OUR 🌞 SUMMER 2024 🌞 SERIES CONCLUDES!
On this week’s collected, connected conversations, our three-part pile of political pontifications concludes its campaign—as does our Summer 2024 Series as a whole—with a comparison of activism versus access: in the pursuit of mainstream political influence, is it better to be in the room o...
2024-09-30 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTHE SEVENTH EPISODE IN OUR 🌞 SUMMER 2024 🌞 SERIES
On this week’s collected, connected conversations (the seventh in our eight-part summer series): the push and pull of performative politics, where we address the question of just how far Indigenous individuals can advance Indigenous interests in a settler-centric system.
F...
2024-09-20 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTHE SIXTH EPISODE IN OUR 🌞 SUMMER 2024 🌞 SERIES
On this week’s collected, connected conversations (the sixth in our summer series): a political perusal of the prerogatives of power. The first in our three-part look back at the allure and limits of mainstream political participation, we begin with a Trudeau triple-header, a Lib...
2024-09-09 11:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostTHE FIFTH EPISODE IN OUR 🌞 SUMMER 2024 🌞 SERIES
On this week’s collected, connected conversations (the fifth in our summer series): the conclusion to our five-part retrospective, Why Canada Needs Natives Needy, wherein we feature a few more settler-centric solutions to settler-made problems, as well as examples ...
2024-08-29 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostTHE FOURTH EPISODE IN OUR 🌞 SUMMER 2024 🌞 SERIES
On this week’s collected, connected conversations (the fourth in our summer series): part four of Why Canada Needs Natives Needy, ranging from the precarity of charity to the dubious duty to consult.
Featured voices this podcast include (in order of appearanc...
2024-08-19 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTHE THIRD EPISODE IN OUR 🌞 SUMMER 2024 🌞 SERIES
On this week’s collected, connected conversations (the third in our summer series): our third instalment of Why Canada Needs Natives Needy, in which we debunk diagnoses of Indigenous impoverishment peddled by settlers, often to their own benefit. And while some com...
2024-08-08 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey patron!
Quick note to say that, for those of you who may have found it challenging at times to make out all that was said during our 'Indigenous genomics' episodes due to our recording challenges, we're happy to inform you that transcripts of both are now up on our website!<...
2024-08-07 19:31:06 +0000 UTC View Post😀 Hey, Friend of MEDIA INDIGENA!
At long last, our Supporters Survey is ready to roll! Aggregating responses from patrons at all tiers, it gives us a nice picture of where folks live, your willingness to take part in various on/off-line MI events, plus overall patron awareness and interest regarding our virtual community 2024-08-02 18:39:53 +0000 UTC View Post
THE SECOND EPISODE IN OUR 🌞 SUMMER 2024 🌞 SERIES
On this week’s collected, connected conversations (the second in our summer series): part two of Why Canada Needs Natives Needy, our comprehensive look at the systematic incapacitation of Indigenous peoples, and how Canada’s overt efforts at social disintegratio...
2024-07-29 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostOUR 🌞 SUMMER 2024 🌞 SERIES BEGINS!
Friends, it's finally here! MEDIA INDIGENA's Summer Series for 2024: eight compelling compilations of content curated from our eight-year-plus archive, grouped under two larger umbrellas:
‘Why Canada Needs Natives Needy,' a five-part exposition of Canada's foundational imposit...
2024-07-19 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week’s round table—the last all-new episode before the launch of our 2024 Summer Series—the second half of our special live on location look at Indigenous-led genomics.
Recorded at the Global Indigenous Leadership in Genomics Symposium at UBC back in May, part one brought us the ...
2024-07-10 00:36:52 +0000 UTC View PostMayhaps you heard us mention it towards the end of our latest episode, or, maybe you saw us crow about it on our Twitter feed, but, either way, we thought we might risk a little extra horn-tooting by sharing the news here that <...
2024-06-29 21:14:32 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK’S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
What is genomics? In what ways might Indigenous genomics differ from its mainstream counterpart? And why is it important they be Indigenous-led? Answers to those questions and more on this special edition of MEDIA INDIGENA, recorded live on location at the 2024-06-28 21:58:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks, not sure why, but the podfollow link I shared for MI 347 (https://pod.fo/e/242daa) seems to go nowhere (yet, anyway) in Apple Podcasts?
If you can't wait for it to populate there, just go to LibSyn, our hosting service:
ON THIS WEEK’S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
This episode marks our return to the realm of IZ, the personification of critical Indigenous studies as imagined by MI regular Kim TallBear (University of Alberta professor of Native Studies), a character she emb...
2024-06-03 14:49:48 +0000 UTC View PostIN VANCOUVER? Come join us for a live mid-day taping of the podcast at UBC!
Thurs MAY 9 @ 12 noon - 1:30pm
UBC Campus, Allard Hall, Room 121
(Google Maps)
Join MI host/producer Rick Harp in con...
2024-05-08 19:31:17 +0000 UTC View Post📣 VANCOUVERITES! Mark your calendars! 🖊️🗓️
A quick heads-up that we'll be taping a live-audience edition of the podcast on Thurs May 9 at noon on the UBC campus! Admission will be free, so we hope you''l join us in the crowd in 8 days time!
😀 More details to follow soon, but for now comment on this post if you'd like the link to our forthc...
2024-05-01 21:46:34 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK’S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
In this back half of our longer-than-expected mini INDIGENA, host/producer Rick Harp picks up 2024-04-16 23:35:19 +0000 UTC View Post
ON THIS WEEK’ S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
For our latest mini INDIGENA (the sweet + sour version of MEDIA INDIGENA), we yank on the global supply chain linking locals in Campbell River, B.C. to 2024-04-08 23:42:53 +0000 UTC View Post
ON THIS WEEK’S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Building upon last episode's commanding talk by MI's own Kim TallBear, in which she highlighted the insatiable settler drive to consume all things Indigenous—including so-called ‘identity’ claims staked by individuals...
2024-04-01 23:31:59 +0000 UTC View PostON THIS WEEK’S PROGRAM:
A plethora of pretendianism! So much, in fact, it’s going to take two whole episodes to fit it all in. And here in part one, we take our deepest dive yet into the ultimate underpinnings of pretendianism—the political imperatives of white...
2024-03-24 17:11:45 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week’s Indigenous round table:
“Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind.” That’s the title of a talk given by our very own Kim TallBear (University of Alberta professor of Native Studies) at “Of the Land and W...
2024-03-09 03:32:29 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week’s Indigenous round table: legal limbo?
Did the Supreme Court’s recent rejec...
2024-02-27 01:22:43 +0000 UTC View PostThis episode, another ‘mini’ INDIGENA (the easy-peasy version of MEDIA INDIGENA)—one where the first item went way longer than anyone expected! Joining host/producer Rick Harp on Tuesday, February 6th were Kim TallBear (University of Alberta professor in the Faculty of Native Studies) and Candis Ca...
2024-02-13 22:19:15 +0000 UTC View PostHi there! This is the gentlest of reminders asking patrons who haven't done so already to please take a moment to complete MI's short survey. Your chance to share your input/ideas for future events + interactivity!
If you've misplaced the survey link, just let me know with a reply and I'll re-send. <...
2024-02-10 18:00:43 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, our first mini INDIGENA of 2024, featuring Candis Callison (associate professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and Graduate School of Journalism at UBC) and Kenneth T. Williams (associate professor with the University of Alberta’s department of drama), who joined hos...
2024-01-24 22:25:51 +0000 UTC View PostGreater Hamiltonians! What you doing this Wed. January 10 at 3:30 p.m.? Come join me on the 11th anniversary of Idle No More's dramatic emergence on the Canadian political scene for a special, in-person screening of the feature-length APTN News documentary, The Power Was With Us: Idle No More.
Co-created by me and Tim Fontaine for APTN National News, it's...
2024-01-09 19:18:17 +0000 UTC View PostFor our final episode of 2023, a live audience recording from the spring, when we took part in the ICA 2023 Pre-conference, “20 Years of Podcasting: Mapping the Contours of Podcast Studies,” hosted May 24th and 25th at Toronto...
2024-01-07 18:46:46 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, our penultimate program of 2023 reunites Kim and Ken for another mini INDIGENA (the rough and ready version of MEDIA INDIGENA) to discuss an array of items, including:
Crunching the Numbers of Climate Justice // MI 336
On this week’s round table: colonial carbon culpability. Calling it a “first-of-its-kind analysis,” a recent study by Carbon Brief has crunched the numbers on some 170 years of emissions, seen through the lens of climate justice. Entitled, “2023-12-28 01:21:25 +0000 UTC View Post