New Environment Social Sciences Podcasts

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F-World: The Fragility Podcast

18 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
F-World exists to spark a global conversation about fragility and resilience. Join us to explore the forces shaping our lives, why and how fragility emerges in places near and far, and how we can n...
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Cherry Picking with Alexia Benn

45 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago
Welcome to Cherry Picking, a political podcast recorded on lək̓ʷəŋən territory. Initially, this show was created by host Alexia Benn as a coping mechanism to find joy while completing the final yea...
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What Could Possibly Go Right?

141 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago
In this interview series sponsored by Post Carbon Institute, Vicki Robin, activist and best-selling author on sustainable living, talks with provocative thought leaders about emerging possibilitie...
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There's no place like ...

8 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago
Come on an audio field trip with leading geographers from the Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space at the University of Wollongong. In each episode, we go knee deep into so...
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Pod Paper Scissors

20 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago
Pod Paper Scissors considers the glitches in our society due to the hidden games in everyday human interactions. Each week, hosts Ben Klemens and Liz Landau discuss a different topic relating to so...
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Take me to the River

29 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago
Join social ecologist and river restoration expert Dr. Siwan Lovett in conversations about the ideas, issues and opportunities that relate to our connections with nature and each other. This podca...
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Yonder Lies: Unpacking the Myths of Jackson Hole

29 episodes - Latest episode: over 2 years ago
Few places have come to symbolize the rapidly-changing American West quite like the valley of Jackson Hole, Wyoming—grizzlies still graze by the roadside, elk eat farm-raised grass, and, all the wh...
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Works That Shaped The World

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago
Works That Shaped The World is back for 2020. This year we mark the 250th anniversary of the year 1770, a year of remarkable change on the cusp of the modern world. Works The Shaped The World exp...
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Activist Planet

60 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Activist Planet Podcast is a bilingual podcast hosted by JC Giraldo, a communication and sustainability strategist. Mission: Create awareness about Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability, Glob...
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GMU Cultural Studies Colloquium

9 episodes - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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Background Briefing with Ian Masters

1,518 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news,...
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Love and Courage

83 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
The Love and Courage podcast features interviews with inspirational people who are making a real difference in the world today. Guests are typically people passionate about social justice, and who ...
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Low Tech Podcast – Low Technology Institute

78 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratings
postindustrial | subsistence | technology
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Rights and justice in international relations - for iBooks

1 episode - Latest episode: almost 13 years ago - ★★★ - 2 ratings
Can the concept of human rights be applied across borders or are rights culturally specific? Is it realistic, or even desirable, to aim at an international system based on universal principles of j...
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Claiming connections: a distant world of sweatshops? - for iBooks

1 episode - Latest episode: almost 13 years ago
Sweatshops and the exploitation of workers are often linked to the globalised production of ‘big brand’ labels. This unit examines how campaigners have successfully closed the distance between the ...
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Nature matters: systems thinking and experts - for iBooks

1 episode - Latest episode: almost 13 years ago
This unit explores conceptual tools for assisting our thinking and deliberation on what matters. The notion of ‘framing’ nature is introduced and three readings provide an understanding of systems ...
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Critical Social Psychology - for iPod/iPhone

62 episodes - Latest episode: about 15 years ago - ★★★★ - 19 ratings
We live in a complex, fast changing and highly social world. One of the most compelling questions we face is how to understand ourselves and other people. The video tracks on this album introduce...
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Politics - for iPod/iPhone

26 episodes - Latest episode: about 14 years ago
Governments across the world have to make controversial decisions everyday. Whether it be raising taxes, cutting budgets or going to war, there will always be opposition. The tracks on this album l...
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Mapping Britain - Audio

16 episodes - Latest episode: about 15 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Maps are an intrinsic feature of the modern world - they hold both intellectual and aesthetic qualities. But how and why were the first maps created? The idea of mapping leads on to questions in so...
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Understanding Cities - Audio

30 episodes - Latest episode: about 14 years ago
At the beginning of the 21st century, more than half the world’s population live in cities. Issues about governance, intensification of social relationships, the impact of globalisation, and the w...