Against the Grain – August 31, 2009
U.C. Santa Barbara sociologist Avery Gordon discusses the value of utopianism to leftist projects.
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 – August 26, 2009
U.C. Santa Cruz professor Dana Frank comments on the recent coup in Honduras and its aftermath, and also talks about her book "Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California's Kitsch Monuments."
Against the Grain – August 25, 2009
Susan Crate and Kate Watters have written about several environmental justice struggles in the new volume "Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union."
Against the Grain – August 24, 2009
In Arthur Miller's classic play "Death of a Salesman," Richard Lichtman sees a number of Marxist and psychoanalytic themes illustrated and illuminated.
Against the Grain – August 19, 2009
Philosopher and author George Caffentzis critiques Peak Oil and describes how Enclosures continue to devastate workers around the globe.
Against the Grain – August 18, 2009
A conversation about the history of the environmental movement in the Bay Area with Richard Walker and host Sasha Lilley.
Against the Grain – August 17, 2009
Andrej Grubacic talks about historical intersections of anarchism and Marxism and why a synthesis would benefit the Left.
Against the Grain – August 12, 2009
Raewyn Connell discusses the role that males could and should play in efforts to achieve gender equality, and identifies what militates against men and boys making wider commitments to gender reform.
Against the Grain – August 11, 2009
Ian Illuminato describes the threats that nanotechnology poses to people and the environment. And Mark Schapiro contrasts the European Union's regulation of toxic chemicals in everyday products with the US approach.
Against the Grain – August 10, 2009
U.C. Berkeley professor Susan Schweik discusses her new book "The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public."