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Think AgainAuthoritarianism is 'in' again... and it's time to resistJennifer and Jacques reflect on recent world trends toward Authoritarianism, and what we need to take good notice of.Quoting Henry Giroux, they argue that our task is to refuse the limits imposed by neoliberal fatalism and authoritarian rule - but not only to resist but to widen the horizon of the possible.Henry Giroux (19/02/2025) Neoliberalism's Embrace of Cruelty and its Assault on Social Bonds in the LA Progressive (Giroux occupies the Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department; he is the Paulo Freire Distinguished Schoar in Critical Pedagogy at Mc Master University i...2025-03-1400 minThink AgainMaking sense of the latest German election resultsFor this episode Jennifer interviews Jacques about the results of the latest German election, with surpises including a worrying boost for right wing racist party AfD, but also, more hopefully, for left wing progressive party Die Linke.Jacques talks about trends in German politics from WW2, to give some context for latest voting results. He finishes with some linking this to international trends. https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/roots-neofascism-east-germany from Jacobin:After Germany’s Election, the Left Can Hope AgainJulia Damphouse2025-02-2800 minThink AgainHow companies and governments outsource their administration to us, we doing all their work for 'free'Jennifer and Jacques talk about how we have taken on the administration burden once carried by government bodies and companies, including utilities, services and financial institutions. After all, we already pay for those utilities and services but are now required to 'manage' them ourselves... and spending hours at doing it being punished when we don't... This trend is being accelerated with new digital technologies working hand-in-glove with the neoliberalism of the last few decades and the mass marketisation of every aspect of our lives.This day-to-day admin burden has become part of the background wall paper of our lives, so...2024-12-0600 minThink AgainAttack-dog Dutton, acquiescing Albanese, and how the anti-democratic two-party system is failing usJennifer and Jacques continue their conversation about the Australian political system as we approach municipal and state elections at the end of this month, and a federal election before May 2025.Our two-party system comes under fire, especially the unrepresentative nature of the two main parties, and their use of power to keep out other players. Jacques and Jennifer also express their disappointment in 'timid Labor' once more.2024-10-1100 minThink AgainDeep pitfalls of command-and-control professionalism in health, mental health and emergency managementIn this conversation, Daryl and Jacques examine how the professions and their assumed expertise contribute to the systemic failure of institutions to meaningfully respond to the issues and problems they are supposed to 'deal with', particularly also through the ideological and hierarchical power accorded to professional expertise; indeed, how they often aggravate those issue and problems. We are looking at four social/systemic contexts - health, mental health, disaster responses and community development - based on Daryl’s and Jacques' experiences of working in such institutions and their professionals and on witnessing their collective and individual actions and behaviours; and the...2024-09-1300 min
Ouvrons les guillemetsJean-Jacques Boulet aka John Bullit (rediffusion)[Rediffusion] Pour l'état civil, il se nomme Jean-Jacques Boulet. Cependant, ses lecteurs et ses lectrices le connaissent davantage sous le nom de John Bullit. Comédien, auteur mais aussi chanteur, cet homme aux multiples facettes nous présente aujourd'hui son nouveau recueil de nouvelles intitulé "Encore un Jour de Soleil".Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.2024-07-2740 min
Ouvrons les guillemetsJean-Jacques Boulet (John Bullit)Pour l'état civil, il se nomme Jean-Jacques Boulet. Cependant, ses lecteurs et ses lectrices le connaissent davantage sous le nom de John Bullit. Comédien, auteur mais aussi chanteur, cet homme aux multiples facettes nous présente aujourd'hui son nouveau recueil de nouvelles intitulé "Encore un Jour de Soleil".Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.2024-04-1040 minThink AgainCo-creating a hopeful, interdependent and sustainable future: Tim Hollo's "Living Democracy"Jacques talks with Tim Hollo, author of Living democracy, about how we can rethink, rebuild and reconstruct our world from the grassroots up for a sustainable and hopeful future.This program resonates with a previous one on 24 November 2023 in which Jacques interviewed Jack Manning-Bancroft. The values that Jack consistently promoted, as does Tim Hollo – relationality, interdependence, inclusion, and diversity, strongly resonate with Borderlands and the Think Again philosophy. All look at the social-relational, spiritual, material and systemic damages that our current ways of doing things are inflicting on Mother Earth and her inhabitants, including us!In this interview, Tim offers a vis...2024-03-1500 minThink AgainPurging neo-liberal mythologies from the bottom up (and reintroducing participatory evaluation!)Jennifer and Jacques discuss how the tide is turning against neoliberalism, the discredted doctrine that what is good for big business is good for everyone.Part of the neo-liberal 'package' introduced in the early 1970s, was a conservative reaction against the cost of welfare and a push for greater accountability and evaluation of outcomes. While Jacques and Jennifer are in favour of evaluation in principle, too often it is based on countable indicators that allow companies and organisations to milk the public purse while providing no benefit to the people the programs are for. They argue for more meaningful and de...2023-11-1000 minThink AgainThe Voice, the Constitution, and our Westminster systemWhile a lot of people are apparently worried about tampering with the Australian Constitution in enshrining an Aboriginal Voice to parliament, Jennifer and Jacques discuss how we don't actually follow our Constitution for the most part. It is an anomolous document that embeds our subjection to a distant monarch and says nothing about democratic processes.Alongside our Constitution we have the Westminister system from Britain - of following principles that have been developed over time and embodied in precedents. At the time of federation, 1901, both our Consititution and governing principles and precedents were fundamentally racist.A 'Yes' vote for an A...2023-09-2200 minThink AgainUnpacking the housing crisis in AustraliaJacques talks about what is happening with housing in Australia.Talking about a housing 'crisis' makes it sound as if there are times when things are 'normal' in the area of housing in Australia... but really, homelessness and unaffordability of housing have been with us for the last five decades, homelessness probably even for longer....Leaving the price of shelter to the market will necessarily lead to both homelessness and to unaffordable housing for an ever larger number of people - and neoliberalism certainly has driven that process to its present day excesses.Jacques looks at different types of housing in...2023-06-2300 minThink AgainWho is benefitting from the drumming up of war with China?Jacques and Jennifer look at who is benefitting from the drumming up of war with China, and the plans for mammoth spending on nuclear submarines.They begin with a critique of the hysterical one-sided reporting in Nine Entertainment's papers, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, which cites 'experts' with close ties to arms producers and the US government. Media companies, like Nine Entertainment, benefit from this war-footing propaganda too, with ties to the conservative (pro-business) side of politics, and with extreme reporting attracting lucrative advertising dollars. Jennifer and Jacques name this 'systemic collusion' (as discussed two weeks ago), and will...2023-03-1700 minThink AgainClass war is alive and well!: Three types of systemic collusion that advantage the wealthy and powerfulJennifer and Jacques talk about three ways that class war is being waged through 'systemic collusion' (between people, corporations, government, media and other parties benefitting most from the system). Their three examples are superannuation, inflation + wage depression, and the business of gambling.While attempts to more equally distribute our common wealth are decried by conservatives as 'class warfare', the best reply comes from one of the richest men in the world, Warren Buffet: 'There's class warfare all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning'.ReferencesJonathon Barrett (2023) 'Qantas accused of ‘ripping off’ customers after posting...2023-03-0300 min
Radical AustraliaJacques BouletJacques Boulet is the co-presenter of 3CR's Think Again, produced by BORDERLANDS co-operative. Jacques was born and raised in Tongeren, the oldest town in Belgium, and received a classical education. He understands 12 languages. Jacques has spent his life in social work, community development and academia in Europe, the USA and Australia. He says the secret to a long, healthy life is to keep busy and to keep relating to all of life. We thank Jacques very much for being our guest this week.Think Again, Fridays 10am - 10:30amborderlands.org.auLocal Lives, Global Matters conference, Castlemaine 20152023-01-1800 minThink AgainUkraine and the promotion of US-style ‘democracy’ (i.e. US dominance)The mainstream media presents the war in Ukraine as a simple contest between goodies and baddies, or heroes and villians - with the good guys, led by the US and the west, portrayed as champions of democracy. However, this is far from the truth. Jennifer and Jacques draw on a range of sources to explain how the US actively works against democracy to ensure its own ongoing world dominance.To start with, the US played an active role in destabilising and overthrowing a democratically elected government in Ukraine in 2014. The US and NATO has baited Russia with militarisation up to...2023-01-0600 minThink AgainHow people can reduce food waste - even within our complex world!Jennifer interviews Mark Boulet from BehaviourWorks Australia at Monash University. Mark talks about the magnitude of the food waste problem world wide, and how over half of food waste happens at the household level.Mark talks about his multi-layered, whole system framework for understanding and addressing the problem. While BehaviourWorks focuses on helping people with behaviour change, it takes into account influences from different parts of the system. As an example Mark talks about a successful program that involved households and schools, with children providing leadership by choosing and preparing their own food to take to school.2022-11-2500 minThink AgainRe-thinking peace, security, and a sovereignty based on friendship and unityAs counter to the one-eyed, drumming up of war in the mainstream media, Jennifer and Jacques talk about peace. What would peace look like? What would it take? They talk about a common security where people have jobs and wages they can live on, social protections, and a fair sharing of our common wealth. Jacques and Jennifer also also look at 'sovereignty' - moving from territorial notions used to justify war, to a new definition from the Uluru Statement that is unifying and life-enhancing. Action:Sign/ donate to the peace effort: https://antiaukuscoalition.org/Reference:Stuart Rees 2022, Uluru statement and Ma...2022-08-1900 minThink AgainWar-nation US, the lies it tells, and why we shouldn't go down its war pathJacques and Jennifer wonder why we're lock-stepping with the US down its war-mongering path - not just relating to policy, but having US military operations on our shores and in our waters, and having interchangeable defence hardware. It seems that we are all hoodwinked by US propaganda with its supposed higher moral ground - and our mainstream media have completely dropped the ball.To provide some balance, Jennifer and Jacques challenge three pillars of US propaganda: (i) that the US is a beacon and promoter of democracy, (ii) that China is the main aggressor in the current conflict (and implicitly...2022-08-1200 min
Pete's podcast on community developmentConversation #2 with Dr Jacques Boulet - on community development and the caring economyIn this 23 minute conversation Jacques and Peter respond to the question posed in the 1st episode - what is a new story for our economy? As such we explore the 'story' of a caring economy - and riffing off the new book The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow, Jacques provides an historical overview and invites us to think about a different kind of relationality - with one another and nature. 2022-06-1122 minThink AgainAustralia votes: Mulling over a big win for the peopleJacques and Jennifer reflect on the recent federal election – a win for local grassroots democracy and diversity in parliament, and hope for doing something about climate change and government corruption. It was great to see the Murdoch press stranglehold on our democracy loosened too. Despite its blatant bias against Labor, the voting public made up its own mind. Jennifer and Jacques speculate that the cracking open of old two-party habits, might lead to expanded possibilities for change and a better world.2022-05-2700 minThink AgainThe shocking (mostly untold) story of the war in UkraineJennifer and Jacques talk about the war in Ukraine, particularly how the west has generated it as a proxy war with Russia - or at least as a ploy to deplete Russia as a force. This program is intended to remedy (to some extent) the outrageously one-sided account from our mainstream media. Refs:Jacques Baud - The military situation in the UkraineRAND Corporation - Extending Russia: Competing from advantageous ground Aaron Mate - Siding with Ukraine's far right, US sabotaged Zelensky's mandate for peace Ben Norton - NATO admits it wants Ukrainians to keep dying to bleed Russia FOE - Nuclea...2022-05-1300 minThink AgainMaintaining US global domination - and how we are made to believe it's in our interestJacques and Jennifer talk about US global dominance, the various tactics used to maintain this dominance, and how we’re all kept in the dark. The price of this dominance in human and financial terms is enormous... not to speak about the damage to Mother Earth... (and it doesnt mean that other world powers are not doing a bit of the same... but we're kept mostly blined and unaware of what our 'great friend and ally' is doing to the world and to other nations and peoples...) https://www.ted.com/talks/dr_bernice_king_the_us_needs_a_radical_rev...2022-01-2100 minThink AgainPaulo Freire again: What’s so special about 'critical education,' especially today?Returning to Freire’s work for a follow-up program, Jacques explores with some more depth some of the principles underlying his approach as well as some of the sources of his thinking and several of the areas in which his approach has been and continuous to be applied. As so often in Think Again, there’s an argument to reconsider some of the ways in which education and other community programs and approaches have historically been applied – before they became ‘outcomes’ to be ‘delivered’ after the neo-liberal genie has been let out of the ideological bottle of our late-capitalist political-economy.Some resources...2022-01-0700 minThink AgainRepeat from 29 October 2021: Paulo Freire and critical educationJacques remembers one of the most influential educational thinkers of the last 60-or-so years; Paulo Freire, who was born 100 years ago in recife in Brazil, influenced two generations of development and emancipation activists. This started with his literacy work in Brazil in the early 1960s and after his exile from his country under the military dictatorship in 1964, spreading right across Latin America and working with the World Council of Churches, all over the world. The publication of his 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed' in 1970 inspired large numbers of educators both in the formal and informal sectors and his writings became obligatory inclusi...2021-12-3100 minThink AgainEverything is interconnected: We need to understand this to save the planet and ourselvesJennifer and Jacques return - again - to the concept of relationality, and how we are all part of a living web of inter-relating and intra-relating. Our western thinking since the 1600s has set us in a bind that makes it hard to understand this, without some fundamental shift in our perception or ‘metanoia’. Ignoring this perceptional shift has led and continues to lead to widespread destruction of the natural environment, and human isolation and alienation. Nevertheless, understanding of the sacred web of connections between people, nature and all living things is central to Aboriginal and Indigenous world views. Meanwhile, alongside shi...2021-12-1700 minThink AgainThe proposed Religious Discrimination Bill: Hurting the vulnerable for political advantage?Jacques and Jennifer continue discussion from two weeks ago about the Religious Discrimination Bill being proposed by the federal government.They discuss how it would legalise discrimination and nastiness by religious institutions, based on rather arbitrary Statements of Belief they draw up themselves.Leading up to a federal election, it seems the government thought there was some political advantage in pressing the Bill, however this has spectacularly backfired with revolt in the PM’s own ranks. While this has slowed down the process, and the Bill may not go to a parliamentary vote before the election, the battle is far fr...2021-12-1000 minThink AgainThe Religious Discrimination Bill: How religious schools receiving lots of public money are allowed to discriminateJennifer and Jacques talk about the Religous Discrimination Bill being presented to Federal Parliament. This Bill would expand the powers of religious insititutions to discriminate - not just on the basis of faith affiliation, but on aspects of identity and lifestyle deemed by the institution to be incompatible with their particular brand of faith. Jacques and Jennifer look at the particular instance of schools and their power to hire and fire on the basis of things like gender, and sexuality. They place this in the context of the inequitable funding arrangments for education in Australia, wherein private religious schools take th...2021-11-2600 minThink AgainDo we want a military invasion in Australian classrooms and universities?Jennifer and Jacques talk about the blatant infiltration of military agendas in our education system, with resourcing from the federal government. This is in the context of the de-funding of our universities, particularly many humanities departments and subjects that involve critical thinking. Most recently, the ‘culture wars’ have been reignited, as the government wants a white, imperialist triumphal version of history to be taught in schools, which garners support for future wars as well as the weapons industry. Jacques and Jennifer propose that, as a nation, we would do better to resource social and environmental sustainability and public health, rather than weapo...2021-11-1900 minThink AgainPaulo Freire's 100th anniversary: Critical education remembered… not just for 'old' 60s activists!Jacques remembers one of the most influential educational thinkers of the last 60-or-so years; Paulo Freire, who was born 100 years ago in recife in Brazil, influenced two generations of development and emancipation activists. This started with his literacy work in Brazil in the early 1960s and after his exile from his country under the military dictatorship in 1964, spreading right across Latin America and working with the World Council of Churches, all over the world. The publication of his 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed' in 1970 inspired large numbers of educators both in the formal and informal sectors and his writings became obligatory inclusi...2021-10-2900 minThink AgainLearning more about B-Corporations – humanising and 'ecologising' our (capitalist) economy...Jacques Boulet interviews Dan McKinley, CEO of B-Corporation Dog and Bone Dan and Jacques have a conversation about a kind of ‘in-between’ space between the ‘normal’ capitalist ways of running business and the more ‘radical’ alternatives we often pay attention to in Think Again. In B-corporations real transformational relationships, processes and structures are actually being experimented with, in a space where central elements of the existing system are not only being talked about but are radically changed whilst at the same time continuing to operate with elements of the existing system… and many of these experiments – and certainly in the case of Dog and Bone...2021-10-2200 minThink AgainWe wrote the PM’s speech: Big COVID thanks to Victorians! But sorry about defense and climate…Given the PM’s struggles in public oratory and inspiring leadership, Jacques and Jennifer have written a speech for him and they deliver it in this program. The PM shares his belated insight and thanks Victorians for the sacrifices they have made during COVID, thereby saving thousands of lives - not just in Victoria but also in NSW and Australia. The PM also reveals his new astonishing insights around climate change, and then admits to the folly that is AUKUS and his government's love of nuclear submarines. Refs:Aisha Dow 2021, Victoria’s sacrifices are not in vain, The Age, 3 September 2021, p.6. Thank-you V...2021-10-1500 minThink AgainLessons from COVID: Invest properly in community-based healthcare. Help disadvantaged groups get vaccinated.With COVID exposing the cracks in our health system and the marginalisation of certain groups who are vulnerable to the virus, Jacques and Jennifer talk about a different approach led by the World Health Organisation that seems to have gone out of fashion.The WHO defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, not just the absence of disease. Health and ill health are seen as happening in the communities where people live and work, and within the economic systems and natural ecosystems they are part of.Jacques and Jennifer suggest we properly resource a community-based, e...2021-10-0800 minThink AgainAustralia’s defense debacle: Buying nuclear subs, war noises, and lock-stepping with the Anglo powersJennifer and Jacques talk about the abrupt turn in Australia’s defence policy, with the decision to develop nuclear submarines, and enter into a new security agreement with the US and UK. Simultaneously we have sent out war signals to China, and offended the French by duplicitously breaking a submarine contract without notice – and France isn’t the only power we have put offside. Jacques and Jennifer argue we need to do address the climate crisis, and invest in people, jobs, education, health, and housing , rather than in military waste and the nuclear industry. Campaign links:Raucous Anti-AUKUS Caucus, webinar, Thusday 7 October, 7p...2021-10-0100 minThink AgainCOVID and the injustices of global vaccine distributionMatthew Rimmer, Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation Law at the Queensland University of Technology and Jacques talk about the 'medical apartheid' which is confirmed (yet again) and made worse by the maldistribution of the COVID vaccines between the rich and the poor nations.Yet again, a political and economic collection of (i) economic powerholders (read: the pharmaceutical industries and those who derive their personal wealth from their operations) and (ii) developed nations (the EU, the Trump-US and, till a few days ago, Australia) want to protect the developed nations by protecting the 'Intellectual Property Rights' ('TRIPS') of vaccines made by c...2021-09-1700 minThink AgainGetting out of Afghanistan: Making sense of the mess through history’s lensJacques and Jennifer look at the botched and devastating withdrawal of the US and its allies from Afghanistan and try to make sense of it through the lens of history.They look back to the carve-up of the old Ottoman Empire by colonial powers after WW1 (creating divisions that last to today), the US-Soviet competition for influence in Afghanistan leading to endemic corruption and a coup in 1978, the Soviet invasion from 1979 to 1989, following civil war, and the rise of the Taliban in the 90s, which was enabled by US money and weapons.Then in 2001 the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade...2021-09-0300 minThink AgainHome ownership for all has gone AWOL in OZ… or has it?Matt and Jacques have a conversation based on Per Capita’s last Discussion Paper ‘Generation Stressed’: House Prices and the Cost of Living in the 21st Century.It became clear based on research comparing the cost of housing across three generations – in the 1970s, mid- to late-80s and early 2000s - the latter - Gen X people - who bought their homes around the turn of the Millennium, suffered from a 130% increase in the lifetime cost of owning a home compared to 30 years earlier (i.e. compared to those who bought their homes in the 70s). The Discussion Paper (see link bel...2021-08-2000 minThink AgainThe great COVID vaccine robbery: Billionaires profiteer while poor countries are left behindJacques and Jennifer talk about the scandalously unequal distribution of COVID-19 vaccines throughout the world, while a few people and companies make billions by charging exorbitant prices (US$16 to $24 a dose, with the cost of production estimated US$1.18 to $2.85 a dose). Meanwhile the more reasonably-priced AstraZeneca vaccine has fallen flat.While richer countries seem happy to pay the higher prices to stay ahead of the queue, poorer countries are left mostly unvaccinated.'The People's Vaccine Alliance' is campaigning for a COVID-19 vaccine that is freely available to everyone everywhere ... Go to www.peoplesvaccine.org Refs:Anna Marriott and Alex Maitland, T...2021-08-1300 minThink AgainOK... humans have Rights ... but what about non-humans? Are they just there for 'us'?Having held conversations about Human Rights in several previous Think Again programs, we now propose to widen our purview, wondering whether other species and things might have 'rights' as well...'Western Enlightenment' thinking has located the 'me' and the human - the 'Anthropos' - right in the centre of all there is, everything and everybody else... the 'other'... Jacques talks about a more recent 'awakening' to the rights of nature, especially in light of the destruction humans continue to inflict on all other species-persons and things in the ecology they are part of.He invites listeners to start dipping into...2021-08-0600 minThink AgainHuman Rights: What are they and (why) are they still relevant?Jacques and Jennifer talk about human rights, including a bit about their history and how their focus has changed over time. There have been three generations of human rights in modern times: (i) civil and political, (ii) economic and social, and (iii) cultural and collective. In recent 'neo-liberal' times the focus has been highly individualistic and commercial.While Jacques and Jennifer consider human rights to be an important basis for agreements about how we are to live together, they also acknowledge their current use and capture by those in power - both internationally and within-nations.2021-07-2300 minThink AgainScomo’s governance-by-marketing: Shifting responsibility, lying, and deflecting attention from the real problemsJacques and Jennifer talk about the federal government's various ways of deflecting attention and responsibility away from itself toward 'outsiders' and those most disadvantaged by the system. This is led by our own PM, commonly known as 'Scotty from Marketing' who has developed it to a fine art level... but more and more of us start to notice that not all is well in advertising heaven...2021-07-0900 minThink AgainOur ever-expanding 'underclass'... while the feds distract us with war-mongeringJacques and Jennifer talk about the expanding underclass in Australia and our growing inequality - and how our leaders are distracting us with phony statements about how well we're going, while they conjure up enemies abroad. In particular there seems to be a complete absence of diplomacy in aggressive public statements aimed at China. Ref:Robinson, I W 2021, What are the real reasons behind the cold war? Roar, 6 May 2021https://roarmag.org/essays/new-cold-war-crisis-capitalism/2021-07-0200 minThink AgainAn economy on steroids or on Prozac? It depends which way you look…Jacques has a conversation with Meagan Skehill from CISVic, the peak body for the community information and support sector in Victoria. Evidently the much-hyped post-Covid economic recovery is a very one-sided affair, leaving growing numbers of citizens and disadvantaged groups worse off, and in gradually deteriorating situations. This is exacerbated by stagnant wages, lack of meaningful and sustained support from government programs, diminishing numbers of volunteers, and decreasing support from donations.There is an obvious need to make our political and economic system more redistributive as inequality continues to rise in Australia and worldwide. It seems that the government’s oft...2021-06-2500 minThink AgainRadiothon special with testimonials and a wander down memory laneIn this special fundraiser program, past guests tell us why 3CR and the Think Again program are so important.Amongst the testimonials, Jacques and Jennifer explain what they are intending to do through the program – like ‘joining the dots’ amidst all the fragments of information bombarding us, and providing a platform for views and voices not heard in the mainstream media.Music played on this episode of Think Again was 'Violet's Etude' by Elena Kats-Chernin, performed by Claire Edwardes2021-06-1800 minThink Again'Rewilding the Urban Soul': A conversation with author Claire DunnIn conversation with Jacques, Claire explores her growing desire to discover nature in the middle of what we have come to think about as its opposite: the city.Given that about 3/4 of humanity will soon live in macro-cities, and given that these occupy only 4% of the world's surface, and given that most of the environmental damage humans cause is connected with these facts, we do need to explore and experiment with alternative ways of living in cities.Claire's book Rewilding the Urban Soul is a perfect guide to discovering what it would take to heal our urban living bases and ou...2021-06-1100 minThink AgainFederal budgets or bags of tricks...? Looking at the 2021 version from outside-the-'normal'-boxJacques and Jennifer cast a critical eye over the recent Australian Government budget, looking past the theatre of media announcements and the low expectations of ‘business as usual’.They analyse the budget within the broader context of what’s happening to ‘ordinary’ people in Australia and worldwide in the latest version of neo-liberal capitalism trying to turn to a Keynesian spending frenzy in a presumed response to COVID.... but this one is also a bag of tricks...2021-05-2800 minThink AgainExperiments with Possible Futures: A conversation with Jose RamosBorderlands is deeply interested in community, in cooperatives, in localisation and ecological responsibility and how to promote and create living conditions that are mutually beneficial for all, including the non-human species and relationships on which our continued existence depends.Jacques' conversation with Jose Ramos looks across a series of historical and recent attempts at 'experimenting' with possible future scenarios for a more responsible and sustainable world and how humans could be involved in such experiments.2021-05-1400 minThink AgainMore thoughts on our predicaments: Pandemic, capitalism, racism, ecology and especially warJacques and Jennifer continue their discussion from two programs ago about five intersecting predicaments facing us: (1) the COVID-19 pandemic,(2) late capitalism and its gross and exponentially growing inequality and destructiveness,(3) racism and how ‘whites’ both socially and culturally seem incapable to acknowledge their racism,(4) the onslaughts our ‘civilisation’ inflicts on our planet’s ecology, and(5) the careless and wilful promotion of war. They float some ideas about the directions we need to take to avert catastrophe.2021-05-0700 minThink AgainPredicaments our world faces: Can we find our way out of them together?Jacques and Jennifer talk about some of the interconnected global-to-local predicaments we’re facing: the pandemic, ecology, racism, and the destructive political-economy of late capitalism. They talk about some of the directions we need to take to deal with these predicaments. The discussion is based on a book chapter Jacques has recently written in a volume also edited by him and by Linette Hawkins; the title of the book is: Practical and Political Approaches to Recontextualizing Social Work IGI Global Publishers. The book has 14 Chapters, six of which have been written by Borderlands Cooperative members and researchers, several others by Aust...2021-04-1600 minThink AgainWaiting for flood or bushfire recovery funds...? Better live in the 'right' electorate!Jacques has a conversation with Matt Lloyd-Cape from the Per Capitathink tank about their research regarding the allocation and distribution ofFederal funds to victims of the 2019-20 bushfires.Barely half of the promised billions was spent by the end of 2019 and - as we're now gettingaccustomed to with the present LNP federal government - 3/4 of all fundswent to NSW and of that only 1% to Labor electorates...Rorting and pork-barrelling seem to have consistently been operative principles ofthe distribution of grants and other funds by the present government.2021-04-0900 minThink AgainElite schools: Preparing (male) ‘children of the gods' to abuse women and exploit the massesAmidst the raging scandals of sexual abuse and discrimination against women at a federal government level, Jennifer and Jacques look at ideas of self-entitlement held by an elite group in positions of power.Where does this notion that they are ‘born to rule’ come from? Jennifer and Jacques take a close look at the role of elite schools in generating a culture of misogyny and deep disrespect for women, and a notion of self-entitlement to power, privilege and influence2021-03-2600 minThink AgainRoyal Commissions galore... but are they really 'helping' and involving the aged and the mentally unwell?Jacques reflects on the double arrival of reports of two Royal Commissions, a federal one about 'aged care' and a Victorian one about 'mental health services'... What both clearly reveal is two 'systems' absolutely and disgracefully dysfunctional and – in reality – harming those who are supposed to be cared for. If we do need so many reviews and commissions about so many 'symptoms' of our society's workings, will we ever try and figure out whether the entire caboodle probably needs some reviewing...? Just wondering....'Care' for the 'aged' needs more than caring for their health... The place and role of elders in o...2021-03-0500 minThink AgainGood to have the COVID-19 vaccine(s) going into our arms … but it isn’t the whole story!Continuing our investigations of the background to the production and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines, Jacques has a conversation with Dr. Deborah Gleeson, Co-convenor of the Political Economy of Health Special Interest Group of the Public Health Association Australia.Deborah documents the extraordinary arrogance and selfishness of the wealthy countries pre-ordering the bulk of the billions of vaccine units being produced, condemning the poor countries to only receiving sufficient and affordable access in years to come.A scandal of global proportions…2021-02-2600 minThink AgainBig pharma companies restrict access to COVID vaccines while the public pays for their developmentJennifer and Jacques talk about the big steal by pharmaceutical monopolies that are restricting access to the COVID vaccine for massive private profit - even after being gifted the research and development for the vaccines which has been paid for from the public purse.Jacques has recently translated an article about this from Dutch by Vincent Navarro, and he shares some of the insights from this. Dean Baker in On Beating Inequality & COVID-19: Tackle Patent and Copyright Monopolieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z43-mrk7Ws&feature=emb_title Thomas Cueni, president of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries in an...2021-02-1900 minThink AgainCooperative housing, shared living, and alternative ways of workingJacques and Jennifer talk about cooperative housing and its shape and history. They aim to open up our thinking and imagination about better and alternative ways of living, together beside the usual private ownership or renting, or social and public housing.This also has implications for the organisation of our work, and the common need to sell the best of ourselves in the market place in exchange for a wage. And it leads to profound questions about nuclear family living and our consumerist addictions.2021-02-0500 minThink AgainGrateful for new social housing funding in Victoria, but we need the proper mix and quality!Jacques speaks about housing - public, social, community, cooperative -with Abigail Lewis from local Think Tank Per Capita. Abigail (and PerCapita) make a strong argument for the inclusion of a strong proportionof public housing in the 5 Billion Dollar injection in the 'social'housing sector by the Victorian Government, as it is the most effectiveway to combat homelessness. She also points at the need to build housingof good quality responding to ecological criteria and to the varyingneeds and capabilities of intended groups of residents, for example,ageing groups or people with disability.2021-01-2900 minThink AgainWhy did an angry mob invade the US Capitol?: Republicans, racism and inequalityJacques and Jennifer talk about recent events in the US, especially with the storming of the Capitol.They argue that what happened is no aberration or surprise but the culmination of long term inequality and racism, as well as some pretty immoral strategising by Republicans – something for us all to take stock of…2021-01-2200 minThink AgainThe system is rigged: We need to re-think and re-organise itJacques and Jennifer pull together themes from past programs and look at new evidence showing how our system is rigged in favour of the wealthy and the powerful.They suggest some of the paths we need to take together if we are to find our way out of this.Piketty, T. (2020) Capital and Ideology Cambridge (MA): Belknap Press (Harvard Uni. Press_2021-01-0800 minThink AgainReflections on 2020: A year to forget? A year to learn from?Jacques and Jennifer reflect on the year 2020 and how it was covered in the program, including COVID-19 and all of its effects and revelations.We certainly learnt a lot about ourselves as a society, and had pause to think about better ways of organising ourselves and caring for each other and all living things.2020-12-1800 minThink AgainEmbracing relationality: Transformation for a healthier worldJacques and Jennifer revisit the theme of 'relationality' from their very first program i.e. the idea that we do not really exist as separate individuals, but as part of living networks of relationships with each other and nature.We need to rid ourselves of the western notion that people are the centre of creation, who can exploit nature with impunity.Instead, for our very survival, we need to nurture healthy relationships - between men and women, between people, and with all living things on this planet.Articles and books referred to: Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin i...2020-12-1100 minThink AgainViolence against women: Exploring causes and avenues for changeJacques and Jennifer talk about the widespread crisis of violence against women – where it comes from and whom it serves.They look at how we can move to a world of co-caring, gender equality and respectful, violence-free relationships2020-12-0400 minThink Again'Our' SAS soldiers' criminal conduct: An exception or to be expected?Jacques and Jennifer talk about the latest scandals around the 19 SAS soldiers in allegedly committing murders in Afghanistan - whether this can be put down to 'a few bad apples', or whether it is a natural extension of our military's ways of doing things...?2020-11-2700 minThink AgainCan the US election tell us anything about politics in Australia? The parallels are obvious!Jacques and Jennifer look at the recent US election, and the dirty electioneering tricks that reached a new low under Trump. Can we learn anything about power and politics in general, and are there parallels with the situation in Australia?2020-11-2000 minThink AgainPM’s hypocritical attacks on a CEO's gift of watches while he's 'pork-barrelling' with public - our! - moneyJacques and Jennifer look at our PM’s faux horror that the recent head of Australia Post gave four Cartier watches worth 20,000 dollars to executives, and they contrast that with all the other ways that billions of dollars of our common wealth are funnelled up to the higher end of town and to corporate mates, not to mention blatant pork barrelling – much of this by the PM’s own government2020-11-1300 minThink AgainInternational students stranded and forgotten in Australia - after we've taken their moneyJacques talks with two community services workers who have been involved in making sure that hundreds, if not thousands, of international students are getting the basics for their survival, housing, food, health...They and their families paid huge amounts of money to come and study here and then got stuck because of COVID-19.And there has not even been one attempt by the government to include them in the anyway meagre payments for jobseeker/keepers...And the silence around this is deafening... To donate to help international students go to: Give Now for international students2020-11-0600 minThink AgainPrivatising public housing, the home-ownership dream, and exploring other possibilitiesJacques and Jennifer give a potted history of public housing in Victoria, including the trend to privatise public housing as discussed the previous week. As the 'Great Australian Dream' of home ownership becomes impossible for many, the presenters look at other forms of social and cooperative housing that are more prevalent in other countries. They suggest the time is ripe to consider and promote them here in Australia.CORRECTION: Under Liberal PM Robert Menzies (after 1956) about 90,000 public housing properties were sold (as policy bolstered private home ownership). Jennifer overzealously added a zero and said 900,000! We think 90,000 is still an astonishing figu2020-10-3000 minThink AgainFederal Budget: why bother? the usual handouts for the wealthy and peanuts for all elseJacques and Jennifer dissect the recent Federal Budget, taking us beyond the spin and lies.They argue it is set to entrench long term inequality and disadvantage, and it fails to address the urgency of climate change.They finish with a call for resistance and to become more informed about what's really going on...2020-10-1600 minThink AgainHow COVID showed us the folly of privatisation and management-school 'inspired' governanceJacques and Jennifer look at what we can learn from mistakes made in Victoria that led to COVID-19 spreading from hotel quarantine into communities.It seems that certain problems have been in play long before the pandemic. These include the outsourcing of essential public services, the loss of expertise in management of the area being managed (such as health), and the inability of bureaucracies to address the challenges we face holistically. Refs.Ros Gittens in the Age 30 September 2020, p.20.Sarah Russell in the Age 8/9/2020 ‘Aged care tragedy years in the making.’Jan Carter in the Age 8/9/2020 Ideological tide swamped state2020-10-0900 minThink AgainThe Coal-ition’s gas transition invading Westernport Bay? We helped prevent it!Jacques talks with Bill Genat who is involved in movements to resist the plans of energy giant AGL to establish a massive Liquid Natural Gas import facility with Floating Storage and Regasification Unit at Crib Point and a gas pipeline to Packenham in Melbourne’s south-east. Apart from its gruesome size (300m long, 50 m wide, 50m high the size of the Ruby Princess cruise ship) is intrudes and endangers wetlands of global important (Ramsar designated in 1982) and risks to cause several other ecological disasters. (23rd of May:) Some weeks ago, the Victorian Government rejected the AGL application... a victory for goo...2020-10-0200 minThink AgainWho carries the burden of ill health in our system and during COVID-19?Jacques and Jennifer look at the inequities in our health and overall system and how the most disadvantaged people and groups bear the brunt of the coronavirus. At the same time they support the Victorian government's precautionary approach to keep us all safe from the virus, and they finish with some good news for people living alone.2020-09-1100 min
Think AgainChanging our economy one village at a time: bHive Cooperative in BendigoThe bHive Cooperative in Bendigo: one example of creating sustainable social and ecological change at the 'bottom'; Jacques has a conversation with Ian McBurney, one of the initiators of Bendigo's bHive Cooperative. Their website: www.bhive.coopLeadership and Change Blog Series: http://ianmcburney.com/blog/2019/2/4/where-leadership-began-the-campfire-blog-series-part-1 Talking ecoLogical Card set: http://ianmcburney.com/talkingecological Sustainability Street iBook (free!): http://ianmcburney.com/sustainability-street-ibook Social and Solidarity Economy Is There a New Economy in the Making? Peter Utting, Nadine van Dijk and Marie-Adélaïde Matheïfile:///G:/various%20materials/UNRISD_Occasional_Paper_Social_and_Solid.pdf2020-09-0400 minThink AgainCOVID, climate change and the (next) economyJacques and Jennifer talk about what is happening with the economy and the climate under COVID-19, and what we can learn to create a sustainable future. Liegey, Vincent & Nelson, Anitra (2020) Exploring Degrowth: An introduction to the Degrowth Movement London: Pluto PressNew Economics Foundation (2020) Beyond the Gig Economy: empowering the self-employed workforce www.neweconomics.orgBollier, David & Helfrich, Silke (2012) The Wealth of the Commonds: A World Beyond Market & State; Amherst: Levellers PressSocial and Solidarity Economy Is There a New Economy in the Making? Peter Utting, Nadine van Dijk and Marie-Adélaïde Matheïfile:///G:/various%20materials/UNRISD_Occasional_Paper_Social_and_Soli...2020-08-2800 minThink AgainMedia bias and the hysterical and transparent campaign against Premier AndrewsIn the midst of the COVID pandemic, the local media have been waging a strident campaign against the Victorian premier and his government. Certainly, the likes of Murdoch's press, the Herald Sun, and Nine Entertainment's Age have not let the truth get in the way of their stories. Jacques and Jennifer discuss some of the low points, and the problematic concentration of Australia's media in a few (right wing) hands.2020-08-2100 minThink AgainSocial change and activism: The need for holistic thinkingJacques and Jennifer look at how are society is created on a day to day basis, how everyone is involved in this, and how everything in the universe is interconnected - including us with the surrounding ecology. They suggest it is important to think about this so we can best direct our efforts toward beneficial social change.Ref: Bohm, D. (1980) Wholeness and the implicate order. London: Routledge.Barad, Karen (2007) Meeting the Universe Halfway: quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Durham: Duke University Press2020-08-1400 minThink AgainHousing and homelessness: One man's storyHomelessness can happen to anyone, as explained by Gavin O'Dee. He describes how he found himself homeless after a long career and many years in private rental. Gavin also tells how he found his way back into secure housing and who helped along the way. Jacques and Gavin agree that we need to build much more public and social housing.2020-08-0700 minThink AgainSocial change: Going beyond 'goodies and baddies' thinkingJacques and Jennifer explore the idea of a world divided into 'goodies and baddies' - whether this describes the world we live in, and whether this thinking is useful for social change.2020-07-3100 minThink AgainRelational insights about the pandemic: A way into a better 'new normal'?Jacques and Jennifer revisit the concept of relationality from their first program, and the idea that we only exist as interdependent beings. They look at current events with COVID-19 through this lens and discuss the implications for doing things better for a healthy and sustainable world. Ref. Godbout, Jacques with Caillé, Alain (1998) The World of the Gift Montréal & Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press.2020-07-2400 minThink AgainRaising Centrelink payments for good... what are 'we' waiting for?Jacques talks to Kate Wheller, Executive Officer of Community Information and Support Victoria, or CISVic for short. CISVic is the peak body for community information and support services in Victoria. The discussion centres on the need to raise Centrelink payments like Jobseeker permanently.2020-07-1700 minThink AgainHow local governments answer to their masters and not their communitiesJacques and Jennifer discuss how local governments answer to higher levels of government rather than communities, and operate like factories delivering products in the market place. They first talk about universities and proposed defunding of the humanities. The program finishes with a look at the long-term winding back of preventative public health that works with local communities, (which has had dire consequences for the spread of the coronavirus). Overall, the managerialist, neoliberal approach siphons power from communities and from ordinary people. Garland, C. (2020) "Changing Behaviour:" The Hierarchical and Bureaucratic Imperative of Instrumental Reason in the Corporatized Universityhttps://www.academia.edu/43288760/G...2020-07-1000 minThink AgainTurning universities into sausage factories - keep them poor, so students pay more and learn less....Jacques and Jennifer talk about proposed changes to university funding, with attacks on the humanities, arts and social sciences to make people ‘job-ready’ and create docile citizens. Meanwhile, having lost the 'lucrative' international trade in students, things can only get worse... especially as it seems that it's all directed to privatisation of what needs to remain a public 'duty' to educate (rather than 'train') the next generation of citizens!2020-07-0300 minThink AgainThe Coalition government has been porkbarrelling community development funds; and the media are silently complicit...Jacques and Jennifer wonder why certain media outlets are focusing so much on branch stacking in the Victorian Labor party, but ignoring all the other serious things that are happening – like the federal government’s outrageous rorting of various community funds for its own electoral advantage.2020-06-2600 minThink AgainRefugees in Australia: The past, the present and what next?Jacques and Jennifer talk about the treatment of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in Australia comparing some of the past policies andpractices, from disaenfranchising the locals, rejecting non-whites, accepting 'other' Europeans, then the breakthrough of the Vietnamese to the present terrible treatment of asylum seekers.... And the story is rather abysmal...2020-06-1900 minThink AgainAboriginal lives matter: Political discourses and abusesJacques and Jennifer talk about political discourses and polices in Australia over the last few decades, providing some context to the current Black Lives Matter protests. They finish with the Aboriginal ‘Uluru Statement from the Heart’, proposed as a way forward in 2017.2020-06-1200 minThink AgainChina and biased public discourse: Preparing for a new Cold War?Jacques and Jennifer talk about biased public discourse and the current focus on China as a diversion from failings in our own system. These failings are substantial and are economic, social and ecological. As a case study, Jacques talks about the deterioration in journalism from The Age newspaper, since being taken over by Nine Entertainment with its right wing Board.2020-06-0500 minThink AgainThe Australian Living Peace MuseumJacques interviews Michael Hamel Green about the online Australian Living Peace Museum, and his experience with peace activism from the Vietnam war to the present. Michael tells us how we can visit the museum online and make submissions for peace exhibits to be included.New exhibits on the Museum webaite:Doris Blackburn, by Carolyn RasmussenAustralian Conscientious Objectors to War, by Geoffrey SandyJim Cairns by Paul StrangioAustralia at Federation in 1901, by Joy DamousiThe Australian Peace Movement 1914-18 by Val NooneDeadly Legacies: Gallipoli, WW1 and the Continuing Belief in Military Security, by Marianne HansonProject Albany and the Centenary of the Great War...2020-05-2200 minThink AgainCommunity development in the 70s: Inspiration for the present?Jacques interviews David Hall about community development in the 70s and what we can learn from it for today. In particular, David talks about the Australian Assistance Plan introduced by the Whitlam government 50 years ago.2020-05-1500 minThink AgainMaking our working lives - and our planet - healthierJacques and Jennifer talk about the directions we are taking as a society, and where we need to re-direct ourselves and our systems to create healthy places where we can all live, work and thrive. Social and Solidarity Economy Is There a New Economy in the Making? Peter Utting, Nadine van Dijk and Marie-Adélaïde Matheïfile:///G:/various%20materials/UNRISD_Occasional_Paper_Social_and_Solid.pdf2020-05-0800 minThink AgainThe nature of work - historically, now and into the futureThis May Day, Jacques and Jennifer discuss the nature of work, its history and possible future directions of work in Australia and internationally, bringing us to the current time of the coronavirus and associated 'work-less-ness'....They wonder whether 'work' is indeed the solution for all welfare problems...? and why would the conservatives be so adamant about 'creating' jobs and suggesting the unemployed should just try harder...? And why should we 'love' our jobs for goodness sakes...? For example cooking greasy burgers in an unhealthy industrial kitchen and being abused by drive-in customers???2020-05-0100 minThink AgainThe coronavirus: Who wears the financial risk?Jacques and Jennifer talk about the shifting of financial risk in our system in a variety of ways, from those at the top to those at the bottom. They discuss examples of this including recent proposals for the tax payer to rescue airline Virgin Australia and to wear the financial risk that has come to fruit with the coronavirus.2020-04-2400 minThink AgainThe coronavirus and the western-centric bias in reportingJacques and Jennifer talk about the coronavirus pandemic and the western bias in the way it’s being reported. They look at the devastating effects of disease introduced by Europeans on Aboriginal people in Australia and on First Nation people elsewhere. Why is no one talking about this? They also discuss the anti-Chinese bias in media reporting of the coronavirus, and the excesses of capitalism on all sides.2020-04-1000 minThink AgainThe coronavirus: Exploring possibilities for changeJacques and Jennifer talk about what’s happening with the coronavirus and how public policies and discourse have suddenly changed, as well as people’s everyday lives. They begin a discussion about possibilities for lasting change.2020-04-0300 minThink AgainThe coronavirus, the community welfare sector and volunteeringIn this program Jacques interviews Kate Wheller, Executive Officer of Community Information & Support Victoria (CISVic) about the effect of the coronavirus on the community welfare sector. CISVic is the peak body for community information and support services in Victoria, including emergency relief. Kate talks about the effect of the coronavirus on volunteering, especially as many volunteers are older and are particularly vulnerable. Despite this, most member agencies continue to provide assistance for community members, but not face-to-face2020-03-2700 minThink AgainCommunity development for today - Part 2Jennifer continues her interview with Jacques about community development and its relevance today. What is it? Is it something inherently conservative, such as helping people make friends, or does it offer possibilities for systemic change? Does the idea of healthy 'relationality' (with each other and nature) form a basis for doing both?2020-03-0600 minThink AgainCommunity development for today - Part 1Following previous programs on community participation in the directions we are taking as a society, this program explores community development as an approach. Jennifer interviews Jacques about his thoughts and experience with community development, starting in the 60s. System-change and the fostering of healthy relationality are both seen to be important in community development.2020-02-2800 minThink AgainFood security and food sovereignty: A call to reframe local actionJennifer interviews Jacques about the global inequities in access to food, and the associated disempowerment of people in relation to food production and distribution (as featuring in the latest edition of New Community, # 67). While half the world is 'stuffed' and obsessed with food, the other half is 'starving'. Jacques talks a bit about some of the root causes, as well as the sort of projects that might offer some solution.Refs:Moore, J. and Patel, R. (2017) A history of the world in seven cheap things. US: University of California Press.Yunkaporta, T. (2019) Sand talk: How indigenous thinking can save the...2019-12-2700 minThink AgainClimate change inaction: Scomo's fake excuse that we 'only' produce 1.3% of global emissionsJennifer and Jacques talk about climate change and the absolute abrogation of responsibility by our leaders. And their dedication to fossil fuels is really astounding... or is there a more plausible reason behind it...?The spectacle of governmental shennanigans around all aspects of global warming, climate change and anything 'ecological' is just astaunding...2019-12-2000 minThink AgainThe social production of mental illnessJacques and Jennifer have a conversation about mental illness, particularly those generated by and within current social circumstances. Some of the misguided notions about causes and remedies are explored, with a focus on one man's journey.Ref:Hari, J. (2018) Lost connections: Uncovering the real causes of depression - and the unexpected solutions. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.2019-11-0800 minThink AgainSociopathic behaviour: How it is promoted and rewarded in our capitalist cultures and systemsJacques and Jennifer talk about socio- and psychopathic behaviour and power, and how psychopathic behaviour is encouraged and rewarded in our society.Refs:Clarke, J. (2005) Working with monsters: How to identify and protect yourself from the workplace psychopath. Sydney: Random House Australia.Manne, A. (2015) The life of I: The new culture of narcissism. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.Ronson, J. (2012) The psychopath test: A journey through the madness industry. London: Picador.Verhaeghe, P. (2012) What about me: The struggle for identity in a market-based society. Brunswick: Scribe Publications.2019-10-1800 minThink AgainCooperatives: Good for living and good for organisationsThis program explores and compares the organisation of some cooperatives in Australia and in Argentina. Some of the challenges and success are explored in the context of different social, cultural, economic and governance contexts. The program finsihses with ideas and resources for people interested in more cooperative approaches to organising ourselves and living together.Ref:Borrell, J. and Boulet, J. (2019) 'Cooperatives across systems and cultures... Exploring possibilities and struggles in Argentina and Australia'. New Community, 65, pp.82-86. Social and Solidarity Economy Is There a New Economy in the Making? Peter Utting, Nadine van Dijk and Marie-Adélaïde Matheïfile:///G:/v...2019-08-0900 minThink AgainPopulism, social media and creating social changeFor this program Jennifer continues her interview with Jacques about a book chapter he has written on populism, social media and community development.Ref:Boulet, J (2021a) “Social-media-weaponised Populism and Community Development” in Kenny, S, Ife, J & Westoby, P (eds.) Populism, Democracy and Community Development Bristol: Policy Press pp. 89 - 1082019-08-0200 minThink AgainPopulism: Learning from history to understand the presentWe've heard a lot about populist movements sweeping across the world, amidst the disenchantment of the marginalised. Todays populist movements seem to be turbo charged by social media which has co-opted the most initmate areas of our lives. For this program Jennifer interviews Jacques about a book chapter he has recently written, which includes some suggestions for a countering community development approach.Ref:Boulet, J. (2019) 'Populism and the lure of social media. Wherre to for community development?' (NB: book details to follow)2019-07-2600 min