Takes From The Anthropocene

Takes From The Anthropocene

14 episodes

Get a fresh perspective on the biggest issues facing us and our planet right now—disasters, climate change, and global health crises. These short, lively podcasts convey student ideas springing from Professor Kate Browne’s Fall 2020 course, Public Anthropology. Public Anthropology takes academic anthropology to the streets where a broad public can access and digest what we have learned. The Anthropocene is the name for our current geologic era, uniquely marked by the reach of human impact into all parts of the planet and life here. Each podcast offers a fresh take from this new era, presenting valuable ideas and potential solutions. Have a listen!

Podcasts

Climate change, Displacement, and what to do about them

Published: March 12, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 53 seconds

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Promoting Health Care Access Requires More Diverse Voices

Published: March 12, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 21 seconds

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Water as a Human Right

Published: March 5, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 17 seconds

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How Indigenous Strategies like Curated Burns can Save Our Forests

Published: March 5, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 16 seconds

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The Importance of Indigenous Elders and Their Knowledge

Published: March 4, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 28 seconds

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The Best Answers Come From People Closest to the Problem

Published: March 4, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 29 seconds

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What is Disaster Capitalism and Why Should we Care About It?

Published: Feb. 26, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 59 seconds

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Conservation, climate change need new framing strategies

Published: Feb. 26, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 9 seconds

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How We Understand the Environment has Material Effects

Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 14 seconds

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Ocean pollution from chemicals, solutions to save reefs

Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 3 seconds

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Indigenous v. Western Views of the Natural World

Published: Feb. 19, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 30 seconds

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Place, a Problematic American Mindset

Published: Feb. 19, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 32 seconds

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How Better Framing, with a Little Help from Public Anthropologists, Can Help Solve Big Problems

Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 31 seconds

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Slow, subversive damage: Is structural violence real?

Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes

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