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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Nora Loreto and Alex Khasnabish argue for saving the university from itself
Description: Many academic workers are striking for better labour protections, including CUPE 3916 in Nova Scotia, but where are the connections forming between different labour movements? Can we forge deeper solidarity in this moment of crisis? Do we blow up the system or try to repair it?Nora Loreto, host of the podcast Sandy and Nora Talk Politics and author of many books on politics, and Alex Khasnabish, Professor of Anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University, help us understand why the university is such an "important social location," what its histories are, and how those histories are brought to bear on...