White Noise Collective is a volunteer anti-racist feminist collective. Since 2010, we have offered spaces for deep reflection, dialogue and political education to amplify racial justice action in our movements and our lives. Our work focuses on the patterns of interaction between white racial privilege and gender marginalization. Our core collective is made up of white trans nonbinary folks and cis women dedicated to growing movements for collective liberation. We are located in and recordin ...
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Interviews with researchers and PhD students to discuss their latest publications and engage with contemporary debates related to power and environment. Produced and hosted by Carmen Mapis and Noé Mendoza
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Archival Interview 5: Rascal Roubos, Zara Zimbardo and Toran Ailisheva
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Our beloved collective has made the difficult decision to sunset our organization this year (2023/2024), and to make space for other expressions of our work to continue to grow and iterate out in our movements in our lives. As a part of honoring our legacy, we are proud to share this conversation with close collaborator Rascal Roubos (they/them) an…
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Archival Interview 6: WNC New York Chapter with Lissa, Natalie, Sarah, Lexi and Kate
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Our beloved collective has made the difficult decision to sunset our organization this year (2023/2024), and to make space for other expressions of our work to continue to grow and iterate out in our movements in our lives. As a part of honoring our legacy, we are proud to share this conversation with WNC New York Chapter. Chapter leaders Lissa Van…
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Archival Interview 4: Reflections from close collaborators Ream, Cynthia Ashley and Josephine Radbill
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Our beloved collective has made the difficult decision to sunset our organization this year (2023/2024), and to make space for other expressions of our work to continue to grow and iterate out in our movements in our lives. As a part of honoring our legacy, we are proud to share this interview with from close collaborators of WNC, Ream (they/them),…
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Archival Interview 3: Zara Zimbardo and Toran Ailisheva
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Our beloved collective has made the difficult decision to sunset our organization this year (2023/2024), and to make space for other expressions of our work to continue to grow and iterate out in our movements in our lives. As a part of honoring our legacy, we are proud to share this conversation with core members Toran Ailisheva (they/them) and Za…
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Archival Interview 2: Julia Sebastian, Nicole Wires with Zara Zimbardo
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Our beloved collective has made the difficult decision to sunset our organization this year (2023/2024), and to make space for other expressions of our work to continue to grow and iterate out in our movements in our lives. As a part of honoring our legacy, we are proud to share this conversation with core members Julia Sebastian (she/her) and Nico…
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Archival Interview 1: Alex Marterre and Jay Tzvia Helfand
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Our beloved collective has made the difficult decision to sunset our organization this year (2023/2024), and to make space for other expressions of our work to continue to grow and iterate out in our movements in our lives. As a part of honoring our legacy, we are proud to share this interview with close collaborator Alex Marterre (they/them) and c…
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In this episode, senior researcher Bibhu Prasad Nayak explains some of the implications of granting rights to rivers in the case of India. Nature and society interactions became a field to explore power relations, governmental institutions, and legal initiatives involved in the process.
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Food security, food sovereignty, and collective action during the war in Ukraine with Natalia Mamonova
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Natalia Mamonova is a rural (political) sociologist with over 10 years of research experience in rural politics, agrarian transformation, social movements, food sovereignty, and right-wing populism in post-socialist Europe. Natalia is Senior Researcher at RURALIS, the Institute for Rural and Regional Research in Trondheim, Norway. Her current resea…
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Exploring Pluriversal Politics With Arturo Escobar
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In this episode, join us on a thought-provoking intellectual journey as we dive into the complex webs of social and environmental issues, exploring the pluriversal designs with Professor Arturo Escobar. In this captivating podcast series, Professor Escobar, a renowned scholar, and expert in post-development theory invites listeners to challenge con…
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The history of the North American 'Drug War'. An interview with Professor Oswaldo Zavala (part 2)
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Oswaldo Zavala, author of Drug cartels do not exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture. He is a Mexican who grew up in Ciudad Juárez – a city in the north of Mexico that stands next to El Paso, Texas. Oswaldo began his career as a journalist in his hometown Juárez, but his professional trajectory evolved towards researching post-national i…
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Mexican drug cartels don't exist. An interview with Professor Oswaldo Zavala (part 1)
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Oswaldo Zavala, author of Drug cartels do not exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture. He is a Mexican who grew up in Ciudad Juárez – a city in the north of Mexico that stands next to El Paso, Texas. Oswaldo began his career as a journalist in his hometown Juárez, but his professional trajectory evolved towards researching post-national i…
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Intersectionality in Feminist Political Ecology with Professor Andrea Nightingale
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In this episode, Professor Nightingale discusses feminist perspectives and Political Ecology from an anti-essentialist viewpoint. My name is Carmen Mapis, and I am a Ph.D. candidate for the Department of Urban Planning and Development at NMBU. I produce and interview different academics within the wide field of Political Ecology. In this episode of…
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Episode 5: Degrowth and the Future of Sustainable Planning
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Sustainability is one of the most used terms in projects and planning. In this episode professor Jin Xue reflects on the impacts and connections between dwelling development and planning on the environment and the climate. From a critical perspective, Xue explains her view on Political Ecology, Degrowth, and planning. Building a bridge between acad…
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Dewilding ‘Wolf-land’: Exploring the Historical Dimensions of Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in Ireland by Dara Sands
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In this episode Dara Sands, PhD candidate at NMBU-Noragric, is interviewed by Noé Mendoza to reflect on Dara's recent paper 'Dewilding ‘Wolf-land’: Exploring the Historical Dimensions of Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in Ireland by Dara Sands' where he examines 'historical drivers of change which disrupted a long history of human-wolf coex…
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Political Ecology: A breath of fresh air in academia by Alexander Dunlap
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In this interview, Carmen Beatriz M. Mapis interviews Alexander Dunlap who reflects on the links between Political Ecology, green solutions, decoloniality and anarchism. Foto: Scott (https://www.flickr.com/photos/snordq/8224007187/in/photolist-4B6Y9m-4B6Y9s-4B6Y9u-4B2QC8-4B2QCa-4B2LtB-4B2LtD-4B2QCe-4B2QCc-4B2QC6-gFuLK7-ceLYvE-6EHryc-91HbMW-2izuj3H-…
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Health Justice with Mordecai Cohen Ettinger
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“Health does not come out of a bottle, cannot be dispensed by a pharmacy, nor can it be easily or entirely defined by health experts. Health must be defined and informed by us and our wisdom, grounded in the totality of our own experiences, from the laboratory of our lives, our lived in and living bodies.” - excerpt from the Health Justice Commons …
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Herbalism, Healing and Liberation with Sarah Holmes
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We are grateful to connect with Sarah Holmes to feel into themes of healing, justice and transformation in relationship with land. Sarah identifies as white, femme, dyke, middle-aged and working class. She has been in private practice as an energetic, clinical herbalist since 1998. Our conversation is filled with rich story and lineage on themes of…
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Somatics for White Racial Justice Organizers with Dara Silverman and Amanda Ream
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Welcome to the White Noise Collective Podcast! This is our first episode, and we are so excited and grateful! We’ll begin with interviewing the powerful Amanda Ream and Dara Silverman, white racial justice organizers offering transformative somatic practices to our movements. We discuss their powerful contributions, in particular over the last year…
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Guided Contradictions Practice with Dara Silverman
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A guided somatic practice in tandem with Episode 1 with Dara Silverman, somatic coach and facilitator.By Jay
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Unfurling and Transforming White Shame Part 1 with Alex Marterre
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In this episode, we have the joy of interviewing long time White Noise Collective member, healer and organizer Alex Marterre. We explore tactics and stories to alchemize white shame for the sake of fortifying movements for racial justice. This is a conversion between all three of us, informed by years of relationship and organizing, about patterns …
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Dismantling Christian Hegemony with Paul Kivel
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In our second full length episode, we connect with friend and mentor of White Noise Collective, Paul Kivel. He shares about his journey in feminist and anti-racist organizing, grounded in decades-long movement building and educational work. We discuss the his recent focus on transforming patterns of Christian hegemony. You are welcome to this conve…
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Pluralistic Seed System Development: A Path to Seed Security? by Teshome Hunduma Mulesa
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In this episode, we meet Teshome Hunduma Mulesa, a Ph.D. candidate at Noragric who has been researching farmers’ SEED SECURITY, which is central to crop production for smallholder farmers in developing countries. In the article, Pluralistic Seed System Development: A Patch to Seed Security?, Teshome and colleagues analyze the performance of differe…
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Sovereign Forces: Everyday Challenges to Environmental Governance in Latin America by John A. McNeish
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In this interview John-Andrew McNeish, professor at the department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) at NMBU, discusses some insights of his new book Sovereign Forces: Everyday Challenges to Environmental Governance in Latin America. The book explores the role of sovereignty in environmental governance and peace-buildi…
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