Building Worlds Beyond Modernity’s Double Fracture: A Discussion with Azucena Castro and Malcom Ferdinand

Building Worlds Beyond Modernity’s Double Fracture: A Discussion with Azucena Castro and Malcom Ferdinand

Today on Speaking Out of Place I am delighted to be in conversation with Azucena Castro and Malcom Ferdinand.  We start with a discussion of what Ferdinand calls the “double fracture”—the environmental division of humans from their connection to the biosphere, and the...
The Dialectic is in the Sea: A Conversation with Christen A. Smith on the Work of Black Feminist Beatriz Nascimento

The Dialectic is in the Sea: A Conversation with Christen A. Smith on the Work of Black Feminist Beatriz Nascimento

Today on Speaking Out of Place I have the honor of talking with Professor Christen A Smith on a new book she has co-edited entitled, The Dialectic is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento. Smith explains that “Beatriz Nascimento was a critical...
A. Naomi Paik and Ashley Dawson on the Close Connection between Abolition Sanctuary and Environmental Activism from Below

A. Naomi Paik and Ashley Dawson on the Close Connection between Abolition Sanctuary and Environmental Activism from Below

Today on Speaking Out of Place we talk with scholar-activists Naomi Paik and Ashley Dawson about the close connection between abolition and environmental activism from below. How are the twin projects raising profound questions about borders, carcerality, enclosures,...
An Urgent Episode on Lebanon with Munira Khayyat: A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon

An Urgent Episode on Lebanon with Munira Khayyat: A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon

Today, on Speaking Out of Place, we are honored to talk with Munira Khayyat, a Lebanese anthropologist whose book, A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon examines what she calls “resistant ecologies in a world of perennial warfare.” ...