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Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierBram Büscher: Bridging the Human/Nature Divide through Convivial ConservationBram Büscher, an activist-scholar in sociology at Wageningen University in The Netherlands, has launched an ambitious international project to invent noncapitalist forms of land conservation. He calls it "convivial conservation." Instead of locking up land as wilderness or using it to make money through ecotourism and genetic patents, "convivial conservation" is about enabling humans to become integral, respectful co-creators with nature. The new Convivial Conservation Centre, with staff in five countries and many allies worldwide, champions constructive, symbiotic human relationships with local ecosystems and the bridging of the deep divide separating humans from nature. More on commons: www.Bollier.o...
2024-08-0151 min
Serious DangerTeaser: Farming & Agriculture ft. Tammi Jonas from Australian Food Sovereignty AllianceIn this bonus Patreon episode requested by a subscriber, Emerald speaks to Tammi Jonas from Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance about the movement for responsible farming and food production. How can the Greens connect better with people outside the inner-city leftie bubble? Do corporations treat sustainability like it’s a big joke? How can we eat ethically? — Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and check out all our bonus Patreon eps with guests like Lee Rhiannon, Geraldine Hickey, Max Chandler-Mather, Michael Berkman, Wil Anderson, Cam Wilson, Tom Tanuki and Jon Kudelka, and deep dives into topi...
2024-07-1105 min
National Humanities Center Podcast InstituteShows That Haunt Us: PilotIn this podcast, three millennial scholars from different disciplines play around with a scene from Captain Planet, and the ways we’re haunted by childhood media. What binaries is this scene constructing around an idea of “nature”? What kind of hero are we looking for? What’s up with the mustaches?Follow us down the rabbit hole in this episode “There’s No Such Thing as a Good Bomb”. A few links to scholarship we reference: Ted Chiang and Halimah Marcus, “Ted Chiang Explains the Disaster Novel We All Suddenly Live In”Jack Halberstam...
2024-02-0649 min
Kennis & CoFokken, bewaken, fotograferen, wat helpt wél tegen neushoornstroperij?Een natuurparkenorganisatie heeft een neushoornfokkerij met 2000 neushoorns opgekocht die was bedoeld voor de legale productie van neushoorn-hoorns. Goed nieuws, zou je zeggen. Ontwikkelingssocioloog Bram Büscher legt aan Jop de Vrieze en Bouwe van Straten uit welke complexe wereld van fokkers, stropers, natuurbeschermers, handel en conflicterende belangen er achter deze overname schuilgaat en waarom er geen eenvoudige oplossingen zijn.
Verder onder meer: Fingerspitzengefühl, verschillende visies op natuurbehoud, afbrokkelende schoolgebouwen en moeten we Amerikaanse rivierkreeft op het menu zetten?
Bronnen:
Grote redingsactie voor speleoloog Mark Dickey https://nos.nl/artikel/2489622-grote-reddingsactie-in-turkije-aan-de-gang-voor-zieke-grotonderzoeker
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2023-09-0821 min
The Belt and Road PodcastChina, the U.S., and Critical Minerals in the DRC with Laetitia Tran NgocJuliet chats with Laetitia Tran Ngoc about the state of China-Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) relations, the way people in the DRC view China and the U.S., outside interest in critical minerals mining in the DRC, and the domestic situation of the DRC that acts as a destabilizing factor to it all. Her article in South China Morning Post is here: "Mineral-rich central Africa become focal point in US-China tug of war"Laetitia Tran Ngoc is a freelance journalist and consultant specializing in government communications, with extensive experience in advising diplomatic institutions in t...
2023-07-1337 min
Human Entities PodcastHuman Entities 2022: Bram Büscher#NatureTruthPower: Política ambiental na era da pós-verdade e das plataformas digitais
Bram Büscher
Professor and Chair of the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University
How should we share the truth about the environmental crisis? At a moment when even the most basic facts about ecology and the climate face contestation and contempt, environmental advocates are at an impasse. Many have turned to social media and digital technologies to shift the tide. But what if their strategy is not only flawed, but dangerous?
In this presentation, Bram Büscher...
2022-07-292h 05
The End of TourismS1 #10 | Ecotourism, Catharsis, and Post-Capitalist Dreaming | Robert FletcherOn this episode, our guest is Robert Fletcher, an environmental anthropologist and author at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.Robert is based in the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. A former ecotourism guide, he is an environmental anthropologist with research interests in conservation, development, tourism, globalization, climate change, human-wildlife interaction, social and resistance movements, and non-state forms of governance. He uses a political ecology approach to explore how culturally-specific understandings of human-nonhuman relations and political economic structures intersect to inform patterns of natural resource use and conflict.
2022-03-1453 min
Over The Wire Podcast86/ Environmentalism, ‘Post-Truth’ and Platform Capitalism (With Bram Büscher) Podcast: The Fire These Times (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: 86/ Environmentalism, ‘Post-Truth’ and Platform Capitalism (With Bram Büscher)Pub date: 2021-09-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis is a conversation with Bram Büscher around the topics discussed in his book ‘The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism, in the Era of Post-Truth Politics and Platform Capitalism‘
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2021-11-141h 38
Outside/InTourism SpoilsThere’s a type of travel industry which defines itself as different: ecologically minded, even “responsible.” It’s a type of travel meant to support the conservation of threatened ecosystems. This is not just tourism, but “ecotourism.”
This specific brand of tourism is a crucial part of the plan to conserve the Great Himalayan National Park in northern India, a gorgeous patchwork of forests, glaciers, mountains, and rare wildlife.
From one perspective, the strategy is working: tourism is on the rise, which provides jobs to locals and incentivizes conservation.
But from another perspective, the very thi...
2021-10-1430 min
Outside/InThe Himalayan Land GrabThe Great Himalayan National Park in India is among the most dramatic landscapes on Earth. Count the layers in a single panoramic photo of the park and you might see mountains, glaciers, old-growth forests, and alpine meadows.
But National Parks are defined by two things: first, an abundance of wildlife and majestic landscapes; and second, no permanent human presence.
So, before anybody was ever invited to visit the park, authorities first told about 15,000 local people to stay out.
This episode is the first of two stories reported by freelance journalist Yardain Amron. In t...
2021-10-0723 min
The Fire These Times86/ Environmentalism, ‘Post-Truth’ and Platform Capitalism (With Bram Büscher)This is a conversation with Bram Büscher around the topics discussed in his book ‘The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism, in the Era of Post-Truth Politics and Platform Capitalism‘
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Topics Discussed:
Meaning of ‘post-truth’ and platform capitalism
Environmentalism, political action and social media
Mediating knowledge and politics through new media platforms
“Doom and gloom” versus “being optimistic”
Temporality on social media and the urge of the ‘now’
New media platforms are n...
2021-09-031h 38
Talking FeralBram Büscher - Conservation & CapitalismDr. Bram Büscher is Professor and Chair of the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University and holds visiting positions at the University of Johannesburg and Stellenbosch University. His research looks at the political economy of environment and development, including in the politics of conservation, energy and extraction, ecotourism, new media, violence and social theory. He is the author of ‘The Truth About Nature. Environmentalism in the Era of Post-Truth Politics and Platform Capitalism and co-author of ‘The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene’ . He is also a senior editor of the journal...
2021-08-311h 23
Edge EffectsThe Future of Conservation: A Conversation with Bram Büscher and Robert FletcherYardain Amron talks with Bram Büscher and Robert Fletcher—co-authors of The Conservation Revolution—about capitalism, ecotourism, and the urgent need to re-imagine mainstream conservation.
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2020-07-091h 13
EXALT PodcastSanna Komi - Conservation and Extractivism: Two Sides of the Same CoinSanna Komi is a doctoral student at the University of Helsinki in Development Studies. Her research is part of the CONVIVA project which explores the concept of convivial conservation which offers an alternative to the model of conservation through capitalism. Sanna’s work within this project is specifically connected to wolf conservation in Finland and the attitudes towards wolf conservation. In general, her work concentrates on moving beyond the nature/society dichotomy and the model of conservation by commodification (i.e. conservation coming from a neoliberal point of view that seeks to extract something from nature by conserving it.) In...
2020-01-3130 min
Hemmen | BNRGroenleven groeit hard doorVan Goed naar Beter: Overvalpreventie Er gaat veel goed in ons land, maar laten we ambitieus blijven. Of moeten we soms ook minder ambitieus zijn. In Van Goed Naar Beter: Wat te doen bij een overval? Chubb Fire & Security geeft cursussen aan horecapersoneel over hoe ze moeten reageren bij een overval. Deep Dive: Ivoor Afrika verliest dagelijks 55 olifanten door de stroperij. Er wordt al jarenlang gestreden tegen de illegale jacht op en handel in ivoor. De handel in ivoor is sinds 1989 zelfs wereldwijd verboden. Te gast is Bram Büscher, hoogleraar aan de W...
2018-04-181h 30