4. Smoke and Shadows

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Episode 4 of 'Democracy After Disaster,' explores the aftermath of Australia's Black Saturday fires and the unfolding recovery, in Kinglake, a small town on the edge of Melbourne and an escarpment. We follow the experiences and thought lines of Kinglake resident Daryl Taylor, a deep political and philosophical thinker, and we roam across government capacity, neoliberalism, social evolutionary theory, disaster capitalism, and social capital.  

Guests: 

Daryl Taylor

Professor Duncan Ivison https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/duncan-ivison.html


References

2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal commission http://royalcommission.vic.gov.au/Commission-Reports/Final-Report.html

Earthships - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship

Kinship Kinglake https://www.facebook.com/KinshipKinglake

Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority - 100 Day Report http://royalcommission.vic.gov.au/getdoc/d4fdd202-24b9-4625-996a-288fb655b492/TEN.046.001.0001.pdf

Milton Friedman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMrFwhTJlVw

https://miltonfriedman.hoover.org/internal/media/dispatcher/215214/full

Ronald Reagan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agsmt1CtJSI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1aKYs82CGo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCedOQJ0ZEA

Adrienne Rich -  ‘In Those Years’ https://yalereview.org/article/those-years

Paul Atkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCATDTDHtxI&t=672s

Charles Darwin https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Darwin/Descent/descent5.htm

Elinor Ostrim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybdvjvIH-1U

Robert Putnam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpBOgh2zxtE&t=2168s

Naomi Klein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlAL26bVOzM&t=1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG9CM_J00bw&t=201s

Rebecca Solnit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knSnl7p6kVU&t=630s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knSnl7p6kVU&t=98s

NSW Bushfire Inquiry Report 2020 https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/premiers-department/access-to-information/nsw-bushfire-inquiry/nsw-bushfire-inquiry-report


Voiceover: Enormous thanks to Sue Yardley and Ainslie Munro-Lawrence for dramatising sections of the episode. 


Huge thanks to Steve Pascoe and Jenny Lloyd for listening to all the episodes and being ever so kind and encouraging in response. 


Host: Kate Lawrence


Music

Theme Music: Look At Me Now (Instrumental) by Clejan licensed through Audiio

Other music: 

Hope and the Forester by Moon Juice  licensed through Blue Dot Sessions

Home Goes With You by Caleb J. Murphy licensed through Audiio

Rainbow Reflections by Steyl licensed through Audiio

Fluid Motion by Josh Allen licensed through Audiio

Image: Canva