Audra Mitchell: Rethinking conservation, biodiversity, and extinction
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean to recognize the limitations of “biodiversity” as a gauge of planetary wellbeing? How do we make sense of the heads of big corporations like Shell being major patrons of the largest conservation organizations? And how might a politics of disability justice shape diverse futures beyond an exclusive framework of Western-Scientific conservation?
In this episode, we converse with scholar and anti-oppression activist Audra Mitchell on how intersecting forms of systemic violence work to extract, eliminate, and conceal cultural and ecological plurality—and how the survival, preservation, and organization of oppressed and marginalized communities alone resist such violence.
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| 0:54.4 | There's a tendency within the Eurocentric tradition to want to solidify things into nouns |
| 1:00.0 | or into objects that can be, as I said, be made into commodities or made fungible or |
| 1:05.5 | exploited in various ways. |
| 1:07.8 | So one of the things that I'm interested in is the movements, the pluralizations |
| 1:12.8 | that happen across these worlds that sustain them, but also allow them to transform. |
| 1:24.6 | You're listening to Green Dreamer, and I'm your host, Kamehashin. |
| 1:29.1 | Today we are speaking with Audra Mitchell, professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Political |
| 1:35.1 | Ecology at the Belsalese School of International Affairs. |
| 1:39.6 | Their work confronts how intersecting forms of structural violence shape ecosystems on a global scale, |
| 1:46.2 | including through patterns of extinction, extraction, and pollution. |
| 1:50.7 | And their multimedia collaborative work challenges oppressive futurisms and co-composes alternative |
| 1:56.4 | worlds in which plural forms of thriving are possible. A multiplied disabled person, |
| 2:02.2 | Adra is also working to bring Crip, disability justice, and anti-Abalist approaches into |
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