Cited

The Obama years were the closest thing we’ve had to technocracy. The President and his administration celebrated science and expertise, and they gave enormous regulatory powers to ‘the smartest people.’ During these years, the prevailing posture — culturally, politically, and within academia — suggested that the public was dim-witted and irrational, but well-meaning experts could fix things. As you know, that didn’t didn’t last. With Trump and Brexit came post-truth and a revolt against scientific and scholarly expertise. How do we get out of this mess? Is the choice merely between centrist technocrats and reactionary post-truthers, or is there another way? This season, we investigate. Our stories will ask some simple questions: what is an expert, who do they work for, and can they be trusted? Episodes start April 15th, 2020, and they air weekly. ———-FOLLOW CITED——— To keep up with Cited, follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Tweet at us, or email your feedback to info@citedmedia.ca–we might just read it on the show. ———-CREDITS———- This episode was produced Gordon Katic. Our theme song and original music is by our composer, Mike Barber. Dakota Koop is our graphic designer. Our production manager is David Tobiasz, and executive producers are Gordon Katic and Sam Fenn. Cited is produced out of the Centre of Ethics at the University of Toronto, which is on the traditional land of Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat Peoples. Cited is also produced out of the Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia — that’s on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.

Our new season examines the politics of expertise in the post-truth era. First episode drops April 15th, 2020.

We’d really hoped to get you a new Cited season this fall, but some new things happened. Sam and his partner had a kid. I started a PhD. And most of all, we’ve been working to make the show sustainable. So there’s been a lot of fundraising and long term planning. We’ll have a new version of Cited ready for you in Spring 2020. I’ll let you know when it’s ready. But I don’t want to just leave you with nothing. There’s something else we’ve been doing. While we’ve been trying to figure out Cited, we also decided to launch another show. It’s called Crackdown. Some of you probably heard about it, but some of you.. Maybe haven’t. While you wait for Cited, I think you’ll like Crackdown. Crackdown is a show about the drug war, told from the perspective of drug users. They are our war correspondents.  Just a few weeks ago, Crackdown won a huge award. The Radio Impact Award from the Third Coast Festivals. Third Coast is like the radio Oscars. We’re super proud of this. And I think you’ll like it. So without further ado, here’s Crackdown.  The episode is called Change Intolerance 2, and you can find the full show page here: https://crackdownpod.com/podcast/episode-9-change-intolerance-part-2/    

We would usually be back in the fall for a new season. However, we're not coming back this time. We're taking a break. We're planning to make a bigger version of Cited in fall 2019, but we need to gear up and retool. That means fundraising, hiring, and producing. Thanks for sticking with us. In other news, Cited fans in the Toronto area can come see us at the Hot Docs Podcast Fesitval. We will be presenting a live show in the closing session. Follow this link for information, and email us if you want a hookup (limited number of tickets available).

In British Columbia, energy experts want to transition off of fossil fuels. We look at B.C.’s indigenous history to ask whether the province can decarbonize and decolonize at the same time. Today on the show we talk to Leigh Phillips, a science writer with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, and Caleb Behn, an Eh-Cho Dene and Dunne Za activist and lawyer. Caleb is a Working Group Chair on the Decolonizing Water project and the subject of the documentary film Fractured Land. Cited is a podcast and radio show funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and produced out of the world class Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Follow us on iTunes (apple.co/2hW3B4c), Twitter (twitter.com/citedpodcast), Facebook (www.facebook.com/citedpodcast/), and email feedback to cited.podcast@ubc.ca.

In British Columbia, energy experts want to transition off of fossil fuels. We look at B.C.’s indigenous history to ask whether the province can decarbonize and decolonize at the same time.  Today on the show we talk to Leigh Phillips, a science writer with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, and Caleb Behn, an Eh-Cho Dene and Dunne Za activist and lawyer. Caleb is a Working Group Chair on the Decolonizing Water project and the subject of the documentary film Fractured Land.

At Crosstown Clinic, doctors are turning addiction treatment on its head: they’re prescribing heroin-users the very drug they’re addicted to. This is the story of one clinic’s quest to remove the harms of addiction, without removing the addiction itself. Cited is a podcast and radio show funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and produced out of the world class Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Follow us on iTunes (apple.co/2hW3B4c), Twitter (twitter.com/citedpodcast), Facebook (www.facebook.com/citedpodcast/), and email feedback to cited.podcast@ubc.ca.

The town of Buxton, North Carolina loves their lighthouse. But in the 1970s, the ocean threatened to swallow it up. For the next three decades, they fought an intense political battle over what to do. Fight back against the forces of nature, or retreat? It's a small preview of what's to come in a time of rising seas. We team up with 99% Invisible to tell the story.

The town of Buxton, North Carolina loves their lighthouse. But in the 1970s, the ocean threatened to swallow it up. For the next three decades, they fought an intense political battle over what to do. Fight back against the forces of nature, or retreat? It’s a small preview of what’s to come in a time of rising seas. We team up with 99% Invisible to tell the story.

On today’s show we meet two Bangladeshi Canadians whose stories speak to the unequal way climate change is felt around the world. UPenn Sociologist Daniel Aldana Cohen talks about his hopes and fears for a warming planet. This episode is produced in partnership with Dissent Magazine, the podcast Hot and Bothered, and the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. Cited is a podcast and radio show funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and produced out of the world class Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

On today's show we meet two Bangladeshi Canadians whose stories speak to the unequal way climate change is felt around the world. UPenn Sociologist Daniel Aldana Cohen talks about his hopes and fears for a warming planet. This episode is produced in partnership with Dissent Magazine, the podcast Hot and Bothered, and the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. Cited is a podcast and radio show funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and produced out of the world class Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Follow us on iTunes (apple.co/2hW3B4c), Twitter (twitter.com/citedpodcast), Facebook (www.facebook.com/citedpodcast/), and email feedback to cited.podcast@ubc.ca.

Many indigenous leaders say Canada’s foster care system is a continuation of cultural genocide against their people. We tell the story of one BC community’s struggle to wrest control from the government, and reinstall indigenous child welfare. This week’s episode of Cited is part of Discourse Media’s BC Child Welfare Media Day: a multi-organization collaboration with media outlets across the province telling stories about the child welfare system. For our contribution Cited is telling a story about the Sixties Scoop – a two-decades long push to remove aboriginal children from their homes and place them in adopted white families. First we talk with Splatsin Chief Wayne Christian, who tells the story of his apprehension during the Sixties Scoop. In 1980, Chief Christian led the Indian Child Caravan, an historic struggle to win indigenous autonomy for child welfare decisions in his Shuswap community – a struggle that the provincial government continues to oppose even today.

Many Indigenous leaders say Canada's foster care system is a continuation of the cultural genocide against their people. We tell the story of one BC community's struggle to wrest control from the government, and (reinstall) indigenous child welfare. This week’s episode of Cited is part of Discourse Media’s BC Child Welfare Media Day: a multi-organization collaboration with media outlets across the province telling stories about the child welfare system. For our contribution Cited is telling a story about the Sixties Scoop - a two-decades long push to remove aboriginal children from their homes and place them in adopted white families. Cited is a podcast and radio show funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and produced out of the world class Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Follow us on iTunes (apple.co/2hW3B4c), Twitter (twitter.com/citedpodcast), Facebook (www.facebook.com/citedpodcast/), and email feedback to cited.podcast@ubc.ca.

Judi Bari’s effort to ally forest workers and environmentalists could have changed the course of climate activism forever. Could her parable help us today? Cited teams up with Dissent’s Hot and Bothered podcast and the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions to tell the story of tree spiking, a Texas millionaire, and the Northern Spotted Owl. In this hour we look at the jobs vs. environment problem and explore how forest management might be able to mitigate climate change on a massive scale. with documentary filmmaker Mary Liz Thomson, University of Oregon sociology professor John Bellamy Foster, and independent forester Herb Hammond.

Judi Bari's effort to ally forest workers and environmentalists could have changed the course of climate activism forever. Could her parable help us today? Cited teams up with Dissent’s Hot and Bothered podcast and the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions to tell the story of tree spiking, a Texas millionaire, and the Northern Spotted Owl. In this hour we look at the jobs vs. environment problem and explore how forest management might be able to mitigate climate change on a massive scale. with documentary filmmaker Mary Liz Thomson, University of Oregon sociology professor John Bellamy Foster, and independent forester Herb Hammond. Special thanks to Mary Liz Thomson for letting us use clips from her documentary Who Bombed Judi Bari?  Cited is a podcast and radio show funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and produced out of the produced out of the world class Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Follow us on iTunes (http://apple.co/2hW3B4c), Twitter (https://twitter.com/citedpodcast), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/citedpodcast/), and email feedback to cited.podcast@ubc.ca.