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The Anti-DystopiansAstronauts on Strike! Spaceports, Colonial Telescopes and Labor Unions in the StarsIn this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dr Kate Sammler, a geographer who looks at the intersection of science and politics in the oceans, atmospheres, and outer space. They discussed how colonialism and scientific exploration have long been entangled, from building telescopes on sacred indigenous land in Hawaii to James Cook claiming islands in the Pacific while following a star. They also talked about the little known construction of “SpacePorts,” or public transport hubs preparing the public for future travel in the stars—and why they’ve only been used as filming sets. Finally, they explain who exactly are the Auto...
2026-02-201h 10The Anti-Dystopians"We Cannot Rely on Five Nerds": AI Urbanism from Amazon Go to Tech Sovereignty In this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata talks to Casey Lynch, the Ramon y Cajal researcher in the Department of Geography at the University of Girona. Casey is a human geographer with interests in digital, political, urban, and labour geographies, as well as geographic thought and critical theory. They discussed that SNL skit about “Just Walk Out” Amazon Go stores, and why automated shopping never got off the ground; what iBuyer programmes are and if an AI can replace your real estate agent; and promising ideas about technological sovereignty and local community in Barcelona, so that we don’t just...
2026-01-191h 19The Anti-DystopiansA World of VCs in Miniature: Silicon Valley's IdeologyOn this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Olivier Jutel, a lecturer at the University of Otago and an expert in cyberlibertarianism. They discuss the ideology of many technology industry elites and the strange political ideas permeating through Silicon Valley. What makes these Sand Hill Road venture capitalists different from the East Coast banking establishment? Why are they imagining a world of venture capitalists in miniature? How does this relate to the Network State treatisie? Can you really “exit” or “LARP” a country into existence? And is this all just capitalism, or something else?For a complete reading...
2025-12-171h 01The Anti-DystopiansBut Daddy, I Love Him (My ChatGPT Boyfriend): Robots and LoveabilityAlina Utrata talks to Dr Jenny Carla Moran, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow based at the Trinity Long Room Hub and a faculty member at TCD-TU Dublin Joint Centre for the Sociology of Humans and Machines. They discuss Jenny's research about robots and loveability. Why are so many people falling in love with ChatGPT partners? What does the trope of "true love's first kiss" show us about which robots are considered human? How does society proscribe the acceptable limits of love in both gendered and racial ways (or why men can only cry at football games)? What's the problem with a...
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The ChatterboxWhy Finance Guys Are Trying to Offshore the Planet Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Why Finance Guys Are Trying to Offshore the PlanetPub date: 2025-11-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Connor O'Brien, a PhD Candidate at University of Cambridge researching a conceptual history of good governance and sovereign debt. They discussed a little-known tool for climate finance called "debt for nature swaps". While they might sound nice, they're actually an insidious tactic of finance guys taking control of government policies amid...
2025-11-181h 00The Anti-DystopiansFROM THE ARCHIVE: The eye of the tiger: conservation tech, rural surveillance & the patriarchy in Indian wildlife reservesFROM THE ARCHIVE: In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dr Trishant Simlai, a conservation researcher studying the politics and geographies of wildlife conservation in India, who just received his PhD in the Department of Geography at Cambridge. They discuss wildlife surveillance in the Corbett Tiger Reserve, as well as conservation’s colonial origins, how camera traps can be used to uphold the patriarchy, and when workplace surveillance technologies literally lead to tiger attacks.All episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the pr...
2025-11-1248 minThe Anti-DystopiansWhy Finance Guys Are Trying to Offshore the PlanetOn this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Connor O'Brien, a PhD Candidate at University of Cambridge researching a conceptual history of good governance and sovereign debt. They discussed a little-known tool for climate finance called "debt for nature swaps". While they might sound nice, they're actually an insidious tactic of finance guys taking control of government policies amidst the green energy transition. But also they discussed how these financial tools also show more broadly the power of international financial regimes and their relationship to state sovereignty, local power and control and authoritarian or private power. ...
2025-11-051h 00The Anti-DystopiansFrom the Archive: Nationalize Gmail!!!FROM THE ARCHIVE: Alina Utrata talks with Josh Lappen, a fellow Californian and environmental historian researching at Oxford University, who studies some of the most important technology there is: critical infrastructure. They discuss why hundreds of Elon Musks can’t (and won’t) solve climate change, the government funding and politics behind many technology entrepreneurs’ businesses, why low-tech solutions and indigenous practices are critical sources of knowledge, and the surprising number of technological innovations enabled by the US Postal Service (including Amazon’s e-commerce business and commercial flight). Plus, is PG&E really the worst company, what’s going on with th...
2025-10-2957 minThe Anti-DystopiansOn Dystopia, Fearing the Future and Political ImaginationThis week, the Anti-Dystopians talks to an expert in dystopia! Matthew Cole is a scholar of political theory and an Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences Binghamton University. His book “Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the 20th century” explores the history of dystopian thinking and why so many dystopian books have captured our political imagination (or indeed, accurately predicted our political future). We discuss the history of utopianism and dystopianism, whyy the emerged so prominently in the 20th century, and how dystopian literature and slogans (from “Make Atwood Fiction Again” to “1984 Was Not an Instruction Manual”) h...
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2025-08-042h 18The Anti-DystopiansAn Intellectual History of LLMsIn this episode, Alina Utrata interviews Amira Moeding, a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Cambridge where they held fellowships with Cambridge Digital Humanities and the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity” at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. They talked all about Amira’s research on the intellectual history of Large Language Models, and other types of AI. They began by asking: why is it so shocking to begin with a history and philosophy of linguistics when talking about LLMs? Why did IBM want these natural language processors to be so energy intensive (hint: to make money)? What is...
2025-06-301h 21The Anti-DystopiansAbolish AI!!: Decomputing with Dan McQuillanOn this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata talks to Dan McQuillan, a senior lecturer in Critical AI at Goldsmiths University and the author of "Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence.” They talk about the state of AI adoption in the UK since our last conversation (spoiler alert: it’s bad), why the Starmer government so obsessed with AI, how AI is harming the environment and the planet and papering over the degradation of public services, infrastructure and community. Most notably, they discuss Dan’s concept of ‘decomputing’ and how communities can resist the adoption of AI to build c...
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SSPIBetter Satellite World: Everyday Guardians - Technology and PoliticsIn Everyday Guardians, the podcast series of the Securing the Future of Space campaign, we speak with the people who are helping to build a more resilient, sustainable and secure orbital environment - whether through technology, policy or ethical leadership. Securing the Future of Space is underwritten by the American Space Exploration Fund. In the second episode, we hear from Dr. Alina Utrata, political theorist and Career Development Research Fellow at St. John's College, Oxford University. Dr. Alina Utrata is a political theorist focusing on the politics of technology corporations and currently a Career Development Research Fellow...
2025-05-0244 minThe MachinistPublic, Private and DOGE - Hybrid Sovereignty with Swati Srivastava Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Public, Private and DOGE - Hybrid Sovereignty with Swati SrivastavaPub date: 2025-02-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis week, Alina Utrata talks to Swati Srivastava, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. They discussed Swati’s work on hybrid sovereignty, private actors in global governance — and, yes, of course, Elon Musk. Listen to hear about why the classic distinct...
2025-03-061h 18The Anti-DystopiansPublic, Private and DOGE - Hybrid Sovereignty with Swati SrivastavaThis week, Alina Utrata talks to Swati Srivastava, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. They discussed Swati’s work on hybrid sovereignty, private actors in global governance — and, yes, of course, Elon Musk. Listen to hear about why the classic distinctions between public and private power is much messier than we think, what discussions of sovereignty can tell us about corporate power, and what might be new about these new technology companies and algorithmic governance. For a complete reading list from t...
2025-02-241h 18The Anti-DystopiansFrom DOGE to Subsea Cables: Global Infrastructures and Corporate ControlIn this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Andrew Dougall, a departmental lecturer in international relations at DPIR and associate member at St Antony’s college at Oxford University. They discuss Andrew’s work on global infrastructures and corporate control in the international system, from DOGE to subsea cables. What are global infrastructures? Who, historically, has built them? Are platform companies like Meta and Twitter really so unique, or do builders and controlled of networked infrastructure always have political power? And do states or empires really have the ability to control them?For a complete reading list from...
2025-02-101h 02The Anti-DystopiansThe Final Fun-Tier: WALL-E, Treasure Planet and Disney’s Nazi Rocket ScientistIn this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Rowena Squires, a PhD Candidate in Children’s Literature at Cambridge University. They discuss the strange legacy of the depiction of outer space in children’s animation. From the (not-so-cute-after-all) robot and the consumerist environmental collapse of Earth in WALL-E, the re-telling of colonial narratives of the frontier in Treasure Planet and Lightyear, to Walt Disney’s relationship with the former rocket scientist Werner von Braun in selling the American public on space and Space Mountain. They ask what are better ways of imagining outer space, and the human relationship to nature on Ear...
2024-12-161h 05The Anti-DystopiansSouth Africa and Silicon Valley: From Gold Mines to Elon MuskIn this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dr. Tim Karayiannides, a junior research fellow at Emmanuel College, about his recent article about the similarities and connections between South Africa and Silicon Valley. While Elon Musk’s childhood in apartheid in South Africa is sometimes cited as an explanation for his far-right views, there is in fact a much deeper history of connection between Californian and South Africa — from exporting gold mining engineers, to the establishment of technical universities, computer engineers who joined finance, to the histories of eugenics and racial capitalism. For a complete reading list from...
2024-12-011h 12The Anti-DystopiansFrom the Suez Canal Company to SpaceX: Experts, Expertise, Science in the PoliticalOn this week’s podcast, Alina Utrata talks to Jan Eijking, a William Golding Junior Research Fellow and Martin Fellow at Oxford University. Jan’s work is based in international relations, and focuses on expertise, empire, capitalism and the history and theory of international organizations. They talked about everything from the Suez Canal Company to SpaceX — and how thinking about “experts,” expertise in politics can have a lot to say about the recent elections, the Silicon Valley engineers plans, but also the wider history of these infrastructural projects in empire.For a complete reading list from the episod...
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The Un-Diplomatic PodcastSilicon Valley’s Galactic Colony Fetish, w/ Alina Utrata | Ep. 173How do the space-colony visions of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos meaningfully differ? What does a company like Space-X have in common with the old imperial company-states, like the British East India Company? And why are billionaire bros obsessed with “political exit” projects like seasteading and galactic escapism? We tackle all that and more with Alina Utrata, a scholar whose new article in American Political Science Review called, “Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley” is a banger.Morris Cohen, Property and SovereigntyRobert Nichols, Theft is PropertyAlina’s PodcastSubscrib...
2023-12-1954 minThe Anti-DystopiansEngineering Territory: Silicon Valley in SpaceOn this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, your usual host is in the hot seat! Guest host Benjamin Tan, PhD Candidate at Cambridge, asks Alina Utrata about her recent publication in the American Political Science Review about Silicon Valley's outer space colonization projects. They discuss what Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are up to in space, why terrestrial and celestial colonization are not as different as they may seem, what the history of the British East India Company can tell us about SpaceX and Blue Origin, and why indigenous conceptions of property can problematize sovereignty and territoriality and the way...
2023-12-071h 06The Anti-DystopiansDigital MisogynoirIn this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata speaks with Julia Slupska, Olivia Andrews and Hilary Watson about a recent report by Glitch UK entitled "Digital Misogynoir: Ending the dehumanising of Black women on social media." They discuss why Black women are uniquely targeted and harmed online, the importance of centering intersectionality in discussing digital harms, the difficulties of conducting (and finding funding) for this kind of research and why Glitch is calling on tech companies, governments and civil societies to address these issues.For a complete reading list from the episode, check out the Anti-Dystopians...
2023-09-1855 minThe Anti-DystopiansPolitical Economy, AI and the Politics of KnowledgeFor this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata spoke with Catriona Gray, a PhD at the University of Bath working at the intersection of sociology, politics, and law on the adoption of AI technologies. They discussed the political economy of data and whether frameworks like ‘data is the new oil’ are helpful to understanding these relationships; what is new about the technological structures or dynamics that have been created today; thinking about the inequities between the Global North and the Global South, and how these relates to existing and historical relationships; and the implementation and conceptualization of AI regulation in g...
2023-08-2848 minThe Anti-Dystopians"Automating Apartheid": Facial Recognition Tech in PalestineFor this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata talks to Dr Matt Mahmoudi, the lead researcher on the Amnesty International report "Automating Apartheid" examining the deployment of facial recognition technology in Palestine. They discuss the report's findings, including how this facial recognition technology is being deployed against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and consolidates existing practices of discriminatory policing; why these systems have been 'gamified' and how they connect to other infrastructures and databases; how this is affecting Palestinians’ lives; and whether existing CCTV systems in other settings — including London — could be repurposed for similar kinds of militarized policing.
2023-08-211h 03The Anti-DystopiansData colonialism and its discontentsOn this week’s episode of The Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata spoke to Paola Ricurate, an associate professor in the Department of Media and Digital Culture at Tecnológico de Monterrey and faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the co-founder of the Tierra Comun Network, and Sebastián Leheude, a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Centre of Governance and Human Rights and a Technology & Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard University. They discussed Paola and Sebastian’s work on data colonialism, decoloniality and feminism and Latin America. What i...
2023-04-101h 01The Anti-DystopiansFeminism, Reproductive Rights and TechOn this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Maha Atal is back to discuss feminism, reproductive rights and technology. Host Alina Utrata asks her: how has the legal landscape of abortion and reproductive rights changed since the overturning of Roe v Wade, and what are technology companies doing about it? Does your GP know who their cloud computing provider is (and do they have access to your sensitive health data)? How do the US and UK feminist movements differ? And why is feminism, gender and the right to bodily autonomy on the frontline against fighting fascism today?For...
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PodQueueThe Anti-Fascist Approach to AIThe Anti-Dystopians is back from its summer hiatus! In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dan McQuillan, a Lecturer in Creative & Social Computing in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths University of London, about his new book “Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence.” They discuss how the dangers of automated bureaucracy and algorithmic cruelty, what Max Weber and Hannah Arendt can tell us about AI, whether AI might bring back eugenics in a new coat and how to resist AI and fascism across the world.You can order Dan's book here: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai For a comp...
2023-03-241h 01The Anti-DystopiansAstrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space RaceIn this episode, Alina Utrata talks Mary-Jane Rubenstein, a professor of Religion and Science in Society at Wesleyan University and the author of the new book Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race. They discuss whether Elon Musk acts like a religious leader, how imperial Christianity set the stage for capitalism, the ways science fiction has acted as a mythology for space expansionists, and the history of a Nazi rocket scientist turned Christian evangelical partnered with Disney to promote the new Manifest Destiny of the stars.For a complete reading list...
2022-12-191h 00The Anti-DystopiansA History of Libertarian ExitIn this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Raymond Craib, professor of American History and a Latin Americanist at Cornell University, about his most recent book Adventure Capitalism, A History of Libertarian Exit from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age.They discuss the history of libertarian exit and the case of Michael Oliver's Republic of Minerva, why these exit projects seem to have found a new life among tech elites and if Silicon Valley will really be able to cede from the nation-state, whether libertarian exit resembles classic colonialism and the impacts these projects have on the places t...
2022-11-211h 14The Anti-DystopiansElon Musk’s favorite philosophy: the perils of longtermismOn this episode of the podcast, Alina Utrata speaks with Emile Torres, a PhD candidate at Leibniz University Hannover and the author of the forthcoming book Human Extinction: A history of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation. They discuss their research into Elon Musk’s favorite philosophy, longtermism, and answer all your questions about the philosophy like: do longtermists really want to colonize space and create trillions of digital people? How does effective altruism, transhumanism and utilitarianism relate? Why do longtermists obsession with future people resemble the anti-abortion campaign? And are they related to the eugenicists? For all the re...
2022-11-071h 09The Anti-DystopiansPeriod-Tracking Post-Roe: Reproductive Justice, Eugenics & Feminist Cybersecurity In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Julia Slupska, a DPhil Candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute researching feminist approaches to cybersecurity, and Stefanie Felsberger, a PhD Candidate in Gender Studies at Cambridge University studying surveillance, data capitalism and period tracking apps. They discuss whether you should be worried about your period tracking apps, how reproductive justice, eugenics and the carceral state intersect and what a feminist approach to cyber-security might look like.For a complete reading list from the episode, check out the Anti-Dystopians substack at bit.ly/3kuGM5X.You can f...
2022-10-271h 02The MachinistThe Anti-Fascist Approach to AI Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Anti-Fascist Approach to AIPub date: 2022-10-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe Anti-Dystopians is back from its summer hiatus! In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dan McQuillan, a Lecturer in Creative & Social Computing in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths University of London, about his new book “Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence.” They discuss how the dangers of automated bureaucracy and algorithmic cruelty, what Max Weber and Hannah Arendt...
2022-10-261h 01The Anti-DystopiansThe Anti-Fascist Approach to AIThe Anti-Dystopians is back from its summer hiatus! In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dan McQuillan, a Lecturer in Creative & Social Computing in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths University of London, about his new book “Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence.” They discuss how the dangers of automated bureaucracy and algorithmic cruelty, what Max Weber and Hannah Arendt can tell us about AI, whether AI might bring back eugenics in a new coat and how to resist AI and fascism across the world.You can order Dan's book here: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/r...
2022-10-191h 01Over The Wire PodcastSocial media and political publics in Kenya Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Social media and political publics in KenyaPub date: 2022-07-25Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:Discussing the way social media use operates in Kenya, the difference between physical and digital public spaces, how Big Tech corporations’ designs affect political discourse, and what we can learn about social media by looking outside the Western context.Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata talks to Steph...
2022-09-0452 minThe Anti-DystopiansSocial media and political publics in KenyaOn this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata talks to Steph Diepeveen, a senior research associate at Cambridge University, research fellow in digitalization at ODI and the author of the book “Searching for a New Kenya: Politics and Social Media on the Streets of Mombasa.” They discuss the way social media use operates in Kenya, the difference between physical and digital public spaces, how Big Tech corporations’ designs affects political discourse and what we can learn about social media by looking outside the Western context. You can order Steph's book here. For a complete reading list from the...
2022-07-2552 minDemos Helsinki PodcastThe Road to Nowhere: Paris Marx on the automobile, Silicon Valley and the future of transportation Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Road to Nowhere: Paris Marx on the automobile, Silicon Valley and the future of transportationPub date: 2022-07-04Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:The guest discusses the history of the automobile industry, how Tesla is not a ‘green company’, why Silicon Valley is lying to you about the self-driving car, and their vision for the future of public transport.Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn this episode, Alina Utrata talks t...
2022-07-131h 06The Anti-DystopiansPlatform SocialismAlina Utrata talks to James Muldoon, a senior lecturer at Exeter University and the author of “Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim Our Digital Future from Big Tech.” They discuss how GDH Cole’s guild socialism can be applied to tech corporations, what platforms mean for the future of capitalism, whether we should implement local and democratic control of associations and some real ideas for how to avoid dystopia. You can order Platform Socialism here http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346977/platform-socialism/You can follow James Muldoon on Twitter at @james_muldoon_, Alina Utrata @alinautrata and the Anti...
2022-07-111h 06The Anti-DystopiansThe Road to Nowhere: Paris Marx on the automobile, Silicon Valley and the future of transportationOn this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Paris Marx, host of the podcast Tech Won’t Save Us, about their upcoming book “Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.” They discuss the history of the automobile industry, how Tesla is not a “green company,” why Silicon Valley is lying to you about the self-driving car and their vision for the future of public transport. You can order Paris’s book here.You can follow Paris Marx on Twitter @parismarx, the Tech Won't Save Us at @techwontsaveus, Alina Utrata @alina...
2022-07-041h 06The Anti-DystopiansTime, Space and Social Media: The Politics of Technology and TemporalityAlina Utrata chats with Nanna Saeten, a PhD candidate in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge about her research on time, temporality and technology. They discuss how technologies of time have been used as tools of nation-building, why high-frequency trading and blockchain depend on human understandings of time as well as algorithms, whether technology is really “speeding up” or changing our experience of time and how social media has changed the way we experience political events across time and space.You can follow Nanna on Twitter @NannaLS, Alina Utrata @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcas...
2022-06-2050 minDemos Helsinki PodcastHow (Not) To Regulate Big Tech (Europe’s version) Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: How (Not) To Regulate Big Tech (Europe’s version)Pub date: 2022-05-23Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:Discussing everything that’s wrong with surveillance capitalism; what the Tesco club card has to do with the surveillance state; the incoherent approach of the EU to regulating tech; how Brexit affected the UK’s ability of to control technology corporations; and how the law got us to where we are nowGet Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization
2022-06-0157 minThe Anti-DystopiansHow (Not) To Regulate Big Tech (Europe’s version)On this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata talks to Jennifer Cobbe, a senior research associate in the computer science department at Cambridge University. They discuss everything that’s wrong with surveillance capitalism, what the Tesco club card has to do with the surveillance state, the incoherent approach of the EU to regulating tech, how Brexit affected the UK’s ability of to control technology corporations, and how the law got us to where we are now.You can follow Jennifer on Twitter @jennifercobbe, Alina Utrata @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcast @AntiDystopians. Sign up for the Anti-Dy...
2022-05-2357 minThe Anti-DystopiansElon Musk, Twitter and the ‘Great Men’ of Social MediaAlina Utrata sits down with John Naughton, a technology columnist at the Observer, senior research fellow in CRASSH and co-founder of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at Cambridge, and Josh Simmons, a postdoc in technology and democracy at Harvard University. They discuss Elon Musk’s recent bid for Twitter, what it shows about the power of digital platforms and wealthy men, and how to think about the challenges of reigning in Big Tech.You can follow, John Naughton on Twitter @jjn1, Josh Simons @joshsimonlabour, Alina Utrata @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcast @AntiDystopians. Sign up for th...
2022-04-2456 minThe Anti-Dystopians‘Corporations are Robots’: David Runciman on AI, states and the first singularityDavid Runciman is a professor of Politics at Cambridge University and the host of the critically acclaimed podcast Talking Politics. In this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, he speaks to Alina Utrata about why corporations are robots, how singularity might have already come about, why we should think seriously about the political philosophy of Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs, and what technologies he worries about in the future.You can follow, Alina Utrata on Twitter @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcast on @AntiDystopians. Sign up for the Anti-Dystopians email newsletter at bit.ly/3kuGM5XAll epi...
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The Rights PodBahrain’s ‘forgotten revolution’ of 2011Stanford senior Gabby Conforti and Stanford alumna Shivonne Logan ('19) sit down with Dr. Saeed al-Shehabi, to discuss Bahrain’s “forgotten revolution” of 2011. Bahrain experienced political upheaval and protests as the sentiments of the Arab Spring swept the region in 2011. However, unlike many of its Arab peers, Bahrain’s revolution was widely ignored and suppressed. The country has drawn international criticism as opposition leaders have faced imprisonment, torture, revocation of citizenship, and even execution. Gabby, Shivonne, and Dr. Shehabi contextualize the protests, and Dr. Shehabi shares his story as a Bahraini pro-democratic leader during the movement. Our GDPR privacy...
2022-03-3100 minThe MachinistThe Feminine Meme: Geeks, memes, incels and toxic masculinity at tech hackathons Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Feminine Meme: Geeks, memes, incels and toxic masculinity at tech hackathonsPub date: 2022-02-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAlina Utrata talks to Dr Siân Brooke, a Leverhulme Fellow in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and an associate at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Alan Turing Institute. They discuss gender, memes and hackathons: What exactly is a meme? Do geeks have toxic masculinity? How does gender and...
2022-02-2258 minThe Anti-DystopiansThe Return of (Amazon) RingAlina Utrata speaks with Lauren Bridges, a PhD candidate at the the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania who studies big data infrastructures and surveillance regimes. They talk all about Amazon Ring: Why does Amazon want footage of your front door anyways? How is this surveillance shared with law enforcement agencies across the country? Where does this surveillance fit in with racialized notions of crime and policing? And what happens when Amazon Ring is hacked?You can follow Lauren Bridges on Twitter @Laurenebridges, Alina Utrata @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcast on @AntiDystopians. Sign up fo...
2022-02-2153 minThe Anti-DystopiansThe Feminine Meme: Geeks, memes, incels and toxic masculinity at tech hackathonsAlina Utrata talks to Dr Siân Brooke, a Leverhulme Fellow in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and an associate at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Alan Turing Institute. They discuss gender, memes and hackathons: What exactly is a meme? Do geeks have toxic masculinity? How does gender and femininity get marginalized in tech spaces? And how do fedoras lead down the road to incels?You can follow Siân Brooke on Twitter @SianJMBrooke, Alina Utrata @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcast on @AntiDystopians. Sign up for the Anti-Dystopians email newsletter at b...
2022-02-1458 minThe MachinistWho is Amazon? Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Who is Amazon?Pub date: 2022-01-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Rowena Squires, an ancient historian, asks Alina Utrata everything you ever wanted to know about Amazon. How did Amazon go from online bookstore to commercial empire? Is Amazon Alexa really recording everything you say? How was AWS cloud computing invented? And why is the Library of Alexandria such a good origin story for the Amazon Alexa?
2022-02-0855 minThe Anti-DystopiansThe eye of the tiger: conservation technology, rural surveillance and the patriarchy in Indian wildlife reservesIn this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dr Trishant Simlai, a conservation researcher studying the politics and geographies of wildlife conservation in India, who just received his PhD in the Department of Geography at Cambridge. They discuss wildlife surveillance in the Corbett Tiger Reserve, as well as conservation’s colonial origins, how camera traps can be used to uphold the patriarchy, and when workplace surveillance technologies literally lead to tiger attacks.You can follow Trishant Simlai on Twitter @trishantsimlai Alina Utrata @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcast on @AntiDystopians. Sign up for the Anti-Dystopians email newsletter at bit.l...
2022-02-0648 minOver The Wire PodcastGrab ‘em by the data: gender, technology and systems of oppression Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Grab ‘em by the data: gender, technology and systems of oppressionPub date: 2022-01-22Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:Discussing gender and technology, the myth of neutral tech, how technology is embedded in systems of oppression, why using a dishwasher isn't considered 'technological innovation', and whether some AI is just machine learning for eugenics.Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn this week’s episode, Alina Utrata talks to Stefanie Felsber...
2022-02-0452 minThe Anti-DystopiansWho is Amazon?In this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Rowena Squires, an ancient historian, asks Alina Utrata everything you ever wanted to know about Amazon. How did Amazon go from online bookstore to commercial empire? Is Amazon Alexa really recording everything you say? How was AWS cloud computing invented? And why is the Library of Alexandria such a good origin story for the Amazon Alexa?You can follow Rowena Squires on Twitter @RowenaSquires, Alina Utrata @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcast on @AntiDystopians. Sign up for the Anti-Dystopians email newsletter at bit.ly/3kuGM5XAll episodes of...
2022-01-3055 minThe Anti-DystopiansGrab ‘em by the data: gender, technology and systems of oppressionOn this week’s episode, Alina Utrata talks to Stefanie Felsberger, a PhD in Gender Studies at Cambridge University, and Muskan Shafat, an MS in Data and Society at the London School of Economics, about gender and technology. They discuss the myth of neutral tech, how technology is embedded in systems of oppression, why using a dishwasher isn’t considered “technological innovation” and whether some AI is just machine learning for eugenics. You can follow Stefanie Felsberger on Twitter @Flsbrgr, Muskan Shafat @muskanmaraz, Alina Utrata @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcast on Twitter @AntiDystopians. Or sign up for the AD...
2022-01-2252 minThe Anti-Dystopians(Tech) Company RuleAlina Utrata talks to Dr Maha Atal, a lecturer at the University of Glasgow who studies the political economy of corporate power and was previously an award-winning journalist reporting on the tech industry. They discuss how the history of company-rule and colonization relates to the tech industry, how tech companies exert power in the Global South, why Silicon Valley’s “Janus faces” allows it to escape state regulation, and whether the perception of technology corporations has changed, from the tech-utopian days of the Obama administration to now. Selected articles by Maha AtalThe Janus faces o...
2021-12-1356 minThe Anti-DystopiansHuman rights and internet infrastructureAlina Utrata talks to Dr Corinne Cath-Speth, a recent graduate from the doctoral program at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on Internet infrastructure politics, engineering cultures, and technology policy and governance. They discuss the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF): What is it? What are internet protocols? And how can infrastructure uphold or harm human rights?You can follow Corinne Cath-Speth on Twitter @C___CSAlina Utrata on Twitter @alinautrataAnd the Anti-Dystopians podcast on Twitter @AntiDystopiansOr sign up for the AD email...
2021-11-2941 minThe Anti-DystopiansSnake oil or substance? Tech companies talk climate at COP26This week Josh Lappen, an environmental historian studying at Oxford University, returns to discuss the climate crisis and tech companies ahead of COP26. Are tech companies’ promises of technological innovation really going to save Earth? Do we need AI for the environment? What does the German government have to do with the adoption of solar panels? And who really are the biggest impediments to stopping climate change? (Hint: it’s not China.) Josh discusses the snake oil and substance at COP26, and how tech companies use the promise of the future to influence the politics of the present.
2021-10-2944 minThe Anti-DystopiansFinancial imperialism on the blockchain: Bitcoin in El SalvadorThis week, Alina Utrata is joined by Mallika Balakrishnan to talk about the protests over the adoption of bitcoin in El Salvador. What exactly is bitcoin (and what's the difference between Bitcoin and other digital currencies)? Why has President Nayib Bukele implemented it as legal tender in El Salvador? And, most importantly, how will this impact the people in El Salvador? All your questions on the blockchain answered by the Anti-Dystopians! All episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata, and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production to the s...
2021-09-2638 minThe Anti-DystopiansThe Digital Landscape of Southeast Asia: From Fake News to 5GWe’re back from our summer holiday! To kick off season 2 of the Anti-Dystopians, we’re zeroing in on some of the global aspects of technology—this time in Southeast Asia. Alina Utrata talks to Kyra Jasper and Andreyka Natalegawa about the digital landscape of the region, from Facebook’s relationship with the junta in Myanmar, from fake news laws in Indonesia to Huwaei’s plans for 5g to ASEAN Smart Cities. To follow the Anti-Dystopians new Twitter account, go to:https://twitter.com/AntiDystopiansTo follow Alina Utrata on Twitter, go to:
2021-09-1954 minThe Anti-DystopiansLost in Space: Audio ReadingIn this special episode, an audio recording of Alina Utrata's recent article in the Boston Review "Lost in Space" about the tech billionaires attempting to colonize space.https://bostonreview.net/science-nature/alina-utrata-lost-spaceNowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-07-1633 min
The Rights PodUS-Mexico Border Expulsions: A Talk with Julia Neusner on MPP and Title 42Callie Ward and Joe Wager discuss the situation at the US-Mexico border with Julia Neusner, a Legal Fellow in Refugee Protection at Human Rights First. Julia, a Stanford alumna who has organized several trips to the US-Mexico border with Stanford students, reports on her recent experiences there and contextualizes immigration policy such as Title 42 within a larger history of the border.Show NotesThe Report on Title 42: https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/resource/failure-protect-biden-administration-continues-illegal-trump-policy-block-and-expel-asylumHuman Rights First: https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/Haitian Bridge Alliance: https://haitianbridge.org/Al Otro Lado: https://alotrolado.org/ ...
2021-07-0639 minThe Anti-DystopiansJeff Bezos, Elon Musk and the Colonization of Outer SpaceTo kick off the new season of the podcast, Alina Utrata and Shikha Srinivas discuss space colonization and the tech billionaires in outer space. Why are Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk obsessed with getting to the moon and Mars? How are climate change and the quest to become an interplanetary species related? Who will unaccountable private corporations in space ultimately harm? Should we be afraid of cascading satellites and colliding space junk? And how can indigenous principles and knowledge-holders lead us in understanding our obligations to earth and space, and caring for our shared celestial commons? S...
2021-05-1750 min
The Rights PodHuman Rights in Colombia: Implementing the 2016 Peace AgreementCallie Ward and Joe Wager sit down with Diana Guzmán Rodríguez to discuss the 2016 Colombian Final Peace Agreement. Diana contextualizes the situation, discusses the multiple facets of the agreement, and lays out challenges to its implementation. As a massively complex negotiation, the Agreement encompasses myriad human-rights issues and demands that we understand it within a global context.A few options for further engagement:Robert Karl’s 2017 A Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Colombia: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520293939/forgotten-peace The Kroc Institute’s “barometer” on the Colombian peace process: https://pea...
2021-05-1648 minThe Anti-DystopiansCan your computer see you?: A history of the screen, from radar to AR.This week, the Anti-Dystopians hosts Louisa Shen, a PhD candidate at Cambridge University who has written about the history of the screen. Louisa explains how the screen began as military technology in WWII, how the Cold War overlapped with the mass production of screens (and spying), and how interactive screens now make it seem as if we can see our computers—or maybe that our computers can see us. Will the future of screens be the VR world of Facebook’s Oculus Rift or the AR overlaid life of Google glasses? Or will Amazon’s Alexa turned hologram become the ne...
2021-03-2953 minThe Anti-DystopiansState, corporation, people: the global dimensions of tech regulationKyra Jasper, Josh Simons and Alina Utrata discuss the global dimensions of tech regulation. In this episode, they examine three case studies: Google and Facebook’s reaction to Australia’s new media law, and whether these tech corporations really “faced down a nation-state”. Facebook’s role in Myanmar, where the platform is the de facto internet, and whether the new military junta can shut down Facebook, if Facebook can ban the new rulers, and why Facebook only took action after a coup, and not during the ongoing genocide against the Rohingya. Finally, Twitter and Facebook in India, where the platforms...
2021-03-1857 min
Declarations: The Human Rights PodcastHuman Rights in the Digital Space - A Conversation with Alina UtrataFor this week's episode, we are delighted to welcome Alina Utrata, a Ph.D. candidate in Politics and International Studies and a 2020 Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge, whose research focuses on the influence of technology on state and corporate power. She joins our host Muna Gasim and producer Sam Baron to discuss how Big Tech companies are impeding and restricting our human rights in the digital space, and what type of change is necessary to begin tackling this threat. Their conversation touches on the enormous amounts of power companies such as Facebook can wield on the global stage...
2021-03-1231 minThe Anti-DystopiansNationalize Gmail!: Climate Change, Critical Infrastructure, and the USPSAlina Utrata talks with Josh Lappen, a fellow Californian and environmental historian researching at Oxford University, who studies some of the most important technology there is: critical infrastructure. They discuss why hundreds of Elon Musks can’t (and won’t) solve climate change, the government funding and politics behind many technology entrepreneurs’ businesses, why low-tech solutions and indigenous practices are critical sources of knowledge, and the surprising number of technological innovations enabled by the US Postal Service (including Amazon’s e-commerce business and commercial flight). Plus, is PG&E really the worst company, what’s going on with the Texas blac...
2021-03-0757 min
The Rights PodRecentering "Human" in "Humanitarian"Kyra Jasper sits down with Melissa Diamond to talk about the work of her organization, A Global Voice for Autism, and challenges humanitarian organizations face in providing vulnerable communities with ethical and human-centered assistance.Show NotesMelissa’s website (with book information): www.melissajdiamond.com A Global Voice for Autism website: www.aglobalvoiceforautism.orgThe views reflected in this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice. Pamgaea by Kevin MacLe...
2021-03-0535 minThe Anti-DystopiansIs Facebook (and Google) a Public Utility?For this week’s episode, Alina Utrata talks to Josh Simons, a PhD candidate in Government at Harvard University and a Labour candidate for local office in the UK. They discuss Josh’s research — what is machine learning and why is it (always) political? As critical information infrastructure, should Google and Facebook be regulated as democratic utilities? And do we need a whole new understanding of corporations' role in society if we’re going to tackle the tech industry? Tweet at AlinaTweet at JoshSign up for The Anti-Dystopians newsletterA t...
2021-02-2659 min
The Rights PodListening Within: the Art of Cultural Exchange through MusicIn this episode, Kyra Jasper sits down with Reylon Yount, an award-winning yangqin player, to discuss his journey pursuing music professionally and how the arts and arts education can serve as a tool for building sustainable communities, bridging cultural divides, and empowering social movements.Show NotesReylon’s website: https://reylon.co/Reylon’s EP Album, “Sun 陽”: https://reylon.bandcamp.com/album/sunSilkroad Ensemble 2016: https://youtu.be/O8EMo-_6ynI Reylon’s covers on yangqin: https://www.youtube.com/user/CAMCfan Tangram collective website: https://tangramsoun...
2021-02-2349 minThe Anti-DystopiansThe Digital Periphery: Technology, Migration and Racial CapitalismOn this week’s episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dr. Matt Mahmoudi, who just completed his PhD in Development Studies at Cambridge University as a Jo Cox scholar of Refugee and Migration Studies. They talked about Matt’s research about how technology is affecting migrant and refugee communities in New York City and Berlin, how seemingly innocuous technology, like free WiFi kiosks, can become de facto digital borders, what racial capitalism can tell us about Shoshana Zuboff’s “surveillance capitalism”, and if a decolonial neo-Luddite approach to tech is possible. Plus, why New York City should ban police use of facial r...
2021-02-101h 01
The Rights PodCalifornia's Fight for Environmental JusticeMiriam Wallstrom speaks with Sacramento City Councilmember Katie Valenzuela to discuss the health impacts of living near oil wells in California and the legislative attempts to create setbacks between oil wells and communities.Show NotesFollow the Center for Race, Poverty, and the Environment to keep up to date on their efforts in Kern County: https://linktr.ee/crpe_ejMore information on AB 345: https://grist.org/politics/an-oil-well-right-next-to-your-house-the-california-senate-says-thats-ok/Oil well tracker: https://www.fractracker.org/2020/04/california-setback-analysis-summary/T...
2021-02-0438 minThe Anti-DystopiansSocial Media and Social Movements: The Rise of the European Far-RightFor this week’s episode, Alina Utrata talked to Julia Rone, a post-doc at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at Cambridge University. They discussed the rise of the European far-right online—what's the relationship between online disinformation and political mobilization? Why is the far-right so much better at mobilizing online than the far-left? Can platforms or content moderation policies really stop them? And is any of this about “social media” or is it just about social movements? Tweet at Alina.Tweet at Julia.Sign up for the Anti-Dystopians newsletter.Art...
2021-02-0253 min
The Rights PodEnvironmental Action in CrisisKyra Jasper sits down with Dr. Becca Farnum from Syracuse University London to discuss Environmental Racism, Justice, and Peacebuilding in the United States and the Middle East/North Africa.Show Notes“Climates of Resistance” Community Audit Course Website: https://sites.google.com/view/climates-of-resistance/aboutBecca’s Personal Website: http://www.rebeccalfarnum.com/ EcoPeace: https://ecopeaceme.org/ Environmental Voluntary Foundation/Kuwait Dive Team: book about them available here: http://www.rebeccalfarnum.com/books/ Media Association for Peace (Lebanon): http://maplebanon.org/ Garba...
2021-01-2640 min
The Rights PodIsraeli youth fight for their futureKyra Jasper talks with Stanford alumna and Rhodes Scholar Anat Peled on the ongoing protests in Israel, including the reasons both the younger and older generations are taking to the streets, how these protests differ from past protests, and what these protests foreshadow about Israel's future.Show NotesNote: this podcast was recorded on December 29, 2020. Since the time of the recording, there have been several developments related to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s trial; most pertinently, his trial for corruption charges was delayed until February 8 because of the imposition of a th...
2021-01-1948 minThe Anti-DystopiansCorporations, Content Moderation and Community-Centered Tech2020 was one hell of a year (literally). Alina Utrata, Mallika Balakrishnan and Kyra Jasper break down some of the things that happened in 2020’s technology politics—from the Trump Twitter ban, to content moderation, contact tracing and conspiracy theories, to how we design digital spaces that empower communities and bottom-up approaches to digital justice. Follow Alina Utrata on Twitter.Follow Kyra Jasper on Twitter.Sign up for the Anti-Dystopians newsletter.Articles mentioned in this podcastAxios roundup of all of the digital platforms that have banne...
2021-01-1855 min
The Rights PodThe United States and the International Criminal Court: What Does the Future Hold?Ali Cohen sits down with Stanford Human Rights Law Professor, Beth Van Schaack, to discuss the origins of the international criminal court, the United States' relationship with it, and what the future holds.The views reflected in this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice. Pamgaea by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4193-pamgaeaLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2021-01-1246 minThe Anti-DystopiansNo Tech for TyrantsAlina Utrata talks to Mallika Balakrishnan, one of the original founders of the collective No Tech for Tyrants. They discuss tech activism, problems with Palantir and how centering the conversation around the people and communities that tech and policies impact can help us frame discussions of technology and politics. Tweet at AlinaTweet at MallikaArticles Mentioned In this PodcastA report, co-authored by Mallika, by No Tech For Tyrants and Privacy International about UK government contracts with Palantir and associated Motherboard coverage. You can sign the NT4T...
2020-12-2148 minThe Anti-DystopiansBiden and Big TechAnjali Katta and Alina Utrata talk about the Big Tech issues a Biden Administration will inherit, from the FTC and DOJ anti-monopoly cases against Facebook and Google to the DoD’s cloud computing contract JEDI. They also discuss links between many Biden Administration officials and the tech industry. To sign up for the email newsletter of the Anti-Dystopians, click here.CORRECTION: When talking about the Microsoft antitrust case, Alina meant to say "Netscape" instead of "Netflix." Articles and books mentioned in this podcast.The American Prospect’s big feature on “How Bid...
2020-12-1152 minThe Anti-DystopiansData flows: gender, colonization and the limits of surveillance capitalismAlina Utrata talks to Stefanie Felsberger, a PhD candidate at Cambridge University, about her research on surveillance, data flows and mensuration tracking apps. They discuss how colonization impacted the development of surveillance technologies, why we think (or shouldn’t think) about data as a commodity instead of labor, and how the ownership of knowledge about female bodies has translated into power—from the witch burnings to period apps.Tweet at Alina.Tweet at Stefanie.Contact us.Articles mentioned in this podcast:Stefanie Felsberger’s article “Colonial Cables –...
2020-11-2557 minThe Anti-DystopiansThe Philosopher King of Silicon ValleyAlina Utrata talks with Andrew Granato about the so-called Philosopher King of Silicon Valley: Peter Thiel. Thiel is one of the original co-founders of Paypal, nicknamed the Paypal mafia, a co-founder of the data analytics firm Palantir, one of the first outside investors in Facebook, and the first high-level tech executive to come out in support of Donald Trump in 2016. Andrew’s research into Peter Thiel began as an undergraduate at Stanford University, when he conducted an eleven month long investigation into Peter Thiel’s influence and legacy at Stanford when, as an undergraduate, Thiel set up the highly contro...
2020-11-1653 minThe Rights PodBeyond the ScholarshipsKyra Jasper talks to Stanford alumni Carson Smith, Ibrahim Bharmal and Alina Utrata about rejection, the paths not taken, opportunities that did and did not work out for them, and what it means to craft a life with human rights as a guiding principle. The views reflected in this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice.Pamgaea by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4193-pamgaeaLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Our GDPR privacy...
2020-11-151h 15The Anti-DystopiansThe Politics of Tech MonopoliesFor the first episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Kyra Jasper and Alina Utrata discuss the politics of anti-monopoly in tackling technology companies, focusing on the United States. October turned out to be a very significant month for Big Tech in the US. First, the US House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee released a report on Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google that found those companies had monopoly power. And, about two weeks later, the Department of Justice launched an anti-monopoly suit against Google. Kyra and Alina discuss some of the political arguments around monopoly approaches.Tweet at us
2020-11-091h 03The Anti-DystopiansTrailerThe Anti-Dystopians is the politics podcast about tech. We'll be discussing questions, like: is social media really destroying democracy? Should Facebook be considered a public utility? How does crytpocurrency affect state sovereignty? And what exactly is surveillance capitalism? For all your political questions about tech, mark your calendars for the launch of the Anti-Dystopians.Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2020-10-2501 minThe Rights PodBulgaria Boils OverIn this episode of the Rights Pod, Human Rights student Kyra Jasper sits down with Veni Deribeev and Delaney Hurley to discuss the protests that have flooded the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria for the past three months, including how the protests started, instances of police violence, and what the future might hold. Show NotesArticles for further reading:Bulgaria — and Borissov — have passed the point of no returnRiot police and protesters clash in Bulgaria as corruption crisis deepensThousands protest against Bulgarian government, scuffle with police
2020-10-071h 00
The Rights PodThe importance of taking a breakAlisha Zhao takes the host seat to interview Alina Utrata and Christina Schiciano, two of the three members of the first human rights minor cohort in the final episode of Notes from Alumni.Center for Human Rights at StanfordHuman Rights MinorDavid CohenPenelope van TuylJessie BrunnerSteve HoescheleNorman NaimarkStanford Global StudiesCenter for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES)Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies...
2020-09-011h 01
The Rights PodYour future self doesn’t exist yet.Alina Utrata sits down with Daniel Mattes, Stanford class of 2012, to discuss his life after Stanford in Notes from Alumni.Center for Human Rights at StanfordHuman Rights MinorDavid CohenPenelope van TuylJessie BrunnerHuman Rights Internship in Phnom PenhCDDRL Honors ThesisHUMRTS 103: Transitional Justice, Human Rights, and International Criminal TribunalsMSc in Global Politics and Global Civil Society at the London School of EconomicsTini Cafe...
2020-08-2555 minThe Rights PodWomxn and COVID-19On June 2nd, 2020, Stanford Human Rights Student Lauryn Johnson sat down with Nicole Baran, an academic and advocate in the field of gender studies, to discuss how COVID-19 is affecting womxn. They focus on the economic consequences of the pandemic, the idea of intersectionality, and how relationship abuse is manifesting. The views reflected in this podcast do not necessarily represent the view of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University.Nicole Baran is the founding Executive Director of the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation, an organization focused on eliminating obstacles facing marginalized...
2020-08-1821 minThe Rights PodLaw school or bust?Alina Utrata sits down with two members of the human rights class of 2018 Alexis Kallen and Julian Bava to discuss their life after Stanford in Notes from Alumni. The views represented in this podcast do not necessarily reflect the views of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford.Center for Human Rights at StanfordHuman Rights MinorDavid CohenPenelope van TuylJessie BrunnerBeth van SchaackPaul WiseHaas Center FellowshipsPamgaea by...
2020-08-1155 minThe Rights PodThe Weaker Sex?Stanford human rights student Nuzhah Tarsoo was born and grew up in Mauritius. For this episode, she speaks to women in Mauritius and Dr. Roshni Mooneeram, an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham, about their experience and expertise with gender discrimination in her home country. The opinions reflected in this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford.Show notes:Dr. Roshni MooneeramReal feminism from bra burning to bridge building - Prof Roshni Mooneeram's TED TalkUN...
2020-08-0444 minThe Rights PodJudicial Independence in JakartaHuman rights student Kyra Jasper sits down with experts Arsil and Azhe from the Indonesian Institute for an Independent Judiciary, or LEiP, who discuss their experiences and challenges in their work in Indonesia. LEiP is a leading NGO in judicial reform in Indonesia and one of the Center from Human Rights and International Justice's partners in the region. The views reflected in this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice.Show NotesLeIP's website: https://leip.or.id/A Jakarta Post article about Ind...
2020-07-2855 min
The Rights PodThe Master PlanThe Masterplan.Alina Utrata sits down with two members of the human rights class of 2019 and 2018, Keith Nobbs and Emma Pair, to discuss their life after Stanford in Notes from Alumni. The views reflected in this podcast do not necessarily reflect the views of the Stanford Center for Human Rights.Mentioned in this podcast:Center for Human Rights at StanfordHuman Rights MinorDavid CohenPenelope van TuylJessie BrunnerETHICSOC 171, PHIL 171, POLISCI 103: JusticeANTHRO 186: Culture and...
2020-07-2451 minThe Rights PodTransitional Justice in the United States?Human Rights students Alisha Zhao and Chloe Stoddard sit down with Dr Adam Kochanski, a post-doctoral fellow at McGill University’s Centre for International Peace and Security Studies and a Research Fellow at the Center for Human Rights at Stanford University. Alisha and Chloe ask Adam about his recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle about whether a truth and reconciliation commission could work to address the legacy of racial injustice and oppression in the United States, along with Adam's other research about transitional justice internationally. The views reflected in this podcast do not necessarily reflect the views of th...
2020-07-2147 minThe Rights PodHarry Potter and the Universal Declaration of Human RightsAlina Utrata and Shikha Srinivas tackle the most critical issues regarding human rights in the wizarding world of Harry Potter. Does the use of dementors in Azkaban prison constitute torture? Is the Daily Prophet really committed to free speech? And do wizards hold free and fair elections? The views reflected in this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of the Stanford Center for Human Rights.Daniel Radcliffe responds to JK Rowling's tweets. https://www.thetrevorproject.org/2020/06/08/daniel-radcliffe-responds-to-j-k-rowlings-tweets-on-gender-identity/Two transgender activists are getting a monument in New York. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/arts/transgender-monument-stonewall.h...
2020-07-1444 min
The Rights PodShaping your educational journeyAlina Utrata sits down with two members of the human rights class of 2019 Anjali Katta and Gabby Torres Lorenzotti to discuss their life after Stanford in Notes from Alumni. The views represented in this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice.Show Notes - Resources and people mentioned in the podcastCenter for Human Rights at StanfordHuman Rights MinorDavid CohenPenelope van TuylJessie BrunnerBeth van SchaackStephen...
2020-07-071h 03The Rights PodTrailer - The Rights PodComing soon! Mark your calendars for June 2 for the launch of the Rights Pod by the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University.Pamgaea by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4193-pamgaeaLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
2020-05-2801 min
LawPodEpisode 32 - The Criminalisation of HomelessnessGraduate student Alina Utrata talks to Dr Kevin Brown about the criminalisation of homelessness, and in particular the increasing use of Public Space Protection Orders.
Episode produced by Alina Utrata, Rachel Alexandra Lynn Daphne Lim & Joanne Mei Jie Tang
Academic Profile
https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/kevin-j-brown(afe0a3eb-4af3-4171-aec9-7b777a341a52).html
THE HYPER REGULATION OF PUBLIC SPACE: THE USE AND ABUSE OF PUBLIC SPACES PROTECTION ORDERS IN ENGLAND AND WALES
https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/the-hyper-regulation-of-public-space-the-use-and-abuse-of-public-spaces-protection-orders-in-england-and-wales(a633c910-2c8a-4230-b6cd-96791dc5d5a3).html
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2018-11-2945 min
Kaleidoscope IslamThe Ethics of JihadA whole bunch of sophomores at Stanford just spent a full quarter studying the ethics of jihad. Why? What did their professor hope they'd learn? And what did they take away? A conversation with Professor Alexander Key, who taught the class, with reflections from Alina Utrata, a student in the class.
Photo credit: Alexander Key.
Music credit: Kevin MacLeod, Unanswered Questions
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