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¡Bienvenidos a todos! Bem-vindos! You are listening to Voc/zes, the University of Minnesota’s Spanish and Portuguese-language podcast. If this is your first time listening, thanks for tuning in. Our podcast is produced every other Thursday during the academic school year and features interviews with U of M students, alumni, Twin Cities community members and special guests. Gracias por escuchar. Obrigada por escutar.
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True Currency: About Feminist Economics is a six-part podcast hosted by artists Amy Feneck and Ruth Beale (The Alternative School of Economics), launching on 16 July, with a new episode released weekly. The outcome of an eight month residency, the podcast is produced in collaboration with Lucia Scazzocchio from Social Broadcasts, and presents detailed testimonials from academic researchers, policy experts, community leaders and activists; and explores financial inequality, feminism, intersec ...
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Episode 6: The Economy Is Still Happening
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The coronavirus pandemic has thrown light upon many of the issues covered so far in True Currency, from what is valued and measured as work, to inequalities, to the inadequacy of the current system to support everyone in society equally. Ruth and Amy catch up with speakers from the previous episodes to find out how lockdown has affected them, and w…
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What do we want the economy to be? How can we make a feminist economy? What does a feminist economy want? This episode looks at how feminist principals are used to shape research and economic policy, including the Women’s Budget Group’s commission for a Gender Equal Economy, as well as artists who are creating radical new spaces for rethinking what…
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Exploring the role unpaid care has in relation to women and work, this episode focuses on motherhood, and the profoundly shocking experience (for some) of infant dependency and the subsequent assertion of gender roles. It features mothers taking part in a workshop with Ruth and Amy at a local Children’s Centre, alongside academic Lisa Baraitser who…
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Episode 3: Worker Struggles (Part 2) - No Bad Whores, Just Bad Laws
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This is second part of Worker Struggles, centering on issues around women and paid work. Women working in the sex industry talk about their struggle to name sex work as work, meaning they can demand safer and fair working conditions. The episode also starts to unpack the idea of ‘reproductive labour’, a central idea in feminist thought, describing …
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Episode 2: Worker Struggles (Part1) - When Migrant Women Rise, We All Rise
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The first of two episodes which consider the different forms of waged work women do, 'When Migrant Women Rise, We All Rise' looks at the multiple layers of discrimination and exploitation affecting women in ‘feminised’ industries. Ruth and Amy visit the Women’s Strike in central London, and speak to workers and activists fighting for better working…
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This podcast series begins by asking 'What is feminist economics? How are women part of, and excluded from, the economy?', artists Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck (The Alternative School of Economics) start to unpack the issues around work, care and parenthood. Featuring members of the Women’s Budget Group; a Latin American parents group in Brixton; work…
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True Currency: About Feminist Economics is a six-part podcast hosted by artists Amy Feneck and Ruth Beale (The Alternative School of Economics), launching on 16 July, with a new episode released weekly. The outcome of an eight month residency, the podcast is produced in collaboration with Lucia Scazzocchio from Social Broadcasts, and presents detai…
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Episode 59: Voc/zes Finale ft. Francisco Estévez Valencia (SPAN)
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You are listening to the fifty-nineth episode of Voc/zes: el podcast de la U de M.This week, the Voc/zes team as you know it says goodbye! As we wrap up three seasons of podcasting, Steph and Liz reflect on what Voc/zes has been for them, highlighting some of their favorite moments and opportunities--from meeting interesting Spanish and Portuguese …
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You are listening to the fifty-eighth episode of Voc/zes: el podcast de la U de M.This week, we get to share Steph's interview with author and guest speaker at this year's Provost's Conversation Series, Francisco Cantú! Raised in the Southwest United States, Francisco developed an early fascination of the U.S.-Mexico border, later leading him to be…
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You are listening to the fifty-seventh episode of Voc/zes: el podcast de la U de M. Brought to you by… Liz, all the way from Santiago, Chile! This week, Liz had a chance to sit down with English professor, Andrea Farías, a colleague/mentor-teacher of her’s at Duoc UC. Follow along as Andrea and Liz talk about how Andrea developed her love for Engli…
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Episode 56: Ana Cláudia dos Santos São Bernardo (PORT)
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You are listening to the fifty-sixth episode of Voc/zes: el podcast de la U de M.On this week's pod, Steph and her colleague, Marilena Mattos, sit down with Ana Cláudia dos Santos São Bernardo, a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota and a fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change.Originally from Brazil, Ana Cláud…
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You are listening to the fifty-fifth episode of Voc/zes: el podcast de la U de M.This week, Steph sat down with old friend, Kelly McDonough, an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin. Kelly is also a Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Faculty Affiliate, and her research focuse…
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