Upstream is a quarterly documentary and bi-weekly conversation series that invites you to unlearn everything you thought you knew about economics. Blurring the line between economic analysis and storytelling, we look beyond the numbers to explore a wide variety of themes pertaining to our tumultuous 21st century economy.
197 episodes transcribedIn order to understand the disconnection, alienation, and immiseration wrought upon us by capitalism, it’s imperative to understand this social and...
Much of what we learn about U.S. history — from middle school to high school to, well, most of adulthood, is a myth. Oftentimes these tales leave out...
Although many therapists are beginning to understand the importance of the natural world in healing and overall mental health — for example by recomme...
As the capitalist class continues to glom onto a kind of tech-utopianism, many of us are starting to recognize not just the detrimental impacts of cer...
Happy Winter Solstice! In the 3rd year of this annual tradition, Upstream host and producer Della Duncan joins two friends to reflect on the past year...
Mainstream psychology has been complicit — whether intentionally or not — in the establishment of colonial, white-supremacist, capitalist hierarchies...
Awareness of climate change has never been higher — outright climate denialism seems to be a thing of the past. Business leaders and the corporate med...
Far from being some kind of transcendent economic phenomenon originating from higher realms of monetary physics that are indecipherable to us mere pro...
Colonialism and white supremacy have shaped the field of archaeology from its inception — and to this day continue to dominate the cultural and scient...
When it comes to climate policy, it probably won’t come as a surprise to most that the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is one of the weakest bills tha...
Vandana Shiva is an activist and tireless advocate for food sovereignty for farmers’, peasants’, and women’s rights. She’s a world-renowned ecofeminis...
It’s clear that we need to decarbonize our economy as quickly as possible in order to avoid the worst of climate change — but carbon isn’t the only pr...
There are many traditions or tendencies among the left. In fact, sometimes just trying to wrap our heads around all of the rich theoretical frameworks...
Is the growing ascendance of digital money simply an organic evolution away from the purported inconveniences of physical cash? Or is this transition...
Traditionally within Marxist thought, there are two major classes, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, or workers and capitalists. Within these two c...
It may not come as a surprise to most of you to hear that capitalism is the root cause of climate change. But if we unpack this a little bit, we see t...
The logic of orthodox economic thinking has come to dominate and permeate every aspect of our lives, from the deeply internalized capitalism which sha...
The US Supreme Court has just overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion rights which had set the precedent for almost 50 years, throwing...
There’s a broad conflation within our present day capitalist society between the success of individual members of certain oppressed and marginalized g...
What if what we thought we knew about environmental conservation is wrong and it’s not the ethical and regenerative movement we thought it was? Turns...
