What can couscous, Soul Food and meat-free meals tell us about the everyday lives of people in the past? Prof. Kate Ferris is joined by Dr Sarah Frank and Dr Peggy Brunache to explore all things food history! Tune in as they discuss everyday food practices, agency and power among French Colonial POWs in WW2, citizens of Fascist Italy, and enslaved people in the Atlantic Slave Trade, and find out why Slave Cuisine is such an important concept and why we should all be thinking more about our meals.
More information about Dr Peggy Brunache can be found here: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/peggybrunache/
And about Dr Sarah Frank, here: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/people/history-staff/sarah-frank
Miniatures is the podcast of the ERC-funded ‘Dictatorship as Experience’ project at the University of St Andrews. We show how the big picture in history is best seen through the assemblage of individual and local stories, what the German historian Alf Lüdtke called ‘miniatures’. At Miniatures, we forego a studio model and instead adopt a ‘guerrilla’ approach to podcasting, grabbing interviews on handheld recorders with busy researchers whenever and wherever we can find them: in their offices, at conferences, or at a distance via video chat. 
Please do excuse any sound-based issues that may occur as a result of this method. To learn more about the wider project, visit: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/everyday-dictatorship/

Miniatures Episode 17: Everyday Food Histories with Dr Sarah Frank and Dr Peggy Brunache

As Syrian rebels advanced on Damascus in a surprise lightning offensive, the Rojava Kurds seized territory from the Bashar Assad regime, and the Druze took up arms in their own region. After years of the lines in the conflict being frozen and the genocidal Assad dictatorship being "normalized," on Dec. 8 the unthinkable happened and the dictator fled. Suddenly the 13-year aim of the Syrian Revolution has been realized—the fall of the regime. But the lead rebel faction, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), has an ugly past, its partner the Syrian National Army (SNA) is in the political orbit of Turkish aspiring dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and the threat of Arab-Kurdish ethnic war in northern Syria looms closer. Amid a conflict now dominated by armed actors, can the unarmed civil resistance that began the revolution 13 years ago re-assert itself, and revive the secular-democratic spirit of 2011? In Episode 255 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg takes a hard look.

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CounterVortex Podcast

Syria: after the fall of the regime

As alterações para o limite do défice que a Alemanha se prepara para aprovar, são uma revolução? Os sinais de que os EUA serão numa ditadura já estão todos lá? Os piores regimes instalam-se passo a passo? Portugal está no mesmo caminho? Aguiar Branco tem-no trilhado? Quem poderá ser o maior responsável pela quedo do governo?
Que cenários resultarão das eleições? A abstenção sobe com o Chega? E o PS e PSD?


Ep. 250 - O relaxamento alemão; A ditadura nos EUA; A queda do governo em Portugal

Die Demokratie ist in Gefahr.
Überall auf der Welt.
Menschen, die die Freiheit lieben, müssen sie schützen,
Bevor Sie sie verlieren.
Kämpfe für deine Rechte, verteidigt die Demokratie.

Democracy is in danger.
All over the world.
People who love freedom must protect them,
Before you lose them.
Fight for your rights, defends democracy.

Ship called democracy

Ship called democracy.

The people of Iran demand change. They want a free and democratic Republic so they can take their destiny in their own hands.

Iranians Battle Mullahs' Tyranny

US-directed repression and counter-insurgency in El Salvador in the 1980s allowed the imposition of "free trade" or "neoliberal" regimes in the generations since then—ultimately culminating in the adoption of CAFTA. This, in turn, has exacerbated the expropriation of the traditional lands of the peasantry by the agro-export oligarchy. It also led to the hypertlophy of the narco economy and a new nightmare of violence, which Nayib Bukele has exploited to establish a new dictatorship. This dictatorship is now openly in league with Donald Trump, and has in fact become critical to his fascist agenda. In Episode 275 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg breaks down El Salvador's historical role as a laboratory of genocide and police-state methods for US imperialism, and the imperative of trans-national resistance.

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MAGA-fascism and the struggle in El Salvador

Part 2a: “So… What Are We Actually Living In Right Now?”
Democracy? Authoritarianism (with a smidge of dictatorship)? Or Something Else

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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week with special guest Ingrid Machado, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.

This week, Walter Salles' Ainda Estou Aqui.

In 1970s Brazil, the Paiva family lives a charmed and tranquil existence. As the country around them slips into dictatorship, the family has managed to hold on to something close to normality. However, that peaceful life is suddenly and brutally shattered as the outside world comes crashing in. 

At time of recording, it was ranked 228th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show Notes

422. Ainda Estou Aqui (I'm Still Here) (#228)

The Goats And The Sheep

ما آمده‌ایم که امیدها و باورها را شکوفا کنیم تا راه سرنگونی استبداد دینی گشوده شود و آزادی و جمهوری و دموکراسی و برابری در ایران زمین برپا شود می‌توان و باید

A weekly podcast looking at the best and worst films of all-time, as voted for by IMDB users.

New episodes typically on a Saturday, 6pm GMT.

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Singer & Songwriter

Wenn nicht besonders darauf hingewiesen wird, sind alle Texte von mir persönlich geschrieben. Haben andere Texter mitgewirkt, weise ich darauf hin. Die Musik wurde mit KI von SUNO erstellt und bei englischsprachigen Texten, können Auszüge des Textes auch von SUNO hinzugefügt worden sein.

St Andrews is Scotland's first university and the third oldest in the English speaking world, founded in 1413.

We live in a world possessed. And we know it. It would come as no surprise to anyone if the madness suddenly broke out into a frenzy, leaving this poor European humanity in a daze and bewilderment, the engines still running and the flags still waving, but the spirit gone. - (Johan Huizinga)

A realidade a partir de um triângulo que foi vergonha e hoje é Orgulho. Político, sempre. Cultural e Social, quando nos apetecer. Comunitário e atrevido, se estivermos para isso. Um podcast sem linhas de formatação, mas com todas as formas da diversidade.

Correio dos Ouvintes: darkroom@triangulacaodocirculo.pt

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