshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School, winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. He has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, and MIT and was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. He is the Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.
Tongo Eisen-Martin is the author of Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books, 2017) and someone's dead already (Boostrap Press, 2015) and his poetry has been featured in Harper's Magazine and New York Times Magazine. Heaven Is All Goobyes was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and awarded the California Book Award for Poetry, an American Book Award, and a PEN Oakland Book Award. He is also a movement worker and educator whose work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He has been a faculty member at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, and his curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, "We Charge Genocide Again!" has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He's from San Francisco.
Jesse McCarthy is assistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of English and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. His research is concerned with the intersection between politics and aesthetics in African American literature, postwar or post-45 literary history, and Black Studies. His dissertation The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War, 1945 – 1965 argues for a reinterpretation of black literary aesthetics in the early Cold War and for the value of a discrete periodization of that era. He is also interested in modernism, film, poetics and translation. While a graduate student at Princeton he founded a Digital Humanities project based on the Sylvia Beach archives held at Princeton's Firestone Library called Mapping Expatriate Paris. His writing on culture, politics, and literature has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Dissent, The New Republic and n+1. He also serves as an editor at The Point.
Simone White is the author of Dear Angel of Death, Of Being Dispersed, and House Envy of All the World and of the poetry chapbooks Unrest and, with Kim Thomas, Dolly. Her writing has appeared in publications including Arttforum, BOMB, e-flux journal, the Chicago Review, and the New York Times Book Review. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Podcast: Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Gabriel Winant
Pub date: 2021-02-23
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Focussing on how blue-collar manufacturing jobs in Pittsburgh were eventually replaced by female-dominated, yet lower-paid and less stable, positions in healthcare services. The conversation also touches on what this story says about the working class and the future of work.
On this week’s episode we talk to Gabriel Winant, Assistant Professor of U.S. History at the University of Chicago, about his forthcoming book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. In it, he focuses on the political economy of Pittsburgh since World War II—specifically, how blue-collar manufacturing jobs were eventually replaced by female-dominated, yet lower-paid and less stable, positions in healthcare services. In this conversation, we mostly just try to understand his deep and informative argument. We also speculate about the future of work and discuss what this story should tell us about the working class.
Additional readings, including any referenced during the episode, are available on our website: DiggingAHolePodcast.com.
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Podcast: Decoder with Nilay Patel (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Black Software author on technology’s role in racial justice
Pub date: 2021-02-09
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Talking about Black Lives Matter, Twitter, online communities, and policing—the story of racial justice movement organising online is much longer and varied than most people know.
In this episode of Decoder, Nilay sits down with Charlton McIlwain, a professor of media, culture, and communications at NYU and the author of Black Software, to talk about Black Lives Matter, Twitter, Online Communities, and Policing.
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Podcast: The afikra Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Language & Music Scholar Taoufik Ben Amor [afikra Conversations]
Pub date: 2021-02-15
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
On Arabic language and linguistics, language and identity, Arab music, and music in Sufism—all of which converge through the study of lyrics.
We talked to Taoufik Ben Amor about Arabic language and linguistics, language and identity, Arab music, and music in Sufism.
This event was hosted in collaboration with Columbia Global Centers | Tunis.
Created by: Mikey Muhanna, afikra
Hosted by: Mikey: https://www.instagram.com/mikey_mu/ & Youssef Cherif (Columbia Global Centers | Tunis).
Edited by: Ramzi Ramman
Theme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/
About the afikra conversation series:
Our long-form interview series, hosted on Zoom, featuring academics and arts and media experts who are helping document and/or shape the history and culture of the Arab world through their work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community still walks away with new found curiosity - and maybe some good recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into head first. Following the interview there is a moderated town-hall style Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience on Zoom. Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp
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Website: afikra.com
About afikra:
afikra is a grassroots movement that has evolved into a global community dedicated to exploring the history and culture of the Arab world. Starting in 2014 in NYC, our mission has always been two-pronged: cultivate curiosity and to build community. We've hosted intimate salon-style events all over the world that feature in-depth presentations on topics related to the Arab world, given by members of our community. What makes afikra different is that our programs and platform is designed to engage our community to ask their own questions, and provide an open community of peers who support each other as we all look for the answers together. Our vision is to build a global community of curious minds who are interested in promoting intellectualism and deepening our communal knowledge of the Arab region.
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Podcast: Inside Politics (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Universal basic income: is now the time?
Pub date: 2021-02-05
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The Irish Green Party supports UBI and won a commitment for a pilot UBI scheme in the programme for government. In 2020, it was announced this trial would be aimed at artists, a group often not rewarded for their work with sustainable incomes.
The concept of universal basic income (UBI) - paying everyone a regular, fixed amount of money to ensure a basic standard of living - has moved to the mainstream in recent years, driven by concerns over economic inequality and the erosion of traditional employment bases. More recently, the vast level of state support for workers in Covid-19-hit industries has shown that mass payments are feasible, if only for a limited time period. The Green Party supports UBI and won a commitment for a pilot UBI scheme in the programme for government. Late last year it was announced this trial would be aimed at artists, a group often not rewarded for their work with sustainable incomes. So is UBI a good idea, and how will this pilot work? To find out Hugh talks to Neasa Hourigan, Green Party TD for Dublin Central and co-author of the party's policy on UBI, Angela Dorgan, chair of the National Campaign for the Arts, and Ian Goldin, professor of globalisation and development at Oxford University.
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Podcast: EU Watchdog Radio
Episode: Episode 16: Private vs Public healthcare
Pub date: 2021-02-05
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Why are health care systems in many countries under such pressure when dealing with Covid-19? The outsourcing and privatisation of healthcare, in combination with various EU austerity policies, have cost extra lives.
Pandemic, austerity, privatisation and the urgency of an honest debate on health care policy.
In this first new episode of 2021, we dive into the topic that is unfortunately still on everyone's mind each and every day: the raging pandemic. Our main focus is why were /are health care systems in many countries under such pressure when dealing with Covid-19? From hospitals to care homes, the outsourcing and privatisation of healthcare , in combination with various EU austerity policies, have significantly degraded EU member states’ capacity to deal effectively with COVID-19, costing extra lives. And unfortunately this quite unhealthy tendency has been going on all over the world, hitting the poorest hardest.
First, Olivier Hoedeman, researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), talks about the recent research-report “When the market becomes deadly: How pressures towards privatisation of health and long-term care put Europe on a poor footing for a pandemic” . Our second guest is Aurore Guieu, researcher and campaigner at Oxfam Belgium. Oxfam has recently published a new report on the growing inequality called “The Inequality Virus”, showing that inequality is literally as deadly as COVID-19.
Third guest is Leigh Haynes a PhD researcher in political science at Ghent University where her work focuses the influence social movements can have on health policy. Originally from Texas in the US), Leigh is also a health activist with the People's Health Movement, advocating and organizing for the right to health around the world. She is involved in a European Citizen Initiative (ECI), called ‘No Profit on Pandemic’, seeking 1 million signatures by the end of the year.
Both CEO and Counter Balance raise awareness on the importance of good governance in the European Union, by researching issues like lobbying of large and powerful industries, corporate capture of decision making, corruption, fraud, human rights violations in areas like agro-business, biotech & chemical companies, the financial sector & public investment banks, trade, energy & climate, scientific research and much more...
You can find us on iTunes, Spotify & Buzzsprout. Stay tuned for more independent and in-depth information that concerns every EU-citizen!
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Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #25 - Prison Gangs and Governance - w/ David Skarbek
Pub date: 2021-02-08
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Discussing research on how extra-legal governance institutions form, operate, and evolve—specifically in the context of prison gangs, and the different ways countries organise their prison systems.
In this episode, Forum affiliate Megan Erickson speaks to David Skarbek of Brown University about his research on prison gangs and how prison systems are organized in different countries.
This podcast is produced by Matthew Dagele, Morgan Wack, and Nicolas Wittstock. Our theme music was created by Ted Long.
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Podcast: State of Power (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: S2 Ep32: The Case for Apartheid Studies: In conversation with Nyasha Mboti
Pub date: 2021-02-04
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Speaking with the founder of a new field of study termed ‘Apartheid Studies’, which is deeply concerned with how power functions, how it mutates, and how it reproduces itself.
Here at the State of Power Podcast we are concerned with how power functions, how it mutates, and how it reproduces itself, and our guest on this episode deals explicitly with this.
Nyasha Mboti is an Associate Professor at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein South Africa, and is the founder of a new field of study that he terms ‘Apartheid Studies’. He is soon to publish the first of four volumes outlining the scope of the new field. He graciously agreed when we asked him to sit with us and to explain what exactly Apartheid Studies is.
Nyasha's Book will be available on major online book stores at the end of February. To get in contact with him, you can subscribe to the Apartheid Studies YouTube channel, and visit the website www.apartheidstudies.com. You can also follow the Instagram account "Apartheid Studies" and the ApartheidStudi1 account on Twitter
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Podcast: New Books in Anthropology (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Natasha Zaretsky, "Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-01-22
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Exploring how ordinary people grapple with political violence in Argentina, a nation home to survivors of multiple genocides and periods of violence, including the Holocaust, the political repression of the 1976-1983 dictatorship, and the 1994 AMIA bombing. Despite efforts for accountability, the terrain of justice has been uneven and, in many cases, impunity remains.
Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina(Rutgers UP, 2020) explores how ordinary people grapple with political violence in Argentina, a nation home to survivors of multiple genocides and periods of violence, including the Holocaust, the political repression of the 1976-1983 dictatorship, and the 1994 AMIA bombing. Despite efforts for accountability, the terrain of justice has been uneven and, in many cases, impunity remains. How can citizens respond to such ongoing trauma? Within frameworks of transitional justice, what does this tell us about the possibility of recovery and repair? Turning to the lived experience of survivors and family members of victims of genocide and violence, Natasha Zaretsky argues for the ongoing significance of cultural memory as a response to trauma and injustice, as revealed through testimonies and public protests. Even if such repair may be inevitably liminal and incomplete, their acts seeking such repair also yield spaces for transformation and agency critical to personal and political recovery.
Jeff Bachman is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at American University’s School of International Service in Washington, DC.
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Podcast: Revaluing Care in the Times of Covid-19
Episode: COVID-19 and Gender Violence
Pub date: 2021-01-21
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A transnational dialogue between feminist activists and academics from Argentina, Ecuador, India, and Italy, addressing the multiple forms of gender-based violence and resistance that have crystallised and surged during the pandemic.
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the lockdown measures that governments around the world implemented have also brought with them a spike in gender violence. This aspect intersects with the exacerbation of economic, racial, and political violence, among others. In this transnational dialogue between feminist activists and academics from Argentina, Ecuador, India, and Italy, they will address the multiple forms of violence that have crystallized in this global health crisis, and they will discuss the possibilities for action that feminism from different latitudes envision.
Moderator: Martha Liliana Espinosa
Speakers:
Verónica Gago is professor of Sociology at the Instituto de Altos Estudios, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina, and she also teaches Political Science at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She has been visiting Scholar at the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, and is Assistant Researcher at the Argentinian National Council of Research (CONICET). Gago is the author of Feminist International: How to Change Everything (about to be published-Nov.2020 Verso), and Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies (Tinta Limón 2014, Duke University Press, 2017), and of numerous articles published in journals and books throughout Latin America, Europe and the US. She is a member of the independent radical collective press Tinta Limón. She was part of the militant research experience Colectivo Situaciones, and she is now a member of Ni Una Menos.
Maya John teaches at the University of Delhi (India). She has been researching and publishing on the evolution of labour law in colonial and postcolonial India; the relationship between caste, gender and the labour market; the history of educational inequality in India; recent anti-rape agitations in India and gender-specific laws at the workplace. John is actively working with the Gharelu Kamgar Union, a union of domestic workers employed in Delhi-NCR. She is also active in unions of nurses, teachers and other sections of the urban workforce, and is associated with the women's organization, Centre for Struggling Women.
Alejandra Santillana Ortiz is a Sociology graduate from Universidad Católica of Ecuador and has a master’s degree in Social Sciences from FLACSO (Social Sciences Latin American Faculty). She is currently a Ph.D. student at Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) and she is working on her thesis about the political history of Ecuador´s Left-wing in the 70s and 80s. She is part of two work and debate groups of CLACSO (Latin American Council of Social Sciences): Gender, Feminism, and Latin American and Caribbean History Work Network, and Rural Development Critical Studies.
Alessandra Spano is a PhD student and assistant to the chair of Political Philosophy at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, in Catania. Her research focuses are on Critical Theory, Marxism and Feminist Thought, especially gravitating toward female thinkers in the US. She has been actively involved in Non una di meno, the Italian network for Women’s strike, and is associated with Migrants’ Coordination and Precarious Dis/connections, collectives which organize migrant, precarious and industrial workers’ struggles, on a local and transnational level.
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Podcast: FreshEd (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: FreshEd #120 – What’s Wrong With Rights (Radha D’Souza)
Pub date: 2021-01-24
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Why has there been a proliferation of human rights since the end of World War II? Have these rights actually furthered the interests of the transnational capitalist class? Also under discussion is education as a human right, and why this framing poses a challenge for social movements and unions.
Today we take a critical look at human rights. My guest is Radha D’Souza. Radha has a new book entitled: What’s wrong with rights? Social movements, Law, and Liberal Imaginations.
In our conversation we discuss why there has been a proliferation of human rights since the end of World War II and how these rights have actually furthered the interests of the transnational capitalist class.
Radha also discusses education as a human right and the challenge it has for social movements and unions such as education international.
Radha D’Souza teaches law at the University of Westminster, London.
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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dig: Pakistan Hyperreality with Fatima Bhutto
Pub date: 2021-01-27
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
An interview on social media subjectivities; on Pakistani history, politics, and identity—with which Karachi, a 'city of combat and buried secrets', continues to wrestle as developers exploit national heritage; and also on the guest's new novel, 'The Runaways'.
Dan interviews author Fatima Bhutto on social media subjectivities; Pakistani history, politics, and identity; and her novel The Runaways.
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Podcast: Law Bytes (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 74: Heidi Tworek on the Challenges of Internet Platform Regulation
Pub date: 2021-10-28
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
As internet platforms find themselves squarely in the public eye, this conversation covers their role and responsibilities, as well as proposals for payments in the news sector, and insights into what governments should be doing to better communicate with the public about the ongoing pandemic.
The Law Bytes podcast took a breather over the holidays and into early January, but there seemingly is no break for digital policy issues. Over the past few weeks, Internet platforms have found themselves squarely in the public eye as company after company – from Shopify to Twitter to Facebook de-platformed former US President Donald Trump in response to the events in Washington earlier this month. Dr. Heidi Tworek of the University of British Columbia is one of Canada’s most prolific thinkers on Internet platform policies. She joins the podcast for a conversation about the role and responsibilities of Internet platforms, proposals for payments in the news sector, and insights what governments should be doing about better communicating with the public about the COVID-19 global pandemic.
The podcast can be downloaded here, accessed on YouTube, and is embedded below. Subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcast, Google Play, Spotify or the RSS feed. Updates on the podcast on Twitter at @Lawbytespod.
Show Notes:
Tworek, The Dangerous Inconsistencies of Digital Platform Policies
Tworek, Is News Property? How Digital Platforms are Resurrecting a Centuries-Old Question
Credits:
NBC News, President Trump Permanently Banned from Twitter
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Podcast: The Next Page (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 42: Dr. Gabriele Balbi on Techno-diplomacy and Global Communications
Pub date: 2021-01-22
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Speaking to the evolution and growth of global communications, tracing its technological history from the telegram to the internet, along the way defining the concept of techno-diplomacy, and further explaining its role in multilateral collaboration and conversation.
Technology has always been an integral part of our lives and our work, but the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted its role in many new ways. In episode 42, we are joined by Gabriele Balbi, Associate Professor in Media Studies at USI Università della Svizzera italiana. As an expert in media history, his work and research are also greatly connected with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a specialized agency of the UN system.
In this conversation, Professor Balbi speaks on the rich evolution and growth of global communications, looking at its history from the telegram to the Internet. He also defines the concept of techno-diplomacy, and further explains its role in multilateral collaboration and conversation.
As we face rapid digitization and a "new normal", Professor Balbi also touches upon the new challenge of Zoom fatigue, and the need to balance our digital and physical worlds.
We hope this episode brings you new insights and perspectives, not only to our present but equally to our past!
About Professor Gabriele Balbi
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Prof. Gabriele Balbi is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the Institute of Media and Journalism (IMeG), Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, USI Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland).
At this institution, he is also program director of the Bachelor in Communication, director of the China Media Observatory, vice director of the Institute of Media and Journalism. Furthermore, he is Chair of ECREA Communication History Section and International Liaisons Representative of the ICA Communication History Division.
Prof. Balbi's research is focused on media studies with a historical and long-term perspective. His research is at the crossroads of media studies, the history of technology, media archaeology, Science and Technology Studies, the political economy of communication, and cultural studies.
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History of the International Telecommunications Union: Transnational Techno-Diplomacy from the Telegraph to the Internet (Book): https://bit.ly/39XCXA7
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Podcast: Data & Society (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Governing an Algorithm in the Wild
Pub date: 2021-01-13
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
In December 2014, the algorithm that allocates kidneys for transplant in the US was replaced, following more than a decade of debate and planning. This highly transparent process incorporated elements of simulation and auditing that scholars often recommend. How can this story inform the design of participation strategies for other high stakes algorithms?
Algorithms make a wide range of morally important decisions, and many people now argue that members of the public should be more directly involved in deciding the moral tradeoffs that such systems entail. But most ideas for public or stakeholder involvement are still on the drawing board, and there are few real stories of public deliberation over the design of a morally important algorithm. This talk explores one such story.
On December 4, 2014, the algorithm that allocates kidneys for transplant in the United States was replaced, following more than a decade of debate and planning. The development process was highly transparent and participatory, faced hard ethical questions explicitly, and incorporated elements of simulation and auditing that scholars often recommend. Scientist and researcher David Robinson describes how this story played out — including a twist ending — and will draw out four broader lessons to inform the design of participation strategies for other high stakes algorithms. The talk is hosted by Data & Society Senior Researcher, Alex Rosenblat.
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Podcast: Urban Political Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Urban Climate Finance at the edge of viability?
Pub date: 2021-01-12
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Bringing together research from Jakarta, Miami, and Puerto Rico, amongst other cities, the speakers discuss risk management practices that mine value from rising waters, wildfires, or hurricanes; and also open up new markets on the back of urban decay.
Hanna Hilbrandt in conversation with Emma Colven, Zac Taylor, Sarah Knuth, and Sage Ponder Amidst the rapidly unfolding ecological crisis, current research is witnessing ever new financial strategies that aim at making money from urban climate risks. In this episode Hanna Hilbrandt invites Emma Colven, Zac Taylor, Sarah Knuth, and Sage Ponder, to discuss the financial and socio-material limits to the viability of urban financialization in the context of climate change. When climate disasters increasingly destroy financial assets and erode returns, how much longer will it take until some financial strategies become unviable? What are the multiple mechanisms finance and state actors use to push these limits into the future and continue to profit from climate change? Which places are indispensable to finance? And what happens when financial strategies become unviable (if that happens at all)?
Bringing together research from Jakarta, Miami and Puerto Rico, amongst other cities, we discuss risk management practices that mine value from rising waters, wildfires, or hurricanes, and open up new markets on the back of urban decay. Thinking through wider questions about disaster capitalism, we delve into the inherent challenges to that system. Talking across multiple research sites, we discuss geographical differences in state interventions ranging from forced evictions to fiscal policies. In conclusion, we reflect on contestations on the ground and possibilities for urban research to support these struggles.
Moderator:
Hanna Hilbrandt is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Zurich. In addition to researching global climate finance, Hanna's work explores spaces of mundane transgression, planning conflict, and housing marginality. Her new book Housing in the Margins is forthcoming with Wiley 2021.
Guests:
Emma Colven is Assistant Professor of Global Environment in the Department of International & Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. As an urban geographer and political ecologist, her research explores themes of water politics, real estate and urban development, adaptation to environmental threats, and environmental justice in cities of the global South.
Sarah Knuth is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Durham University. Her research investigates the contemporary intersection of shifting urban fabrics and infrastructural strategies, particularly in the US context; new ideas in low carbon energy transition, green economic development and climate change resilience; and ongoing transformations in the global financial system.
CS Ponder is an assistant professor of geography at Florida State University and an Urban Studies Foundation fellow with the University of Minnesota, department of Geography, Environment & Society. Her research is concerned with understanding the racialization of urban finance, and the implications for environmental justice. Her doctoral work used the lens of racial capitalism to examine the politics of urban water system renewal in Jackson, MS, along with the historical treatment of the largest Black-majority cities in the American municipal bond market over the years 1970-2014. Her current research project uses a comparative lens to understand the urban political ecologies of the Detroit and Puerto Rico bankruptcies.
Zac Taylor is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at KU Leuven (Belgium), where they research real estate climate risk governance within the financial system and three contexts (Florida, Singapore, and the Netherlands). Trained as an urban planner and financial geographer, Zac is interested in how financialized climate risk governance restructures cities and global property capital flows. Their recent work can be found in Environment and Planning A and the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.
This episode builds on a recent workshop hosted by Emma Colven and Zac Taylor in November 2021 with talks from Sage Ponder and Sarah Knuth. Recordings are accessible here:
Sage Ponder: “Puerta de Tierra, Opportunity Zones and Climate Gentrification” https://youtu.be/HM2SuEtMbZc
Sarah Knuth: “'All That Is Solid?' Climate Change and the Lifetime of cities”: https://youtu.be/9HD74BR7fVc
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Podcast: SochBichar
Episode: Breaking Out of Poverty Trap, Nobel Laureate Prof. Abhijeet Banerjee
Pub date: 2021-01-13
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The Nobel-winning economist asks, what makes the poor poor? Many theories suggest that there is some form of a poverty trap. How to break out of it?
Tuesday, January 12, 2020 at 7:00 PM (PST)
Moderator: Dr. Nadeem ul Haque, VC PIDE
Speaker: Prof. Abhijit V. Banerjee
About Speaker:
Professor Banerjee is the recipient of the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, awarded jointly with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." Banerjee is a past president of the Bureau for the Research in the Economic Analysis of Development, a Research Associate of the NBER, a CEPR research fellow, International Research Fellow of the Kiel Institute, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. Professor Banerjee received the Infosys Prize 2009 in Social Sciences and Economics. In 2011, he was named one of Foreign Policy magazine's top 100 global thinkers. His areas of research are development economics and economic theory. Banerjee is a member of J-PAL's Executive Committee and previously served as co-chair of J-PAL’s Education Sector.
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Podcast: ArchitectureTalk (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 93. Demolition of Kahn's IIM Dormitories with Prem Chandavarkar
Pub date: 2021-01-09
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The basic issue is: what do we recognize as heritage? What is worth remembering? And who decides?
The basic issue is: what do we recognize as heritage? What is worth remembering? And who decides? This week, Prem Chandavarkar and Vikram Prakash converse about recent developments at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM) where controversial deliberations have led to the decision to demolish a large swath of dormitories on its campus designed by Louis Kahn.
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Podcast: Urban Evolution
Episode: The Post Pandemic City: A Conversation with Tom Fisher, Director, Minnesota Design Center at the University of Minnesota
Pub date: 2021-01-14
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Pandemics accelerate us rapidly into the future. They always have an effect on the physical environment, and change how we live and work and move. Street sweeping and indoor plumbing are examples of past pandemic consequences. How will the coronavirus pandemic affect our cities moving forward?
The Coronavirus pandemic has accelerated changes in many industries and in our daily lives. Tom Fisher, Director of the Minnesota Design Center at the University of Minnesota is a professor and former dean at the university. His research has focused on sustainable architecture, design ethics and community based service design. He shares insights on what a post pandemic city might look like, and how lessons from past pandemics and health events can help shape our future.
Tom Fisher: https://designcenter.design.umn.edu/people/fisher.html
Minnesota Design Center: https://designcenter.design.umn.edu/
Destination Medical Center: https://dmc.mn/
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Podcast: The Inside Story Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Will poorer nations miss out on COVID-19 vaccine? | Inside Story
Pub date: 2021-01-13
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines is widening the divide between the world's rich and poor. The United Nations warns what it calls 'vaccine nationalism' is on the rise, as the U.S., Europe and many wealthier countries buy up millions of potential doses. The World Health Organization urged countries to prioritise COVAX, an initiative to secure vaccines to low and middle-income nations. So how can we ensure protection for everyone?
The global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines is widening the divide between the world's rich and poor. The United Nations warns what it calls 'vaccine nationalism' is on the rise, as the U.S., Europe and many wealthier countries buy up millions of potential doses. The World Health Organization urged countries to prioritise COVAX, an initiative to secure vaccines to low and middle-income nations. So how can we ensure protection for everyone?
Presenter: Mohammed Jamjoom
Guests:
Helen Rees - Member of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on the Covid-19 Vaccine
Anna Marriott - Health Policy Manager, Oxfam
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Podcast: The CGAI Podcast Network (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The Global Exchange: Wars and How to Avoid Them
Pub date: 2021-01-11
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Why do wars start? What legacies do they leave? How do they change us as individuals and societies? War is an uncomfortable and challenging subject not least because it brings out both the vilest and the noblest aspects of humanity. Most discomfiting might be the fact that peace itself is an aberration in human history.
On this episode of The Global Exchange, Colin Robertson speak to Dr. Margaret MacMillan about her latest book, War: How Conflict Shaped Us (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609692/war-how-conflict-shaped-us-by-margaret-macmillan/).
Participants Bio:
Margaret MacMillan is a Professor of History at the University of Toronto and emeritus Professor of International History and the former Warden of St. Antony's College at the University of Oxford (http://www.margaretmacmillan.com/Bio.php)
What Dr. MacMillan is reading:
Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: The Paradox of Power, 1878-1928 (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/299269/stalin-by-stephen-kotkin/9780143127864/)
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Podcast: Events from the Brookings Institution (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why Black America needs a Tech New Deal
Pub date: 2021-01-08
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The disproportionate impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Black communities points to why policies that focus on broadband infrastructure, workforce development and jobs, and robust start-ups are crucial to the nation’s economic recovery.
On January 6, the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings hosted a webinar to discuss a Tech New Deal and the benefits of a coordinated plan for Black Americans. Expert panelists examined the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Black communities and discussed why policies that focus on broadband infrastructure, workforce development and jobs, and robust start-ups are crucial to the nation’s economic recovery.
https://www.brookings.edu/events/why-black-america-needs-a-tech-new-deal/
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Podcast: Media Futures Podcast
Episode: Drone Futures E6: Mahwish Chishty
Pub date: 2020-12-14
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
I’m interested in the juxtaposition of terror with the representation of cultural beauty’ Mahwish Chishty, a multimedia artist who initially trained as a miniature painter in Pakistan. Her work combines traditional artistic practice with her interest in contemporary politics, particularly the relationship between the US and Pakistan and the impact of drones on life and culture.
On this episode, Michael is joined by Mahwish Chishty, a multimedia artist who initially trained as a miniature painter in Pakistan. Her work combines traditional artistic practice with her interest in contemporary politics, particularly the relationship between the US and Pakistan and the impact of drones on life and culture.
Drone Futures is hosted by Michael Richardson, Senior Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, whose research examines the intersection of war, culture and technology. https://twitter.com/richardson_m_a
Media Futures Hub works at the intersection of media and cultural studies to shape the theories, methods and practices needed for more just media futures. https://twitter.com/MediaFuturesHub
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Podcast: 3 Sided Coin Podcast
Episode: Financialization and the South African Economy
Pub date: 2020-11-29
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
How Financialization affects the South African economy. We also discuss alternative policy options to the neoliberal prescriptions.
In this episode Tshegofatso Putu speaks to Funzani Mtembu, an economist and scholar, on Financialization and how this phenomenon affects the South African economy. We also discuss alternative policy options to the neoliberal prescriptions, and the matter of the South African government undertaking a loan from the International Monetary Fund.
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, "Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It" (FSG Originals, 2020)
Pub date: 2020-12-07
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
...about the tech industry at large, a conversation that has previously been dominated by the voices of CEOs.
In Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It (FSG Originals, 2020), the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, including a data scientist, a start-up founder, a cook who serves their lunch, and a PR wizard. In the process, Weigel and Tarnoff open the conversation about the tech industry at large, a conversation that has previously been dominated by the voices of CEOs. Deeply illuminating, revealing, and at times lurid, Voices from the Valley is a vital and comprehensive view of an industry that governs our lives.
Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today.
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Podcast: Hagley History Hangout
Episode: SORTING OUT THE MIXED ECONOMY: WELFARE & DEVELOPMENTAL STATES IN THE AMERICAS with Amy Offner
Pub date: 2020-12-09
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
By focusing on Colombia, this episode explores the entanglement of American societies and the contradictory promises of midcentury state building.
SORTING OUT THE MIXED ECONOMY: THE RISE AND FALL OF WELFARE AND DEVELOPMENTAL STATES IN THE AMERICAS
In this episode Roger Horowitz interviews Amy C. Offner, Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, about her new book. Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas (Princeton University Press, 2019). Among other honors, the book won the First Monograph Prize from the Economic History Society and the Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
In this book Amy Offner brings readers to Colombia and back, showing the entanglement of American societies and the contradictory promises of midcentury state building. She follows the flood of U.S. advisors who swept into Latin America after World War II intent on lifting the region out of poverty. In Colombia, these “experts” sought to encourage economic growth by decentralizing the state, privatizing public functions, and launching austere social welfare programs. In so doing, they generated approaches later adopted by the United States welfare state, especially when the Johnson administration launched the War on Poverty and turned to private firms to administer job training and educational programs. A decade later, ascendant right-wing movements seeking to shrink the midcentury state did not need to reach for entirely new ideas: they redeployed policies already at hand. Offner reveals that practices regarded today as hallmarks of neoliberalism -- including an austere social welfare system and reliance on for-profit operation of social programs – had their roots in the New Deal, and the policies promoted in Colombia and the Third World.
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Podcast: Queens Podcast Lab
Episode: Populism in 19th Century America (Adam Slez)
Pub date: 2020-12-07
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Exploring the story of the original Populist movement in the late-19th century Dakotas, and reflecting on what the history of populism can teach us about political populism today.
On today’s Annex, we talk to Adam Slez from the University of Virginia. Adam is the author of The Making of the Populist Movement: State, Market, and Party on the Western Frontier (2020, Oxford), and an expert on 19th century American political populism. Adam tells us the story of the original Populist movement in the late-19th century Dakotas, and reflects on what the history of populism can teach us about political populism today.
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Podcast: Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 126 | David Stasavage on the Origin and History of Democracy
Pub date: 2020-12-07
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Those of us living in democracies tend to take the idea for granted. We forget what an audacious, radical idea it is to put government power into the hands of literally all of the citizens. Where did such an idea come from, and where is it going?
Those of us living in democracies tend to take the idea for granted. We forget what an audacious, radical idea it is to put government power into the hands of literally all of the citizens of a country. Where did such an idea come from, and where is it going? Political scientist David Stasavage has written an ambitious history of democracy worldwide, in which he makes a number of unconventional points. The roots of democracy go much further back than we often think; the idea wasn’t invented in Athens, but can be found in a large number of ancient societies. And the resurgence of democracy in Europe wasn’t because that continent was especially advanced, but precisely the opposite. These insights have implications for what the future of democracy has in store.
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David Stasavage received his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. He is currently Dean for the Social Sciences and the Julius Silver Professor in the Department of Politics at New York University and an Affiliated Professor in NYU’s School of Law. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His most recent book is The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today.
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Podcast: RightsUp (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Racial Hierarchy and Role of Whiteness (with Savala Trepczynski)
Pub date: 2020-12-04
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
...about racial hierarchy and the role of whiteness in the Black Lives Matter movement.
This episode is part of a four-part series in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. In this episode, we talk to Savala Trepczynski about racial hierarchy and the role of whiteness in the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Oxford Human Rights Hub is an anti-racist organisation, and we are committed to continuously working to be better allies to communities protesting against deeply entrenched systems of racial domination and oppression. In this spirit, this podcast series aims to amplify the voices of Black and Brown scholars, activists and practitioners. We also want to acknowledge a long legacy of work that has collectively, across time and disciplines, built and bolstered the foundations of this present movement. Now is a time to listen, learn, support and amplify.
Here, we explore the question: what role does racial hierarchy play in perpetuating inequalities?
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Podcast: The Dig (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Identity, Power, and Speech with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Pub date: 2020-12-05
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Prevailing identity politics norms call on people “listen to the most affected” or “centre the most marginalized.” But this often works out quite badly in practice.
Prevailing identity politics norms call on people “listen to the most affected” or “centre the most marginalized." But this often works out quite badly in practice. Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on his brilliant essay "Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference."
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Podcast: Democracy Paradox (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Carolyn Hendriks, Selen Ercan and John Boswell on Mending Democracy
Pub date: 2020-12-08
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Rather than offering a single blueprint to redesign our institutions, the speakers suggest we should continue to mend the damage in our existing framework.
There is a book that was written in 1989 called Democracy and its Critics. The renowned Robert Dahl is the author. In the book, he answers objections to critiques of democracy through a series of dialogues. One of them has stuck with me because I hear it so often: The problem with democracy is it is not democratic enough.
Many of the scholars who are featured on the Democracy Paradox have ideas or plans to make democracy more democratic. Many books, articles, and podcasts focus on ways to reform or redesign institutions so they can become more democratic. For example, Ezra Klein has a popular podcast. Every week he advocates for the Senate to drop the filibuster. Sure. Let’s do it. But we are delusional if we believe democracy is one reform away from perfection.
I invited Carolyn Hendriks, Selen Ercan, and John Boswell to join me because they examine democracy reform through a multidimensional lens. Rather than offering a single blueprint to redesign our institutions, they suggest we should continue to mend the damage in our existing framework. It is an achievable call to action where they raise the profile of some everyday heroes who have made positive contributions to repair the connections vital to democracy.
Carolyn is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Governance at Australian National University, Selen is an Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Canberra, and John is an Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Southampton. They are the authors of Mending Democracy: Democratic Repair in Disconnected Times.
It’s always interesting when my guests are in Australia because it works best for me to call in the afternoon or evening so they can be reached the morning of the next day. This conversation had an extra wrinkle because John is in the UK so we coordinated this call across three time zones on three continents.
Whenever this many people are on a podcast, it can become difficult to know who says what. For that I apologize. But it was necessary. Their work was a collaborative effort. Indeed, a work like theirs cannot be anything but collaborative. Their research is, in many ways, about collaboration.
Our conversation will introduce some important concepts and theories about deliberative democracy. But it also offers some real-world examples. I cannot wait for you to learn about the Knitting Nanas Against Gas. They call themselves KNAG. There is so much I want to share right now. But it’s best if I relax and just let you listen.
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Podcast: EU Watchdog Radio
Episode: Episode 14: Black Rocking the Green Deal
Pub date: 2020-11-27
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
There is no way around the fact that BlackRock has a major stake in fossil fuels. For a start, it has investments in the biggest coal companies in the world – a fact that has not changed despite a small downscaling of its coal investments earlier this year.
‘Black rocking the European Green Deal’ is the title of this fourteenth episode, in which CEO researcher Kenneth Haar and Jana Leutner researcher at Change Finance, discuss the Blackrock scandal. Together they published a report called “The BlackRock Model”, in which they uncover the scale of the blunder of the European Commission by granting a contract to BlackRock to give advice on ‘sustainable finance’.
On the 25th of November it became crystal clear that the European
Commission ignored massive conflicts of interest when it hired the
powerful company called BlackRock, the world’s biggest investment fund
to give paid advice on how to make the banking sector more sustainable.
On that day the European Ombudsman published a thorough decision on
this case, after a complaint that was filed by CEO and the Change
Finance coalition, joined by some MEPs.
The European Ombudsman stated that The European Commission did not
properly consider conflicts of interest when it granted the contract to
BlackRock - being the world’s largest asset manager with $7.8 trillion
in assets and being a big investor in fossil fuels and also in companies
that contribute big time to deforestation. The Change Finance coalition,
believes the Commission should drop the contract and start afresh.
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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians
Episode: Data flows: gender, colonization and the limits of surveillance capitalism
Pub date: 2020-11-25
Alina Utrata talks to Stefanie Felsberger, a PhD candidate at Cambridge University, about her research on surveillance, data flows and mensuration tracking apps. They discuss how colonization impacted the development of surveillance technologies, why we think (or shouldn’t think) about data as a commodity instead of labor, and how the ownership of knowledge about female bodies has translated into power—from the witch burnings to period apps.
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Articles mentioned in this podcast:
Stefanie Felsberger’s article “Colonial Cables – The Politics of Surveillance in the Middle East and North Africa.”
The woman who tried to hide her pregnancy from Big Data (and failed) and why pregnant women are such a high value target for advertisers. And if want to know more about the Smart Period Cup.
Amazon experimenting with paying some consumers for their data. They’ve also entered the healthcare market.
The US military is buying location data from every day apps, including a Muslim prayer app and Muslim dating site.
More on testing and importing technologies in low rights environments, or how colonization spurred the development of surveillance technologies. For some more contemporary examples, how technologies developed by US military contractors in Yemen were used to disburse G20 protesters in Pittsburgh in 2009.
More on surveillance tech used to target the Black Lives Matter protests here and here. And an ACLU overview on surveillance tech available in the US, as well as who has stingray tracking devices. And on the use of police drones to surveil protestors.
Virginia Eubanks on how marginalized groups are often governments' test subjects (her full book on the subject here or here.) Relatedly, how Baltimore became the US’s lab for developing surveillance tech.
How the UNHCR is collecting iris data from refugees in Jordan.
On Chinese companies role in Africa and the Middle East, watch part II of this documentary.
On the NSO Group and how their tech was linked to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the hacking of Jeff Bezos’s phone.
More academic books and articles:
- Jarrett, Kylie. 2016. Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife. New York and London: Routledge.
- Lupton, Deborah. 2016. The Quantified Self: A Sociology of Self-Tracking. Cambridge: Polity Press. EPub.
- Federici, Silvia. 2004. Caliban and the Witch. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia.
- Browne, Simone. 2015. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
- Fuchs, Christian. 2013. “Theorizing and Analyzing Digital Labor: From Global Value Chains to Modes of Production.” The Political Economy of Communication 2, no. 1: 3–27.
- Kaplan, Martha. 1995. “Panopticon in Poona: An Essay on Foucault and Colonialism.” Cultural Anthropology 10: 85-98.
- Mitchell, Timothy. 1988. Colonizing Egypt. Berkley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press.
Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod
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Podcast: The Majlis (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 5: "How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs" with Dr. Elizabeth F. Thompson
Pub date: 2020-11-26
When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state. In October 1918, the Arabs' military leader, Prince Faisal, victoriously entered Damascus and proclaimed a constitutional government in an independent Greater Syria. But what happened next? On this week's episode, cohosts Dr. Adnan Husain and Dr. Ariel Salzmann, professor of Islamic and World history at Queen's University, are joined by Dr. Elizabeth F. Thompson to discuss her book "How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs," and explore this very question. Tune in to learn about this little known episode in Middle East history. You can purchase Dr. Thompson's book "How the West stole Democracy from the Arabs" with our friends from Novel Idea Bookstore. http://75.103.74.42/wp/
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Podcast: Policy Forum Pod (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The wellbeing economy: universal basic income with Guy Standing
Pub date: 2020-11-20
On the third episode in our special mini-series on the wellbeing economy, Arnagretta Hunter and Sharon Bessell are joined by Guy Standing, economist and author of The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class.
With more and more people being forced into insecure work, many are calling for a more lasting solution for precariousness. One often-suggested solution is a ‘universal basic income’, so what might be the benefits of this concept? What policy settings might be needed to make such a scheme successful? And how do political systems that are so focused on jobs and economic growth create space for change? On this episode - the third in our special mini-series on the wellbeing economy - renowned economist Dr Guy Standing joins Professor Sharon Bessell and Dr Arnagretta Hunter to discuss work, basic income, and how some of the economic structures developed in the last century may no longer be in our best interests.
If you or anyone you know needs help, you can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 [http://www.lifeline.org.au/] and Beyond Blue on 1300 22 46 36 [https://www.beyondblue.org.au/].
Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London and a founding member and honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network, a non-governmental organisation that promotes a basic income for all.
Sharon Bessell is Professor of Public Policy and Director of Gender Equity and Diversity at Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University (ANU).
Arnagretta Hunter is a cardiologist, physician, and a Senior Clinical Lecturer for ANU Medical School.
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Podcast: New Books in Environmental Studies (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Michael Mascarenhas, "Lessons in Environmental Justice: From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter and Idle No More" (Sage, 2020)
Pub date: 2020-11-23
Michael Mascarenhas's book Lessons in Environmental Justice: From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter and Idle No More (Sage, 2020) provides an entry point to the field by bringing together the works of individuals who are creating a new and vibrant wave of environmental justice scholarship. methodology, and activism. The 18 essays in this collection explore a wide range of controversies and debates, from the U.S. and other societies. An important theme throughout the book is how vulnerable and marginalized populations—the incarcerated, undocumented workers, rural populations, racial and ethnic minorities—bear a disproportionate share of environmental risks. Each reading concludes with a suggested assignment that helps student explore the topic independently and deepen their understanding of the issues raised.
Stentor Danielson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Geology, and the Environment at Slippery Rock University
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Podcast: Transforming Society Podcast
Episode: Space, place and gender-based violence
Pub date: 2020-11-23
In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks to Hannah Bows from Durham University and Bianca Fileborn from the University of Melbourne, guest editors of a special issue of the Journal of Gender-Based violence on Space, Place and Gender-Based Violence.
They discuss a range of topics around violence in public and private spaces, including the impact of lockdown on gender-based-violence, digital violence and how space can be transformative.
The special issue of the Journal of Gender-Based Violence is available here (https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/jgbv/2020/00000004/00000003), including the editorial from Hannah and Bridget which is free to read here (https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/tpp/jgbv/2020/00000004/00000003/art00001).
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Podcast: Southpaw (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 84 – Settler Colonialism, Frantz Fanon, and Decolonization, Part 2 w/ Mylan Tootoosis
Pub date: 2020-11-24
This is part two and the final part of our conversation with Mylan Tootoosis. Since we defined a lot of concepts and terms in episode one, part two explores those ideas and their applications. We dive into racism and white supremacy, how colonization erases and rewrites Native culture, double consciousness as a way to understand code-switching and white gaze, land-based education (education outside of the classroom), oral tradition, pressures of being nonwhite, and living with the Zapatistas.
When we think of the Left, we think of the Marxist to Anarchist binary. Some might generously even include liberals. However, with these two episodes, we'd like to illuminate how anti-imperialism/colonialism is a primary radical tradition with overlaps to the European radical traditions, rather than a subset. Capitalism is a problem, but the oppression of racism, imperialism, and colonialism are timeless.
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Books to Read
- The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon: https://amzn.to/2GL0sBA and free audio version: https://youtu.be/vDjRF17Ea3c
- Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon: https://amzn.to/36jZsgM
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann: https://amzn.to/2GTDUP8
- The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois: https://amzn.to/3kWCt0f
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Podcast: This is Democracy (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: This is Democracy – Episode 126: Participatory Democracy from the Sixties to Today
Pub date: 2020-11-24
Jeremi and Zachary, with guest Dr. Vaneesa Cook, discuss the Port Huron Statement, and the shifting ideals of democracy in America.
Zachary sets the scene with his poem, "Port Huron Revisited."
Vaneesa Cook received her PhD in US history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015. She is the author of Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left. Her articles on the history of social movements and religious thought have appeared in The Washington Post, Dissent magazine, and Religion & Politics, among others. She is currently the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency historian in residence for the UW-Madison Missing in Action Project.
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Podcast: State of Power (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: S1 Ep30: Extractivism and Resistance in North Africa: In conversation with Hamza Hamouchene
Pub date: 2020-11-11
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The speaker discusses his report titled: Extractivism and Resistance in North Africa, which documents several cases of natural resource extraction which take the form of brutal "accumulation by dispossession," degrading environments and ecosystems through the privatisation and commodification of land and water.
In this episode, Hamza Hamouchene discusses his report titled: Extractivism and Resistance in North Africa, which documents several cases of natural resource extraction which take the form of brutal "accumulation by dispossession," degrading environments and ecosystems through the privatisation and commodification of land and water. The report shows that these extractive activities have also been met with new waves of resistance and the entrance of new social actors onto the scene, demanding that wealth generated in resource projects be shared equitably in society.
Are these new actors mainly motivated by environmental concerns, or are they fundamentally anti-systemic, seeking to undermine the basis of the capitalist extractive economy? Are these passing episodes of resistance, or do they represent a new development in the historical trajectory of class struggle in North Africa?
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Podcast: Unregistered with Thaddeus Russell (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Unregistered 139: Justin Weiss
Pub date: 2020-11-09
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Justin Weiss became addicted to heroin and methamphetamine as a young teenager. Over the next decade he was made a ward of the state and incarcerated in juvenile detention facilities, adult prisons, and a series of brutal rehabilitation centers. He lived on the street and in trap houses. Now, as a recovering addict and a father, he wants to change everything about the system that treats people who need love like criminals.
Justin Weiss became addicted to heroin and methamphetamine as a young teenager. Over the next decade he was made a ward of the state and incarcerated in juvenile detention facilities, adult prisons, and a series of brutal “rehabilitation centers. He lived on the street and in trap houses. Now, as a recovering addict and a Continue reading Unregistered 139: Justin Weiss →
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Podcast: Talking About Organizations Podcast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 70: Epistemic Coloniality and Latin America -- Eduardo Ibarra-Colado (Part 2)
Pub date: 2020-11-17
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Worldwide, much of the theorizing and publishing of research has been greatly influenced by a dominant mode of thought originating in western Europe, the U.S., and Canada...The political economy of knowledge is such that scholars in the periphery have been wrapped into colonial dynamics which prevented the emergence of a distinctive body of knowledge reflective of the richness of their contexts.
We continue our conversation on Ibarra-Colado's critique by discussing his proposed research agenda and recommendations for imbuing organization studies in Latin America with a regional identity. How should scholars conduct rigorous research in the region free from the constraints of tranditional measure of 'relevance' imposed by the global community of scholarship?
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Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Dan Burk on AI, Art & Creativity
Pub date: 2020-11-06
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The speaker begins by explaining the origin of his article in a short story by Roger Zelazny, focusing on Hokusai's series of 36 paintings of Mount Fuji. He observes that focusing on how copyright works in practice can help us understand its relation to creative practice more effectively than thinking about it as an abstraction. And he reflects on how AI presents new challenges to received wisdom about how creativity works.
In this episode, Dan L. Burk, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the AI Global Public Policy Institute at the University of California Irvine School of Law, discusses his article "Thirty-Six Views of Copyright Authorship, By Jackson Pollock," which will be published in the Houston Law Review. Burk begins by explaining the origin of his article in a short story by Roger Zelazny, focusing on Hokusai's series of 36 paintings of Mount Fuji. He observes that focusing on how copyright works in practice can help us understand its relation to creative practice more effectively than thinking about it as an abstraction. And he reflects on how AI presents new challenges to received wisdom about how creativity works.
This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.
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Podcast: Race and Democracy (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 60 – Black Women in Theatre: A Conversation with Lisa B. Thompson
Pub date: 2020-11-11
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The guest's scholarship focuses on issues of identity, representation, and performance in contemporary African American culture, particularly in the world of theatre - the focus of the conversation.
Lisa B. Thompson is professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of three books, Beyond The Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class(University of Illinois Press, 2009), Single Black Female (Samuel French Inc., 2012), and Underground, Monroe, and The Mamalogues: Three […]
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Podcast: New Books in African Studies (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Ian Foster, "Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas" (UP of Mississippi, 2019)
Pub date: 2020-11-05
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Reporting on immigration, whether liberal or conservative, popular or scholarly, leaves out the history in which the Global North helped create outward migration in the Global South. From histories of racial capitalism, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and imperialism to contemporary neoliberal globalization and the resurgence of xenophobic nationalism, countries in the Global North continue to devastate and destabilize the Global South.
In Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas (UP of Mississippi, 2019) author Christopher Ian Foster analyzes increasingly urgent questions regarding crises of global immigration by redefining migration in terms of conscription and by studying contemporary literature. Reporting on immigration, whether liberal or conservative, popular or scholarly, leaves out the history in which the Global North helped create outward migration in the Global South. From histories of racial capitalism, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and imperialism to contemporary neoliberal globalization and the resurgence of xenophobic nationalism, countries in the Global North continue to devastate and destabilize the Global South. Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, in different ways, police the effects of their own global policies at their borders.
Foster provides a substantial study of a new body of contemporary African diasporic literature called migritude literature. Migritude indicates the work and ideas of a disparate yet distinct group of younger African authors born after independence in the 1960s. Most often migritude authors have lived both in and outside Africa and narrate the experiences of migration under the pressures of globalization. They also emphasize that immigration itself and stereotypes of the immigrant are entangled with the history of colonialism. Authors like Fatou Diome, Shailja Patel, Abdourahman Waberi, Cristina Ali Farah, and others confront critical issues of migrancy, diaspora, departure, return, racism, identity, gender, sexuality, and postcoloniality.
Christopher Ian Foster teaches in the International Studies program at Colorado State University.
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Podcast: The Political Theory Review (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Kris Sealey - Creolizing the Nation
Pub date: 2020-11-11
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Drawing on Caribbean, decolonial, and Latina feminist resources, our guest argues that creolization provides a rich theoretical ground for rethinking the nation and deploying its political and cultural apparatus to imagine more just, humane communities.
A conversation with Kris Sealey about her recent book "Creolizing the Nation" (Northwestern University Press).
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Podcast: Team Human (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Jessica Gordon Nembhard "Black Ideas Matter"
Pub date: 2020-10-28
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A discussion looking at how black communities have already developed the circular economic mechanisms that the rest of us need in order to dig out of the repressive weight of exploitation.
Playing for Team Human today, Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development at Jon Jay College and author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Economic Thought and Practice, Jessica Gordon Nembhard.
Jessica shows us how black communities already developed the circular economic mechanisms that the rest of us need in order to dig out of the repressive weight of exploitation.
In his opening monologue, Rushkoff discusses how the made-for-television format of United States presidential debates does more harm than good for democracy.
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Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Taleed El-Sabawi on Alternatives to Policing
Pub date: 2020-10-28
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The speaker explains the need to reform police response to behavioral health crises. She describes her study of the Portland, Oregon CAHOOTS program, which uses trained mental health professionals rather than police. She observes that it is safer and more effective than police response, which was essentially a default approach.
In this episode, Taleed El-Sabawi, Assistant Professor of Law at Elon University School of Law, discusses her article, "A Model for Defunding: An Evidence-Based Statute for Behavioral Health Crisis Response," which she co-authored with Jennifer J. Carroll. El-Sabawi begins by explaining the need to reform police response to behavioral health crises. She describes her study of the Portland, Oregon CAHOOTS program, which uses trained mental health professionals rather than police. She observes that it is safer and more effective than police response, which was essentially a default approach. And she provides suggestions about how to make a broader transition to a new approach. El-Sabawi is on Twitter at @el_sabawi.
This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.
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Podcast: Moral Maze (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Global Capitalism and the ‘Lost Generation’
Pub date: 2020-10-22
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
There are growing signs of a “lost Covid generation” of young people with no prospects and nothing to do. The cost is more than just a financial one: It destroys self-worth; it hurts family life; it shatters communities. So what should our moral obligation be to this generation?
By November, 1 million young people in the UK will be unemployed, according to a report out this week from the newly-launched Alliance for Full Employment. It has the backing of the former Prime Minister and Chancellor Gordon Brown, who warned of a “lost Covid generation” of young people with no prospects and nothing to do. The cost, he says, is more than just a financial one: “It destroys self-worth; it hurts family life; it shatters communities”. So what should our moral obligation be to this generation? A parallel has been drawn with the post-war period which saw the birth of the Welfare State. While there is widespread support for short-term financial help, there are those who caution against what they see as writing off an entire generation as ‘lost’, or institutionalising state dependency; they believe that the pandemic has merely accelerated inevitable economic change from which a brighter future can emerge. There are many young people who don’t share that optimism, and point to how the Covid crisis has exposed pre-existing health and wealth inequalities, which, for them, raises bigger questions about the morality of global capitalism. This is the moment, they argue, to change capitalism so that it focuses on what humans really want and need, and to actively promote the things we value beyond financial success and economic usefulness. Capitalism’s supporters, however, see our quality of life as being intrinsically bound up with markets and economic growth. For them the moral response to Covid is to kick start the consumer boom and allow people the freedom to make money unconstrained. Is it time for a radical challenge to unbridled capitalism for sake of the young, or is the ‘invisible hand’ still the best way to get a leg up? With Grace Blakeley, Ian Goldin, Daniel Pryor and Jamie Whyte.
Producer: Dan Tierney.
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: #98 Feminism, Interrupted w/ Lola Olufemi
Pub date: 2020-10-09
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A discussion about the history of black feminist organising, the problem with mainstream liberal feminism, and the generational divide in feminist circles over trans rights.
Lola Olufemi joins PTO to talk about her new book, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power. We chatted about the history of black feminist organising, the problem with mainstream liberal feminism, and the generational divide in feminist circles over trans rights.
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Podcast: New Books in Islamic Studies (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Margrit Pernau, "Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India: From Balance to Fervor" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Pub date: 2020-10-23
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The speaker examines the varied and hugely consequential expressions of and normative investments in emotions in modern South Asian Muslim thought.
In her stunning and conceptually adventurous new book Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India: From Balance to Fervor (Oxford University Press, 2020), Margrit Pernau examines the varied and hugely consequential expressions of and normative investments in emotions in modern South Asian Muslim thought. By considering a wide array of sources including male and female reformist literature, poetry, newspapers, journals, sermons, and much more, Pernau explores the question of how the career of Islam in colonial India saw a paradigmatic shift from emphasis on balance or ‘adl to fervor and ebullience (josh). The intensification rather than the retreat of emotion represents a major feature of South Muslim scholarly thought and culture in late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Pernau convincingly demonstrates. Through the specific case study of modern South Asian Islam, she also presents and argues for novel conceptualizations of modernity as a lived and analytical category, marked not by just the disciplining of the body and emotions, but one infused with emotional politics, passions, and communities. This riveting read will fascinate and interest not only Islam and South Asia specialists, but anyone interested in the interaction of modernity, emotion, religion, and politics.
SherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. His book Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) received the American Institute of Pakistan Studies 2020 Book Prize. His other academic publications are available here. He can be reached at sherali.tareen@fandm.edu. Listener feedback is most welcome.
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Podcast: The Weeds (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: What is critical race theory, anyway?
Pub date: 2020-10-13
Ian Haney Lopez joins Jane to discuss critical race theory: what it is and what it isn't.
Resources:
"Which Party Represents the Racial Future?" by Ross Douthat
Guest:
Ian Haney Lopez (@IanHaneyLopez), Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
Host:
Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior Politics Reporter, Vox
Credits:
Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer
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Podcast: Museum Confidential (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Native Women Artists
Pub date: 2020-10-09
On this episode we explore the groundbreaking exhibition, "Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists" with Philbrook Curator Christina Burke. The first of its kind and years in the making, this show honors the achievements of over 100 Native women artists from the United States and Canada spanning over 1,000 years. On view at Philbrook through January 3, 2021.
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Podcast: The History of Ancient Greece (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Special Guest Episode on Classics and White Supremacy w/Curtis Dozier
Pub date: 2020-10-05
In today's special guest episode, I am joined by Dr Curtis Dozier, Assistant Professor of Greek and Roman Studies at Vassar College. He is the producer and host of The Mirror of Antiquity, a podcast featuring classical scholars discussing the intersections of their research, the contemporary world, and their own lives. More importantly to our discussion, He is also the director of Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics, a website devoted to documenting and responding to appropriations of ancient Greece and Rome by hate groups online. We discuss some of the reasons how, as well as why, White Supremacists have taken to coopting Classical imagery to support their twisted world views.
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Podcast: EU Scream (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Online Violence: Stories from Bulgaria and Spain
Pub date: 2020-10-11
Bigots and far-right extremists are using online violence to try to silence feminists and LGBT people. It's a cowardly tactic since perpetrators don’t have to meet their targets. We hear stories from two Europeans on the receiving end: Irantzu Varela, a prominent feminist in Spain and host of the popular YouTube show El Tornillo; and Simeon Vasilev, the co-founder and chief executive of the GLAS Foundation, an organization promoting the acceptance of Gays and Lesbians in Bulgarian society. The scale of the problem is putting pressure on the EU to force platforms like Facebook and Twitter to do more to protect users. We get analysis from Asha Allen, a policy & campaigns officer at the European Women’s Lobby, and from Guillermo Beltrà, EU Digital Policy Lead at the Open Society European Policy Institute, which partnered with EU Scream in making this episode. Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, by Papalin is licensed under CC by 3.0. Wael Koudaih kindly contributed his track “Thawra” to this episode. You’ll find more of his music under the name Rayess Bek. Visit our website for episode art and for more EU Scream.
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Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Making the Gig Economy Work for Workers
Pub date: 2020-10-05
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A conversation about the gig economy and the Green New Deal, the impact of COVID-19 on gig workers, government regulation of ride-share services like Uber, and what it would look like for these apps to function as worker-owned cooperatives.
The “sharing economy,” which has been on the rise for the past decade, has become increasingly important during the COVID-19 pandemic, with American unemployment reaching its all-time high back in April and more workers struggling to make ends meet under ever-changing conditions.
Today on the show, Patty discusses the gig economy and how to make it equitable for the users and workers most exploited with professor Juliet Schor, author of After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back.
They cover topics like the gig economy and the Green New Deal, the impact of COVID-19 on gig workers, government regulation of ride-share services like Uber, and what it would look like for these apps to function as worker-owned cooperatives.
Juliet Schor is a professor of sociology at Boston College. She is the author of several books, including The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (Basic Books, 1992), The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need (Basic Books, 1998), and After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win it Back (University California Press, 2020).
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Podcast: The Europe Desk (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Black Lives Matter in Europe: History and Present Realities
Pub date: 2020-10-06
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The speakers discuss the history of race and racism in Europe, how these issues are discussed, particularly in the UK and Poland, and the role they are playing in our present.
Remi Adekoya, doctor of political economy at the University of York, joined us to discuss the history of race and racism in Europe, how these issues are discussed, particularly in the UK and Poland, and the role they are playing in our present.
The Europe Desk is a podcast from the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. It brings together leading experts working on the most pertinent issues facing Europe and transatlantic relations today.
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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: M. Ramirez and D. Peterson, "Ignored Racism: White Animus Toward Latinos (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Pub date: 2020-09-15
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Although Latinos are now the largest non-majority group in the United States, existing research on white attitudes toward Latinos has focused almost exclusively on attitudes toward immigration.
Although Latinos are now the largest non-majority group in the United States, existing research on white attitudes toward Latinos has focused almost exclusively on attitudes toward immigration. Ignored Racism: White Animus Toward Latinos (Cambridge University Press) changes that.
It argues that such accounts fundamentally underestimate the political power of whites' animus toward Latinos and thus miss how conflict extends well beyond immigration to issues such as voting rights, criminal punishment, policing, and which candidates to support.
Providing historical and cultural context and drawing on rich survey and experimental evidence, Mark Ramirez and David Peterson show that Latino racism-ethnicism (LRE) is a coherent belief system about Latinos that is conceptually and empirically distinct from other forms of out-group hostility, and from partisanship and ideology. Moreover, animus toward Latinos has become a powerful force in contemporary American politics, shaping white public opinion in elections and across a number of important issue areas - and resulting in policies that harm Latinos disproportionately.
Mark D. Ramirez is Associate Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University.
David A. M. Peterson is Professor and Whitaker-Lindgren Faculty Fellow in Political Science at Iowa State University.
David-James Gonzales (DJ) is Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He is a historian of migration, urbanization, and social movements in the U.S., and specializes in Latina/o/x politics and social movements. Follow him on Twitter @djgonzoPhD.
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Podcast: New Books in World Affairs (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Thea Riofrancos, "Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador" (Duke UP, 2020)
Pub date: 2020-09-14
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Should Ecuador try to leverage its mineral wealth and oil fields to promote social welfare and human development, or should the country abandon the extractive model altogether because of its human and environmental costs?
In 2007, Ecuador joined the Latin American “Pink Tide” by electing a left-wing president, Rafael Correa, who voiced opposition to US imperialism and advocated higher levels of redistribution and social investment. However, shortly after coming to power, Correa came into conflict with members of his own coalition over the future of resource extraction in the country. Should Ecuador try to leverage its mineral wealth and oil fields to promote social welfare and human development, or should the country abandon the extractive model altogether because of its human and environmental costs?
Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (Duke UP, 2020) examines the deeper questions for democratic theory at stake in conflicts over resource extraction. Who are “the people” that have the authority to make decisions about whether the benefits of mining projects exceed the costs, the mining communities or the nation as a whole? How much authority should democratic governments delegate to experts to make decisions with enormous economic and environmental consequences for large groups of people? Using ethnographic and archival methods, Thea Riofrancos delves into the contentious politics of resource extraction, and in the process provides a new perspective on the “resource curse” literature in political science and economics.
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Podcast: For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Celebrating the Rich Legacy of Black Culture, Art & Fashion in America, with Dr. Tanisha C. Ford
Pub date: 2020-09-22
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Through generations, Black women and men have passed down stories. They’ve cooked and sang and danced and played the most beautiful music. They’ve written and dreamed and created. Black culture has inspired us for hundreds of years as it has woven its way into the tapestry of American life.
Black culture is central to American culture—we simply don’t have America without having the Black experience, born of slavery and systemic racism and white supremacy, of physical and mental and emotional pain. But through generations, Black women and men have passed down stories given from their mothers and grandmothers. They’ve cooked and sang and danced and played the most beautiful music. They’ve wrote and dreamed and created. Black culture has inspired us for hundreds of years as it has woven its way into the tapestry of American life. And today, we’re going to talk about the richness of it all with Dr. Tanisha C. Ford, a cultural critic and professor of history at CUNY. Dr. Ford shares the artists and icons that shaped her world as a young Black woman growing up (everyone from her own mother and her leather jackets, to the music of Aretha Franklin and TLC, Roberta Flack and Mary J. Blige). Dr. Ford shows us how looking deeply at culture helps us see the threads of politics and society woven within. We learn why cultural appropriation is tied to systems of exploitation. We see why we need to shift our eyes away from history books that haven’t centered important Black pioneers like Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells, why everyone needs to read words from thinkers like James Baldwin and Audre Lorde. We see how Shirley Chisholm paved the way for Kamala Harris. We see the beauty and strength of artists like Nina Simone and Billie Holiday, and how they birth artists like Alicia Keys and Janelle Monáe. And through it all we see how new forms of technology have carried Black voices to new corners of the world for decades, planing the seeds for social media to blossom into a powerful force for the change that we’re seeing today.
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Podcast: Philosophy 247 (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The future of privacy
Pub date: 2020-09-14
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The guest argues that the harvesting of data is undermining liberal democracy.
Our phones, our fitbits, our social media use, our internet searches, are all providing information about us
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Podcast: Future Tense (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: One big game of Monopoly
Pub date: 2020-09-06
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Economists are predicting a further concentration of industries and sectors coming out of the COVID-19 crisis. What will that mean in the long-term?
Economists are predicting a further concentration of industries and sectors coming out of the COVID-19 crisis. What that will mean long-term remains uncertain. Meanwhile, in the tech sector, the giants of Silicon Valley are facing increased scrutiny. There are renewed calls in the US for tougher anti-trust regulation, but some doubt the effectiveness of such measures and argue instead for a wholesale rethinking of what we mean by competition.
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Podcast: Science Friction (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The rise of vaccine nationalism – should we be worried?
Pub date: 2020-09-06
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Should we be concerned about how the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine is being run? Wealthy countries...are scrambling to secure billions of doses of vaccines that don't even exist yet - or may not end up being the best candidate drugs. Governments are carrying significant commercial risk, and pharmaceutical companies are stitching up deals that may either prove very lucrative or go nowhere...
A vaccine arms race is on to get us out of this pandemic, but could we all lose out if we don’t do things differently?
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Podcast: LSE: Public lectures and events (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Can we afford the super-rich?
Pub date: 2020-09-01
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Will the current crisis result in higher taxes on income and wealth, as we saw after the Great Depression and WWII? Or will the top 1 per cent continue to pull away from the rest of society?
Contributor(s): Paul Krugman, Andy Summers, Dr Luna Glucksberg | The coronavirus crisis has devastated economies and brought existing inequalities into sharper focus. Will it result in higher taxes on income and wealth, as we saw after the Great Depression and WWII? Or will the top 1 per cent continue to pull away from the rest of society? Exploring the question, ‘Can we afford the super-rich?’, Joanna Bale talks to Paul Krugman, Andy Summers and Luna Glucksberg. Research links: Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future by Paul Krugman. Capital Gains and UK Inequality by Arun Advani and Andy Summers. A gendered ethnography of elites by Luna Glucksberg.
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Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Absurdities of Race
Pub date: 2020-08-18
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The speaker discusses his experience growing up in North London in the 1950s and 1960s, the influence of African-American culture on his understanding of racial ordering, the role of Turner's painting The Slave Ship in the history of the 'Black Atlantic', the shifting use of terms such as 'racism' and 'anti-blackness', and how the imminent threats of climate change might affect racial identity.
Adam Shatz talks to Paul Gilroy about his intellectual background and the recent anti-racist protests in the UK and US. They discuss Gilroy's experience growing up in North London in the 1950s and 1960s, the influence of African-American culture on his understanding of racial ordering, the role of Turner's painting The Slave Ship in the history of the 'Black Atlantic', the shifting use of terms such as 'racism' and 'anti-blackness', and how the imminent threats of climate change might affect racial identity.
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Podcast: Tempest Tossed (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Entry Denied: Hector Tobar On Borders of Race
Pub date: 2020-08-11
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A discussion about how "the Wall" and Latino immigration are shaping understanding of race and belonging in the United States.
Author and journalist Hector Tobar joins Alex Aleinikoff and Deb Amos to discuss the how "the Wall" and Latino immigration are shaping understanding of race and belonging in the United States.
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Podcast: Philosophical Disquisitions (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 80 - Bias, Algorithms and Criminal Justice
Pub date: 2020-08-13
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Lots of algorithmic tools are now used to support decision-making in the criminal justice system. Many of them are criticised for being biased. What should be done about this?
Lots of algorithmic tools are now used to support decision-making in the criminal justice system. Many of them are criticised for being biased. What should be done about this? In this episode, I talk to Chelsea Barabas about this very question. Chelsea is a PhD candidate at MIT, where she examines the spread of algorithmic decision making tools in the US criminal legal system. She works with interdisciplinary researchers, government officials and community organizers to unpack and transform mainstream narratives around criminal justice reform and data-driven decision making. She is currently a Technology Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Formerly, she was a research scientist for the AI Ethics and Governance Initiative at the MIT Media Lab. You can download the episode here or listen below. You can also subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify and other podcasting services (the RSS feed is here). Show notes Topics covered in this show include The history of algorithmic decision-making in criminal justiceModern AI tools in criminal justiceThe problem of biased decision-makingExamples of bias in practiceThe FAT (Fairness, Accountability and Transparency) approach to biasCan we de-bias algorithms using formal, technical rules?Can we de-bias algorithms through proper review and oversight?Should we be more critical of the data used to build these systems?Problems with pre-trial risk assessment measuresThe abolitionist perspective on criminal justice reform Relevant Links Chelsea's homepageChelsea on Twitter"Beyond Bias: Reimagining the terms "Ethical AI" in Criminal Law" by ChelseaVideo presentation of this paper"Studying up: reorienting the study of algorithmic fairness around issues of power." by Chelsea and orsKleinberg et al on the impossibility of fairnessKleinberg et al on using algorithms to detect discriminationThe Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; } / Add your own MailChimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block. We recommend moving this block and the preceding CSS link to the HEAD of your HTML file. / Subscribe to the newsletter
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Podcast: European Democracy Lab Podcast
Episode: Episode 2: Democracy and Social media
Pub date: 2020-07-20
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Social networks today are a major place for the political debate. But why do populist political parties dominate the digital public space?
Social networks today are a major place for the political debate. But why do populist political parties dominate the digital public space? For this second episode, the European democracy lab Podcast talks to Jon Worth, political blogger, journalist, editor, and expert on EU affairs on the Internet and to Sabrina Schmidt, press officer of Freie Wähler at the Bavarian Parliament.
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Podcast: Get WIRED (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Racist History of Surveillance Tech
Pub date: 2020-07-27
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
This episode traces how innovators' biases helped design slave ships, the panopticon, and facial recognition.
Facial recognition tech has been critiqued for being inaccurate for a while now. But its problems became pretty clear last month, when the New York Times reported a story about a Black man named Robert Williams who was identified incorrectly as a suspect in a crime. In this episode, WIRED Senior Staff Writer Sidney Fussell, who covers surveillance technology, traces racialized surveillance tech to its origins, as far back as slavery and early prison designs. He draws parallels between the intentional, all-seeing design of the panopticon and the omni-present cameras that surround us today — and explains how these kinds of systems become so flawed in the first place.
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Podcast: Europe's New Political Economy
Episode: EP13: Stephanie L. Mudge - Democracy Is Not A Marketplace
Pub date: 2020-07-31
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
How did centre-left parties evolve throughout the Twentieth Century? Why is the present era of centre-left neoliberalism so different from postwar Keynesianism or the socialist period prior to the 1930s?
How did centre-left parties evolve throughout the Twentieth Century? Why is the present era of centre-left neoliberalism so different from postwar Keynesianism or the socialist period prior to the 1930s? And what does it mean for voters who expect social democratic parties to deliver social justice and fight economic inequality? To answer these questions, Aidan Regan talks with University of California, Davis professor Stephanie L. Mudge about her 2018 book, Leftism Reinvented.
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Podcast: New Books Network
Episode: Charlton D. McIlwain, "Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from AfroNet to Black Lives Matter" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Pub date: 2020-08-03
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The speaker names the often ignored or neglected African American pioneers of computer and Internet technology. At the same time, he explores how technological innovations are deployed on Black and other marginalized communities. In connecting these threads, McIlwain demonstrates the centrality of African Americans to both the history and future of the Internet.
In Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from AfroNet to Black Lives Matter (Oxford Univeristy Press), Charlton McIlwain, Vice Provost for Faculty Engagement and Development and professor of media, culture, and communication at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, examines the intersection of racial justice movements, technology, and culture.
McIlwain names the often ignored or neglected African American pioneers of computer and Internet technology. At the same time, he explores how technological innovations are deployed on Black and other marginalized communities. In connecting these threads, McIlwain demonstrates the centrality of African Americans to both the history and future of the Internet.
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Podcast: Faculty Feature: Population & Demography
Episode: The Political Economy of Illegal Migration
Pub date: 2020-08-08
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The speaker presents his 30 years of research on migration from Mexico into the U.S and the history of Mexican migrant and guest worker arrangements in the U.S., deportation campaigns, illegal migration, border patrol legislation...
Douglas S. Massey *78, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, presents his 30 years of research on migration from Mexico into the U.S and the history of Mexican migrant and guest worker arrangements in the U.S., deportation campaigns, illegal migration, border patrol legislation, etc. Presented as part of Alumni Day 2011.
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Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: REOPENING EUROPE - Reopening Borders?
Pub date: 2020-07-29
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
In June 2020, as Europe reopened after lockdown, the speakers crossed ten national borders and listened to diverse citizens, from passers-by to politicians, business people to artists, recording, documenting, and publishing their stories.
In June 2020, as Europe reopened after lockdown, we crossed ten national borders. We listened to diverse citizens, from passers-by to politicians, business people to artists, recording, documenting, and publishing stories. In this second episode of Reopening Europe, we unpack some reflections about borders and the pandemic which we have collected along our journey. Giuseppe Porcaro is joined in by Martina Tazzioli, Lecturer in Politics and Technology at Goldsmith University, London. Her work is characterised by an interdisciplinary approach to political theory, migration and border studies and political geography. Recently, she has investigated the technologisation of the borders and how technologies constitute a battlefield for migrants, states and non-state actors.
They hear contributions from-
- Felies Zomerplaag, a high school student in Meerssen, a few kilometres from the Belgian/Dutch Border;
- Djuna Bernard, Member of the Luxembourgish Parliament;
- Stephan Halbach, the CEO and owner of Klenke, a printing workshop in Dortmund, Germany;
- Klemen Miklavič, mayor of Nova Gorica, on the Slovene/Italian border;
- Jean Baptiste Couzin, the head of cross-border cooperation, in the Grand-est Region;
- Michael Leigh, senior fellow Bruegel;
- Ugo Rossi, Associate professorof Economic and Political Geography, Gran Sasso Science Institute;
- Jeannette Neumann, Bloomberg correspondent, Madrid
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Podcast: The Brookings Cafeteria (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How cultural factors shape children's social and economic outcomes
Pub date: 2020-07-24
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
This episode focuses on how cultural factors for children —including religion, parenting styles, role models, mentors and the media—shape their economic outcomes.
On this episode, Ron Haskins and Melissa Kearney, co-editors of the Future of Children Journal, discuss the journal’s new edition that focuses how cultural factors—including religion, parenting styles, role models, mentors and the media—shape economic outcomes. Haskins is a senior fellow emeritus in Economic Studies at Brookings and Kearney is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, as well as a Brookings nonresident senior fellow. Also on this episode, David Wessel, senior fellow and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, has another economic update in which he shares his concerns about the nation’s economic outlook. You can follow the Brookings Podcast Network on twitter @policypodcasts to get information about and links to all our shows including Dollar and Sense: The Brookings Trade Podcast, The Current, and our events podcast. The Brookings Cafeteria is part of the Brookings Podcast Network.
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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Global South Holds a Better Future of Tech w/ Juan Ortiz Freuler
Pub date: 2020-07-16
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A discussion about the recent global negotiations on the taxation of multinational corporations, how Africa is demanding the digital labor of its citizens be accounted for, how these tensions threaten to fragment the web, and why the Global South may hold a better future of technology...
Paris Marx is joined by Juan Ortiz Freuler to discuss the recent global negotiations on the taxation of multinational corporations, how Africa is demanding the digital labor of its citizens be accounted for, how these tensions threaten to fragment the web, and why the Global South may hold a better future of technology that transcends the capitalist, centralized, and individualist platforms which currently dominate.
Juan Ortiz Freuler is an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a member of the Tierra Común network of researchers. He recently made the case for a digital non-aligned movement. Follow Juan on Twitter as @juanof9.
Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.
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Podcast: Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How the radical right weaponized ideology (with Nancy MacLean)
Pub date: 2020-07-21
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The speaker unpacks the meteoric rise in popularity of the radical right’s ideas, and offers a way forward for progressives, based on lessons from successful social movements throughout American history.
If it seems to you like the ultimate goal of the most extreme conservatives is to undermine democracy and cripple democratic institutions—well, according to historian Nancy MacLean, you’re right. This week, MacLean unpacks the meteoric rise in popularity of the radical right’s ideas, and offers a way forward for progressives, based on lessons from successful social movements throughout American history.
Nancy MacLean is an award-winning scholar of the twentieth-century U.S. and the William H. Chafe Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University. Her book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, was a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award, and The Nation magazine named it the “Most Valuable Book” of the year.
Twitter: @NancyMacLean5
Democracy in Chains: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781101980965
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Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics
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Podcast: SAGE Political Science & International Relations (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Social Movements in Latin America: The Progressive Governments and Beyond
Pub date: 2020-07-16
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Social movements in Latin America have always attracted a lot of attention and no small amount of passion. A key feature of the political and social landscape of the region, they defy existing theoretical frameworks because of the diversity and scope of their activities and appeal.
In this episode of the Latin American Perspectives podcast, Alexander Scott, Outreach Coordinator for Latin American Perspectives, Inc., discusses the July 2020 issue, "Social Movements in Latin America: The Progressive Governments and Beyond Part 1" with Guest Editor Ronaldo Munck.
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Podcast: Between the Lines (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Forced Displacement: Why Rights Matter - Lyla Mehta and Katarzyna Grabska
Pub date: 2020-07-07
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The speakers discuss their book and reflect on their research and experiences from 2005 in Egypt and India, and how realising rights and amplifying voices of displaced people, matters even more today.
Uprootedness, exile and forced displacement, be it due to conflict, natural disasters or even so-called 'development', affects the lives of millions of people across the globe. The numbers of people affected are increasing, as shocks and crises force people to flee their homes and find safe places to live.
In this episode of Between the Lines IDS researcher, Jaideep Gupte speaks with Lyla Mehta from IDS and Katarzyna Grabska from PRIO, Oslo and Institute of Ethnology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, about their co-edited book ‘Forced Displacement: Why Rights Matter’ - they reflect on their research and experiences from 2005 in Egypt and India, and how realising rights and amplifying voices of displaced people, matters even more today.
Book: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312067397_Forced_displacement_Why_rights_matter
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Podcast: Ethics of AI in Context
Episode: Regina Rini, Democracy and Social Media are Incompatible: Now What?
Pub date: 2020-06-20
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It takes time for the norms of democratic debate to adjust to new technologies – in some cases, too much time. In parts of Europe in the 1920s and 30s, change brought on by the radio outran democratic adaptation. The speaker argues that we are now at a similar inflection point with social media.
It takes time for the norms of democratic debate to adjust to new technologies – in some cases, too much time. In parts of Europe in the 1920s and 30s, change brought on by the new technology of radio outran democratic adaptation. Rini will argue that we are now at a similar inflection point with social media. Healthy democratic debate requires that we view fellow citizens as typically sincere and thoughtful when they express disagreement. Rini identifies several features of social media discourse that have rapidly undermined this presumption and weakened the authority of democratic norms. What can be done about these shifts? Rini argues that state and consumer solutions are unlikely to work. Our best hope is for social media platforms to create infrastructure enabling citizens to detect insincerity and carelessness in discourse.
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Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: John Bergmayer on Regulating App Stores
Pub date: 2020-06-24
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A discussion on how app stores work, how they can benefit consumers, and how they can cause consumer harm. The speaker discusses the regulatory problems specific to app stores, and how they might be addressed most effectively.
In this episode, John Bergmayer, Legal Director at Public Knowledge, discusses his new white paper, "Tending the Garden: How to Ensure That App Stores Put Users First." Bergmayer begins by explaining how app stores work, how they can benefit consumers, and how they can cause consumer harm. He discusses the regulatory problems specific to app stores, and how they might be addressed most effectively. And he explains why the regulatory changes he proposes would benefit the entire market. Bergmayer is on Twitter at @bergmayer.
This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.
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Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Western Europe's Age of Democracy
Pub date: 2020-06-28
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
What provoked democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? How did this stable, durable, and remarkably uniform model of parliamentary democracy change society? And why did this democratic ascendancy drop away in the latter decades of the twentieth century?
In the second half of the twentieth century, western Europe was shaped by a revolutionary political force: democracy. Or at least that's what Professor Martin Conway has argued in his major new history. On this podcast, Martin - a teacher from my university days - interrogated the years following the Second World War. What provoked democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? How did this stable, durable, and remarkably uniform model of parliamentary democracy change society? And why did this democratic ascendancy drop away in the latter decades of the twentieth century?
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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Fiori Berhane on the Mediterranean Sea as A Nowhere Space
Pub date: 2020-06-21
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A discussion on refugee's political activism as it pertains to local histories, diaspora, and the migration crisis...How do refugees make political claims to belonging under conditions of protracted political and social crisis?
We talk with Fiori Berhane about migration. Fiori Berhane is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Brown University. Berhane's research focuses on refugee's political activism as it pertains to local histories, diaspora and the migration crisis. Broadly, it asks how do refugees make political claims to belonging under conditions of protracted political and social crisis; this research is based on the experiences of third wave Eritrean diaspora in relation to the first wave diaspora in Bologna, Italy.
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Podcast: Digital Planet (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Digital exclusion in Brazil
Pub date: 2020-06-02
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The number of COVID-19 cases continues to increase in Brazil, but access to digital services is getting harder for many of the country’s poorest residents. Emergency aid and state health advice about the virus are only available online, leaving those without internet access with no help at all.
The number of COVID-19 cases continues to increase in Brazil, but access to digital services is getting harder for many of the country’s poorest residents. Emergency aid and state health advice about the virus are only available online, leaving those without internet access with no help at all. Digital Planet’s Angelica Mari explains the situation in Brazil’s favelas and talks about a number of community projects trying to bridge the technology gap.
Mixed reality in Covid-19 wards Over recent months, some hospitals in London have radically reduced the amount of healthcare workers coming into contact with Covid-19. Thanks to mixed reality headsets, only one doctor needs to be at the patient’s bedside while the rest of the medical team sees the same field of view from a different location. Gareth speaks to Dr. James Kinross and Dr. Guy Martin from Imperial College London about how this tech has helped improve working conditions.
3D printing face masks Shortages of face masks are a common issue around the globe. Could 3D printing be the solution? A firm in Chile has developed an open source design using the natural antimicrobial properties of copper. Meanwhile, a shoe factory in the United States has switched to printing masks for healthcare workers. Digital Planet’s Jane Chambers reports.
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Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Revisiting The End of Policing with Alex S. Vitale
Pub date: 2020-06-11
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A debate about the militarization of the police, cops in schools and the school-to-prison pipeline, the local work of organizations like Freedom, Inc., the value of restorative justice, and what it might actually look like to defund the police.
Today, we welcome back to the show professor Alex S. Vitale, author of the book The End of Policing, which has become an indispensable text for the rising movement to defund the police.
For this interview, he and Allen discuss the militarization of the police, cops in schools and the school-to-prison pipeline, the local work of organizations like Freedom, Inc., the value of restorative justice, how to make places safer without relying on police presence, and what it might actually look like to defund the police.
Alex S. Vitale is professor of sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. He is the author of The End of Policing (Verso, 2017), which is currently available as a free ebook on Verso’s website.
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Podcast: The Borders of Equality Podcast
Episode: #6 Autocrats, democrats and immigration policy
Pub date: 2020-06-08
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Debating the differences between democracies and autocracies in how they regulate immigration and why openness or closure don't vary that much by regime type.
In this episode, we talk about the differences between democracies and autocracies in how they regulate immigration. We could assume that democracies and autocracies have different ways to regulate immigration: democratic governments should support more open immigration policies, while autocrats, in contrast, should push for more closed immigration policies. In her talk, Katharina Natter shows that, in fact, democracies and autocracies have pretty similar immigration policies. Openness or closure don't vary that much by regime type, at least not systematically. This doesn’t mean that the political process democracies and autocracies are similar. Katharina Natter is a political scientist at Leiden University. Her talk was recorded as part of the Leiden interdisciplinary migration seminars.
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Podcast: The Interchange (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A ‘Just Transition’ for Fossil Fuel Workers
Pub date: 2020-06-05
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
We use the term “energy transition to define markets, technology, business models. But what about people?The transition away from fossil fuels isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s a must-have. The hardest part isn’t building the clean resources. It’s shutting down the dirty stuff at a pace the science demands. And that means disrupting entire classes of employment and communities that depend on fossil fuel extraction...
We use the term “energy transition to define markets, technology, business models. But what about people?
The transition away from fossil fuels isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s a must-have. The hardest part isn’t building the clean resources. It’s shutting down the dirty stuff at a pace the science demands.
And that means disrupting entire classes of employment and communities that depend on fossil fuel extraction -- in other words, helping people find work somewhere else.
The often-used phrase is the “just transition.
We have a guest who’s been researching and writing about this subject for years: Sandeep Pai.
Sandeep the author of “Total Transition: the Human Side of the Renewable Energy Revolution. He’s a former journalist and a current PhD student and public scholar at the Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia.
We’ll talk with Sandeep about his analysis of the strategies for transitioning fossil fuel workers in economies around the world.
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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: #88 Triple shock in the global south - oil, debt, and Covid-19 w/ Adam Hanieh
Pub date: 2020-05-28
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A talk about the challenges Covid-19 and the debt crisis pose to countries in the global south, how western economic and military intervention has undermined state capacity needed to combat the pandemic, and finally the argument that the crisis may paradoxically be in certain respects beneficial for the oil majors and the richest oil producing countries - in spite of last month's collapse in oil prices.
Adam Hanieh joins me to talk about the challenges Covid-19 and the debt crisis pose to countries in the global south, how western economic and military intervention has undermined state capacity needed to combat the pandemic, and finally we discussed Adam's argument that the crisis may paradoxically be in certain respects beneficial for the oil majors and the richest oil producing countries - in spite of last month's collapse in oil prices.
Our conversation was prompted by two articles by Adam for the Verso books blog:
This is a Global Pandemic – Let’s Treat it as Such https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4623-this-is-a-global-pandemic-let-s-treat-it-as-such
When Oil Markets Go Viral https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4651-when-oil-markets-go-viral
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Podcast: Start the Week (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Classics and class
Pub date: 2020-05-25
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A discussion about the working class experience of classical culture from the Bill of Rights in 1689 to the outbreak of World War II. This history challenges assumptions about the elitism surrounding the study of ancient Greeks and Romans with the hope that it will expand the debate around the future of classical education for all.
The classics have never been solely the preserve of the British intellectual elite, according to the classicist Edith Hall. In A People’s History of Classics, Hall and her co-writer Henry Stead examine the working class experience of classical culture from the Bill of Rights in 1689 to the outbreak of World War II. This history challenges assumptions about the elitism surrounding the study of ancient Greeks and Romans, and Hall hopes it will expand the debate around the future of classical education for all.
An understanding of the classics could also help people reinvigorate cynicism: from the jaded negativity of today, back to its initial idea of fearless speech. In his latest book, Ansgar Allen, returns to the Greek Cynics of the 4th century BCE, a small band of eccentrics who practised an improvised philosophy that challenged all social norms and scandalised their contemporaries. In the centuries that followed this exacting philosophy was hugely watered down. Today’s cynics, who lack social and political convictions, would be barely recognisable to their bold and shameless forefathers.
Producer: Katy Hickman
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Podcast: The Book Review (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Immigration Reform, Past and Present
Pub date: 2020-05-22
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A discussion of the speaker's recent book 'One Mighty and Irresistible Tide' which shows how Americans have strived and struggled to live up to the ideal of a home for the 'huddled masses,' as promised in Emma Lazarus’s famous poem.
Jia Lynn Yang talks about “One Mighty and Irresistible Tide, and Judith Newman talks about books that help simplify life.
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Podcast: Factual America (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: I Am Not Your Negro: Racism in the US
Pub date: 2020-05-12
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By engaging with the film 'I Am Not Your Negro' based on the work of James Baldwin, this episode examines the US’s increasingly racially polarised politics. It draws parallels between contemporary America and the end of the post-Civil War Reconstruction and asks whether the current phase of the twilight of the ‘second reconstruction’ will be soon followed by the third one.
Narrated by Samuel L Jackson, I Am Not Your Negro (2016) uses James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript to tell the horrific history of racism in America. Following the lives of three slain civil rights leaders, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr, Baldwin’s words still resonate today.
Since the beginning, race has defined America and racism permeates its politics to this day. To discuss the issue, Dr Richard Johnson, lecturer in US politics and international relations at Lancaster University, joins the podcast.
Richard’s work examines the US’s increasingly racially polarised politics. He draws parallels between contemporary America and the end of the post-Civil War Reconstruction. Richard believes we are living in the twilight of the ‘second reconstruction’ – an era that began with the civil rights movement. Are there signs that a ‘third reconstruction’ is dawning?
Despite the election of Barack Obama in 2008 – the US’s first black president – the 2010s were a decade of increasing racial polarisation. But with white, working class voters searching for an anti-establishment voice, could there be a glimmer of hope?
“There are racial dimensions to all issues. – Dr. Richard Johnson
Time Stamps:00:54 – Today’s topic: racism in the US. 01:21 – Introducing our guest Dr. Richard Johnson. 03:17 – Today’s film: I Am Not Your Negro (2016). 03:55 – Why Richard chose this film. 05:43 – A brief synopsis of the film. 09:55 – The context and history of American racism. 15:15 – The Reconstruction and democracy in the South post-Civil War. 19:16 – Our first clip: Dick Cavett’s interview with James Baldwin. 21:36 – The ‘second reconstruction’ and the civil rights movement. 26:12 – The racial polarisation of political debates and policy decisions. 28:02 – Our second clip: James Baldwin looking at the real problem of racism in America. 31:40 – The future of race in American politics. 37:22 – Working class alienation and the potential for de-racialisation. 40:16 – Our last clip: James Baldwin’s advice that we need passion not numbers.
Resources: I Am Not Your Negro (2016) The End of the Second Reconstruction: Obama, Trump and the Crisis of Civil Rights Alamo Pictures
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Podcast: Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg (by Food Tank) (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 145. Stephen Ritz on urban farming and food access in the Bronx
Pub date: 2020-05-08
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A talk about food security in New York City and how Green Bronx Machine is moving forward with food access efforts.
Today on “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg, Dani interviews Stephen Ritz, South Bronx Educator and Founder of Green Bronx Machine. They discuss food security in New York City and how his organization is moving forward with food access efforts.
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Podcast: Podcast – Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Oxford Energy Podcast – Decarbonisation Pathways for Oil and Gas
Pub date: 2020-05-14
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Looking at the business environment today, in a world where cost cutting is rife, and many companies are in “hibernation mode, the key question is how can companies afford investment in decarbonization and exactly which solutions could be most efficient?
Decarbonisation of oil and gas – is it still a relevant topic when the business environment is changing so quickly, oil and gas companies are focusing on how to survive yet another extreme price cycle and governments all over the world grapple with one of the most severe economic crises? Nevertheless, the issue of transition and decarbonisation will remain dominant, driven by environmental concerns, changes in public perceptions, investors’ attitudes, energy and climate policy, and the development of new technologies. But looking at the business environment today, in a world where cost cutting is rife, and many companies are in “hibernation mode, the key question is how can companies afford investment in decarbonization and exactly which solutions could be most efficient?
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Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Racism and Sexism in AI Technology? Navigating Systems of Power with Sarah Myers West
Pub date: 2020-04-29
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An episode focusing on the speaker's research on the critical study of technology and culture, with an emphasis on historical and ethnographic methods. The speaker is currently working on a project that addresses the politics of diversity and inclusion in technological communities by exploring the nexus of artificial intelligence, gender, and intersectionality.
Can you separate technology from power? Is technology ever objective? How do we build technology that meets the needs of everyone? To answer these questions and more The Radical AI Podcast welcomes Dr. Sarah Myers West to the show.
Dr. Sarah Myers West is a postdoctoral researcher at the AI Now Institute. Her research centers on the critical study of technology and culture, with an emphasis on historical and ethnographic methods.
Dr. West is currently working on a project that addresses the politics of diversity and inclusion in technological communities by exploring the nexus of artificial intelligence, gender, and intersectionality. She received her doctoral degree from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California in 2018, where her dissertation examined the cultural history and politics of encryption technologies from the 1960s to the present day.
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Podcast: America Dissected (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Homelessness, Incarceration, and COVID19
Pub date: 2020-04-28
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A discussion on the recent studies on people infected with coronavirus, and which people are most at risk for the disease, as well as a discussion on mental illness and incarceration during this epidemic.
Abdul looks at recent studies on people infected with coronavirus, and then talks about people who are among those most at risk for the disease. He'll talk with Dr. Ashwin Vasan, President of Fountain House, a non-profit supporting people suffering severe mental illness, and Professor John Pfaff who studies mass incarceration to understand how this pandemic affects society’s most vulnerable--and what needs to be done to protect them.
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Podcast: Lowy Institute (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: COVIDcast: COVID-19 and the International Economy
Pub date: 2020-04-16
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This episode examines one of the key questions about the economic impact of COVID-19 ̶ whether the shock will be temporary or longer-lasting. It explains why he believes the economic fall-out will permanently change the global economy, at least in some respects.
In this episode, Roland Rajah sits down with the Institute's Director of Research, Alex Oliver, to discuss the impact of the coronavirus on the global economy. Roland is Director of the International Economy Program and the Lowy’s lead international economist.
This episode examines one of the key questions about the economic impact of COVID-19 ̶ whether the shock will be temporary or longer-lasting. Roland explains why he believes the economic fall-out will permanently change the global economy, at least in some respects.
COVIDcast is a Lowy Institute pop-up podcast for anyone interested in understanding the effect of coronavirus on global politics. Each week for the next few weeks, Lowy Institute experts will sit down to discuss the implications of coronavirus for the world.
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Podcast: Big Brains (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: How Coronavirus Is Exposing Our Racial Disparities, with Monica Peek
Pub date: 2020-04-21
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One of the most tragic aspects of the coronavirus outbreak has been the disproportionate effect COVID-19 has had on communities of color in cities around the country. This episode discusses research showinging that many diseases and chronic conditions disproportionately affect communities of color. Coronavirus is no exception.
One of the most tragic aspects of the coronavirus outbreak has been the disproportionate effect COVID-19 has had on communities of color in cities around the country.
Assoc. Prof. Monica Peek of the University of Chicago Medicine has dedicated her practice and career to studying racial health disparities. Her research, and the work of many others, has shown that many diseases and chronic conditions disproportionately affect communities of color. Coronavirus is no exception.
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Podcast: Carnegie Council Podcasts (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Facial Recognition, the Future of Privacy, & COVID-19, with Brenda Leong
Pub date: 2020-04-14
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A discussion about the commercial uses of facial recognition technology, concerns about privacy and bias, how it's being utilized during the COVID-19 pandemic, and some tough questions about government surveillance. What's the future of facial recognition? How can we use this technology ethically?
In this wide-ranging talk, Future of Privacy Forum's Brenda Leong discusses the commercial uses of facial recognition technology, concerns about privacy and bias, how it's being utilized during the COVID-19 pandemic, and some tough questions about government surveillance. What's the future of facial recognition? How can we use this technology ethically?
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Podcast: Deep Dish on Global Affairs (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Demise of Democracy in Hungary — April 8, 2020
Pub date: 2020-04-08
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While Europe has been struggling to contain COVID-19, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has used his country’s emergency response to reduce checks on his power and make himself a de facto dictator. This podcasts discusses why the failure of one democracy should matter to every democracy and examines whether Hungary could have ripple effects on other political systems in Europe and beyond.
While Europe has been struggling to contain COVID-19, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has used his country’s emergency response to reduce checks on his power and make himself a de facto dictator. Princeton University’s Kim Scheppele joins Deep Dish to explain why the failure of one democracy should matter to every democracy and examine whether Hungary could have ripple effects on other political systems in Europe and beyond.
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Podcast: Fresh Air (LS 82 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The 'Big Business' Of Inequality
Pub date: 2020-04-13
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Special privileges for the super-rich are dividing America and causing less sympathy, less empathy and a sort of a harder-edge society. The episode talks about private helicopter rides to the airport, concierge doctors, and elite college counseling — and their impact on our society.
Nelson Schwartz, author of 'The Velvet Rope Economy,' says special privileges for the super-rich are dividing America: "The result is less sympathy, less empathy and a sort of a harder-edge society." Schwartz talks about private helicopter rides to the airport, concierge doctors, and elite college counseling — and their impact on our society. Schwartz writes about economics for the 'New York Times.'
Also, book critic Maureen Corrigan recommends a few titles for troubled times: 'The Women in Black,' 'The Colossus of New York,' 'Last Night at the Lobster,' 'Are You An Echo?' and 'Everything Is Under Control.'
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Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Anna Bull, "Class, Control, and Classical Music" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Pub date: 2020-04-07
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What is the relationship between inequality and classical music? The episode explores the intersections of class, race, and gender to explain the exclusive, and excluding, nature of classical music in contemporary society.
What is the relationship between inequality and classical music? In Class, Control, and Classical Music (Oxford University Press, 2019), Anna Bull, a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth and co-director of the 1752 Group, explores the intersections of class, race, and gender to explain the exclusive, and excluding, nature of classical music in contemporary society. The book is based on a detailed study of young people’s engagement with classical music, along with a broader understanding of music education and the sociology of culture. The book is also deeply engaged with the question of what, if anything, classical can do to transform, rather than reproduce, social inequalities. It is essential reading across both music and sociology, as well as for anyone interested in contemporary culture and social inequality.
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Podcast: Time Sensitive Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Julia Watson on the Power of Indigenous Technologies to Transform Our Planet
Pub date: 2020-03-25
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Discussion with a leading researcher of indigenous communities...studying the vast implications of their centuries-old (in certain cases, millennia-old) innovations. In the face of today’s climate crisis, and based on years of research in 18 countries around the globe, the book discussed is guiding a growing design movement that’s focused on harnessing nature-based technologies and better understanding how we can all live in closer harmony with the earth.
Julia Watson is really into TEK. Not necessarily the Silicon Valley variety of tech, but rather traditional ecological knowledge. An anthropologist, environmentalist, activist, and landscape designer, Watson has become a leading researcher of indigenous communities, closely studying the vast implications of their centuries-old (in certain cases, millennia-old) innovations. In the face of today’s climate crisis, Watson’s new book, Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism (Taschen), a culmination of years of research in 18 countries around the globe, is poised to become something of a bible for a growing design movement that’s focused on harnessing nature-based technologies and better understanding how we can all live in closer harmony with the earth.
Born in Australia, Watson studied landscape architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, where she focused on eco-technologies and preservation of sacred spaces. Currently, she teaches urban design at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Planning and Preservation, as well as at Harvard, and runs her own design studio that’s oriented toward the practice of “rewilding.
On this episode of Time Sensitive, Watson speaks with Andrew about her deep research into various indigenous communities, the symbiotic relationship between culture and nature, her perspective on the recent Australian bushfires, and more.
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Podcast: Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ashley Dawson
Pub date: 2019-10-02
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A discussion about extreme cities, or urban densities like New York City, where social inequalities and uneven effects of colonial violence and capitalist development are increasingly exacerbated by extreme weather and environmental degradation. The speaker calls on the power of storytelling and the need to collectively imagine different futures.
ASHLEY DAWSON talks about "extreme", or urban densities like New York City, where social inequalities and uneven effects of colonial violence and capitalist development are increasingly exacerbated by extreme weather and environmental degradation. He calls on the power of storytelling to radically imagine different futures.
Dawson works across the fields of postcolonial studies, environmental humanities, and climate justice. He is a professor of English at CUNY Graduate Center and College of Staten Island, and leads a Climate Action Lab.
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Podcast: MIT Energy Initiative (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 21. Energy technology evolution - Gökşin Kavlak and Jessika Trancik, MIT
Pub date: 2020-04-02
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A discussion about how technology evolves and improves...The costs of photovoltaics (PV) have come down by 99% over the last 40 years. The work discussed here develops a method that brings a structure to answering the question about why this cost reduction happened in PV and what that means more broadly.
Gökşin Kavlak and Jessika Trancik from the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society on their work to explain and forecast technology evolution. They also delve into a recent paper on photovoltaics, a type of solar energy technology.
Show notes and transcript:
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Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Pamela Foohey on Fintech and Debt Inequality
Pub date: 2020-03-13
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
This episode explains how consumer credit products worsen the disparate economy. Focusing on home, student and short-term loans, the interviewee describes how a lack of choice and opportunity has facilitated a flow of wealth from low-income groups to high-income groups.
In this episode, Pamela Foohey, Associate Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, discusses her article "Reducing The Wealth Gap Through Fintech 'Advances' in Consumer Banking and Lending," co-authored with Nathalie Martin, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Frederick M. Hart Chair in Consumer and Clinical Law at the University of New Mexico School of Law. The article is forthcoming in the University of Illinois Law Review. Foohey begins by discussing inequalities in income, wealth, and debt, and how those inequalities affect minority groups in disparate ways. She discusses how consumer credit products worsen the disparate economy, particularly in reference to minority groups' access to banking and lending services. Focusing on home, student, and short-term loans, she describes how a lack of choice and opportunity has facilitated a flow of wealth from low-income groups to high-income groups.
Foohey details how early wage access and other fintech innovations could alleviate or worsen inequality for ethnic and racial minorities, exploring how current fintech products interact with current inequities. She then details policy solutions to address wealth and debt gaps, highlighting four tenets for confronting debt inequality. She reviews political proposals from presidential candidates and members of congress, and explores the potential for a postal banking system. Foohey concludes by providing her insights and recommendations for the public, policymakers, and governments. Foohey is on Twitter at @PamelaFoohey.
This episode was hosted by Luce Nguyen. Nguyen is on Twitter at @NguyenLuce.
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Podcast: Future Tense (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Technology-intensive campaigning and computational propaganda
Pub date: 2020-03-14
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Political campaigning is fast changing in the digital era.Elections are now being contested with data and algorithms. Parties see it as a great opportunity. Others see it as a threat to democracy.And the changes are now playing out in real time in the United States.
Political campaigning is fast changing in the digital era.
Elections are now being contested with data and algorithms.
Parties see it as a great opportunity. Others see it as a threat to democracy.
And the changes are now playing out in real time in the United States.
Barack Obama was often referred to as the first Internet president, but Donald Trump is fast becoming the king of social media.
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Podcast: UCD Humanities Institute Podcast
Episode: 'Climate change, Inequality and Sustainable Wellbeing' by Ian Gough.
Pub date: 2020-03-12
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
A lecture on the multi-dimensional challenges posed by global change between countries and within countries. It covers the interconnections between the physical nature of climate change, the theoretical framework of basic human needs and the nature of capitalism.
Podcast of Ian Gough's lecture as part of 'Plotting the Future: Towards Sustainability' at UCD.
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Podcast: Energy Policy Now (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Will the Clean Energy Transition Bring Energy Equality?
Pub date: 2020-03-17
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
The speaker talks about his research into the ways that the adoption of clean energy may impact society and, by extension, guide political discourse. He also discusses how taking into account social, economic and developmental realities could accelerate the move away from fossil fuels, and speed electrification in some of the poorest regions of the globe.
Nobel Laureate Daniel Kammen, head of U.C. Berkeley’s Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, discusses efforts to build clean energy solutions that meet the social and developmental needs of the communities they serve.
Discussions around today’s clean energy transition tend to focus on technological challenges, and the costs and climate benefits of renewable energy. Yet the social and cultural implications of a transition to clean energy are often overlooked.
Nobel Prize laureate Daniel Kammen talks about his research into the ways that the adoption of clean energy may impact society and, by extension, guide political discourse. He also discusses how taking into account social, economic and developmental realities could accelerate the move away from fossil fuels, and speed electrification in some of the poorest regions of the globe.
Daniel Kammen is Distinguished Professor of Energy in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also Director of Berkeley’s Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, and a former Science Envoy for the U.S. State Department.
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Energy Transition Challenges for the 2020s https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/energy-policy-now/energy-transition-challenges-2020s
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Podcast: Trending Globally: Politics and Policy (LS 41 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Exploring The Politics of Natural Disasters
Pub date: 2020-03-11
Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:
Storms like Maria and Dorian have done more than cripple islands in the Caribbean; they've brought up important questions of politics, power, and social justice in the region.
This is the first episode in a special series that Trending Globally will be producing this semester with Watson’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (also known as CLACS). Each episode will focus on a different aspect of society in Latin America and the Caribbean. To start: the politics of natural disasters and emergency management. Storms like Maria and Dorian have done more than cripple islands in the Caribbean; they've brought up important questions of politics, power, and social justice in the region.
We're excited to welcome as a special guest host for this series Dr. Pablo Rodriguez. Dr. Rodriguez is Chair of the Women & Infants Health Care Alliance, Associate Professor at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown, and the former Medical Director of Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island. He’s also a radio host here in Rhode Island, and one of the most trusted voices covering politics and Latin-x issues in the state.
He spoke with two experts on the Caribbean who are based here at Brown: Patsy Lewis, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; and Paget Henry, a sociologist and Professor at Brown.
You can learn more about Watson’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies here.
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Podcast: Climate One (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Oil and Opioids on Trial
Pub date: 2020-02-28
Tobacco companies, opioid suppliers, gun manufacturers and the fossil fuel industry -- all have been brought under fire, and into the courts, for knowingly causing public harm, and even death, with their products. Should corporations be held liable for harmful outcomes like mass shootings, the opioid crisis, and climate change? We all benefit from the energy fossil fuels provide, from the lights we turn on to around-the-world airline flights. How much responsibility falls on the product, and how much on the user? Visit climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts for more information on today's episode. Guests: Ann Carlson, Environmental Law Professor, Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change & Environment Co-Director, UCLA Ellen Gilmer, Senior Legal Reporter, Bloomberg News Ted Boutrous, Partner, Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher LLP Scott Segal, Partner, Bracewell Portions of this program were recorded at The Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco.
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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1136: Platform capitalism and quantum supremacy.
Pub date: 2020-02-27
IT For Change deputy director Nandini Chami on her article "Data governance and the new frontiers of resistance" written with Anita Gurumurthy for ROAR / Transnational Institute, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen defends the obvious.
https://roarmag.org/essays/intelligent-corporation-platform-capitalism/
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Podcast: The Race and Wealth Podcast Network (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Radical Imagination 5: Climate Migrants
Pub date: 2020-03-01
Climate change will displace more than 180 million people around the world by the end of this century. Along the Gulf Coast of the United States, rising seas are already threatening historic Black and indigenous communities. In Louisiana, for example, a piece of land the size of a football disappears into the water every hour-and-a-half. In this episode, Radical Imagination host Angela Glover Blackwell talks with Colette Pichon Battle, executive director at the Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy, about what’s being done to address the crisis in some of the most vulnerable communities in America. We also hear from Houma Nation Chief August Creppel, who is racing against time to figure out solutions for his people.
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Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Billy Magnuson on Blockchain Democracy
Pub date: 2020-02-14
In this episode, William J. Magnuson, Associate Professor of Law at Texas A&M University School of Law, discusses his book, "Blockchain Democracy: Technology, Law and the Rule of the Crowd," which is published by Cambridge University Press. Magnuson begins by explaining what blockchain and bitcoin are, how they work, and why people find them compelling. He describes the origins of blockchain, why it was created, and how it is used. He reflects on potential problems with blockchain technology, especially in relation to democratic values. And he suggests that it offers both promise and risk. Magnuson is on Twitter at @profmagnuson.
This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.
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Podcast: The Interchange (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Using Artificial Intelligence to Mitigate Climate Change
Pub date: 2020-02-19
This week, we are talking about artificial intelligence, machine learning, and many ways they can decarbonize the economy.
From optimizing buildings to modeling new industrial processes to better managing the grid, AI and machine learning are core to many technology strategies for addressing climate change.
So how, exactly, will they be implemented? And what problems can they solve?
With us is Priya Donti, a PHD student at Carnegie Mellon University. Her work is focused on machine learning, grid systems and climate change. She is also the co-chair of Climate Change AI, a group of academics and practitioners looking at machine learning as a decarbonization tool.
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Podcast: Below the Radar (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Cyberwar and Revolution — with Svitlana Matviyenko
Pub date: 2020-02-18
On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal sits down with Svitlana Matviyenko, an Assistant Professor of Critical Media Analysis at SFU’s School of Communication. Her work and research focuses around topics such as political economy of information, digital militarism, social and mobile media, infrastructure studies, history of science, cybernetics and psychoanalysis. In this conversation, Svitlana talks about digital militarism on a global scale, the impacts of cyberwar on users today, and what is in store for the future of cyberwar.
Svitlana Matviyenko is the co-author of "Cyber-War and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism," which was awarded the 2019 STAIR Book Award. Learn more about the book here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/cyberwar-and-revolution
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Podcast: In The Moment podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 49. Robert Frank with Steve Scher: How Peer Pressure Can Save The Planet
Pub date: 2020-01-09
In this week's interview, Robert Frank talks with Chief Correspondent Steve Scher about the power of peer pressure. Robert provides examples of how social influence effects our health, consumerism and our perception of government. Robert and Steve talk about the weight that high positions of power have on our cultural morality, as well as the impact that our neighbors and friends have on our decision-making and general well being. Get an insider's look and stay in the know about what's going on in this moment at Town Hall Seattle.
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Podcast: Future Tense (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The competition delusion; and a call to nationalise big data
Pub date: 2020-02-08
Competition is often seen almost as a universal good. But economist Nicholas Gruen says a slavish adherence to making everything a competition is damaging our trust in public institutions.
Also, the Belgian community trialling an ancient form of democracy. And if big data is made collectively, would nationalising it help to ensure the benefits are widely distributed?
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Podcast: Pan-Optic Podcast (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: A Critical Perspective on Automation in the Growth Economy P.1 - Episode 8
Pub date: 2020-02-06
Episode 8 is part one of our exploration of Aaron Benanav’s critique of the so-called “automation discourse. But first, let’s recap: in Episode 7, Jason broke down local political discourses on automation and offshoring. Why does Andrew Yang believe that automation killed 4,000,000 manufacturing jobs in rural America? Why does Elizabeth Warren believe that offshoring has been far more destructive than automation? To answer these questions, we conducted a lit review of recent academia on the economic effects of technology; identified potentially problematic data collection techniques; and compared competing interpretations of GDP and unemployment trends. But today, Juan Pablo throws “a monkey wrench into the works by introducing Benanav’s concept of “system overcapacity. Is it possible that the local political discourses on automation and offshoring are missing the point? How might global excess supply contribute to waning labor demand? From Benanav’s perspective, neither automation nor offshoring is the root cause of unemployment; rather, both automation and offshoring are market responses to waning labor demand. Join us for part one of our discussion. Part two will post in a few weeks.
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Podcast: EarthRise w/ Derek Beres (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 80: Music is a Political Force (with Azam Ali)
Pub date: 2020-02-01
Born in Iran and raised in India, Azam Ali has one of the most beautiful voices in the world. Through her solo albums and work with Niyaz and her former band, Vas, she has spread the explored, studied, and presented the sacred music of the world in new contexts for 25 years. She is also an accomplished producer, percussionist, santur player, artist, and jewelry maker.
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Podcast: Indigenous Land Rights and Reconciliation Podcast – CFRC Podcast Network
Episode: Episode 4 – Non-Indigenous Understandings of Land
Pub date: 2020-02-05
This
episode’s discussion focuses on largely Western ideas regarding the ontology of
land and the relationships between people, the state, and the land, offering a
critical perspective on the dominant and colonial approaches to land which have
historically guided our understandings of land and land rights.
Featuring:
- Alejandra Mancilla (University of
Oslo) “A Continent of and for Whiteness? “White” Colonialism and the
1959 Antarctic Treaty * Kerstin Reibold (UiT: Arctic
University of Norway) “The Cultural and Historical Perspective of Welfare
Egalitarianism* Margaret Moore (Queen’s University) “Indigenous
Land Rights and State Territorial Rights
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Podcast: Ethics of AI in Context
Episode: Tom Slee, Private Sector AI: Ethics and Incentives
Pub date: 2020-02-02
Algorithms that sort people into categories are plagued by incompatible incentives. While more accurate algorithms may address problems of statistical bias and unfairness, they cannot solve the ethical challenges that arise from incompatible incentives.
Algorithm owners are drawn into taking on the tasks of governance, managing and validating the behaviour of those who interact with their systems. The governance role offers temptations to indulge in regulatory arbitrage. If governance is left to algorithm owners, it may lead to arbitrary and restrictive controls on individual behaviour. The goal of algorithmic governance by automated decision systems, social media recommender systems, and rating systems is a mirage, retreating into the distance whenever we seem to approach it.
Tom Slee SAP Toward a Handbook of Ethics of AI Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, March 1-2, 2019
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Podcast: What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Do Algorithms Make Sentencing Fairer?
Pub date: 2020-01-03
Around the country, states are employing algorithms to help reduce prison populations and predict recidivism. This week, we hear from a Wisconsin judge with serious reservations about the algorithm used in his state. Also: a deep dive into Virginia's risk-assessment algorithm and the surprising results of its implementation.
Guests:
Nicholas McNamara, judge on the circuit court of Dane County, Wisconsin.
Jennifer Doleac, associate professor of economics at Texas A&M and director of the Justice Tech Lab.
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Podcast: Podcast – Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: A mountain to climb: Scaling Up Renewable Gas in Europe
Pub date: 2020-01-08
In this latest OIES podcast David Ledesma discusses the challenges of scaling up renewable gas in Europe with Martin Lambert, who recently co-authored a paper on the subject with Gbemi Oluleye from the Sustainable Gas Institute (SGI) at Imperial College, London. Recent reports have made very ambitious claims of the volume of low- and zero-carbon gas production which could be supplying Europe in 2050, and equally ambitious claims about the extent of cost reductions over the same time period. OIES and SGI compiled a database to track projects which are either in operation or proposed which could contribute to that scale-up pathway, and compared those actual projects with the pathways which would be required to achieve the ambitious targets. While it is too early to be definitive, early signs are not encouraging. Drawing comparisons with the impressive growth of wind and solar power generation and the associated reduction in costs over the past 15 years, renewable gas would need to follow a similar pathway if it is to achieve its targets. OIES and SGI intend to continue to track progress in the next few years to continue the assessment.
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Podcast: Asia - Audio (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: China as a Climate Leader
Pub date: 2019-12-16
This week, Energy 360 looks at the role of China on the global climate stage. Deborah Lehr (Vice Chairman and Executive Director, Paulson Institute) and Han Chen (Manager for Energy Policy, International Program, NRDC), with Lachlan Carey (Associate Fellow, CSIS Energy & National Security Program), explain the actions China must take to meet its climate targets and be seen as a global leader on climate action.
For more, check out:
Deborah’s piece: Is China Still the Global Leader on Climate Change?
Han’s piece US Withdraws from Paris—Don’t Expect China to Follow Suit
From CSIS: How China can become the world leader for solving climate change and
Chinese Multilateralism and the Promise of a Green Belt and Road
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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Philip M. Napoli, "Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Pub date: 2019-12-09
Philip M. Napoli has been thinking about algorithmic news and social media feed curation for quite some time, as he acknowledges in his new book, Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age (Columbia University Press, 2019). Initially this topic was not as pressing as it now seems to be, but Napoli has been exploring this issue and and trying to figure out how it might work in terms of regulation – self, governmental, or otherwise – for a while. Social Media and the Public Interest approaches this complex and multi-layered issue from a host of perspectives, leading the reader into the broader discussion through a history of social media, but that history itself is positioned within a brief but important history of the internet and the world wide web. At the same time, the book covers a lot of important ground in thinking about the First Amendment, how journalism operates in the age of social media and an otherwise fluid and changing environment for traditional media. Napoli gets at questions that often lurk at the back of our considerations of social media, not only about what we experience in our use of these platforms, but also how we may, unconsciously, consume the information and news that is presented to us through these “not quite journalistic entities. This is a fascinating book that opens up a lot of penetrating questions about our social media environment, how we think about journalism, what the role of regulation might be in terms of both technology and media, and how all these threads intersect within politics. This book will be of interest to a wide array of readers from a host of backgrounds, and, of course, to anyone who has an interest in understanding the media environment in which we all live.
Lilly J. Goren is professor of Political Science at Carroll University in Waukesha, WI. She co-edited the award-winning Women and the White House: Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics (University Press of Kentucky, 2012).
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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Why Fake News Is So Successful
Pub date: 2019-12-23
We speak with Thomas J. Froehlich about Fake News. Thomas J. Froehlich, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus, School of Information, Kent State University (27 years). His teaching areas included: information science, information ethics, information architecture, knowledge management, network and software resources, online searching, computer programming and user interface design. He was the chief architect and former Director of the Master of Science Program in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management at Kent State University (2001-2011), recently transformed into Master’s degrees in Knowledge Management, User Experience Design and Health Informatics. Dr. Froehlich is currently working on a book titled 10 Lessons for the Age of Disinformation.
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Podcast: Demystifying Organizations (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Confronting Gender Inequality (w/ Robin Ely)
Pub date: 2019-12-20
Robin Ely a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on leadership, identity, and organizational culture change. Examples of her past research include studies of men and masculinity on offshore oil platforms; the impact of racial diversity on retail bank performance; and how organizational narratives about gender, work, and family limit both men’s and women’s ability to thrive personally and professionally. Her work is published in many of the top management journals.
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Podcast: Marketplace Tech (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The law that built the internet economy is going international
Pub date: 2019-12-13
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act says tech platforms can’t be held liable for most things their users post on those platforms. The same section has been under attack recently from politicians and others who say it gives companies too much protection in this age of harassment, radicalization and misinformation. But even as the debate is happening, the law is being exported, so to speak. Language similar to Section 230 is part of U.S. trade agreements with Japan and made the cut in the recently agreed upon deal with Mexico and Canada.
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Podcast: TALKING POLITICS (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Tech Election - Part 1
Pub date: 2019-11-24
In a special live edition recorded at the Bristol Festival of Economics we discuss the impact of the technology revolution on democratic politics. Has the rise of automation contributed to the rise of populism? Is China winning the AI wars against the West? And do any democratic politicians - from Elizabeth Warren to Jeremy Corbyn - have the policies to get big tech back under control? With Rana Foroohar, author of Don't Be Evil, and Carl Frey, author of The Technology Trap, plus Diane Coyle, founder and programme director of the Bristol Festival of Economics. Next week: the Facebook election.
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Podcast: KPFA - Flashpoints (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: John Pilger on The Persecution of Julian Assange
Pub date: 2019-11-26
Today on the show: John Pilger on the persecution of Julian Assange, who doctors says could easily die behind bars. Also Native American visionary, and the founder of the Take back Alcatraz movement, Lornada Warjack
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Podcast: Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Data vs. Democracy (Part 2)
Pub date: 2019-11-25
Today in part 2 of my deeply insightful interview with author Kris Shaffer, we discuss how marketers and foreign powers have been capturing our attention and even manipulating our responses. We'll discuss how these techniques were used in the 2016 US presidential election and in other critical voting situations. In many cases, it's sufficient to make people stay home or to sow doubt in the election results. But we'll also discuss whether some of these sames tools and techniques can be used to expose manipulation and tip the scales back in our favor.
Kris Shaffer, PhD (Yale University, 2011), is a data scientist and Senior Computational Disinformation Analyst for Yonder. He co-authored "The Tactics and Tropes of the Internet Research Agency", a report prepared for the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Kris has consulted for multiple U.S. government agencies, non-profits, and universities on matters related to digital disinformation, data ethics, and digital pedagogy. Kris is the author of Data versus Democracy: How Big Data Algorithms Shape Opinions and Alter the Course of History, published July 2019 by Apress.
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Data versus Democracy: https://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484245392 Kris Shaffer’s website: https://pushpullfork.com Weapons of Math Destruction: https://weaponsofmathdestructionbook.com/ Automating Inequality: https://virginia-eubanks.com/ The Great Hack: https://www.thegreathack.com/ Give Thanks and Donate: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/give-thanks-donate/
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Podcast: Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How to make the rich pay their taxes (with Gabriel Zucman)
Pub date: 2019-11-26
Tax rates on the wealthy have steadily eroded in the United States over the last forty years, leaving us with an upside-down tax code that benefits the rich. And it’s surprisingly easy for powerful people to evade the taxes that they do owe, which inevitably inspires another round of harsh budget cuts from conservative lawmakers. Gabriel Zucman, the authority on wealth taxes, joins us this week to explain how the rich dodge taxes, and how we can fix the tax system.
Gabriel Zucman is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the accumulation, distribution, and preservation of wealth, with a global and historical perspective. He is the author of ‘The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens’, and the co-author, with Emmanuel Saez, of the new book ‘The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay’.
Twitter: @gabriel_zucman
Further reading:
The Triumph of Injustice: https://wwnorton.com/books/the-triumph-of-injustice
The Wealth Detective Who Finds the Hidden Money of the Super Rich: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-23/the-wealth-detective-who-finds-the-hidden-money-of-the-super-rich
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Podcast: Grubstakers (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 118: Masayoshi Son (SoftBank)
Pub date: 2019-11-26
This week we’re covering the man formerly known as the Bill Gates of Japan Masayoshi Son. The world record holder for largest drop of net worth (70 Billion) the man who for 3 days was richer than Bill Gates, the early investor of Ali Baba, Uber and WeWork (oops!) The current owner of ARM chips, Boston dynamics, and a big believer in what will kill us all the singularity. We discuss how his investments in start ups have devastated the start up market. His way of judging a company is seeing if their CEO’s eyes have a certain fire in them. Lastly, we cover his Vision Fund the 300 year, 100-billion-dollar plan, which includes money from Saudi Arabia Public Investment fund seems to us this vision is to own Asia in all the worst ways. Enjoy!
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Podcast: Research in Action | A podcast for faculty & higher education professionals on research design, methods, productivity & more (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 181: Dr. Julie Park on Researching Race, Diversity, and Equity in Higher Education
Pub date: 2019-11-25
On this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Julie J. Park, an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research addresses how race, religion, and social class affect diversity and equity in higher education, including the diverse experiences of Asian American college students. Her new book Race on Campus: Debunking Myths with Data (Harvard Education Press) uses social science data to challenge misconceptions surrounding race in college admissions and campus climate. She is also the author of When Diversity Drops: Race, Religion, and Affirmative Action in Higher Education (Rutgers University Press), an examination of how bans on affirmative action affect everyday student life. Currently an associate editor for the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, her work has appeared in venues such as the Washington Post, Huffington Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. She recently served as a consulting expert on the side of Harvard in the case Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard.
Segment 1: Race on Campus [00:00-12:42]
In this first segment, Julie discusses her book Race on Campus.
In this segment, the following resources are mentioned:
- Julie's book Race on Campus
- Julie's book When Diversity Drops: Race, Religion, and Affirmative Action in Higher Education
- Thomas J. Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford. (2009). No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Segment 2: Myths in Race on Campus [12:43-23:50]
In segment two, Julie shares about some of the myths she discusses in her book.
In this segment, the following resources are mentioned:
- Julie's book Race on Campus
- Mismatch by Richard Sander
- Julie's book When Diversity Drops: Race, Religion, and Affirmative Action in Higher Education
Segment 3: Writing Op-Eds [23:51-36:11]
In segment three, Julie shares about her experiences writing op-ed pieces.
In this segment, the following resources are mentioned:
- The Op-Ed Project
- Julie's work at The Huffington Post
- Julie's Washington Post piece:
- Park, J.J. (2015, January 4). The misleading lawsuit accusing Harvard of bias against Asian Americans. The Washington Post.
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Podcast: The Andrea Mitchell Center Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1.5: The Decline of American Labor and the Rise of Inequality – Brishen Rogers
Pub date: 2019-11-22
REVERBERATIONS OF INEQUALITY Interviewer: MATTHEW BERKMAN. Union membership in the United States has experienced a long decline. From a peak of over 30 percent of the labor force in 1945, it now hovers around 11 percent. Legal scholar BRISHEN ROGERS (Temple University and a Visiting Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, Georgetown Law) argues that, more than the ineluctable forces of automation and globalization, it is this decline that is responsible for the high levels of income inequality in the U.S. While these processes are intertwined, Rogers uses a comparative approach to tease them apart. To redress inequality, he advocates that we adopt systems of sectoral bargaining that have succeeded in other countries to keep more income in the hands of working people. His discussion with Matthew Berkman, Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College, followed his presentation at the Mitchell Center’s REVERBERATIONS OF INEQUALITY Opening Conference.
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Podcast: The Disruptors (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 160. Why the US and China are Already in a Cold War, the Economics of Inequality and Future of Capitalism | Geoff Colvin
Pub date: 2019-11-25
Geoff Colvin (@geoffcolvin) is FortuneMagazine’s Senior Editor-at-Large, an award-winning thinker, author, broadcaster, and speaker on the most significant trends and issues impacting business, politics and the economy. Geoff's work has earned him millions of loyal fans and 7M weekly listeners on CBS Radio Network
He's the author of four books including groundbreaking bestsellers Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else and Humans are Underrated on the future of work and how humans fit into a workplace filled with robots and smart technology.
Geoff has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, Squawk Box, CBS This Morning, ABC's World News Tonight, CNN, PBS's Nightly Business Report, and dozens of other programs. He also served as anchor of Wall $treet Week with Fortune on PBS and has moderated panels with or interviewed Jack Welch, Henry Kissinger, Richard Branson, the Prince of Wales, Bill Gates, Alan Greenspan, Steve Case, Tony Blair, Michael Dell, Ted Turner, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and many others.
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In today's episode we discuss:
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The US relationship with China and why we're already in the Cold War
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Geoff's thoughts on the decentralization and breakup of big tech
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What we both think about the separatist movements spreading worldwide
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Why Geoff's skeptical of long term centralized economies
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What the business roundtable CEO stakeholders memo means
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Thoughts on economics and when the trickle-down effect died
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What does Brexit mean for the economy
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Why loneliness and isolation is the biggest threat to humanity
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How to re-engineer the economy to fight inequality
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Will AI be net positive or negative
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What's the future of education and where did it go wrong
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Where should students look for the careers of the future
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A public markets debate about incentives and timeframes
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Podcast: Business Scholarship Podcast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep.23 – Sarah Haan on Civil Rights and Shareholder Activism
Pub date: 2019-11-25
Sarah Haan, associate professor of law at Washington and Lee University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Civil Rights and Shareholder Activism: SEC v. Medical Committee for Human Rights. Haan traces the civil-rights roots of shareholder activism and chronicles the legal history of SEC v. Medical Committee for Human Rights, a case stemming from activists' opposition to Dow Chemical's manufacture of napalm during the Vietnam War era. Although Medical Committee receded from memory after it was vacated as moot by the Supreme Court, Haan explains how it can inform contemporary debates over the meaning of corporate democracy.
This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.
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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Will Universal Basic Income Set Us Free?
Pub date: 2019-12-04
We speak with Lorena Lombardozzi about UBI. Lorena Lombardozzi is a Lecturer in Economics at the School of Social Sciences & Global Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at the Open University. She completed her PhD thesis in Economics at SOAS, University of London (fully funded by SOAS Economics dpt.) with a title ‘A nexus between the role of the state, market transition and food consumption: The case of Uzbekistan’. She holds a MSc from SOAS in Political Economy of Development (fully-funded). She received a previous Masters in Development Economics from University La Sapienza of Rome, Italy. Before returning to academia Dr. Lombardozzi worked as a development economist in Latin America in 2014, in Uzbekistan for the regional office of UNODC in Central Asia from 2010 to 2012, and between 2007 and 2010 with the European Commission and the Italian Ministry of Foreign affairs in the field of development economics, trade and environmental policy.
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