Disrupt: A Revolutionary Critical Podcast

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Disrupt is a revolutionary critical podcast that acts as an introduction to international relations (IR) for students, academics, and activists alike

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Exploring Nuclear Shadows: A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado

Disrupt: A Revolutionary Critical PodcastNov 30, 2021

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The Institutionalization of International Politics

In Disrupt’s first episode on institutions, Gabi and Bridgett lay the groundwork for this series by unpacking the nature of institutions in international relations and examining Western orthodox theoretical perspectives on the history and purpose of institutions in contemporary international politics.

After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars, by G. John Ikenberry

Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present, by Mark Mazower

No Conquest, No Defeat: Iran’s National Security Strategy, by Ariane M. Tabatabai

International Institutions and Feminist Politics, by Elisabeth Prügl

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Disrupt is recorded and produced by Gabriella Gricius and Bridgett Neff-Hickman on the traditional and unceded territories of the Cowlitz, Clackamas, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations and peoples.

Mar 24, 202217:30

Exploring Nuclear Shadows: A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado

Dr. Shiloh Krupar and Sarah Kanouse join us to discuss their project A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado, which explores Colorado as a microcosm of the U.S. nuclear apparatus. Using art, personal narrative, and scholarly reflections, the Atlas exposes the harmful externalities of the wide range of nuclear activities that Colorado has housed. We also discuss the role of critical theories in nuclear policymaking and their hopeful takes on the future of disrupting the nuclear status quo.

Nov 30, 202157:29

Ward Wilson: A Realist Guide to Eliminating Nuclear Weapons

In this episode, we sit down with Ward Wilson, executive director of Realist Revolt, to discuss his pragmatic arguments against nuclear weapons and his ideas about how we can eliminate them permanently.

RealistRevolt: Eliminating Nuclear Weapons

Why we need a fundamental reappraisal of nuclear weapons policy

How to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons: Parts 1-4

African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement | Vincent J. Intondi

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Oct 08, 202139:00

Post-Colonial and Feminist Imaginaries in Nuclear Politics

Dr. Catherine Eschle and Dr. Shine Choi join us to discuss the intersection between nuclear weapons, feminism, and postcolonialism. Given that nuclear politics are often centered on great power competition and militarism from the perspective of the Global North, Dr. Eschle and Dr. Choi highlight scholarship from the Global South as the locus for nuclear dialogues centered on alternative understandings of power, positionality, and empathy in global nuclear dialogues.

Crossing Borders: a feminist history of Women Cross DMZ

Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950

Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy by Ray Acheson

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Sep 24, 202101:31:25

They Lost Em: The Nuclear Pasts of Libya and South Africa

This episode concludes our series on the three different categories of actors when it comes to nuclear states: those that have, those that want, and those that gave up nuclear weapons. Although many countries have pursued nuclear weapons to different degrees, South Africa and Libya are the only two to ever give up their nuclear weapons. In this episode, we walk through the very different contexts behind South African and Libyan disarmament as well as critical perspectives on these decisions.

Libya Nuclear Disarmament | NTI

South Africa | NTI

Africa and the Atomic Bomb: Part I

Africa and the Atomic Bomb: Part II

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Sep 08, 202125:10

They Want 'Em: Nuclear Politics and Western Resistance in Iran and North Korea

In this episode, we continue our series on the three different categories of actors when it comes to nuclear states: those that have, those that want, and those that gave up nuclear weapons. This episode focuses on Iran and North Korea as states in pursuit of nuclear programs despite international pressures to abandon their nuclear aspirations.

The Facts Prove Iran Still Wants Nuclear Weapons

Iran's Nuclear Program Timeline and History | NTI

North Korea Nuclear Weapons Threat | Nuclear Proliferation North Korea | NTI

The Ideological Construction of Iran in The NYT: Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol 32, No 3

Behind Iran's Nuclear Pursuit?: Peace Review: Vol 18, No 3

Iran, Nuclear Proliferation and the NPT: Why Does Such Doublespeak Perpetuate?

No Exit: North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, and International Security

POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES ON NUCLEAR NON- PROLIFERATION

Iran v ‘the international community’: a postcolonial analysis of the negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program

NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein

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Jul 16, 202137:35

They've Got 'Em: Russia and China's Nuclear Politics With the West

In this episode, we begin our series on the three different categories of actors when it comes to nuclear states: those that have, those that want, and those that gave up nuclear weapons. We begin by looking at China and Russia as states that have nuclear weapons and how their nuclear politics with the West can be understood from critical perspectives.

The Threats That U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy Must Address - Proportionate Deterrence: A Model Nuclear Posture Review
Nuclear coercion skepticism and Russia's nuclear-tinged threats

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Disrupt is recorded and produced by Gabriella Gricius and Bridgett Neff-Hickman on the traditional and unceded territories of the Cowlitz, Clackamas, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations and peoples.

Jul 02, 202123:58

Explosive Art: Creativity, Justice, and Nuclear Weapons

In this episode, we interview Molly Hurley, a Wagoner Fellow from Rice University in Houston, TX, a Nuclear Program Fellow with The Prospect Hill Foundation, and Fellowship Associate with Beyond the Bomb. She currently works as an independent researcher studying nuclear weapons issues, their intersectionality with many other social justice issues, and the role that artwork could play in carrying on stories and messages about the atrocities committed for the sake of nuclear development and dominance. Starting this fall, Molly will enter an MFA program in Community Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and is planning to take her research to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
Sex, Death, Dragon Ladies, and Nuclear Weapons
Beyond the Bomb (@beyondthebomb)
Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb
Broken Arrow Incidents
More on Broken Arrows
Global nuclear policy is stuck in colonialist thinking. The ban treaty offers a way out.
Cultural Explosion, 2020

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Disrupt is recorded and produced by Gabriella Gricius and Bridgett Neff-Hickman on the traditional and unceded territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations and peoples.

Jun 11, 202145:59

Sex and Gender in Nuclear Dialogues

In this episode, we continue unpacking the history of nuclear issues in international relations and traditional (Western) conceptions of nuclear weapons/technology. Utilizing feminism and queer theory, we look at the ways in which nuclear dialogues have been gendered and sexed throughout American foreign policy.
Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals
Slick 'Ems, Glick 'Ems, Christmas Trees, and Cookie Cutters: Nuclear Language and How We Learned to Pat the Bomb
A Feminist Nuclear Policy
A Feminist Analysis of Nuclear Weapons: Hegemonic Masculinity
A Feminist Critique of the Atomic Bomb
Carol Cohn
Queer Ecologies of Death in the Lab: Rethinking Waste, Decomposition and Death through a Queerfeminist Lens
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Disrupt is recorded and produced by Gabriella Gricius and Bridgett Neff-Hickman on the traditional and unceded territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations and peoples.

May 24, 202122:08

Weapons, Waste, and Technology: Nukes, Oh My!

This week’s episode looks at nuclear issues such as proliferation, technology, and energy from critical perspectives. We unpack the history of nuclear issues in international relations and traditional conceptions of nuclear weapons/technology in Western foreign policies. However, critical perspectives such as Marxism, Green Theory, Decolonialism/Postcolonialism, and Critical Race Theory highlight why traditional nuclear policy is detrimental to marginalized communities and why nuclear issues should be considered in everyday politics.

The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Normative Basis of Nuclear Non-Use, by Nina Tannenwald
How Strong is the Nuclear Taboo Today? By Nina Tannenwald
Beyond the Bomb: A Grassroots Movement to Stop Nuclear War
Kathryn Yusoff: A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
“The Racist Foundations of Nuclear Architecture,” by Elaine Scarry

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Disrupt is recorded and produced by Gabriella Gricius and Bridgett Neff-Hickman on the traditional and unceded territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations and peoples.

Apr 30, 202133:28

Critical Environmental Studies on Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia: A Conversation with Dr. Priscilla Wald

Join us for a conversation about the intersection between environmental justice and critical race, queer, and feminist theories with Dr. Priscilla Wald, Professor of English and former Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. In her research, her teaching, and her professional activities, Dr. Wald is committed to promoting conversations among scholars from science, medicine, law, and cultural studies in order to facilitate a richer understanding of how information circulates through language, images, and stories to shape lived experience. She is currently at work on a book-length study entitled Human Being After Genocide. This work chronicles the challenge to conceptions of human being that emerged from scientific and technological innovation in the wake of the Second World War and from the social and political thought of that period, which addressed the geopolitical transformations that followed the war and decolonization movements.

Environmental Justice: An Interview With Robert Bullard

Environment and Morality: Confronting Environmental Racism in the United States

Natural Resources Defense Council: The Principles of Environmental Justice

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, “Land as Pedagogy: Nishnaabeg Intelligence and Rebellious Transformation” (Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society Vol. 3, No. 3, 2014, pp. 1-25);

Kyle Powys Whyte, “Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene” (English Language Notes 55.1-2 (Fall 2017)

Zoe Todd, “Indigenizing the Anthropocene.” Pp. 241- in Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environment and Epistemology. (2015) Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin, editors. Open Humanities Press.

Dana Luciano: The Inhuman Anthropocene

Joshua Lederberg: Infectious History

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Disrupt is recorded and produced by Gabriella Gricius and Bridgett Neff-Hickman on the traditional and unceded territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations and peoples.

Apr 16, 202128:11

Dialogue, Trauma, and Policy: Interview with Marisol Maddox

Join us for a conversation with Marisol Maddox about climate change, the role of critical theories in policymaking, and how grief and trauma manifest in our current political climate. Marisol is an Arctic analyst at the Polar Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, a non-resident research fellow at the Center for Climate & Security, a member of Foreign Policy for America’s NextGen Initiative, and a part-time master’s student at George Mason University studying international security with a focus on transnational threats.

The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise

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Disrupt is recorded and produced by Gabriella Gricius and Bridgett Neff-Hickman on the traditional and unceded territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations and peoples.

Apr 03, 202137:16

Climate Change: Queer, Feminist, and Critical Race Theories

In this episode, we look at how Feminism, Queer Theory, and Critical Race Theory are used to unpack climate change and environmental degradation in international relations. Links to resources on critical theories and climate change are listed below!

Feminism:
Kimberlé Crenshaw and Intersectionality
Feminist Perspectives on the Environment | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies

Queer:
Nicola J. Smith, “Capitalism’s Sexual History”

Critical Race:
Beth Gardiner, “Unequal Impact: The Deep Links Between Inequality and Climate Change”
Natalie Ambrosio, Racial Justice and Climate Change: Exposure.
Andrew Baldwin, Racialisation and the figure of the climate-change migrant.

Mar 12, 202123:17

Climate Change: SmartICE Interview

SmartICE Sea Ice Monitoring and Information Inc. is a community-oriented organization offering climate change adaptation tools that are designed to incorporate sea-ice monitoring data with local indigenous knowledge of sea ice conditions, which can contribute to more informed decision making with regards to land, water and sea ice travel. Climate change is impacting northern Indigenous communities faster than anywhere in the world. As sea ice is vital to life in the north, connecting communities and essentially serving as a highway for people to travel and hunt for food, the SmartICE monitoring systems provide invaluable, data-driven insights into sea ice conditions in near real-time. As an award-winning social enterprise, SmartICE hires local Indigenous youth to manufacture and monitor their systems. To date, SmartICE has operations in Nain, Nunatsiavut; Pond Inlet and Gjoa Haven, Nunavut; and monitoring equipment has been established in 24 communities across Inuit Nunangat, with expansion ongoing.

Katherine Wilson | Department of Geography

Trevor Bell | Department of Geography

Sea-Ice Knowledge for Travel Safety by Inuit for Inuit

Changing the role of non-Indigenous research partners in practice to support Inuit self-determination in research

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Disrupt is recorded and produced by Gabriella Gricius and Bridgett Neff-Hickman on the traditional and unceded territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations and peoples.

Mar 01, 202142:06

Climate Change: Decolonial, Indigenous, and Green Theories

In this episode, we look at how different IR lenses are used to unpack climate change and environmental degradation. Conventional theories such as realism and liberalism see climate change as a problem of power--especially because of its potential to incite conflict over resources. However, critical IR theories highlight different considerations and consequences of climate change that are important to discuss. Links to resources on critical theories and climate change are listed below!

Decolonial:
Karrieann Soto Vega, “Colonial Causes and Consequences: Climate Cange and Climate Chaos in Puerto Rico.” Enculturation. enculturation.net/colonial_causes_consequences
Sharon Stein, “The Ethical and Ecological Limits of Sustainability: A Decolonial Approach to Climate Change in Higher Education,” Australian Journal of Environmental Education 35, no. 3 (2019): 198–212. doi:10.1017/aee.2019.17.
Aurore Chaillou, Louise Roblin, and Malcolm Ferdinand, “Why We Need a Decolonial Ecology.” Green European Journal, 2020, www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/why-we-need-a-decolonial-ecology/.

Indigenous:
A bibliography of Indigenous perspectives on climate change: mypages.unh.edu/ne-arctic-convergence/academic-scholarship.
International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change: www.iipfcc.org/key-issues.

Green:
Peter Newell, “Global Green Politics,” doi.org/10.1017/9781108767224.
Tuvalu: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/may/16/one-day-disappear-tuvalu-sinking-islands-rising-seas-climate-change#:~:text=%E2%80%9CTuvalu%20is%20sinking%E2%80%9D%20is%20the,midway%20between%20Hawaii%20and%20Australia.

Other Resources:
Introduction to IR Theories: www.e-ir.info/2017/01/09/international-relations-theory/.
Wa’ed Alshoubaki and Michael Harris, “The Impact of Syrian Refugees on Jordan: A Framework for Analysis,” www.jois.eu/files/11_454_Alshoubaki%20et%20al.pdf.

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Disrupt is recorded and produced by Gabriella Gricius and Bridgett Neff-Hickman on the traditional and unceded territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations and peoples.

Feb 04, 202125:28

Disrupt: Introduction

Welcome to Disrupt!

We're two political science graduate students seeking to analyze international relations from non-western perspectives. This episode is an introduction to the two of us and what you can expect to hear on Disrupt. If you're interested in being featured as a critical scholar or activist, we'd love to have you! We'll be addressing theories like postcolonial and decolonial theory, queer theory, feminist theory, and green theory (just to name a few) to cover broad issues like climate change, nuclear proliferation, war in the Middle East, great power competition between the US and Russia and the US and China and many more.

Disrupt is recorded and produced by Gabriella Gricius and Bridgett Neff-Hickman on the traditional and unceded territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations and peoples.

Jan 20, 202105:19