Summary
Laurie Taylor talks to Vron Ware, Visiting Professor at the Gender Institute of the LSE, about the reality of living next to a huge army community in the UK. Talking to both sides of the divide, she explores the impact of the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain, an area of British countryside which is home to rare plants and wildlife. Is military occupation a positive asset in terms of conservation and ecology? Also, Sunaura Taylor, Assistant Professor in the Division of Society and Environment at UC Berkeley, describes environmental damage below the ground in Tucson Arizona and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican American community living above.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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| 0:53.5 | Hello, the recent announcement by Prime Minister Kier Stama |
| 0:57.9 | that defence spending was to be increased to 2.5% of GDP |
| 1:03.0 | might not, well in normal circumstances, have led me to ponder the human implications of such an increase. |
| 1:11.2 | But I've been reading an important new book, which documents in detail |
| 1:14.9 | the manner in which militarisation not only shapes the lives of humans, |
| 1:19.9 | but also the character and quality of the land on which they and other creatures live. |
| 1:25.8 | And that book is entitled England's Military Heartland, |
| 1:29.8 | Preparing for War on Salisbury Plain. |
| 1:33.1 | In its authors of Vron Weir, Antonia Lucia Dawes, Mithra Paria and Alice Cree, |
| 1:38.9 | and Vron Weir, who's a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, |
| 1:42.6 | is now with me in the studio. |
| 1:44.1 | So, Vron, your book, it's the culmination, I understand, of more than... visiting professor at the London School of Economics is now with me in the studio. |
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