Emma Dowling: Understanding the care crisis (ep346)
Emma Dowling on the structural conditions behind our global care crisis, wealth extraction in the care sector, how we should reconceive of caring, and more.
Bram Ebus: Power, poverty, and criminality in the gold industry (ep345)
Bram Ebus on the multi-layered socio-environmental context that the gold industry operates in, the injustice embedded within law and criminality, and more.
Scott Timcke: Algorithmic capitalism and digital dehumanization (ep344)
Scott Timcke on algorithmic capitalism, digital dehumanization, surveillance technology, and more.
Beatriz Caiuby Labate: Sacred plant medicines and healing psychedelics (ep343)
Dr. Beatriz Caiuby Labate (Bia Labate) on the stigmatization of sacred plant medicines, Big Pharma and the psychedelic renaissance, her work with the Chacruna Institute, and more.
Harriet Washington: Confronting medical apartheid and its industrial complex (ep342)
Harriet Washington on the realities of de facto segregation and environmental racism, the 'deadly monopolies' of the medical-industrial-complex, and more.
John Hausdoerffer: From earthlings to placelings (ep341)
John Hausdoerffer on becoming good ancestors, reframing our roles from Earthlings to Placelings, moving from “wildness” to “kinship”, and more.
Liam Campling + Alex Colás: A tragedy of the commodity at sea (ep340)
Liam Campling and Alex Colás on the dark truths of just-in-time production, nautical internationalism, the tragedy of the commodity, solidarities across global oceans, and more.
Vanessa Raditz: Queering resilience amidst climate disasters (ep339)
Vanessa Raditz on biocultural diversity, biological exuberance, queer theory and community, disaster resilience, intersections of vulnerabilities, and more.
Vanessa Andreotti: Allowing earth to dream through us (ep338)
Vanessa Andreotti on the house of modernity, a compass of decolonization, living beyond meaning, radical tenderness, and more.
Edgar Villanueva: Money as sacred medicine (ep337)
Edgar Villanueva on decolonizing wealth and philanthropy, seeing the potential role of money as sacred medicine, and more.
Max Ajl: A deeper green new deal for the people (ep336)
Max Ajl on reframing the “development-underdevelopment” dyad, the implicit principles that Green New Deals uphold, and more.
Emma Bedor Hiland: The digitization of mental healthcare (ep335)
Emma Hiland on thinking more deeply about the drivers of our mental health crisis, the fetishization of technologies as the solution, building human-centered forms of care and network, and more.
Melanie Yazzie: Building indigenous solidarity and power (ep334)
Melanie Yazzie on scholar activism, whitewashed histories, theories of change, building power, internationalist solidarity, The Red Deal, and more.
David Boarder Giles: A mass conspiracy to feed each other (ep333)
David Giles on the contradiction of the co-existence of food waste and food insecurity, prefiguring gift economies and alternative worlds, and more.
Konda Mason: Holding love capital sacred (ep332)
Konda Mason on racial capitalism, regenerative philanthropy, honoring various forms of capital beyond financial capital, and more.