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Welcome to a new episode of Healing Futures, part of the Urban Health Council.

This conversation is between neuroscientist and health activist Araceli Camargo, data ethics and facilitator Daniel Akinola-Odusola, and medical student and climate campaigner Amit Singh. It is based on a body of work being produced within the Urban Health Council on what it means for children to grow up in states of crisis.

This project is not intended to alarm, but to put the child to old age health trajectory into the context of planetary dysregulation and its secondary effects. Currently, children are experiencing multiple stressors or pathways of poor health; forced displacement, family separation, pollution of water, land, and air, acute weather events, malnutrition, poverty, and a global pandemic that is causing long term effects.

In June 2022 the Urban Health Council put out the following work [https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/growing-up-in-crisis] and through 2023 the Urban Health Council has been convening members of the public and practitioners for open roundtables about the topic.

A little bit about Healing Futures:

Healing Futures are various futures created by all Peoples in Kinship with Nature for equitable access to various healing practices and knowledges.

If you liked this podcast please consider supporting it via our Patreon via patreon.com/centriclab or supporting directly through our website urbanhealthcouncil.com

“I am the extension of my territory, that’s healing”

- Angela Camacho

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Healing Imaginations is project that provides a time and space to Peoples to think about healing.

In time this space will turn into a robust digital library of healing practices rooted in Kinship and Solidarity.

You can read more about this project and the contributions from amazing, beautiful, and liberating voices from across the world at healingimaginations.org.

For this audio conversation we’re welcoming La Bonita Chola Angela Camacho. Angela is a community organiser of Indigenous Aymara-Quechua Peoples. An Ancestor in the making.

Angela's details

https://linktr.ee/thebonitachola

https://www.instagram.com/thebonitachola/

https://twitter.com/TheBonitaCholaa

Centric Lab details

https://www.healingimaginations.org/

https://www.thecentriclab.com/

https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab

"Every time we take a breath, we really must be grateful to these microbial life forms. They've produced the oxygen, allowing us to breathe"

Dr. Jake Robinson

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Healing Imaginations is project that provides a time and space to Peoples to think about healing. 

In time this space will turn into a robust digital library of healing practices rooted in Kinship and Solidarity with the Great Cosmic Energy and all Earthly siblings.

You can read more about this project and the contributions from amazing, beautiful, and liberating voices from across the world at healingimaginations.org.

For this audio conversation we would like to welcome microbial ecologist Jake Robinson to Healing Imaginations.

He will be guiding us to the tiny and yet abundant world of microbes.

We will learn about how they heal us and the planet as well as why they are our "Invisible Friends".

Jake also has a wonderful and expansive book about the microbial world called "Invisible Friends" if you are curious about taking a deeper dive into the vast world of microbes."

Jake's details

WEBSITE: https://www.jakemrobinson.com/

NON-AMAZON BOOK LINK: https://pelagicpublishing.com/collections/jake-robinson/products/invisible-friends-microbes-jake-robinson

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/_jake_robinson

Centric Lab details

https://www.healingimaginations.org/

https://www.thecentriclab.com/

https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has been used to blame people for their poor health, which helps propagate health injustice. As we go through the audio story we will be using certain linguistic baselines

*Nature and all living beings are referred to in a plural form as we are all ecosystems. We are all plural.

**The use of the letter “s” at the end of words such as knowledges is to signify that Indigeneity is not a monolith and holds multiple cultures, thoughts, and knowledges. It also is inclusive of non-human knowledges.

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Welcome to chapter 4, where Josh will open up with highlighting how “Right To Pollute” policies contribute to Planetary Dysregulation. This will then be followed by Rhiannon tracing the link between the practices of extractivism and health outcomes. 

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LINKS

Centric Lab | thecentriclab.com / https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab

Araceli Camargo | https://twitter.com/aracelicamargo_

Joshua Artus | https://twitter.com/Josh_Artus

Guppi Bola | https://twitter.com/guppikb

Rhiannon Osborne | https://twitter.com/rhiannon_osborn

https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/placemaking-for-public-health-place-health

https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/placemaking-for-public-health-creating-health-infrastructure

https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/urban-poverty-ptsd-climate-change-risk

https://southallandhayescleanair.org.uk/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/27/londoners-claim-toxic-air-from-gasworks-damaging-their-health

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3785-abolition-geography

https://truthout.org/audio/ruth-wilson-gilmore-on-abolition-the-climate-crisis-and-what-must-be-done/

For more work on this topic please go to https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has been used to blame people for their poor health, which helps propagate health injustice. As we go through the audio story we will be using certain linguistic baselines

*Nature and all living beings are referred to in a plural form as we are all ecosystems. We are all plural.

**The use of the letter “s” at the end of words such as knowledges is to signify that Indigeneity is not a monolith and holds multiple cultures, thoughts, and knowledges. It also is inclusive of non-human knowledges.

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This episode will open with Rhiannon who will be discussing how the system of capitalism affects our health systems. The section will end with Araceli describing how the individualisation of health narrative erases both Indigenous and non-human Kin healing knowledges.

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LINKS

Centric Lab | thecentriclab.com / https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab

Araceli Camargo | https://twitter.com/aracelicamargo_

Joshua Artus | https://twitter.com/Josh_Artus

Guppi Bola | https://twitter.com/guppikb

Rhiannon Osborne | https://twitter.com/rhiannon_osborn

https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-gendered-health

https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/health-as-ecological

https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/the-history-of-disease

https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/lived-experience-communities-health

https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/living-symbiotic-with-nature

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mis-Education_of_the_Negro

https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

For more work on this topic please go to https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has been used to blame people for their poor health, which helps propagate health injustice. As we go through the audio story we will be using certain linguistic baselines

*Nature and all living beings are referred to in a plural form as we are all ecosystems. We are all plural.

**The use of the letter “s” at the end of words such as knowledges is to signify that Indigeneity is not a monolith and holds multiple cultures, thoughts, and knowledges. It also is inclusive of non-human knowledges.

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In this episode, Guppi will be covering the epistemologies of supremacy and how they are used to imagine policies, understandings of health, and economies. This will be followed by Rhiannon who will be discussing the individualised perspective of health - where it comes from and who it serves.

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LINKS

Centric Lab | thecentriclab.com / https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab

Araceli Camargo | https://twitter.com/aracelicamargo_

Joshua Artus | https://twitter.com/Josh_Artus

Guppi Bola | https://twitter.com/guppikb

Rhiannon Osborne | https://twitter.com/rhiannon_osborn

https://decolonisingeconomics.org/

https://nimralph.com/

https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/organized-abandonment-with-ruth-wilson-gilmore

https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/gender-care-equity

https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/the-need-to-move-from-care-to-healing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Verg%C3%A8s

For more work on this topic please go to https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has been used to blame people for their poor health, which helps propagate health injustice. As we go through the audio story we will be using certain linguistic baselines

*Nature and all living beings are referred to in a plural form as we are all ecosystems. We are all plural.

**The use of the letter “s” at the end of words such as knowledges is to signify that Indigeneity is not a monolith and holds multiple cultures, thoughts, and knowledges. It also is inclusive of non-human knowledges.

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In this episode, Araceli Camargo will be providing a working definition of health, breaking down the factors of planetary dysregulation and the physiological links to health.

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LINKS

Centric Lab | thecentriclab.com / https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab

Araceli Camargo | https://twitter.com/aracelicamargo_

Joshua Artus | https://twitter.com/Josh_Artus

Guppi Bola | https://twitter.com/guppikb

Rhiannon Osborne | https://twitter.com/rhiannon_osborn

https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/the-planetary-dysregulation

https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-nature-health

https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/health-as-ecological

For more work on this topic please go to https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/

Sarah Le Brocq is a person living with obesity and is the founder of All About Obesity http://allaboutobesity.org, is a Director & Lay Member at NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, and member of the All Party Parliamentary Group of Obesity in the UK.

Charlotte Kemp sat down with her to speak on her experience with the disease as well as how she is moving towards health justice.

To read more about our work on chronic disease and urban living please go to www.urbanhealthcouncil.com

Please consider supporting the non-profit Urban Health Council via our Patreon account: https://www.patreon.com/centriclab

Welcome to our first audio report as part of the Healing Futures programme

This is a discussion on the history of disease, part research and part discussion, between Araceli Camargo, Elahi Hossain, Hannah Yu-Pearson, and Rhiannon Osborne.

When we look at the history of human health and disease, research suggests there have been three epidemiological transitions - that is, changes in the patterns of death and disease - across the human timeline.

+ The first transition was the age of pestilence and famine - this occurred around 10,000 years as human societies moved away from a nomadic, hunter gatherer lifestyle to embrace the agricultural revolution and form agrarian societies.

+ The second transition was the age of receding pandemic - which occurred in tandem with the industrial revolution.

+ The third transition is the age of degenerative and human-made diseases and ageing populations which we are currently within.

And what's becoming clearer is that our modern environments are not suited to our biological architecture.

Listen, enjoy, subscribe and please go to https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/support to keep this series going.

Welcome to a new series on the City Centric channel: Healing Futures.

Healing Futures are various futures created by all Peoples in Kinship with Nature for equitable access to various healing practices and knowledges.

We launch with Amit Singh, a medical student and climate justice advocate, he is also part of the Punjabi community. All of these factors contribute to how he frames health, healing, and justice. We sat down with him for a long conversation on ecological health which is our Urban Health Council research theme for Q1 2022. We cover the Indian Farmers protest, the role of love in healing, and the sacred nature of water.

If you liked this podcast please consider supporting it via our Patreon: www.patreon.com/centriclab

Do check out the report on Ecological Health at https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/health-as-ecological.