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Petrocultures: Reflections on 10 years of research and advocacy for a world in crisis
Big Thinking at Congress 2022 Petrocultures: Reflections on 10 years of research and advocacy for a world in crisis Just what is a petroculture? The term captures the deep and abiding impact of fossil fuels on the character of society. To see...
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Shift in thinking: It all begins with decolonization
Big Thinking at Congress 2022 Shift in thinking: It all begins with decolonization Time and time again over the last decade, global catastrophes have shown that the stage for disaster has been set by colonial and racial subjugation. These...
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Beyond “crimes of insolidarity”: Considerations for a transition based on economic and social rights
Big Thinking at Congress 2022 Beyond “crimes of insolidarity”: Considerations for a transition based on economic and social rights The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the interrelationship between civil and political rights, and economic and social...
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NEȾOLṈEW̱ “one mind, one people”: Radical reclamation of Indigenous languages
Big Thinking at Congress 2022 NEȾOLṈEW̱ “one mind, one people”: Radical reclamation of Indigenous languages Indigenous languages are persistent, despite having faced violent erasure and an ongoing hostile environment. In this Big Thinking lecture...
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Care is on the ballot: Why COVID-19 should push American voters to pay greater attention to the care economy
Donald Trump and Joe Biden present American voters with a stark choice when it comes to policies about the care economy. COVID-19 has underscored the importance of health care, child and elder-care, and education. While President Trump’s second term...
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Perceptions of humanity and of membership: Two challenges of inclusion and exclusion in Canada
Various groups in Canada are stigmatized in ways that make them vulnerable to discrimination. In some cases, this takes the form of dehumanization: a perception that members of the group are somehow deficient in humanity, and hence not owed the...
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Networked bodies, AI, and our future digital lives
Will bodies become computer platforms? Disruptive embodied computing technology is being proposed, and it will change how people live in vastly different ways in our evolving post-Internet society. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is seeping into all...