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
Rhetoric and Pedagogy — with Dan Adleman
July 21, 2020 20:38 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBOn this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal sits down with Dan Adleman, an Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Toronto. He has also previously taught at the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia Institute of Technology, and Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design. Dan received his PhD from the University of British Columbia in 2016, in his dissertation he explores new-rhetorical approaches to American fiction grappling wi...
Community-Engaged Dance — with Karen Jamieson
July 14, 2020 16:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBIn this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal sits down with Karen Jamieson, Vancouver-based dancer and choreographer. Karen's company Karen Jamieson Dance works with residents of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside through community engagement and cross cultural dancing, and is recognized nationally as groundbreaking. Additionally, her work, "Sisyphus," was named one of the 10 Canadian choreographic masterworks of the 20th century by Dance Collection Danse. Karen has be recognized for her ...
Community Engaged Dance — with Karen Jamieson
July 14, 2020 16:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBIn this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal sits down with Karen Jamieson, Vancouver-based dancer and choreographer. Karen's company Karen Jamieson Dance works with residents of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside through community engagement and cross cultural dancing, and is recognized nationally as groundbreaking. Additionally, her work, "Sisyphus," was named one of the 10 Canadian choreographic masterworks of the 20th century by Dance Collection Danse. Karen has be recognized for her ...
Fentanyl Contamination Deaths during COVID-19 — with Garth Mullins
July 12, 2020 19:00 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBOn this episode of Below the Radar's Pandemic Conversations series we talk with Garth Mullins, documentarian, community organizer, and host and executive producer of the podcast CRACKDOWN. Garth and our host Am Johal talk about how the overdose crisis in Vancouver has been affected by COVID-19, and the positive affects that listening to drug user activists can have on the safety of the community. CRACKDOWN is a new, monthly podcast about drugs, drug policy and the drug war led by drug user ...
Fentanyl Contamination Deaths during COVID-19 with Garth Mullins
July 12, 2020 19:00 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBOn this episode of our Below the Radar Conversations Series we talk with Garth Mullins, documentarian, community organizer, and host and executive producer of the podcast CRACKDOWN. Garth and our host Am Johal talk about how the overdose crisis in Vancouver has been affected by COVID-19, and the positive affects that listening to drug user activists can have on the safety of the community. CRACKDOWN is a new, monthly podcast about drugs, drug policy and the drug war led by drug user activis...
Michael Roberson: Reading the Political Moment — Below the Radar Conversations
July 10, 2020 16:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MBOn this episode of our Below the Radar Conversations Series our host Am Johal speaks with public health practitioner, activist and LGBTQ community leader Michael Roberson. They talk about how to read the current political times. Below the Radar Twitter: https://twitter.com/BTR_pod Below the Radar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BelowTheRadarpod/ SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sfuwoodwardsce/ Michael Roberson created The Federation o...
Reading the Political Moment — with Michael Roberson
July 10, 2020 16:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MBOn this episode of our Below the Radar Conversations Series our host Am Johal speaks with public health practitioner, activist and LGBTQ community leader Michael Roberson. They talk about how to read the current political times. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/pandemic-conversations/60-michael-roberson.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcript...
The Garbage Queen — with Louise Schwarz
July 07, 2020 17:00 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBOn this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal speaks with Louise Schwarz, founder and co-owner of Recycling Alternatives. Am and Louise talk about the cultural shift surrounding recycling from 1989, when Recycling Alternatives was founded, and today. They also discuss the future of recycling and waste management, and what policies might help keep more waste out of landfills. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes...
A Joyful Militant — with carla bergman
June 30, 2020 18:54 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBOn this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal and guest host Fiorella Pinillos are joined by carla bergman, an independent scholar, filmmaker and producer. Alongside videomaker Corin Browne, carla is the co-director of EMMA Talks, a mini-art-festival and speaker’s series by women. With Nick Montgomery, she is the co-author of Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times. Recently, through TouchWood Editions, carla published Radiant Voices, a collection of essays inspi...
A Joyful Militant — with Carla Bergman
June 30, 2020 18:54 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBOn this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal and guest host Fiorella Pinillos are joined by carla bergman, an independent scholar, filmmaker and producer. Alongside videomaker Corin Browne, carla is the co-director of EMMA Talks, a mini-art-festival and speaker’s series by women. With Nick Montgomery, she is the co-author of Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times. Recently, through TouchWood Editions, carla published Radiant Voices, a collection of essays inspi...
Advocating for Women During COVID-19 — with Janice Abbott
June 25, 2020 18:25 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBOn this episode of Below the Radar, we are joined by Janice Abbott, the CEO of Atira Women’s Resource Society. Our office’s Program Assistant Paige Smith sits down with Janice to discuss how the pandemic has affected the work of Atira in combatting violence against women. Janice discusses the many diverse initiatives Atira has, including their popup refuge SisterSquare for women in the Downtown Eastside, their expansive housing support systems, and their new safety protocols. With reports ind...
Working in Community — with Jackie Wong
June 23, 2020 17:00 - 20 minutes - 19 MBOn this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal and guest host Rachel Wong are joined by Jackie Wong. Jackie currently is the Director of Communications and Race Equity Project Director at Hua Foundation and is a long-time collaborator and friend of SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Together, they talk about Jackie’s past work as a journalist, the current work that she does in Chinatown with regards to decolonization and working with youth, and how her different experiences ...
Research in the Service of Community — with Tiffany Muller Myrdahl and Brett Stoudt
June 16, 2020 16:30 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBOn this special edition of Below the Radar, guest host Tiffany Muller Myrdahl (SFU Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies and SFU Urban Studies) interviews Brett Stoudt. Brett came to Vancouver in early 2020 to give a workshop on participatory action research based on the work and research that he does at the City University of New York. In this episode, Tiffany and Brett talk about what participatory action research is, the Public Science Project and Morris Justice Project, and what it means ...
COVID-19 & Community Organizing — with Kimberley Wong
June 10, 2020 20:26 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBOn this episode of our Below the Radar Conversations Series, our host Am Johal chats with Kimberley Wong. Kimberley currently sits as the Chair of the City of Vancouver's Chinatown Legacy Stewardship Group, the co-chair of Vancouver Just Recovery Coalition, and the Community Development Coordinator for the Hua Foundation. Kimberley talks with Am about her current work in Chinatown and how its been affected due to COVID-19. You can learn more about Hua Foundation by checking out their website...
COVID-19 and Community Organizing — with Kimberley Wong
June 10, 2020 20:26 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBOn this episode of our Below the Radar Conversations Series, our host Am Johal chats with Kimberley Wong. Kimberley currently sits as the Chair of the City of Vancouver's Chinatown Legacy Stewardship Group, the co-chair of Vancouver Just Recovery Coalition, and the Community Development Coordinator for the Hua Foundation. Kimberley talks with Am about her current work in Chinatown and how its been affected due to COVID-19. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-eng...
COVID-19 and Selenium — with Dr. Ethan Taylor
June 05, 2020 21:18 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBIn this episode we talk with Dr. Ethan Taylor, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of North Carolina. With our host Am Johal, he discusses the current research on selenium as an anti-pathogenic factor in emerging zoonotic viral infections, such as COVID-19. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/pandemic-conversations/53-ethan-taylor.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vanci...
Dr. Ethan Taylor: COVID-19 and Selenium — Below the Radar Conversations
June 05, 2020 21:18 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBIn this episode we talk with Dr. Ethan Taylor, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of North Carolina. With our host Am Johal, he discusses the current research on selenium as an anti-pathogenic factor in emerging zoonotic viral infections, such as COVID-19. Dr. Ethan Taylor is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. His current research focus is on selenium as an anti-pathogenic fac...
Angela Marie MacDougall - Audio
June 02, 2020 21:05 - 22 minutes - 40.4 MBIn the sixth episode of our Below the Radar Conversations Series, we talk with Angela Marie MacDougall, Executive Director of Battered Women's Support Services here in Vancouver, Canada. With our host Am Johal, she discusses how COVID-19 is affecting gender inequality and violence within intimate relationships. Angela Marie MacDougall is the Executive Director of Battered Women's Support Services Society. You can learn more here: https://www.bwss.org/
The Pandemic and Increases in Gender-Based Violence — with Angela Marie MacDougall
June 02, 2020 21:05 - 22 minutes - 40.4 MBIn the sixth episode of our Below the Radar Conversations Series, we talk with Angela Marie MacDougall, Executive Director of Battered Women's Support Services here in Vancouver, Canada. With our host Am Johal, she discusses how COVID-19 is affecting gender inequality and violence within intimate relationships. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/pandemic-conversations/52-angela-marie-macdougall.html Angela Marie MacDou...
Meaghan Thumath: COVID-19 and Inequities in Health — Below the Radar Conversations
May 27, 2020 17:00 - 28 minutes - 51.6 MBHello everyone, welcome to the fourth episode of our Below the Radar Conversations Series. Today we talk with Meaghan Thumath, a clinical scientist at the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity and clinical associate professor at UBC’s School of Nursing. With our host Am Johal, she discusses her previous international work studying and combatting pandemics and how this has informed her current understandings of COVID-19, both globally and locally here in Vancouver, Canada. Meaghan Thuma...
COVID-19 and Inequities in Health — with Meaghan Thumath
May 27, 2020 17:00 - 28 minutes - 51.6 MBWelcome to the fourth episode of our Below the Radar Conversations Series. Today we talk with Meaghan Thumath, a clinical scientist at the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity and clinical associate professor at UBC’s School of Nursing. With our host Am Johal, she discusses her previous international work studying and combatting pandemics and how this has informed her current understandings of COVID-19, both globally and locally here in Vancouver, Canada. Full episode details: https:/...
Far Out: Outer Space Law — with Michael Byers
May 26, 2020 16:56 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBOn this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Michael Byers, an author and professor of Political Science at UBC, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law. He is also the co-director of the Outer Space Institute, a transdisciplinary international network for space studies. Michael’s work focuses on international law, climate change, the Arctic and outer space. He sits down with Am to chat about Arctic sovereignty, international coo...
Working the Front Lines During COVID-19 — with Dr. Kevin Patterson
May 23, 2020 17:00 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBIn this episode of our Below the Radar Conversations series we speak with ICU physician and writer Dr. Kevin Patterson about what he has learned working in the front lines during COVID-19. He chats with Am Johal about planning for a second wave, what we can learn from past pandemics, the relationship between this outbreak and climate change, and how we can improve our local healthcare systems here in Vancouver, Canada. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engage...
Dr. Kevin Patterson: Working the Front Lines During COVID-19
May 23, 2020 17:00 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBIn this episode of our Below the Radar Conversations series we speak with ICU physician and writer Dr. Kevin Patterson about what he has learned working in the front lines during COVID-19. He chats with Am Johal about planning for a second wave, what we can learn from past pandemics, the relationship between this outbreak and climate change, and how we can improve our local healthcare systems here in Vancouver, Canada. Read Dr. Kevin Patterson's writings on COVID-19: https://thewalrus.ca/an...
Social Transformation — with Tara Mahoney
May 19, 2020 17:11 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBOn this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Tara Mahoney, the Research and Engagement Coordinator of SFU’s Community-Engaged Research initiative team (CERi). Tara holds a PhD from SFU’s School of Communications, is also a research fellow in climate change communications at the David Suzuki Foundation and is the creative director of Gen Why Media. She sits down with Am to talk about her research in the recent years, involving the emerging forms of participatory political...
Community-Engaged Research — with Stuart Poyntz and Joanna Habdank
May 12, 2020 18:54 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBThis episode of Below the Radar features two members of SFU’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative, or CERi: co-director Stuart Poyntz and program manager Joanna Habdank. Both Stuart and Joanna bring their own experiences and expertise to CERi with hopes to create more opportunities for research that is respectful, ethical, and collaborates with community members. They discuss with host Am Johal what Community-Engaged Research is and how SFU is answering the call to provide more opportunitie...
Paul Rogers: COVID-19, Geopolitics and Climate Change
May 05, 2020 16:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBThis is the second edition of our Below the Radar Conversations. In this episode, Am Johal speaks with Paul Rogers on COVID-19 and how it impacts geopolitics and climate change. Paul Rogers is professor emeritus in the department of peace studies at Bradford University in the UK. He is openDemocracy's international security adviser, and has been writing a weekly column on global security since 2001; he also writes a monthly briefing for the Oxford Research Group. You can read more of his wor...
COVID-19, Geopolitics and Climate Change — with Paul Rogers
May 05, 2020 16:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBThis is the second edition of our Below the Radar Conversations. In this episode, Am Johal speaks with Paul Rogers on COVID-19 and how it impacts geopolitics and climate change. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/pandemic-conversations/46-paul-rogers.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/46-paul-rogers.html Paul Rogers is professor emeritus...
Urban Intimacy — with Hilda Fernandez and Fernanda Souza
April 28, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 71.6 MBOn this episode of Below the Radar, we welcome psychoanalyst Hilda Fernandez and clinical counsellor Fernanda Selayzin Souza who practice in Vancouver. Both Hilda and Fernanda dive into a discussion around urban intimacy and the good life, including how technology impacts intimacy and relationships, the potential mainstreaming of polyamory, and the differences across generations and cultures that change the way we relate to others and ourselves. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vanci...
Dr. Kelley Lee: The World Health Organization and COVID-19
April 21, 2020 17:42 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBIn this first episode of our Below the Radar conversations series, we hear from Dr. Kelley Lee, Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance at Simon Fraser University. In this conversation, she chats with Am Johal about the World Health Organization and COVID-19. Dr. Lee is trained in International Relations and Public Administration with a focus on international political economy. She spent over twenty years at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, initially analyzing t...
The World Health Organization and COVID-19 — with Dr. Kelley Lee
April 21, 2020 17:42 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBIn this first episode of our Below the Radar conversations series, we hear from Dr. Kelley Lee, Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance at Simon Fraser University. In this conversation, she chats with Am Johal about the World Health Organization and COVID-19. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/pandemic-conversations/44-kelley-lee.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagemen...
Andrew Petter on the Engaged University
April 14, 2020 17:01 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBOn this episode of Below the Radar, we are joined by SFU President, Andrew Petter. For 10 years, Andrew has led SFU in becoming Canada’s Engaged University. Prior to that, Andrew had extensive teaching experience as a faculty member at the University of Victoria as well as serving the province as an MLA with a variety of cabinet portfolios during his time in office. Am Johal talks to Andrew about the experiences he had prior to coming to SFU, what it’s been like to serve as SFU’s president, a...
Cowboys, Mermaids, and Interdisciplinary Art — with Barbara Adler
March 31, 2020 17:30 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBOn this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Barbara Adler, interdisciplinary artist, programmer and SFU’s School for Contemporary Arts’ Professional Development Coordinator. Barbara’s artistic work has been presented at The Vancouver Folk Festival, Ballet BC, the Vienna Literature Festival and many more. She currently produces the weekly performance series Sawdust Collector, which showcases experimental and improvised works by established and emerging artists. She holds...
Advocating for Drug Policy Reform — with Scott Bernstein
March 17, 2020 18:07 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBOn this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Scott Bernstein, the Director of Policy at Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, a project based at the Faculty of Health Sciences at SFU. He has also done work with Pivot Legal Society in Vancouver and internationally with Open Society Foundations in New York. Together, Am and Scott talk about his work involving harm reduction, decriminalization and drug regulation policies, and discuss potential regulation models with studies such...
Investigating Asshole Culture — with John Walker
March 03, 2020 16:26 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBOn this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal sits down with John Walker, an award-winning Canadian filmmaker widely known for his documentary films, such as Québec My Country Mon Pays (2016) and Arctic Defenders (2013). He is also one of the co-founders of the Documentary Organization of Canada. In this conversation, John talks about his latest film, Assholes: A Theory. The film is based on the work of Aaron James, author of a book of the same name. Together, they investigate “asshol...
Cyberwar and Revolution — with Svitlana Matviyenko
February 18, 2020 19:17 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBOn this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal sits down with Svitlana Matviyenko, an Assistant Professor of Critical Media Analysis at SFU’s School of Communication. Her work and research focuses around topics such as political economy of information, digital militarism, social and mobile media, infrastructure studies, history of science, cybernetics and psychoanalysis. In this conversation, Svitlana talks about digital militarism on a global scale, the impacts of cyberwar on users to...
Connecting Communities and Libraries — with Ebony Magnus
February 04, 2020 19:45 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBOn this episode of Below the Radar, Am Johal sits down with Ebony Magnus, the head of the Belzberg Library at SFU Vancouver. Ebony came into the role during SFU Vancouver’s 30th Anniversary and has a focus on community involvement for this branch, both within the university and with the wider community. Together, they discuss some core questions related to libraries, including equal access to technologies, value distinctions between different types of archives, and continued community engagem...
Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition — with Glen Coulthard
January 21, 2020 19:41 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBGlen Coulthard is Yellowknives Dene and is an associate professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is also the author of the acclaimed book Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition from University of Minnesota Press. On this special episode live from the Vancouver Podcast Festival, host Am Johal sits down with Glen to talk about who and what influences his work and...
Blanketing the City in Arts and Culture — with Kamala Todd
January 07, 2020 17:59 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBIn Vancouver, discussions surrounding arts and culture are imperative, especially in relation to continued efforts towards decolonization. Indigenous Arts and Culture Planner for the City of Vancouver Kamala Todd tackles this topic with her work, including her contributions to the new cultural plan: Culture | Shift: Blanketing the city in arts and culture. Kamala previously worked as the Aboriginal Social Planner with the City of Vancouver, and continues her work as a cultural advisor and fil...
Making Our Cities More Inclusive — with Tiffany Muller Myrdahl
December 17, 2019 17:00 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBWhen it comes to making decisions about how things happen in our cities, who has the power to make those decisions? Tiffany Muller Myrdahl, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and the Urban Studies Program, asks this question along with a host of others in her work and research. From her work with Women Transforming Cities to teaching in the classroom, Tiffany spends a lot of time navigating the inequalities that exist and looking for ways to make spa...
An Ethical Approach to Research — with Scott Neufeld and Nicolas Crier
December 10, 2019 17:35 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBThe question of ethics should always be front and centre when it comes to doing research of any kind. For Scott Neufeld and Nicolas Crier, they aim to take this question even further. In collaboration with other folks in the Downtown Eastside and Hives for Humanity, they co-authored Research 101: A Manifesto for Ethical Research in the Downtown Eastside to help facilitate a wider conversation on ethics in cultural production, such as research, media, and artmaking. On this episode of Below th...
Music in the City — with Jarrett Martineau
December 03, 2019 19:52 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBHow well do you know the local music scene in Vancouver? On this episode of Below the Radar, we sit down with Jarrett Martineau, a figure who is very well acquainted with the music scene both locally and abroad. On a local level, Jarrett works as the Music Planner for the City of Vancouver, where he works hard to support the Vancouver music scene and all aspects within that. He is also the host of Reclaimed, which is a weekly series on CBC Music that explores the many worlds of contemporary I...
Listening to the World Around Us — with Milena Droumeva and Brett Ashleigh
November 26, 2019 18:38 - 21 minutes - 20 MBWhen it comes to understanding the world around us, we can look and observe change with our eyes. But what about using our ears to listen to the ways in which our environments change? This is the type of work that Milena Droumeva and Brett Ashleigh do. Milena is an assistant professor of sound studies and Brett is a PhD student. Both of them work and research at SFU’s School of Communication, which is quite world famous in the areas of sound studies and soundscape research thanks to the work ...
The Future of the Binners' Project — with Landon Hoyt and Anna Godefroy
November 19, 2019 22:11 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBIn August of 2019, The Binners' Project faced a new change. After 5 years, co-founder Anna Godefroy stepped back and The Binners' Project welcomed Landon Hoyt as their new director. As a follow up to one of the first episodes of Below the Radar, we welcomed Anna back to the studio for a conversation with Landon and our host, Am Johal. Together, we talk about the ways in which The Binners' Project helped to provide economic opportunities and reduce the stigma of waste-pickers, and what's next ...
Build Communities Not Prisons — with Teresa MacInnes
November 12, 2019 17:10 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBOn this episode, our Program Assistant Paige Smith sits down with Teresa MacInnes, one of the directors behind the documentary Conviction. Conviction is a powerful documentary that gives an inside look into what life is like for women in a provincial and federal prison in Nova Scotia. This film asks the women what they would have needed to prevent them from getting into prison. The result of this collaboration with the women in the prison shows another side of these women: products of a broke...
Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week — with Joleen Mitton
November 04, 2019 19:28 - 19 minutes - 18 MBIn this episode, the founder of the Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week Joleen Mitton sits down with host Am Johal to discuss how and why she started the fashion show. They touch upon Joleen’s experiences as a teenage model and Indigenous youth mentor, along with her previous collaborations with critically acclaimed Indigenous artist Beau Dick. This year's Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week runs from Nov. 18-21, 2019 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Please visit their website for information and...
On Andean Horror: The monster always represents the fear we repress — with Maria Cecilia Saba
October 29, 2019 15:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBOn this episode of Below the Radar, our Communications Coordinator Rachel Wong sits down with Maria Cecilia Saba to talk about Andean horror films. Maria Cecilia currently is the Teen Programs Coordinator at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, but previously she worked as the Interim Program Coordinator for our office. We talk to Maria Cecilia about what got her interested in researching two Peruvian-Andean horror films for her Master’s thesis, what her personal experience with horror film...
The Climate Emergency and Political Action — with Seth Klein
October 15, 2019 18:26 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBSeth Klein, adjunct professor at SFU Urban Studies, and former Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in BC, sits down with Below the Radar to discuss what the Canadian government can do to combat the climate emergency. Seth discusses the proposed environmental policies of the major political parties running in the upcoming federal elections. Additionally, he chats about his forthcoming book which examines political actions the Canadian government undertook in reaction to Wor...
On Patriotism and Nationalism — with Jerry Zaslove and Nermin Gogalic
September 30, 2019 17:33 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBWhat are the similarities and differences between Nationalism and Patriotism? Simon Fraser University professor Jerry Zaslove and graduate student Nermin Gogalic discuss this question through the lens of personal identity and political transformation as seen in the former state of Yugoslavia. This in depth and easygoing conversation between our guests and host Am Johal explores the topic from a number of different academic thinker’s perspectives, digging deep to identify the core components o...
The Great Derangement — with Amitav Ghosh and Olive Dempsey
September 16, 2019 16:23 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBClimate change is a very real issue that we as a society are grappling with. But interestingly enough, climate change denial is particularly strong in the Anglosphere — in English speaking countries. Indian author Amitav Ghosh found the link between movement, the English language, and climate change to be quite interesting, and that is the focus of his book The Great Derangement. This episode features Amitav in conversation with our host Am Johal and special guest host Olive Dempsey from the ...