Trained historians Chloe Ward and Emma Shortis discuss the big issues of our time. The pair didn't predict Brexit, Trump or the Australian election. So, they're slowing down to try and figure out what is going on. Barely Gettin' By is sponsored by RMIT.
Join a live recording of the podcast Barely Gettin' By as host Emma Shortis and special guests Jeff Sparrow and Mittul Vahanvati discuss the necessity of imagining different futures, local activism, action-based research and governments' roles.
Be part of the audience for a live recording of the podcast Barely Gettin' By, hosted by Emma Shortis and featuring special guests: James Blackwell, Mittul Vahanvati and Jeff Sparrow. Forming part of Barely Getting By's fourth season, “Up in Flames”, this event will examine climate policy as a global modern imperative.Tue 10 May - 6pm – 7pmThe Capitol – RMIT113 Swanston Street Melbourne 3000Tickets are free and available here: https://www.eventopia.co/event/MKW-Barely-Gettin-By-Radical-Hope/475617
Barely Gettin' By might be on a lockdown hiatus, but the climate news keeps coming. In the lead up to the all-important COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, this special episode examines the historic relationship between Australia and the United States when it comes to climate change. Emma reads an extract from her book, Our Exceptional Friend: Australia's Fatal Alliance with the United States, and asks what that relationship might mean for Glasgow, and the future.ReadingEmma Shortis, Our Exceptional Friend: Australia's Fatal Alliance with the United States (Hardie Grant, 2021), https://www.hardiegrant.com/au/publishing/bookfinder/book/our-exceptional-friend-by-emma-shortis/9781743797839Climate Council Australia, From Paris to Glasgow: A World on the Move, 21 October 2021, https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/paris-glasgow-world-move/Wesley Morgan, “What is COP26 and why does the fate of Earth, and Australia's prosperity, depend on it?” The Conversation, 14 October 2021, https://theconversation.com/what-is-cop26-and-why-does-the-fate-of-earth-and-australias-prosperity-depend-on-it-169648Angela Dewan, “Australia is shaping up to be the villain of COP26 climate talks,” CNN, 13 September 2021, https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/12/australia/australia-climate-cop26-cmd-intl/index.htmlMichael Slezak and Penny Timms, ‘Climate change report from IPCC a 'code red for humanity', United Nations chief warns' ABC News Online, 9 August 2021, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-09/coal-climate-change-global-warming-ipcc-report-released/100355952
With Melbourne in the midst of Lockdown 5.0, we will be taking a short break until we can get back in to the studio again.
Donald Trump is gone, the pandemic is getting under control (in some places, maybe?), and all is well. Not.
After a long 2020 (and a very long January 2021) Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States on the morning Thursday, 21 January (Australian time). What does a Presidential Inauguration look like when it’s overshadowed by a pandemic and threat of insurrectionist violence? Chloe and Emma talk about what what we can expect on Thursday, how Australia’s relationship with the USA will change after Donald Trump, what the violence on 6 January means, and what the Inauguration may tell us about the coming Biden Presidency.Emma’s editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald https://www.smh.com.au/national/there-s-a-lot-of-blame-to-go-around-for-the-chaos-in-the-capitol-but-some-belongs-to-australia-20210107-p56sfg.htmlThe Wall Street Journal put together a guide to events on the dayhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/inauguration-guide-schedule-of-events-performances-and-how-to-watch-11610730674“Scott Morrison says 'Chinese Government should be totally ashamed' of 'repugnant' tweet”, ABC, 30 November 2020, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-30/china-fake-image-australian-war-crimes-afghanistan-tensions/12934538
In the last episode of the season, Emma and Chloe reflect on Joe Biden’s victory and Trump’s refusal to concede. They look at how institutions and people are responding to Trump, and whether Fox News has finally seen the light. They ask if Trump is in fact attempting a coup, whether it will be successful, and whether fascism has to be successful in order to be called “fascism”. They then turn to the levers of power, looking at what will happen in Georgia and what that says about the future of American democracy.LinksSamuel Moyn, “How Trump Won,” New York Review of Books, 9 November 2020, https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/11/09/how-trump-won/Joe Guinan and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, “After Trump, before Biden: What’s next for the American left?” Renewal, 10 November 2020, https://renewal.org.uk/after-trump-before-biden-whats-next-for-the-american-left/And don’t forget to subscribe to the Barely Getting By newsletter: https://confirmsubscription.com/h/r/3B47D9547CCBBA3E2540EF23F30FEDED
A very tired Emma and Chloe regroup, two days after polls closed to discuss the election. Were the polls wrong? What does Georgia say about American democracy? What next for the Democratic Party? A lot of things are still uncertain—and will remain so for the coming days and weeks—but one thing is clear: Donald Trump’s vote isn’t going away, even if he leaves the White House.Articleshttps://slate.com/culture/2020/11/election-2020-haruspex-model-sheep-entrails-deformed-fetuses-biden-trump-florida-democracy-in-action.html
In this bonus, pre-election episode, Chloe and Emma speak to Matt Bevan, ABC Radio journalist and host of the America, If You’re Listening Podcast, about the past four years of the Trump Presidency, the relationship between journalism and history, and whether it’s possible—or desirable—to predict an outcome in the 2020 Presidential Election. Chloe and Emma then pick up their conversation about contingency in history and why caring about the election is part of, not a distraction from, analysing what’s happening in America.LinksABC Radio: America, If You’re Listening https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/russia-if-youre-listening/Chloe and Emma on the long crisis of American Democracy in the Sydney Morning Herald https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/it-s-up-to-people-power-to-overcome-a-system-that-trump-has-trashed-20201029-p569m6.htmlThe Vanity Fair article that made Chloe cry https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/becoming-aoc-cover-story-2020
In this episode, Chloe and Emma welcome a very special guest - Dr Elizabeth Ingelson, Henry Chauncey Jr. ’57 Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University. Joining them from New Haven, Connecticut, Lizzie discusses what it is like to live in Trump’s America. They cover how the United States is responding to pandemic, Lizzie’s experience in rural Pennsylvania, and the volatile state of American politics.They then turn to Lizzie’s expertise—the history of the United States and China. Lizzie brings extraordinary complexity and understanding to what is an otherwise impoverished conversation both in the US and here at home. She explains why ‘strategic competition’ is dangerous, Trump’s connections to the history the relationship, and why climate change overshadows everything.LinksDr Elizabeth Ingleson - https://www.elizabethingleson.com/ or on Twitter: lizinglesonFor some of Lizzie’s writing, see https://www.elizabethingleson.com/opinionCarol Anderson, One Person, No Vote - How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy, Bloomsbury, 2018. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/one-person-no-vote-9781635571387/Subscribe to our newsletter here https://confirmsubscription.com/h/r/3B47D9547CCBBA3E2540EF23F30FEDED
In this episode, Chloe and Emma talk about how Joe Biden has linked the personal and the political throughout a long and successful career. But could the 2020 election force the two apart? They also speak to special guest, press gallery legend Barrie Cassidy, about past presidencies, this year’s election, and what it all means for Australia. Finally, Emma answers a question that still worries us: Despite Biden’s seemingly secure position in polls, what if Donald Trump refuses to leave office?LinksFintan O’Toole, ‘The Designated Mourner’, New York Review of Books, 16 January 2020, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/01/16/joe-biden-designated-mourner/Siva Vaidhyanathan, ‘The Hunter Biden story was a test for tech platforms. They barely passed’, Guardian, 20 October 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/19/hunter-biden-story-big-tech-facebook-twitterSubscribe to our newsletter here https://confirmsubscription.com/h/r/3B47D9547CCBBA3E2540EF23F30FEDED
This week, Chloe and Emma try (and fail) to lighten things up with a discussion of the young, progressive congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, shoes … and fracking. They also talk about the first ‘television president’ and why JFK’s Presidency might be a weird mirror for Donald Trump’s. And, in a week where polls seem to show Joe Biden set for victory, they discuss the history and the so-called “science” of polling, where pollsters went wrong in 2016 and whether they can redeem themselves in 2020.Links‘Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wore the Most Divisive Version of These Already-Controversial Comfy Shoes’, https://www.instyle.com/look-of-the-day/2020-09-14‘The Electoral College is also a Climate Problem’ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/electoral-college-also-climate-problem/616347/
This week, we can’t not talk about the President of the United States contracting coronavirus. But instead of speculating about Trump’s illness and what it might mean, Emma and Chloe discuss what it reveals about American healthcare. They also take a look at the Senate, and how some previously safe seats like Lindsay Graham’s in South Carolina have some Republicans worried this election cycle.They also take a look at the role of the media in US politics, and the legacy of the Watergate scandal of the 1970s. Watergate reshaped the relationship between the White House and journalism; journalists became focused on accountability, but also on glamourous, ‘gotcha’ moments, helping to create a journalistic tradition removed from the public interest.Finally, Emma and Chloe take a look at why Americans do and don’t vote, explaining just how different our own compulsory voting system is to a voluntary system mired by racist voter suppression.Links:Felipe De La Hoz in the New Republic on the vast inequalities of American healthcare: https://newrepublic.com/article/159550/covid-symptoms-outlast-insuranceSlate covers the South Carolina Senate race: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/lindsey-graham-jaime-harrison-south-carolina-senate.htmlAnd don’t forget to subscribe to the Barely Getting By newsletter: https://confirmsubscription.com/h/r/3B47D9547CCBBA3E2540EF23F30FEDED
Chloe and Emma discuss how Aaron Sorkin’s the West Wing went from an alternate-world liberal consolation prize in the early 2000s, to playbook for the Obama White House, and now back again in the age of Trump.They also talk through what might happen if (when?) Trump contests the 2020 election, and how the Republican Party took advantage of an unclear result in 2000, leading to George W. Bush’s victory in the Supreme Court.They also explore the Electoral College, and its origins in 19th century mistrust of the voting public and the oldest American institution—slavery.Links:Aaron Sorkin writes the script for election night, 2020 https://variety.com/2020/film/festivals/aaron-sorkin-the-trial-of-the-chicago-7-san-sebastian-1234781014/Corey Robin on ‘the Obamanauts’ https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-obamanautsBarton Gellman on the interregnum: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/And don’t forget to subscribe to the Barely Getting By newsletter: https://confirmsubscription.com/h/r/3B47D9547CCBBA3E2540EF23F30FEDED
In the first episode of Season 3, This American Carnage, Emma looks at the way climate change and the West Coast fires are covered by the New York Times, while Chloe looks at vaccine nationalism and the politics of Big Pharma. They discuss the much-mythologized New Deal and whether President Joe Biden would be the new Franklin Roosevelt. And finally, they explain the powers the President holds and their limits.This time around, Emma and Chloe are adding something new: a weekly newsletter covering the history behind the major events of this election cycle, plus some recommended readings to guide you through the overwhelming onslaught of news, think-pieces and hot takes. You can subscribe here: https://confirmsubscription.com/h/r/3B47D9547CCBBA3E2540EF23F30FEDEDStoriesChristopher Flavelle, “How California became ground zero for climate change,” New York Times, 30 September 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/climate/california-climate-change-fires.htmlAdam Tooze, “The World Is Winning—and Losing—the Vaccine Race,” Foreign Policy, 19 September 2020 https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/19/the-world-is-losing-the-vaccine-race/Joe Biden on the New Yorker Radio Hour https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/id1050430296?i=1000488913623
In the year 2020 where everything seems to have gone wrong, your often confused, occasionally insightful and (sometimes) optimistic hosts Emma and Chloe are once again making sense of the present by looking at the past.In season three our historical experts go back four years, to when the world turned on its head when Donald Trump won the US Presidential election and set the stage for the now tumultuous present the United States finds itself in.This season, Shortis and Ward are using history to navigate and make sense of what is undoubtedly a turning point in the United States’ future. Across eight episodes they’ll break down key moments in the 2020 campaign, campaigns past, and the inner workings of American democracy.Why does a Green New Deal need to be much more ambitious than its much-mythologised predecessor, Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s?How did Watergate shape the fourth estate’s relationship with the White House to this day, and why did America’s pundit class insist on taking the wrong lessons from the scandal?And for those of us increasingly confused by the ins and outs of the Electoral College, which has determined the fate of so many would-be presidents, learn how the origins of the system can be traced to America’s oldest and most maligned tradition of all – slavery.Barely Getting' By Season 3 launches Thursday 24 September – and this time around, Emma and Chloe are adding something new: a weekly newsletter covering the history behind the major events of this election cycle, plus some recommended readings to guide you through the overwhelming onslaught.Subscribe to the newsletter here https://confirmsubscription.com/h/r/3B47D9547CCBBA3E2540EF23F30FEDED
11.1 Battle for Seattle11.2 the Algebra of Infinite Justice11.3 Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)In this final episode, Chloe and Emma look at two, possible end dates for the 1990s: the 1999 Battle for Seattle, and 9/11. They then explore how Francis Fukuyama’s ‘End of History’ was replaced by a ‘Clash of Civilisations’, what other stories they could have told about the 1990s, and try to answer the question of whether the long 1990s ever ended?LinksHarry Cheadle, How Seattle Police in 1999 Set the Terrible Example Others Have Followed Ever Since, Daily Beast, 14 June 2020 https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-seattle-police-in-1999-set-the-terrible-example-others-have-followed-sinceMark Engler, The Legacy of “Anti-Globalization”, Dissent, 19 September 2011,https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-legacy-of-anti-globalizationFeyzi Ismael, Protest has helped define the first two decades of the 21st century – here’s what’s next, The Conversation, 30 December 2019, https://theconversation.com/protest-has-helped-define-the-first-two-decades-of-the-21st-century-heres-whats-next-128745Dara Lind, Everyone's heard of the Patriot Act. Here's what it actually does, Vox, 2 June 2015, https://www.vox.com/2015/6/2/8701499/patriot-act-explainMax Fisher, Lessons of the Oklahoma City Bombing, The Atlantic, 19 April 2010, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/04/lessons-of-the-oklahoma-city-bombing/345921/Jamelle Bouie, The March of White Supremacy, From Oklahoma City to Christchurch, 18 March 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/opinion/mcveigh-new-zealand-white-supremacy.htmlJ.M. Berger, The Strategy of Violent White Supremacy is Evolving, The Atlantic, 7 August 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/the-new-strategy-of-violent-white-supremacy/595648/Annika Neklason, The Columbine Blueprint, The Atlantic, 19 April 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/columbines-20th-anniversary-mass-media-shooting/587359/Rachel Tresiman, Poll: Number Of Americans Who Favor Stricter Gun Laws Continues ToGrow, NPR, 20 October 2019, https://www.npr.org/2019/10/20/771278167/poll-number-of-americans-who-favor-stricter-gun-laws-continues-to-growArundhati Roy, My Seditious Heart (particularly “the Algebra of Infinite Justice”), Penguin 2019https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/1993-06-01/clash-civilizationsArundhati Roy, ‘Things Can’t Go On Like This’, National Herald, 20 July 2020, https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/things-cant-go-on-like-this-author-activist-arundhati-roy-writes-to-jailed-friend-prof-saibabaCreditsBattle in Seattle, 1999 - AP ArchivesGeorge W. Bush Excerpts, Sept. & Nov. 2001 - George W. Bush Presidential Library & Museum
11.1 Battle for Seattle11.2 the Algebra of Infinite Justice11.3 Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)In this final episode, Chloe and Emma look at two, possible end dates for the 1990s: the 1999 Battle for Seattle, and 9/11. They then explore how Francis Fukuyama’s ‘End of History’ was replaced by a ‘Clash of Civilisations’, what other stories they could have told about the 1990s, and try to answer the question of whether the long 1990s ever ended?LinksHarry Cheadle, How Seattle Police in 1999 Set the Terrible Example Others Have Followed Ever Since, Daily Beast, 14 June 2020 https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-seattle-police-in-1999-set-the-terrible-example-others-have-followed-sinceMark Engler, The Legacy of “Anti-Globalization”, Dissent, 19 September 2011,https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-legacy-of-anti-globalizationFeyzi Ismael, Protest has helped define the first two decades of the 21st century – here’s what’s next, The Conversation, 30 December 2019, https://theconversation.com/protest-has-helped-define-the-first-two-decades-of-the-21st-century-heres-whats-next-128745Dara Lind, Everyone's heard of the Patriot Act. Here's what it actually does, Vox, 2 June 2015, https://www.vox.com/2015/6/2/8701499/patriot-act-explainMax Fisher, Lessons of the Oklahoma City Bombing, The Atlantic, 19 April 2010, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/04/lessons-of-the-oklahoma-city-bombing/345921/Jamelle Bouie, The March of White Supremacy, From Oklahoma City to Christchurch, 18 March 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/opinion/mcveigh-new-zealand-white-supremacy.htmlJ.M. Berger, The Strategy of Violent White Supremacy is Evolving, The Atlantic, 7 August 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/the-new-strategy-of-violent-white-supremacy/595648/Annika Neklason, The Columbine Blueprint, The Atlantic, 19 April 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/columbines-20th-anniversary-mass-media-shooting/587359/Rachel Tresiman, Poll: Number Of Americans Who Favor Stricter Gun Laws Continues ToGrow, NPR, 20 October 2019, https://www.npr.org/2019/10/20/771278167/poll-number-of-americans-who-favor-stricter-gun-laws-continues-to-growArundhati Roy, My Seditious Heart (particularly “the Algebra of Infinite Justice”), Penguin 2019https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/1993-06-01/clash-civilizationsArundhati Roy, ‘Things Can’t Go On Like This’, National Herald, 20 July 2020, https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/things-cant-go-on-like-this-author-activist-arundhati-roy-writes-to-jailed-friend-prof-saibabaCreditsBattle in Seattle, 1999 - AP ArchivesGeorge W. Bush Excerpts, Sept. & Nov. 2001 - George W. Bush Presidential Library & Museum
11.1 Battle for Seattle11.2 the Algebra of Infinite Justice11.3 Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)In this final episode, Chloe and Emma look at two, possible end dates for the 1990s: the 1999 Battle for Seattle, and 9/11. They then explore how Francis Fukuyama’s ‘End of History’ was replaced by a ‘Clash of Civilisations’, what other stories they could have told about the 1990s, and try to answer the question of whether the long 1990s ever ended?LinksHarry Cheadle, How Seattle Police in 1999 Set the Terrible Example Others Have Followed Ever Since, Daily Beast, 14 June 2020 https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-seattle-police-in-1999-set-the-terrible-example-others-have-followed-sinceMark Engler, The Legacy of “Anti-Globalization”, Dissent, 19 September 2011,https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-legacy-of-anti-globalizationFeyzi Ismael, Protest has helped define the first two decades of the 21st century – here’s what’s next, The Conversation, 30 December 2019, https://theconversation.com/protest-has-helped-define-the-first-two-decades-of-the-21st-century-heres-whats-next-128745Dara Lind, Everyone's heard of the Patriot Act. Here's what it actually does, Vox, 2 June 2015, https://www.vox.com/2015/6/2/8701499/patriot-act-explainMax Fisher, Lessons of the Oklahoma City Bombing, The Atlantic, 19 April 2010, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/04/lessons-of-the-oklahoma-city-bombing/345921/Jamelle Bouie, The March of White Supremacy, From Oklahoma City to Christchurch, 18 March 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/opinion/mcveigh-new-zealand-white-supremacy.htmlJ.M. Berger, The Strategy of Violent White Supremacy is Evolving, The Atlantic, 7 August 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/the-new-strategy-of-violent-white-supremacy/595648/Annika Neklason, The Columbine Blueprint, The Atlantic, 19 April 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/columbines-20th-anniversary-mass-media-shooting/587359/Rachel Tresiman, Poll: Number Of Americans Who Favor Stricter Gun Laws Continues ToGrow, NPR, 20 October 2019, https://www.npr.org/2019/10/20/771278167/poll-number-of-americans-who-favor-stricter-gun-laws-continues-to-growArundhati Roy, My Seditious Heart (particularly “the Algebra of Infinite Justice”), Penguin 2019https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/1993-06-01/clash-civilizationsArundhati Roy, ‘Things Can’t Go On Like This’, National Herald, 20 July 2020, https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/things-cant-go-on-like-this-author-activist-arundhati-roy-writes-to-jailed-friend-prof-saibabaCreditsBattle in Seattle, 1999 - AP ArchivesGeorge W. Bush Excerpts, Sept. & Nov. 2001 - George W. Bush Presidential Library & Museum
Episode 10: The Palace LettersIt’s a historical emergency! With the release of the ‘Palace Letters’ this week historians and journalists are promising answers to decades of questions about the 1975 Dismissal of the Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. Chloe and Emma aren’t so sure. In this episode, they explain why the Palace Letters are important, how the media got the story wrong, and how historians can approach this new information.LinksJenny Hocking, ‘The big reveal: Jenny Hocking on what the ‘palace letters’ may tell us, finally, about The Dismissal’, The Conversation, 14 July 2020, https://theconversation.com/the-big-reveal-jenny-hocking-on-what-the-palace-letters-may-tell-us-finally-about-the-dismissal-142473Guy Rundle’s series on the ‘Whitlam coup’, Crikey, 2015, https://www.crikey.com.au/topic/whitlam-coup/... And Guy Rundle’s first go at reading the Palace Letters https://www.crikey.com.au/2020/07/15/if-you-cant-see-the-palace-played-politics-youre-fooling-yourself-or-trying-to-fool-others-%ef%bb%bf/?utm_campaign=Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletterThe ElecnMark Mazower, ‘Clear, Inclusive, and Lasting’, New York Review of Books, 23 July 2020, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/07/23/eric-hobsbawm-clear-inclusive-lasting/Gough Whitlam dismissal speech excerpt - 1975, ABC News
E9: Standing in Front of a BoyE9.1 My Heart Will Go OnEmma and Chloe confront the ghosts of pretty boys past, in this episode where they look at white masculinity in the 1990s and its legacy. They explore the careers of Leonardo DiCaprio and Hugh Grant, and how their careers and reputations have survived into the present while others’ didn’t. They also consider the ‘grunge’ movement, and how claims for the dissolution of the boundaries between men and women, despite some success, also left many women behind.LinksJames Hibberd, “Vanilla Ice throwing Fourth of July concert: 'We didn't have coronavirus' in the '90s,” Entertainment Weekly, 1 July 2020, https://ew.com/music/vanilla-ice-4th-of-july-concert-coronavirus/?utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_entertainmentweekly&utm_content=new&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=5efd1c86621aa70001d0241aAlan Riding, “Why 'Titanic' Conquered the World,” The New York Times, 26 April 1998, https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/26/movies/why-titanic-conquered-the-world.htmlTatiana Siegel, “"His Brand Is Excellence": How Leonardo DiCaprio Became Hollywood's Last Movie Star,” Hollywood Reporter, 22 July 2019, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/how-leonardo-dicaprio-became-hollywoods-last-movie-star-1225416Jason Rodrigues, “Hugh Grant arrested with sex worker 20 years ago,” The Guardian, 26 June 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/film/from-the-archive-blog/2015/jun/26/hugh-grant-arrest-prostitute-divine-brown-20-1995#_=_Darragh McManus, “Just 20 years on, grunge seems like ancient history,” The Guardian, 1 November 2008, https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2008/oct/31/grungeChioma Nnadi, “Why Kurt Cobain Was One of the Most Influential Style Icons of Our Times,” Vouge, 8 April 2014, https://www.vogue.com/article/kurt-cobain-legacy-of-grunge-in-fashionDouble J, “The 50 most important female artists of the 90s,” ABC Online, 16 June 2017, https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/music-reads/features/the-50-most-important-female-artists-of-the-90s/10267896Allison Yarrow, “How the ’90s Tricked Women Into Thinking They’d Gained Gender Equality,” Time, 13 June 2018, https://time.com/5310256/90s-gender-equality-progress/Evelynn McDonnell and Elisabeth Vincentelli, “Riot Grrrl United Feminism and Punk. Here’s an Essential Listening Guide,” The New York Times, 6 May 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/03/arts/music/riot-grrrl-playlist.htmlEl Hunt, “A brief history of Riot Grrrl – the space-reclaiming 90s punk movement,” NME, 27 August 2019, https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/brief-history-riot-grrrl-space-reclaiming-90s-punk-movement-2542166Hugh Grant on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, 1995, NBC Studios & NBC ProductionsWayne’s World, 1992 Paramount PicturesTitanic, 1997 Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox and Lightstorm Entertainment
E9: Standing in Front of a BoyE9.2 Oopsy DaisyEmma and Chloe confront the ghosts of pretty boys past, in this episode where they look at white masculinity in the 1990s and its legacy. They explore the careers of Leonardo DiCaprio and Hugh Grant, and how their careers and reputations have survived into the present while others’ didn’t. They also consider the ‘grunge’ movement, and how claims for the dissolution of the boundaries between men and women, despite some success, also left many women behind.LinksJames Hibberd, “Vanilla Ice throwing Fourth of July concert: 'We didn't have coronavirus' in the '90s,” Entertainment Weekly, 1 July 2020, https://ew.com/music/vanilla-ice-4th-of-july-concert-coronavirus/?utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_entertainmentweekly&utm_content=new&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=5efd1c86621aa70001d0241aAlan Riding, “Why 'Titanic' Conquered the World,” The New York Times, 26 April 1998, https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/26/movies/why-titanic-conquered-the-world.htmlTatiana Siegel, “"His Brand Is Excellence": How Leonardo DiCaprio Became Hollywood's Last Movie Star,” Hollywood Reporter, 22 July 2019, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/how-leonardo-dicaprio-became-hollywoods-last-movie-star-1225416Jason Rodrigues, “Hugh Grant arrested with sex worker 20 years ago,” The Guardian, 26 June 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/film/from-the-archive-blog/2015/jun/26/hugh-grant-arrest-prostitute-divine-brown-20-1995#_=_Darragh McManus, “Just 20 years on, grunge seems like ancient history,” The Guardian, 1 November 2008, https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2008/oct/31/grungeChioma Nnadi, “Why Kurt Cobain Was One of the Most Influential Style Icons of Our Times,” Vouge, 8 April 2014, https://www.vogue.com/article/kurt-cobain-legacy-of-grunge-in-fashionDouble J, “The 50 most important female artists of the 90s,” ABC Online, 16 June 2017, https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/music-reads/features/the-50-most-important-female-artists-of-the-90s/10267896Allison Yarrow, “How the ’90s Tricked Women Into Thinking They’d Gained Gender Equality,” Time, 13 June 2018, https://time.com/5310256/90s-gender-equality-progress/Evelynn McDonnell and Elisabeth Vincentelli, “Riot Grrrl United Feminism and Punk. Here’s an Essential Listening Guide,” The New York Times, 6 May 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/03/arts/music/riot-grrrl-playlist.htmlEl Hunt, “A brief history of Riot Grrrl – the space-reclaiming 90s punk movement,” NME, 27 August 2019, https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/brief-history-riot-grrrl-space-reclaiming-90s-punk-movement-2542166Hugh Grant on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, 1995, NBC Studios & NBC ProductionsWayne’s World, 1992 Paramount PicturesTitanic, 1997 Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox and Lightstorm Entertainment
E9: Standing in Front of a BoyE9.3: CassandraEmma and Chloe confront the ghosts of pretty boys past, in this episode where they look at white masculinity in the 1990s and its legacy. They explore the careers of Leonardo DiCaprio and Hugh Grant, and how their careers and reputations have survived into the present while others’ didn’t. They also consider the ‘grunge’ movement, and how claims for the dissolution of the boundaries between men and women, despite some success, also left many women behind.LinksJames Hibberd, “Vanilla Ice throwing Fourth of July concert: 'We didn't have coronavirus' in the '90s,” Entertainment Weekly, 1 July 2020, https://ew.com/music/vanilla-ice-4th-of-july-concert-coronavirus/?utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_entertainmentweekly&utm_content=new&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=5efd1c86621aa70001d0241aAlan Riding, “Why 'Titanic' Conquered the World,” The New York Times, 26 April 1998, https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/26/movies/why-titanic-conquered-the-world.htmlTatiana Siegel, “"His Brand Is Excellence": How Leonardo DiCaprio Became Hollywood's Last Movie Star,” Hollywood Reporter, 22 July 2019, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/how-leonardo-dicaprio-became-hollywoods-last-movie-star-1225416Jason Rodrigues, “Hugh Grant arrested with sex worker 20 years ago,” The Guardian, 26 June 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/film/from-the-archive-blog/2015/jun/26/hugh-grant-arrest-prostitute-divine-brown-20-1995#_=_Darragh McManus, “Just 20 years on, grunge seems like ancient history,” The Guardian, 1 November 2008, https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2008/oct/31/grungeChioma Nnadi, “Why Kurt Cobain Was One of the Most Influential Style Icons of Our Times,” Vouge, 8 April 2014, https://www.vogue.com/article/kurt-cobain-legacy-of-grunge-in-fashionDouble J, “The 50 most important female artists of the 90s,” ABC Online, 16 June 2017, https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/music-reads/features/the-50-most-important-female-artists-of-the-90s/10267896Allison Yarrow, “How the ’90s Tricked Women Into Thinking They’d Gained Gender Equality,” Time, 13 June 2018, https://time.com/5310256/90s-gender-equality-progress/Evelynn McDonnell and Elisabeth Vincentelli, “Riot Grrrl United Feminism and Punk. Here’s an Essential Listening Guide,” The New York Times, 6 May 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/03/arts/music/riot-grrrl-playlist.htmlEl Hunt, “A brief history of Riot Grrrl – the space-reclaiming 90s punk movement,” NME, 27 August 2019, https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/brief-history-riot-grrrl-space-reclaiming-90s-punk-movement-2542166Hugh Grant on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, 1995, NBC Studios & NBC ProductionsWayne’s World, 1992 Paramount PicturesTitanic, 1997 Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox and Lightstorm Entertainment
Episode 8In this episode, Emma and Chloe try to define what feminism meant in the 90s, through two of its icons: Hillary Clinton and … Jane Austen? They explore Hillary Clinton’s political career in the 1990s, and what her brand of feminism meant then, and means today. They then talk about the many, many Jane Austen adaptations made in the 90s, from Clueless to Bridget Jones’ Diary, how Class and Empire were lost from Austen, and how they might be revived today.8.1 Stand By Your Man8.2 Handsome, clever, and rich8.3 A truth, universally acknowledgedLinksAmy Goldstein, “How the demise of her health-care plan led to the politician Clinton is today,” The Washington Post, August 25, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-health-care-missteps-a-chastened-hillary-clinton-emerged/2016/08/25/2d200cb4-64b4-11e6-be4e-23fc4d4d12b4_story.htmlDavid A Graham, “A Short History of Hillary (Rodham) (Clinton)'s Changing Names,” The Atlantic, 30 November 2015, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/a-short-history-of-hillary-rodham-clintons-name/418029/Monica Lewinksy, “Emerging from the ‘House of Gaslight’ in the Age of #MeToo,” Vanity Fair, 25 February 2018, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/monica-lewinsky-in-the-age-of-metooAmanda Hess, “’Ditsy, Predatory White House Intern’: Looking back on how Maureen Dowd painted Monica Lewinsky as a crazy bimbo—and won a Pulitzer for it,” Slate, 7 May 2014, https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/05/monica-lewinsky-returns-how-maureen-dowd-caricatured-bill-clintons-mistress-as-a-crazy-bimbo.htmlOlivia B Waxmann and Merrill Fabry, “From an Anonymous Tip to an Impeachment: A Timeline of Key Moments in the Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal,” Time, 4 May 2018, https://time.com/5120561/bill-clinton-monica-lewinsky-timeline/Amy Davidson Sorkin, “Bill Problems: As Donald Trump attacks both Clintons, it’s like 1992 all over again,” The New Yorker, May 29, 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/06/hillarys-bill-problemZoe Williams, “Was Mark Darcy based on Keir Starmer? Here’s the definitive answer,” The Guardian, 14 January 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2020/jan/13/was-mark-darcy-based-on-keir-starmer-heres-the-definitive-answerLegacies of British Slave-ownership Project, University College London, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbClueless, 1995 Paramount PicturesPride and Prejudice, 1995 BBC StudiosBridget Jones' Diary, 2001, Universal Pictures, Little Bird, Studio Canal & Working TitleBill Clinton Excerpt, The William J. Clinton Presidential LibraryHilary Clinton Excerpts, AP Archives
Episode 8In this episode, Emma and Chloe try to define what feminism meant in the 90s, through two of its icons: Hillary Clinton and … Jane Austen? They explore Hillary Clinton’s political career in the 1990s, and what her brand of feminism meant then, and means today. They then talk about the many, many Jane Austen adaptations made in the 90s, from Clueless to Bridget Jones’ Diary, how Class and Empire were lost from Austen, and how they might be revived today.8.1 Stand By Your Man8.2 Handsome, clever, and rich8.3 A truth, universally acknowledgedLinksAmy Goldstein, “How the demise of her health-care plan led to the politician Clinton is today,” The Washington Post, August 25, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-health-care-missteps-a-chastened-hillary-clinton-emerged/2016/08/25/2d200cb4-64b4-11e6-be4e-23fc4d4d12b4_story.htmlDavid A Graham, “A Short History of Hillary (Rodham) (Clinton)'s Changing Names,” The Atlantic, 30 November 2015, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/a-short-history-of-hillary-rodham-clintons-name/418029/Monica Lewinksy, “Emerging from the ‘House of Gaslight’ in the Age of #MeToo,” Vanity Fair, 25 February 2018, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/monica-lewinsky-in-the-age-of-metooAmanda Hess, “’Ditsy, Predatory White House Intern’: Looking back on how Maureen Dowd painted Monica Lewinsky as a crazy bimbo—and won a Pulitzer for it,” Slate, 7 May 2014, https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/05/monica-lewinsky-returns-how-maureen-dowd-caricatured-bill-clintons-mistress-as-a-crazy-bimbo.htmlOlivia B Waxmann and Merrill Fabry, “From an Anonymous Tip to an Impeachment: A Timeline of Key Moments in the Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal,” Time, 4 May 2018, https://time.com/5120561/bill-clinton-monica-lewinsky-timeline/Amy Davidson Sorkin, “Bill Problems: As Donald Trump attacks both Clintons, it’s like 1992 all over again,” The New Yorker, May 29, 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/06/hillarys-bill-problemZoe Williams, “Was Mark Darcy based on Keir Starmer? Here’s the definitive answer,” The Guardian, 14 January 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2020/jan/13/was-mark-darcy-based-on-keir-starmer-heres-the-definitive-answerLegacies of British Slave-ownership Project, University College London, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbClueless, 1995 Paramount PicturesPride and Prejudice, 1995 BBC StudiosBridget Jones' Diary, 2001, Universal Pictures, Little Bird, Studio Canal & Working TitleBill Clinton Excerpt, The William J. Clinton Presidential LibraryHilary Clinton Excerpts, AP Archives
Episode 8In this episode, Emma and Chloe try to define what feminism meant in the 90s, through two of its icons: Hillary Clinton and … Jane Austen? They explore Hillary Clinton’s political career in the 1990s, and what her brand of feminism meant then, and means today. They then talk about the many, many Jane Austen adaptations made in the 90s, from Clueless to Bridget Jones’ Diary, how Class and Empire were lost from Austen, and how they might be revived today.8.1 Stand By Your Man8.2 Handsome, clever, and rich8.3 A truth, universally acknowledgedLinksAmy Goldstein, “How the demise of her health-care plan led to the politician Clinton is today,” The Washington Post, August 25, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-health-care-missteps-a-chastened-hillary-clinton-emerged/2016/08/25/2d200cb4-64b4-11e6-be4e-23fc4d4d12b4_story.htmlDavid A Graham, “A Short History of Hillary (Rodham) (Clinton)'s Changing Names,” The Atlantic, 30 November 2015, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/a-short-history-of-hillary-rodham-clintons-name/418029/Monica Lewinksy, “Emerging from the ‘House of Gaslight’ in the Age of #MeToo,” Vanity Fair, 25 February 2018, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/monica-lewinsky-in-the-age-of-metooAmanda Hess, “’Ditsy, Predatory White House Intern’: Looking back on how Maureen Dowd painted Monica Lewinsky as a crazy bimbo—and won a Pulitzer for it,” Slate, 7 May 2014, https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/05/monica-lewinsky-returns-how-maureen-dowd-caricatured-bill-clintons-mistress-as-a-crazy-bimbo.htmlOlivia B Waxmann and Merrill Fabry, “From an Anonymous Tip to an Impeachment: A Timeline of Key Moments in the Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal,” Time, 4 May 2018, https://time.com/5120561/bill-clinton-monica-lewinsky-timeline/Amy Davidson Sorkin, “Bill Problems: As Donald Trump attacks both Clintons, it’s like 1992 all over again,” The New Yorker, May 29, 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/06/hillarys-bill-problemZoe Williams, “Was Mark Darcy based on Keir Starmer? Here’s the definitive answer,” The Guardian, 14 January 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2020/jan/13/was-mark-darcy-based-on-keir-starmer-heres-the-definitive-answerLegacies of British Slave-ownership Project, University College London, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbClueless, 1995 Paramount PicturesPride and Prejudice, 1995 BBC StudiosBridget Jones' Diary, 2001, Universal Pictures, Little Bird, Studio Canal & Working TitleBill Clinton Excerpt, The William J. Clinton Presidential LibraryHilary Clinton Excerpts, AP Archives
Episode 7: Pale Blue DotE7.1 Rio to RuinE7.2 Mr Vice PresidentE7.3 Captain PlanetOn Valentine’s Day, 1990, we humans received a love letter from space. NASA’s Voyager 1 probe, from its position somewhere out past Neptune, turned around and took a picture of Earth, gifting us the iconic image that planetary scientist Carl Sagan would dub the ‘pale blue dot’. In this episode, Emma and Chloe ask why, when the decade opened with such promise for our little speck of dust in space, we didn’t see the progress the 1990s promised when it came to environmental protection. They discuss the failure of global negotiations, the role of Emma’s favourite almost-president and environmental activist Al Gore, and why all of us promising to be ‘Planeteers’ wasn’t ever going to be enough.LinksEllen Spears, Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 (especially Chapter 5, “Globalizing Environmentalism (1990-2000)”), Taylor and Francis, 2019, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203081693“Voyager 1’s Pale Blue Dot,” NASA Solar System Exploration, https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/536/voyager-1s-pale-blue-dot/Tom Griffiths, “The planet is alive: Radical histories for uncanny times,” Griffith Review 63, 2018, https://www.griffithreview.com/articles/planet-is-alive-radical-history/Niels von Kohl (Producer), “The Earth Summit,” UNTV, 1992, https://www.unmultimedia.org/avlibrary/asset/2078/2078993/Clive Hamilton, “Australia hit its Kyoto target, but it was more a three-inch putt than a hole in one,” The Conversation, 16 July 2015, https://theconversation.com/australia-hit-its-kyoto-target-but-it-was-more-a-three-inch-putt-than-a-hole-in-one-44731Marc Hudson, “A brief history of Al Gore’s climate missions to Australia,” The Conversation, 14 July 2017, https://theconversation.com/a-brief-history-of-al-gores-climate-missions-to-australia-81023Steven Bernstein, The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism, Columbia University Press, 2001, http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-compromise-of-liberal-environmentalism/9780231120364Adam Rome, The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation, MacMillan, 2013, https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780865477742Larissa Behrendt (Director), Maralinga Tjarutja, aired May 2020, https://iview.abc.net.au/show/maralinga-tjarutjaTony Wright, Matthew Gledhill, Andrew McCathie and Andrew Byrne, “From the Archives 1995: World outrage as French prepare for bomb No 2,” The Herald, 6 September 1995, https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/from-the-archives-1995-world-outrage-as-french-prepare-for-bomb-no-2-20190830-p52mi9.htmlLauren Rickards and Mark Howden, “Climate adaptation is not a far-off idea – it's here and it affects us all,” Sydney Morning Herald, 11 January 2020, https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-adaptation-is-not-a-far-off-idea-it-s-here-and-it-affects-us-all-20200109-p53q7r.htmlCarl Sagan's The Pale Blue Dot, carlsagan.com, 1990Al Gore Kyoto Excerpt, CSPAN, 1992 John Howard Address Excerpt, AustralianPolitics.com, 1997George HW Bush, Rio Earth Summit Excerpt, AP Archives, 1992
Episode 7: Pale Blue DotE7.1 Rio to RuinE7.2 Mr Vice PresidentE7.3 Captain PlanetOn Valentine’s Day, 1990, we humans received a love letter from space. NASA’s Voyager 1 probe, from its position somewhere out past Neptune, turned around and took a picture of Earth, gifting us the iconic image that planetary scientist Carl Sagan would dub the ‘pale blue dot’. In this episode, Emma and Chloe ask why, when the decade opened with such promise for our little speck of dust in space, we didn’t see the progress the 1990s promised when it came to environmental protection. They discuss the failure of global negotiations, the role of Emma’s favourite almost-president and environmental activist Al Gore, and why all of us promising to be ‘Planeteers’ wasn’t ever going to be enough.LinksEllen Spears, Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 (especially Chapter 5, “Globalizing Environmentalism (1990-2000)”), Taylor and Francis, 2019, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203081693“Voyager 1’s Pale Blue Dot,” NASA Solar System Exploration, https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/536/voyager-1s-pale-blue-dot/Tom Griffiths, “The planet is alive: Radical histories for uncanny times,” Griffith Review 63, 2018, https://www.griffithreview.com/articles/planet-is-alive-radical-history/Niels von Kohl (Producer), “The Earth Summit,” UNTV, 1992, https://www.unmultimedia.org/avlibrary/asset/2078/2078993/Clive Hamilton, “Australia hit its Kyoto target, but it was more a three-inch putt than a hole in one,” The Conversation, 16 July 2015, https://theconversation.com/australia-hit-its-kyoto-target-but-it-was-more-a-three-inch-putt-than-a-hole-in-one-44731Marc Hudson, “A brief history of Al Gore’s climate missions to Australia,” The Conversation, 14 July 2017, https://theconversation.com/a-brief-history-of-al-gores-climate-missions-to-australia-81023Steven Bernstein, The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism, Columbia University Press, 2001, http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-compromise-of-liberal-environmentalism/9780231120364Adam Rome, The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation, MacMillan, 2013, https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780865477742Larissa Behrendt (Director), Maralinga Tjarutja, aired May 2020, https://iview.abc.net.au/show/maralinga-tjarutjaTony Wright, Matthew Gledhill, Andrew McCathie and Andrew Byrne, “From the Archives 1995: World outrage as French prepare for bomb No 2,” The Herald, 6 September 1995, https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/from-the-archives-1995-world-outrage-as-french-prepare-for-bomb-no-2-20190830-p52mi9.htmlLauren Rickards and Mark Howden, “Climate adaptation is not a far-off idea – it's here and it affects us all,” Sydney Morning Herald, 11 January 2020, https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-adaptation-is-not-a-far-off-idea-it-s-here-and-it-affects-us-all-20200109-p53q7r.htmlAl Gore Kyoto Excerpt, CSPAN, 1992 John Howard Address Excerpt, AustralianPolitics.com, 1997George HW Bush, Rio Earth Summit Excerpt, AP Archives, 1992An Inconvenient Truth Excerpt, Lawrence Bender Productions, Participant Productions, List. Paramount Classics, 2006
Episode 7: Pale Blue DotE7.1 Rio to RuinE7.2 Mr Vice PresidentE7.3 Captain PlanetOn Valentine’s Day, 1990, we humans received a love letter from space. NASA’s Voyager 1 probe, from its position somewhere out past Neptune, turned around and took a picture of Earth, gifting us the iconic image that planetary scientist Carl Sagan would dub the ‘pale blue dot’. In this episode, Emma and Chloe ask why, when the decade opened with such promise for our little speck of dust in space, we didn’t see the progress the 1990s promised when it came to environmental protection. They discuss the failure of global negotiations, the role of Emma’s favourite almost-president and environmental activist Al Gore, and why all of us promising to be ‘Planeteers’ wasn’t ever going to be enough.LinksEllen Spears, Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 (especially Chapter 5, “Globalizing Environmentalism (1990-2000)”), Taylor and Francis, 2019, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203081693“Voyager 1’s Pale Blue Dot,” NASA Solar System Exploration, https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/536/voyager-1s-pale-blue-dot/Tom Griffiths, “The planet is alive: Radical histories for uncanny times,” Griffith Review 63, 2018, https://www.griffithreview.com/articles/planet-is-alive-radical-history/Niels von Kohl (Producer), “The Earth Summit,” UNTV, 1992, https://www.unmultimedia.org/avlibrary/asset/2078/2078993/Clive Hamilton, “Australia hit its Kyoto target, but it was more a three-inch putt than a hole in one,” The Conversation, 16 July 2015, https://theconversation.com/australia-hit-its-kyoto-target-but-it-was-more-a-three-inch-putt-than-a-hole-in-one-44731Marc Hudson, “A brief history of Al Gore’s climate missions to Australia,” The Conversation, 14 July 2017, https://theconversation.com/a-brief-history-of-al-gores-climate-missions-to-australia-81023Steven Bernstein, The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism, Columbia University Press, 2001, http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-compromise-of-liberal-environmentalism/9780231120364Adam Rome, The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation, MacMillan, 2013, https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780865477742Larissa Behrendt (Director), Maralinga Tjarutja, aired May 2020, https://iview.abc.net.au/show/maralinga-tjarutjaTony Wright, Matthew Gledhill, Andrew McCathie and Andrew Byrne, “From the Archives 1995: World outrage as French prepare for bomb No 2,” The Herald, 6 September 1995, https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/from-the-archives-1995-world-outrage-as-french-prepare-for-bomb-no-2-20190830-p52mi9.htmlLauren Rickards and Mark Howden, “Climate adaptation is not a far-off idea – it's here and it affects us all,” Sydney Morning Herald, 11 January 2020,https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-adaptation-is-not-a-far-off-idea-it-s-here-and-it-affects-us-all-20200109-p53q7r.htmlCaptain Planet Excerpt, Turner Program Services and DIC Enterprises, 1990 - 1992Al Gore Kyoto Excerpt, CSPAN, 1992 John Howard Address Excerpt, AustralianPolitics.com, 1997George HW Bush, Rio Earth Summit Excerpt, AP Archives, 1992
Episode 6: Living Through HistoryWe have been captivated by Black Lives Matters protests of the past two weeks, which started in the USA and have quickly spread across the world. In this episode, Chloe and Emma talk about the toppling of statues of imperialists, slave traders and white supremacists in Britain and the USA, comparisons with German history and the remembrance of Germany’s Nazi past, and return to a question they’ve asked before on the podcast: is Trump’s America fascist?LinksBarely Gettin' By Season 1, Barely Gettin' Fascism, Parts 1 and 2: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/barely-gettin-fascism-part-1/id1478594339?i=1000453795264 and https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/barely-gettin-fascism-part-2/id1478594339?i=1000454260342Amia Srinivisan, ‘Under Rhodes’, London Review of Books, 31 March 2016 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n07/amia-srinivasan/under-rhodesJames Watts, ‘Edward Colston statue toppled: how Bristol came to see the slave trader as a hero and philanthropist’, The Conversation, 9 June 2020, https://theconversation.com/edward-colston-statue-toppled-how-bristol-came-to-see-the-slave-trader-as-a-hero-and-philanthropist-140271Samuel Moyn, ‘The trouble with comparison’, New York Review of Books, 19 May 2020, https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/05/19/the-trouble-with-comparisons/Susan Nieman, ‘There Are No Nostalgic Nazi Memorials’, The Atlantic, 14 September 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/germany-has-no-nazi-memorials/597937/Jasmine Aguilera, ‘Confederate Statues Are Being Removed Amid Protests Over George Floyd's Death. Here's What to Know’, Time, 10 June 2020, https://time.com/5849184/confederate-statues-removed/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/05/this-day-in-politics-may-5-1985-565776Paul Daley, ‘Statues are not history. Here are six in Australia that need rethinking’, Guardian, 25 August 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/postcolonial-blog/2017/aug/25/statues-are-not-history-here-are-six-in-australia-that-need-rethinkingHeather Cox Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America, Oxford University Press, 2020, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-the-south-won-the-civil-war-9780190900908?cc=us&lang=en&#Adam Weinstein, “This is Fascism,” The New Republic, 2 June 2020, https://newrepublic.com/article/157949/fascism-america-trump-anti-police-george-floyd-protests?utm_content=buffer39854&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=bufferCornel West, “A boot is crushing the neck of American democracy,” The Guardian, 1 June 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/01/george-floyd-protests-cornel-west-american-democracy
S2 E5: The 90s at HomeE5.1 We did the dispossessingE5.2 Australia at the End of HistoryE5.3 Australia in the WorldThis week, Chloe and Emma return to home shores to explore Australia in the 1990s. On the domestic front, Australia was led by three Prime Ministers: Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, and John Howard. They discuss the economic legacy of the Hawke/Keating era, and wonder if current debates about the enduring legacy of the Accords obscure the dramatic economic reforms pursued by the Howard Government. They discuss Keating’s efforts to further Aboriginal rights and the ensuing white backlash led by John Howard and Pauline Hanson.LinksAmy McQuire: ‘We must bear witness to black deaths in our own country’ https://amymcquire.substack.com/p/we-must-bear-witness-to-black-deathsAlison Whittaker, ‘Despite 432 Indigenous deaths in custody, no one has ever been convicted. Racist silence and complicity are to blame’, https://theconversation.com/despite-432-indigenous-deaths-in-custody-no-one-has-ever-been-convicted-racist-silence-and-complicity-are-to-blame-139873[Note: Chloe mistakenly said noone had been ‘arrested and charged’ over a death in custody. In 2019, murder charges were laid against two men, for the murders of, respectively, Joyce Clarke and Kumanjayi Walker https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/01/deaths-in-our-backyard-432-indigenous-australians-have-died-in-custody-since-2008]Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, 2002.Boris Frankel, ‘Beyond Labourism and Socialism: How the Australian Labor Party developed the Model of 'New Labour'’, New Left Review, 1/221, 1997 https://newleftreview.org/issues/I221/articles/boris-frankel-beyond-labourism-and-socialism-how-the-australian-labor-party-developed-the-model-of-new-labour [subscription required]Frank Bongiorno, ‘Are we in Accord?’, Inside Story, 27 May 2020 https://insidestory.org.au/are-we-in-accord/Elizabeth Humphrys, How Labor Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project, Brill, 2019.‘The drink that started the Mueller investigation: George Papadopoulos and Alexander Downer tell us everything’ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-24/mueller-investigation-george-papadopoulos-alexander-downer-speak/11107712Robert Manne, “Little America: How John Howard has changed Australia,” and “The History Wars,” both in The Monthly, March 2006 and November 2009.https://www.themonthly.com.au/monthly-essays-robert-manne-little-america-how-john-howard-has-changed-australia-184#mtrhttps://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2009/november/1270703045/robert-manne/commentPaul Keating question time excerpt - Australian Parliament HousePaul Keating in Indonesia News Story excerpt - ABC TV AustraliaJohn Hewson ‘Birthday Cake’ GST excerpt - Channel 9 NewsJohn Howard’s GST excerpt - ABC TV AustraliaGun Buyback news story excerpt - Channel 10 NewsJohn Howard’s Indigenous Rights excerpt - Liberal Party AustraliaGulf War News Story excerpt - Channel 9 NewsPort Arthur Massacre news story excerpt - ABC TV Australia
S2 E5: The 90s at HomeE5.2 Australia at the End of HistoryThis week, Chloe and Emma return to home shores to explore Australia in the 1990s. On the domestic front, Australia was led by three Prime Ministers: Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, and John Howard. They discuss the economic legacy of the Hawke/Keating era, and wonder if current debates about the enduring legacy of the Accords obscure the dramatic economic reforms pursued by the Howard Government. They discuss Keating’s efforts to further Aboriginal rights and the ensuing white backlash led by John Howard and Pauline Hanson.LinksAmy McQuire: ‘We must bear witness to black deaths in our own country’ https://amymcquire.substack.com/p/we-must-bear-witness-to-black-deathsAlison Whittaker, ‘Despite 432 Indigenous deaths in custody, no one has ever been convicted. Racist silence and complicity are to blame’, https://theconversation.com/despite-432-indigenous-deaths-in-custody-no-one-has-ever-been-convicted-racist-silence-and-complicity-are-to-blame-139873[Note: Chloe mistakenly said noone had been ‘arrested and charged’ over a death in custody. In 2019, murder charges were laid against two men, for the murders of, respectively, Joyce Clarke and Kumanjayi Walker https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/01/deaths-in-our-backyard-432-indigenous-australians-have-died-in-custody-since-2008]Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, 2002.Boris Frankel, ‘Beyond Labourism and Socialism: How the Australian Labor Party developed the Model of 'New Labour'’, New Left Review, 1/221, 1997 https://newleftreview.org/issues/I221/articles/boris-frankel-beyond-labourism-and-socialism-how-the-australian-labor-party-developed-the-model-of-new-labour [subscription required]Frank Bongiorno, ‘Are we in Accord?’, Inside Story, 27 May 2020 https://insidestory.org.au/are-we-in-accord/Elizabeth Humphrys, How Labor Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project, Brill, 2019.‘The drink that started the Mueller investigation: George Papadopoulos and Alexander Downer tell us everything’ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-24/mueller-investigation-george-papadopoulos-alexander-downer-speak/11107712Robert Manne, “Little America: How John Howard has changed Australia,” and “The History Wars,” both in The Monthly, March 2006 and November 2009.https://www.themonthly.com.au/monthly-essays-robert-manne-little-america-how-john-howard-has-changed-australia-184#mtrhttps://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2009/november/1270703045/robert-manne/commentPaul Keating question time excerpt - Australian Parliament HousePaul Keating in Indonesia News Story excerpt - ABC TV AustraliaJohn Hewson ‘Birthday Cake’ GST excerpt - Channel 9 NewsJohn Howard’s GST excerpt - ABC TV AustraliaGun Buyback news story excerpt - Channel 10 NewsJohn Howard’s Indigenous Rights excerpt - Liberal Party AustraliaGulf War News Story excerpt - Channel 9 NewsPort Arthur Massacre news story excerpt - ABC TV Australia
S2 E5: The 90s at HomeE5.3 Australia in the WorldThis week, Chloe and Emma return to home shores to explore Australia in the 1990s. On the domestic front, Australia was led by three Prime Ministers: Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, and John Howard. They discuss the economic legacy of the Hawke/Keating era, and wonder if current debates about the enduring legacy of the Accords obscure the dramatic economic reforms pursued by the Howard Government. They discuss Keating’s efforts to further Aboriginal rights and the ensuing white backlash led by John Howard and Pauline Hanson.LinksAmy McQuire: ‘We must bear witness to black deaths in our own country’ https://amymcquire.substack.com/p/we-must-bear-witness-to-black-deathsAlison Whittaker, ‘Despite 432 Indigenous deaths in custody, no one has ever been convicted. Racist silence and complicity are to blame’, https://theconversation.com/despite-432-indigenous-deaths-in-custody-no-one-has-ever-been-convicted-racist-silence-and-complicity-are-to-blame-139873[Note: Chloe mistakenly said noone had been ‘arrested and charged’ over a death in custody. In 2019, murder charges were laid against two men, for the murders of, respectively, Joyce Clarke and Kumanjayi Walker https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/01/deaths-in-our-backyard-432-indigenous-australians-have-died-in-custody-since-2008]Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, 2002.Boris Frankel, ‘Beyond Labourism and Socialism: How the Australian Labor Party developed the Model of 'New Labour'’, New Left Review, 1/221, 1997 https://newleftreview.org/issues/I221/articles/boris-frankel-beyond-labourism-and-socialism-how-the-australian-labor-party-developed-the-model-of-new-labour [subscription required]Frank Bongiorno, ‘Are we in Accord?’, Inside Story, 27 May 2020 https://insidestory.org.au/are-we-in-accord/Elizabeth Humphrys, How Labor Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project, Brill, 2019.‘The drink that started the Mueller investigation: George Papadopoulos and Alexander Downer tell us everything’ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-24/mueller-investigation-george-papadopoulos-alexander-downer-speak/11107712Robert Manne, “Little America: How John Howard has changed Australia,” and “The History Wars,” both in The Monthly, March 2006 and November 2009.https://www.themonthly.com.au/monthly-essays-robert-manne-little-america-how-john-howard-has-changed-australia-184#mtrhttps://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2009/november/1270703045/robert-manne/commentPaul Keating question time excerpt - Australian Parliament HousePaul Keating in Indonesia News Story excerpt - ABC TV AustraliaJohn Hewson ‘Birthday Cake’ GST excerpt - Channel 9 NewsJohn Howard’s GST excerpt - ABC TV AustraliaGun Buyback news story excerpt - Channel 10 NewsJohn Howard’s Indigenous Rights excerpt - Liberal Party AustraliaGulf War News Story excerpt - Channel 9 NewsPort Arthur Massacre news story excerpt - ABC TV Australia
Chloe speaks to Dr Charlie Hunt, Senior Research Fellow in the Social & Global Studies Centre at RMIT University, about the UN’s role in conflict and peacekeeping in the 90s, the lessons it learned and what they mean for today.Find out more about Charlie’s work at https://charlesthunt.com/ , and read his op-ed on the future of peacekeeping here: https://theconversation.com/why-covid-19-offers-a-chance-to-transform-un-peacekeeping-139416
E4: A Decade of Peace? Wars in the 90sE4.1: Killing in the NameE4.2 Acts of GenocideE4.3 Problems from HellThe end of the Cold War did not mean global peace. In this episode, Emma and Chloe talk about the US’ foreign policy, and how its interventions in foreign wars in the 1990s continue to shape the US’ global outlook today. They discuss the origins of the ideas of humanitarian warfare and liberal interventionism, and the US’ long history of foreign interventions; disasters in Somalia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia; and the US ongoing debates about how, if it all, it can promote democracy outside its own borders.ALSO – keep an eye out for a bonus episode, released Friday, where Chloe speaks to Dr Charlie Hunt from RMIT University about the UN’s role in peace and war in the 90s.LinksSamantha Power, A Problem From Hell: America in the Age of Genocide, Basic Books, 2002https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/samantha-power/a-problem-from-hell/9780465050895/Daniel Bessner, “The Fog of Intervention,” The New Republic, September 4, 2019https://newrepublic.com/article/154612/education-idealist-samantha-power-book-reviewJeffrey Goldberg, “The Obama Doctrine,” The Atlantic, April 2016https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/Dexter Filkins, “The Moral Logic of Humanitarian Intervention,” The New Yorker, September 2019.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/16/the-moral-logic-of-humanitarian-intervention
The end of the Cold War did not mean global peace. In this episode, Emma and Chloe talk about the US’ foreign policy, and how its interventions in foreign wars in the 1990s continue to shape the US’ global outlook today. They discuss the origins of the ideas of humanitarian warfare and liberal interventionism, and the US’ long history of foreign interventions; disasters in Somalia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia; and the US ongoing debates about how, if it all, it can promote democracy outside its own borders.ALSO – keep an eye out for a bonus episode, released Friday, where Chloe speaks to Dr Charlie Hunt from RMIT University about the UN’s role in peace and war in the 90s.LinksSamantha Power, A Problem From Hell: America in the Age of Genocide, Basic Books, 2002https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/samantha-power/a-problem-from-hell/9780465050895/Daniel Bessner, “The Fog of Intervention,” The New Republic, September 4, 2019https://newrepublic.com/article/154612/education-idealist-samantha-power-book-reviewJeffrey Goldberg, “The Obama Doctrine,” The Atlantic, April 2016https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/Dexter Filkins, “The Moral Logic of Humanitarian Intervention,” The New Yorker, September 2019.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/16/the-moral-logic-of-humanitarian-intervention
E4: A Decade of Peace? Wars in the 90sE4.1: Killing in the NameE4.2 Acts of GenocideE4.3 Problems from HellThe end of the Cold War did not mean global peace. In this episode, Emma and Chloe talk about the US’ foreign policy, and how its interventions in foreign wars in the 1990s continue to shape the US’ global outlook today. They discuss the origins of the ideas of humanitarian warfare and liberal interventionism, and the US’ long history of foreign interventions; disasters in Somalia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia; and the US ongoing debates about how, if it all, it can promote democracy outside its own borders.ALSO – keep an eye out for a bonus episode, released Friday, where Chloe speaks to Dr Charlie Hunt from RMIT University about the UN’s role in peace and war in the 90s.LinksSamantha Power, A Problem From Hell: America in the Age of Genocide, Basic Books, 2002https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/samantha-power/a-problem-from-hell/9780465050895/Daniel Bessner, “The Fog of Intervention,” The New Republic, September 4, 2019https://newrepublic.com/article/154612/education-idealist-samantha-power-book-reviewJeffrey Goldberg, “The Obama Doctrine,” The Atlantic, April 2016https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/Dexter Filkins, “The Moral Logic of Humanitarian Intervention,” The New Yorker, September 2019.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/16/the-moral-logic-of-humanitarian-intervention
3.1 Things Can Only Get Better3.2 Goodbye, England’s Rose3.3 Different ClassIn this episode, Emma and Chloe cross the Atlantic, moving on from ‘New Democrats’ to talk about ‘New Labour’. The 90s in Britain were a time when politicians, princesses, and pop stars promised modernisation of tired, worn-out traditions. But looking back on Tony Blair’s rise and the tragic death of Princess Di suggests not all was well beneath the surface of ‘Cool Britannia’. Chloe then goes on to explain why, in her opinion, some of the best explanations of what was really happening in Britain in the 90s came, in fact, from culture.Links and sources‘Blair aide asked Keating for hate lessons’, SBS, 23 August 2013.Jonathan Davis, ‘History didn’t end with the fall of the Berlin Wall – but only now is the new battleground clear’, The Conversation, 7 November 2019.Noel Gallagher on *that* visit to Downing Street‘Tony Blair told Princess Diana her relationship with Dodi Fayed was a problem’, Guardian, 1 September 2010.Thomas Dixon, ‘History in British Tears’, The History of Emotions Blog, 10 September 2015.Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 21 February 2013.‘Greek finance minister responds to claim that wife was inspiration behind Pulp hit’, Guardian, 12 May 2015.Owen Hatherley, ‘Pulp matter more than ever in today’s cowed cultural landscape’, Guardian, 15 June 2011.Owen Hatherley, Uncommon: An Essay on Pulp, Zero Books, 2011.And one video on Princess Di conspiracy theoriesCommon People by PulpWritten by: Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey, Russell SeniorCocaine Socialism by PulpWritten by: Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior, Mark Webber and Antony GennTony Blair ‘Windfall Tax’ excerpt from UK ParliamentQueen Elizabeth II ‘Death of Princess Diana’ excerpt from AP ArchivesNoel Gallagher ‘Downing Street Part Invitation’ excerpt from kinoLibrary at www.knolibrary.com Clip Ref DW022092Tony Blair ‘Sinn Fein’ excerpt from UK ParliamentTony Blair ‘The People’s Princess’ excerpt from AP ArchivesQueen Elizabeth II ‘Annus Horribilis Speech’ from ITN Source
3.1 Things Can Only Get Better3.2 Goodbye, England’s Rose3.3 Different ClassIn this episode, Emma and Chloe cross the Atlantic, moving on from ‘New Democrats’ to talk about ‘New Labour’. The 90s in Britain were a time when politicians, princesses, and pop stars promised modernisation of tired, worn-out traditions. But looking back on Tony Blair’s rise and the tragic death of Princess Di suggests not all was well beneath the surface of ‘Cool Britannia’. Chloe then goes on to explain why, in her opinion, some of the best explanations of what was really happening in Britain in the 90s came, in fact, from culture.Links and sources‘Blair aide asked Keating for hate lessons’, SBS, 23 August 2013.http://.https:/www.sbs.com.au/news/blair-aide-asked-keating-for-hate-lessonsJonathan Davis, ‘History didn’t end with the fall of the Berlin Wall – but only now is the new battleground clear’, The Conversation, 7 November 2019.https://theconversation.com/history-didnt-end-with-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-but-only-now-is-the-new-battleground-clear-125768Noel Gallagher on *that* visit to Downing Street‘Tony Blair told Princess Diana her relationship with Dodi Fayed was a problem’, Guardian, 1 September 2010.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/sep/01/tony-blair-diana-relationship-fayedThomas Dixon, ‘History in British Tears’, The History of Emotions Blog, 10 September 2015.https://emotionsblog.history.qmul.ac.uk/2015/09/weeping-britannia/Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 21 February 2013.https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n04/hilary-mantel/royal-bodies‘Greek finance minister responds to claim that wife was inspiration behind Pulp hit’, Guardian, 12 May 2015.https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/12/greek-finance-minister-responds-claim-wife-inspiration-pulp-common-peopleOwen Hatherley, ‘Pulp matter more than ever in today’s cowed cultural landscape’, Guardian, 15 June 2011.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jun/14/pulp-festivalsOwen Hatherley, Uncommon: An Essay on Pulp, Zero Books, 2011.And one video on Princess Di conspiracy theorieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I38T7_uLio0Common People by PulpWritten by: Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey, Russell SeniorCocaine Socialism by PulpWritten by: Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior, Mark Webber and Antony GennTony Blair ‘Windfall Tax’ excerpt from UK ParliamentQueen Elizabeth II ‘Death of Princess Diana’ excerpt from AP ArchivesNoel Gallagher ‘Downing Street Part Invitation’ excerpt from kinoLibrary at www.knolibrary.com Clip Ref DW022092Tony Blair ‘Sinn Fein’ excerpt from UK ParliamentTony Blair ‘The People’s Princess’ excerpt from AP ArchivesQueen Elizabeth II ‘Annus Horribilis Speech’ from ITN Source
3.1 Things Can Only Get Better3.2 Goodbye, England’s Rose3.3 Different ClassIn this episode, Emma and Chloe cross the Atlantic, moving on from ‘New Democrats’ to talk about ‘New Labour’. The 90s in Britain were a time when politicians, princesses, and pop stars promised modernisation of tired, worn-out traditions. But looking back on Tony Blair’s rise and the tragic death of Princess Di suggests not all was well beneath the surface of ‘Cool Britannia’. Chloe then goes on to explain why, in her opinion, some of the best explanations of what was really happening in Britain in the 90s came, in fact, from culture.Links and sources‘Blair aide asked Keating for hate lessons’, SBS, 23 August 2013.http://.https:/www.sbs.com.au/news/blair-aide-asked-keating-for-hate-lessonsJonathan Davis, ‘History didn’t end with the fall of the Berlin Wall – but only now is the new battleground clear’, The Conversation, 7 November 2019.https://theconversation.com/history-didnt-end-with-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-but-only-now-is-the-new-battleground-clear-125768Noel Gallagher on *that* visit to Downing Street‘Tony Blair told Princess Diana her relationship with Dodi Fayed was a problem’, Guardian, 1 September 2010.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/sep/01/tony-blair-diana-relationship-fayedThomas Dixon, ‘History in British Tears’, The History of Emotions Blog, 10 September 2015.https://emotionsblog.history.qmul.ac.uk/2015/09/weeping-britannia/Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 21 February 2013.https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n04/hilary-mantel/royal-bodies‘Greek finance minister responds to claim that wife was inspiration behind Pulp hit’, Guardian, 12 May 2015.https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/12/greek-finance-minister-responds-claim-wife-inspiration-pulp-common-peopleOwen Hatherley, ‘Pulp matter more than ever in today’s cowed cultural landscape’, Guardian, 15 June 2011.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jun/14/pulp-festivalsOwen Hatherley, Uncommon: An Essay on Pulp, Zero Books, 2011.And one video on Princess Di conspiracy theorieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I38T7_uLio0Common People by PulpWritten by: Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey, Russell SeniorCocaine Socialism by PulpWritten by: Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior, Mark Webber and Antony GennTony Blair ‘Windfall Tax’ excerpt from UK ParliamentQueen Elizabeth II ‘Death of Princess Diana’ excerpt from AP ArchivesNoel Gallagher ‘Downing Street Part Invitation’ excerpt from kinoLibrary at www.knolibrary.com Clip Ref DW022092Tony Blair ‘Sinn Fein’ excerpt from UK ParliamentTony Blair ‘The People’s Princess’ excerpt from AP ArchivesQueen Elizabeth II ‘Annus Horribilis Speech’ from ITN Source
Emma and Chloe turn their attention to the USA, in a decade where America, for better or worse, defined the world order. They discuss the mixed achievements of Bill Clinton’s presidency, including the 1994 assault weapons ban that, while a huge success at the time was compromised by a ‘sunset clause’ that ensured no permanent change to American gun culture. They then consider Republican attempts to frustrate Clinton’s presidency, and the right-wing operatives who, after cameo appearances in the Clinton impeachment saga took leading roles in the Trump presidency. Finally, they look at how America remade the global economy in its own image, and in ways that served its own interests, and the market dogmatism that may now, finally, be unravelling in the liberal West.Dan Roberts, “Clintons continue to tout legacy where others see era of mistakes and scandal,” The Guardian, 22 May 2016.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/21/hillary-clinton-bill-90s-nostalgia-reform-scandalPatrick Andelic, “As it celebrates its 25th birthday, how does the Clinton administration look today?” The Conversation, 17 January 2018.https://theconversation.com/as-it-celebrates-its-25th-birthday-how-does-the-clinton-administration-look-today-89718German Lopez, “Joe Biden's controversial criminal justice record, explained,” Vox, 26 August 2015.https://www.vox.com/2015/8/26/9208983/joe-biden-black-lives-matter?__c=1Ron Elving, “The U.S. Once Had A Ban On Assault Weapons — Why Did It Expire?” NPR, 13 August 2019.https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750656174/the-u-s-once-had-a-ban-on-assault-weapons-why-did-it-expireEd Pilkington, “How the Drudge Report ushered in the age of Trump,” The Guardian, 25 January 2018.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/24/how-the-drudge-report-ushered-in-the-age-of-trumpDavid Smith, “Kenneth Starr, driver of Clinton impeachment, does about-face for Trump,” The Guardian, 28 January 2020https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/27/kenneth-starr-trump-impeachment-trialAndrew Chatzky, James McBride, and Mohammed Aly Sergie, “NAFTA and the USMCA: Weighing the Impact of North American Trade,” Council on Foreign Relations, 24 February 2020.https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/nafta-and-usmca-weighing-impact-north-american-tradeStephen Grenville, “No consensus on the Washington Consensus,” The Interpreter, 7 June 2017.https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/no-consensus-washington-consensus'Theme for Barely Getting' By' written and produced by Stuart Cullenhttp://stuartcullen.nethello@stuartcullen.netTony Blair, Madeleine Albright and Bill Clinton excerpts courtesy of The William J. Clinton, Presidential Library.Donald Trump excerpt courtesy of The White House
Emma and Chloe turn their attention to the USA, in a decade where America, for better or worse, defined the world order. They discuss the mixed achievements of Bill Clinton’s presidency, including the 1994 assault weapons ban that, while a huge success at the time was compromised by a ‘sunset clause’ that ensured no permanent change to American gun culture. They then consider Republican attempts to frustrate Clinton’s presidency, and the right-wing operatives who, after cameo appearances in the Clinton impeachment saga took leading roles in the Trump presidency. Finally, they look at how America remade the global economy in its own image, and in ways that served its own interests, and the market dogmatism that may now, finally, be unravelling in the liberal West.Dan Roberts, “Clintons continue to tout legacy where others see era of mistakes and scandal,” The Guardian, 22 May 2016.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/21/hillary-clinton-bill-90s-nostalgia-reform-scandalPatrick Andelic, “As it celebrates its 25th birthday, how does the Clinton administration look today?” The Conversation, 17 January 2018.https://theconversation.com/as-it-celebrates-its-25th-birthday-how-does-the-clinton-administration-look-today-89718German Lopez, “Joe Biden's controversial criminal justice record, explained,” Vox, 26 August 2015.https://www.vox.com/2015/8/26/9208983/joe-biden-black-lives-matter?__c=1Ron Elving, “The U.S. Once Had A Ban On Assault Weapons — Why Did It Expire?” NPR, 13 August 2019.https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750656174/the-u-s-once-had-a-ban-on-assault-weapons-why-did-it-expireEd Pilkington, “How the Drudge Report ushered in the age of Trump,” The Guardian, 25 January 2018.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/24/how-the-drudge-report-ushered-in-the-age-of-trumpDavid Smith, “Kenneth Starr, driver of Clinton impeachment, does about-face for Trump,” The Guardian, 28 January 2020https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/27/kenneth-starr-trump-impeachment-trialAndrew Chatzky, James McBride, and Mohammed Aly Sergie, “NAFTA and the USMCA: Weighing the Impact of North American Trade,” Council on Foreign Relations, 24 February 2020.https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/nafta-and-usmca-weighing-impact-north-american-tradeStephen Grenville, “No consensus on the Washington Consensus,” The Interpreter, 7 June 2017.https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/no-consensus-washington-consensus'Theme for Barely Getting' By' written and produced by Stuart Cullenhttp://stuartcullen.nethello@stuartcullen.netTony Blair, Madeleine Albright and Bill Clinton excerpts courtesy of The William J. Clinton, Presidential Library.Donald Trump excerpt courtesy of The White House
Emma and Chloe turn their attention to the USA, in a decade where America, for better or worse, defined the world order. They discuss the mixed achievements of Bill Clinton’s presidency, including the 1994 assault weapons ban that, while a huge success at the time was compromised by a ‘sunset clause’ that ensured no permanent change to American gun culture. They then consider Republican attempts to frustrate Clinton’s presidency, and the right-wing operatives who, after cameo appearances in the Clinton impeachment saga took leading roles in the Trump presidency. Finally, they look at how America remade the global economy in its own image, and in ways that served its own interests, and the market dogmatism that may now, finally, be unravelling in the liberal West.Dan Roberts, “Clintons continue to tout legacy where others see era of mistakes and scandal,” The Guardian, 22 May 2016.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/21/hillary-clinton-bill-90s-nostalgia-reform-scandalPatrick Andelic, “As it celebrates its 25th birthday, how does the Clinton administration look today?” The Conversation, 17 January 2018.https://theconversation.com/as-it-celebrates-its-25th-birthday-how-does-the-clinton-administration-look-today-89718German Lopez, “Joe Biden's controversial criminal justice record, explained,” Vox, 26 August 2015.https://www.vox.com/2015/8/26/9208983/joe-biden-black-lives-matter?__c=1Ron Elving, “The U.S. Once Had A Ban On Assault Weapons — Why Did It Expire?” NPR, 13 August 2019.https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750656174/the-u-s-once-had-a-ban-on-assault-weapons-why-did-it-expireEd Pilkington, “How the Drudge Report ushered in the age of Trump,” The Guardian, 25 January 2018.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/24/how-the-drudge-report-ushered-in-the-age-of-trumpDavid Smith, “Kenneth Starr, driver of Clinton impeachment, does about-face for Trump,” The Guardian, 28 January 2020https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/27/kenneth-starr-trump-impeachment-trialAndrew Chatzky, James McBride, and Mohammed Aly Sergie, “NAFTA and the USMCA: Weighing the Impact of North American Trade,” Council on Foreign Relations, 24 February 2020.https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/nafta-and-usmca-weighing-impact-north-american-tradeStephen Grenville, “No consensus on the Washington Consensus,” The Interpreter, 7 June 2017.https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/no-consensus-washington-consensus'Theme for Barely Getting' By' written and produced by Stuart Cullenhttp://stuartcullen.nethello@stuartcullen.netTony Blair, Madeleine Albright and Bill Clinton excerpts courtesy of The William J. Clinton, Presidential Library.Donald Trump excerpt courtesy of The White House
Emma Shortis and Chloe Ward are back, for a nostalgic but-not-uncritical take on the 1990s and what it means for today. In three instalments, they outline the ideas and the political and economic forces that set out what the 1990s would look like. They start with the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s famous prediction of the ‘end of history’ and liberal triumph, before looking at the Cold War and its – surprising – peaceful end, and the much more cautious predictions about the future made by the historian Eric Hobsbawm.Links and referencesFrancis Fukuyama, ‘The End of History’, The National Interest, Summer 1989, 3-18.Louis Menand, ‘Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History’, New Yorker, 27 August 2018.Francis Fukuyama, ‘The Thing That Determines a Country’s Resistance to the Coronavirus’, The Atlantic, 30 March 2020.Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: 1914-1991, Hachette, 2020.The Late Show – Interview with Eric Hobsbawm‘Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in Quotes’, Guardian, 1 October 2012.Damien Cave, ‘Vanquish the Virus? Australia and New Zealand Aim to Show the Way’, New York Times, 24 April 2020.Credits'Theme for Barely Getting' By' written and produced by Stuart Cullenhttp://stuartcullen.nethello@stuartcullen.netRonald Reagan speech excerpt Courtesy, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.Bill Clinton speech excerpt Courtesy, William J. Clinton Presidential Library.George H W Bush speech excerpt Courtesy, George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.
Emma Shortis and Chloe Ward are back, for a nostalgic but-not-uncritical take on the 1990s and what it means for today. In three instalments, they outline the ideas and the political and economic forces that set out what the 1990s would look like. They start with the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s famous prediction of the ‘end of history’ and liberal triumph, before looking at the Cold War and its – surprising – peaceful end, and the much more cautious predictions about the future made by the historian Eric Hobsbawm.Links and referencesFrancis Fukuyama, ‘The End of History’, The National Interest, Summer 1989, 3-18.Louis Menand, ‘Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History’, New Yorker, 27 August 2018.Francis Fukuyama, ‘The Thing That Determines a Country’s Resistance to the Coronavirus’, The Atlantic, 30 March 2020.Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: 1914-1991, Hachette, 2020.The Late Show – Interview with Eric Hobsbawm‘Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in Quotes’, Guardian, 1 October 2012.Damien Cave, ‘Vanquish the Virus? Australia and New Zealand Aim to Show the Way’, New York Times, 24 April 2020.Credits'Theme for Barely Getting' By' written and produced by Stuart Cullenhttp://stuartcullen.nethello@stuartcullen.netRonald Reagan speech excerpt Courtesy, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.Bill Clinton speech excerpt Courtesy, William J. Clinton Presidential Library.George H W Bush speech excerpt Courtesy, George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.
Emma Shortis and Chloe Ward are back, for a nostalgic but-not-uncritical take on the 1990s and what it means for today. In three instalments, they outline the ideas and the political and economic forces that set out what the 1990s would look like. They start with the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s famous prediction of the ‘end of history’ and liberal triumph, before looking at the Cold War and its – surprising – peaceful end, and the much more cautious predictions about the future made by the historian Eric Hobsbawm.Links and referencesFrancis Fukuyama, ‘The End of History’, The National Interest, Summer 1989, 3-18.Louis Menand, ‘Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History’, New Yorker, 27 August 2018.Francis Fukuyama, ‘The Thing That Determines a Country’s Resistance to the Coronavirus’, The Atlantic, 30 March 2020.Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: 1914-1991, Hachette, 2020.The Late Show – Interview with Eric Hobsbawm‘Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in Quotes’, Guardian, 1 October 2012.Damien Cave, ‘Vanquish the Virus? Australia and New Zealand Aim to Show the Way’, New York Times, 24 April 2020.Credits'Theme for Barely Getting' By' written and produced by Stuart Cullenhttp://stuartcullen.nethello@stuartcullen.netRonald Reagan speech excerpt Courtesy, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.Bill Clinton speech excerpt Courtesy, William J. Clinton Presidential Library.George H W Bush speech excerpt Courtesy, George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.
Barely Getting' By is back! In separate states and from isolation, Emma and Chloe preview Season Two, as they give us a taste of their upcoming nine week long exploration of how the politics and culture of the 1990s set us up for today’s catastrophic failures, as well as what is and isn’t considered history.Season Two premieres on Wednesday 6 May.Credits:Ronald Reagan speech excerpt Courtesy, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.Bill Clinton speech excerpt Courtesy, William J. Clinton Presidential Library.George H W Bush speech excerpt Courtesy, George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.
One week on from Boris Johnson’s big victory in the British General Election, Emma asks Chloe what on earth just happened. They talk racism, neoliberalism, and the role of leadership. Does “electability” matter? And how might all of this play out in other places, like Australia and the US?And speaking of the US...Trump has been impeached, but does it even matter? In this final episode of Barely Gettin’ By, Chloe and Emma reflect on the end of the year and what might be in store for the world in 2020. Merry Impeachmas everyone, and thanks for listening!P.S. Looking ahead to our next season, we’d love to hear from you about what you liked, didn’t like, or want to hear more about, so please get in touch! You can post a review here or get us via Twitter: @DrChlod and @EmmaShortis.P.P.S. Boris Johnson’s timetable for a trade deal with the EU.
‘Ok, Boomer’? Chloe and Emma have been thinking about boomers, millennials, and intergenerational warfare for a while now. In this episode, they discuss racist aunties on the internet and what to do about them. Next, they dive into historical questions like, who are boomers, why are they so entitled, and why are they so bad at the internet? They narrow down their discussion to the ‘boomer elite’, who got the best of all worlds in the second half of the 20th century as beneficiaries of first the post-war expansion of the welfare state and later neoliberal prosperity. They find that in fact, there are plenty of older Australians who share the precarity and cynicism of millennials – so bring on the millennial/boomer alliance!Richard Cooke, ‘The Boomer Supremacy’, The Monthly, March 2016 [$]https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2016/march/1456750800/richard-cooke/boomer-supremacyDavid Graeber, ‘On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs’, Strike, August 2013.https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs, Penguin, 2018.‘What’s with all the minions?’, Starts at 60, 19 August 2015. [This site is AMAZING for insights into the Boomer mind - CW]https://startsat60.com/discover/lifestyle/whats-with-all-the-minionsNicola Davison, ‘The Anthropocene Epoch: Have we entered a new phase of planetary history?’, The Guardian, 30 May 2019.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/30/anthropocene-epoch-have-we-entered-a-new-phase-of-planetary-historyMeera Subramanian, ‘Humans versus Earth: the Quest to Define the Anthropocene’, Nature, 6 August 2019.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02381-2Tom Griffiths, ‘Coming of Age in the Great Acceleration’, Australian Book Review, November 2014.https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2014/125-november-2014-no-366/2220-coming-of-age-in-the-great-acceleration
With just one week until the UK General Election, Emma asked Chloe for a special mini episode to explain exactly what's happening. Chloe outlines the differences between elections in Britain and Australia, why this makes polling difficult, and why it makes predicting an outcome even harder. They discuss how Brexit, the NHS, and media bias will shape voters’ decisions, and what to look out for in the election on 12 December as the Labour Party seeks to deny the Conservatives the majority they need to leave the EU on Boris Johnson’s terms.
From Elena Ferrante to Roxane Gay, in this episode Chloe and Emma talk about the many women who inspire them … and a few who enrage them. They take a historical tour of feminism from the first wave to the second, through the 1980s when feminism became *very comfortable with capitalism*, and up to the present day of #MeToo. After talking about feminist heroes of old, they ask: who should we be reading and listening to, to understand what feminism means today? (hint: it’s not Julie Bishop).[Note: Emma was pregnant at the time of recording ... but we are now delighted to welcome the newest, littlest feminist, and the reason for any future delays in releasing episodes, Baby Viv
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