Circus AND Circuit: Unraveling Global Trade with Kate Foronda
Kate Foronda
20 episodes
1 week ago
In this episode, Kate Foronda explores the minerals that quietly power our world from lithium and cobalt to aluminium and rare earth elements. These resources drive electric vehicles, renewable energy, and artificial intelligence, but they also carry enormous environmental, social, and geopolitical costs. Kate shares insights from her travels across Chile, where she saw how mining has shaped communities from the oil fields of the south to the lithium basins of the north. She unpacks how...
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In this episode, Kate Foronda explores the minerals that quietly power our world from lithium and cobalt to aluminium and rare earth elements. These resources drive electric vehicles, renewable energy, and artificial intelligence, but they also carry enormous environmental, social, and geopolitical costs. Kate shares insights from her travels across Chile, where she saw how mining has shaped communities from the oil fields of the south to the lithium basins of the north. She unpacks how...
Episode 10, Part 2: Culture as a Commodity: Homogenization, Hybridization, Glocalization + Instagrammability
Circus AND Circuit: Unraveling Global Trade with Kate Foronda
12 minutes
4 months ago
Episode 10, Part 2: Culture as a Commodity: Homogenization, Hybridization, Glocalization + Instagrammability
From McDonald’s glocal menus and Netflix’s global programming to fashion mashups and Instagram-optimized spaces, global trade is reshaping not just how we consume culture — but what culture even is. In Part 1, we looked at how culture enters the market. Now in Part 2, we examine what happens after it’s sold. Join Kate Foronda as she breaks down the forces driving this transformation: #Homogenization – Is global trade making everything feel the same? #Hybridization – How blended traditio...
Circus AND Circuit: Unraveling Global Trade with Kate Foronda
In this episode, Kate Foronda explores the minerals that quietly power our world from lithium and cobalt to aluminium and rare earth elements. These resources drive electric vehicles, renewable energy, and artificial intelligence, but they also carry enormous environmental, social, and geopolitical costs. Kate shares insights from her travels across Chile, where she saw how mining has shaped communities from the oil fields of the south to the lithium basins of the north. She unpacks how...
