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Welcome to Human Rights in a New Key! Our podcast centers student perspectives and voices, including contemporary student voices at UChicago and beyond, placing them alongside and in dialogue with...
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Welcome to Human Rights in a New Key!
Our podcast centers student perspectives and voices, including contemporary student voices at UChicago and beyond, placing them alongside and in dialogue with those of activists, academics, and other human rights experts. Several of the episodes feature students, and all our episodes have passed through the hands of UChicago student co-hosts, editors, and reviewers, with the Pozen Center for Human Rights our project’s primary supporter. We hope to showcase a breadth of human rights issues, while simultaneously tying them together through lived experience and personal stories of our guests.
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Our podcast centers student perspectives and voices, including contemporary student voices at UChicago and beyond, placing them alongside and in dialogue with those of activists, academics, and other human rights experts. Several of the episodes feature students, and all our episodes have passed through the hands of UChicago student co-hosts, editors, and reviewers, with the Pozen Center for Human Rights our project’s primary supporter. We hope to showcase a breadth of human rights issues, while simultaneously tying them together through lived experience and personal stories of our guests.
Human Rights in a New Key
Human Rights in a New Key
Re-integrating Ex-militants, Postwar Colombia
6 MAR 2023 · In this episode, Manaeha and Matt speak with Erin McFee and Arturo Gutierrez de Velasco. Erin is the Principle Investigator of Trust after Betrayal (https://www.trustafterbetrayal.org/), a project that examines interpersonal trust among violence-affected individuals in communities where actors from all sides of the conflicts live together. Their multi-sited ethnography spans across former members of non-state armed groups in Somalia, Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador, and military veterans in the United States. They focus on Colombia, which is where Arturo, a 3rd year student at the college, did research over the summer. As a Pozen human rights intern, he helped conduct interviews with ex-militants in Colombia. They discuss what the Trust after Betrayal Project is, why it is important, and the nuance and complexity that goes into interviewing and researching ex-militants. Let’s hear from them!
References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSeIpyHd_Cg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QJokd5ogJs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LXXKfPR3vc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGmqZFM923A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM_SRfM_mAQ
Bahai Solidarity in the Face of State-led Persecution
27 FEB 2023 · In this episode, Manaeha and Matt interview Roja Fazaeli and a member of the Baha'i community. We will be referring to him as “A”, as he has requested to remain anonymous in light of the possible threat to himself and his family this interview might pose.
Roja Fazaeli is an Associate Professor in Islamic Civilisation, Near & Middle Eastern Studies at Trinity College Dublin. A is a refugee of the Baha'i community living in the US. We are going to provide an overview of what the Baha'i faith is and who its people are. We start with an explanation of Bahaism and its emergence in Iran, then we go to why the Iranian state sees the Bahai as such a fundamental threat to its regime, still acknowledging that the state is different from its people, and there is hope for Baha'is especially within the younger generations to resist anti-baha’i propaganda. We end with ways the Bahai create community in their daily lives, a way they can resist the horrible oppression and constant persecution they face. Now this episode might contain a lot of jargon that you might not be familiar with, but we encourage you to push yourself to stick around anyway. The least we can do is listen and validate the struggles the Baha’i community is facing.
References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzQogs8kLCg
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/267123
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtA19ecoqvw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIj0OJvVW9k&
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmNWatW17kc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwU_egPuVa4
http://iranpresswatch.org/post/23047/truth-behind-iranian-state-tvs-dramatic-report-bahai-kindergartens/
https://iranbahaipersecution.bic.org/
https://www.bahai.org/
Activism and China’s Techno-totalitarianism
20 FEB 2023 · In this episode, Manaeha and Matt share their interview with Dr. Teng Biao, academic lawyer and human rights activist for China. Dr. Biao has defended cases involving freedom of expression, religious freedom, the death penalty, Tibetans, and Uyghurs. He has also provided counsel in numerous other human rights cases. They talk about his work as an activist and his research into high tech totalitarianism in China. Listeners sensitive to content about physical abuse or torture are advised to maybe skip this episode or listen carefully.
References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SBnK9XIlZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ1udJvvXPo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umg4k4U8kWM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSbx352cn8A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV2hMwRFeu4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GraR188PTwo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X8MT3BDOTI
https://www.nchrd.org/2020/10/briefing-chinese-courts-punish-peaceful-expression-while-environmental-activists-detained-and-12-hongkongers-charged/
Entangling Human and Animal Rights in US Industrial Farms
13 FEB 2023 · Listen to Manaeha and Matt and their interview with Dr. Alex Blanchette, a Professor in the department of anthropology at Tufts University, who got his PhD at UChicago. His book Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life is an ethnography of work within some of the world's largest meat corporations. Big thank you to Dr. Blanchette for giving his time and sharing some of his personal experiences regarding his research into American factory farms. They talk about manure lagoons, concentrated feed lots, and hopefully this episode starts a much needed conversation about what workers as well as animals endure in and surrounding industrial farms in the US.
References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3isAoJqqmg
https://youtu.be/Ia3abCiYX3w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHosjIWdqRk&
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2Q6e_hDhGo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpI0R17Sdq8
https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12491
https://www.livescience.com/brothers-die-manure-pit-fumes-toxic.html
Archiving Incarceration and Prisoner Unrest
6 FEB 2023 · Welcome to Human Rights in a New Key! In this episode, Manaeha and Matt share their interview with Ryan Fatica and R. Knoll, representatives of the Perilous Collective, talking about prison unrest and solidarity in the US. Perilous is a proletarian research project working on archiving the experiences of prisoners and instances of prisoner unrest in North America for activists and researchers to use to attack the incarceration system. Listeners can support Perilous project through Patreon or by making a one time donation via PayPal at https://perilouschronicle.com/donate/ CORRECTION: Tesfa Miller was incarcerated at Etowah County Jail in Alabama, not Cook County Jail.
References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu0gQKjQUbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0XFWT2XvCs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7HHmHvVPpc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTeSTRiKC6Q
https://anchor.fm/perilous-chronicle/episodes/Interview-with-Etowah-County-Jail-ICE-detainee-Tesfa-Miller-ed0b8q/a-a1vpsth
Indigeneity in Academia
29 JAN 2023 · Manaeha and Matt share their interview with Leila K Blackbird and Leah Horowitz in this episode. Leila K. Blackbird is a PhD Candidate in the subject of U.S. History and the Pozen Family Human Rights Doctoral Fellowship Coordinator. Her research focuses on (post/de) colonialism, slavery, state violence, and the environment. Leah Horowitz is currently at the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin Madison, using ethnographic methods to examine grassroots engagements with environmental issues, especially with regards to Indigenous communities’ negotiations with and resistance to environmentally risky industrial expansion. Both Leila and Leah share their personal experiences being indigenous and working on indigeneity, respectively, especially in Academia. It can be hard, maybe even counterintuitive, to be having a discussion on indigeneity from the context of a colonial institution. How can we strive to be anti-colonial at UChicago and other institutions? Leila and Leah offer their wisdom and share specifics about their respective works to try to explore this question.
References:
The Plantation-to-Petrochemical Complex in Cancer Alley,” in Bulbancha is Still a Place: Indigenous Culture from Louisiana, vol. 3 (New Orleans: Issuu/POCZP, 2021).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Alley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdR9HcmiXLA&
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aHH_iYNecU&
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm-hs5b6t2c&
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_mining_in_New_Caledonia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBiT5nJgHEQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_New_Caledonian_independence_referendum#:~:text=An%20independence%20referendum%20was%20held,56.7%25%20and%2053.3%25%20respectively
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRWq1bkxoNY
Episode 0: Introducing the Hosts
29 JAN 2023 · Welcome to Human Rights in a New Key! This episode is a little trailer/table of contents with a little something from each of our 6 episodes. We would recommend listening to it first to get an overview of the season, and then choosing what episodes interest you to listen to!
Welcome to Human Rights in a New Key! Our podcast centers student perspectives and voices, including contemporary student voices at UChicago and beyond, placing them alongside and in dialogue with...
show more
Welcome to Human Rights in a New Key!
Our podcast centers student perspectives and voices, including contemporary student voices at UChicago and beyond, placing them alongside and in dialogue with those of activists, academics, and other human rights experts. Several of the episodes feature students, and all our episodes have passed through the hands of UChicago student co-hosts, editors, and reviewers, with the Pozen Center for Human Rights our project’s primary supporter. We hope to showcase a breadth of human rights issues, while simultaneously tying them together through lived experience and personal stories of our guests.
show less
Our podcast centers student perspectives and voices, including contemporary student voices at UChicago and beyond, placing them alongside and in dialogue with those of activists, academics, and other human rights experts. Several of the episodes feature students, and all our episodes have passed through the hands of UChicago student co-hosts, editors, and reviewers, with the Pozen Center for Human Rights our project’s primary supporter. We hope to showcase a breadth of human rights issues, while simultaneously tying them together through lived experience and personal stories of our guests.
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