It is December 21st, 2023. For the Western world and many others around the globe, it's a time of celebrations, generosity, and reflection. Yet in Gaza, there is no time or reason to celebrate: for it is simply day 75 of the War on Gaza. Survival is the only thing that matters for more than 2 million Palestinians, half of which are children. With more than 30,000 civilians killed, and almost 2 million displaced, the Israeli campaign of ethnic cleansing continues to push Gazaouis to the southernmost reaches of the strip, with no way out and no escape from the incessant bombs, ground incursions, starvation policies, and rampant diseases. We call on our governments and organisations everywhere to push for a lasting, meaningful, and immediate ceasefire, as well as liberation and justice from occupation. Listen in as we're joined by Dr. Zachary Foster, Scholar in Middle Eastern Studies and Historian of Palestine. We talk: Palestinian identity, the history of Israeli occupation, the origins of the Zionist movement, British colonial support for Israel and its anti-semitic foundations, important chapters of the occupation, the history of Hamas and its changing objectives and structures, enduring historical myths, UN action on Palestine through history, the siege of Gaza, and of course the current war on Gaza of 2023. You can find Zachary on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/_ZachFoster And his amazing site + newsletter, Palestine in Your Inbox, here: https://palestinenexus.com/ Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next! Links to all streaming platforms and socials: linktr.ee/risingwiththetide Song for the episode: "Lakeer Kay Fakeer" by Omar Siddiqi, please do go check out their music! (n.b.: end of episode music has been changed slightly to loop over the conclusion).

Summer is over! (Though it seems there's no end to the heat!) Listen in as we're joined by Kai Heron, Lecturer in political ecology at Lancaster Univerity We talk: Public/Commons partnerships, Agroecology, Revolutionary Strategy, Eco-Leninism, Degrowth, Agrarian question in the UK, the State as a terrain of struggle, Global South extractivism, Effective social change tactics, Time constraints on Climate Change, Access to nature in the UK, and even Twitter Banana 'discourse'!   You can find Kai on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/KaiHeron  And Kai's research here: https://lancaster.academia.edu/KaiHeron  Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next! Links to all streaming platforms and socials: linktr.ee/risingwiththetide Song for the episode: "Unlawful Execution" by The Chisel. Go check out their amazing music!

Elle Salmansperger joins us on the show!   We talk: Lützerath, social struggles, political emancipation, energy politics, German elections, forest protests, barricades & campsites, media narratives, what it takes to fight against the capitalist/extractivist machine, police and state violence, treehouses & much more!   You can find Elle on instagram here And trusted Lützi outlets here (Lutzi website), here (Lutzi art) & here (Lutzi news/info) Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next! Links to all streaming platforms and socials: linktr.ee/risingwiththetide Song for the episode: "Mili-Tanz" by Ramu, their IG is here & their bandcamp is here. Go check out their kickass music! Thank you Ramu!   Lützi lives on! Solidarität!

David E. Gilbert joins us on the show!   We talk: barricades, anarchy, social movements, worker actions in indonesia, the university system, capitalism, academia, protests, France, reclaiming land, connections, transformative change, performative actions, the Iraq War & much more!   You can find David on twitter - here Or on his research page - here Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next! Links to all streaming platforms and socials: linktr.ee/risingwiththetide Song for the episode: "You are not a riot" by The Coup

Song for the episode: Youtube: "Virgen y Volcán" by Grecia Albán  Spotify: "Virgen y Volcán" by Grecia Albán    In this episode, we welcome Patricia Castillo-Briceno, Principal Research Professor at ULEAM! We discuss her work on marine life physiology and environmental regulators, the details and ethics of such work, and how climate change is affecting everything from coral reefs to marine iguanas. Patricia also touches on her work as board member for the Organisation for Women in Science for the Developping World, the importance of representation and inclusion, and how to recognise crayfish by their behaviour!    You can find Patricia on twitter - here Or on her research page - here Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next! Links to all streaming platforms and socials: linktr.ee/risingwiththetide  

In this episode Jamie and Skander discuss bioacoustics, citizen science, bird conservation and the ins and outs of field work with bird-expert and scientist Vijay Ramesh from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.   You can find more of his work here - and Vijay himself on twitter @vjjan91

Your hosts Jamie and Skander welcome Zachary Foster to the show, a Historian of Palestine and scholar of Middle East History.   We discuss the history of Palestine, what it means to be Palestinian, Zachary's work in obtaining elusive or forgotten documents and records, and much more around the idea of identity, place, and belonging.    You can find Zach on Twitter - @_zachfoster Or on his website! Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next! Links to all streaming platforms and socials: linktr.ee/risingwiththetide Song for the episode: "Chill in Lydda" by Hazy Noir and Djamil

50 Conversations! That's what this beautiful talk with Jason W. Moore marks for your two curious hosts. Thank you so so much for giving us your time and attention, and for listening to our silly rants and constant tangents. And a huge thank you to every one of our fifty guests for coming along and putting up with us!   In this milestone episode, your hosts find a strange tree in their backyard. So they begin digging to see where its roots lie. But as the hole gets deeper, the roots show no sign of thinning or ending; they curl and twist and entangle and as the ground caves in, an subterranean wonder comes to light. As they explore these mysterious tunnels of endless roots and otherworldly sights, they run across Professor Jason W. Moore, an apparent connoisseur of this strange and wonderful web of life. As they walk along, Jason recounts the often-hushed history of our world: the importance of 1492 in capitalism's history, the constructed divide of Humans/Nature as a way to extend frontiers of capital accumulation, and how these extend into our present.  They discuss the faulty concept of the Anthropocene and Jason's suggested alternative, the Capitalocene, as well as the idea of understanding Capitalism as a world-ecology, that is a system that engulfs and extends beyond mere economy, affecting the entirety of the web of life on Earth. Though they had to end their walk & talk due to Skander's sore calves, the trio managed to quickly touch on questions of Degrowth, academic sectarianism, and Scientism. As Jason points them to a ladder leading back to their yard, your hosts feel encouraged by the professor's writings and reflections to better understand the history of our world, to delve deeper into the roots of our crises, and to seek solutions which better embolden the struggle of life against death and profit.   You can find Jason on Twitter - @oikeios Or on his website! Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next! Links to all streaming platforms and socials: linktr.ee/risingwiththetide Or head to our website! www.risingwiththetide.org Song for the episode: "So What" by Pinegrove

Welcome to episode 39! Or is it 49 with the prequels? Does it even matter!  Your hosts literally punch through exam season as they metaphorically crawl out of May. It's summer, it's brighter, its hotter, as climate change makes itself seen and felt, one big question we've got is what are we doing about it? More precisely, what are the BIG boys/gals/NBs doing about it all; are our big environmental NGOs (BINGOs) really fixing the world? To get a better idea about this topic and more, we journey to the sunny coast of Brighton to meet with Paul Gilbert, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex. Paul describes to us the recent history of BINGOs, and where they stand today in terms of the conservation scene and extractivist policies. We discuss scandals of 'green violence' which saw NGOs fund extremely violent tactics of land management, how companies are now attempting to quantify 'political risk' and even selling insurance for it, and what avenues could be taken to improve BINGO impacts or at the very least hold people accountable for the criminal or inhumane tactics they use under the guise of conservation of the environment.    Paul's research calls on us to think more critically about the giants' supposed environmental stewardship, their overwhelming influence, and the very real disconnect between BINGOs' public image 'at home' and their often-disastrous policies in some of the world's most biodiverse and important spaces.   You can find Paul on Twitter - @paulrgilbert Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next! Links to all streaming platforms and socials: linktr.ee/risingwiththetide Or head to our website! www.risingwiththetide.org Song for the episode: "My Queen Is Ada Eastman" by Sons of Kemet

As Jamie gets an urgent call to attend the Queen's secret funeral, Skander must respond to the bat signal on his lonesome. But fear not, his journey to the Appalachia goes without a problem, and before he knows it your host is hiking through the mountain-tops of West Virginia with Nicholas Stump, author of "Remaking Appalachia". Nicholas discusses his upbringing and inspirations through Appalachia's rich history of labour and anti-extractive movements. His book makes an argument for an ecosocialist, ecofeminist, Appalachia which truly confronts and tackles its fossil fuel production problem and capitalist system. Our conversation ranges from the insanely-destructive mountain-top removal explosions and their effects on people and nature, to the failings of environmental law in the United States and Appalachia, as well as its potential for being repurposed into a potent tool for climate crisis action. Appalachia is a vast land, which people of all sorts call home. Its fossil fuel industry and the capitalist economic system have been devastating for the region. Nicholas makes a thought-through argument for a new vision of Appalachia, which honours its deep and revolutionary traditions, while looking to the future for a brighter path. You can find Nicholas on Twitter - @nicholasfstump Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next! Links to all streaming platforms and socials: linktr.ee/risingwiththetide Or head to our website! www.risingwiththetide.org Song for the episode: "Whiskey and Sin" by the Wild Rumpus  

Spring comes around and the scenery around us comes alive once again! Jamie accidentally falls into a river and, feeling wronged by Mother Nature, decides its time to learn about them. Know thy enemy, I guess. Your hosts depart for the eastern parts of India where they're gracefully welcomed by Rahul Ranjan, postdoc fellow at Oslo Met Univeristy.  Rahul's research on the rights of rivers, and its intersections with political struggles in India is invaluable. Our discussion touches on the insurrectionary figure of Birsa Munda, politics of anti-coloniality and anti-authoritarianism, what it means for rivers and water to have 'rights', as well as the role memory and manners of remembrance play in how we memorialise people and events. We trek back to our respective homes with a newfound appreciation of the complexities of our rivers, too often thought of as 'just' a river, and a glimpse into India's brutal, yet inspiring past through Indigenous memory. You can find Rahul on Twitter - @Ranjana_Rahul Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next! Links to all streaming platforms and socials: linktr.ee/risingwiththetide Or head to our website! www.risingwiththetide.org Song for the episode: "Yesterday Once More" by The Carpenters

After a hearty break, your hosts come back reinvigorated and ready to tackle some more topics they themselves know literally nothing about. We travel to the lands of Western Sahara with the help of Joanna Allan, Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University, to learn about energy, poetry, and the remnants of colonialism in Africa. Of course, as critical geography studies, neo-colonialism scholars and others have repeatedly proven, colonialism never really went away. It took on different forms, sometimes less overt, sometimes under different names. But Western Sahara still stands as a living, breathing, example of colonialism. Joanna runs us through a brief history of the Saharawi people and their fight for independence, as well as Spain, Morocco and Mauritania's colonial efforts to keep the Saharawi under their boot as a colony - even today.    We learn from Joanna about oil and wind energy politics in the region, how Saharawi poetry - entrenched in their culture and livelihood - affects and resists the invasions of the land by transnational wind turbine companies, and the gender dynamics behind complex social conflicts in the lands of the Sahara. The Saharawi fight on for a free Western Sahara, where their poetry and ways of life may prosper.   You can find Joanna on Twitter - @Joanna_Allan   Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next! Links to all streaming platforms and socials: linktr.ee/risingwiththetide Or head to our website! www.risingwiththetide.org Song for the episode: "Lanza un dedo al cielo" by Yslem, Hijo del Desierto

Ready, set, jump! As your hosts bravely hop across the pond in a single superhuman jump, they receive a call from Alleen Brown, reporter for the Intercept. Managing an olympian landing right in the middle of the Twin Cities, Jamie and Skander follow Alleen as she takes them to the region's oil pipelines causing havoc on the local community and environment. While her reporting for the series "Policing the Pipeline" is more focused around stories of corruption and security around Enbridge's Line 3, Alleen has worked many years on parallel topics, covering land defense and injustice in the US. We jump back to Europe having learned much about the types of secretive behaviour state and corporate actors engage in to tackle resistance to such large projects, knowing that struggles everywhere benefit from a better undestanding of reactions from above and the impacts felt by local people and communities.    You can find Alleen on Twitter - @AlleenBrown Alleen's articles for the Intercept can be found here Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next! Links to all streaming platforms and socials: linktr.ee/risingwiththetide Or head to our website! www.risingwiththetide.org Song for the episode: "Winter Mornings, Coffee & Cedar Smoke" by Annie Humphrey-Jimenez

Another one! Sick of their ignorance around the subject, your hosts embark on a roadtrip to France to meet one of the leading experts in Environmental Justice today, Brendan Coolsaet! The associate professor takes us through a history of the movement, from its emergence in marginalised communities of colour in the United States, to its 'hop' across the pond where the term is gaining popularity by the day. We discuss the semantic drift of "Environmental Justice", what it actually means for people today, and key concepts which researchers are fighting bloodthirsty battles over in modern day academia.    Brendan's book on the topic, "Environmental Justice: Key Issues" is a fantastic way to get into EJ with plenty of accessible, critical, perspectives. Our conversation also digs into Brendan's recent trip around Italy, where he witnessed first-hand the effects of climate change on the Italian agricultural system as he moved from farm to farm. Through theory and practice, there is so much to think and learn about in the realm of Environmental Justice, and we're glad people like Brendan are there to help illuminate the path, and make sure that as we progress towards a better world, we don't get lost on the way.    You can find Sakshi on Twitter - @Bcoolsaet Brendan's website is here Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next! Links to all streaming platforms and socials: linktr.ee/risingwiththetide Or head to our website! www.risingwiththetide.org Song for the episode: "Bandy Bandy" by Zap Mama    

Jamie and Skander race to Cambridge in the latest episode of Rising with the Tide. Of course, as Jamie lives nearby he takes on a smug look and takes comically small and warped steps. Little does he know, Skander hasn't skipped leg day. The run from Oslo to their newest guest Sakshi is a breeze for the latter, even if he had to run on top of the North Sea Jesus-style. Sakshi, currently finishing her PhD at Cambridge University, walks the pair through halls of colonial history and legacy. They discuss her research on indigenous rights and the court system in Australia, Brazil and Canada. Sakshi introduces us to concepts such as Marxist Legal Theory and Indigeneity, and even explains her misgivings about books such as Andreas Malm's "How to Blow Up a Pipeline".  As they cover one green criminology case after the other, from Wet'suwet'en land defenders to Steven Donziger, your hosts come out of their auspicious meeting with Sakshi having a better understanding of what the law can and cannot do for people around the world fighting for their rights, be it for the preservation of indigenous places or the protection of natural resources from the greedy grasp of corporations.  You can find Sakshi on Twitter - @SakshiAravind Sakshi's blog is also online at: www.defiantecologies.home.blog Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next! Links to all streaming platforms and socials: linktr.ee/risingwiththetide Or head to our website! www.risingwiththetide.org Song for the episode: "January 26" by A.B. Original

Your hosts embark on a journey to Northern Norway to meet an expert on none other than the Tigray region of Ethiopia, Teklehaymanot Weldemichel. Though a more somber subject than what we usually touch on, the war on Tigray deserves much more attention and international action. Teklehaymanot describes to us the atrocities witnessed around Tigray, from inhumane war crimes to the burning of entire villages. We discuss the recent history of the region, Tigray's position within Ethiopia, and the events leading up to the war. Teklehaymanot himself is a victim of this war, even if he resides away from it, as much of his family and friends must endure and survive in a region without internet or telecommunication.   Although we could have talked for hours more on the subject, our conversation touches on a wide variety of questions related to Tigray and the war such as why the international community has failed, discourses in Western and Ethiopian media surrounding the Tigrayans, as well as the fact that the events of the last two years do in fact cover all of the criteria for there being a Genocide in Tigray. Teklehaymanot's own published work argues that the ongoing, devastating, famine is a product of human design by the belligerents of this war.   We ask that comments to this episode remain kind-hearted and human as they always are, and thank Teklehaymanot for his courage in telling his story and that of his compatriots abroad.   You can find Teklehaymanot on Twitter - @TeklehaymanotG   Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next!   Links to all streaming platforms and socials: linktr.ee/risingwiththetide   Or head to our website! www.risingwiththetide.org   Song for the episode: "Lomi Ayney Berhe" by Eyasu Berhe

Season 3 continues to take surprising turns as your hosts attempt their first proper livestream! Jamie picks up his shovel and kindly digs through the Earth's core to the other side of the world for us to meet Claire Burgess, PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania, in the land down under.    As we cartoonishly hang upside down, unaccustomed to the reversed gravitational waves of Australia, Claire answers our barrage of questions regarding her research on mining and "green" extractivism. We discuss why copper is the new oil, indigenous knowledge and just what the heck 'yarning' means. As we near the end of our conversation, we realise that Australia's place in colonial/settler issues is much more pervasive than we knew of, and that the modernisation and proliferation of "green mining" is just beginning... But, while Jamie takes a page from Minecraft's book and pushes us up to the European continent block by block, we also find ourselves yearning for more yarning around these topics, that feel ever so present and, thankfully, more and more talked about.  You can find Claire on Twitter - @Claireburgo  Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next!  Links to all streaming platforms and socials: linktr.ee/risingwiththetide  Or head to our website! www.risingwiththetide.org  Songs for the Episode is "Little things" by Ziggy Ramo ft. Paul Kelly  

Happy New Year! A new notch on humanity's belt never felt so good! As we slowly approach a (touch wood) post-covid era, another crisis looms not far behind. You already know what it is, we don't have to spell it out for you. What you may not know however is that this crisis has an effect on the earth itself. Not the planet, the ground, dummy!  To get some real information on the subject, your hosts grab a couple of torches, a dusty Indiana Jones hat and some protein bars to find Professor Bill McGuire from UCL! As we walk together through caves and hop from one tectonic plate to another, our discussion ranges from the effect of global warming on volcanoes to his eco-thriller novel Skyseed about geoengineering gone wrong. As Bill leads us out of the dark tunnels of the Earth and back onto the surface, we feel like we've got a brand new perspective on the ground beneath our feet. It, also, is part of a fragile ecosystem which can have tremendous ripple effects if disturbed.  You can find Bill on Twitter and more of his work on his website  Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next!  Links to all streaming platforms and socials: linktr.ee/risingwiththetide  Or head to our website! www.risingwiththetide.org  Songs for the Episode is "It's The End of the World As We Know It" by R.E.M.

While Jamie is away on his quest to join the proletariat in order to secure a liveable wage, Skander is joined by Andrew, a fellow student from the Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Oslo.   Together, with the help of arcane zoomic rituals, they conjure the spirit of Paul Robbins, Dean of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to ask him a few questions about the sacred political ecology textbook he once wrote... and re-wrote... and re-re-wrote. You know the saying, 3rd edition's the charm. Paul is a fantastic researcher and theorist who has published a plethora of fascinating research and work around questions such as: why it is that working on topics related to nature is inherently political? We discuss his work and efforts at the Nelson Institute, the academic wars of the 90s and what we can learn from the degrowth/ecomodernism divide. We left this conversation even bigger fans of Paul's work, having learned much about a field which we consider to be our (upcoming) own, and running to ask our local bookshops if they have copies of his book Lawn People.    You can find Paul on Twitter and more of his work on his website  Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next!  Links to all streaming platforms and socials: linktr.ee/risingwiththetide  Or head to our website! www.risingwiththetide.org  Songs for the Episode is "Muzzle of Bees" (Intro) by Wilco & "Waiting for the Great Leap Forward" by Billy Bragg

Welcome! Season 3 continues as we delve into climate adaptation and mitigation with Jola Ajibade, Assistant Professor at Portland State University! After going over her many accomplishments and the serendipitous road she took to get to where she is today, we discuss flooding adaptation measures in Lagos, Nigeria, surveillance and the intersections between private profit and disaster capitalism (with an obligatory mention or two of the Shock Doctrine, of course). Listen in to learn all about what makes us resilient in the face of climate change, where we fail in adaptation and how we may overcome the difficult times ahead.    You can find Jola on Twitter and more of her work on her website  Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next!  Links to all streaming platforms and socials: linktr.ee/risingwiththetide  Or head to our website! www.risingwiththetide.org  Song for the Episode is "Eye Adaba" by Asa