exploring entanglements of power and nature
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Recent Episodes
January 12, 2026
Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature w/ Alyssa Battistoni
<p>In this episode we speak with Alyssa Battistoni about her most recent book, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature published back in August 2025 by Princeton University Press.<br></p><p>Alyssa is a political theorist with research interests in environmental and climate politics, feminism, Marxist thought, political economy, and the history of political thought. She is the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal published by Verso in 2019. We highly recommend reading both of these books, found here: </p><ul><li><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691263465/free-gifts?srsltid=AfmBOookzH6Vt2ZKHBEHE1FmknuXnMqlSKCK31dbT0X13Jl3_BIHrQlp">Free Gifts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/2546-a-planet-to-win?srsltid=AfmBOop8fi7tQZZ5zw-_aPJUrZxU_bAHKZRepiJD8swnet6z7rKzxX3H">A Planet to Win </a></li></ul><p>Battistoni writes frequently for publications including the Nation, Dissent, Jacobin, n+1, and Boston Review, and is on the editorial boards of Jacobin and Dissent. She received her PhD from Yale in 2019 and previously held the position of Environmental Fellow at Harvard University. </p><p>This episode explores the political work done by the idea that nature is either “inside” or “outside” the production process. We unpack how nature can function as a so-called free gift to capital, how it is sometimes strategically left alone in order to remain cheap or undervalued, and how it is, at other times, simply resistant to capture—unruly, uneven, and not fully governable by capitalist logics. </p><p>Drawing on feminist political economy and eco-feminist thought, Alyssa reflects on what these traditions make visible—and where they fall short. We talk about how capitalism defines economic value, what counts as productive activity, and how vast realms of work are rendered invisible or treated as “free,” whether implicitly or explicitly. This leads us into a discussion of externalities, not only as technical economic categories, but as deeply political mechanisms that displace responsibility, undermine democratic decision-making, and fracture possibilities for collective action.</p><p>A key thread running through the conversation is the insistence that nature works. It labors. It is not a passive backdrop or inert input, but a dynamic ensemble of living beings, processes, and labor the fruits of which are routinely appropriated by capital. While capital recognizes only waged labour as work, Alyssa draws a careful parallel between feminist critiques of unwaged reproductive labour and the unwaged labour performed by nature while also pushing against some of the limits of these analogies, and asking what they obscure as much as what they reveal.</p><p>This conversation only scratches the surface of the richness and density of Free Gifts. It’s important to mention this as we live through content overload and informational overstimulation, we want to be clear that this episode is an entry point, not a substitute. If you’re able to, we strongly encourage you to read the book and support Alyssa’s work. </p><p><br></p><p>I am joined by my colleague Nick Gottlieb. Thanks for being part of this, Nick! :) </p><p>If this episode resonates, please share it with others who might find it generative as well. </p>
August 1, 2025
Can the State Protect Nature? w/ Rosemary Collard and Jessica Dempsey
<p>In this episode, we talk with Jessica Dempsey and Rosemary Collard about how to think about the capitalist state not as a unified actor, but as a contradictory and often incoherent set of institutions, practices, and relationships that both authorize extraction and seek legitimacy. We explore how environmental governance in Canada is shaped by this contradiction: despite laws and frameworks that are supposed to protect nature, we end up with continued and expanded ecological harm.</p><p>We also dig into how Jess and Rosemary draw from feminist and abolitionist thought to analyze the state as a supplier of nature to capital, a manager of resistance, and a key player in the reproduction of racial and sexual hierarchies. We touch on patriarchy as an ecological regime, and think through how capitalism can both destroy the conditions of life (cannibalistically) and adapt to ecological collapse (parasitically).</p><p>The conversation then moves to global environmental politics; why international agreements like the Paris Agreement and the Convention on Biological Diversity must be understood in relation to trade, debt, and tax regimes and what it means to build a political internationalism in response.</p><p>This is a conversation about the complexity of power and the need to confront it clearly. Jess and Rosemary bring sharp analysis, grounded in struggle, to help us make sense of the terrain we’re fighting on.</p><p>---</p><p>Jessica Dempsey and Rosemary Collard run the <strong>Extinction Paradox</strong> research group. Together, they’ve theorized and investigated how the Canadian state manages the deep contradictions at the heart of environmental governance—passing laws to protect nature while simultaneously enabling capital’s ongoing exploitation and destruction of ecosystems. Their feminist critiques of capitalism and the capitalist state unearth dynamics that are often obscured by design. These include how dominant narratives of ecological collapse—even when critical vis-à-vis denialism—often fail to name the structural drivers of crisis, or to acknowledge how racial and sexual hierarchies are central to how ecological harm is organized, justified, and sustained.</p><p><strong>Jess</strong> is professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, researching the political economies of biodiversity conservation and the contradictions of environmental governance under capitalism. Her work combines Marxist, feminist, and anti-colonial theory to examine how states, corporate, and financial actors navigate the ecological crises they help produce. She is the author of Enterprising Nature, a book that critically explores market-based conservation efforts.</p><p><strong>Rosemary</strong> is professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, whose work focuses on the intersections of wildlife, capitalism, and the state. She draws from feminist political economy and multispecies studies to explore how wild animals are governed within regimes of extraction and enclosures. Her book, Animal Traffic, traces how wild animals are made into lively capital in the global exotic pet trade. </p><p>We highly recommend reading both of their books, and to keep an eye out for a book they’re working on together now for future publication<strong>. </strong></p><p><strong>Some of their featured writings:</strong></p><p>- <a href="https://progressive.international/blueprint/e7d4b341-d047-4bda-a032-6a3fe3ee36c9-dempsey-collard-patriarchy-is-an-ecological-regime/en"><u>Patriarchy is an Ecological Regime</u></a></p><p>- <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10455752.2016.1202294?casa_token=zy8msM9P0jUAAAAA%3AT-HOIAI6wfeL7c2c9YQs9W7UnO68eXkCI-b3b_6u8av0KkaAXXODzS9taH-sYGM9YQhQicNYtIZTtQ"><u>Capitalist Natures in Five Orientations</u></a></p><p>-<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00045608.2014.973007?casa_token=9izSH776oZUAAAAA%3AH_IwRTUI1LseMF7oKYjrXrE9apUezztM4MAxeC3m5GkAdOuw92FH50Zjdq-HFKe1ETmW4Z0n0dA5sQ"><u> A Manifesto for Abundant Futures</u></a></p><p>- <a href="https://www.atree.org/publications/ipbes-transformative-change-assessment-chapter-4-overcoming-the-challenges-of-achieving-transformative-change-towards-a-sustainable-world/"><u>IPBES Transformative Change Assessment: Chapter 4. Overcoming the challenges of achieving transformative change towards a sustainable world</u></a></p><p><strong>Browse the research group’s page: </strong></p><p><a href="https://www.extinctionparadox.org/"><u>Extinction Paradox</u></a><br></p>
June 19, 2025
Organizing the Tenant Class w/ Ricardo Tranjan
Political economist Ricardo Tranjan discusses how the for-profit housing system extracts wealth from tenants, advocating for tenant power and universal housing security in this interview.
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