Podcasts about global development studies

This month we are honoured to be joined by one of our colleagues from Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki. Tiina Seppälä came to Global Development Studies by way of International Relations. Her work has looked at global inequalities, poverty, war, and social justice issues among many others. Activism is also an area of interest and Tiina has worked with peace activists in the UK, slum and women's rights activists in South Asia, as well as asylum seekers in the Finnish context. Tiina gives us insight into her trajectory and how she naturally progressed from one project to another and how funding has had an impact on the directions of her career. During her fieldwork she had some interesting encounters with the dark side of development, or what could be called maldevelopment. Tiina speaks openly and honestly about her own positionality within research and some of the mismatches between the theoretical and the real. The role of unlearning can sometimes be just as important as the role of learning. Tiina gives us insight into the ways in which artistic methods have played a role in how she approaches her research. Our conversation is wide ranging and quite compelling!Want to learn more about Tiina's work? https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/tiina-sisko-sepp%C3%A4l%C3%A4 Want to learn more about The Finnish Society for Development Research (FSDR)? https://www.kehitystutkimus.fi/?page_id=326 

We are delighted to present a really interesting conversation on a yet unexplored facet of extractivism. This month we talked with Saana Hokkanen who is a doctoral researcher in Global Development Studies at University of Helsinki. Saana's main interest is in the concept of soil extractivism, which is “is a form of capital accumulation based on systemic erasure of soils multispecies life.” Saana gives us insight into how soil is more than “just dirt” and the ways in which modern, industrial agriculture have negatively impacted the array of beings that make up soil. Saana gives us a lot of food for thought in relation to how our modern food system is composed and the multiple levels on which the extractive logics play out.Want to learn more about Saana's work? https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/saana-maarit-hokkanenWant to read Saana's article on soil extractivism? https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103298

A trade war between the US and its neighbours averted for now. President Trump has delayed imposing tariffs on Canada and Mexico, but not China. Why is he pushing for the levies, and at whose expense? Can Washington afford to alienate its biggest trade partners? In this Episode:  Dmitry Grozoubinski, Director, Explain Trade.  Greg Swenson, Founding Partner, Brigg Macadam.  Gavin Fridell, Professor, Political Science and Global Development Studies, Saint Mary's University. Host: James Bays Connect with us:@AJEPodcasts on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook At Al Jazeera Podcasts, we want to hear from you, our listeners. So, please head to https://www.aljazeera.com/survey and tell us your thoughts about this show and other Al Jazeera podcasts. It only takes a few minutes!

What does the world look like from a Pan-Africanist perspective? Listen in as we discuss what it means to be "authentically" African and see the world from the vantage point of Africa.   Zubairu Wai is Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Development Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada   I.G. @TheGambian @Ethan_Levine_ Twitter: @MomodouTaal @CTayJ @EthanLevine0  

This month we talked to Sergio Fernández Bravo, who is a fellow doctoral researcher from Global Development Studies at University of Helsinki. Sergio is interested in the relationship between natural sciences and politics, specifically in the Global South. His current research focuses on synthetic pesticides and how they are used as devices of power and influence the epistemic arrangements within the Mexican Green Revolution. Sergio gives insight into the history of pesticide use in Mexico and the various ways that they have influenced the trajectory of the region. Even though we are not directly invoking the term extractivism very often, there are so many connections and cross-fertilizations with extractivisms. For example, we discuss the role of terra nullius and wasteland in creating imaginaries about how land can and should be used (and what humans can do with it!) Join us for this wide ranging and intensely interesting conversation! If you are interested to learn more about Sergio's work, please visit his academic profile. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/sergio-fernandez-bravo  If you would like to contact Sergio for any further discussion of what you heard in this episode, please feel welcome and encouraged to drop him a line (sergio.fernandezbravo (at) helsinki.fi). He is up for making connections and having conversations about pesticides and the broader topics of his research.

This month we are happy to be joined by Markus Kröger and Peter Dewees. Markus is a professor of Global Development Studies at University of Helsinki and one of the co-PIs of the TreesForDev Project. Peter is retired from a 30 plus year career with the World Bank. During his time with the World Bank Peter worked on many different projects, with a focus on why rural people cultivate and plant trees, wood fuel use, and the management of the Miombo woodlands. While his focus was on Eastern Africa, he also has done work in Eastern Europe and Asia. He shares with us his insights into the role of rural peoples' agency in tree planting and how historical factors have influenced the land use practices. Top-down processes are not always the best path to get trees into the rural landscape; if a farmer needs a tree, they will figure out how to grow it. He shares with us some of the innovations that have been brought to the field that have been successful. We also discuss the question of ecological restoration and whether it is possible through tree planting schemes. We talk about some of the mismatches between the goals of funding agencies and the on-the-ground realities of the people living in place. And while he worked at the Bank for a long time, the views he expressed in this podcast are his own, and should not be ascribed to the World Bank. Want to learn more about Peter's work? https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-HD6w24AAAAJ&hl=en Want to learn more about Markus' research? https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/markus-kr%C3%B6ger Want to revisit the TreesForDev episodes about carbon? Steffen Böhm https://podcasts.apple.com/ee/podcast/treesfordev-maria-ehrnstr%C3%B6m-fuentes-and-steffen-boehm/id1499621252?i=1000666744435 Forrest Fleischman https://podcasts.apple.com/ee/podcast/treesfordev-maria-ehrnstr%C3%B6m-fuentes-and-forrest/id1499621252?i=1000663758730 Want to learn more about the TreesForDev Project? www.treesfordev.fi

Today's discussion comes from our most recent annual conference “Existential Crises: Is the Georgist Paradigm Part of the Solution?” and was recorded in July of 2024. For the next ten weeks, our discussions will revolve around the polycrisis afflicting the globe with four subtopics. The first will be the four most important crises, followed by how Georgism can alleviate these crises, which will then be followed by how to make Georgism more politically palatable, and will conclude by discussing different Georgist policy solutions. Today's panelist is Dr. Franklin Obeng-Odoom, professor of Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki in Finland.  Dr. Obeng-Odoom is a Fellow at the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received numerous awards for his scholarship and teaching. He is the author of several books, including Global Migration Beyond Limits; The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty; and Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa. A productive author, Dr. Obeng-Odoom has authored dozens of journal articles and is on the American Journal of Economics and Sociology editorial board.  We were lucky enough to join Dr. Obeng-Odoom to discuss climate refugees, why environmental justice must include land tenure, and how Georgist philosophy can be broadened to better consider the environment.  To check out more of our content, including our research and policy tools, visit our website: https://www.hgsss.org/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/smart-talk-hgsss/support

This month we are delighted to welcome Maija Lassila back to the EXALT podcast for our second conversation. Maija is post-doctoral researcher at Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) and recently received her doctorate from Global Development Studies at University of Helsinki. Maija takes to the North and gives us an overview of the work she did during her doctorate. We talk about reindeer herding and the impacts of resource extractivism (and the threat of future resource extractivism) on reindeer herding in Sápmi and Finnish Lapland. Maija “examines the contestations arising from the early stages of mining expansion in Utsjoki and Sodankylä.” Maija looks at the contestations the local community has to mining projects and traces out how this plays out in practice. Join us for this thought-provoking and wide-ranging conversation that gives deep insight into this world. Maija also reminds us how important it is to engage with post-extractivist alternatives as a way to reduce our dependence on the consumption.  If you would like to learn more about Maija's academic work https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/maija-lassila  If you would like to read Maija's doctoral thesis, Incommensurabilities of New Arctic Extractive Projects: Resistance to mining among Sámi, reindeer herders and local communities in Sápmi and Finnish Lapland, http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-51-9652-1 (links to the articles can be found in the dissertation) If you are interested to listen to Maija's first appearance on the podcast, Extractivism Research and Breaking Away from the Written Word, https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/maija-lassila-extractivism-research-and-breaking-away/id1499621252?i=1000472526548 

We are joined by Marketta Vuola from University of Helsinki's Global Development Studies. In this conversation Marketta gives us insight into the work that she is doing in her doctoral research. She started her academic career interested in conservation and national parks, but during her field work she kept running into gold mining and its role in the rural areas of Madagascar. Marketta gives insight into what artisanal means on the ground in Madagascar, which is not a simple thing to define as there is wide range of practices that fall under this designation. The scale she investigates is quite small scale and overturns the masculine stereotype of mining because it is often an activity that involves whole families. There are approximately 700000 artisanal miners, and it is the second most popular source of income after subsistence agriculture. Marketta opens some of the dynamics that surround the complicated relationship between mining, conservation, and violence in Madagascar.  Interested in the book Marketta mentioned? Made in Madagascar: Sapphires, Ecotourism, and the Global Bazaar by Andrew Walsh https://utorontopress.com/9781442603745/made-in-madagascar/  Want to learn more about Marketta's academic work? https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/marketta-paula-sofia-vuola  Interested to listen to the EXALT episode with Aili Pyhälä that was mentioned during the episode? https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/aili-pyh%C3%A4l%C3%A4-activism-alternatives-and-academia/id1499621252?i=1000466051482  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/exalt-initiative/message

Kyla Tienhaara is an Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental Studies and the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen's University, Canada and a Visiting Fellow at the School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University. She's the author of Green Keynesianism and the Global Financial Crisis and the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook on the Green New Deal, which is a book that I find absolutely essential for thinking about the potential social benefits of decarbonizing the economy and rethinking growth in our time of climate breakdown. She's also one of the few researchers looking closely at the function of Investor State Dispute Settlement as an international legal apparatus that largely protects investors from the pushback they might receive from states. There's no way I could quickly summarize what this work deciphers, in terms of this obscure global legal structure, which not a lot of people I've spoken with have any knowledge about. They might understand in the abstract that there is a system of global capitalism that is protected by the codification of laws that largely protect profits and private investment over the safety or autonomy of communities, but this is the actual system that serves that. And Kyla is uniquely insightful about how it works and what it is set up to prevent. I wanted to underscore, at the top here, that we engage, in this conversation, with the concepts of utopianism and pragmatism in climate action. That's no a disclaimer so much as an invitation to ask yourself where you sit in relation to this idea that abolishing fossil energy is utopian. Or to kind of request that you sit with the question of whether it is too much to ask that the economy be democratized or energy be regarded as a source of social wealth rather than a source of capital. It's maybe worth thinking, too, about why it is the case that there is legally-binding international law that protects fossil fuel companies from reprisal, but no binding law to protect the planet from the forces that are exacerbating our mounting climate emergency. What history precedes this moment where it is primarily rich countries that benefit from existing laws and international treaties, while poor countries get poorer? And what mechanisms or modes of resistance exist so that we can funnel our collective outrage at these legally sanctioned systems of upholding inequality into something real?

This month we are happy to welcome Ossi Ollinaho, a lecturer in Global Development Studies at University of Helsinki, on the podcast. In the conversation, we talk with Ossi about his journey from studying math and physics, to a Doctorate in Industrial Engineering and Management, to the experiences and questions which brought him to work in Global Development Studies. We also dive into how transitions to agroforestry techniques can turn out good, bad, and ugly, as well as how the systemic concept of keeping "business as usual" is a seductive slide to catastrophe (and how people's daily lives can impact the system, even if we don't realize we can). You can find Ossi's University of Helsinki profile here: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/ossi-ollinaho Ossi's works mentioned: Ollinaho, O. I., Pedlowski, M., & Kröger, M. (2022). Toxic turn in Brazilian agriculture? The political economy of pesticide legalisation in post-2016 Brazil. Third World Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2022.2153031 Ollinaho, O., & Kröger, M. (2021). Agroforestry transitions: The good, the bad and the ugly. Journal of Rural Studies, 82, 210-221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.01.016 Ollinaho, O. (2022). What is ‘business as usual'? Towards a theory of cumulative sociomaterial change. Globalizations. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2022.2142013 Ollinaho, O. I. (2018). Virtualization of the life-world. Human Studies, 41(2), 193-209. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-017-9455-3 Other works mentioned Berger, P. L., & Luckmann, T. (1991). The social construction of reality: A treatise in the sociology of knowledge. Penguin Books. The International Alfred Schutz Circle for Phenomenology and Interpretive Social Science - https://www.schutzcircle.org/ *Note - apologies for the delay in the episode release! The episode was scheduled to launch on August 25, but for some reason the system did not release the episode. Unfortunately we have been really busy and it was only just now brought to our attention. Apologies again and we will be double checking in the future to make sure it launches on time! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/exalt-initiative/message

Listen to the full episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/full-audio-how-88285425We're told that countries across the Global South are poor and plagued by violence not because of colonialism, imperialism, never ending Western wars, resource theft and destabilization campaigns. Rather, it's because they're ruled by corrupt and greedy people who seem to be innately authoritarian and backwards due to some sort of cultural deficiency that prevents respect for  human rights and causes state failure. To discuss the colonial and racist framework used by Western policymakers to justify ongoing imperialist aggression in Africa and how it's being folded into the new Cold War on Russia and China, Rania Khalek was joined by Zubairu Wai, Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Development Studies at the University of Toronto. This is just the first half of this episode. The second half is available for Breakthrough News Members only. Become a member at https://www.Patreon.com/BreakthroughNews to access the full episode and other exclusive content.

We often hear that China is colonising Africa. Or that Russia's actions are imperialist in Africa. Christian and I spoke to one of my favorite thinkers, about all things Africa vis-a-vis China & Russia   Zubairu Wai is Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Development Studies. He is the author of Epistemologies of African Conflicts: Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone (2012), which won the ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award for 2013, and co-editor (with Marta Iñiguez de Heredia) of Recentering Africa in International Relations: Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure (2018). His research takes up epistemological questions regarding the nature, conditions, and limits of disciplinary knowledge and practices in International Relations, Development Studies, Conflict and Security Studies, and African Studies. Specifically, he focuses on how the intersections of power and coloniality frame the discourses and political economy of knowledge, violence, conflict, development, and state formation in Africa, and the Global South more broadly. His most recent manuscript, Thinking the Colonial Library: Mudimbe, Gnosis, and the Predicament of Africanist Knowledge, which interrogates the contaminating vectors of the colonial archive and its implications for epistemic decolonisation, will be published by Routledge early next year.   I.G. @TheGambian Twitter: @MomodouTaal @CTayJ

This month we are thrilled to be joined by Eija Ranta, University Lecturer at University of Helsinki in Global Development Studies. Eija leads two Academy of Finland research projects, 'Social Justice and Raciality in Latin America' (2021-2026) and 'Citizenship Utopias in the Global South: The Pursuit of Transformative Alternatives in Times of Disillusionment' (2019-2023). Eija's current focus is on societal activism and particularly how people can live a good and decent life in the face of socio-political and environmental challenges. She shares with us how she got started working in Latin America and specifically with the Quechua Indigenous peoples of Bolivia. This is where she encountered the concept of Sumak kawsay, which translates from the Kichwa language into English as ‘good life' or ‘life in harmony'. This concept also served to influence the Spanish concept of Buen Vivir or Vivir Buen. Eija traces out the political changes in Bolivia in relation to the adoption of Vivir Buen. We explore the tensions and contractions that exist in Bolivia through the lens of extractivism, often the on-the-ground practices are not in line with the espoused ideals. If you are interested in Eija's projects and writing, please check out her University of Helsinki profile here. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eija-ranta  Our apologies in advance for some of the challenges, particularly with Sophia's sound quality. Due to work, fieldwork, and family – we were on three different continents (and in 4 hemispheres!) during this recording.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/exalt-initiative/message

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Ksenija Hanaček about her research on the Polar Silk Road and extractivism and environmental conflicts in the Arctic region. Dr. Hanaček is a political ecologist and a Margarita Salas postdoctoral fellow at Global Development Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki and at Institute for Science, Technology and Environment Global (ICTA), at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she is working on the Atlas of Environmental Justice. Her research focuses on environmental conflicts due to extractivist and mega infrastructure projects in the Arctic region. Current research includes commodity frontiers, climate coloniality and green extractivism, the Belt and Road Initiative's expansion to the Arctic (“Polar Silk Road”), nuclear supply chain and environmental justice struggles in post-Soviet spaces, and coal extraction conflicts in southwestern Siberia.  RELATED LINKSGlobal Atlas of Environmental Justice: http://envjustice.org/ [envjustice.org]Article: On thin ice–The Arctic commodity extraction frontier and environmental conflictsArticle: Nuclear supply chain and environmental justice struggles in Soviet and Post-Soviet countries 

More than 227,000 Cubans fled Cuba last year and this number continues to rise. In fact, Cuba is experiencing its largest exodus of people in a 12-month period since Fidel Castro's revolution of the 1950s. What's causing this mass exodus? And can conditions change for this island country of 11 million people? Guests: Sebastian Arcos, associate director, Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University; and Karen Dubinsky, professor, Global Development Studies and History at Queen's University.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This month we are delighted to be joined by Barış Can Sever who is Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Sociology at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He is currently doing a 9-month research period at Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki. Barış gives us an exciting insight into the agricultural geography in Turkey, including pressure from changing socio/ecological systems and the increasing dependency on imports. There have been dramatic changes in the country's rural areas over the last 40 years, including the entrance of transnational corporations into the rural spaces and significant rural out migration. When analyzing the migration patterns, Barış is looking at more than just linear stories, but rather he looks at the relationality and overarching forces that reproduce injustices and inequality, which channels people into certain patterns. He gives us insight into the extractivist logics at play and what human scale agriculture could look like in the context of building a functioning and sustainable Anatolian countryside. Interested to check out more of Barış' work? https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Baris-Can-Sever --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/exalt-initiative/message

People will be paying more fossil fuels but they will also be getting money back from Ottawa. So will the carbon tax change behaviour and help the environment? Kate Ervin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Development Studies at Saint Mary's University and the author of the book, "Carbon."

This month we were delighted to be joined by fellow University of Helsinki, Global Development Studies doctoral researcher, Usman Ashraf. Usman moved from the natural sciences to the social sciences and his research focuses on Chinese investment in Pakistan's forestry sector. In particular we talked about the Billion Tree Tsunami Afforestation project and the subsequent 10 Billion Tree Tsunami Afforestation project. We touched on the landscape changes that attend this kind of project and the impacts that these projects have on the human and other than human beings in the affected areas. He gives us insight into how the implementation of the plantations this project has specifically impacted the herding families in the area and other landless families. Our conversation undercovers the political implications of this “environmental” project and how the current narratives/processes are historically connected. Find and connect with Usman on Twitter @PEusman Usman's recommended reading The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh (University of Chicago Press) Check out the IIED Country report Usman recently wrote on this project. Ashraf, U. (2022) 'Participation and Exclusion in Mega Tree-planting Projects: A Case Study of the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Programme, Pakistan,' London: IIED. https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/17511 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/exalt-initiative/message

For my first-generation Americans, Africans, etc...listen up as Macire and I discuss intersectionality, structural and systemic racism, inequalities, Black in America, children of immigrants, and much more! A one-hour special.About the guest, Macire Aribot: Macire Aribot is a social entrepreneur and advocate for social and economic justice, racial equity, and Black unity across the diaspora. Raised in Atlanta, GA, and the daughter of immigrants from Conakry, Guinea, Macire is the principal founder and Chief Executive Officer of NoirUnited International, a global development and humanitarian organization focused on centering Black and other marginalized people in developing their communities. She is also currently a Master's student a Columbia University School of International Affairs concentrating in Economic and Political Development and specializing in African studies. Prior to SIPA, Macire worked at the National Democratic Institute to strengthen government transparency, electoral processes, and youth political and civil society leadership in Central and West Africa and Southern and East Africa. Macire received her Bachelor of Arts degree in International Affairs and Global Development Studies at Mercer University. She enjoys reading, traveling, and spending time with loved ones in her free time. Support the show

When you think diamonds, you probably think of romance, weddings and Valentine's Day. And it's no accident we think this way: A century of marketing has convinced us that diamonds symbolize love.In Canada, magazine ads celebrate the “purity” of Northern Canadian diamonds as an ethical alternative to conflict diamonds.But this marketing strategy actually hides enormous social problems that people living near the mines say they've experienced. This includes some of Canada's highest rates of violence against women.The story our guests tell today is not one of numbers. Instead, they're sharing narratives gathered and collected through interviews and sharing circles about how lives have changed after the mines opened.Our guests today are: Rebecca Hall, assistant professor of Global Development Studies at Queen's University and the author of Refracted Economies: Diamond Mining and Social Reproduction in the North and Della Green, former Victim Services Coordinator, at The Native Women's Association of the Northwest Territories.Show notes:https://theconversation.com/diamond-mines-are-not-a-girls-best-friend-podcast-183972You can listen to or follow Don't Call Me Resilient on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts. We'd love to hear from you, including any ideas for future episodes. Join The Conversation on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok and use #DontCallMeResilient.

5 years in and the Canada Infrastructure Bank has failed in its promise invest in "the next generation of infrastructure Canadians need" -- So what needs to be done to improve the CIB? With insight, we spoke with David McDonald, Professor of Global Development Studies at Queen's University. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Grace talks to Susanne Soederberg, Professor of Political Economy in Global Development Studies at Queen's University, Canada, about her book Urban Displacements: Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism. They discuss the class roots of the global housing crisis and the emergence of resistance to the cycle of debt, eviction, and homelessness in some of Europe's major cities.A World to Win is a podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week Grace talks to Susanne Soederberg, Professor of Political Economy in Global Development Studies at Queen's University, Canada about her book Urban Displacements: Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism. They discuss the class roots of the global housing crisis and the emergence of resistance to the cycle of debt, eviction, and homelessness in some of Europe's major cities. Susanne can be found on Twitter @soederberg1.You can support our work on the show by becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/aworldtowinpod. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

This month the EXALT podcast was delighted to welcome University of Helsinki, Global Development Studies doctoral researcher Anna Marjaana Heikkinen. In her doctorate Anna Marjaana focuses on the role of water and climate change in the Peruvian Andes. She works with communities of peasant farmers, who are trying to hold onto traditional ways of working with their land and water in the face of pressures from globalized supply chains and the incursion of extractive industries. She highlighted a case she is working on that shows the deep entanglements between humans, other than human beings, mining, and water. Anna Marjaana also shared some great resources to help the listeners think about water and gave us insight into the ways she communicates science. Links: Book: Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta (https://www.emmiitaranta.com/memory-of-water) Movie: Even the Rain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even_the_Rain) Dance your PhD contest by Science (correction in the episode we said this was sponsored by Nature) (https://www.science.org/content/page/announcing-annual-dance-your-ph-d-contest). Check out the entries on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dance+your+phd+2021 Some of Anna Marjaana's popular science articles (EN/FIN/ESP) https://blogs.uef.fi/envirolatam/2020/04/20/not-everyone-has-the-privilege-to-wash-the-hands-covid-19-and-unequal-access-to-water-in-latin-america/ https://www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/ilmasto-ja-luonnon-monimuotoisuus/aarisaat-ajavat-andien-asukkaita-ilmastopakolaisiksi-ja-maaemo-murehtii https://www.noticiasser.pe/la-vulnerabilidad-de-las-poblaciones-andinas-va-mas-alla-del-cambio If you would like to follow Anna Marjaana on social media, please find her on Twitter @AnnaMHeikkinen and on Instagram @anna.maryaana. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/exalt-initiative/message

This month we were delighted to be joined by Antti Tarvainen, a fellow doctoral candidate in Global Development Studies at University of Helsinki. His work examines the innovation economy (think Steve Jobs, apps, smart everything, etc.) and the colonial violence that that underpins its expansions. We started the discussion talking about the colonial utopia history of California and by extension in Silicon Valley. We explore some of the myriad colonial imaginaries that play out in the mythology and material culture of Silicon Valley. Antti points out that “tech” does not exist only on a digital or immaterial layer but is deeply connected to physical place and space. The effect of tech on the polis is not just gentrification, but rather more akin to settler colonialism. However, it is not just the polis that is made by this tech expansion, but rural spaces and nature itself are also made. We uncover the global geography of the resources that are extracted to build the physical infrastructure and components of the tech industry. This takes us to a broader discussion of the continued spread and influence of the tech sector. Antti shares with us his experiences doing fieldwork in the Silicon Wadi and how and where settler colonialism is present as the tech industry expands in Israel and Palestine. Links: Anti-eviction mapping project – urban effects of the tech sector in California Antti's Academic Profile and for our Finnish speaking listeners Antti's most recent article (in Finnish). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/exalt-initiative/message

In honour of the 2-year anniversary of the EXALT podcast we brought back our very first guest, Professor Barry Gills from Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki. We talk about the development and activities of the EXALT Initiative over the last few years. We touch on how the COVID crisis has raised awareness of the global system as a whole, which has highlighted the impact and knock-on effects of the extractivist logic. In this the changing consciousness around human relationship with other than humans in the web-of-life. We have been lacking in an understanding in the violence we do to other beings, which is ultimately violence to ourselves. Barry gave us insight into organizing concepts and the continued development of extractivism and particularly global extractivisms as an organizing concept. Global extractivisms as an organizing concept is a concept for our times of concurrent crises. However, that is not to say there is not hope for the future as we are living in a time of unprecedented information, reflectivity, and the ability to respond differently. Links: Special issue Globalizations Economics and Climate Emergency, Volume 18, Issue 7 (https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rglo20/18/7) “What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification” by Jason Hickel (https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1812222) “Economics and Climate Emergency” by Barry Gills and Jamie Morgan https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1841527 “Postscript, an end to the war on nature: COP in or COP out?” by Barry Gills and Jamie Morgan (https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2021.1973273) TNI Report – States of Power (https://www.tni.org/en/publication/state-of-power-2021) Extractivisms, Existences, and Extinctions: Monoculture Plantations and Amazon Deforestation by Markus Kröger (https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003102977/extractivisms-existences-extinctions-markus-kr%C3%B6ger) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/exalt-initiative/message

Mira Käkönen is currently a post-doctoral researcher in Global Development Studies at University of Helsinki. She is an environmental social scientist with a focus in political ecology and water infrastructures through the lens of infrastructural politics and the intersection of water and climate. Her work focuses on the Mekong region and the impact of hydropower development. This exciting conversation was a deep dive into the history of water infrastructures and the impact of these development schemes. We talked about the concept of resource making and how river waters are developed and objectified to be turned from naturally flowing rivers into resources that can be “tamed”, commodified, and extracted. We delved into the logic of hydroelectricity and the violent reductions that accompany ordering riverine resources. Hydropower can itself be extractivism and it serves to support other extractivisms, like mining and forestry. Mira highlights some of the false promises of renewable energy when one considers the large scale landscapes changes wrought by the introduction of hydropower dams, their accompanying infrastructures, and knock-on effects. Readings mentioned: Mira's Dissertation: Fixing the fluid: Making resources and ordering hydrosocial relations in the Mekong Region Christopher Sneddon: Concrete Revolution: Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation Scholars Mentioned: Carl Middleton, Keith Barney, Ian Baird, Sango Mahanty, Sarah Milne Organizations Mentioned: International Rivers, Save the Mekong Coalition If you are interested in learning more about Mira's research, please check out her University of Helsinki research profile. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/exalt-initiative/message

Vedika moved from an urban bustling environment to a small town in Iowa where she graduated with a degree in Economics and a concentration in Global Development Studies from Grinnell College. This quiet small liberal arts program with rigorous academic classes allowed her to explore a lot of her interests. Throughout her undergraduate journey she was keen to work in the social impact space. Not only did she gain experience as social coordinator for the international student organization but also worked as an elected senator in her university student government. However, during all this she also ensured to explore the creative industry through her renewed interest in film, theatre and writing. Ultimately, her college accomplishments ranged from interning at Vogue Conde Nast to working for Save the Children.

In this week's episode, we speak to Natalie Alfaro Frazier (@nataliealfarofrazier), one of the contributors to A Place to Belong: Letters to Catholic Women. She grew up in California in a Catholic Nicaraguan-American family. While studying Global Development Studies at Seattle Pacific University Natalie had a reversion to the faith. Natalie later returned to California and received her Masters in Public Administration from Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and is now a nonprofit management and program development consultant. Natalie is passionate about the intersection of Catholicism and community-driven social change and radical hospitality. She is a trained restorative justice mediator and circle keeper. One of her favorite things is having good conversations along the beach drinking a fresh cup of coffee. Natalie now lives in the Nashville area with her husband, three children, and two pups. Enjoy today's episode! PRE-ORDER "A Place to Belong: Letters from Catholic Women" here: https://paulinestore.com/place-to-belong STAY IN TOUCH WITH US! Twitter: @DaughterStPaul and @PBMPublishingInstagram: @DaughterStPaul and @PaulineBooksAndMedia Thank you for listening. Leave us a rating and review on your favorite platform so that others can discover and listen to us too! Thank you to our supporters on Patreon who make this podcast possible!Support us and find out more: www.thedaughtersproject.com

Sarah is a relationship-builder, communicator and business strategist fascinated by the power of individual and collective change. Having traveled to over 17 different countries and graduating with a degree in Global Development Studies, she has gained valuable firsthand experience understanding diverse perspectives. Her curiosity in people and relationships has led her to work in global health communications, youth education, international and domestic customer service and most recently in a mission-driven startup. The key to my success in these various contexts is her empathic ability to connect with individuals, teams and client needs.

David McDonald, a professor of Global Development Studies at Queens University in Kingston talks about his new e-book on access to clean water during the pandemic: "Public Water and Covid-19: Dark Clouds and Silver Linings"; Infection control epidemiologist Colin Furness explains the concept of a 'circuit breaker' lockdown and how it can be used to fight the spread of the coronavirus; We get two perspectives on the continuing outbreak at Simcoe Manor in Beeton, south of Barrie. First from Sandra Mason whose 90 year-old husband is in care there and then from Sharlene Stewart President of SEIU Healthcare, the largest union representing staff in the province's long term care facilities; Wilfred Laurier University criminologist explains his research that he hopes will help Netflix improve the algorithms that attempt to predict what we want to watch; Jordan Press of the Canadian Press discusses Canada's relationship with the incoming Biden administration and the new broadband initiative announced by the federal government; Paul Burn of the Canadian Gaming Association discusses new legislation brought in by the Government of Ontario to regulate online gambling; Joanna Dermenjian of Kingston discusses her research in to the history of Red Cross quilts that were made by volunteers for soldiers and others during World War Two.

Dr. David McDonald, Professor in the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University joins us in this episode.  Dr. McDonald sheds light on the new collection he has co-edited entitled Public Water and Covid 19: Dark Clouds and Silver Linings.  The chapters in this free e-book released November 9th 2020 provide the first global […]

"Whiteness perpetuates itself by denying it's existence. That is one of the biggest hurdles to try and overcome. Continue to name whiteness, even when we're uncomfortable talking about it. Avoid the temptation to spin off into generalizations about society or political agendas and own that part of ourselves." ~ Claire Smith Starting September 2020, Stacy Kitahata (she/her) is Co-Executive Director, Holden Village and Retreat Center, with Kathie and Mark Bach. Stacey is a graduate of UCLA and McCormick Theological Seminary, She comes with over 25 years of leadership experience with faith communities, grassroots organizations and higher education. She served as Dean of Community at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago and as director of the Center for Community Engagement at Trinity Lutheran College. She also served as outreach staff with the synods of Region 1. She currently serves as Program Director for the Krista Foundation for Global Citizenship, designing and conducting intercultural experiential leadership development. Claire Smith (she/her) holds her BA in English Literature and Hispanic Studies and her Masters of Social Work from the University of Washington. She received her training in intercultural capacity building from the Krista Foundation for Global Citizenship and Kaleidoscope Institute, and has been honing her facilitation practice with an amazing Community of Practice in the Seattle area. Claire spent two years serving with Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest gaining experience advocating with Latinx survivors of intimate partner violence and academically supporting young people on the Crow Reservation in St. Xavier, MT. Rediet Mulugeta received a BA in Global Development Studies from Seattle Pacific University in 2012, She served in Houston, TX with Mission Year, a yearlong volunteer program. After 2 years developing relationships and working alongside local non-profit organizations, grassroots leaders, and faith communities, Rediet relocated to Chicago, IL to join the national Mission Year staff to coordinate week-long service learning programs in multiple cities. Currently, she oversees and directs the Krista Colleague program with the Krista Foundation for Global Citizenship as Program Associate. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: http://www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org The Holden Village Podcast is accessible through Apple iTunes, Google Play Music, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, and most podcast apps. To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org

Fahim Quadir, Vice-Provost and Dean, School of Graduate Studies Professor, Department of Global Development Studies Civil society, cosmopolitan citizenship, and realistic utopia Host: Barry KaplanSynopsis: Dr. Fahim Quadir is the Vice-Provost and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at Queen’s University and a Professor in the Department of Global Development Studies. His research explores Continue Reading

Nick Kontogeorgopoulos, Distinguished Professor of International Political Economy and Director of Asian Studies and Global Development Studies, talks about experiential education at University of Puget Sound, along with a few tangents about classic soft rock. Hear about how students take learning outside of the classroom through high impact opportunities such as internships to study abroad and the role of reflection as part of a rigorous liberal arts education. Prospective students and families are invited to get to know us even more by visiting us in Tacoma, Washington. We offer information sessions and student-led tours of our picturesque residential campus on weekdays and we'd love to show you around . Admitted students ready to take the next step should visit our Welcome Website to confirm enrollment and take the next steps to officially be a Puget Sound Logger.

In this 65th episode, Brothaspeak Podcast explores the homosexual history within Africa. We discuss this topic with award winning historian Marc Epprecht.  MARC EPPRECHT Marc Epprecht is a professor in the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen's University, Canada. He has consulted and published extensively on the history of gender and sexuality in Africa, including Hungochani: The History of a Dissident Sexuality in Southern Africa (winner of the 2006 Joel Gregory Prize from the Canadian Association of African Studies) and Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS (finalist for the 2009 Mel Herskovits prize from the African Studies Association). He recently received the Desmond Tutu Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Study of Sexuality in Africa from the International Resource Network-Africa. Marc holds his PhD in history from Dalhousie University, and has also taught at the University of Zimbabwe.  BROTHASPEAK PODCAST Brothaspeak Podcast where we interview the innovative, the daring, and the bold while providing informative topics for the black lgbt.  www.Brothaspeakpod.net INSTAGRAM - @brothaspeakpod FACEBOOK - CLICK HERE TWITTER - @BrothaspeakPod

In this episode of AnthroPod, the podcast of The Society for Cultural Anthropology, editorial intern Jonah S Rubin interviews Prof. Richard Handler (UVA) about his article in the May 2013 issue of Cultural Anthropology, entitled: "Disciplinary Adaptation and Undergraduate Desire: Anthropology and Global Development Studies in the Liberal Arts Curriculum." For more on this article and all of our other content, head to production.culanth.org and culanth.org.

In this episode of AnthroPod, the podcast of The Society for Cultural Anthropology, editorial intern Jonah S Rubin interviews Prof. Richard Handler (UVA) about his article in the May 2013 issue of Cultural Anthropology, entitled: "Disciplinary Adaptation and Undergraduate Desire: Anthropology and Global Development Studies in the Liberal Arts Curriculum." For more on this article and all of our other content, head to production.culanth.org and culanth.org.