Below the Radar

Community leader and climate justice activist Anjali Appadurai joins Am Johal for the second instalment of Below the Radar’s Climate Justice & Inequality series. Anjali is a Climate Justice Lead at Sierra Club BC, the Sectoral Organizer for the Climate Emergency Unit, as well as the founder of Padma Centre for Climate Justice.

Anjali and Am talk about the growth of the climate movement, and shifting the focus from being ‘green’ to centering justice for all in the fight against climate change. They speak about lifting up the youth and Indigenous leaders at the forefront of the struggle, as well as how to get involved and make the movement accessible to all.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/climate-justice-inequality/132-anjali-appadurai.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/132-anjali-appadurai.html

Resources:

- Sierra Club BC: https://sierraclub.bc.ca/

- Climate Emergency Unit: https://www.climateemergencyunit.ca/

- Padma Centre for Climate Justice: https://medium.com/@padmaclimate

- West Coast Environmental Law: https://www.wcel.org/

Bio:

Anjali is a climate justice activist, communicator and organizer. She works to strengthen climate change messaging and discourse in Canada by centring the stories of those on the front lines of the climate crisis. She brings a strong justice lens to climate change messaging and keeps her work connected to social movements that have been demanding climate justice in the Global South for decades. Anjali is Climate Justice Lead at Sierra Club BC and Sectoral Organizer with the newly formed Climate Emergency Unit.

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Johal, Am. “Climate Justice & Inequality: Centring Justice in the Climate Emergency — with Anjali Appadurai” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, September 7, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/climate-justice-inequality/132-anjali-appadurai.html

Squamish Nation Councillor and community leader Khelsilem joins Am Johal on this first episode of Below the Radar’s Climate Justice & Inequality series. In this episode, they discuss the climate crisis as a result of the colonial project, how climate change hits hardest for those already at a disadvantage, and the spaces where colonialism has existed within climate movements.

Khelsilem speaks to his critique of fossil fuel infrastructure, the false narrative of individual responsibility, and the role governments play in worsening the crisis through policy decisions that favour oil and gas. We also hear about innovative affordable housing projects, such as Squamish Nation’s Sen̓áḵw Development, and how to build climate-friendly design into new housing models.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/climate-justice-inequality/131-khelsilem.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/131-khelsilem.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/sfuwoodwards/community-engagement/Below-the-Radar/transcripts/ep131-khelsilem.html

About the series: https://www.sfu.ca/sfuwoodwards/community-engagement/Below-the-Radar/climate-justice-and-inequality.html

Resources:

— Sen̓áḵw Development: https://senakw.com/

— Squamish Nation: https://www.squamish.net/

— Kwi Awt Stelmexw: https://www.kwiawtstelmexw.com/

— Khelsilem’s linktree: https://linktr.ee/khelsilem

— Indigenous Languages Program at SFU: https://www.sfu.ca/inlp/programs.html

Bio:

Khelsilem is Squamish and Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia. As the Squamish Nation Councillor, his lifelong work has been focused on governance, Indigenous languages, and dreams of progressive social change.

He has served on various committees, including: Governance, Finance & Audit, Human Resources, and Housing Authority Development. He has strived to create good governance practices that enhance transparency, accountability, and ethical governing standards to benefit the Nation’s members.

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Johal, Am. “Climate Justice & Inequality: Decolonizing Climate Justice — with Khelsilem” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, August 31, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/climate-justice-inequality/131-khelsilem.html

Below the Radar dives into the call for a feminist economic recovery and a just transition with SFU School of Communication PhD Candidate Alicia Massie. Alicia is a Progressive Economics Fellow with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and a Research Assistant and conference organizer with SFU’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative.

As a feminist political economist and community-engaged researcher, Alicia joins host Am Johal to discuss her research around an economic transition for Canada that can bring us into a more equitable and green future.

They discuss pandemic recovery as an opportunity to implement long-term solutions to ongoing and intersecting issues, such as systemic racism, gender-based inequities and climate change. Alicia speaks to the value of the care economy and investing in green infrastructure like childcare, healthcare and education. She also shares some of her learnings from Fort McMurray and how the inevitable shift away from a fossil fuel-based economy must not leave resource industry workers and their communities behind.

Episode page: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/130-alicia-massie.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/130-alicia-massie.html

Resources:

— Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/

— SFU’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative: https://www.sfu.ca/ceri.html

— Progressive Economics Forum: https://www.progressive-economics.ca/

— Centre for Future Work: https://www.futurework.org.au/

Bio:

Alicia Massie is a Joseph Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholar and PhD Candidate at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.

Beyond her academic work she works as an educator, labour organizer, and community activist. Her activism and academic work focus on the intersections of gender, labour, and race in late capitalism, as well as investigating Canadian petro-capitalism from a socialist feminist perspective.

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Johal, Am. “Feminist Economics and a Just Transition — with Alicia Massie” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, July 20, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/130-alicia-massie.html

Critical theorist Alberto Toscano joins Am Johal in conversation about his work and writings, as he joins SFU as a visiting faculty member with the Digital Democracies Institute in SFU’s School of Communication.

In this episode, they discuss Alberto’s writing on the philosophy of fanaticism, and conflicting discourse and counter-histories around the figure of the fanatic, which historically takes many forms, from abolitionist leaders to peasant revolutionaries. Alberto and Am also dive into global and historical trends of authoritarianism, racial capitalism and the notion of ‘late fascism.’ Alberto speaks to expanding our concept of fascism, to recognize iterations outside of what could be thought of as European fascism. They also talk about neoliberal tendencies in post-secondary administration, and the workings of mechanisms that maintain or fortify power structures within institutions.

Full Episode Details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/129-alberto-toscano.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/129-alberto-toscano.html

Resources:

— Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought: https://cpct.uk/about/

— Seagull Books: https://www.seagullbooks.org/our-translators/t/alberto-toscano/

— Digital Democracies Institute: https://digitaldemocracies.org/

— The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation Between Kant and Deleuze: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781403997807

— Fanaticism: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2475-fanaticism

— Cartographies of the Absolute: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/cartographies-of-the-absolute

— Wolfen movie trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L46RneepoxQ

— Pli journal: https://plijournal.com/

Bio:

Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory at the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, where he co-directs the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought. He is Visiting Faculty at the Digital Democracy Institute, School of Communication, SFU.

Alberto’s current research is divided into three main strands: a theoretical inquiry into contemporary authoritarian trends and their dis/analogies with their historical predecessors, culminating in the forthcoming book Late Fascism (Verso, 2021); the study of tragedy as a framework through which to understand political action and its discontents, from decolonisation to environmentalism; and the development of ‘real abstraction’ as a heuristic for the analysis contemporary capitalism, notably in its nexus with processes of racialisation. As the series editor of The Italian List for Calcutta-based publisher Seagull books, Alberto’s research is also concerned with the translation and reception of Italian literature, literary criticism and critical theory.

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Johal, Am. “Fascism, Fanaticism and Neoliberalism — with Alberto Toscano” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, July 15, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/129-alberto-toscano.html

Javier Campos joins host Am Johal to discuss reframing the way we think about heritage. Javier is an architect and Principal Designer with Campos Studio, as well as the current president of Heritage Vancouver Society. Together, they explore what heritage means today as a living and changing concept. They discuss the dark roots of heritage, and how heritage has been deployed to erase and exclude the histories of communities who have been dispossessed and harmed by the settler-colonial project.

In this conversation, Javier speaks to the idea of heritage as cultural production. Heritage should empower communities to drive change within their neighbourhoods, and to rewrite and shape their stories. Javier also speaks about taking an ecologically-minded approach to architecture, working with the critical regionalist tradition and passive design.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/128-javier-campos.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/128-javier-campos.html

Resources:

— Heritage Vancouver: http://heritagevancouver.org/

— Shaping Vancouver series: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClA0Wn2xodnRMrdH3shZSwQ

— Campos Studio: https://www.campos.studio/

— Sen̓áḵw: https://senakw.com/

— Heritage Action Plan: https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/heritage-action-plan-emerging-directions-june-2017-open-house-information-displays.pdf

Bio:

Javier Campos earned his Architecture Degree from the University of British Columbia after having completed an undergraduate degree in Art History.

Previously he was at Acton Ostry Architects where, as lead designer, his projects were widely published and garnered numerous awards — including Canadian Architect and Lieutenant Governor Medals in Architecture. His work adopted a green agenda early and has included off the grid projects since 2001. He became LEED certified in 2004. Javier is also involved in Public Art and has won several competitions with Artist Elspeth Pratt in Vancouver. Javier served on the board of the Contemporary Art Gallery for six years and as well being the current president of the Heritage Vancouver Society, where he established an award winning outreach series on issues around Heritage.

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Johal, Am. “Reframing Heritage in Vancouver — with Javier Campos” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, July 6, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/128-javier-campos.html

FoodShare’s Executive Director and lifelong anti-poverty activist Paul Taylor joins host Am Johal in this episode of Below the Radar. In this conversation, they delve into the work Paul has done in both Toronto and Vancouver with various activist organizations such as FoodShare, the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House, and Gordon Neighbourhood House.

Paul shares his experience growing up in a low-income household and dealing with food insecurity, and the ways that traditional charity models fall short. He challenges these charity systems that place responsibility on fellow community members, rather than governments and policymakers. Together, they explore the notion of the right to food, particularly in the pandemic climate, and advocacy for greater systemic change. Paul concludes this conversation by encouraging listeners to consider a world of possibility, and come together to demand political leadership that focuses on justice.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/127-paul-taylor.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/127-paul-taylor.html

Resources:

— Paul Taylor’s website: https://www.paultaylorto.com/

— FoodShare: https://foodshare.net/

— Gordon Neighbourhood House: https://gordonhouse.org/

— Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House: https://www.dtesnhouse.ca/

— Nourish Scotland: https://www.nourishscotland.org/

— Global Solidarity Alliance: https://rightsnotcharity.org/

— WhyHunger: https://whyhunger.org/

Bio:

Paul Taylor is the Executive Director of FoodShare Toronto, and a lifelong anti-poverty activist. Growing up materially poor in Toronto, Paul has used his experience to fuel a career focused not just on helping others, but dismantling the beliefs and systems that lead to poverty and food insecurity, including colonialism, capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchal structures.

Each year, FoodShare provides a quarter million people with fresh produce, and fights for their right to have access to “good” food on their own terms, rather than charity on someone else’s. Paul’s experience includes Executive Director roles at Gordon Neighbourhood House and the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House. He has also chaired the British Columbia Poverty Reduction Coalition, served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and as Vice-Chair of Food Secure Canada.

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Johal, Am. “The Right to Food — with Paul Taylor” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, June 29, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/127-paul-taylor.html

Community-engaged scholar, current Researcher-in-Residence with SFU’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative and food system planner Tammara Soma joins Am Johal on this episode of Below the Radar. She shares with us what drives her interest in food systems and sustainability, and their relationship to equity and justice. Tammara speaks to her experience and the process of researching in communities — where she aims to have everyone’s voices represented at the table.

We hear about the impetus behind co-creating the Food Systems Lab, and how Tammara views the impact of COVID-19 on our current food systems. We also discuss issues with charitable responses to food security, and what kind of justice-centered solutions are needed in a paradoxical system where we have massive food waste, but also food insecurity and hunger.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/126-tammara-soma.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/126-tammara-soma.html

Resources

— Food Systems Lab: https://foodsystemslab.ca/

— Supporting Sustainable Business Adaptation during COVID-19 study: https://foodsystemslab.ca/projects/local-business-covid19/

— 'We are Community': CERi Partners with the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition: https://www.sfu.ca/ceri/blog/2020/ceri-partners-with-the-bc-poverty-reduction-coalition.html#:~:text=Getting%20Around%20to%20Feed%20Ourselves%20Well%20is%20a%20project%20housed,at%2Drisk%20and%20marginalized%20communities.

— Farm to School BC: https://farmtoschoolbc.ca/

— FoodShare Toronto: https://foodshare.net/

— Hives for Humanity: Empowering Informed Consent – Community Ethics In Cultural Production and Research 101: https://www.hivesforhumanity.com/empowering-informed-consent-1

— Pollution is Colonialism by Dr. Max Liboiron: https://www.dukeupress.edu/pollution-is-colonialism

Bio:

Tammara originally hails from West Java, Indonesia. She holds a PhD in Planning (2018) from the University of Toronto and is the Research Director and Co-Founder of the Food Systems Lab.

She is an Assistant Professor at the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University where she conducts research on issues pertaining to food system planning, community-based food research, youth and food literacy, social innovation and waste management and the circular economy. Prior to SFU, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto, and the Food Equity Coordinator at New College (University of Toronto). Soma is actively involved in food justice work. She was one of the founding members of the Toronto Youth Food Policy Council, and has worked with FoodShare Toronto, and Sustain Ontario.

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Johal, Am. “Setting the Table for Food Justice — with Tammara Soma” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, June 22, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/126-tammara-soma.html

Lawyer, climate storyteller, and founder of the UBC Climate Hub, Grace Nosek, joins host Am Johal on a mission — to publicly uncover feelings of ‘climate doom’ and ‘individual responsibility’ as narratives propelled by the fossil fuel industry. While leading this charge, Grace speaks about Exxon Mobil at the forefront of climate science — spinning its narrative web that entangles any space from broadcasting and universities, to legislation.

Grace also discusses her work with the UBC Climate Hub, and the integral role that youth (as well as Indigenous and racialized people) have in this movement of anti-capitalist defiance. She and Am also speak about overcoming eco-anxieties, the importance of making a small day-to-day difference that can ‘ripple outward,’ and Grace’s belief in Pleasure Activism. They end this interview with a brief discussion of Grace’s inspiration to write her hopeful young adult climate fantasy series, Ava of the Gaia.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/125-grace-nosek.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/125-grace-nosek.html

Grace’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/GraceNosek

Grace’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace.nosek/

Grace’s website: https://www.gracenosek.com

UBC Climate Hub: https://ubcclimatehub.ca/

Ava of the Gaia: https://www.gracenosek.com/books

‘Build Student Resiliency in the Face of Multiple Crises’ blog by Grace Nosek: https://www.gracenosek.com/blog/build-student-resiliency-in-the-face-of-multiple-crises-empower-youth-climate-organizers

‘The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Push to Target Climate Protesters in the U.S.’ by Grace Nosek: https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/pelr/vol38/iss1/2/

Planet Potluck podcast: http://planetpotluck.com/

Bio:

Grace Nosek is the Founder and Student Director of the UBC Climate Hub, a unique entity combining significant financial and administrative support from the university, with a governance structure that allows student staff and volunteers to shape priorities for the Hub — and collaborate with stakeholders from across the university and beyond. Grace has published several academic articles on law and narrative; is the author of a hopeful young adult climate fantasy series, the Ava of the Gaia trilogy; and is the host of a climate storytelling podcast, Planet Potluck.

She’s given dozens of talks on climate narratives and storytelling, and writes and speaks about the topic whenever she can. She is also the Executive Producer of Climate Comeback, a short film harnessing the power of sports to bring people together around tangible climate action.

Grace is currently pursuing her PhD in law at the University of British Columbia, studying how to use law to protect climate change science from manufactured doubt. She is fascinated by the intersection of law and story, and focuses her research on how law can tell better stories in the pursuit of environmental and social justice. She holds a B.A. from Rice University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an LL.M from the University of British Columbia. Grace’s research has been supported by a Fulbright Canada fellowship, a Harvard Knox Memorial Traveling Fellowship, and a British Columbia Law Foundation fellowship, among others.

Cite this episode:

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Johal, Am. “Restorying the Climate Crisis — with Grace Nosek” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, June 15, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/125-grace-nosek.html

Dancer, aerialist, choreographer and producer Gabrielle Martin joins host Am Johal on this episode of Below the Radar. Gabrielle tells us how her passion for dance has taken her from spinning fire in an East Van park, to touring the world with Cavalia and Cirque du Soleil, to choreographing and producing her own works.

In the episode, they talk about Gabrielle’s youth as an unschooler/alternative schooler, and how she developed a love for performance and dance through stilt walking, fire dancing, hula hooping and more. Gabrielle also shares her thoughts on the impact of the pandemic on the performing arts, her work as festival manager with the Vancouver International Dance Festival, and the making of "Limb(e)s," a feature-length show she developed with her partner, Jeremiah Hughes.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/124-gabrielle-martin.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/124-gabrielle-martin.html

Resources:

— Ci Co: https://www.companyci.com/

— Limb(e)s trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OIGWCRUivQ&t

— Limb(e)s at Dancing On The Edge, July 8-17, 2021, tickets available soon: http://www.dancingontheedge.org/

— “Dark, quietly riveting gem of aerial drama” - a review of Limb(e)s in The List: https://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/110184-limbes/

— Vancouver International Dance Festival: https://www.vidf.ca/

Bio:

Gabrielle Martin is an aerial and dance artist, director/choreographer and an artistic producer who has performed over 1,400 shows internationally.

Originally from Vancouver, Canada, she studied somatic movement and contact improvisation, and performed fire manipulation and stilt walking before obtaining her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Contemporary Dance from Concordia University (Montreal, 2009). While in Montreal, Gabrielle studied aerial arts such as aerial silks and rope. In 2010, she received a Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec Research and Creation in Dance grant for her choreography, Infractions, and from 2009-2011, she toured this as well as her other works at the following Canadian festivals: Vancouver International Dance Festival (Vancouver, Canada, 2009), Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival (Guelph, Canada, 2010 & 2011), and ROMP! A Festival of Independent Dance (Victoria, Canada, 2011).

From 2011-2015, Gabrielle toured full time with Cavalia, performing aerial rope, bungee trapeze, bungee dance and harness dance numbers. In 2015, she began working with Cirque du Soleil as part of the creation of TORUK - The First Flight. She toured with this show until it closed in 2019, during which time she was the principal female character, Tsyal, and performed a solo aerial silks number. In 2018, Gabrielle co-founded the aerial dance-theatre company, Ci and directed it’s first show, Limb(e)s with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, creative collaborators, and residencies at Cirkör LAB (SE), L’Espace Catastrophe (BE), and Le Centre de Création (FR). In 2019, she presented Limb(e)s at Montréal Complètement Cirque (CA), La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines (CA), and Assembly Festival at Edinburgh Festival Fringe (UK). Gabrielle recently completed a certificate in Circus Dramaturgy at the Centre National des Arts du Cirque (France, 2020) and an MA in Arts and Cultural Management (Rome Business School, 2021).

Cite this episode:

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Johal, Am. “Aerial Dance, Circus, and Artistic Production — with Gabrielle Martin” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, June 8, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/124-gabrielle-martin.html

Taiko drumming enthusiast and specialist in modern and contemporary Japanese art Namiko Kunimoto, joins Am Johal on this installment of Below the Radar. Throughout this episode, Namiko explores Japanese imperialism, Olympic dissent, and the internment of Japanese Canadians; while drawing from the works of artists such as Takayama Akira and Shimada Yoshiko.

Namiko and Am also critique the tendency for universities to be run from ivory towers that often overlook issues of poverty, racism and sexism. They speak about some successful bottom-up programs that have been beneficial for students of colour, and speak to the increased importance of these programs coming out of the pandemic. Namiko also explores how her familial history, and growing up as an Asian Canadian in rural BC and Alberta had led her to discover her passion for art history, and taiko drumming.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/123-namiko-kunimoto.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/123-namiko-kunimoto.html

Resources:

— OSU Center for Ethnic Studies: https://ethnicstudies.osu.edu/

— The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt1n2txrg

— Intimate Archives: Japanese-Canadian family photography, 1939–1949: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0141-6790.2004.02701005.x

— Olympic Dissent: Art, Politics, and the Tokyo Olympic Games of 1964 and 2020: https://apjjf.org/2018/15/Kunimoto.html

— Transpacific Erasures: Contemporary Art, Gender, Race and the Afterlives of Japanese Imperialism, in Progress

— Tsujimura Kazuko and the Body Object: https://apjjf.org/2021/3/Kunimoto.html

— A comprehensive list of Namiko’s writings and accomplishments: https://osu.academia.edu/NamikoKunimoto/CurriculumVitae

Bio:

Namiko Kunimoto’s work focuses on race, gender, and urbanization through art and visual culture. She has written on family photography during the Japanese-Canadian incarceration in “Intimate Archives: Japanese-Canadian Family Photography, 1939-1945,” on displacement and labour in “Olympic Dissent: Art, Politics, and the Tokyo Games,” and on the depiction of blackness in Japanese art in The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art.

As Director of the Center for Ethnic Studies at Ohio State University, she has organized community discussions on bystander training, panels on the incarceration of Japanese-American, Latino/a people & First Nations peoples at Fort Sil, and workshops on how to take action against racism during COVID-19.

Kunimoto’s awards include a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Fellowship, Japan Foundation Fellowships (2007 and 2016), a College Art Association Millard/Meiss Author Award, and the Ratner Award for Distinguished Teaching (2019). She has been a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and was the Vice-President of the Japanese Art History Forum for three years. Her next project, Transpacific Erasures: Contemporary Art, Gender, Race and the Afterlives of Japanese Imperialism, considers the Pacific War and its traumatic afterlives through the lens of contemporary artists in Japan and North America.

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Johal, Am. “The Stakes of Exposure — with Namiko Kunimoto” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, June 1, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/123-namiko-kunimoto.html