Uncivilized Podcast 56

Original title: Uncivilized Podcast 56-- Evolved Nest: Anarchist Community? with Darcia Narvaez

Darcia Narvaez is a Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame. Her primary work centers on the relationship between human and ecological well being, driven primarily by what she calls our evolved developmental niche or evolved nest, which we will get into today. Her most recent book is 2023, The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way Of Raising Children And Creating Connected Communities

Frans de Waal (1948-2024)

From Anarchist Writers

The Dutch-American primatologist and ethologist Frans de Waal died of stomach cancer on 14 March 2024. His research was of interest to anarchists for it centred on primate social behaviour, including conflict resolution, cooperation, inequity aversion and empathy. In other words, subjects which Peter Kropotkin pioneered in Mutual Aid and Ethics. Unusually, de Waal was well aware of Kropotkin’s work and mentioned it in his writings, noting repeatedly how Kropotkin “rightly noted that many animals survive not through struggle, but through mutual aid."

Is “Anarchy” Inherent to Anarchism?

from Center for a Stateless Society

Anarchism, for a lot of people who are not affiliated with it or don’t bother reading political theory, can be quite hard to talk about in a sufficiently nuanced manner. For example: here we will discuss the difference between anarchy and anarchism, which is bigger than you might think.

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