System Change Made Simple
A phrase often used at climate actions is ‘system change not climate change’. This podcast explores that idea. What kind of system are we living with now? How do systems of exploitation come about? What options for a new system make sense? How could we make system change happen? Join me as I explore these questions. Get excited as we work out how we might make a fresh start. It could be a good idea to start with the first of these podcasts 'Capitalism: A Ghost Story' from July 4th 2022 and go on from there.
Podcasting since 2022 • 30 episodes
System Change Made Simple
Latest Episodes
Shooting the Messenger: An Inconvenient Truth
While environmental activism is dominated by the middle class, there are large sections of the middle class that are very hostile to the environmentalist movement. These are people in positions most closely allied to the operations of business ...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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51:54
Why the Working Class Hates Greenies
This podcast is based primarily on research conducted in the Hunter region of Australia. The working-class see environmentalists as members of a privileged middle class. They produce endless verbal exhortation but have no practical good sense. ...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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36:48
How Class Works Today
This first podcast in series five is about the way social class is constructed in our society today. I look at two major sources. John and Barbara Ehrenreich on the professional managerial class. Pierre Bourdieu on the mapping of social space –...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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43:34
Toxic Masculinity (second version)
The feminist psychoanalytic tradition provides an excellent account of ‘excessive’ aggression in human societies. In patriarchy, there's a particular pattern to how men are brought up as boys. From boys to men. It creates a psychology of ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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22:09
The Struggle for Survival
Most conservatives believe the sociological view of aggression is naïve. The theory of evolution shows us that animals only survive that are fit for the struggle. They urge us to admit that humans have a basic desire to harm other people – just...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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23:08