Interacting Minds
Interacting Minds is an interdisciplinary research podcast hosted by Kirsi Tilk, Arnault-Quentin Vermillet and Savhannah Schulz. In each episode, they are joined by fellow interdisciplinary researchers to explore and discuss the work they have been doing and share a glimpse of the journey that brought them there.
Sound engineer : Kirsi Tilk
Music : Simon Karg
Interacting Minds
Infrastructural Cascades (Pierre du Plessis & Zachary Caple)
The 4th season of the Interacting Minds Podcast introduces 3 research projects chosen for the 2024 IMC Postdoc Training Programme. The participants introduce what they worked on, the outcome of the projects, and possible benefits for the future.
In this episode we take a look at how capitalist development, hereunder infrastructure, changes our environment and poses a threat to the local ecological balance. The three main locations for this research are Botswana, Canada and Spain.
Pierre du Plessis is an environmental anthropologist and multispecies ethnographer whose research has focused on practices of tracking and gathering as methods and analytics for understanding landscape change. His current research tracks how industrial beef production transforms landscapes in southern Africa and Europe.
Zachary Caple is an environmental anthropologist at Aarhus University, Denmark and a 2023/24 ACLS Fellow. His forthcoming book The Human Asteroid Strikes Florida: The Mining Landscapes and Anthrobiogeochemistry of Phosphorus investigates the human-altered phosphorus cycle as an agent of multispecies landscape change in Florida.
Produced by Kirsi Tilk
Music by Simon Karg
Find more information at interactingminds.au.dk/podcastv
