Teaser - Lifemaking in the Margins of Urban Space w/ Kate Brown (04/13/26)

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🗓️ 12 April 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/155540630/ Beatrice speaks with Kate Brown about the history of mutual aid agriculture projects in the US and Europe after the enclosure of the commons, how autonomous community agriculture has historically been met with expulsion or co-optation by the state, and her book Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City. Find Kate Brown's book Tiny Gardens Everywhere here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781324105831 Runtime 1:20:10 MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523

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0:06.4	Welcome to the death panel.
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0:37.5	Death Panel underscore.
0:39.4	I'm Beatrice Siler Bolton and my guest today is Kate Brown.
0:42.6	Kate is a historian and author.
0:44.4	She is a professor in the history of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
0:48.2	and is the founding editor of History Unclassified, a section of the American Historical
0:52.9	Review.
0:53.8	She's also the author of several books, including Manual for Survival and Environmental
0:57.9	History of the Chernobyl Disaster, Plutopia, Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the
1:02.7	Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters.
1:05.4	And I've also asked her on the show to talk about her most recent book published in February
1:09.1	called Tiny Gardens Everywhere,
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