REAL / SYMBOL

Jan 20 2023 2

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This podcast explores the real and symbolic questions of land and gentrification and displacement in our urban context. We invite you into layers of conversation, storytelling, poetry and reflection with a variety of voices - local residents, activists, researchers, artists and theologians to explore the impacts of real and symbolic displacement on communities, how the value of land goes way beyond its economic value and how communities are responding with symbolic and real acts of defiance, imagination and hope.

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Episode 3: The Art of the Radical Ordinary

Jan 20 2023 99 mins

In our third and final episode of the Real / Symbol series, we explore how communities are cultivating a collective sense of right to land through real and symbolic acts of defiance, survival and hope. Through conversations with community members, activists, organisers and academics from around the world, we see how this is embodied through…More

Episode 2: Land, Place, Roots

Oct 04 2022 88 mins

In our often enclosed narratives of extraction and profit, we have allowed the logic of capitalism to tell us what’s possible, but our imaginations can and must stretch further. As we listen to the experiences of community members in Shieldfield and beyond, we invite listeners to expand and reimagine our collective responsibilities to the land and to each other through ideas of c

Episode 1: Even the trees are being displaced

Dec 08 2021 72 mins

In this episode we start at the beginning by exploring how the process of development has deeply affected the neighbourhood of Shieldfield (and neighborhoods like it) and how these processes have caused not just physical displacement but also emotional and spiritual displacement. We also ask you to consider how the processes of development are affecting your community. What are the