In this video (Part 1), Marine interviews ME (what??) on my curriculum as a professor of environmental studies and geography (specifically about political ecology). I talk about the paradigm shifts I'm hoping to inspire and how I work to dismantle dominant narratives about nature and commodification. Marine and I compare / contrast our approaches in education, me being primarily a lecturer and Marine a facilitator (although with Marine's help, I'm working to incorporate more facilitation into my courses!).

Make sure to watch Part 2 of this interview on Marine's new channel! Smart Activities to Make Your Lectures Less Boring: https://youtu.be/j-8rCmFdysg
We dive into activities designed by Marine that I've been using in class to inspire 'aha' moments.

Marine's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RethinkingNormalYT
Marine's summer course on facilitation: https://rethinkingnormal.org/product/rethinking-dominant-narratives-course/
Marine's website: https://rethinkingnormal.org/
Marine's email: marine@rethinkingnormal.org

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Everyday Utopia: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Everyday-Utopia/Kristen-R-Ghodsee/9781982190217
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: https://www.amazon.ca/Women-Have-Better-Under-Socialism/dp/1568588909#:~:text=Book%20details&text=A%20spirited%2C%20deeply%20researched%20exploration,%2C%20yes%2C%20even%20better%20sex.
Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from Five Revolutionary Women: https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/2880-red-valkyries

Second International Conference of Socialist Women: https://archive.org/details/InternationalSocialistCongress1910SecondInternationalConferenceOf/page/n15/mode/2up

Mexie and Kristen recorded a podcast together previously on Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism. That talk is titled Love & Sex in a Capitalist Hellscape: Decommodifying Our Relationships, and is available here or via most Podcast apps: https://totalliberationpodcast.com/91-love-sex-in-a-capitalist-hellscape-decommodifying-our-relationships-w-dr-kristen-ghodsee/

We also had a discussion together about her book Everyday Utopia, talking about alternative ways societies have organized social reproduction and economic production: https://youtube.com/live/TsB8SgB3k0E

#internationalwomensday #internationalworkingwomensday #internationalwomensday2024

Watch the FULL INTERVIEW on Means TV: https://means.tv/programs/mexie-miko-peled-israeli-american-activist-calls-to-dismantle-apartheid-israel
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Miko Peled is an Israeli-American activist, author, and international speaker, born and raised in Jerusalem. He is the author of two powerful books: The General's Son: The Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, and Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five. His father was an Israeli General who fought in 1948 and again in 1967, his grandfather signed Israel's Declaration of Independence, and Miko also served briefly in the IDF. His experiences led him to become one of the clearest voices calling for justice in Palestine, for support of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, and for the creation of a single democracy with equal rights in all of historic Palestine.

Miko Peled Books: https://mikopeled.com/books/

The Miko Peled Podcast: https://mikopeled.com/podcast/

Miko Peled on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MikoPeledOfficial

Miko Peled on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikopeled

#gaza #palestine #onestatesolution

Watch here: https://youtu.be/nDkfUYTaMoI?si=G6q-8wx01eDSe5ln

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Miko Peled is an Israeli-American activist, author, and international speaker, born and raised in Jerusalem. He is the author of two powerful books: The General's Son: The Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, and Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five. His father was an Israeli General who fought in 1948 and again in 1967, his grandfather signed Israel's Declaration of Independence, and Miko also served briefly in the IDF. His experiences led him to become one of the clearest voices calling for justice in Palestine, for support of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, and for the creation of a single democracy with equal rights in all of historic Palestine.

Miko Peled Books: https://mikopeled.com/books/

The Miko Peled Podcast: https://mikopeled.com/podcast/

Miko Peled on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MikoPeledOfficial

Miko Peled on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikopeled

#gaza #palestine #israel

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Books:

Robbins, Paul. (2007). Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are.

Tallamy, Doug. (2020). Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard.

Articles:

Brooks, A. and Francis, R. (2019). Artificial Lawn People. Environment and Nature E: Nature and Space, 2(3): 548-564.

Harris et al. (2013). Beyond "Lawn People": The Role of Emotions in Suburban Yard Management Practices. The Professional Geographer, 65(2): 345-361.

Ellis, Rebecca. (2017). Lawns, Class, and Colonialism: https://thereenchantment.ca/2017/10/25/lawns-class-and-colonialism-part-one/

Robbins, P. (2003). Producing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn. Economic Geography, 79(4): 425-451.

Robbins, P. and Sharp, J. (2003). The Lawn-Chemical Economy and Its Discontents. Antipode.
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Intro 0:00
Becoming "Lawn People" 2:29
The Importance of Connectivity 10:54
The Importance of Native Plants 12:46
Leave Your Leaves 18:26
What to do? 19:59
Credits 21:59
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#killyourlawn #nativeplants #biodiversity

Mexie is joined by Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee, the critically acclaimed author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism and Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from Five Revolutionary Women to discuss her new book, Everyday Utopia. Everyday Utopia explores two millennia of human experiments in living alternatively to inspire us all to build a post-capitalist, post-patriarchal future.

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Everyday Utopia: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Everyday-Utopia/Kristen-R-Ghodsee/9781982190217
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: https://www.amazon.ca/Women-Have-Better-Under-Socialism/dp/1568588909#:~:text=Book%20details&text=A%20spirited%2C%20deeply%20researched%20exploration,%2C%20yes%2C%20even%20better%20sex.
Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from Five Revolutionary Women: https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/2880-red-valkyries

Mexie and Kristen recorded a podcast together previously on Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism. That talk is titled Love & Sex in a Capitalist Hellscape: Decommodifying Our Relationships, and is available here or via most Podcast apps (under the show Total Liberation): https://totalliberationpodcast.com/91-love-sex-in-a-capitalist-hellscape-decommodifying-our-relationships-w-dr-kristen-ghodsee/

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Democracy at Work: https://www.democracyatwork.info/
Democracy at Work on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/democracyatwrk/
Prof. Richard Wolff on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RichardDWolff

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Holley Exley, I Don’t Think Instagram is Good for Artists: https://youtu.be/5XZVcLLg8kM

KELGORE, how much do youtubers make their first year? https://youtu.be/VBmAkR8wJKU

Tiffany Ferg, You're Not Relevant Anymore: what happens when youtubers pass their peak? | Internet Analysis: https://youtu.be/Ypwp_CtA5nY

Step Back History: https://www.youtube.com/c/StepBackHistoryChannel

Kathrin: https://www.youtube.com/c/KathrinYTchannel

Ash (DarrowVania): https://twitter.com/darrowvania

Javi (A Leftist Loudmouth): https://www.youtube.com/c/Cu%C3%B1adodeizquierdas

A Few Resources:

The Overjustification Effect Explained: https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/overjustification-effect

Savannah Rose, Why Turning Your Hobby Into a Career Can Ruin the Experience: https://thepressedflowerdiary.com/turning-your-hobby-into-a-career-can-ruin-the-experience/

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Does Money Really motivate Us? A Review of the Research: https://hbr.org/2013/04/does-money-really-affect-motiv#:~:text=More%20specifically%2C%20for%20every%20standard,intrinsic%20motivation%20decreases%20by%2036%25.

David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism: https://academic.oup.com/book/40603

Foster and McChesney, The Endless Crisis: https://monthlyreview.org/product/endless_crisis/

Mexie, Precarious Work! The Reserve Army of Labour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgJlsBCmrUA

Mexie, Live with Richard Wolff Pt 1 - Covid-19 and the End of Capitalism: https://youtu.be/vipaqx_fo2g

Mexie, Live with Richard Wolff Pt 2 (A Post-Covid, Post-Capitalist Society): https://youtu.be/ppQp0_2dFQc
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Introduction 0:00
A Side Hustle is the New Job Security 1:14
A Crisis of Capitalism 6:09
Gig Life and "Freedom" 9:18
The Psychology of Commodifying Your Passions 12:36
YouTube - The Most Profitable Side Hustle? 15:58
Getting Back to Intrinsic Motivation 28:06
Big News! 30:28
Conclusion - Get Organized 31:34

#sidehustle #freelancing #latestagecapitalism

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Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

Coulthard, Red Skin, White Masks

Coulthard, Subjects of Empire: Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Recognition in Canada: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300307

Debord, Society of the Spectacle

Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Kim Foster, I Got Botox and People Are Disappointed: https://youtu.be/TrDJx6JPZkE

A Little to the Left (Stream), The Male Gaze is Ruining Your S*x Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMgtxAEASAo

A Little to the Left (Stream), Male Gaze Pt. 2, Fetishized Youth (The P-Gaze): https://youtu.be/W6ATlGuVlRg

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Intro 0:00
The Politics of Recognition 1:10
Patriarchy 6:49
The Male Gaze 9:06
My Body Image Journey - The Early Years 12:16
Yo-Yo Dieting 15:40
The Cool Girl Trope 17:35
My ED 20:08
Autism and EDs 21:27
“Positive” Recognition 22:42
Hustle Culture 26:12
My Chronic Illness 27:23
Botox & Tweakments 29:27
Society of the Spectacle 32:39
My Botox Story 36:43
Choice Feminism 40:29
Reclaiming the Gaze 45:33
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#bodyimage #bodydysmorphia #themalegaze

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Saint Andrewism: https://www.youtube.com/c/SaintAndrewism

Professor Flowers: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGZrqXTq3GW2wNRz9M44Baw

Silver Spook: https://www.youtube.com/user/twiliteminotaur

Tristan (Step Back History): https://www.youtube.com/c/StepBackHistoryChannel

Thank you to Dave Jacobs for the animations!
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0:00 Introduction
4:20 The Nature of Capital
14:22 Colonialism: Where it All Started
24:53: Neoliberal Conservation
31:44 Conservation Revolution
39:10 Thanks & Credits
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Books

Büscher, B., & Fletcher, R. (2020). The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Conserving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene: Verso Books.

Büscher, B., Dressler, W., and Fletcher, R. (2014). Nature Inc.: Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age. University of Arizona Press.

Coulthard, G. S. (2014). Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Dempsey, J. (2016). Enterprising Nature: Economics, Markets, and Finance in Global Biodiversity Politics. Wiley.

Dunbar-Ortiz, R. (2014). An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Beacon Press.

ICE. (2018). We rise together: Achieving Pathway to Canada Target 1 through the creation of Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas in the spirit of practice of reconciliation. The Indigenous Circle of Experts' report and recommendations. http://www.conservation2020canada.ca/

Kimmerer, R.W. (2013). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed.

Mann, C. (2006). 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Vintage.

Peet, R., Robbins, P., and Watts, M. (2011). Global Political Ecology. Routledge.

Robbins, P., Hintz, J. & Moore, S. (2014). Environment and society: A critical introduction. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford.

Shipley, T. (2020). Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination. Fernwood Publishing.

Articles
Bernauer, W. and Roth, R. Protected areas and extractive hegemony: A case study of marine protected areas in the Qikiqtani (Baffin Island) region of Nunavut, Canada. Geoforum, 120: 208-217.

Binnema, T., & Niemi, M. (2006). 'Let the line be drawn now': Wilderness, conservation, and the exclusion of aboriginal people from Banff National Park in Canada. Environmental History, 11(4), 724-750. doi:10.1093/envhis/11.4.724

Büscher, B., Fletcher, R., Brockignton, D., Sandbrook, C., Adams, W., Campbell, L., Corson, C., Dressler, W., Duffy, R., Gray, N., Holmes, G., Kelly, A., Lunstrum, E., Ramutsindela, M, and Shanker, K. (2016). Half-Earth or Whole Earth? Radical ideas for conservation, and their implications. Oryx, 51(3): 407-410.

Counsell, Simon. (September 30, 2021). The New ‘Con’ in Conservation: Why the Proposed Voluntary, Paris Agreement-Style, ‘30×30’ Target for Protected Areas Won’t Save the World’s Biodiversity. Counter Punch.

Cronon, W. (1996). The trouble with wilderness: Or, getting back to the wrong nature. Environmental History, 1 (1), 7-28.

Davis, H., & Todd, Z. (2017). On the importance of a date, or, decolonizing the Anthropocene. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 16(4), 761-780.

Fletcher, R. (2013). Bodies Do Matter: The Peculiar Persistence of Neoliberalism in Environmental Governance. Human Geography, 6(1): 29-45.

Fletcher, R. and Rammelt, C. (2017) Decoupling: A Key Fantasy of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda. Globalizations, 14:3, 450-467.

Holmes, G., and Cavangh, C. (2016). A review of the social impacts of neoliberal conservation: Formations, inequalities, contestations. Geoforum, 75: 199-209.

Igoe, J., & Brockington, D. (2007). Neoliberal conservation: A brief introduction. Conservation & Society, 5(4), 432-449.

Massé, F. and Lunstrum, E. (2016). Accumulation by securitization: Commercial poaching, neoliberal conservation, and the creation of new wildlife frontiers. Geoforum, 69:227-237.

McAfee, K. (1999). Selling nature to save it? Biodiversity and green developmentalism. Environment and Planning D 17: 133-154.

Sandlos, J. (2008). Not wanted in the boundary: The expulsion of the Keeseekoowenin Ojibway Band from Riding Mountain National Park. Canadian Historical Review, 89(2), 189-221.

Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1), 1-40.

Videos

The Story of Stuff: https://youtu.be/9GorqroigqM

Our Changing Climate - Why the United States is Killing the World: https://youtu.be/KYu_WOrL_gM

Saint Andrewism - How We Can Make Solarpunk A Reality (ft Our Changing Climate): https://youtu.be/u-JvyfZVkIM

Jessica Dempsey - Enterprising Nature: https://youtu.be/kGoxXPRY0V8

#neoliberalconservation #halfearth #indigenousledconservation

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Jose's channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Jos%C3%A9Tube

The Baby-Sitters Club Club podcast: http://babysittersclubclub.com/

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Introduction 0:00
Strikes Against the Patriarchy 3:32
Trans Rights 9:37
Representation & Claudia Kishi 12:40
Bye, Male Gaze 15:19
Bye, 'Free' Market 16:20
Bye, Girlboss Feminism 18:40
Long Live the Revolution! 19:22
Conclusion 24:54
BURN OF THE WEEK 26:00
Thank you, Patrons! 27:00

An important follow-up to this video: https://youtu.be/p9kxoinmLBc

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Proletarian Feminist: A Socialist, Feminist and Transgender Analysis of "Sex Work": https://proletarianfeminist.medium.com/a-socialist-feminist-and-transgender-analysis-of-sex-work-b08aaf1ee4ab

Proletarian Feminist: The problem with the phrase "sex work is work": https://proletarianfeminist.medium.com/the-problem-with-the-phrase-sex-work-is-work-bdac613eb2f0

The Red Nation with Esperanza Fonseca and Khara Jabola-Carolus: https://soundcloud.com/therednationpod/the-myth-of-sex-work-w

RevLeftRadio with Brigid Ó Coileáin and Esperanza Fonseca: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/prolefem
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Introduction 0:00
Moving Beyond Liberal Individualism 4:19
The Politics of Buying 6:53
The Reserve Army of Labour 12:21
Critique Industries, Not Workers 15:21
Protecting Access 19:39
P*rn 22:52
Conclusion 28:37

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Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass

Fair Folk podcast, Children of the Sun Part 1: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2LqL2IpnpyK47tjOsTs44R?si=U79wPVIKTbmIgUs8i0chxw
Part 2: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6yl4Fw3vCQ8NiuhJtGN3dX?si=yRd5K4pKT8mFrJJM-MB8rQ
Part 3: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4i8C7le09zNhP7vFbs6E5E?si=6CKeBqMzSTGLKRQKZPOkSw

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0:00 Intro, Content Warning, Introducing ourselves
3:05 Sadlord's Spiritual Journey, Organizing & Settler Accountability
10:44 Values vs. Ideology
12:39 False Dichotomy between the Political/Spiritual, Material/Immaterial
14:02 Western Anthropocentric Worldview
17:10 Stories are All We Are & Creation Stories
19:59 What is Sacred in Capitalist Society
23:18 Empathy Makes People Leftists
23:52 Mexie's Spiritual Journey & Political Thought
29:02 Cultural Appropriation, Shame & Whiteness
38:48 Inter-faith Relationships & the Importance of Practice
41:45 Culturally Appropriating Your Own Tradition?
48:22 Ancestry and Appropriation - Who Claims You?
54:30 Whiteness Erasing Culture
55:45 Accountability and Decolonization
1:00:25 Becoming "Indigenous to Place"
1:05:05 Respectful, Horizontal Cross-Cultural Exchange
1:10:40 Shame & Land Relationship
1:13:37 Criticism & Starting the Convo
1:15:41 Thank you, Patrons!

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The Death of Economics 101 video: https://youtu.be/4epQSbu2gYQ

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0:00 Infomercial
0:41 Introduction
4:34 What is Revolution?
6:07 Very Important Thought Experiment
11:09 Our Material Conditions Constrain Our Imagination
12:36 Why Live the Revolution?
13:58 From the Outside In
15:12 From the Inside Out
15:38 Our Collective Trauma
16:39 Let's Get Bleak for a Second...
17:39 Building a New Grid (Legally..?)
19:51 Living the Revolution!
25:06 Think Generationally
27:33 DANCE THE DANCE OF LIFE!!! / Conclusion
30:56 Thank You to Actors + Credits
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