EXALT Podcast

TheEXALT Initiative is committed to science popularization and communication. Insupport of this goal, in 2019 we launched monthly podcast focused on the themes of extractivismsand alternatives. Our guests are academics, activists, artists, and others with lived experience ofextractivisms and alternatives. The format is a semi-structured conversationbetween the hosts and the guests. The newest conversation drops on thelast Friday of the month. You can find the EXALT podcast on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/exalt-podcast/id1499621252) and Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/4y9LgePsbaT1ZbDa7I0PmK?si=6f8e98a4ece84de8).

Past podcast episodes guests and theirrespective titles:

2024

·      Joonatan Ala-Könni – what can microclimates tell usabout climate change?

2023

·      From the Cubby (Part 2) – Why isinclusivity important for systems to work?

·      From the Cubby (Part 1) – What talesare coming from the modern streets of Canterbury?

·      Avi KBH – why do we need to break awayfrom a war narrative with “pests”?

·      Niti Bhan – How cantrans-disciplinary innovation bridge knowledge systems around the world?

·      Ossi Ollinaho – How do you makedestructive global patterns as relevant for people as a paycheck?

·      Eija Ranta – When Indigenous movementslead to governments, what space do they take outside of government?

·      Toni Ruuska – Is utopian degrowth asilver bullet for dystopian capitalism?

·      Kumbutso Phiri – What pushes (andpulls) 30,000+ kids to live on the streets of Lusaka?

·      FLASHBACK Maria Ehrnsträm-Fuentes –Exploring the Pluriverse

·      Patience Musua – Why did flourishingcommunities start to crumble in the Zambian Copper Belt?

·      Mariam Khawar – What voices have beenoverlooked in Islamic economic philosophy?

·      Barış Can Sever – Can human-scaleagriculture make Anatolia a breadbasket again?

2022

·      Mariko Frame – What is ecologicalimperialism? (And why is it a dirty word in some of US academia?)

·      Alexander Dunlap – Until You BecomeUngovernable, Why Would Anyone Listen to You?

·      Ksenija Hanaček – How does resistanceto extractivism turn out in the Arctic?

·      BONUS – Extractivism in Pop Culture –Lord of the Rings (featuring Jesse Barber)

·      Jesse Barber – Why would Christianswrite pagan sagas in Scandinavia?

·      Usman Ashraf – Who could lose fromplanting billions of trees in Pakistan?

·      Sérgio Sauer – How have land strugglesshaped social conflicts and extractivism in Brazil?

·      Syed Mustafa Ali and Dan McQuillan –Does Luddism hold lessons for resisting harmful tech paradigms?

·      Tim Oakes – How do big Chinese infrastructureprojects impact people in China and around the world?

·      Gediminas Lesutis - How do people cope with precarity pushedby extractivism?

·      Tania Li - Why are plantations so destructive?

·      Teivo Teivainen - Do Finnish companies act like colonialpowers in Uruguay?

·      Janne Salovaara - What is "sustainability" tryingto sustain?

2021

·      Anna Marjaana Heikkinen - Can traditional livelihoods surviveclimate change & mining in the Peruvian Andes?

·      Antti Tarvainen - Is settler colonialism at the heart of theUS and Israeli tech sectors?

·      BONUS - Extractivism in Pop Culture - Dune: Part 1 (Two YearAnniversary Bonus Episode)

·      2 Year Anniversary - Barry K. Gills - How has the worldchanged since EXALT began?

·      Robin Broad and John Cavanagh - Can local movements beat bigcompanies?

·      Victoria Kiechel - How has extractivism become intertwined inour built environment?

·      Mira Käkönen - How do dams impact climate change?

·      Arturo Escobar - Why are communities key to transforming theworld?

·      mirko nikolić - How do we dismantle our connections toextractivism?

·      Saskia Sassen - Why are there so many everyday miseries inbig cities?

·      Beril Ocaklı - How has extractivism played out in Soviet andpost-Soviet Kyrgyzstan?

·      Yafa El Masri - How can refugees save the world?

·      Alexander Dunlap - Is "green energy" really thatgreen (and is it better called "fossil fuel plus")?

2020

·      Josua Mata - How can labor movements help improve theenvironment?

·      Katherine Trebeck – Should the economy work for societyand the environment?

·      Markus Kröger – What is the best way to push forchange?

·      Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias – How much of your life hasBig Data colonized and extracted to the cloud?

·      Anja Nygren – How does Extractivism Impact FrontierFamilies over Generations?

·      Gutu Olana Wayessa – Why do people need to beconsulted about big projects in the back yards?

·      Will LaFleur – What kind of connection do you have withyour food?

·      Rachel Mazac – How does your dinner impact theworld?

·      Maija Lassila – Extractivism Research and Breaking Awayfrom the Written Word

·      Tom Maraffa – Extractivism and Sense of Place inOhio

·      Katy Machoa and Paola Minoia – Eco-cultural pluralism,Extractivisms and the Kichwa people of the Ecuadorian Amazon

·      Sanna Komi – Conservation and Extractivism: Two Sides of the SameCoin

2019

·      Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes – Exploring the Pluriverse

·      Aili Pyhälä – Activism, alternative, and academia

·      Barry Gills – Extractivism in three parts 1. Whatare extractivisms and alternatives?: 2. Three concepts to live by; 3. A call toaction