Material Crimes
Material CrimesHow can a mine, a road or a prison be criminal? Material Crimes answers this question, investigating the “true crimes” of infrastructure. We explore how the physical sites of everyday life are connected to global histories of conquest, resource extraction, profit-making – and resistance!
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| Publishes | Twice weekly | Episodes | 8 | Founded | a month ago |
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| Categories | PoliticsHistoryNews | ||||
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*TW: This episode contains descriptions of state torture and murder that some listeners may find disturbing*
On 27th September 1969, a healthy man supposedly falls down a set of stairs in police custody, and dies a few days later. But these aren’t ... more
*TW: This episode contains discussions of torture that some listeners may find disturbing*
Guantanamo Bay prison leaks. Parts of it are overgrown with weeds. And yet, as of today, 36 detainees still remain imprisoned within its leaking walls.* How d... more
There is a road that crosses the Caucasus Mountains at an altitude of 2,379 metres. This road connects Georgia's capital Tbilisi to Vladikavkaz in the Russian Federation. Built in the 18th century, it pushed the Russian Empire’s boundaries southward.... more
*This episode first aired in 2022 before the Israeli state began committing genocide against the Palestinian people.*
When Israel’s HaEmek railway reopened in 2016, it served only nine stations and stopped 4km shy of the Jordanian border. Far from m... more
Modular housing units sit among decaying workers’ blocks on a quiet street in the remote town of Port Hedland in Western Australia. The Pilbara region where the town is located is at the centre of Australia’s booming iron ore industry yet sits at a r... more
**TW: This episode contains discussions of state violence that some people might find disturbing**
On the 10th anniversary* of the massacre of 34 striking mine workers at Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, our host for this episode, Daniel Selwyn, in... more
“But didn’t colonialism give them railways?” The “Cape-to-Cairo” railway was meant to stretch from Africa’s southern tip to Egypt in the north. It was the unrealised fantasy of an unruly cast of imperial hustlers, including most infamously Cecil Rhod... more
This season on Material Crimes...How can infrastructure be criminal? How does a road, a train or even a piece of real estate become a perpetrator of violence? Listen to Season three of material crimes as we try to answer these questions. Out 21st Jul... more
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