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Michael Perelman, On globalization, economics, and the history of food crises
Michael Perelman is a prolific and compelling scholar of contemporary economics and politics who teaches at California State University in Chico. He has published 19 books on a wide variety of topics. Graduating with a degree in agricultural economics, questions of the global inequalities of food production and distribution, both past and present, led Perelman’s [...]
Raj Patel, On rights, sovereignty, and suicide
Interviewed by Scott Stoneman Raj Patel is an activist, organizer and visiting scholar in the Centre for African Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, as well as a Research Associate at the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. He has written extensively on food sovereignty as an [...]
Julie Guthman, On globalization, neoliberalism, obesity, local food and education
Interviewed by Scott Stoneman Julie Guthman is an Associate Professor in the Community Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz. Her pressing and rigorous work has dealt with the ways in which organic farming movements and reform in California strain the boundaries that obtain between nature and capital and between the local and the global (Agrarian [...]
Herbert Marcuse's 3-Dimensional Hippopotamus: An Interiew with Documentary Filmmaker Alexander Juutilainen
Alexander Juutilainen is the producer/director of the acclaimed documentary Herbert’s Hippopotamus. This video told the story of Herbert Marcuse’s role in student activism while a Professor at the University of California, San Diego and the virulent response of California politicians and residents. Juutilainen was born in Finland and is of Finnish and Greek/Macedonian descent. He [...]
Silvia Federici, On capitalism, colonialism, women and food politics
In this interview Federici shares her thoughts on the relationship between
food, agricultural production, women’s work, global capitalist
accumulation and struggle around the world.
The Left at the Moment: An Interview with Michael Bérubé