Siv Watkins: Intimacy with the microbial world (ep408)
Siv Watkins on what microanimism means, considering the agency of microbial beings, how bacteria challenge concepts of self, and more.
Patricia Kaishian: Lessons from fungi as queer companions (ep407)
Patricia Kaishian on mycology as a queer discipline, the relationship between fungi and peoples of Armenian diaspora, naming as a practice of honoring, and more.
Eshe Lewis: Black anthropology and streamlining storytelling (ep406)
Eshe Lewis on Black anthroplogy, streamlining storytelling, her research with Afro-Peruvian women, and more.
Lama Khatieb: Reclaiming local knowledge for food interdependence (ep405)
Lama Khatieb on food interdependence, Al-Barakeh, Jordanian farming, wheat production, local food knowledge, community empowerment
Daniel Ruiz-Serna: Living territories and the ecological violence of war (Ep404)
Daniel Ruiz-Serna on human and more-than-human rights, the ecological violence of war, living territories in Bajo Atrato, Columbia, and more.
Aparna Venkatesan: Protecting space as ancestral global commons (Ep402)
Dr. Aparna Venkatesan on night sky heritage, interplanetary justice, cosmos, Indigenous wisdom, space commons, privatization, extractive colonial legacies, science
Melissa K. Nelson: Living in storied and moral landscapes (Ep401)
Melissa Nelson on reclaiming sustainability, Turtle Island, ancestry, heritage, composting, regenerating, death, decay, plants, justice, place, cosmology, relationality
Anand Giridharadas: Expanding empathy and breaking political binaries (Ep400)
Anand Giridharadas on philanthropy and the elite “change-making,” call-out and call-in cultures, building empathy and moving beyond political binaries, and more.
Vince Beiser: The global sand trade and how it remade ‘modernity’ (Ep399)
Vince Beiser on the history of how sand remade western civilization's blueprints of modernity, our global reliance on sand trade and black markets of sand, and more
Helena Norberg-Hodge: Artisanal futures and economics of happiness (ep398)
Helena Norberg-Hodge on localization, decentralization, globalization, technology, new economies, community-lead economies, local futures
Rosamund Portus: A preemptive mourning of bee decline (ep397)
Rosamund Portus on bee/insect species extinction, slow violence, multi-species entanglement, ecological grief, art, creativity, and advocacy
Staci K. Haines: Somatics for trauma healing and transformative justice (ep396)
Staci K. Haines on somatics, power-over dynamics, hierarchies, and collective interdependence
Andreas Weber: The ecological dimension of love (ep395)
Andreas Weber on the ecological dimension of love, seeing the biosphere as a meaning-creating and poetic reality, and more.
Vijay Prashad: Reviving collective life and scaling small gestures of care (ep394)
Vijay Prashad on scaling up gestures of humanity, reviving our collective lives through rebuilding confidence and capacity, and more.