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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

382) Min Hyoung Song: From everyday denial to everyday attention

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

“Where our power comes from actually is in that space between the 'I' and the 'you'—that shared space. If we could tap into that, if we can find ways of working together, to form what I called 'shared agency,' then we can actually gain a lot of power to affect change.”

In this episode, we welcome Min Hyoung Song, a Professor of English and the Director of the Asian American Studies Program at Boston College, as well as a steering committee member of Environmental Studies and an affiliated faculty member of African and African Diaspora Studies. He is the author of three books: Climate Lyricism (Duke, 2022), The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American (Duke, 2013) and Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots (Duke, 2005). 

(The musical offering featured in this episode Power by India Blue. The episode-inspired artwork is by Mi Young.)

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Where our power comes from, actually, is in that space between the I and the U, that kind of shared space.

1:48.6

If we could tap into that, if we can find ways of working together to form what I call shared agency, then we can actually gain a lot of power to affect change.

1:53.9

In this episode, we're speaking with Min Hyeong-Zong, a professor of English and the director

1:59.9

of the Asian American Studies Program at Boston College,

2:03.6

as well as a steering committee member of Environmental Studies and an affiliated faculty member of African and African Diaspora Studies.

2:12.6

He is the author of three books, Climate Lyricism, The Children of 1965, on Writing and Not Writing as an Asian

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