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CONTINENTAL SHIFT (4/4): Extraction North of Empire
In Canada, intensive resource extraction has long been baked into the country’s political economy and, arguably, to nation-building itself. Resource booms and policy choices have opened landscapes and livelihoods to large-scale mining and f
CONTINENTAL SHIFT (3/4): Extraction South of Empire
The ratification of NAFTA—the North American Free Trade Agreement—in 1994 transformed Mexico in profound ways. Over the next thirty years it deepened and expanded the resource frontier across the country, disproportionately benefiting natio
CONTINENTAL SHIFT (2/4): A (Not So) New Gold Rush
The term “critical minerals" suddenly seems to be all over the headlines. Securing access to this group of commodities, from familiar metals like lithium and copper to more obscure “rare earth elements” like yttrium, appears to be a growing
CONTINENTAL SHIFT (1/4): Free Market Fictions and Trade Frictions
Welcome to Continential Shift, a series from The Break—Down and Geopolitical Ecology, where we examine the global rush for critical minerals and the struggle for resource dominance on the North American continent. The phrase "trade regimes"
Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature w/ Alyssa Battistoni
In this episode we speak with Alyssa Battistoni about her most recent book, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature published back in August 2025 by Princeton University Press. Alyssa is a political theorist with research interest
Can the State Protect Nature? w/ Rosemary Collard and Jessica Dempsey
In this episode, we talk with Jessica Dempsey and Rosemary Collard about how to think about the capitalist state not as a unified actor, but as a contradictory and often incoherent set of institutions, practices, and relationships that both
Organizing the Tenant Class w/ Ricardo Tranjan
In this episode, we’re joined by Ricardo Tranjan, political economist and author of The Tenant Class (2023). Ricardo’s work reframes housing—not as a temporary crisis—but as a long-standing, for-profit system that deliberately extracts weal
Critical Minerals, Critical Conflicts w/ Emily Iona Stewart
In this episode, we speak with Emily Iona Stewart to unpack the complex and deeply political dynamics behind the global rush for critical minerals. Why are these minerals—like lithium, cobalt, copper, and nickel—so important? Where are they
Chennai Floods: a decade’s hindsight w/ Priti Narayan
In this episode, we speak with Priti Narayan about the devastating floods that hit Chennai, India—a city grappling with the compounding effects of climate change and urban inequality. Reflecting on the floods a decade later, Priti unpacks h
A state without borders; borders without states w/ Hicham Safieddine
I had the honor to host Dr. Hicham Safieddine, a brilliant Lebanese scholar and historian at the University of British Columbia. His work has included a detailed study of the emergence and transformation of global and national monetary regi
The Present Moment in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine w/ Karim Safieddine
A lot has happened and changed in Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine since we last spoke with Karim Safieddine over a month ago in our episode titled “Anti-Establishment Positions in Lebanon and Beyond.” So, we decided to have him back on to try
on fire
As wildfires rage across Los Angeles, Erika takes a moment to reflect on the personal and the political dimensions of this catastrophe. We urge listeners to think critically about the individuals and communities most impacted by this situat
Anti-Establishment Positions in Lebanon and Beyond w/ Karim Safieddine
Karim Safieddine is a PhD student interested in understanding the ways in which social movements, for what they represent in terms of various aspects of intellectual and organizational leadership, challenge or reproduce prevailing power rel
From Urbicide To Solidarity: the fight for Palestine from campus and beyond w/ Hammad Jabr
In this episode, we have a heartfelt and eye-opening conversation with Hammad Jabr, a dedicated Palestinian activist and emerging scholar whose work has been central to student organizing for Palestine at UBC and beyond. Hammad shares his j
a diasporic note
Tending to this podcast and putting out episodes, let alone tending to our daily responsibilities, has been incredibly challenging. Our hearts break every day as we witness not only the continuation, but also expansion, of genocide. This he
On Worldviews and Climate Justice w/ Osprey Orielle Lake
In this episode, we sit with Osprey Orielle Lake and dig into the topics she explores in her book The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis as well as her work with the Women's Earth and Clim
A People's Green New Deal w/ Max Ajl
In this episode, we sit with Max Ajl, author of A People’s Green New Deal (2021), to discuss a range of issues pertaining to climate justice. We discuss the GND’s (lack of) engagement with anti/imperialism, class struggle over the socializa
City Planning for Just Transitions w/ Holly Caggiano
Holly Caggiano is an Assistant Professor in Climate Justice and Environmental Planning at the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning. Her research explores social dimensions of climate transitions in the
Extreme heat and uneven urban development: Planning & community responses to climate adaptation w/ Sophie Van Neste
Sophie L. Van Neste is an associate professor in urban studies at INRS (Tiohtià:ke/Montreal), holder of a Canada research chair in urban climate action. Her research focuses on social movements in urban environmental politics and participat
On Extractivism & "Sustainable" Development w/ Philippe Le Billon & Erik Post
In this episode, we sit with Philippe Le Billon and Erik Post and discuss a wide array of topics all connected by a thread of seeing ‘sustainable development’ as yet another iteration in a long history of capitalist development. By examinin
Pipelines & Settler-Colonial Extractivism w/ Liam Fox
Liam is a PhD researcher in Geography at the University of Toronto and a volunteer tenant organizer in Vancouver. He’s interested in labor, community, and movement organizing strategy, and the politics of reproduction under capitalism. In t
