Liberation Pedagogy Podcast
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago -The #LiberationPedagogyPodcast is a place where radical ideas, pedagogies, and methods are discussed in the quest towards freedom making. It's a space to discuss and listen about revolutionary politics, political struggles, radical solidarities, cultural resistance, healing justice, and is a crossing to unearth legacies of global radicalism and internationalism. It's a node that transnationally imagines liberation, decolonization and abolitionist futures. The podcast is hosted by Chandni Desai.
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Episodes
Episode 14 - Liberate Your Research
March 03, 2021 16:48 - 48 minutes - 73.7 MBThis episode discusses Nadine Naber’s “Liberate Your Research” workshop which helps radical feminist scholars claim and name their/our core beliefs, while achieving writing and research prosperity and surviving and thriving in and beyond the academic industrial complex. The episode shares the theoretical, methodological, pedagogical, and political frameworks that inspired Nadine Naber to develop this workshop, which teaches radical thinkers how to align their research with their commitments ...
Episode 13 - Women Resisting Sexual Violence and the Egyptian Revolution: Arab Feminist Testimonies
January 25, 2021 16:50 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBToday - January 25, 20201 - marks the ten year anniversary of the start of the Egyptian Revolution. This episode remembers the revolutionaries that participated in the uprisings especially women. In this episode Manal Hamzeh will discuss women’s resistance during the Egyptian revolution and the state sanctioned tactics of violence that weaponized women’s bodies during the revolution. Manal shares the significance of Shahadat and Haki as significant Arabyaa feminist decolonizing methodologies...
Episode No. 12 - From Surviving the Holocaust to Resistance
January 12, 2021 16:30 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBIn this episode Suzanna Weiss – a holocaust survivor – reflects on her memories of surviving the holocaust and shares the political influences that led her to over seven decades of resistance. She reflects on her participation in social movements historically, and her involvement over the last decade in struggle for justice in Palestine. She discusses the following: dangers of the International Holocaust Remembrance Association’s (IHRA) definition and its weaponization of anti-Semitism; the ...
Episode 11 - The Bolivarian Revolution, Crisis in Venezuela, and Resistance to Capitalist Imperialism
December 23, 2020 17:26 - 1 hour - 127 MBIn this double episode Raul Barbano and Michelle Munjanattu report back about Venezuela’s December 6th, 2020 National Assembly elections as they served as election observers, and speak about the Bolivarian revolution, the impact of sanctions on Venezuela and the economic and political crisis facing the country, the Lima Group’s role in capitalist accumulation in the region, U.S. and Canadian imperialism and ways social movements are mobilizing against the crisis. This episode also offers ric...
Episode 10 - The Pedagogy of Revolution: Unsettling History
October 14, 2020 21:54 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBIn this episode Shahrzad Mojab enacts a one-woman play using an autobiographical narrative that memorializes revolutionary activity past and present, in Iran, the Middle East and elsewhere. This one woman play in its performance embodies revolutionary pedagogy and teaches us to examine an individual autobiographical story to understand history, struggle and social relations through a dialectical method.
Ep. 9 Uprisings in Puerto Rico: Debt, Disaster and Policing Life and Death
September 21, 2020 15:45 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBIn this episode Marisol Lebrón reflects on the uprisings that shook Puerto Rico in 2019. She situates the uprisings within a longer history of colonialism, and the present economic, political, social and environmental crisis. She also talks about Hurricane Maria, policing and the criminalization of protest, sovereignty in the archipelago, the Puerto Rico syllabus and meanings of liberation.
Ep. 8 - A Year of Siege in Kashmir: Military Lockdown, Annexation and Dissent as Pedagogy
August 26, 2020 15:18 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBIn this episode Hafsa Kanjwal discusses the on-going siege of Kashmir by the Indian state and the abrogation of article 370 that took place one year ago in August 2019. She speaks about the revocation of article 35A, the implementation of domicile certificates and their political, economic, environmental and demographic ramifications for Kashmiri’s, and settler colonialism in the region. She discusses the pedagogical impetus of the Critical Kashmir Studies Collective and the Kashmir Syllabus...
Episode No. 7 - Lebanon’s Revolt, Blast and Alternative Political Visions Beyond Sectarianism
August 18, 2020 15:50 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBReflecting on the Beirut blast, in this episode Rania Masri explains the sectarian political system in Lebanon, its disastrous consequences, and political alternatives for reconfiguring the state. She shares insights on a political front that has been building alternatives for a democratic, civil secular state in Lebanon which envisions abolishing political sectarianism. She provides analysis of the Lebanese rebellions and underscores the distinction between the October 2019 uprisings from t...
Episode 6 - Understanding the Beirut Blast through the Political Economy of Lebanon
August 13, 2020 13:53 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBIn this episode Hicham Safieddine discusses the economic crisis that preceded the Beirut blast, and how the explosion will further exacerbate Lebanon’s economy. He addresses the perils of foreign (imperialist) intervention, vulture capital, and the sectarian political system that dominates the country. He also discusses the need for political alternatives for change, revolutionizing social relations, solidarity, ideological education, and liberation.
Episode No. 5 - Harvesting Freedom for Migrant Workers from the Agricultural Industrial Complex
August 10, 2020 19:18 - 41 minutes - 65.6 MBIn this episode Chris Ramsaroop discusses the struggle migrant workers face in Canada. He discusses the historical antecedents of the migrant labour/indentured labour regime which he links to slavery and the global political economy. He also speaks to workers conditions during the covid-19 pandemic, political education, and harvesting freedom.
Episode No. 4 - Infrastructure of Zionist, Imperialist Annexation in Palestine, and Land Defence as Pedagogy
July 22, 2020 17:53 - 52 minutes - 80.3 MBJamal Juma' discusses the Israeli annexation plan in detail and how it could materialize on the ground in occupied Palestine; its economic, political and social implications on Palestinian life; and annexation as an ongoing colonial, imperialist strategy of liquidating the Palestinian struggle. Jamal also discusses the popular resistance defending Palestinian life and land, land defence as pedagogy, the Covid-19 pandemic under occupation, and liberation from settler colonialism, imperialism ...
Episode No. 3 - Indigenous resistance and land pedagogy against Canadian settler colonial capitalism: A Wet’suwet’en land defender’s reflections
July 14, 2020 17:15 - 54 minutes - 83.6 MBIn this episode Indigenous land defender Eve Saint is in conversation with Chandni Desai to discuss the Wet’suwet’en struggle, and the mass uprisings that took place in colonial Canada in 2020 against the Coastal GasLink Pipeline project, policing, and Canadian settler colonialism. Eve shares reflections on Indigenous resistance, police violence, Indigenous governance, healing and freedom.
Episode No. 2 - Historicizing Black Struggle in Canada: A Radical Black Feminist, Anti-Capitalist, Internationalist Perspective
July 06, 2020 16:18 - 58 minutes - 94 MBProfessor Beverly Bain discusses the history of black struggle in Canada and how the past informs the present day struggles against policing and the carceral state, through a radical Black feminist, anti-capitalist, internationalist perspective with host Chandni Desai.
Episode No. 1 - The Prison-School Nexus and Abolition Pedagogy with David Stovall
June 29, 2020 17:35 - 37 minutes - 54.9 MBProfessor David Stovall discusses the prison-school nexus and abolition pedagogy with host Professor Chandni Desai, in reference to recent uprisings against police brutality.