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The offical podcast of https://www.critical-theories-of-place-studies.org/The project 'Womanism, positivism, and the origins of decolonial feminism: critical theories of place studies' is an exploration of the lives of women of the long nineteenth century. It situates them within the storied places where they courageously challenged the colonial/ modern gender system, or the oppressive structures of Eurocentric global capitalism that for five-hundred years destroyed communities, their cosmologies, and the planet. Each counterstory relays how protagonists created anti-positivist spaces across ...

A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby’s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism.

Three great historians write compelling, relevent biographies of three of our most important and famous presidents in this collection of Eminent Lives Michael Korda brings his acclaimed storytelling talents to the life of Ulysses S. Grant—a man who managed to end the Civil War on a note of...

Welcome to Parse, the official podcast of the Elahe Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of Toronto! In Persian, “Parse” means strolling or wandering around as an observer of contemporary life and modernity. In a similar spirit, our podcast Parse aims to take our listeners on an intellectual stroll in the field of Iranian Studies. Join Parse's host, Yasamin Jameh, in exploring and understanding the ideas of leading thinkers, academics, and authors in Iranian Studies.

Are dolphins highly intuitive beings with a unique duty in the oceans? Is plastic off-gassing into our food poisoning us? Can breathing steamed bamboo leaves treat asthma? Did the First Nations Peoples have the right philosophies for harmonious living all along? All this and more is answered in this extraordinary conversation. Author and journalist Penelope Jean Hayes poses questions to Pax, channeled by intuitive Carole Serene Borgens, about plant-based diets and medicines, the best-practices of indigenous and First Peoples, and the profound wisdom of animals.