All Episodes

Jenni Viitala - Why is the Finnish government underwriting loans for mining in Ecuador?

María Soledad Paz - How many hundreds of liters of water does it take to produce 1 kg of avocados?!

Stefan Millar – Are refugee camps states of exception or encamped states?

Ortwin Renn - What hope do we have of tackling the polycrisis?

Thomas Reuter - Is extractivism at the heart of existential threats to the world?

Vivian Price - How can film help give labor a greater voice for a just energy transition?

TreesForDev - Aude Péronne & Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes - How can reciprocal labor be used to support communities and commons?

Tom Royer - How do the earth and space exist in a continuum of sustainability (or unsustainability)?

Sabaheta Ramcilović-Suominen - How can radical intraconnectedness help address the global polycrisis?

Georgia de Leeuw - How can psychoanalysis explain the Seductiveness of Extractivism and Techno-solutionism?

Markus Kröger - What path dependencies determine if a forest is Clearcut? (Clearcut book discussion)

Nikolai Siimes - How do microbes view the world?

Alexander Dunlap - How do we recognize the political occupation facilitating extractivism?

Taru Salmenkari - How has external civil society promotion met the local will to be global in China?

Markus Kröger and Manuela Picq - What strategies and lessons can resistance movements share?

Manuela Picq - What lessons can activists/resistance around the world learn from Ecuadorian water defenders?

Tiina Seppälä - What are some of the limitations and possibilities of arts-based research?

TreesForDev - Maria Holmberg and Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes - Is focusing on carbon capture the best way to inspire local engagement in tree planting?

Saana Hokkanen - If you are what you eat, shouldn’t we care more about how our food is grown?

Evan Sullivan - How was disability constructed after the Great War?

Sergio Fernández Bravo - How do pesticides exemplify the intersection of science and power?

Rauna Kuokkanen - What does Sámi democratic engagement in energy transition look like?

TreesForDev - Bruno Ramamonjisoa - How do plantations intersect with ecorestoration in Madagascar?

TreesForDev - Peter Dewees and Markus Kroger - What Drives Farmers to Cultivate Trees in their Farming Systems?

Jojo Mehta - Why is criminalizing ecocide a gamechanger for the planet?

Mario Blaser - How entangled are you in "infrastructures of displacement"?

TreesForDev - Marketta Vuola and Matthieu Pierre - How does tree planting actually work in different geographies of Madagascar?

Andrea Brock - Why were German police pepper spraying toilet seats in the Hambach forest?

TreesForDev - Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes and Steffen Boehm - How do carbon markets work (and do they actually work)?

TreesForDev - Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes and Forrest Fleischman - Is tree planting really a good idea everywhere?

Maija Lassila - How do new mining projects impact reindeer and reindeer herders?

Karen Nobre Krull - How is agroecology impacting livelihoods Amazonia areas in Pará State, Brazil?

TreesForDev - Linda Annala Tesfaye and Bikila Warkineh - How has Ethiopian tree planting impacted itself and its neighbors?

Marketta Vuola - How can rainforest "fortress conservation" approaches become dropping grenades from helicopters?

TreesForDev - Natacha Bruna and Ossi Ollinaho - How can carbon credits schemes actually exacerbate climate change?

TreesForDev - Marketta Vuola and Zo Randriamaro - Who actually benefits from tree planting in Madagascar?

Rubén Vezzoni - Are "green" hydrogen plans just outsourcing emissions to the Global South?

Xander Dunlap - How is this system killing us and what can we do?

TreesForDev - Ossi Ollinaho & Máriam Abbas - Are tree planting schemes in Mozambique stealing carbon credits from the poor to give to the rich?

TreesForDev - Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes & Markus Kröger - Can tree planting schemes tackle climate change?

Martta Kaskinen - How are radical feminists in Kenya making their voices heard?

Avi KBH - Why do we need to break away from a war narrative with "pests"?

Joonatan Ala-Könni - What can microclimates tell us about climate change?

(Belated) 4th Anniversary and a Look Forward at 2024

From the Cubby (pt. 2) - Why is inclusivity important for systems to work?

"From the Cubby" (Pt. 1) - What tales are coming from the modern streets of Canterbury?

Niti Bhan - How can trans-disciplinary innovation bridge knowledge systems around the world?

Ossi Ollinaho - How do you make destructive global patterns as relevant for people as a paycheck?

Eija Ranta - When Indigenous movements lead governments, what space do they take outside government?

Toni Ruuska - Is utopian degrowth a silver bullet for dystopian capitalism?

Kumbutso Phiri - What pushes (and pulls) 30,000+ kids to live on the streets of Lusaka?

FLASHBACK - Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes - Exploring the Pluriverse

Patience Mususa - Why did flourishing communities start to crumble in the Zambian Copper Belt?

Mariam Khawar - What voices have been overlooked in Islamic economic philosophy?

Barış Can Sever - Can human-scale agriculture make Anatolia a breadbasket again?

Mariko Frame - What is ecological imperialism? (And why is it a dirty word in some of US academia?)

Alexander Dunlap - Until You Become Ungovernable, Why Would Anyone Listen to You?

Ksenija Hanaček - How does resistance to extractivism turn out in the arctic?

3rd Anniversary BONUS - Extractivism in Pop Culture - Lord Of The Rings (Feat. Jesse Barber)

Jesse Barber - Why would Christians write pagan sagas in Scandinavia?

Usman Ashraf - Who could lose from planting billions of trees in Pakistan?

Sérgio Sauer - How have land struggles shaped social conflicts and extractivism in Brazil?

Syed Mustafa Ali and Dan McQuillan - Does Luddism hold lessons for resisting harmful tech paradigms?

Tim Oakes - How do big Chinese infrastructure projects impact people in China and around the world?

Gediminas Lesutis - How do people cope with precarity pushed by extractivism?

Tania Li - Why are plantations so destructive?

Teivo Teivainen - Do Finnish companies act like colonial powers in Uruguay?

Janne Salovaara - What is "sustainability" trying to sustain?

Anna Marjaana Heikkinen - Can traditional livelihoods survive climate change & mining in the Peruvian Andes?

Antti Tarvainen - Is settler colonialism at the heart of the US and Israeli tech sectors?

2 Year Anniversary - Barry K Gills - How has the world changed since EXALT began?

BONUS - Extractivism in Pop Culture - Dune: Part 1 (Two Year Anniversary Bonus Episode)

Robin Broad and John Cavanagh - Can local movements beat big companies?

Victoria Kiechel - How has extractivism become intertwined in our built environment?

Mira Käkönen - How do dams impact climate change?

Arturo Escobar - Why are communities key to transforming the world?

mirko nikolić - How do we dismantle our connections to extractivism?

Saskia Sassen - Why are there so many everyday miseries in big cities?

Beril Ocaklı - How has extractivism played out in Soviet and post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan?

Yafa El Masri - How can refugees save the world?

BONUS - Alexander Dunlap - What is the "World Eater"?

Alexander Dunlap - Is "green energy" really that green (and is it better called "fossil fuel plus")?

Josua Mata - How can labor movements help improve the environment?

Katherine Trebeck - Should the economy work for society and the environment?

BONUS Year 1 Retrospective (and Outtakes)

Markus Kröger - What is the best way to push for change?

Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias - How much of your life has Big Data colonized and extracted to the cloud?

Anja Nygren - How Does Extractivism Impact Frontier Families Over Generations?

Gutu Olana Wayessa - Why do people need to be consulted about big projects in their back yards?

Will LaFleur - What kind of connection do you have with your food?

Rachel Mazac - How does your dinner impact the world?

Maija Lassila - Extractivism Research and Breaking Away from the Written Word

Tom Marafa - Extractivism and Sense of Place in Ohio

Katy Machoa and Paola Minoia (English) - Eco-cultural pluralism, Extractivism, and the Kichwa people of Ecuadorian Amazonia

Katy Machoa and Paola Minoia (Español) - Eco-cultural pluralism, Extractivism, and the Kichwa people of Ecuadorain Amazonia

Katy Machoa and Paola Minoia (Original) - Eco-cultural pluralism, Extractivism, and the Kichwa people of Ecuadorian Amazonia

Sanna Komi - Conservation and Extractivism: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes - Exploring the Pluriverse

Aili Pyhälä - Activism, alternatives, and academia

Barry Gills (3) - A call to action

Barry Gills (2) - Three concepts to live by

Barry Gills (1) - What are extractivisms and alternatives?

Introduction