Another World is Podable

Another World is Podable

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  • Episode 26: The Revolution Continues with Rayelle Davis
    Rayelle Davis is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor practicing in Western Md. She has lived in Appalachia for my entire life and started working as a counselor as the crisis of the opioid epidemic heavily impacted this area. She continues to work as a therapist and has went back to school to earn her PhD. Cultural factors that impact mental health treatment delivery in rural area such as Appalachia is my passion and research focus
    1 hr 19 min
  • Episode 25: The Revolution Continues With Gavin Mueller
    Gavin Mueller is a lecturer in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Media Piracy in the Cultural Economy (Routledge, 2019) and Breaking Things at Work (Verso, 2021), and a member of the editorial collective of Viewpoint Magazine.
    1 hr 26 min
  • Episode 24: The Revolution continues with Brendan McQuade and the threat of "Mass Supervision"
    Brendan McQuade earned his BA at Hampshire College and MA and PhD at Binghamton University (SUNY). He previously taught at DePaul University in the International Studies Department and at SUNY-Cortland in the Sociology/Anthropology Department. His areas of interest are historical sociology, state theory, the critique of security, and social movements. His most recent book is Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019
    1 hr 4 min
  • Episode 23: The Revolution Continues with Professor Tanner Mirrlees talking about the Socialist Project in Toronto, Media Imperialism, and the Revolutionary Potential of Digital Technologies

    Tanner Mirrlees is an associate professor in the Communication and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech University. Mirrlees is the author of Hearts and Mines: The US Empire’s Cultural Industry (UBC Press, 2016), Global Entertainment Media: Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization (Routledge, 2013), co-author of EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2019), and co-editor of Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). Mirrlees participates in Toronto-based community organizations such as the Centre for Social Justice and the Socialist Project, and over the past three years, he was a co-organizer of The Capitalism Workshop, a series of public talks downtown Toronto that brought together educators, workers, students, and activists to collectively discuss and debate knowledge about capitalism, as well as old and new Left strategies and tactics for going beyond it.


    If you would like to donate to "The Socialist Project" you can do so at the following link: https://socialistproject.ca/donate/

    *Please note GM closed down auto assembly at the Oshawa plant and plans to convert some of the old facility into a test track for autonomous vehicles. Green Jobs Oshawa continues to campaign for the public ownership and reconfiguration of the plant for socially and ecologically sustainable manufacturing. Learn more about Green Jobs Oshawa here: https://www.greenjobsoshawa.ca/

    1 hr 44 min
  • Episode 22: The Revolution Continues with Professor Angela Naomi Paik Discussing her new book "Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary" and "abolitionist sanctuary"
    A. Naomi Paik is an associate professor of Asian American studies with appointments in Gender & Women's studies and History at the  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She published Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II (UNC Press, 2016; winner, Best Book in History, AAAS 2018; runner-up, John  Hope Franklin prize for best book in American Studies, ASA, 2017).
    Her book Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the 21st Century (University of California Press), examines the long-developing criminalization of foreign-born people in the United States and the need for radical, abolitionist approaches to sanctuary.
    She is currently working on a book-length manuscript on the most capacious meaning of “sanctuary for all” and developing another on military  outsourcing.
    As a board member of the Radical History Review, she has co-edited three special issues of the journal—on “Militarism and Capitalism (Winter 2019), “Radical Histories of Sanctuary” (Fall 2019), and “Policing, Justice, and the Radical Imagination” (Spring 2020). She has published articles in Social Text, Radical History Review, Cultural Dynamics, Race & Class, e-misferica, Humanity, The Conversation, The Funambulist, and the collection Guantánamo and American Empire.
    She is the IPRH-Mellon fellow in Legal Humanities (2019-2022), working to build the legal humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. With Toby Beauchamp, she is organizing a series of events on "Abolition" as a Resident Associate of the Center for Advanced Study (2019-present). Her research and teaching interests include comparative ethnic studies; U.S. imperialism; U.S. militarism; social and cultural  approaches to legal studies; transnational and women of color feminisms; carceral spaces; and labor, race, and migration.
    New Book: "Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the 21st Century): https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520305120/bans-walls-raids-sanctuary
    The guest would like to note that the man detained at Guantanamo who connected his condition with George Floyd's murder is not Moath al-Alwi. For more information see: https://www.newsweek.com/guantanamo-bay-black-lives-matter-hope-1511940
    For more information about abolitionist events see: https://abolitionjournal.org/studyguide/
    1 hr 21 min
  • Episode 21 : The Revolution Continues with Professor Gerald Horne Talking about Resisting "Settler Colonialism" and a New Generation of Internationalist Anti-Imperialist Struggle
    Professor Gerald Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations and war. He has also written extensively about the film industry. Dr. Horne received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and his B.A. from Princeton University.
    He is the author of more than thirty books and one hundred scholarly articles and reviews. His current research includes an examination of U.S.-Southern African relations since the so-called “Anglo-Boer War” at the end of the 19th century and an analysis of the Political Economy of the music called “Jazz” from the late 19th century to the present.
    Latest Book "The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century": https://nyupress.org/9781583678725/the-dawning-of-the-apocalypse/
    59 min
  • Episode 20: The Resistance Continues with the Brilliant Professor Priyamvada Gopal discussing "Insurgent Empire", race, class and empire in the 21st century, and her recent twitter "controversy"
    Priyamvada Gopal is a Professor in Anglophone and Related Literatures in the Faculty of English and Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge. She is the author of Literary Radicalism in India: Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence, The Indian English Novel: Nation, History and Narration, and Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent.
    47 min
  • Episode 19: The Revolution Continues with the Incredible Professor Vanessa Wills on Morality, Revolution, and White Privilege
    Vanessa Wills is a political philosopher, ethicist, educator, and activist working in Washington, DC.
    She is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The George Washington University. In 2019/20, she is additionally the DAAD Visiting Chair in Ethics and Practice at Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität’s Munich Center for Ethics.
    Her areas of specialization are moral, social, and political philosophy, nineteenth century German philosophy (especially Karl Marx), and the philosophy of race. Her research is importantly informed by her study of Marx’s work, and focuses on the ways in which economic and social arrangements can inhibit or promote the realization of values such as freedom, equality, and human development.
    She received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011, where she wrote her dissertation on the topic, “Marx and Morality.” Dr. Wills received her Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Princeton University in 2002.
    1 hr 21 min
  • Episode 18: The Revolution Continues with Professor Nicole Fleetwood on her book "Marking Time", Radical Creativity, and a 21st Century Abolitionist Politics
    Nicole R. Fleetwood is a critic, curator, and professor of American studies and art history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.  Fleetwood is the author of the new book, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020), as well as On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination (2015) and Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (2011).
    Link to her new book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674919228
    1 hr 1 min
  • Episode 17: The Revolution Continues with Sara Farris and Mark Bergfeld on the Radical Possibilities of "Life Making Labour" During the Corvid - 19 Crisis
    Mark Bergfeld is the Director of Property Services and UNICARE at the union federation UNI Global Union - Europa. He holds a PhD from Queen Mary. He has written extensively on labour issues, migration and social movements. He runs a regular newsletter on the world of work tinyletter.com/mdbergfeld . In another lifetime, he was a student of Peter Bloom .
    Sara Farris is sociologist teaching at Goldsmiths whose latest book is the brilliant "In the name of women's right. The rise of femonationalism" (Duke 2017).
    Link to Article in Spectre "The COVID-19 Crisis and the End of the 'Low-skilled' Worker": https://spectrejournal.com/the-covid-19-crisis-and-the-end-of-the-low-skilled-worker/
    Link to Journal "Spectre": https://spectrejournal.com/
    Link to Book ""In the name of women's right. The rise of femonationalism": https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-name-of-womens-rights
    59 min

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