Dr J. C. Niala reflects on her research with allotment gardeners. She discusses how ‘paradise’ may be found in everyday places, acts, and what she terms ‘banal utopias’.
Speaker: J. C. Niala, Deputy Director of the History of Science Museum at the University of Oxford.
Lost edens, hoped for utopias. The idea that a better place exists haunts the human imagination.
Accompanying the ‘On Paradise’ exhibition at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, this podcast series features members of the University of Oxford Humanities community discussing conceptualizations of paradise and utopia in different historical and cultural contexts. The exhibition, featuring the work of Oxford-based artist, Saad Qureshi, was curated by Paul Basu, Professor of Anthropology and Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, who also interviewed the podcast participants.
