Welcome to Enabling Commons! This podcast is a space for dialogue among persons with disabilities to explore strategies that will transform our environments, our commons, to be meaningfully enabling for all.
Every episode, we have conversations with activists, experts, and scholars at the intersections between disability and climate change, unpacking and sharing knowledge.
Host and audio production by Áine Kelly-Costello
Transcripts and podcast promotion by Rose Paquet.
Music composed and produced by Sam Morgan.
Part of the more-than-human world with Hanna Cormick
Host Áine Kellly-Costello talks to Hanna Cormick (https://www.hannacormick.com/), a performance artist based in so-called Australia. Hanna's work viscerally depicts the connectedness of our bodies and their needs, with not only other human beings, but also the ecological systems we sometimes forget we're embedded in. Some of these ideas might seem abstract but as the conversation unfolds, Hanna makes them tangible through taking us inside her own embodied experience and artistic practice.
Read more from Hanna:
I Am the Damage We Have Done to the Earth (https://howlround.com/i-am-damage-we-have-done-earth)- Howlround Theater commons
Cultivating Anti-Extractivist Body Relationships (https://ecostage.online/cultivating-anti-extractivist-body-relationships/)- Ecostage
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For more on the intersections of disability and climate change, visit disabilityinclusiveclimate.org (http://disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/)
26 Jun 2023
Connecting to nature with Dr Sasha Kosanic
Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Dr Sasha Kosanic (https://sashakosanic.wixsite.com/ecosystem-services), an interdisciplinary disabled scientist with a focus on climate change impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services based at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. We talk about Sasha's research in Madagascar and the bounty of ecological diversity disabled people should have equitable access to, as well as her advocacy as one of few disabled people in her field.
Read the episode transcript at www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/transcripts (www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/transcripts).
Visit www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/enabling-commons (www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/enabling-commons) for all episodes, credits and transcripts.
For more on the intersections of disability and climate change, visit disabilityinclusiveclimate.org (http://disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/)
Discover Dr. Kosanic's work at https://sashakosanic.wixsite.com/ecosystem-services (https://sashakosanic.wixsite.com/ecosystem-services).
19 Jun 2023
Learning from Vanuatu with Nelly Caleb
Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Nelly Caleb, National Coordinator of the Vanuatu Disability Promotion and Advocacy Association (https://vdpa.org/aboutus/). Nelly knows the compounding impacts of disasters intimately, because in Vanuatu they don't stop. Áine and Nelly talk about what Nelly's learned from recent cyclones and years of advocacy in disaster risk response, covering everything from gathering timely data to evacuation centre accessibility and housing insecurity.
Read the episode transcript at www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/transcripts (www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/transcripts) (coming soon!).
Visit www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/enabling-commons (https://www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/stories) for all episodes, credits and transcripts.
For more on the intersections of disability and climate change, visit disabilityinclusiveclimate.org (http://disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/).
Discover the Vanuatu Disability Promotion and Advocacy Association here: https://vdpa.org/aboutus/ (https://vdpa.org/aboutus/).
12 Jun 2023
Disabled messengers for change with Dr Mostafa Kamal Attia
Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Dr Mostafa Kamal Attia (https://disablingbarriersacrossborders.com/about-me/), an international consultant on Disability Inclusion in Disaster Risk Reduction. We talk about Mostafa's journey into disability consulting as a blind person originally from Egypt who has also lived extensively in the UK. They also cover Mostafa's experiences at the climate negotiations cOP27 and what he's learning in his current role for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Read the episode transcript at www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/transcripts (http://www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/transcripts)
Visit Enabling Commons (https://www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/stories) for all episodes, credits and transcripts.
For more on the intersections of disability and climate change, visit disabilityinclusiveclimate.org (http://disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/)
5 Jun 2023
Community and care for ourselves and the planet, with Tori Tsui
Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Tori Tsui (https://www.toritsui.com/), a Mad-identified Bristol-based climate activist from Hong Kong. Her book (https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Its-Not-Just-You/Tori-Tsui/9781398508729)"It's Not Just You', exploring the intersections of mental health and the climate crisis" comes out in July. This is a deep conversation which interrogates the concept of eco-anxiety. They talk about connecting to places as disabled people, and finding sustenance through diverse forms of community.
Here's the website of one initiative discussed, the Resilience Project (https://www.theresilienceproject.org.uk/), https://www.theresilienceproject.org.uk/.
Discover Tori's work here: https://www.toritsui.com.
Pre-order "It's Not Just You" here: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Its-Not-Just-You/Tori-Tsui/9781398508729.
Read the episode transcript at www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/transcripts.
Visit Enabling Commons (https://www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/stories) for all episodes, credits and transcripts.
For more on the intersections of disability and climate change, visit disabilityinclusiveclimate.org (http://disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/)
29 May 2023
The ableist city with Karina Cardona
Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Karina Cardona (https://ca.linkedin.com/in/karinacardona), a disabled Canada-based collaborator at the nexus of disability, environmental and climate justice. We talk about disabled perspectives on urban mobility and low-emissions transitions, as well as the short film Cripping climate Adaptation which Karina co-directed. They get into the policy detail and talk about the systems which prop up ableism.
Read the transcript here: www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/transcripts
Mentioned in the episode
Check out Cripping Climate Adaptation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G7wLlI7N6E)(no audio description)
Check out Cripping Climate Adaptation (https://youtu.be/vUDsjqmQWu4)(with audio description)
22 May 2023
Back to the villages, living off the land, with Pavan Muntha
Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Pavan Muntha who is an experienced climate resilience trainer from India. Pavan works with farmers including farmers with disabilities. In their wide-ranging conversation, Pavan holistically describes the connections between how we tend the land, our wellbeing and livelihood, and planetary health.
Read the episode transcript (www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/transcripts)
Visit Enabling Commons (https://www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/enabling-commons) for all episodes, credits and transcripts.
For more on the intersections of disability and climate change, visit disabilityinclusiveclimate.org (http://disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/)
Mentioned in the episode
Check out the Swadhikaar Center for Disabilities Information Research and Resource Development (https://drpi.research.yorku.ca/asia-pacific/drpi-india/).
15 May 2023
Digging into the archive with Dr Julia Watts Belser
Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Dr Julia Watts Belser (https://www.juliawattsbelser.com/)who is a professor of Jewish studies and Disability Studies at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Julia coordinates the Disability and Climate Change Public Archive (http://disabilityclimatechange.georgetown.domains/), which chronicles disabled experience and wisdom navigating climate disruption and connected crises. They talk about telling compelling stories at disability and climate intersections, making them accessible, and sustaining this work through the archive. They also discuss Julia's article in Truthout (https://truthout.org/articles/disabled-people-cannot-be-expected-losses-in-the-climate-crisis/)about the dangers of viewing disabled people as "expected losses".
Read the episode transcript (coming soon)
Visit Enabling Commons (https://www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/enabling-commons) for all episodes, credits and transcripts.
For more on the intersections of disability and climate change, visit disabilityinclusiveclimate.org (http://disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/)
14 May 2023
TRAILER - Season 2 coming soon!
Enabling Commons trailer season 2
Introducing a new season of Enabling Commons (https://www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/enabling-commons-a-podcast), hosted by Áine Kelly-Costello. Enabling Commons is a podcast of the Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Programme based at McGill University.
Transcripts and podcast promotion by Rose Paquet.
Music composed and produced by Sam Morgan.
Audio production by Áine Kelly-Costello.
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You can find all future episodes and transcripts on our website at www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/enabling-commons (https://www.disabilityinclusiveclimate.org/enabling-commons).
Trailer transcript
[Watery/peaceful nature sounds lead into lightly rhythmic major key guitar Music. The music fades down during speaking.]
Áine: Welcome to season 2 of Enabling Commons, a podcast of the Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Programme based at McGill University. I'm Áine Kelly-Costello, a disabled advocate, researcher and story-teller based in Aotearoa New Zealand.
[Music briefly in foreground then fades again]
For the second season of Enabling Commons, I sat down, over Zoom, with a range of scholars, experts and activists to explore disability and climate intersections from many angles. The conversations go deep.
They take us from archiving disabled wisdom
[Speaker 2: disability insights are also crucial]
to training in land-based ecology
[Speaker 3: persons with disabilities and human beings are part of species diversity]
to Vanuatu advocacy in the face of compounding disasters
[Speaker 4: People with disabilities hardly find, you know, find money and food to eat]
[Music fades out]
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30 Jul 2021
Grounded in Experience - Conversation with Pratima Gurung
In this episode, I chat with Pratima Gurung, the General Secretary for the Indigenous Persons with Disabilities Global Network (https://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org/content/indigenous-persons-disabilities-global-network), and the President of the National Indigenous Disabled Women Association of Nepal (https://nidwan.org.np/). Pratima speaks to how climate change is impacting people with disabilities in Nepal, including specific impacts facing Indigenous communities, and the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Among many issues, we discuss the importance of an intersectional approach, ensuring that people with disabilities know their rights, and the importance of doing research and gathering data that can lay the groundwork for evidence-based advocacy.
8 Jul 2021
The Need for Leadership - Conversation with Gordon Rattray and Mary Keogh
In this episode I chat with Gordon Rattray, an International Cooperation Officer with European Disability Forum (https://www.edf-feph.org/), and Mary Keogh, the Advocacy Director for CBM Global Disability Inclusion (https://cbm-global.org/). We talk about the process behind the video they helped create on disability inclusive climate justice that shares perspectives from all around the globe (short version (https://youtu.be/36jwHDRtmGg) and long version (https://youtu.be/JnOIRdFFdMk) here). We also talk about what it requires to support disabled people's organizations leadership on disability inclusive climate action.
10 May 2021
Gatecrashing Climate Justice - Conversation with Ipul Powaseu
In this episode I chat with Ipul Powaseu, an advisor for the Papua New Guinea Assembly of Disabled Persons (https://www.disabledpeoplesinternational.org/NationalPapuaNewGuinea), as well as a leader and activist. We talk about the specific impacts of climate change on disabled Indigenous women in Papua New Guinea, Ipul’s experience in bringing these challenges to the forefront at both local and global levels, and her work on mainstreaming disability across policy areas.
5 Apr 2021
Act Locally, Start Small - Conversation with Fionn and Jonathan Angus
In this episode, I speak with Fionn and Jonathan Angus, the dynamic duo behind Fionnathan productions (https://www.fionnathan.com/). We talk about the work of Fionnathan productions and many other things: the importance of citizen expertise in climate justice, the power of comedy, and what it means to have abundant relationships with nature and the world around you.
To support Fionn and Jonathan Angus, and the work of Fionnathan productions, please visit their website (https://www.fionnathan.com/): https://www.fionnathan.com/
14 Mar 2021
Disability and Climate Justice in Lesotho - Conversation with Nkhasi Sefuthi
In this episode, I speak with Nkhasi Sefuthi, the Executive Director of Lesotho National Federation of Organizations of the Disabled (LNFOD), an umbrella body of organizations supporting people with disabilities in Lesotho. We talk about the intersection between climate and disability justice in Lesotho and strategies for engaging with policy makers and community-relations building.
2 Feb 2021
The Emperor’s New Clothes - Conversation with Carlos Kaiser
In this episode, I speak with Carlos Kaiser, the director of Inclusiva NGO in Chile. We talk about disaster risk reduction and climate change, the importance of binding formal agreements ensuring an inclusive climate justice, and the barriers facing Latin American organizations that are advocating for disabled persons.
27 Jan 2021
Knowers, Makers, and Doers of Climate Action - Conversation with Sébastien Jodoin
In this episode, I speak with Sébastien Jodoin, director of the Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Programme and law professor at McGill University. Sébastien and I talk about the work of the Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Programme and the role of disabled persons in climate justice.
27 Jan 2021
Unpacking Ableism in Environmental Justice - Conversation with Yolanda Muñoz
In this episode, I have a conversation with Yolanda Muñoz, a co-investigator with the Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Programme. We talk about the relationship of disability justice and climate justice with intersecting sources of oppression and the importance of challenging ableism, especially in the climate movement.
27 Jan 2021
Beyond Building Back Better - Conversation with Marcie Roth
In this episode, Marcie Roth, the CEO of the World Institute on Disability, and I talk about supporting disability-led organizations, emergency preparedness for people with disabilities, and not building back better, but building better environments, period.
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