Disrupt: A Revolutionary Critical Podcast

Join us for a conversation about the intersection between environmental justice and critical race, queer, and feminist theories with Dr. Priscilla Wald, Professor of  English and former Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. In her research, her teaching, and her professional activities, Dr. Wald is committed to promoting conversations among scholars from science, medicine, law, and cultural studies in order to facilitate a richer understanding of how information circulates through language, images, and stories to shape lived experience. She is currently at work on a book-length study entitled Human Being After Genocide. This work chronicles the challenge to conceptions of human being that emerged from scientific and technological innovation in the wake of the Second World War and from the social and political thought of that period, which addressed the geopolitical transformations that followed the war and decolonization movements.

Environmental Justice: An Interview With Robert Bullard

Environment and Morality: Confronting Environmental Racism in the United States

Natural Resources Defense Council: The Principles of Environmental Justice

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, “Land as Pedagogy: Nishnaabeg Intelligence and Rebellious Transformation” (Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society Vol. 3, No. 3, 2014, pp. 1-25);

Kyle Powys Whyte, “Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene” (English Language Notes 55.1-2 (Fall 2017)

Zoe Todd, “Indigenizing the Anthropocene.” Pp. 241- in Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environment and Epistemology. (2015) Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin, editors. Open Humanities Press.

Dana Luciano: The Inhuman Anthropocene

Joshua Lederberg: Infectious History

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

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Disrupt is recorded and produced by Gabriella Gricius and Bridgett Neff-Hickman on the traditional and unceded territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations and peoples.

Join us for a conversation with Marisol Maddox about climate change, the role of critical theories in policymaking, and how grief and trauma manifest in our current political climate. Marisol is an Arctic analyst at the Polar Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, a non-resident research fellow at the Center for Climate & Security, a member of Foreign Policy for America’s NextGen Initiative, and a part-time master’s student at George Mason University studying international security with a focus on transnational threats. 

The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

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Disrupt is recorded and produced by Gabriella Gricius and Bridgett Neff-Hickman on the traditional and unceded territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations and peoples.

SmartICE Sea Ice Monitoring and Information Inc. is a community-oriented organization offering climate change adaptation tools that are designed to incorporate sea-ice monitoring data with local indigenous knowledge of sea ice conditions, which can contribute to more informed decision making with regards to land, water and sea ice travel.  Climate change is impacting northern Indigenous communities faster than anywhere in the world.  As sea ice is vital to life in the north, connecting communities and essentially serving as a highway for people to travel and hunt for food, the SmartICE monitoring systems provide invaluable, data-driven insights into sea ice conditions in near real-time. As an award-winning social enterprise, SmartICE hires local Indigenous youth to manufacture and monitor their systems.  To date, SmartICE has operations in Nain, Nunatsiavut; Pond Inlet and Gjoa Haven, Nunavut; and monitoring equipment has been established in 24 communities across Inuit Nunangat, with expansion ongoing.

Katherine Wilson | Department of Geography

Trevor Bell | Department of Geography

Sea-Ice Knowledge for Travel Safety by Inuit for Inuit

Changing the role of non-Indigenous research partners in practice to support Inuit self-determination in research

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Disrupt is recorded and produced by Gabriella Gricius and Bridgett Neff-Hickman on the traditional and unceded territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations and peoples.

Welcome to Disrupt! 

We're two political science graduate students seeking to analyze international relations from non-western perspectives. This episode is an introduction to the two of us and what you can expect to hear on Disrupt. If you're interested in being featured as a critical scholar or activist, we'd love to have you! We'll be addressing theories like postcolonial and decolonial theory, queer theory, feminist theory, and green theory (just to name a few) to cover broad issues like climate change, nuclear proliferation, war in the Middle East, great power competition between the US and Russia and the US and China and many more. 

Follow us on Twitter @disruptrcp or email us at [email protected].

Disrupt is recorded and produced by Gabriella Gricius and Bridgett Neff-Hickman on the traditional and unceded territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations and peoples.