Episode 5

In This Episode

May 11, 2021: Ken E. Salo on Grounding Truth and Developing Consciousness

What does it mean to be human at this moment in time, with rising resource inequality, the unaccountability of big tech, and a global pandemic exacerbating already-existing poverty? Professor Ken E. Salo and host Augustus Wood look to a panoply of works and ideas from Göran Therborn and Amartya Sen to Frantz Fanon and Steve Biko, Paulo Freire and Samira Mill to Rosa Luxemburg, Samir Amin, and C.L.R. James, as well as former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and his concept of techno feudalism. Along the way, Salo explains why it's essential for students to "ground truth" by walking through real communities, and why we need to sharpen our own "BS GPS" on our way to consciousness.

 

About the Guest: Ken Salo

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Ken Salo

 

Professor Ken E. Salo is a lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning where he teaches and conducts research in the areas of environmental justice, environmental racism, law and international environmental policy, global justice movements, international development and planning, and negotiation and conflict management.