72 episodios
Don’t Call Me Resilient The Conversation
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Host Vinita Srivastava dives into conversations with experts and real people to make sense of the news, from an anti-racist perspective. From The Conversation Canada.
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How Modi is using TV, film and social media to sway voters in India's election
Political scientist Shikata Banerjee and cinema studies scholar Rakesh Sengupta sit down with Vinita to talk about how Bollywood and popular culture in general are being used by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his right-wing Hindu nationalist BJP to sway voters in the world's largest election.
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A different way to address student encampments
Student protests on campuses are calling attention to atrocities in Gaza and challenging university administrators to divest. What is the best way forward that avoids unnecessary violence?
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Digging into the colonial roots of gardening
In this episode of Don't Call Me Resilient, Vinita explores the complicated, colonial roots of gardening - which affect who gets to garden and what we plant - with researcher Jacqueline L. Scott and community activist Carolynne Crawley.
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Why students harmed by addictive social media need more than cellphone bans and surveillance
Is a cell phone ban, along with increased surveillance, the right way to deal with the impact of addictive and harmful technology in classrooms?
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From stereotypes to sovereignty: How Indigenous media makers assert narrative control
Indigenous media in North America have rapidly expanded over the last 30 years with Indigenous media makers gaining greater control of their own narratives, including the ability to subvert colonial representations.
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The chilling effects of trying to report on the Israel-Gaza war
Experts say mainstream media coverage of the war in Gaza is severely skewed -- with Palestinian voices getting stifled. They argue it privileges the perspectives of some journalists and not those of others.