Anna Guasco: Justice, histories, and narratives of gray whale migration
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
What might the histories of human and gray whale relations show us in terms of how the stories we tell shape the texture of our relationships to our more-than-human kin? How can adopting a plurality of narratives and cultural perspectives in and around a particular species disrupt the kinds of binaries that so often underly academic research methods? And what might a more diverse, accessible, and context-specific approach to field research look like with humility and deep-listening at its core?
Tune in to this episode with our guest, Anna Guasco, to explore these questions and more.
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| 0:55.0 | So this really dramatically long journey ends up connecting all of these different communities |
| 1:00.0 | that gray whales swim through. |
| 1:02.0 | And as I mentioned, that's what I find really quite interesting about gray whales |
| 1:07.0 | is that they serve almost as this sort of connecting piece |
| 1:10.0 | between places and people and histories |
| 1:12.7 | that we might think of as very distance and separate from each other, but actually are entangled |
| 1:19.5 | in really interesting ways. |
| 1:22.9 | You're listening to Green Dreamer, and I'm your host, Kamea Shane. |
| 1:27.1 | Today we are speaking with Anna Gwco, a PhD candidate and Gates Cambridge scholar |
| 1:31.9 | in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. |
| 1:35.8 | Her doctoral work focuses on histories, narratives, and environmental justice issues |
| 1:40.7 | surrounding the migration and conservation of gray whales along the North American |
| 1:45.5 | Pacific coast. |
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