tag:theconversation.com,2011:/uk/topics/podcast-3738/articlesPodcast – The Conversation2024-03-28T09:58:19Ztag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2267842024-03-28T09:58:19Z2024-03-28T09:58:19ZInvisible lines: how unseen boundaries shape the world around us<p>Our experiences of the world are diverse, often changing as we move across borders from one country to another. They can also vary based on language or subtle shifts in climate. Yet, we rarely consider what causes these differences and divisions. </p>
<p>In this episode of <a href="https://theconversation.com/uk/topics/the-conversation-weekly-98901">The Conversation Weekly</a> podcast, we speak to geographer Maxim Samson at De Paul University in the US about the unseen boundaries that can shape our collective and personal perceptions of the world – what he calls “invisible lines”.</p>
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<p>For Samson, invisible lines are: “Boundaries and belts that shape our understanding of and interactions with the planet, even though these boundaries and belts are, to all intents and purposes, unseen.” </p>
<p>While we may not be able to see these lines on a conventional map, people often know that they exist. </p>
<p>One example is the history of redlining in the US. Originating in the 1930s, the practice involved government-backed mortgage lenders colour-coding neighbourhoods. Green denoted the most desirable areas while red marked the highest-risk zones, often inhabited by Black communities.</p>
<p>Although redlining was officially outlawed in 1968 and the lines are no longer marked on any maps, their enduring impact resonates across America today. One example is Detroit’s <a href="https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/eight-mile-road#:%7E:text=Spanning%20more%20than%2020%20miles,east%2Dwest%20throughout%20the%20region.">8 Mile road</a>, which still segregates the city along racial lines – with predominantly African American neighbourhoods to the south, and predominantly white, affluent areas are to the north of 8 Mile.</p>
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<p>But it’s not just in cities that these boundaries exist. One example Samson gives from nature is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Line">Wallace line</a>, which runs through parts of Indonesia and marks a sharp transition in flora and fauna between the Asian and Australian regions. On one side, you get what are considered Asian animals such as monkeys; on the other, marsupials associated with Australia.</p>
<p>Another invisible line is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinling%E2%80%93Huaihe_Line">Qinling-Huaihe line</a>, which separates China into two distinct regions: the humid and subtropical south and the dry, temperate north.</p>
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<p>In the early 20th century, this was identified as roughly the dividing line between places where the average January temperature would be below zero, and where it wouldn’t fall out that low. So, if you live north of the line, your town probably has a heating system. If you live south of it, it wouldn’t have one. </p>
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<p>This distinction has informed government policy and led to different levels of development in the south versus the north. By recognising the seemingly innocuous Qinling-Huaihe line, it’s possible to discern disparities in economic development, inequality and air pollution between China’s southern and northern regions that might otherwise be obscured.</p>
<p>For Samson, analysing these kinds of boundary can help understand different access to education, employment opportunities and public services, depending on which side of the invisible line someone falls.</p>
<p>Listen to the full interview with Maxim Samson on <a href="https://pod.link/1550643487">The Conversation Weekly podcast</a>. </p>
<p><em>A transcript of this episode will be available shortly.</em></p>
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<p class="fine-print"><em><span>Maxim Samson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.</span></em></p>Maxim Samson speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the hidden lines that explain variations in everything from access to education to animal speciesMend Mariwany, Producer, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The ConversationLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2260862024-03-21T14:42:07Z2024-03-21T14:42:07ZStarvation is a weapon of war: Gazans are paying the price<iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/a0ebccbd-65af-4884-ae7e-49ae086cd98f?dark=true"></iframe>
<p>On Monday, the European Union’s foreign policy chief <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ipc-gaza-famine-report-1.7146974">accused Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war</a> and provoking famine in Gaza. </p>
<p>Israel <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-asks-world-court-not-order-new-measures-over-gaza-hunger-2024-03-18/">denies the allegations</a>, which are some of the strongest words we have heard from a western power about the situation in Gaza since October. The EU statement comes on the heels of a <a href="https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/alerts-archive/issue-97/en/">UN-backed report</a> that warns that more than one million people — half of Gaza’s population — face catastrophic starvation conditions. </p>
<p>The report compiled through a partnership of more than 19 international agencies, including the United Nations and the Canadian International Development Agency, goes on to say that without an immediate ceasefire and a major influx of food especially into areas cut off by fighting, famine and mass death in Gaza are imminent.</p>
<p>In response to Monday’s report, the United Nations Secretary-General, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/3/18/un-backed-report-says-famine-imminent-in-northern-gaza">António Guterres said</a> Palestinians in Gaza are “enduring horrifying levels of hunger and suffering” and called the findings an “appalling indictment of conditions on the ground for civilians.”</p>
<p>“We must act now to prevent the unthinkable, the unacceptable and the unjustifiable,” he said.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/famine-expert-analyzes-gaza-humanitarian-crisis/">Scholars of famine</a> say this is the worst food deprivation they have observed in war time since the Second World War. And according to international law, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/31/israel-gaza-starvation-international-law">intentional starvation of a population is a war crime</a>.</p>
<p>Hilal Elver joined us to share her extensive expertise on the issue. Prof. Elver is the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, a position she held for six years, from 2014 to 2020. She is also a research professor of Global Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara and a Global Distinguished Fellow at the Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law. Elver currently serves on the committee of experts at the Committee on World Food Security.</p>
<p>With almost 50 per cent of Gaza’s population under 18, Elver says children are forced to grow up quickly in Gaza. She worries for their future. She says even if we stop the war right now, “we’re going to lose this generation.” </p>
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<p><a href="https://www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ipcinfo/docs/IPC_Famine_Committee_Review_Report_Gaza_Strip_Acute_Food_Insecurity_Feb_July2024_Special_Brief.pdf">Famine Review Committee Report: Gaza Strip Acute Food Insecurity March 2024</a> — Integrated Food Security Phase Classification</p>
<p><a href="https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Mass+Starvation%3A+The+History+and+Future+of+Famine-p-9781509524662"><em>Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine</em></a> by Alex de Waal</p>
<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/un-chief-pushes-get-aid-into-gaza-process-is-slow-2023-10-20/">U.N. chief pleads for Gaza lifeline at Egypt border crossing</a></p>
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We speak with Hilal Elver, the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and current University of California professor about the looming famine in Gaza after months of Israeli attacks.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientAteqah Khaki, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientHusein Haveliwala, Student Journalist/Assistant Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2262462024-03-21T11:36:19Z2024-03-21T11:36:19ZClimate quitting: the people leaving their fossil fuel jobs because of climate change<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/583118/original/file-20240320-16-57513d.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=89%2C134%2C5901%2C3853&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">
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<p>In this episode of <a href="https://theconversation.com/uk/topics/the-conversation-weekly-98901">The Conversation Weekly podcast</a>, we speak to a researcher about this phenomenon of “climate quitting”.</p>
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<p>In a video posted on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/caroline-dennett-6161a814_jumpship-truthteller-activity-6934409781495431168-7l1f?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web">LinkedIn</a> in 2022, Caroline Dennett, a senior safety consultant working at a major oil company, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/23/shell-consultant-quits-environment-caroline-dennett">announced she was terminating her contract</a> because of what she called the company’s “double-talk” on climate. </p>
<p>When Grace Augustine and her colleague Birth Soppe saw the video, which went viral, they decided to start looking for more people who had left their jobs because of concerns over climate change. </p>
<p>Augustine, an associate professor in business and society at the University of Bath in the UK, and Soppe, an associate professor of organisation studies, at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, have so far conducted interviews with 39 people from around the world in their ongoing research. Most, though not all, of their interviewees are young people who work in white collar jobs in the oil and gas sector. </p>
<p>One man they spoke to explained the feelings that led him to leave his job.</p>
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<p>On a Friday afternoon travelling home, I would feel physically uncomfortable. And I was wondering: why am I feeling physically uncomfortable? I had a good week, I’ve done good work. And then you realise that, you may have done good work, but the goal that you’re working towards is evil in a way; does not align with your moral compass.</p>
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<p>Many referred to having a sense of cognitive dissonance – the idea that your behaviour doesn’t match your belief system. And they couldn’t live it with any longer. Augustine explained:</p>
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<p>They were increasingly feeling a sense of urgency around the climate crisis … something that they’d thought might be happening ten, 15, 20 years down the line, such as heat records being broken or climate related weather events. They felt an increasing sense that it couldn’t wait any longer for them to leave this industry.</p>
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<p>Listen to Grace Augustine talk about her ongoing research on <a href="https://pod.link/1550643487">The Conversation Weekly</a> podcast, which also features extracts from her interviews and an introduction from Sam Phelps, commissioning editor for international affairs at The Conversation in the UK. </p>
<p><em>A transcript of this episode will be available shortly.</em></p>
<p><em>Thanks to Grace Augustine for getting permission for The Conversation to use clips from her interviews, and to her interview subjects who agreed to let us use their voices and statements in this podcast.</em> </p>
<p><em>This episode of The Conversation Weekly was written and produced by Katie Flood, with assistance from Mend Mariwany. Gemma Ware is the executive producer. Sound design was by Eloise Stevens, and our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. Stephen Khan is our global executive editor, Alice Mason runs our social media and Soraya Nandy does our transcripts.</em></p>
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<p class="fine-print"><em><span>Grace Augustine receives funding from The British Academy and Leverhulme Trust. </span></em></p>Grace Augustine talks about her interviews with people who’ve chosen to leave their jobs over climate change concerns on The Conversation Weekly podcast.Gemma Ware, Editor and Co-Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The ConversationLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2240652024-03-14T17:07:50Z2024-03-14T17:07:50ZNine years after #OscarsSoWhite, a look at what’s changed<iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/6e95de91-d1cf-4295-804b-8236faeb66fc?dark=true"></iframe>
<p>On Sunday, nine years after #OscarsSoWhite, millions of us tuned into watch the 96th annual Academy Awards — some to simply take in the spectacle. And some to see how much had changed. </p>
<p>The hashtag <a href="https://www.essence.com/news/nine-years-after-oscars-so-white/">#OscarsSoWhite</a> started after many people noticed that, for a second year in a row, all nominees for four of five major categories were white. The movement called on Hollywood to do better: to better reflect America’s demographic realities and also to expand its depiction of our histories. </p>
<p>The reason: representation in Hollywood matters. What gets put on screens and by whom has reverberating impacts on how all of us see each other and see ourselves. </p>
<p>So …. how did the Oscars do this year?</p>
<p>Let’s take a brief look at the evening, which started with the anti-war protests outside the theatre slowing down traffic and delaying the broadcast by a full five minutes.</p>
<p>Although there were only seven racialized actors up for nominations, there were some notable wins in that arena.</p>
<p>Cord Jefferson accepted his award for best adapted screenplay for <em>American Fiction</em>. When at the podium, he talked about how many people passed over the project — a Black film with a primary Black cast. To the producers out there listening, he made a plea to acknowledge and recognize the many talented Black playwrights out there that deserve similar opportunities. He suggested one way would be that producers fund 10 small projects instead of one $200 million dollar film. </p>
<p>Lily Gladstone, though she didn’t win, <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2317306947668">was the first North American Indigenous woman to be nominated for best actress in its 96-year history</a>. </p>
<p>And Da'Vine Joy Randolph won best supporting actress for her role in <em>The Holdovers</em>, and made a memorable appearance and acceptance speech. </p>
<p>But one night at the Oscars doesn’t paint the full picture.</p>
<p>Just a few months ago, award-winning actor, Taraji P. Henson, broke down in tears <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/taraji-p-henson-cries-quitting-acting-pay-disparity-hollywood-1235847420/">in an interview with journalist Gayle King</a>. She was exhausted from breaking glass ceilings as a Black woman in film. “I’m just tired of working so hard being gracious at what I do getting paid a fraction of the cost,” she said. “I’m tired of hearing my sisters say the same thing over and over.”</p>
<p>Henson explained that in 2008’s <em>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</em>, she was paid significantly less than her co-stars despite having third billing on the call sheet. Henson nearly turned down her role in <em>The Colour Purple</em> for similar reasons.</p>
<p>The pay disparity for Black and Indigenous women in comparison to white women in Hollywood is nothing new.</p>
<p>Here in Canada, the problem is just as pervasive.</p>
<p>Despite some recent wins, a report from Telefilm Canada revealed that <a href="https://www.screendaily.com/news/report-shows-drop-in-number-of-canadian-women-in-film-tv-compared-to-pre-pandemic-times-exclusive/5185452.article">Black women have the least representation in TV and film</a>.</p>
<p>They also lead the fewest projects and receive the least funding overall.</p>
<p>To shed some light on the issue, we spoke to two women well versed on the challenges of Black, Indigenous and other women of colour in film and TV.</p>
<p>Naila Keleta-Mae, a playright, poet and singer as well as the Canada Research Chair in Race, Gender and Performance and associate professor of communication arts at the University of Waterloo said that while we need more voices at the table, Black female artists have not been waiting for scraps: </p>
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<p>We also spoke with actor and director Mariah Inger, the chair of ACTRA National’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Committee.</p>
<p>Inger warned us to remember that the Oscars represent only one per cent of those working in the industry. And that while many working actors, writers, directors may look to the Oscars as a dream, the reality is that they show up every day because this is where they feel most called to contribute to the world. And she says, in that everyday world, things are shifting.</p>
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It’s been nine years since #OscarsSoWhite called out a lack of diversity at the Oscars. Has anything changed? Prof. Naila Keleta-Mae and actress Mariah Inger unpack the progress.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientDannielle Piper, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me Resilient, The ConversationAteqah Khaki, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2210082024-03-07T14:39:16Z2024-03-07T14:39:16ZDon’t Call Me Resilient podcast: Listen to the new season trailer<p>Today, we launch our trailer for a new season of <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/"><em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em>,</a> our podcast that takes on the ways racism impacts our biggest news stories and also permeates our everyday lives.</p>
<p>The DCMR team has been busy prepping new episodes and next week, we start releasing episodes for season 7, taking our anti-racist lens to the news unfolding around us and the issues occupying a lot of our minds these days. From big cultural moments, like the Oscars, to the scary spread of AI and the ongoing impacts of climate change, to the devastating war in Gaza: we’ll be on it, in our signature way.</p>
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<p>You can catch up and listen to last season. Our season 6 most listened to episodes were about the intense polarization within our institutions. </p>
<p><a href="https://theconversation.com/why-the-israel-gaza-conflict-is-so-hard-to-talk-about-216149">One episode</a> featured the conflict in Gaza and we spoke with a historian whose family was taken hostage by Hamas, and a geographer with family in the West Bank. They got together to discuss a way forward. </p>
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<p>The <a href="https://theconversation.com/why-are-brown-and-black-people-supporting-the-far-right-214800">second episode</a> was about political polarization in the United States, and why racialized people are upholding white supremacist ideologies that work against them. Prof. Daniel Martinez HoSang of Yale University joined us to explain the rising popularity of the far right with people of colour – what he calls multicultural white supremacy. </p>
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<p><a href="mailto:DCMR@theconversation.com">We’d love to hear from you</a>, including any ideas for future episodes. Keep up with our podcast and chat with us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dontcallmeresilientpodcast/">Instagram</a>. Use the hashtag #DontCallMeResilient or tag us <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dontcallmeresilientpodcast/">@dontcallmeresilientpodcast</a>. Or join <em>The Conversation</em> on <a href="https://twitter.com/ConversationCA">X</a>, and follow our sister stories on <em>The Conversation</em>’s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/theconversationdotcom/">Instagram</a>. You can also now follow the podcast on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_mJBLBznANz6ID9rBCUk7gv_ZRC4Og9-">YouTube</a>. </p>
<p><em>Season 7 credits: Vinita Srivastava is the host and producer. Ateqah Khaki and Dannielle Piper are associate producers. Jennifer Moroz is the consulting producer. Krish Dineshkumar is our sound editor. Theme music: Zaki Ibrahim, Something in the Water.</em></p><img src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/221008/count.gif" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" />
The DCMR team has been busy prepping new episodes and next week, we start releasing episodes for season 7, taking our anti-racist lens to the news and issues occupying a lot of our minds these days.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientDannielle Piper, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me Resilient, The ConversationAteqah Khaki, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientJennifer Moroz, Consulting Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2231192024-02-12T11:47:56Z2024-02-12T11:47:56ZDeepfakes and disinformation swirl ahead of Indonesian election – podcast<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/574372/original/file-20240208-28-gpe2qm.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=28%2C14%2C1866%2C902&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">A screenshot from a deepfake video shared on X purporting to show former Indonesian President Suharto. </span> <span class="attribution"><a class="source" href="https://x.com/erwinaksa_id/status/1754370873992360113?s=20">Erwin Aksa via X</a></span></figcaption></figure><p>Indonesia, the world’s third-largest democracy, goes to the polls on February 14 to elect a new president. It’s one of the largest elections to take place since an explosion of generative AI tools became available that can manipulate video and audio – and a number of deepfake videos have gone viral during the campaign. </p>
<p>In this episode of <a href="https://theconversation.com/uk/topics/the-conversation-weekly-98901">The Conversation Weekly</a> podcast, we look at what Indonesia’s experience is revealing about the disinformation battleground ahead in 2024, when an estimated <a href="https://theconversation.com/more-than-4-billion-people-are-eligible-to-vote-in-an-election-in-2024-is-this-democracys-biggest-test-220837">4 billion voters</a> will be eligible to vote in an election. </p>
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<p>Some of Indonesia’s deepfake videos are fairly easy to debunk. One, which went <a href="https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/indonesian/suharto-deepfake-used-in-election-campaign-01122024135217.html">viral in January</a>, shows a video of Suharto, the former president of Indonesia, endorsing his former political party, Golkar. Suharto, whose 32 years in power were marked by a brutal military dictatorship, died in 2008. </p>
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<p>Others are a bit more subtle. Lilik Mardjianto, a journalism lecturer at Universitas Multimedia Nusantara in Indonesia, says a few deepfakes use “factual videos but manipulate the voice using AI” to make it sound like a politician is speaking in another language. In one, Joko Widodo, the outgoing president, is depicted speaking in Mandarin. Other videos have depicted <a href="https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.342A6RJ">two candidates</a> for the 2024 election <a href="https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.34324G7">speaking in Arabic</a>. </p>
<p>For Nuurianti Jalli, an expert on disinformation in south-east Asia at Oklahoma State University in the US, these deepfakes, even when they’re crude, can influence the political conversation.</p>
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<p>Indonesians are no strangers to disinformation spread on social media. “Hoaks”, as they’re called in Indonesia, proliferated during the last presidential election campaign in 2019. Jalli says rumours spread online also contributed to post-election violence in <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/29/rights-group-10-unlawfully-killed-in-indonesia-election-riots">which ten people were killed</a> during protests against the re-election of Widodo. </p>
<p>In 2024, teams of journalists are racing to fact check claims and content ahead of the polls, including <a href="https://theconversation.com/tcid-aji-kompas-com-dan-tempo-co-luncurkan-kolaborasi-panel-ahli-cek-fakta-220238">The Conversation</a> in Indonesia.</p>
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<p>But Jalli says the factcheckers she’s spoken to worry they’re now playing catch-up with AI-generated hoaxes. “Everything goes viral first” and then journalists try to “debunk that after millions of people watched it”, she says. </p>
<p>Listen to Jalli and Mardjianto plus Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, politics editor at The Conversation in Indonesia on <a href="https://podfollow.com/the-conversation-weekly/view">The Conversation Weekly podcast</a>. You can also read more about disinformation in the <a href="https://theconversation.com/uk/topics/indonesia-election-2024-147192">Indonesian election on The Conversation</a>. </p>
<p>A <a href="https://cdn.theconversation.com/static_files/files/3074/Indonesia_Deepfakes_Transcript.docx.pdf?1709054499">transcript of this episode</a> is now available. </p>
<p><em>This episode of The Conversation Weekly was written by Mend Mariwany, and produced by Mend Mariwany and Gemma Ware. Sound design was by Eloise Stevens, and our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. Stephen Khan is our global executive editor, Alice Mason runs our social media and Soraya Nandy does our transcripts.</em></p>
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<p class="fine-print"><em><span>F.X. Lilik Dwi Mardjianto's research on the fact-checking audience has been supported by the Indonesian Cyber Media Association. Nuurrianti Jalli does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.</span></em></p>Disinformation experts, Lilik Mardjianto and Nuurrianti Jalli, tell The Conversation Weekly podcast about the deepfakes circulating ahead of the Indonesian election.Gemma Ware, Editor and Co-Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The ConversationLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2223352024-02-01T11:45:51Z2024-02-01T11:45:51ZRogue taxonomists, competing lists and accusations of anarchy: the complicated journey toward a list of all life on Earth – podcast<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/572430/original/file-20240131-23-p66p9l.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=40%2C50%2C3354%2C2494&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">It's not easy to create a list of all life on Earth. </span> <span class="attribution"><a class="source" href="https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/colorful-aquarium-showing-different-fishes-swimming-80384149">Ingrid Prats via Shutterstock</a></span></figcaption></figure><p>In our chaotic, rapidly changing modern world, many of us have come to rely on science to provide a sense of order. So it may be disconcerting to learn that there is no single, definitive list of all life on Earth. And there never has been. </p>
<p>In this episode of <a href="https://theconversation.com/uk/topics/the-conversation-weekly-98901">The Conversation Weekly</a> podcast, we take you inside the world of taxonomy, where competing lists, rogue taxonomists and recent accusations of anarchy have revealed the messy struggle to classify the world around us.</p>
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<p>It’s remarkably easy to name a new species. “You don’t need peer review. You can put it in a book, you can put it in a magazine, so long as you have followed the rules for naming it and it follows the right Latin,” explains Stephen Garnett, a professor of conservation at Charles Darwin University in Australia. </p>
<p>That new name is then accepted until somebody comes along and refutes it, or publishes another name, says Garnett. And he thinks this is a big problem, particularly for conservationists who rely on clear species definitions in their work.</p>
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<p>All this is hampering efforts to create one definitive list of life on Earth. A few years ago Garnett put himself at the centre of a taxonomic controversy, when he co-authored a paper in the journal <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/546025a">Nature</a> arguing that, “for a discipline aiming to impose order on the natural world, taxonomy (the classification of complex organisms) is remarkably anarchic”. </p>
<p>What ensued was a scientific spat – albeit a good-natured one – about how to go about putting some order to all these competing lists. And how to ensure that rogue taxonomists weren’t allowed to cause chaos. </p>
<p>To find out what happened, listen to the full episode of <a href="https://podfollow.com/the-conversation-weekly/view">The Conversation Weekly</a> podcast. </p>
<p>A <a href="https://cdn.theconversation.com/static_files/files/3128/Taxonomy_Transcript.docx.pdf?1709723586">transcript of this episode</a> is now available. </p>
<p><em>This episode of The Conversation Weekly also features Signe Dean, science and technology editor for The Conversation in Australia. It was written and produced by Katie Flood, with assistance from Mend Mariwany. Sound design was by Eloise Stevens, and our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. Gemma Ware is the executive producer.</em></p>
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<p class="fine-print"><em><span>Stephen Garnett receives funding from the Australian Research Council for a project on taxonomic list governance and coordinates the Catalogue of Life Working Group on Taxonomic Lists. </span></em></p>Stephen Garnett takes us inside a scientific spat about how to govern the naming of new species. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.Gemma Ware, Editor and Co-Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The ConversationLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2218652024-01-30T19:08:54Z2024-01-30T19:08:54Z‘Toxic positivity’ is out: welcome to the new world of indulgent pettiness<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/572035/original/file-20240129-15-54umja.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=0%2C5%2C3794%2C1991&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">
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<p>Hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan state, tongue in cheek, that their goal is to compartmentalise complaining and be nicer in their day-to-day life. Their complaints range from pedestrian (cordless vacuums, people who clap when a plane lands, long Instagram captions) to political (the state of the education system). Eyebrow-raising complaints include, simply, “pregnant people”.</p>
<p>Since launching in late 2022, I’ve Had It has topped Apple’s podcast charts, become viral on both TikTok and X several times, and has led the hosts to guest-star on programs such as The Today Show. This podcast’s popularity across platforms signals a cultural shift from “<a href="https://theconversation.com/toxic-positivity-why-it-is-important-to-live-with-negative-emotions-166008">toxic positivity</a>” to indulgent pettiness – but a shift away from positivity into fully embracing complaints is not without risk.</p>
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<p>As community-minded creatures who want deeply to belong we <a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.neuro.27.070203.144230">often mirror others</a>, including on social media, where we adopt phrasing, tone and expressions of emotion.</p>
<p>In the past few years, social media has had a focus on hyper-positivity (think cheery emojis and motivational quotes plastered over sunsets). Some put this “<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/toxic-social-media-account-signs_l_62c71ef5e4b02e0ac9118c35">good vibes only</a>” trend down <a href="https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/53737/1/how-toxic-positivity-took-over-the-internet">to the pandemic</a> and a desire to avoid painful feelings when ruminating on difficult realities.</p>
<p>However, attempting to convey constant happiness is not only difficult but impossible. Research suggests prescriptive positivity can make us react poorly to unfavourable emotions and is a “<a href="https://theconversation.com/how-to-avoid-toxic-positivity-and-take-the-less-direct-route-to-happiness-170260">goal that backfires</a>” when people view themselves as a failure for feeling unhappy, struggle to handle their feelings, or actively avoid processing them.</p>
<p>But now toxic positivity has been named and shamed, people are <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/toxic-positivity-on-social-media-and-how-to-avoid-it/12432790">searching for more emotionally nuanced media</a>.</p>
<p>The I’ve Had It hosts are in a new wave of content creators we can consider “emotional influencers”, in this case contributing to a new media landscape where complaining is not only embraced but encouraged.</p>
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<p>By putting our “retaliation” against negative experiences into words, we experience <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4927037/">pleasurable emotions</a>. Complaining can feel cathartic, reduce stress, and (<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/11/have-you-heard-gossip-is-actually-good-and-useful/382430/">like gossiping</a>) help us <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/smarter-living/how-to-complain-.html">feel closer to others</a>. </p>
<p>This community aspect of complaining suits podcasting, which fosters intimacy through sharing deeply personal stories “<a href="https://theconversation.com/video-didnt-kill-the-radio-star-shes-hosting-a-podcast-59987">directly into our ear</a>” and “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15405702.2019.1667997">chosen just for you</a>”.</p>
<p>Listening to hosts who feel like our friends, who are friends themselves, having a chat and sharing laughter can make us feel <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/can-listening-to-podcasts-provide-social-fulfillment_uk_6527c203e4b0102e6964c547">socially fulfilled</a> in a similar way to a video chat or virtual message with a real-life friend.</p>
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<p>In I’ve Had It, the hosts and their guests share personal complaints and unfiltered stories in a curated approach for bond-forming. We know, for example, that Jennifer’s husband Josh (a regular guest) has struggled with addiction and that Jennifer has “had it” with family week at his rehab centre. We also know Pumps once tried to relieve constipation with a teaspoon.</p>
<p>Executive producer Kiley has become a regular feature, laughing at the hosts’ antics and acting as an <a href="https://raindance.org/what-is-an-audience-surrogate/">audience surrogate</a>. Fans are involved in the show via voice messages, reviews and as guests themselves.</p>
<p>These elements combine to provide a sense there is potential to become “real life” friends with Jennifer and Pumps: the promotional tagline for their live shows is “make your <a href="https://www.findapsychologist.org/parasocial-relationships-the-nature-of-celebrity-fascinations">parasocial friendship</a> real”.</p>
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<p>While complaining brings people together, it can also push us apart <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jclp.10095">through ostracisation or rejection</a>. Although the goal of I’ve Had It is to compartmentalise pettiness, this may be easier for the hosts than the listeners.</p>
<p>Jennifer and Pumps are two undeniably affluent, well-connected women who have leveraged their privilege to build a platform about complaining. They also amp-up their on-air personas, with Jennifer admitting, “I’m not as cold-hearted as I play on the podcast”.</p>
<p>Just like prescriptive positivity can become “toxic” when it comes at the expense of other emotions, an overemphasis on grievances can breed negativity, or lead to <a href="https://www.mic.com/life/why-being-petty-feels-so-good-30588796">passsive-aggressive and indirect communication styles</a>.</p>
<p>Indulging in excessive pettiness can also <a href="https://time.com/5356586/petty-study-pettiness/">make us less likeable</a>, <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224545.2014.906380?scroll=top&needAccess=true">alienate our loved ones</a> and <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5791981/">worsen our mental health</a>.</p>
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<p>Some commenters are critical of Jennifer and Pumps’ promotion of negativity. The hosts see this as fodder. They read critical reviews, double-down on complaints and laugh together, cleverly disarming the criticism.</p>
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<p>Jennifer and Pumps are even more eager to mock those who take issue with their political views. In response to a reviewer accusation that they’re “both a couple of leftist idiots” the pair laugh. Jennifer states, “I could not agree more […] I say thank you, we <em>are</em> leftist, we <em>are</em> idiots”.</p>
<p>Ultimately, I’ve Had It concedes there is a kind of “idiocy” to pettiness, but there is joy and charm too. </p>
<p>Research suggests happy people can be complainers, as long as they have <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224545.2014.906380?scroll=top&needAccess=true">a good grasp of mindfulness</a> and know when to stop.</p>
<p>If you, admittedly like me, enjoy a good bout of complaining now and again, but want to keep your emotions balanced and your relationships intact, there are a few things the experts recommend. It is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/smarter-living/how-to-complain-.html">important to differentiate</a> when you need to enact “expressive complaining” to blow off steam or when you should complain “instrumentally” with a goal in mind. Talk about how something <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/better/relationships/art-complaining-constructively-n764096">makes you feel</a>, so others can empathise with you. And <a href="https://www.self.com/story/healthy-venting-friendship-tips">ask your loved ones’ permission</a> to complain before revving up a rant.</p>
<p>What about those who aren’t keen on complaining at all? Well, as far as the hosts and fans of I’ve Had It are concerned, you need not tune in. And, if you do decide to leave a comment decrying their pettiness, be warned it will make for some great content in the next episode.</p>
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<p class="fine-print"><em><span>Marina Deller does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.</span></em></p>Call them pet peeves, call them petty grievances, one thing is certain – complaining about everyday irritations feels cathartic. It’s also the premise of American comedy podcast I’ve Had It.Marina Deller, Casual Academic, Flinders UniversityLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2212392024-01-18T14:42:19Z2024-01-18T14:42:19ZFemale lifestyle influencers are changing the face of the far right – podcast<p>When you think about the far right, you probably picture groups of young, white men carrying images of swastikas or torches like those seen at the <a href="https://time.com/charlottesville-white-nationalist-rally-clashes/">Unite the Right rally</a> in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. </p>
<p>But the face of the far right is changing, at least on social media. In this episode of <a href="https://theconversation.com/uk/topics/the-conversation-weekly-98901">The Conversation Weekly</a> podcast, we hear about new research into a cohort of women influencers peddling far-right ideology on mainstream platforms such as Instagram and YouTube. </p>
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<p>Eviane Leidig is a postdoctoral research fellow at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, focusing on far-right ideology, gender and the internet. She spent countless hours following the accounts and posts of female far-right influencers to research <a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-women-of-the-far-right/9780231558303">her new book</a> on the issue.</p>
<p>Some of these influencers, she found, are sharing what you’d expect on social media: beauty tutorials, curated photos of a beautiful home, and product recommendations. But interspersed with these may be antisemitic conspiracy theories, anti-feminist messages, and white nationalist sentiments. </p>
<p>“They are merging both their political ideology and their personal brands into one,” Leidig says.</p>
<p>While much of the technology is relatively new, Leidig says the trends she observed have roots in right-wing political history.</p>
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<p>Leidig says that women are playing a key role in recruitment for, and legitimisation of, far-right movements. By using the tools of social media influencing, they are making extremist ideology “seem acceptable”. </p>
<p>As one former follower she interviewed put it: “A movement without women is doomed to fail.”</p>
<p>To find out more about Leidig’s research into women influencers, listen to the full episode of <a href="https://podfollow.com/the-conversation-weekly/view">The Conversation Weekly</a> podcast. </p>
<p>A <a href="https://cdn.theconversation.com/static_files/files/3054/Far_Right_Women_Influencers_Transcript.docx.pdf?1707745526">transcript of this episode</a> is now available. </p>
<p><em>This episode of The Conversation Weekly was written and produced by Mend Mariwany, with assistance from Katie Flood. Sound design was by Eloise Stevens, and our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. Gemma Ware is the executive producer.</em></p>
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<p class="fine-print"><em><span>Eviane Leidig has received funding from the European Commission and the Research Council of Norway. She is affiliated to Center for Research on Extremism at the University of Oslo, is an associate fellow in current and emerging threats at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism and a fellow at the Far Right Analysis Network.</span></em></p>Eviane Leidig talks about her research into women of the far right who have become online influencers. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.Avery Anapol, Commissioning Editor, Politics + Society, The Conversation Weekly PodcastLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2204802024-01-04T10:12:17Z2024-01-04T10:12:17ZWolves return to Europe: what to do about them is a people problem – podcast<p>Wolves are making a comeback across Europe. As their populations grow, 65,000 livestock are killed each year by wolves. Now, moves are underway to <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_6752">change the protection status</a> of the wolf in the European Union.</p>
<p>In this episode of <a href="https://theconversation.com/uk/topics/the-conversation-weekly-98901">The Conversation Weekly</a>, we speak to a social scientist researching the best ways for humans and wolves to coexist.</p>
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<p>Wolves used to be commonplace across Europe until they were eradicated from large areas of the continent in the 19th century. But wolf populations began to recover in the 1970s as they moved into tracts of unused farmland and stricter conservation regulations were introduced. </p>
<p>A <a href="https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/5d017e4e-9efc-11ee-b164-01aa75ed71a1/language-en/format-PDF/source-299076073">new analysis</a> from the European Commission put the number of wolves in the EU at 20,300 in 2023, up 81% from the estimated 11,193 living in the bloc in 2012. </p>
<p>Hanna Pettersson is a social scientist at the University of York in the UK whose research focuses on how people react to living alongside wolves. She says Europe has essentially “outsourced all the biodiversity conservation” to other continents such as Africa or Asia. </p>
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<p>Pettersson’s PhD research <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2021.710218/full">focused on Spain</a>, where hunting of wolves has been strictly prohibited since 2021. She interviewed people in different areas of the country to understand more about the interactions between wolves and humans and the best methods for living together. </p>
<p>For example, in one area called Sanabria-La Carballeda where farmers have always had to deal with wolves, they deploy packs of livestock guardian dogs to guard their animals. “People dedicate significant resources and efforts and time to protect their livestock from wolves – and they do so quite successfully,” explained Pettersson.</p>
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<p>Wolves have made such a comeback in Europe that politicians are now moving to change their protection status. In September 2023, Ursula von de Leyen, president of the European Commission, <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_4330">said that the</a> concentration of wolf packs in some European regions has become a “real danger for livestock and potentially also for humans”. </p>
<p>The Commission ran a call for information on wolf populations across the EU and in late December, <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_6752">proposed a change the protection status of wolves</a> from “strictly protected” to “protected” under the Bern Convention, a treaty governing the conservation of wild flora and fauna across the EU. If that proposal is accepted, it will pave the way for a change to the European habitat directives to give countries more powers to control wolf populations. </p>
<p>To find out more about Pettersson’s research into the way communities can transition to living with wolves, listen to the full episode of <a href="https://podfollow.com/the-conversation-weekly/view">The Conversation Weekly</a> podcast. </p>
<p><em>This episode of The Conversation Weekly was written and produced by Katie Flood, with assistance from Mend Mariwany. Sound design was by Eloise Stevens, and our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. Gemma Ware is the executive producer.</em></p>
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<p class="fine-print"><em><span>Hanna Pettersson received funding from Leeds-York Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) SPHERES under grant NE/L002574/.</span></em></p>More Europeans are having to learn how to live alongside predators again. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.Gemma Ware, Editor and Co-Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The ConversationLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2190862023-12-07T16:52:53Z2023-12-07T16:52:53ZDear politicians: To solve our food bank crisis, curb corporate greed and implement a basic income<iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/1df3b504-4e58-4b06-9db1-8fb2b4e73432?dark=true"></iframe>
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<p>Have you noticed the line ups for the food banks in your city? (Or have you had to join one?) They are getting longer in a way we’ve never seen before. </p>
<p>According to the stats, the number of people using food banks has doubled since last year and <a href="https://northyorkharvest.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/FINAL-WEB-REPORT-SPREADS-DB_3714-18_WhosHungry_Report_E-Clean_NYH.pdf">one in 10 people now rely on food banks in Toronto</a>. Nationwide, the numbers using food banks have <a href="https://fbcblobstorage.blob.core.windows.net/wordpress/2023/10/hungercount23-en.pdf">jumped by 32 percent from last year and 78 per cent since 2019</a>. And there is no one type of person who relies on food banks: for example, many in line have full-time jobs.</p>
<p>In other words, we are in the middle of a major food insecurity crisis. </p>
<p>And as we head into this holiday season, traditionally a time for giving and sharing and gathering around food, many of us are asking what we as individuals can do to help.</p>
<p>According to the latest Statistics Canada data, <a href="https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/231114/dq231114a-eng.htm">almost one in five households experiences food insecurity</a>. Single-mother households are especially affected, as are some racialized homes. Black and Indigenous people face the highest rates of food insecurity, with <a href="https://proof.utoronto.ca/food-insecurity/who-are-most-at-risk-of-household-food-insecurity/">over 46 per cent of Black children and 40 per cent of Indigenous children</a> living in households that don’t have a reliable source of food. </p>
<p>For years, advocates have been saying that <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/its-time-to-close-canadas-food-banks/article587889/">more food banks is not the answer</a>. So what is?</p>
<p>Our guest on this episode of <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/to-solve-our-food-bank-crisis-curb-corporate-greed-and-implement-guaranteed-basic-income"><em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em></a> podcast is Elaine Power, professor of health studies at Queen’s University and co-author of <a href="https://btlbooks.com/book/the-case-for-basic-income"><em>The Case for Basic Income: Freedom, Security, Justice</em></a>. She has spent years working on this issue and says reducing food insecurity requires our political and business leaders to address the root causes — including the ability of household incomes to meet basic needs. She gets into what is needed, long-term, to solve this major societal problem — but also shares tips for individuals who want to make a difference in the meantime.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.foodnetwork.ca/article/what-is-food-insecurity/">“What is Food Insecurity? FoodShare’s Paul Taylor Explains (Plus What Canadians Can Do About It)”</a> (The Food Network) </p>
<p><a href="https://proof.utoronto.ca/2021/anti-black-racism/">“When it comes to tackling food insecurity, tackling anti-Black racism is an important part of the puzzle”</a> (by Tim Li)</p>
<p><a href="https://btlbooks.com/book/the-case-for-basic-income"><em>The Case for Basic Income: Freedom, Security, Justice</em></a> by Jamie Swift and Elaine Power</p>
<p><a href="https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.567">“Dismantling the structures and sites that create unequal access to food”</a> (Paul Taylor and Elaine Power in <em>Canadian Food Studies</em>)</p>
<p><a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-age-of-insecurity"><em>The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart</em></a> (Astra Taylor)</p>
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With food insecurity at an all-time high and food banks buckling under high demand as we head into this holiday season, experts say we need to focus on long-term solutions to tackle the issue at its root.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientAteqah Khaki, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientJennifer Moroz, Consulting Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2188442023-11-30T12:42:34Z2023-11-30T12:42:34ZIsrael-Gaza: what the term genocide means under international law – podcast<p>In the weeks since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 and the Israeli bombardment and ground assault on Gaza, both sides have traded accusations of genocide. Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis and took more than 200 hostage, while Israel’s subsequent aerial and ground attacks on Gaza have killed <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/more-israeli-hostages-palestinians-expected-be-freed-with-extended-truce-2023-11-27/">more than 15,000 Palestinians</a> and displaced millions. </p>
<p>In this episode of <a href="https://theconversation.com/uk/topics/the-conversation-weekly-98901">The Conversation Weekly</a> podcast, we speak to an expert on genocide about the history of the term and what’s needed to prove it under today’s international legal definition. </p>
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<p>The term genocide was first coined by the Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944 amid the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. Lemkin, who was Jewish, originally <a href="https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/51/1/117/101266?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false">defined genocide</a> as “the destruction of a nation or ethnic group”, encompassing both physical killings and an assault on the spirit of a group, including its social, economic and political ways of life.</p>
<p>Lemkin’s definition laid the foundation for the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, which <a href="https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf">specifies that genocide</a> can occur “with with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. This can be through killing, destroying a group, preventing births, or transferring children to another group, among other means. This convention was instrumental in setting up international tribunals in the 1990s to prosecute war criminals in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.</p>
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<p>Hinton is an expert on the Cambodian genocide and <a href="https://www.newark.rutgers.edu/news/professor-alex-hinton-testifies-un-backed-international-tribunal-khmer-rouge">testified</a> during the UN-backed international tribunal that convicted some of the Khmer Rouge leaders of genocide. He cautions against focusing too much attention on proving the crime of genocide, rather than on other types of crimes that may be taking place. “Atrocity crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing are all horrific,” he says, adding that the priority should be on “crimes against humanity”.</p>
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<p>Cases for atrocity crimes brought under international law can be slow, such as in The Gambia’s <a href="https://www.icj-cij.org/case/178">ongoing prosecution</a> of Myanmar for the genocide of the Rohingya people. But Hinton hopes that the Genocide Convention, alongside institutions such as the International Criminal Court and the UN Office on Genocide Prevention, provide tools that can be used to bring an end to a conflict more swiftly. Countries can also take independent actions against alleged perpetrators, such as naming and shaming or imposing sanctions.</p>
<p>When it comes to the current conflict between Israel and Hamas, Hinton refuses to be drawn on whether genocide is taking place under the legal definition of the term.</p>
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<p>Listen to the full interview with Alexander Hinton on the <a href="https://podfollow.com/the-conversation-weekly/view">The Conversation Weekly</a> and <a href="https://theconversation.com/both-israel-and-palestinian-supporters-accuse-the-other-side-of-genocide-heres-what-the-term-actually-means-217150">read an article he wrote here too</a>. A <a href="https://cdn.theconversation.com/static_files/files/2976/Genocide_Transcript.docx.pdf?1702403301">transcript of this episode</a> is now available. </p>
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<p class="fine-print"><em><span>Alexander Hinton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.</span></em></p>Both Israelis and Palestinians are accusing each other of genocide. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we speak to a genocide expert on the legal definition of the term.Mend Mariwany, Producer, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The ConversationLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2183652023-11-23T12:22:50Z2023-11-23T12:22:50ZBrandalism: the environmental activists using spoof adverts to critique rampant consumerism – podcast<p>Amid the flurry of billboards promoting cut price deals in the run up to Black Friday, some activists have slipped in the odd spoof advert. By subverting public advertising space, they’re risking legal action to try and make serious points about the excesses of consumer culture and the perilous state of the environment. </p>
<p>In this episode of <a href="https://theconversation.com/uk/topics/the-conversation-weekly-98901">The Conversation Weekly</a> podcast, we find out about the subvertising movement and its links to a wider conversation about mass consumerism and the environment.</p>
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<p>One parody poster in the British city of Birmingham reads: “Don’t buy stuff. Enjoy your friends.” Another, in Reading, says: “Didn’t read the warnings? No vision, no future. Should have gone to Specsavers.” </p>
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<p>These actions are all submissions for the <a href="https://subvertisers-international.net/zap-games/">ZAP Games</a> – an invitation for people to take action against outdoor advertising infrastructure in the two weeks leading up to Black Friday. </p>
<p>Categories in the games, which began in Belgium in 2021, include most family friendly intervention and most beautiful or artistic intervention. Run by a group called Subvertisers International, it’s the latest in an ongoing series of anti-advertising actions, often rooted in concerns about the environment. </p>
<p>Subvertising, in which activists subvert advertising often using the language and style of the brand itself, is also known as culture jamming, or brandalism – a mashup of brand and vandalism.</p>
<p>Eleftheria Lekakis, a senior lecturer in media and communication at the University of Sussex in the UK, has been <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14742837.2020.1837102">studying the movement</a> since it caught her attention in 2015 at the COP21 climate talks in Paris. </p>
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<p>The point of advertising is to sell. The point of subvertising is to open up that message and … attach a whole range of meanings to it, meanings that are more akin to social and environmental justice. </p>
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<p>She began <a href="https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Culture_jamming_and_brandalism_for_the_environment_the_logic_of_appropriation/23442089">analysing a number of the subverts</a> that emerged during the COP21 talks to understand the points the brandalists were trying to make. She found attacks on corporate greed and on the inadequacy of politicians to challenge the status quo, but also environmental narratives about grief and the Earth in mourning. </p>
<p>Lekakis believes that subverts grab viewers’ attention because they start a conversation. </p>
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<p>Sometimes it can feed into a larger conversation which exists around the role of advertising in society today and the limits that we should think about collectively, when it comes to advertising. </p>
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<p>Find out more about subvertising and brandalism by listening to the full episode of <a href="https://podfollow.com/the-conversation-weekly/view">The Conversation Weekly</a> and read an article by <a href="https://theconversation.com/black-friday-parody-adverts-target-unbridled-consumerism-with-an-environmental-message-218489">Eleftheria Lekakis here too</a>. A transcript is <a href="https://cdn.theconversation.com/static_files/files/2993/Brandalism_TC_Weekly_transcript.pdf?1703072434">now available</a>. </p>
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<p class="fine-print"><em><span>Eleftheria Lekakis does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.</span></em></p>Subvertising campaigns are often funny, but they also aim to make a wider point about the unsustainable excesses of consumerism. Listen to The Conversation Weekly.Gemma Ware, Editor and Co-Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The ConversationLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2177652023-11-16T15:00:56Z2023-11-16T15:00:56ZPalestine was never a ‘land without a people’<iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/0ba10cf2-be56-4b6e-8598-96c6fb5197b7?dark=true"></iframe>
<p><em>Modern settlers to Palestine viewed the desert as something they needed to “make bloom.” But it already was, thanks to the long history of Palestinian agricultural systems.</em></p>
<p>As violence continues to erupt in Gaza, and more than 200 hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7 remain missing, many of us are seeking to better understand the context of the <a href="https://theconversation.com/ca/topics/israeli-palestinian-conflict-140823">Israeli-Palestinian conflict</a> that has been raging for decades. </p>
<p>Some of us assume that the violence between Jewish Israelis and Palestinians — a majority of whom are Muslim — is a religious conflict, but a closer look at the history of the last century reveals that the root of the tension between the two communities is more complicated than that.</p>
<p>At its root, it’s a conflict between two communities that claim the right to the same land. For millions of Palestinians, it’s about displacement from that land. </p>
<p>Land has so much meaning. It’s more than territory; it represents home, your ancestral connection and culture — but also the means to feed yourself and your country. </p>
<p>One of the things that colonizers are famous for is the idea of <em>terra nullius</em> – that the land is empty of people before they come to occupy it. </p>
<p>In the case of Palestine, the Jewish settlers in 1948, and the British before that, viewed the desert as empty — something they needed to <a href="https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/38553">“make bloom.”</a> </p>
<p>But the land was already blooming. There is a long history of Palestinian connection to the land, including through agricultural systems and a rich food culture that is often overlooked by colonial powers.</p>
<p>Our guests on <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/palestine-was-never-a-land-without-people">this week’s episode of <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em></a> have been working on a film about the importance of preserving Palestinian agriculture and food in exile.</p>
<p>Elizabeth Vibert is a professor of colonial history at University of Victoria. She has been doing oral history research to examine historical and contemporary causes of food crises in various settings, including Palestinian refugees in Jordan.</p>
<p>Salam Guenette is the consulting producer and cultural and language translator for their documentary project. She holds a master’s degree in history.</p>
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<p>The relationship with agriculture and the land is the original colonizing relationship. The colonizers came in, viewed Indigenous peoples worldwide as not moving and living appropriately and productively enough on the land.
- Elizabeth Vibert, professor of colonial history</p>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/israel-palestine-conflict-how-sharing-the-waters-of-the-jordan-river-could-be-a-pathway-to-peace-216044">Israel-Palestine conflict: How sharing the waters of the Jordan River could be a pathway to peace</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/recognition-versus-reality-lessons-from-30-years-of-talking-about-a-palestinian-state-212648">Recognition versus reality: Lessons from 30 years of talking about a Palestinian state</a>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29038"><em>Dear Palestine</em> by Shay Hazkani</a></p>
<p><a href="https://handmadepalestine.com/en-ca/blogs/free-educational-resources/palestinian-wild-food-plants"><em>A Guide to Palestinian Wild Food Plants</em></a>
by Omar Tesdell (and collective) </p>
<p><em><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250291530/adayinthelifeofabedsalama">A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy</a></em> by Nathan Thrall </p>
<p><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/159783/orientalism-by-edward-w-said/9780394740676"><em>Orientalism</em> by Edward Said</a></p>
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<p>Earlier this week, nearly five dozen people <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/06/atlanta-cop-city-police-protesters-charged-rico-law">appeared in a courtroom near Atlanta</a> to answer criminal racketeering and domestic terrorism charges brought against them by the state. The charges are related to what’s commonly known as “Cop City,” a $90-million paramilitary police and firefighter training facility planned for 85 acres of forest near Atlanta.</p>
<p>The Atlanta Police Association saw a need for such a facility at the start of the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings and started to fund raise. Many corporations have contributed to the plans for a world-class police training facility.</p>
<p>Georgia prosecutors are calling the demonstrators “militant anarchists.” But many of those charged say they were simply attending a rally or a concert in support of the <a href="https://www.stopcopcitysolidarity.org/">Stop Cop City movement</a>. </p>
<p>The protesters, their lawyers and their supporters, who rallied outside the court this week, say the government is using heavy-handed tactics to silence the movement. The <a href="https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/rico-racketeer-influenced-and-corrupt-organizations-act-statute">RICO charges</a> brought against the demonstrators essentially accuse them of being part of organized crime and carry a potential sentence of five to 20 years in prison. </p>
<p>Legal experts worry about the type of precedent this might set for our right to protest. It’s a case a lot of people are following nationally and internationally, for that reason.</p>
<p>In this week’s <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/state-of-georgia-using-extreme-legal-measures-to-quell-cop-city-dissenters"><em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em> episode,</a> we speak with one of the leaders of the Stop Cop City movement. Kamau Franklin is a long-time community organizer and the founder of <a href="https://communitymovementbuilders.org/">Community Movement Builders</a>. He is also a lawyer — and was an attorney for 10 years in New York with his own practice in criminal, civil rights and transactional law. He now lives in Atlanta. </p>
<p>Also joining us is Zohra Ahmed, assistant professor of law at the University of Georgia. A former public defender in New York, she, too, has been watching this case closely. </p>
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<p>“In 2020 when people were talking about…defunding the police …the state…instead of doing any of that, decided to double down here in Atlanta and bring forth the idea…of a Cop City, a large scale militarized police base meant to learn tactics and strategies on urban warfare, crowd control, civil disbursement which was meant to move against community organizers and activists. The idea of Cop City is that it’s not only going to train the police in Atlanta, but it’s going to train police across the state and across the country and have international connections…so that different policing agencies are learning similar tactics and strategies and exchanging ideas on how to suppress.
- Kamau Franklin</p>
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<p><a href="https://btlbooks.com/book/disarm-defund-dismantle"><em>Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada</em></a>, edited by Shiri Pasternak, Kevin Walby and Abby Stadnyk</p>
<p><a href="https://www.akpress.org/practicing-new-worlds.html"><em>Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies</em></a>, by Andrea J. Ritchie</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-fight-against-cop-city/">"The Fight Against Cop City”</a> (<em>Dissent Magazine</em>)</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cop-city-indictment-atlanta/">“How Georgia Indicted a Movement”</a> (<em>The Nation</em> by Zohra Ahmed and Elizabeth Taxel)</p>
<p><a href="https://afsc.org/companies-and-foundations-behind-cop-city">The Companies and Foundations behind Cop City</a> (American Friends Service Committee)</p>
<p><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israeli-news/article-711682">“Georgia State police return home after two-week Israeli training”</a> <em>(The Jerusalem Post)</em> </p>
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Legal experts worry the “doubling down” on demonstrators who are opposed to the planned giant police training facility could undermine the right to protest.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientAteqah Khaki, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2168052023-11-02T15:06:44Z2023-11-02T15:06:44ZHow journalists tell Buffy Sainte-Marie’s story matters — explained by a ’60s Scoop survivor<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/557161/original/file-20231101-29-jppjnb.jpeg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=28%2C24%2C1041%2C1270&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">Musician Buffy Sainte-Marie, pictured here in 1970, has long said she didn't know who her birth parents were but that she was Indigenous. Last week, a CBC investigation revealed both her parents were white. </span> <span class="attribution"><a class="source" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1970_Buffy_Sainte-Marie.jpg ">CMA-Creative Management Associates, Los Angeles </a>, <a class="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">CC BY-NC</a></span></figcaption></figure><iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/905713b1-29c3-49cb-8c3e-59cf881d3bd6?dark=true"></iframe>
<p><em>Lori Campbell, a ’60s Scoop survivor and a VP at the University of Regina, challenges the CBC’s motives in their exposé on the questionable Indigenous roots of Buffy Sainte-Marie, legendary singer-songwriter.</em></p>
<p>Last week, a <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/buffy-sainte-marie">CBC investigation</a> accused Buffy Sainte-Marie, the legendary singer-songwriter, of lying about her Indigenous roots. </p>
<p>I immediately knew it was a big story, one we journalists in the Canadian media would be called to cover. But I had a strong reaction: I didn’t feel it was our story to cover.</p>
<p>Sainte-Marie had already <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cy3xI_wBGD7/">come out on social media</a> ahead of the story and explained she had been claimed by the Piapot Cree First Nation in Saskatchewan. And from <a href="https://theconversation.com/stolen-identities-what-does-it-mean-to-be-indigenous-dont-call-me-resilient-podcast-ep-8-166248">earlier conversations</a> on the <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em> podcast as well <a href="https://theconversation.com/fraudulent-claims-of-indigeneity-indigenous-nations-are-the-identity-experts-171470">as articles written by expert scholars about so-called “pretendians”</a> — those faking an Indigenous identity — I knew kinship ties were maybe even more important than genealogy tests when it comes to establishing Indigeneity. </p>
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<span class="caption">Buffy Sainte-Marie on Sesame Street with Grover in Season 7 of Sesame Street, 1975-76.</span>
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<p>Kinship is based on who claims you and based on Sainte-Marie’s response and also that of the Piapot Nation, she’s been claimed. </p>
<p>Isn’t that enough and shouldn’t we leave this retired 82-year-old alone? That was my first instinct. To not add fuel by covering the story. </p>
<p>But then I heard from Lori Campbell, a Two-Spirit Cree-Métis educator and advocate <a href="https://theconversation.com/revelations-about-buffy-sainte-maries-ancestry-is-having-a-devastating-impact-on-indigenous-communities-across-canada-216602">who made me realize there is a conversation to be had about this story</a>. She joined me on <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/how-we-tell-buffy-sainte-maries-story-matters-explained-by-a-60s-scoop-survivor">this week’s <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em></a> to explore the story from a social responsibility perspective, especially the responsibility of Canadian media. </p>
<p>She asks whether Canadian media are telling this story in service of truth and reconciliation or are they telling the story in a sensationalist way, in service of furthering their careers? </p>
<p>Campbell is from Treaty 6 territory in northern Saskatchewan and a member of Montreal Lake First Nation. She was taken away from her birth family and adopted into a rural white family in the ‘60s Scoop, and only reunited with her biological family decades later. She is currently the Associate Vice-President of Indigenous Engagement at the University of Regina. She’s also a PhD candidate in social justice education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Campbell is also a member of the <a href="https://theconversation.com/ca/team">board</a> of <em>The Conversation Canada</em>.</p>
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<p><em>If you are experiencing trauma or feeling triggered, help is available 24/7 for survivors and their families through the Indian Residential School Crisis Line at 1-866-925-4419. Mental health support is available through the Hope for Wellness chatline at 1-855-242-3310 or using the chat box at <a href="https://www.hopeforwellness.ca/">hopeforwellness.ca</a>.</em></p>
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Lori Campbell, a ‘60s Scoop survivor, challenges the CBC’s motives in their exposé on the questionable Indigenous roots of legendary singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2161492023-10-26T16:29:43Z2023-10-26T16:29:43ZWhy the Israel-Gaza conflict is so hard to talk about<p><em>With the intensification of war in the Middle East comes an intense polarization within our institutions. A historian whose family was taken hostage by Hamas, and a geographer with family in the West Bank, get together to discuss a way forward.</em> </p>
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<p>It’s hard to escape the horrific images coming out of the Middle East. And it’s excruciating to take it all in.</p>
<p>First came the news of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, when 1,400 people were viciously attacked and murdered and at least 200 more were kidnapped and taken hostage. </p>
<p>Then came the retaliation by the state of Israel. Almost immediately, those living in Gaza, under the leadership of Hamas, were faced with an evacuation order for more than a million people. They had their food and water supplies cut off and 6,000 bombs were dropped on them in one week. So far, more than 5,000 Palestinians have been killed, and many more injured, in Israel’s assault against Hamas. </p>
<p>Many of us have been left with a feeling of helplessness as we watch in horror. For others, this witnessing has brought personal anguish, especially for those with ties to the region. </p>
<p>For all of us though, it’s raised intense challenges about how to talk about what is happening currently and what has been happening for decades.</p>
<p>There is so much polarization. There are those that feel their pain, loss and histories of Jewish people have been dismissed. On the other hand, those attempting to apply an anti-colonial lens to the issue are being shut down and labelled as antisemitic.</p>
<p>On <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/why-the-israel-gaza-conflict-is-so-hard-to-talk-about"><em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em></a>, our two guests today both say our institutions need to make room for a true dialogue — where decolonization is not a bad word. They say a contextual, historical analysis is crucial to moving forward — both at home and abroad. </p>
<p>Natalie Rothman is a professor of historical and cultural studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She grew up in Israel. She has friends and relatives in the region, including family members who have been taken hostage by Hamas.</p>
<p>Norma Rantisi is a professor of geography and urban planning at Concordia University who has done work in the region. She has family in the West Bank and is a member of the Academics for Palestine Concordia, and the Palestinian-Canadian Academics and Artists Network.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.ijvcanada.org/unveilingthechillyclimate/">Report: Unveiling the Chilly Climate – The Suppression of Speech on Palestine in Canada</a></p>
<p><a href="https://paradigmlostbook.com/summary-3/">Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality</a></p>
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<p>You can listen to or follow <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em> on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/dont-call-me-resilient/id1549798876">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/37tK4zmjWvq2Sh6jLIpzp7">Spotify</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_mJBLBznANz6ID9rBCUk7gv_ZRC4Og9-">YouTube</a> or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts. </p>
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A historian whose family was taken hostage by Hamas, and a geographer with family in the West Bank, get together to discuss a way forward in the Middle East.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientAteqah Khaki, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2155822023-10-19T13:28:12Z2023-10-19T13:28:12ZHow corporate landlords are eroding affordable housing — and prioritizing profits over human rights<iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/c864b34e-7908-4cdc-add9-d3d05288b150?dark=true"></iframe>
<p>One factor driving the housing crisis across the country is a shift away from publicly built housing toward large corporate-owned buildings where, as today’s guest Prof. Nemoy Lewis puts it, “housing is treated as a commodity, not a human right.”</p>
<p>For many people living in Canada, housing has emerged as one of the most challenging issues. This is especially true in our largest cities, where financial stress plagues many households.</p>
<p>Home ownership is widely out of reach and for renters, housing is scarce, expensive and <a href="https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/12/09/east-york-gowan-tenants-rent-increase-starlight/">precarious</a>. </p>
<p>In Toronto, Canada’s largest city, <a href="https://www.homelesshub.ca/sites/default/files/attachments/Lewis-Financialization-Racialized-Impacts-ofha-en.pdf">vacancy rates are at their lowest levels in nearly two decades</a> and average rents have jumped nearly 10 per cent — the sharpest increase in more than a decade. <a href="https://x.com/YSWtenants/status/1708805743581765738?s=20">Last week’s rent strike in Toronto </a> is just one indication that Canadians need solutions. </p>
<p>According to today’s guest, Prof. Nemoy Lewis from the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Toronto Metropolitan University, one of the factors driving this affordability crisis has been a shift away from publicly built housing toward <a href="https://torontoobserver.ca/2022/11/08/thorncliffe-park-tenants-rent-hike/">large corporate-owned buildings</a>. And the result, he says, is that now: “housing is treated as a commodity, rather than a human right.” </p>
<p>Prof. Nemoy discusses the disproportionate impacts these corporate landlords are having on Black and low-income communities — in income-polarized cities that are increasingly accessible to only a small group of wealthy people.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.homelesshub.ca/sites/default/files/attachments/Lewis-Financialization-Racialized-Impacts-ofha-en.pdf">“The Uneven Racialized Impacts of Financialization”</a> (A Report for the Office of the Federal Housing Advocate, June 2022) by Nemoy Lewis</p>
<p><a href="https://btlbooks.com/book/the-tenant-class"><em>The Tenant Class</em></a> By Ricardo Tranjan</p>
<p><a href="https://www.saje.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/RTC.DF_.report.FINALPROOF-July2_2013.pdf">The Rise of the Corporate Landlord</a></p>
<p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2023.2170988">Ethno-racial and nativity differences in the likelihood of living in affordable housing in Canada</a> by Kate H. Choi and Sagi Ramaj (<em>Housing Studies</em>) </p>
<p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/lawrence-ave-tenant-strike-toronto-1.6984182">North York tenants join hundreds of Torontonians striking against above-guideline rent increases
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<p><a href="https://torontoobserver.ca/2022/11/08/thorncliffe-park-tenants-rent-hike/">Thorncliffe Park tenants protest above-limit rent hike</a> (<em>The Toronto Observer</em>)</p>
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A major factor driving our housing crisis is a shift toward corporate-owned buildings. Today’s guest, Prof. Nemoy Lewis, explains how we got here.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientAteqah Khaki, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2150202023-10-05T11:45:39Z2023-10-05T11:45:39ZThe Voice: why Australia is holding a referendum on First Nations representation to government – podcast<p>Australia goes to the polls on October 14 in a referendum on whether to enshrine an Indigenous advisory body, known as the Voice to Parliament, into the country’s constitution. </p>
<p>In this episode of <a href="https://theconversation.com/au/topics/the-conversation-weekly-98901">The Conversation Weekly</a> podcast, a political theorist from the Torres Strait Islands, an archipelago between Australia and Papua New Guinea, explains the background to the Voice and the arguments for and against it. Plus, we hear a view from Canada on how the Voice proposal compares with Indigenous systems of representation elsewhere in the world. </p>
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<p>Calls for a representative voice for Indigenous people emerged as a priority from a series of consultations over the past decade, culminating in the <a href="https://voice.gov.au/about-voice/uluru-statement">Uluru Statement from the Heart</a> in 2017. </p>
<p>In March 2023, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Australia would hold a referendum on whether to establish a new advisory body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to parliament and the executive government.</p>
<p>If the “yes” vote is successful, the government has agreed to a set of <a href="https://voice.gov.au/about-voice/voice-principles">design principles</a> on how to set up the representative body, explains Sana Nakata, a political theorist at James Cook University in Australia, who is from the Torres Strait Islands. “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities themselves will be in charge of determining the process by which their representatives are selected and who those representatives are,” says Nakata.</p>
<p>In early October, the “no” vote was ahead <a href="https://theconversation.com/voice-support-up-in-essential-poll-but-it-is-still-behind-214257">in the polls</a> despite some strengthening support for the “yes” camp. </p>
<p>“There have been really interesting arguments against the Voice across the political spectrum,” explains Nakata. Some on the left, and some First Nations communities, argue the priority should be to establish treaties for First Nations people in Australia, rather than a Voice to Parliament. “On the other side of the political spectrum, we have arguments against the Voice really on the idea that [it] goes too far,” she says. </p>
<p>The Voice referendum is being watched with interest in countries such as Canada, which has a long history of Indigenous treaty-making, but no equivalent representative body such as the Voice. Kiera Ladner, an expert in Indigenous politics at the University of Manitoba who has conducted research in Australia, says she’s “always amazed” that “there’s no treaty” in Australia for First Nations people.</p>
<p>Listen to the full episode to hear more about the Voice referendum, and how it’s being viewed from Canada, on <a href="https://podfollow.com/the-conversation-weekly/view">The Conversation Weekly</a> podcast. </p>
<p><a href="https://cdn.theconversation.com/static_files/files/2879/The_Conversation_Weekly_episode_on_the_Voice_to_Parliament_transcript.pdf?1698232950">A transcript of this episode</a> is now available. </p>
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<p><em>Disclosures: Sana Nakata receives funding from the Australian Research Council. During the official campaign period for the Voice to Parliament referendum, she consults to the Uluru Dialogues on an unpaid basis. Kiera Ladner receives funding as Canada Research Chair Program & the Social Science and Humanities Research Council.</em></p>
<p><em>This episode was written and produced by Gemma Ware, with assistance from Mend Mariwany and Katie Flood. Eloise Stevens does our sound design, and our theme music is by Neeta Sarl.</em></p>
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Plus a view on the Voice referendum from Canada. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.Gemma Ware, Head of AudioCarissa Lee, First Nations and Public Policy Editor, The ConversationLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2148852023-10-03T14:19:16Z2023-10-03T14:19:16ZThe long road to a new malaria vaccine, told by the scientists behind the breakthrough – podcast<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/551732/original/file-20231003-17-vu9c9t.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=22%2C164%2C2807%2C1773&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">
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<p>In this episode of <em><a href="https://theconversation.com/uk/topics/the-conversation-weekly-98901">The Conversation Weekly</a></em> podcast, we find out why it’s been so hard to find a malaria vaccine – and hear from the scientists behind the new breakthrough.</p>
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<p>In 2021, <a href="https://www.who.int/teams/global-malaria-programme/reports/world-malaria-report-2022">619,000 people died from malaria</a>, the majority of them children. The search for a vaccine has been underway for decades, but it’s particularly difficult due to the complexity of the malaria parasite. </p>
<p>“It begins with a mosquito bite,” says Faith Osier, co-director of the Institute of Infection at Imperial College London. “It injects what we call sporozoite, a stage of the malaria parasite, that gets carried in your circulation into the liver and then it develops there”. About two weeks later, the parasites appear in the blood, morphing into different structures that are difficult to target with a vaccine. </p>
<p>But recent years have seen big breakthroughs in understanding what works. The RTS,S vaccine, which was developed by GSK, has been given to <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/05-07-2023-18-million-doses-of-first-ever-malaria-vaccine-allocated-to-12-african-countries-for-2023-2025--gavi--who-and-unicef">1.7 million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi</a> since 2019. </p>
<p>In early October 2023, the WHO recommended the use of a second malaria vaccine, created by the University of Oxford, called R21, following the publication of <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4584076">results from phase III clinical trials</a> on children in Africa in a pre-print in The Lancet medical journal. </p>
<p>“We’re seeing about 75% efficacy of our vaccine,” says Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford, which developed the new R21 vaccine. This means the vaccine can diminish “the number of clinical episodes that a child in Africa would get by 75%, compared to children who have not been vaccinated”. </p>
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<p>Alassane Dicko, a professor at the Malaria Research and Training Center at the University of Bamako in Mali, conducted one of the stages of the phase III trial. He told The Conversation Weekly that in some of the most vulnerable groups in their trial, babies between five and 17 months, “the efficacy was 80%” after 12 months. </p>
<p>For comparison, the <a href="https://microbiologycommunity.nature.com/posts/a-review-of-the-rts-s-malaria-vaccine-efficacy-impact-and-mechanisms-of-protection">RTS,S</a> vaccine showed around 55% efficacy after 12 months. </p>
<p>“It’s great to get higher efficacy, of course, but the big difference here with this vaccine is how you can manufacture it at a scale that is really needed to protect most of the children who need a malaria vaccine in Africa,” says Hill. </p>
<p>Oxford has been working with a partner, the Serum Institute of India, who it says has already established production capacity for 100 million doses a year. The higher volumes should also keep the cost of each dose relatively low. </p>
<p>To find out more about the vaccine, and what it means about the potential to fully eradicate malaria, listen to the full episode on <a href="https://podfollow.com/the-conversation-weekly/view">The Conversation Weekly</a> podcast. </p>
<p>A transcript of this <a href="https://cdn.theconversation.com/static_files/files/2997/Malaria_Vaccine_Transcript.pdf?1704360326">episode is now available</a>. </p>
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<p class="fine-print"><em><span>Adrian Hill receives funding from government and charitable funders of malaria vaccine development. He may benefit for a share of any royalty stream to Oxford University from the R21/MM vaccine. Alassane Dicko received grants from the Serum Institute of India, the Medical Research Council, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Grand Challenges to conduct research on malaria vaccines. </span></em></p><p class="fine-print"><em><span>Faith Osier does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.</span></em></p>In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we hear from the scientists behind a new malaria vaccine developed by the University of Oxford.Daniel Merino, Associate Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The ConversationNehal El-Hadi, Science + Technology Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The ConversationLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2144912023-09-28T11:32:32Z2023-09-28T11:32:32ZWhy so many women in Spain are choosing to donate their eggs – The Conversation Weekly podcast<p>Spanish women are having fewer and fewer children, and yet the country has become the egg donation capital of Europe. In this episode of <em><a href="https://theconversation.com/uk/topics/the-conversation-weekly-98901">The Conversation Weekly</a></em> podcast, we find out about the experiences of women who decide to donate their eggs, and whether there are enough protections in place to prevent them from being exploited.</p>
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<p>Over the past 20 years, the number of egg donation cycles in Europe has been steadily increasing, <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35795850/">reaching more than 80,000</a> in 2018. Around half of these take place in Spain, which has positioned itself as Europe’s go-to destination for people seeking donated eggs. </p>
<p>According to Anna Molas, a research fellow in anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain currently has “the most flexible assisted reproductive law across Europe”. There is no age-limit for women who want to use private clinics, and no access restrictions in terms of marital status or sexual orientation. </p>
<p>An egg donation industry has developed in Spain to feed the demand for donor eggs, much of which is driven by women over the age of 40 who need help to have a baby. Adverts on social media encouraging women to donate their eggs are common. Around 15,000 women go through egg donation cycles every year in Spain. </p>
<p>When Molas interviewed women in Spain about their experiences, she found that the main reason they chose to donate was economic. A donor typically receives €1,100 (US$1,150) for an egg donation cycle, and the amount of compensation increases each time they donate. </p>
<p>“Even if it is a low amount of money for all the process that it involves, it still appeals to a lot of women,” says Molas. However, under Spanish law, donors are considered to be motivated by altruism. “The fact that they are treated as donors, as volunteers, makes it very difficult to have a discussion about how much they should be paid,” she says. </p>
<p>Listen to the full interview on The Conversation Weekly podcast, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can also read <a href="https://theconversation.com/spain-is-the-egg-donation-capital-of-europe-heres-what-its-like-to-be-a-donor-205780">an article Anna Molas</a> wrote about her research, which is part of <a href="https://theconversation.com/spain-is-the-egg-donation-capital-of-europe-heres-what-its-like-to-be-a-donor-205780">Women’s Health Matters</a> – a series about the health and wellbeing of women and girls around the world. </p>
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<p>So begins the first ever episode of New York Times’ The Daily podcast, delivered by host Michael Barbaro in his now famous style. It arrived on Wednesday February 1, 2017 – less than a fortnight after Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States.</p>
<p>By the end of Trump’s term, it was wildly popular, reportedly attracting some <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/04/media/the-daily-podcast/index.html">four million daily downloads</a> and referred to as the newspaper’s “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/mar/30/hear-all-about-it-how-daily-news-podcasts-became-publishings-new-hope">new front page</a>”.</p>
<p>The Daily’s success inspired many other news outlets to develop podcasts, including in Australia, with the likes of ABC’s The Signal (since replaced by ABC News Daily), Schwartz Media’s 7am, and Guardian Australia’s Full Story launching from 2018.</p>
<p>According to 2023 data from The Infinite Dial – which tracks digital media use internationally – Australia has now surpassed the US <a href="https://www.commercialradio.com.au/Research/Infinite-Dial-Australia/2023">to be a world leader in podcast listening</a>, with 43% of the population aged 12 and over having listened to a podcast in the past month.</p>
<p>Australia also has the <a href="https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-06/Digital_News_Report_2023.pdf">third highest rate of news podcast listening</a>, behind the US and Sweden, with 14% of news consumers listening to news podcasts in the past month.</p>
<p>Despite these trends, there’s been limited research on news podcast listening in Australia. My <a href="https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ajr_00120_7">recent research</a>, published in June, found news podcast listeners in Australia tend to be politically left-leaning, wealthier, and more highly educated than average.</p>
<p>I also found they tend to be politically active, and value news podcasts for enabling them to better participate in democratic life.</p>
<p>Interestingly, listeners didn’t appear to trust podcasts more than other forms of news in general, with 61.1% reporting “the same” level of trust. However, they reported a high level of trust in news they choose to consume.</p>
<p>The rise of news podcasts happened amid a volatile political climate. In 2023, as Trump prepares for another run for president, and with a political storm brewing in Australia as we approach a referendum on an Indigenous Voice to parliament, there are good reasons to consider the role this podcast genre plays in democracy.</p>
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<h2>From radio to podcast news</h2>
<p>Radio news developed slowly following the invention of mass broadcasting in the early 1920s. It began with announcers reading press agency reports on air, giving rise to an authoritative and detached presenting style, reflecting the journalistic value of objectivity. While formats have differed, this has characterised radio news for much of its history.</p>
<p>Podcasting emerged in the early 2000s out of the disruption caused by the internet, and particularly the ability of users to generate and share content.</p>
<p>The lack of time constraints compared to radio meant podcast episodes could go for any length. And because they could be downloaded, listeners could engage with content in their own time, on their own terms.</p>
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<p>Slate’s Political Gabfest (2005-) was one of the first “native” podcasts – that is, produced specially for digital consumption – exploring news and politics. But it wasn’t until 2014, with podcasting’s breakout moment in true-crime sensation Serial, that news podcasts began to take off.</p>
<p>The Daily grew out of the New York Times’ election podcast The Run-Up. It pioneered the format known as the “daily deep dive” – defined by the Reuters Institute <a href="https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2020-11/Newman%20and%20Gallo%20-%20Podcasts%20and%20the%20Impact%20of%20Coronavirus%20FINAL%20%282%29.pdf">as</a> “heavily produced using sound design and narrative storytelling techniques”.</p>
<p>Many news podcasts since have similarly deployed narrative storytelling and immersive sound design to explore issues in the news. This has been championed as offering a more “human” <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17512786.2021.1882874">approach</a> to the news, featuring personal presenting styles and the harnessing of emotion.</p>
<h2>Media fragmentation and politics</h2>
<p>Reuters’ 2023 Digital News Report <a href="https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-06/Digital_News_Report_2023.pdf">notes</a> how in the podcasting sphere “news jostles for attention with lifestyle and specialist shows”. This may explain the degree of ambivalence around trust in news podcasts, with a wide variety of offerings categorised as “news” in podcast players such as Apple Podcasts.</p>
<p>Podcasting is difficult to regulate, and there’s a risk of the medium being used to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/28/joe-rogan-hosts-alex-jones-on-spotify-podcast-despite-ban">spread dangerous messages</a>, as has happened across social media generally.</p>
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<p>In his <a href="https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Bruce-Wolpe-Trump's-Australia-9781761068096">new book</a>, Bruce Wolpe, Senior Fellow at the United States Studies Centre, considers what a second Trump presidency would mean for Australia. He notes the corrosive influence of Trump and his Fox News acolytes on public trust, and warns that Australia should prepare for an emboldening of the populist right-wing sentiment that accompanied his rise on the political scene.</p>
<p>In the face of this, independent and rigorous journalism, supported by a well-funded ABC, has an important role to play.</p>
<p>As my study highlights, it’s important to acknowledge news podcast listeners tend to be from the higher social classes. There’s an impetus, then, to ensure coverage includes the perspectives of those who might not otherwise be well represented across the media sphere.</p>
<p>This has particular importance in relation to issues like the upcoming referendum, with a risk of it being used to fan the flames of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/21/linda-burney-says-indigenous-voice-not-about-culture-wars-such-as-abolishing-australia-day">culture wars</a>.</p>
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<p>At their best, news podcasts can engage us meaningfully in important issues, transporting us to unexpected places and highlighting the human impact at the heart of news stories, supported by facts and informed analysis.</p>
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<p class="fine-print"><em><span>Dylan Bird receives funding through an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.</span></em></p>New research finds Australian listeners value news podcasts for enabling them to better participate in democratic life.Dylan Bird, PhD candidate, University of TasmaniaLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2082742023-06-22T14:59:14Z2023-06-22T14:59:14ZHow protest movements use feminine images and social media to fight sexist ideologies of authoritarian regimes – podcast<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/533296/original/file-20230621-14551-qi1cio.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=2%2C7%2C806%2C603&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">Pro-resistance social media pages share photos of graffiti like this.</span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">Provided by Michaela Grancayova and Aliaksei Kazharski.</span></span></figcaption></figure><p>Modern protest movements, like the <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/iranian-protesters-remain-defiant-in-the-face-of-violent-and-brutal-regime-oppression/ar-AA1cK1KX">ongoing protests in Iran</a>, often center around women who have been killed or harmed by agents of authoritarian governments. While it can be easy to chalk up this consistent, state-sponsored abuse of women to simple sexism, researchers say there is a deeper story at play.</p>
<p>Authoritarian regimes often lack a coherent underlying ideology. So to fill that gap, many leaders turn to <a href="https://doi.org/10.1525/cpcs.2022.1713752">discrimination, using gender, race or sexuality</a> to vilify opponents and generate support. As a result, pushback against gender as a tool of oppression has taken on a visual and artistic component as protests have entered the social media age.</p>
<p>In this episode of <em>The Conversation Weekly</em>, we speak to three experts who have studied protests and the role of gendered ideology, images and social media as tools of resistance as well as of oppression. </p>
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<p>In August 2020, <a href="https://theconversation.com/belarus-protests-why-people-have-been-taking-to-the-streets-new-data-154494">Belarus erupted into unrest</a> after Alexander Lukashenko, the longtime authoritarian leader of the country, won the presidency for the fifth time in an election few considered free or fair.</p>
<p>“There had never been so many people out in the streets before – hundreds of thousands in a country of less than 10 million,” says <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RNtIwG4AAAAJ">Aliaksei Kazharski</a>. Kasharski researches international politics and security at Charles University in Prague, in the Czech Republic. He himself is Belarusian. </p>
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<p><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michaela-Grancayova">Michaela Grancayova</a> is a researcher who focuses on language and politics, particularly in the Middle East, and was studying at the same university as Kazharski in 2020. As she was watching the protests in Belarus unfold, Grancayova noticed some <a href="https://theconversation.com/how-female-iranian-activists-use-powerful-images-to-protest-oppressive-policies-193507">striking similarities to the Arab Spring</a>, her own area of research. “The regimes in both countries were <a href="https://theconversation.com/how-female-iranian-activists-use-powerful-images-to-protest-oppressive-policies-193507">relying on the traditional gender images</a>, images of how the ideal woman should behave and should look like,” she explains. “Or how an ideal man should look like, should behave – in this case, hegemonic masculinity.”</p>
<p>“These ideas of hegemonic masculinity and gender basically substitute for an official ideology, which is missing from those regimes,” Kazharski explains. “And in a society that’s more or less traditionalist, this image of a strong leader, a macho, real man actually appeals to many people.”</p>
<p>Not only were there similarities between Lukashenko and Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian leader who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/world/middleeast/12egypt.html">was overthrown during the Arab Spring</a>, Grancayova noticed that the protest movements of both countries fought against these gendered ideologies in much the same fashion, too.</p>
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<p>One prominent theme was an idea the researchers call the <a href="https://doi.org/10.1525/cpcs.2022.1713752">iconization of victimhood</a>. “There were people who were tortured and humiliated by the regimes, and they were meant to be turned into the victims,” explains Grancayova. “But in reality the people who took part in the protest turned them into heroes and visual icons.” </p>
<p>In both Egypt and Belarus, protesters turned to social media to distribute <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/belarusian-venus-bruised-female-nude-173332876.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACZG2HON2LK0j72QYqmthIFWX94dRse8ZAymHFFdNCgol_L_KiaSAEn7Yg0doh2RGyMijXtesPUPU2eCX5AMV4o05QP4hJnxpEPqGWoY-lHOHnE1kC_rhKKysmLfrCymSA4uXZjvHm71aDXtVOCeWmvFNVE2wYzifMbO4kXDnEw9">images of the bloodied martyrs</a> or share images of graffiti or other symbolic visuals. </p>
<p>As a response, both the Egyptian and Belarusian governments tried to <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2016/1/25/arab-spring-anniversary-when-egypt-cut-the-internet">squash the social media branches of the protests</a>. As Kazharski explains, Lukashenko “did try to <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/belarus-internet-outage-election/">shut down the internet</a> in 2020 for a couple of days but then realized it was way too costly.” Instead, agents of the regime went door to door, searching laptops and phones and torturing those who wouldn’t give up their passwords. </p>
<h2>Women’s movements in Iran</h2>
<p>These same themes of gender and weaponized social media are playing out today, too, in the ongoing protests in Iran. </p>
<p>Since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, was killed by <a href="https://theconversation.com/who-are-irans-morality-police-a-scholar-of-the-middle-east-explains-their-history-196023">the Morality Police</a> in fall of 2022, Iran has been <a href="https://theconversation.com/unrest-across-iran-continues-under-states-extreme-gender-apartheid-183766">enveloped in protests</a>. The movement, called “Woman, Life, Freedom” is in many ways focused, as the name suggests, on restoring the freedoms of women, who have severely limited by the Iranian government.</p>
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<span class="caption">During the initial uprisings after the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran, many women began going in public without the mandated headscarves.</span>
<span class="attribution"><a class="source" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uprising_in_Tehran,_Keshavarz_Boulvard_September_2022_(3).jpg">Darafsh/Wikimedia Commons</a>, <a class="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA</a></span>
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<p><a href="https://cas.uoregon.edu/directory/political-science/K">Parichehr Kazemi</a> is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oregon, in the US, where she studies women’s resistance movements across the Middle East with a focus on the use of images on social media. </p>
<p>Previous women’s movements in Iran, like <a href="https://www.mystealthyfreedom.org/">My Stealthy Freedom</a>, where women posted photos of themselves without hijabs in public places, were often centered around images. Kazemi explains that after 2009, “images were birthed because of a very repressive environment under the Islamic Republic that didn’t really give women other opportunities to express dissent.” </p>
<p>When protests erupted in late 2022 after the Morality Police killed Amini, videos of massive crowds and clashes between police and protesters flooded social media. As Kazemi followed the protests on social media, she began seeing more representational imagery emerge. “Over time, it’s not just images of tons of women running from security forces in the streets,” she says. “You see women cutting their hair. You see girls in the streets without their veils. You see them burning their hijabs. You see them dancing in circles. This isn’t something that we’ve seen under the Islamic Republic.”</p>
<p>Under a regime where public protesting can get you killed, Kazemi says, “Images have become a way for <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-protests-in-iran-are-part-of-a-long-history-of-womens-resistance-191551">people to continue showing the world what’s happening</a> in Iran.”</p>
<p>As in Belarus and Egypt, the Iranian government has been cracking down on social media as a tool of resistance. Among the debates over whether social media is generally a force for resistance or a tool of state control, Kazemi had a bigger-picture perspective. “Social media is embedded within our lifestyles, and we’ll figure out a way to use it as an extension of ourselves. But regimes will also use it as an extension of themselves.”</p>
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<p class="fine-print"><em><span>The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.</span></em></p>From the Arab Spring to the Belarus Awakening and the ongoing Iranian protest Women, Life, Freedom, female-centered imagery and social media are battlegrounds of resistance and oppression.Daniel Merino, Associate Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The ConversationNehal El-Hadi, Science + Technology Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The ConversationLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2062592023-06-01T15:37:24Z2023-06-01T15:37:24ZListen: Trans scholar and activist explains why trans rights are under attack<iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/e2ecabe1-cf01-433c-bd7e-7aac7f1d241a?dark=true"></iframe>
<p>This year we’ve seen an aggressive push to implement anti-trans legislation across the United States. There are currently more than <a href="https://translegislation.com/">400 active anti-trans</a> bills across the country. </p>
<p>Some of the legislation <a href="https://time.com/6265755/gender-affirm-care-bans-u-s/">denies gender-affirming care to youth</a> – and criminalizes those health-care providers that attempt to do so. Other bills <a href="https://apnews.com/article/transgender-nonbinary-hormone-puberty-missouri-lawmakers-5a8922430ffab9e43cf9b7ce254bff9f#:%7E:text=Charlie%20Riedel%2C%20File">block trans students from participating in sports</a> and still others have banned books with trans content. </p>
<p>These bills have at least two things in common. They all aim to make being trans harder in an already hostile society and they are being spearheaded by the far-right. </p>
<p>Where does anti-trans sentiment come from? </p>
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<span class="caption">Black Lives Matter activists organize a sit-in at Yonge Street and College Street during the Trans Pride March, in Toronto, 2016. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Eduardo Lima)</span>
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<p>The <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/transphobia-white-supremacy/">enforcement of a gender binary</a> likely has much to do with the preservation of white power. And, <a href="https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/5/20/through-line-critical-race-dont-say-gay-great-replacement">violence</a> against trans people continues as a result. </p>
<h2>Is Canada better?</h2>
<p>What do things look like in Canada? Are we a safe haven or are we following some of the same trends?</p>
<p>Recently, a <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/us-transgender-asylum-petition-1.6779692">petition</a> signed by <a href="https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4268">over 160,000 people</a> asked the Canadian government to extend asylum to trans and gender non-conforming people from nations in the West, previously considered safe. </p>
<p>To get a better understanding of trans histories in Canada, <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/listen-to-an-american-canadian-trans-scholar-and-activist-explain-why-trans-rights-are-under-attack">we are joined by Syrus Marcus Ware</a>, an artist, activist and assistant professor at the School of the Arts at McMaster University. He is a co-curator of Blockorama/Blackness Yes! and a co-editor of <a href="https://uofrpress.ca/Books/U/Until-We-Are-Free"><em>Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada</em></a>.</p>
<p>We discuss the history of anti-trans and queer actions in Canada. We also speak about backlash and ways to move forward.</p>
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<span class="caption">Brenna Thompson protests this month against an abortion ban and restrictions on gender-affirming care for children in Lincoln, Neb.</span>
<span class="attribution"><span class="source">Justin Wan/Lincoln Journal Star via AP/KOLN-TV OUT</span></span>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
<p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-3814961">All Power to All People? Black LGBTTI2QQ Activism, Remembrance, and Archiving in Toronto</a> (<em>Transgender Studies Quarterly</em>) by Syrus Marcus Ware </p>
<p><a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/05/30/pride-flag-wont-fly-at-york-catholic-schools-after-board-votes-against-the-motion.html">‘A travesty’: Outrage swells over York Catholic board’s rejection of Pride flag</a> (<em>Toronto Star</em>) </p>
<p><a href="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2022/10/05/supreme-court-cant-ignore-equality-rights-claims-of-refugees.html">Supreme Court can’t ignore equality rights claims of refugees</a> (<em>Toronto Star</em>) </p>
<p><a href="https://xtramagazine.com/power/toronto-bathhouse-raids-40-years-194590">Everything you need to know about the Toronto bathhouse raids</a> (<em>Xtra</em>) </p>
<p><a href="https://xtramagazine.com/power/what-the-national-inquiry-into-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls-means-for-two-spirit-canadians-158992">What the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls means for Two-Spirit people</a> (<em>Xtra</em>) </p>
<p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2009-015">Settler Homonationalism: Theorizing Settler Colonialism within Queer Modernities</a> (<em>Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies</em>) by Scott Lauria Morgensen </p>
<p><a href="https://blockorama.ca/">Blockorama/Blackness Yes!</a></p>
<h2>From the archives - in The Conversation</h2>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/transgender-hate-crimes-are-on-the-rise-even-in-canada-121541">Transgender hate crimes are on the rise even in Canada</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/cuts-to-telehealth-in-ontario-mean-fewer-trans-and-non-binary-people-will-have-access-to-life-saving-health-care-198502">Cuts to telehealth in Ontario mean fewer trans and non-binary people will have access to life-saving health care</a>
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This year, there are more than 400 active anti-trans bills across the U.S. What do things look like in Canada? Are we a safe haven or are we following those same trends?Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientBoké Saisi, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.