Your Local Anthropologist with Elina – Details, episodes & analysis

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Your Local Anthropologist with Elina

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Frequency: 1 episode/38d. Total Eps: 19

The workplace. The classroom. The body. These are sites of power - but we're rarely taught to see them that way. Your Local Anthropologist is an essay podcast that uses anthropology to examine the invisible structures shaping how we live, learn, and resist. Combining personal testimony, cultural analysis, and critical theory made genuinely accessible, it's for listeners who want more than takes - who want tools.

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28/10/2026
#83
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Social Sciences
04/04/2026
#82
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03/04/2026
#65
🇫🇷 France - Social Sciences
13/12/2025
#88
🇫🇷 France - Social Sciences
12/12/2025
#65
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Social Sciences
11/12/2025
#100
🇫🇷 France - Social Sciences
11/12/2025
#59
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Social Sciences
10/12/2025
#72
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Social Sciences
07/12/2025
#82
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Social Sciences
06/12/2025
#60

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https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/david-graeber-coronavirus-pandemic-economy
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https://www.instagram.com/cyramatique
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_gYjQw9Bf4
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#1 Ghosts of Empire: seeds of violence

Season 1 · Episode 1

Monday, October 26, 2026 • Duration 18:39

Elina revisits “Ghosts of Empire” to examine how inherited and unhealed trauma can be weaponized to justify domination. Through histories of antisemitism, colonialism, whiteness, and Fanon’s writing on Algeria, she asks what healing and accountability must look like after liberation.

keywords
generational trauma, colonialism, whiteness, empire, Palestine, Gaza, Franz Fanon, collective healing, white supremacy, liberation

key frameworks

Weaponized trauma

Healing belongs inside justice

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Naomi Klein -

Franz Fanon -

The Wretched of the Earth -

A Dying Colonialism -

Utopia of Play -

Chapters

00:00 Introducing Ghosts of Empire and Seeds of Violence
01:08 The Jewish Museum and centuries of persecution
03:34 When trauma is turned into a weapon
05:18 European cultural erasure before colonial expansion
07:27 Why trauma alone does not create empire
08:46 How whiteness became a political project
10:55 A shared pattern of domination across empires
12:27 What liberation leaves unresolved
14:19 Fanon on resistance, violence, and its aftermath
16:04 Survival first, and preparing for healing

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Practice of Freedom - the illegible body

Season 2 · Episode 5

Monday, October 12, 2026 • Duration 26:43

The conversation explores the complexities of embodied knowledge, particularly in relation to gender identity and the systemic violence faced by those whose bodies do not conform to societal norms.

This highlights the importance of relational understanding and the unique experiences that shape individual identities.

Takeaways

Embodied knowledge is unique
Understanding requires relational engagement

Chapters

00:00 Exploring Embodied Knowledge and Identity

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Practice of Freedom - bodied intelligence

Season 2 · Episode 4

Monday, May 25, 2026 • Duration 40:24

What does a body know that a textbook can't hold?

This episode is about the knowledge that lives in female bodies: in hormones, pain, pregnancy, in the monthly encounter with your own limits - and why that knowledge keeps getting left out of what we call intelligence. We move from the doctor's office to the server farm, and ask what it means that the people who built our most powerful AI systems were overwhelmingly shaped by a script that taught them the interior is not a source of authority.

Part of the Practice of Freedom series on learning, education, and what genuine transformation actually requires.

Takeaways

The body's role in knowledge production is significant
Extractive knowledge systems have limitations

Chapters

00:00 — The filing system we inherited
06:26 — What the contracted body knows
10:56 — The knowledge capitalism cannot extract
18:40 — Library of the told
27:15 — The blind man's cane
33:50 — Imagining a different social order

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Practice of Freedom - bodies, bodies, bodies

Season 2 · Episode 3

Thursday, April 30, 2026 • Duration 38:36

The conversation delves into the impact of the masculine script on individuals and society, exploring the silence around male pain and the consequences of the armored body. It also examines the role of colonial violence in shaping masculine identity and the influence of the Manosphere on perpetuating silence and performance of masculinity.

All references and books can be found on the corresponding post for this episode at YourLocalAnthropologist.com

Takeaways

Masculine script and its impact
The silence around male pain

Chapters

00:00 The Masculine Script
05:54 The Manosphere and Silence

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Practice of Freedom - what's the default?

Season 2 · Episode 2

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 • Duration 39:41

The conversation delves into the power dynamics of language and the impact of institutional structures on learning. It explores the inscriptions of power and belonging within educational and social spaces, and asks what intelligence means if it takes place outside a body.

Takeaways

Language as a tool of power
The impact of institutional structures on learning

Chapters

00:00 The Power of Language
05:28 The Unspoken Rules of the Room

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Practice of Freedom - transforming minds and bodies

Season 2 · Episode 1

Saturday, March 21, 2026 • Duration 33:56

The conversation explores the relationship between movement, learning, and education, highlighting the significance of the body in genuine learning. It delves into the impact of traditional pedagogy on movement, the role of the body in learning, and the systemic outcomes of formal education.

Takeaways

Body's role in genuine learning
Impact of traditional pedagogy on movement

Chapters

00:00 The Body in Genuine Learning
06:37 Transformation in Learning

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Utopia of Play: after the dream

Episode 10

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 • Duration 38:12

In this season finale, we summarise all the ideas and themes explored throughout the season and land on the question: what is the power we are fighting for?

Utopia of Play: a history of the commons - the new enclosures (part 2)

Episode 9

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 • Duration 35:57

In this episode of "Utopia of Play," Elina continues the history of the commons into present day and examines the new enclosures in the digital age. From the commons to cloud servers, explore how capitalism's relentless drive to privatise continues to shape our work and lives under the watchful eyes of platform algorithms.

Keywords:techno-feudalism, digital panopticon, capitalism, enclosures, digital economy, algorithmic surveillance, privatization, dependency, digital estates, historical dynamics

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Utopia of Play: a history of the commons - the theft of the world (part 1)

Episode 8

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 • Duration 44:11

This episode delves into the intricate history of the commons and its enclosure, a pivotal transformation that reshaped social relations and laid the groundwork for modern industrial capitalism.

This first part of a two-part series traces the global impact of these changes through British colonialism, highlighting the enduring legacy of enclosure in today's economy.

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BONUS Utopia of Play - we got union busting before GTA6 (Part 2)

Wednesday, November 26, 2025 • Duration 23:24

Elina explores the dynamics of the gift economy in the workplace, the challenges of union busting, and the nature of authority and solidarity within corporate structures.

The stark contrast between reciprocal relationships and extractive practices, emphasises the importance of collective action and the need for workers to reclaim their power against oppressive systems.

Keywords

gift economy, union busting, workplace dynamics, power relations, solidarity, corporate culture, collective action, social bonds, reciprocity, labor rights

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