City Centric Podcast City Centric

Welcome to a new episode of Healing Futures, part of the Urban Health Council.

This conversation is between neuroscientist and health activist Araceli Camargo, data ethics and facilitator Daniel Akinola-Odusola, and medical student and climate campaigner Amit Singh. It is based on a body of work being produced within the Urban Health Council on what it means for children to grow up in states of crisis.

This project is not intended to alarm, but to put the child to old age health trajectory into the context of planetary dysregulation and its secondary effects. Currently, children are experiencing multiple stressors or pathways of poor health; forced displacement, family separation, pollution of water, land, and air, acute weather events, malnutrition, poverty, and a global pandemic that is causing long term effects.

In June 2022 the Urban Health Council put out the following work [https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/growing-up-in-crisis] and through 2023 the Urban Health Council has been convening members of the public and practitioners for open roundtables about the topic.

A little bit about Healing Futures:
Healing Futures are various futures created by all Peoples in Kinship with Nature for equitable access to various healing practices and knowledges.

If you liked this podcast please consider supporting it via our Patreon via patreon.com/centriclab or supporting directly through our website urbanhealthcouncil.com

“I am the extension of my territory, that’s healing”
- Angela Camacho

--------------------------------------------------------

Healing Imaginations is project that provides a time and space to Peoples to think about healing.

In time this space will turn into a robust digital library of healing practices rooted in Kinship and Solidarity.

You can read more about this project and the contributions from amazing, beautiful, and liberating voices from across the world at healingimaginations.org.

For this audio conversation we’re welcoming La Bonita Chola Angela Camacho. Angela is a community organiser of Indigenous Aymara-Quechua Peoples. An Ancestor in the making.

Angela's details
https://linktr.ee/thebonitachola
https://www.instagram.com/thebonitachola/
https://twitter.com/TheBonitaCholaa

Centric Lab details
https://www.healingimaginations.org/
https://www.thecentriclab.com/
https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab

"Every time we take a breath, we really must be grateful to these microbial life forms. They've produced the oxygen, allowing us to breathe"

Dr. Jake Robinson
--------------------------------------------------------

Healing Imaginations is project that provides a time and space to Peoples to think about healing. 

In time this space will turn into a robust digital library of healing practices rooted in Kinship and Solidarity with the Great Cosmic Energy and all Earthly siblings.

You can read more about this project and the contributions from amazing, beautiful, and liberating voices from across the world at healingimaginations.org.

For this audio conversation we would like to welcome microbial ecologist Jake Robinson to Healing Imaginations.

He will be guiding us to the tiny and yet abundant world of microbes.

We will learn about how they heal us and the planet as well as why they are our "Invisible Friends".

Jake also has a wonderful and expansive book about the microbial world called "Invisible Friends" if you are curious about taking a deeper dive into the vast world of microbes."

Jake's details
WEBSITE: https://www.jakemrobinson.com/
NON-AMAZON BOOK LINK: https://pelagicpublishing.com/collections/jake-robinson/products/invisible-friends-microbes-jake-robinson
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/_jake_robinson

Centric Lab details
https://www.healingimaginations.org/
https://www.thecentriclab.com/
https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has been used to blame people for their poor health, which helps propagate health injustice. As we go through the audio story we will be using certain linguistic baselines

*Nature and all living beings are referred to in a plural form as we are all ecosystems. We are all plural.

**The use of the letter “s” at the end of words such as knowledges is to signify that Indigeneity is not a monolith and holds multiple cultures, thoughts, and knowledges. It also is inclusive of non-human knowledges.

---

Welcome to chapter 4, where Josh will open up with highlighting how “Right To Pollute” policies contribute to Planetary Dysregulation. This will then be followed by Rhiannon tracing the link between the practices of extractivism and health outcomes. 

--

LINKS
Centric Lab | thecentriclab.com / https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab
Araceli Camargo | https://twitter.com/aracelicamargo_
Joshua Artus | https://twitter.com/Josh_Artus
Guppi Bola | https://twitter.com/guppikb
Rhiannon Osborne | https://twitter.com/rhiannon_osborn

https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/placemaking-for-public-health-place-health
https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/placemaking-for-public-health-creating-health-infrastructure
https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/urban-poverty-ptsd-climate-change-risk
https://southallandhayescleanair.org.uk/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/27/londoners-claim-toxic-air-from-gasworks-damaging-their-health
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3785-abolition-geography
https://truthout.org/audio/ruth-wilson-gilmore-on-abolition-the-climate-crisis-and-what-must-be-done/

For more work on this topic please go to https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has been used to blame people for their poor health, which helps propagate health injustice. As we go through the audio story we will be using certain linguistic baselines

*Nature and all living beings are referred to in a plural form as we are all ecosystems. We are all plural.

**The use of the letter “s” at the end of words such as knowledges is to signify that Indigeneity is not a monolith and holds multiple cultures, thoughts, and knowledges. It also is inclusive of non-human knowledges.

---

This episode will open with Rhiannon who will be discussing how the system of capitalism affects our health systems. The section will end with Araceli describing how the individualisation of health narrative erases both Indigenous and non-human Kin healing knowledges.

--

LINKS
Centric Lab | thecentriclab.com / https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab
Araceli Camargo | https://twitter.com/aracelicamargo_
Joshua Artus | https://twitter.com/Josh_Artus
Guppi Bola | https://twitter.com/guppikb
Rhiannon Osborne | https://twitter.com/rhiannon_osborn

https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-gendered-health
https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/health-as-ecological
https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/the-history-of-disease
https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/lived-experience-communities-health
https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/living-symbiotic-with-nature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mis-Education_of_the_Negro
https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism


For more work on this topic please go to https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has been used to blame people for their poor health, which helps propagate health injustice. As we go through the audio story we will be using certain linguistic baselines

*Nature and all living beings are referred to in a plural form as we are all ecosystems. We are all plural.

**The use of the letter “s” at the end of words such as knowledges is to signify that Indigeneity is not a monolith and holds multiple cultures, thoughts, and knowledges. It also is inclusive of non-human knowledges.

---

In this episode, Guppi will be covering the epistemologies of supremacy and how they are used to imagine policies, understandings of health, and economies. This will be followed by Rhiannon who will be discussing the individualised perspective of health - where it comes from and who it serves.

--

LINKS
Centric Lab | thecentriclab.com / https://twitter.com/TheCentricLab
Araceli Camargo | https://twitter.com/aracelicamargo_
Joshua Artus | https://twitter.com/Josh_Artus
Guppi Bola | https://twitter.com/guppikb
Rhiannon Osborne | https://twitter.com/rhiannon_osborn

https://decolonisingeconomics.org/
https://nimralph.com/
https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/organized-abandonment-with-ruth-wilson-gilmore
https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/gender-care-equity
https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/reports-playbooks/the-need-to-move-from-care-to-healing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Verg%C3%A8s

For more work on this topic please go to https://www.urbanhealthcouncil.com/