Air is Kin Academy

This lesson's content is brought from Episode 2: Epistemologies of our Planetary Dysregulation, Capitalism, And Healthcare podcast miniseries.

Guppi Bola, a senior consultant strategist with over fifteen years experience in economics, health and climate issues, will be covering the epistemologies of supremacy and how they are used to imagine policies, understandings of health, and economies

Hannah Yu-Pearson and Josh Artus from Centric Lab are speaking with us about how we measure air pollution and the mechanisms that give companies the Right to Pollute our communities.

They also share insights into the importance of our relationship with our environment and the philosophies needed to advocate for a justice-based view of health.

Dr Julia Pescarini at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to speak with us about the role of epidemiology in understanding and addressing health injustice.

Through epidemiology’s focus on policy and populations, we can form other approaches to structural air pollution advocacy

Prof Ilan Kelman at University College London speaks with us about defining Air pollution as a planetary crisis.

Ilan shares insights as a professor of Disasters and Health on what structurally contributes to this planetary crisis plus some suggestions on what changes and interventions are needed.

Dr Jake Robinson, a microbiologist and restorist at Flinders University, speaks with us about Air from a chemical and a life perspective.

Jake recently founded the Aerobiome Innovation and Research Hub (The AIR Hub), an initiative aiming to research and safeguard the beneficial biological components of air for both human and ecosystem health, and shares some of his principles and insights around our relationship with Air.

In this lesson Araceli Camargo, Daniel Akinola-Odusola and Hannah Yu-Pearson, all members of the Centric Lab team, define ecological health, the importance and implications of this definition as well as introduce the concept of Cuerpo Territorio.

In this lesson Dr Kavian Kulasabanathan uses the example of the prison industrial complex to present a definition of abolition that we can apply to ecological health justice.

In this lesson we speak to Hannah Yu-Pearson, part of the Centric Lab team, on epistemologies, language, power and health justice.

She shares insights on the ways in which the words we use shape the experiences that we have, and how to use language as a way to open up more imaginings and more justice pathways.

In this lesson Araceli Camargo and Josh Artus cover the history of ecological health justice and some of the main organisers and examples of this movement.

They cover the importance of using an ecological health framing in your advocacy work. This lesson covers social epidemiology, structural violence, and examples of some of the main polluters and how they have created ill health and injustice.

Dr Rhiannon Mihranian Osborne is a doctor, organiser and researcher focused on environmental justice, abolition, anti colonialism and reimagining health systems.

She speaks with us about the context of the Medical Industrial Complex and shares with us her insights and analysis on the construction of health within the current system and potential healing pathways.