Zola Nene and Zayaan Khan on Corn Flakes, Ummbile and Ancient Futures
It may be 25 years later, but the deep DNA of racism and social injustice still lingers in the foods we eat, who gets to claim them as their own and our understanding of ourselves through what we eat. Television personality, Author and Chef Zola Nene and Food Anthropologist and Social Justice acti…
HAPPENSTANCE 4 part Soundbook.
Award-winning bassist, composer and music producer Shane Cooper on The Centre for the Less Good Idea’s latest audio project, Happenstance, which is a multi-layered series of soundbooks created by Cooper. The sound books also features a myriad of guest musicians and artists from diverse genres, this…
in_ eco rsa: Zayaan Khan
As we have seen on multiple media channels, there is a growing concern globally regarding the environment. For generations, citizens have paid lip service to environmentalism, and for the first time, this seems to be changing. Young people especially are at the forefront of this change in view.
In…
ZAYAAN KHAN on the Place of Sweet Waters, Part 1 /83
Through discussion with Zayaan, we trace the ways that the white colonization of South Africa not only destroyed the complexities of the human-to-land relationship, but also continues to ignore the intricacies and connectivity of the landscape, leading to today’s dire drought. Further, we learn how…
ZAYAAN KHAN on the Place of Sweet Waters, Part 2 /84
This week we are rejoined by Zayaan Khan to discuss water scarcity in South Africa. Local communities are experiencing a threshold being reached; a point of no return at which culture can change rapidly. Suddenly people become accustomed to the unthinkable —no showering! no laundry!— and they begin…
58. Blue
In this episode, we think about the other version of eluhlaza: Blue. This journey will take us into and below the ocean and beyond forms of earth-bound thinking. Listen to our guests, artist and oceanic academic Meghan Judge, zoologist and behavioural ecologist Professor Aliza Le Roux and artist an…
Seeds with Zayaan Khan & Chris Keeve
Today on The Mater Podcast, we are speaking with Chris Keeve and Zayaan Khan.
Chris is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of Kentucky, their research has to do with seedkeeping, plant breeding, and agrobiodiversity conservation—the things that people do, or don’t do, with seeds.. and th…
Seed as Relation
Drawing from her experience working with food and land justice initiatives, Zayaan Khan examines ways to retrieve knowledge that have become extinct to us. She introduces the notion of ‘seed as relation’, a perspective that encourages using seed as a lens to see and relate with the world and all ot…
Composing green #2: Agroforestry: science, truth and the arts
This episode of the Composing Green podcast series, recorded in 2023 by Damien Helly, explores how agroforestry connects science, culture, and artistic practice within broader debates on climate, biodiversity, and rural transformation. Bringing together Maya Marshak, Patrick Worms, Francesca Camill…
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