Land and soil politics

Arts & Ideas

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Society & Culture

4.2 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

From nature as "a living whole" in the ideas of Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt to the "Blood and Soil" ideas of Nazi Germany: New Generation Thinker Jim Scown, from Cardiff University, traces the links between ideas about the order of nature to more troubling views about links with the land that led organic pioneer Jorian Jenks to refer to "alien hands" tilling "British soil".

Producer: Torquil MacLeod

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0:00.0	Can I just say?
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0:21.7	The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.
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0:31.7	Sort of expecting that every week now.
0:34.6	Hello, I'm Jim Scone, a new generation thinker working with Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities
0:41.4	Research Council to share some of my recent academic work. For this episode of the Arts and Ideas podcast,
0:48.7	I'll be talking about the surprising and sometimes unsettling links between George Elliott,
0:56.3	the early years of the Soil Association,
1:00.5	and the storming of the US Capitol in January 2021.
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1:11.8	Jacob Chansley was one of the first stormed the US Capitol building on the 6th of January 2021.
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