
Imagine Otherwise by Ideas on Fire Podcast
1) Raven Maragh-Lloyd on Black Networked Resistance
How can communities creatively adapt and reshape online practices to forge resilient digital publics? In episode 162 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews media studies scholar Raven M...Show More
2) Natalie Zervou on Dance in the Age of Austerity
The relationship between dance and politics has long been a complex one. In moments of national and international crisis, artists are often at the center of resistance movements, and the embodied know...Show More
3) Amber Rose González, Felicia Montes, and Nadia Zepeda on Mujeres de Maiz
In episode 160 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews Amber Rose González, Felicia Montes, and Nadia Zepeda—three legendary feminist artists, activists, and scholars from the genre-defy...Show More
4) Erin McElroy on Silicon Valley Imperialism
How has the Silicon Valley form of technocapitalism shaped geographies around the world? In episode 159 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews Ideas on Fire author, University of Washin...Show More
5) Juan Llamas-Rodriguez on the Visual Politics of Border Tunnels
How do media representations of US–Mexico border tunnels shape immigration discourse, public policy, and anti-immigrant violence? To help us think through how these tunnels are represented and often o...Show More
6) Tamara Kneese on Death in the Digital Platform Age
In episode 157 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews media scholar and Ideas on Fire author Tamara Kneese about the complex relationship between Big Tech and mortality, specifically ho...Show More
7) Nicosia Shakes on Black Women's Activist Theater
In episode 156 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews scholar and artist Nicosia Shakes, whose creative and scholarly work celebrates the intertwining of political activism and performa...Show More
8) Meryl Alper on Autistic Kids’ Digital Media
In episode 155 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews disability media studies scholar Meryl Alper. Meryl is the author of 3 books about how kids with disabilities use digital technolog...Show More
9) Kristie Soares on Joy in Latinx Media
In episode 154 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews performance artist and gender studies scholar Kristie Soares about the political power of pleasure, laughter, and joy in Latinx med...Show More
10) Cynthia Franklin on Narrative and Activist Politics
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews literature professor Cynthia Franklin about the politics of life writing. Cynthia’s new book Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to M...Show More