Ecological Feminism with Nadia Johanisova

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🗓️ 23 March 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this interview we hear from Nadia Johanisova, an Ecological Economist, Professor of Environmental Studies in the Czech Republic, and the person who translated E. F. Schumacher's "Small is Beautiful" - as well as several other new economic classics - into Czech. We talked about what it was like to live and work under a communist regime and what changed when the Iron Curtain fell and neo-liberalism crept into Czechoslovakia. Nadia also talked about the book she wrote titled Living in the Cracks, A Look at Rural Social Enterprises in Britain and the Czech Republic and her most recent project mapping the new economy in the Czech Republic to strengthen this emerging system and increase solidarity among new economic actors.

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0:00.0	We are currently fundraising for this project.
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0:10.3	Thank you.
0:12.0	Oh. Hello and welcome you are listening to an upstream interview which is part of the
0:37.6	Economics for Transition Project. My name is Dela Duncan and today I'm speaking with Nadia Yuhanesova who's part of the Department of Environmental Studies at Maasuric University in the Czech Republic.
0:57.0	Welcome, Nadia. Hi.
0:58.0	Nadia, let's just start with, will you tell us a little bit about your background
1:01.8	and how you came to do the work that you do?
1:04.0	Yes, I started out as an environmentalist and ecologist sometime in the 80s when my country was still under communist rule. I was always interested
1:16.9	in the environment but once the iron curtain came down I was very happy of course and I was looking forward to doing some things for the environment and so on. But suddenly I seemed to see a new ideology encroaching which was there coming in instead of the
1:35.9	communist ideology and it was a kind of free market ideology you could say and I
1:40.9	was quite baffled by it because I hadn't known I didn't know much about all
1:47.4	this and I didn't know how to react at that time I was leading an NGO because we then could already start our own independent voluntary organizations and I was working there actually professionally an environmental center and there was a lot of
2:06.7	projects coming in that we were struggling against such as new golf courses or new sort of Disneyland projects and all that suddenly coming in and I saw there was this sort of some kind of the economic system.
2:22.0	It wasn't really what I had thought would happen.
2:24.0	I had been much more optimistic. I was in my early 30s at that time.
2:28.0	And so what happened to me actually was in 1993 I got a chance to go to a place called Schumacher College in South England,
2:38.5	which is where we are doing our interview actually at the moment.
2:41.0	And I had a chance to listen to, go to a course to listen to people like
2:45.7	Kavanda Nashiva and others Hazel Henderson actually the American economist and suddenly I saw you could talk back to the economists.
2:56.6	And there is something called ecological economics, new economics, all these things.
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