The podcast series Crossroads invites social scientists, whose research addresses important topics and issues of our globalizing world. It is created in a collaboration with Alarm and the research programme Global Conflicts and Local Interactions, which is funded by the AV21 Strategy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Latest Episodes
Margaret Wagana - Indigenous communities have taken the fight for climate action in East Africa into their own hands
How did civic activists in Kenya manage to stop the construction of the Lamu coal-fired power plant? How does this relate to the protection of local cultural heritage?...
Mukul Sharma - Promoting yoga or vegetarianism ignores the culture and perspective of the lowest castes
The guest of the podcast Crossroads was political scientist Mukul Sharma. We talked about what the experiences of India's lowest castes can bring to the climate justic...
Sylvia Tamale - The organizing principle of coloniality is structural gendered racism
In the latest episode of the podcast series Crossroads, we invited Sylvia Tamale who is a Professor of Law at Makerere University, where she was the first female Dean ...
Chandraiah Gopani - Indian music and art needs to be understood from below
Why can we find hardly any members of the lowest castes neither in Indian music academies nor in the juries of singing talent shows? Why do Dalit musicians write lyric...
Kristine Krause - We cannot afford to not care about care
In the latest episode of the podcast Crossroads we invite dr Kristine Krause. Dr Krause is an anthropologist working at the intersections of political and medical anth...