Against the Grain

11.23.10 - 12:00pm

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11.22.10 - 12:00pm

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Does buying fair trade products really help agricultural workers? Sarah Besky has done extensive fieldwork on tea plantations in Darjeeling, India.

11.15.10 - 12:00pm

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Resource economist Eugene Coyle and geographer David Harvey speak, respectively, about about cutting the work week and organizing ourselves for life after capitalism.

11.10.10 - 12:00pm

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Jodi Dean, a political scientist at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, discusses her new book “Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics.”

11.09.10 - 12:00pm

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11.08.10 - 12:00pm

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Mark Sawyer examines factors that inhibit Latino-Black collaboration, including anti-Black racism among many Latinos, African American parochialism, and narrow visions of racial/ethnic identity. He also identifies points of commonality and convergence.

11.03.10 - 12:00pm

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Betsy Hartmann, director of the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College, speaks with Sasha Lilley about whether overpopulation is the cause of global warming and the destruction of natural ecosystems.

11.02.10 - 12:00pm

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James Russell describes the ideological forces and financial interests behind the promotion of 401(k) plans at the expense of traditional pension systems and Social Security.

11.01.10 - 12:00pm

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Kevin Anderson, author of “Marx at the Margins,” discusses Karl Marx’s lesser known writings on race and ethnicity, the non-Western world, and multiple trajectories of historical development.

10.27.10 - 12:00pm

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In his new book “Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology,” Jonathon Keats considers the origins, uses, and social impact of terms like “microbiome,” “copyleft,” “Panglish,” and “singularity.”