Against the Grain – February 11, 2013
Medical anthropologist Marcia Inhorn discusses the return of many infertile Muslim and Arab couples to their countries of origin for treatment.
Against the Grain
12:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays - Wednesdays
Acclaimed program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on a variety of matters—political, economic, social, and cultural—important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is produced and hosted by Sasha Lilley.
Against the Grain – February 6, 2013
Alexander Poster speaks about the political uses of US disaster aid.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – February 5, 2013
Marxist georgrapher David Harvey, author of “The Enigma of Capital,” speaks about capitalism, crisis, and urbanization.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – February 4, 2013
Historian of science Robert Proctor, author of “Golden Holocaust,” discusses why cigarettes may be the world’s deadliest invention in this encore presentation.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – January 30, 2013
Roderick A. Ferguson, professor of race and critical theory, explores how the demands of social movements for the inclusion of women and people of color in the academy were absorbed by universities, capital, and the state.
Against the Grain – January 29, 2013
Several highlights from the past year, including David Hawkes on money, Suzanne Guerlac on the “open society,” Eric Keenaghan on Emerson and “the common,” Julie Guthman on food politics, and Jessica Henry on “death-in-prison” sentences.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – January 28, 2013
Performance artist and poet Shailja Patel discusses the experience of migration and empire, as refracted through her own life and that of her family, Kenyans of South Asian descent.
Against the Grain – January 23, 2013
Koohan Paik describes this nation’s anti-China stance, its militarization of the Asia-Pacific region, and grassroots resistance in South Korea and beyond. Also, Part Two of an interview with Ron Glass about the Brazilian educator and thinker Paulo Freire.
Against the Grain – January 16, 2013
UC Santa Cruz professor Ron Glass discusses the ideas of Paulo Freire, the Brazilian educator and philosopher who authored the seminal volume “Pedagogy of the Oppressed.”