Below the Radar
295 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAmplifying ideas that fly below the radar. We talk environmental and social justice, arts, culture, community-building and urban issues with featured guests.
This podcast is produced by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement as a part of our Knowledge Democracy Project @ 312 Main — encouraging the meaningful exchange of ideas and information across communities.
Hosted and currently produced by:
Am Johal
Joey Malbon
Julia Aoki
Kathy Feng
Samantha Walters
Visit our website for archived audio and video recordings of our public events: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/library.html
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Episodes
Vancouver Podcast Festival: Podcasting Climate Change
January 04, 2022 18:37 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBThe climatic events of 2021 (heat, fires, floods, storms) have brought home the reality of climate change like never before — and the urgency for media to address this crisis couldn’t feel greater. But how do we talk about the climate emergency in ways that move us away from despair and disaster coverage? How can podcasts shift the conversation in ways the mainstream media cannot or refuses to do? How do we talk about climate justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and de-colonizing media? For this...
Bramah and the Beggar Boy — with Renée Sarojini Saklikar
December 21, 2021 08:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBWriter and poet, Renée Sarojini Saklikar joins Am Johal on this episode of Below the Radar to talk about her latest work, Bramah and The Beggar Boy, first in a series, THOT J BAP (The Heart Of This Journey Bears All Patterns). In this episode, Renée reads passages from her new story and discusses the act of writing as a woman of colour, her creative process, and how writing can be a form of survival and resistance. Her book is an epic poem and story which was an amazing 10-year undertaking, ...
Dialogue & Social Change — with Mark Winston
December 14, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBBelow the Radar explores the transformational capacity of dialogue with apiculturist, award-winning author, and SFU Professor of Biological Sciences Mark Winston. He is in conversation with host Am Johal about SFU’s Semester in Dialogue program and the importance of providing students with opportunities to be engaged with their communities. Mark shares how part of a university’s job is to help people realize who they want to be in the world, speaking to the impact of alternative pedagogical ...
Performing History & Land in Vancouver’s Stanley Park — with Selena Couture
December 07, 2021 18:33 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBPerformance scholar and Associate Professor in the Dramatic Arts department at the University of Alberta Selena Couture joins Am Johal to talk about her latest book, Against the Current and Into the Light. Selena speaks about how her book explores varying historical and contemporary performances involving Stanley Park through language, relationships to land, and the unlearning of settler knowledges. She draws from colonial and counter-colonial performances such as the 1946 Jubilee show, and t...
LGBTQ2S+ Health: Impacts of Stigma — with Travis Salway
November 30, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBTravis Salway, a social epidemiologist and Assistant Professor with SFU’s Faculty of Health Sciences, joins Am Johal in a conversation about syndemic theory, the state of conversion therapy in Canada, and LGBTQ2S+ affirming healthcare. Going in-depth about the structural health disadvantages of LGBTQ2S+ people and the multiple epidemics concurrently affecting them, Am and Travis discuss how Canada still needs to do more to achieve an equal society. Travis also speaks to the current limitatio...
Women, Work, More: Senior Women & Economic Insecurity — with Sheila Block & Jo-Ann Hannah
November 26, 2021 00:15 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBFor this final episode of Women, Work, More, host Alyha Bardi speaks with Sheila Block, a senior economist from the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, and Jo-Ann Hannah, retired Director of the Pensions and Benefits at Unifor, and board member at the BC Financial Services Authority. Sheila and Jo-Ann speak in conversation about retirement incomes with a gender and racial equity lens, and explore how pay gaps and gendered life-patterns influence income security for senior women. They sp...
Labour Studies & Justice for Workers — with Kendra Strauss
November 23, 2021 19:22 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBThe director of the SFU Labour Studies program, Kendra Strauss, joins Am Johal in a conversation about systemic challenges facing workers, and the ways in which workers shape economies and exercise power in the workplace. Honing in on issues of precarious work, low wages, technological change, contracting out, and the devaluing of feminized work like care work, Am and Kendra discuss trends in labour studies and how they impact migrant and racialized workers. Kendra also speaks to how labour ...
Migrant Women & Transnational Loving — with Evelyn Encalada Grez
November 18, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBA transnational labour scholar, co-founder of Justicia for Migrant Workers, and assistant professor from SFU's Labour Studies Program, Evelyn Encalada Grez joins this episode of Women, Work, More to speak about migrant women and their experiences of transnational loving. Evelyn explores the pains that accompany migration, from separating families to the often temporary loves that migrant women find while working within Canada. Despite these pains, Evelyn speaks about the forms of agency that...
Women, Work, More: Migrant Women & Transnational Loving — with Evelyn Encalada Grez
November 18, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBA transnational labour scholar, co-founder of Justicia for Migrant Workers, and assistant professor from SFU's Labour Studies Program, Evelyn Encalada Grez joins this episode of Women, Work, More to speak about migrant women and their experiences of transnational loving. Evelyn explores the pains that accompany migration, from separating families to the often temporary loves that migrant women find while working within Canada. Despite these pains, Evelyn speaks about the forms of agency that...
United We Can — with Ken Lyotier
November 16, 2021 19:01 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBKen Lyotier tells stories from his early days in the Downtown Eastside and how he came to found United We Can, an initiative by binners, for binners. United We Can creates economic opportunities for those who rely on collecting and returning recyclables for their income. In this episode of Below the Radar, Ken is in conversation with host Am Johal about building community in the neighbourhood, advocating for policies and resources to benefit binners, and reaching across difference to support...
Women, Work, More: Working Mothers & the Pressures of Motherhood — with Amanda Watson
November 16, 2021 07:52 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBSFU Sociology and Anthropology Professor Amanda Watson, joins Alyha Bardi to speak about her recent book, 'The Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in an Age of Anxiety.' Amanda speaks about our cultural fascination with the figure of the juggling mother, explores the ableism and racism behind this depiction, and scrutinizes the immense pressures of motherhood that are often ignored — from juggling work and home life, to breastfeeding, to acting unencumbered at work. Amanda also discusses depicti...
Solidarity as One Antidote to the Housing Crisis — with Nick Montgomery
November 10, 2021 20:50 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBNick Montgomery joins Below the Radar to talk solutions to what he calls ‘structural precarity’ in housing. He is in conversation with host Melissa Roach about a newly launched project he has co-founded, Solidarity Housing, a new model that supports homeowners in transitioning their homes to become permanently affordable housing. A writer, theorist, and permaculturist, Nick is deeply interested in housing alternatives, collective living, and finding more sustainable ways to live a thriving l...
Women, Work, More: Young Women Navigating Food Service — with Kaitlyn Matulewicz
November 04, 2021 07:09 - 40 minutes - 37 MBWomen, Work, More kicks off with an investigation into the experiences of young women in the workplace. Host Alyha Bardi speaks with Kaitlyn Matulewicz, a labour organizer with a background in labour law, who is also the Executive Director of the Worker Solidarity Network. They speak about the unique barriers and harassment experienced by young women working front-of-house positions in the food service and hospitality industry. Kaitlyn speaks to gendered power dynamics in restaurants, issues...
Community Building & Racial Justice — with Lama Mugabo
November 02, 2021 16:50 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MB“What I see that's hopeful coming out of this pandemic is that I think we've revitalized our ability to work in solidarity.” Lama Mugabo joins Below the Radar to speak to building community and solidarity, from Rwanda to Hogan’s Alley. Lama is a Rwandan-born community organizer and planner with deep roots in the Downtown Eastside and the Black community in Vancouver. In this episode, Lama joins host Am Johal to speak to his work around reconstruction and community building Rwanda, following...
Toast, Jams & Anti-Fascist Karaoke — with Andrea Creamer
October 26, 2021 16:13 - 37 minutes - 34 MBAn artist, community organizer, and a former staff member and longtime friend of SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Andrea Creamer joins Below the Radar to catch up with your host, Am Johal. They talk grassroots arts organizing, her experiences as a fine arts student in SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts and at the University of Toronto, and taking a community-centred approach to healthcare and wellness. Andrea has a long history of working in community and bringing arts progr...
Artificial Intelligence, Sexbots and Patipolitics — with Isabel Millar
October 20, 2021 16:35 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBPhilosopher, cultural theorist, and author of The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Isabel Millar joins Am Johal to speak about the psychoanalytical questions of AI and subjectivity. They talk about how Isabel’s work draws from Jacques Lacan, the importance of considering sexuality and the body in conversations about AI, and acknowledging how intelligence is a dynamic concept that changes throughout history. Isabel draws from the film Ex Machina to consider the positioning of se...
The Breaks — with Julietta Singh
October 13, 2021 08:13 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBHost Am Johal is joined by Julietta Singh, an author and Associate Professor of English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond. In this episode, they talk about the feminist, queer, ecological, and decolonial lens Julietta brings to her work, as well as her newly-released book, The Breaks, which “takes the form of a letter to her young daughter about race, inheritance, and mothering at the end of the world.” Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/sfuwoodward...
Experimental Documentary Practices — with Andrea Luka Zimmerman
October 05, 2021 17:56 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBAward-winning artist, filmmaker, and activist Andrea Luka Zimmerman joins Below the Radar from the UK to speak to us about her approach to making art and films — in deep collaboration, over long periods of time, and always cultivating community. Host Am Johal speaks to Andrea about how her work explores counter-memories to structural violence and how we dream together to build new worlds. They discuss Andrea’s past and recent works, including Estate, A Reverie, Here for Life, and others, del...
Land Defense and the Climate Emergency — with Grand Chief Stewart Phillip
September 28, 2021 16:55 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBWrapping up our series on Climate Justice and Inequality, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip joins Below the Radar to talk about his history of activism as a lifelong advocate for Indigenous Peoples’ Title and Rights. He and Am speak about his role in historical battles for Indigenous land rights over the decades, and the future of land defense. In the midst of overlapping crises of the global pandemic and the contamination of the drug supply, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip addresses the need for a s...
Environmental Law and the Politics of Extraction — with Eugene Kung
September 21, 2021 17:00 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBEnvironmental lawyer Eugene Kung joins Below the Radar’s Climate Justice & Inequality series to discuss pipeline politics in BC and the role of law in fighting the climate crisis. Eugene shares about how law has been wielded as a mechanism for enacting colonialism, and the various ways it can instead be a tool for effecting major change and upholding human rights. Eugene discusses different legal strategies to mitigate climate change — from legislation and law reform, to legal challenges aga...
The Future of Canadian Climate Policy — with Marc Lee
September 15, 2021 16:55 - 39 minutes - 36 MBCo-Director of the Climate Justice Project at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and senior economist, Marc Lee, joins Am Johal to discuss the successes and failures of Canadian climate policies across the political spectrum. Marc speaks about the origins of the Climate Justice Project, and conceptualizes how reaching a net-zero carbon economy can be achieved — through a fundamental restructuring of Canadian and BC systems, and the implementation of decolonizing practices. Am and M...
Centring Justice in the Climate Emergency — with Anjali Appadurai
September 07, 2021 16:17 - 30 minutes - 28 MBCommunity leader and climate justice activist Anjali Appadurai joins Am Johal for the second instalment of Below the Radar’s Climate Justice & Inequality series. Anjali is a Climate Justice Lead at Sierra Club BC, the Sectoral Organizer for the Climate Emergency Unit, as well as the founder of Padma Centre for Climate Justice. Anjali and Am talk about the growth of the climate movement, and shifting the focus from being ‘green’ to centering justice for all in the fight against climate change...
Decolonizing Climate Justice — with Khelsilem
August 31, 2021 17:21 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBSquamish Nation Councillor and community leader Khelsilem joins Am Johal on this first episode of Below the Radar’s Climate Justice & Inequality series. In this episode, they discuss the climate crisis as a result of the colonial project, how climate change hits hardest for those already at a disadvantage, and the spaces where colonialism has existed within climate movements. Khelsilem speaks to his critique of fossil fuel infrastructure, the false narrative of individual responsibility, and...
Feminist Economics and a Just Transition — with Alicia Massie
July 20, 2021 06:00 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBBelow the Radar dives into the call for a feminist economic recovery and a just transition with SFU School of Communication PhD Candidate Alicia Massie. Alicia is a Progressive Economics Fellow with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and a Research Assistant and conference organizer with SFU’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative. As a feminist political economist and community-engaged researcher, Alicia joins host Am Johal to discuss her research around an economic transition for...
Fascism, Fanaticism and Neoliberalism — with Alberto Toscano
July 15, 2021 21:05 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBCritical theorist Alberto Toscano joins Am Johal in conversation about his work and writings, as he joins SFU as a visiting faculty member with the Digital Democracies Institute in SFU’s School of Communication. In this episode, they discuss Alberto’s writing on the philosophy of fanaticism, and conflicting discourse and counter-histories around the figure of the fanatic, which historically takes many forms, from abolitionist leaders to peasant revolutionaries. Alberto and Am also dive into ...
Reframing Heritage in Vancouver — with Javier Campos
July 06, 2021 18:31 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBJavier Campos joins host Am Johal to discuss reframing the way we think about heritage. Javier is an architect and Principal Designer with Campos Studio, as well as the current president of Heritage Vancouver Society. Together, they explore what heritage means today as a living and changing concept. They discuss the dark roots of heritage, and how heritage has been deployed to erase and exclude the histories of communities who have been dispossessed and harmed by the settler-colonial project....
The Right to Food — with Paul Taylor
June 29, 2021 18:47 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBFoodShare’s Executive Director and lifelong anti-poverty activist Paul Taylor joins host Am Johal in this episode of Below the Radar. In this conversation, they delve into the work Paul has done in both Toronto and Vancouver with various activist organizations such as FoodShare, the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House, and Gordon Neighbourhood House. Paul shares his experience growing up in a low-income household and dealing with food insecurity, and the ways that traditional charity model...
Setting the Table for Food Justice — with Tammara Soma
June 22, 2021 16:55 - 28 minutes - 26 MBCommunity-engaged scholar, current Researcher-in-Residence with SFU’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative and food system planner Tammara Soma joins Am Johal on this episode of Below the Radar. She shares with us what drives her interest in food systems and sustainability, and their relationship to equity and justice. Tammara speaks to her experience and the process of researching in communities — where she aims to have everyone’s voices represented at the table. We hear about the impetus...
Restorying the Climate Crisis — with Grace Nosek
June 15, 2021 03:20 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBLawyer, climate storyteller, and founder of the UBC Climate Hub, Grace Nosek, joins host Am Johal on a mission — to publicly uncover feelings of ‘climate doom’ and ‘individual responsibility’ as narratives propelled by the fossil fuel industry. While leading this charge, Grace speaks about Exxon Mobil at the forefront of climate science — spinning its narrative web that entangles any space from broadcasting and universities, to legislation. Grace also discusses her work with the UBC Climate...
Aerial Dance, Circus, and Artistic Production — with Gabrielle Martin
June 08, 2021 16:55 - 29 minutes - 27 MBDancer, aerialist, choreographer and producer Gabrielle Martin joins host Am Johal on this episode of Below the Radar. Gabrielle tells us how her passion for dance has taken her from spinning fire in an East Van park, to touring the world with Cavalia and Cirque du Soleil, to choreographing and producing her own works. In the episode, they talk about Gabrielle’s youth as an unschooler/alternative schooler, and how she developed a love for performance and dance through stilt walking, fire dan...
The Stakes of Exposure — with Namiko Kunimoto
June 01, 2021 17:50 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBTaiko drumming enthusiast and specialist in modern and contemporary Japanese art Namiko Kunimoto, joins Am Johal on this installment of Below the Radar. Throughout this episode, Namiko explores Japanese imperialism, Olympic dissent, and the internment of Japanese Canadians; while drawing from the works of artists such as Takayama Akira and Shimada Yoshiko. Namiko and Am also critique the tendency for universities to be run from ivory towers that often overlook issues of poverty, racism and s...
The Power of Disability Part 6 — with Barb Goode
May 27, 2021 20:43 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBThis final installment of the Power of Disability series highlights an unsung hero of the disability movement, Barb Goode. Host Al Etmanski is in conversation with Barb about her work around self-advocacy for people with learning and developmental disabilities. Barb speaks to the importance of plain language and the harm that comes from labelling people. She also recounts organizing efforts around a milestone legal struggle to prevent the forced sterilization of people with disabilities. In ...
Theory Of Ice — with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
May 26, 2021 07:05 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBBelow the Radar invites Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson into conversation about her latest album, Theory Of Ice, as a thinking through of water as a connector. She talks with host Am Johal about covering Willie Dunn’s “I Pity the Country,” and how her work aligns with, and is inspired by, a long tradition of Indigenous musicians and activists. Leanne speaks to her artistic and academic work as being underpinned by a deep love of the land, and t...
The Power of Disability Part 5 — with Tim Louis and Penny Parry
May 18, 2021 19:47 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBThe Power of Disability host, Al Etmanski is joined by partners and disability advocates Tim Louis and Penny Parry. Tim is a lawyer, politician, and longtime leader of the disability movement within British Columbia. Penny has worked as a university professor, artist, and youth care practitioner. Tim and Penny share stories and learnings from 40 plus years of working on social issues in their own careers and together as a couple. Tim delves into his experiences working as a lawyer under his ...
Community-Engaged Learning — with Timothy Eatman and Mohamed Farge
May 18, 2021 19:25 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBBelow the Radar explores equity and public engagement in knowledge-making and learning with community-engaged scholars from the Honors Living-Learning Community at Rutgers University-Newark (HLLC). HLLC is a transformational college access program that aims to provide equitable opportunities to those that have been systematically disenfranchised. In this interview, our host Am Johal is joined by HLLC’s inaugural Dean, Timothy Eatman, and HLLC scholar Mohamed Farge. Together, they discuss how...
The Power of Disability Part 4 — with Rabia Khedr
May 13, 2021 19:31 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBRabia Khedr, an activist, consultant, former Human Rights Commissioner and motivational speaker who ‘wears many hijabs,’ joins Al Etmanski for this Power of Disability conversation. They discuss Rabia’s advocacy and policy work within the disability community and the Muslim community; bringing a disability benefit, or basic income, to Canada; as well as the vital importance of having people disabled folks driving systems change. Rabia speaks to the significance of having what she calls a ‘hy...
After Art — with Glenn Alteen
May 11, 2021 06:45 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBGlenn Alteen is a writer, curator, and co-founder of grunt gallery. Having retired after 36 years in May 2020, Glenn joins host Am Johal to talk about his tenure as Program Director of grunt gallery, and his work on The Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency. In this interview, Glenn recalls the process of founding grunt gallery in 1984, and the dynamic programming of the gallery. He discusses the focus on exhibiting work from artists at the fringes of the art scene in Vancouver: namely, the w...
The Power of Disability Part 3 — with Carmen Papalia
May 07, 2021 18:50 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBNon-visual artist Carmen Papalia speaks with Al Etmanski about the rampancy of ableism across institutions — from the art world to healthcare, to the symbol of the white cane. Carmen and Al discuss how institutions can be sites of retraumatization that can often overlook and underappreciate variations in ability. Carmen also explores some key ideas central to disability justice, provides some suggestions on how to be a good ally, and considers how accessibility is dependent on the social, cu...
Politics and Exhaustion — with Asad Haider
May 04, 2021 07:05 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBTheorist and author Asad Haider joins Below the Radar to discuss questions he explores in his book, "Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump." Asad discusses how class dynamics cannot be separated from identity-driven movements. As well, he explores ideas of political exhaustion in the tradition of political theorists such as Sylvain Lazarus and Alain Badiou. In this interview, Asad interrogates the role of identity in politics and how it has been taken up in discourse — co...
The Power of Disability Part 2 — with Judy Heumann
April 29, 2021 19:43 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBLifelong activist and wheelchair user Judy Heumann joins Al Etmanski for this instalment of The Power of Disability. Judy is a powerful advocate in the disability movement both in the US and globally. She and Al talk about her long history of fighting for the rights of disabled people, a part of which is featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary, Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution. Judy shares stories about significant organizing moments and camaraderie in liberation movements, speaking t...
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy — with Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
April 27, 2021 19:54 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBBlackfoot and Sámi writer, actor, producer and director, Elle–Máijá Tailfeathers joins host Am Johal on this episode of Below the Radar to talk about her latest film Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy. Together they discussed how Tailfeathers created the feature documentary film, which takes place in her community of Kainai First Nation in Southern Alberta, and look at the impacts of the drug-poisoning epidemic over a period of four years in that community. Elle–Máijá shares her own ...
The Power of Disability Part 1 — with Victoria Maxwell
April 22, 2021 07:10 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBAl Etmanski interviews Victoria Maxwell, the Bipolar Princess. They discuss the role of art and creativity in the process of change, the dramatic increase in antidepressant prescriptions and the fact that depression is the number one source of disability in the world today. They also speak to the need for universal mental health care. Victoria explains why we need to shift from recovery as a possibility to recovery as an expectation. The episode ends with Victoria providing the answer to her ...
Charting the Pandemic with Data Modelling — with Caroline Colijn
April 20, 2021 17:23 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBSFU Mathematics professor Caroline Colijn joins host Am Johal to talk about the role of data modelling in the response to COVID-19. Caroline holds the Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematics for Infection, Evolution and Public Health, and works at the intersection of mathematics and public health, with a particular focus on the spread and evolution of infectious diseases. She has been working alongside colleagues since the beginning of the pandemic, using data to mathematically model the tr...
Field Notes from the Disability Justice Movement — with Al Etmanski
April 15, 2021 07:05 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBLongtime community organizer and social entrepreneur Al Etmanski talks to Am Johal about where the movement for disability justice is headed — with lived experience leading the way. Al speaks to the urgent need for a basic income for people with disabilities, and how to build up a grassroots political movement to advance social change. Al Etmanski is also the host of an upcoming series of Below the Radar, called The Power of Disability. The series will highlight six incredible changemakers w...
Building Tenant Power — with Barbara Steenbergen
April 13, 2021 07:05 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBBarbara Steenbergen from the International Union of Tenants, European Union office, joins Am Johal on this episode of Below the Radar. Together they discuss the role of the tenant unions in Europe as well as their advances in housing policies and protecting tenant rights. Barbara talks about the European housing context, and how tenant social movements in Europe led to the establishment of tenant unions. She discusses successful progressive housing policies in Berlin, Vienna, and the Scandi...
Designing Equitable Spaces — with Anthonia Ogundele
April 07, 2021 07:05 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBAm Johal is joined by Ethọ́s Lab founder Anthonia Ogundele on this episode of Below the Radar. Anthonia shares about her career in emergency management and sustainability and the origins of Ethọ́s Lab. Anthonia also discusses the inequalities of the education system with respect to STEAM and innovation programs, and the importance of centering the Black experience when creating spaces for youth. Ethọ́s Lab is a non-profit social enterprise that is developing an online collaborative platform ...
Border and Rule — with Harsha Walia
March 30, 2021 07:05 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBBelow the Radar invites Harsha Walia to discuss migrant justice, movement practices, and the underlying forces that govern oppressive border practices on a global scale. She is in conversation with host Am Johal about her recently released book, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (Fernwood Publishing, 2021). In this episode, they discuss Harsha’s interrogation of border imperialism and the violence enacted through borders. Am asks Harsha about h...
Gas Imaginary Conversations — Rachel O'Reilly in Conversation with Tania Willard & Kanahus Manuel
March 25, 2021 17:31 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBBelow the Radar has partnered with the Or Galley to bring you recordings of the Gas Imaginary Conversations series. This is the second of two talks from The Gas Imaginary, presented by the Or Gallery. This event was recorded virtually on Dec. 5, 2020. In this panel, Rachel O’Reilly, Tania Willard and Kanahus Manuel—with moderation by Denise Ryner—discuss the ongoing challenges of asserting land rights and the protection of water from each of their respective contexts. The speakers address th...
Poverty Reduction Through Cash Transfers — with Claire Williams
March 23, 2021 07:05 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBClaire Williams speaks to the potential of direct cash transfers to help lift people out of poverty. A co-founder and CEO of Foundations for Social Change, Claire joins Am Johal on Below the Radar to share results from the New Leaf Project, a pilot initiative exploring the impact of direct cash transfers on the lives of people experiencing homelessness in Vancouver. Claire and Am talk about issues of stigma around mistrust in financial assistance programs, as well as reducing the barriers an...
La Commune 2021 — with Roxanne Panchasi and Brit Bachmann
March 22, 2021 15:00 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBOn this episode of Below the Radar, Am Johal is joined by Roxanne Panchasi from SFU’s History Department and Brit Bachmann from UNIT/PITT. Together they discuss their latest collaboration, La Commune 2021, a free online school commemorating the 150 anniversary of the Paris Commune. Roxanne and Brit share how the idea of La Commune 2021 came about. They talk about the historical importance of the Paris Commune, how it has resonated in other historical periods, and its relevance in particular...