Enabling Commons

Enabling Commons

Welcome to Enabling Commons! This podcast is a space for dialogue among persons with disabilities to explore strategies that will transform our environments, our commons, to be meaningfully enabling for all. Every episode, we have conversations with activists, experts, and scholars at the intersections between disability and climate change, unpacking and sharing knowledge. Host and audio production by Áine Kelly-Costello Transcripts and podcast promotion by Rose Paquet. Music composed and produced by Sam Morgan.

  1. Part of the more-than-human world with Hanna Cormick

    2023-07-03

    Part of the more-than-human world with Hanna Cormick

    Host Áine Kellly-Costello talks to Hanna Cormick, a performance artist based in so-called Australia. Hanna's work viscerally depicts the connectedness of our bodies and their needs, with not only other human beings, but also the ecological systems we sometimes forget we're embedded in. Some of these ideas might seem abstract but as the conversation unfolds, Hanna makes them tangible through taking us inside her own embodied experience and artistic practice. Read more from Hanna: I Am the Damage We Have Done to the Earth - Howlround Theater commons Cultivating Anti-Extractivist Body Relationships - Ecostage Read the episode transcript with timestamps or transcript without timestamps Visit Enabling Commons for all episodes, credits and transcripts.  For more on the intersections of disability and climate change, visit disabilityinclusiveclimate.org

    47 min
  2. Connecting to nature with Dr Sasha Kosanic

    2023-06-26

    Connecting to nature with Dr Sasha Kosanic

    Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Dr Sasha Kosanic, an interdisciplinary disabled scientist with a focus on climate change impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services based at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. We talk about Sasha's research in Madagascar and the bounty of ecological diversity disabled people should have equitable access to, as well as her advocacy as one of few disabled people in her field.  Read the episode transcript at www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/transcripts. Visit www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/enabling-commons for all episodes, credits and transcripts. For more on the intersections of disability and climate change, visit disabilityinclusiveclimate.org Discover Dr. Kosanic's work at https://sashakosanic.wixsite.com/ecosystem-services.

    26 min
  3. Learning from Vanuatu with Nelly Caleb

    2023-06-19

    Learning from Vanuatu with Nelly Caleb

    Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Nelly Caleb, National Coordinator of the Vanuatu Disability Promotion and Advocacy Association. Nelly knows the compounding impacts of disasters intimately, because in Vanuatu they don't stop. Áine and Nelly talk about what Nelly's learned from recent cyclones and years of advocacy in disaster risk response, covering everything from gathering timely data to evacuation centre accessibility and housing insecurity.  Read the episode transcript at www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/transcripts (coming soon!). Visit www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/enabling-commons for all episodes, credits and transcripts. For more on the intersections of disability and climate change, visit disabilityinclusiveclimate.org. Discover the Vanuatu Disability Promotion and Advocacy Association here: https://vdpa.org/aboutus/.

    34 min
  4. Disabled messengers for change with Dr Mostafa Kamal Attia

    2023-06-12

    Disabled messengers for change with Dr Mostafa Kamal Attia

    Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Dr Mostafa Kamal Attia, an international consultant on Disability Inclusion in Disaster Risk Reduction. We talk about Mostafa's journey into disability consulting as a blind person originally from Egypt who has also lived extensively in the UK. They also cover Mostafa's experiences at the climate negotiations cOP27 and what he's learning in his current role for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Read the episode transcript at www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/transcripts Visit Enabling Commons for all episodes, credits and transcripts. For more on the intersections of disability and climate change, visit disabilityinclusiveclimate.org

    40 min
  5. Community and care for ourselves and the planet, with Tori Tsui

    2023-06-05

    Community and care for ourselves and the planet, with Tori Tsui

    Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Tori Tsui, a Mad-identified Bristol-based climate activist from Hong Kong. Her book "It's Not Just You', exploring the intersections of mental health and the climate crisis" comes out in July. This is a deep conversation which interrogates the concept of eco-anxiety. They talk about connecting to places as disabled people, and finding sustenance through diverse forms of community. Here's the website of one initiative discussed, the Resilience Project, https://www.theresilienceproject.org.uk/. Discover Tori's work here: https://www.toritsui.com. Pre-order "It's Not Just You" here: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Its-Not-Just-You/Tori-Tsui/9781398508729. Read the episode transcript at www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/transcripts. Visit Enabling Commons for all episodes, credits and transcripts.  For more on the intersections of disability and climate change, visit disabilityinclusiveclimate.org

    47 min
  6. The ableist city with Karina Cardona

    2023-05-29

    The ableist city with Karina Cardona

    Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Karina Cardona, a disabled Canada-based collaborator at the nexus of disability, environmental and climate justice. We talk about disabled perspectives on urban mobility and low-emissions transitions, as well as the short film Cripping climate Adaptation which Karina co-directed. They get into the policy detail and talk about the systems which prop up ableism.  Read the transcript here: www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/transcripts Mentioned in the episode Check out Cripping Climate Adaptation (no audio description) Check out Cripping Climate Adaptation (with audio description)

    48 min
  7. Back to the villages, living off the land, with Pavan Muntha

    2023-05-22

    Back to the villages, living off the land, with Pavan Muntha

    Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Pavan Muntha who is an experienced climate resilience trainer from India. Pavan works with farmers including farmers with disabilities. In their wide-ranging conversation, Pavan holistically describes the connections between how we tend the land, our wellbeing and livelihood, and planetary health.  Read the episode transcript Visit Enabling Commons for all episodes, credits and transcripts.  For more on the intersections of disability and climate change, visit disabilityinclusiveclimate.org Mentioned in the episode Check out the Swadhikaar Center for Disabilities Information Research and Resource Development.

    47 min
  8. Digging into the archive with Dr Julia Watts Belser

    2023-05-15

    Digging into the archive with Dr Julia Watts Belser

    Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Dr Julia Watts Belser who is a professor of Jewish studies and Disability Studies at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Julia coordinates the Disability and Climate Change Public Archive, which chronicles disabled experience and wisdom navigating climate disruption and connected crises. They talk about telling compelling stories at disability and climate intersections, making them accessible, and sustaining this work through the archive. They also discuss Julia's article in Truthout about the dangers of viewing disabled people as "expected losses". Read the episode transcript (coming soon) Visit Enabling Commons for all episodes, credits and transcripts.  For more on the intersections of disability and climate change, visit disabilityinclusiveclimate.org

    36 min
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Welcome to Enabling Commons! This podcast is a space for dialogue among persons with disabilities to explore strategies that will transform our environments, our commons, to be meaningfully enabling for all. Every episode, we have conversations with activists, experts, and scholars at the intersections between disability and climate change, unpacking and sharing knowledge. Host and audio production by Áine Kelly-Costello Transcripts and podcast promotion by Rose Paquet. Music composed and produced by Sam Morgan.

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