MEDIA INDIGENA 280
Added 2022-01-13 23:41:11 +0000 UTCThinking the Unthinkable / MI 280
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Colonial catastrophising. How would you write a eulogy for the United States? Didn’t realize it was on death’s door? Guess you didn’t read the Globe and Mail over the holidays, when it published no less than six opinion pieces postulating no less than an imminent U.S. civil war. A civil war most agreed Canada needs to plan for. But is this really the twilight’s last gleaming for U.S. Empire? Would American apocalypse trigger Canadian cataclysm?
Joining host/producer Rick Harp to flesh out these fretful settler scenarios and what they might (or might not) imply for Indigenous interests on both sides of the border are Ken Williams, assistant professor with the University of Alberta’s department of drama and Kim TallBear, U of A professor in the Faculty of Native Studies and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment.
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LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THIS EPISODE:
>>> The Globe and Mail Opinion pieces (in chronological order):
• Stephen Marche: 2022 is the year America falls off a cliff. How will Canada hang on?
• Thomas Homer-Dixon: The American polity is cracked, and might collapse. Canada must prepare
• Michael Adams: We’re witnessing the continuing cultural divergence of Canada and the United States
• John Ibbitson: If the next presidential election reveals the U.S. hurtling toward possible violence and autocracy, should Canada try to intervene?
• Globe Editorial Board: With Donald Trump lurking, is the U.S. sleepwalking toward calamity?
• Andrew Coyne: Chaos is coming to the U.S. What will Canada become?
>>> Other links:
• US Power Will Decline Under Trump, Says Futurist [Johan Galtung] Who Predicted Soviet Collapse VICE
• Late Escapism and Contemporary Neoliberalism: Alienation, Work and Utopia Routledge
• VIDEO: "Ralph Nader, 'To the Ramparts'" Book TV
• "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens" Perspectives on Politics
• VIDEO: 'The Sound of the Dying Dinosaur: Michael Moore in Trumpland' YouTube
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