Your Local Anthropologist with Elina

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Episodes 13

Avg. Duration 27m

Activity Sporadic

Since Sep 2025

Latest Episode Dec 2025

Publishing Details

Schedule

Weekly

Format

Episodic

Consistency

92%

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anchor.fm

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About This Podcast

Utopia of Play - an anthropological lens on the modern workplace - exploring play, work, and the worlds we can build when we stop to edit the script. Each episode weaves together personal experience, academic insight, and cultural analysis to trace how we resist invisible rules, reclaim agency, and begin to edit the scripts we’ve inherited. For anyone who's ever felt slightly out of step with the world's rhythm and wondered if that's a place worth pursuing.

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Recent Episodes

Utopia of Play: after the dream

Dec 17, 2025 38m

In this season finale, we summarise all the ideas and themes explored throughout the season and land on the question: what is the power we are fighting for?

Utopia of Play: a history of the commons - the new enclosures (part 2)

Dec 10, 2025 35m

In this episode of "Utopia of Play," Elina continues the history of the commons into present day and examines the new enclosures in the digital age. From the commons to cloud servers, explore how…

Utopia of Play: a history of the commons - the theft of the world (part 1)

Dec 03, 2025 44m

This episode delves into the intricate history of the commons and its enclosure, a pivotal transformation that reshaped social relations and laid the groundwork for modern industrial capitalism. This…

BONUS Utopia of Play - we got union busting before GTA6 (Part 2)

Nov 26, 2025 23m Bonus

Elina explores the dynamics of the gift economy in the workplace, the challenges of union busting, and the nature of authority and solidarity within corporate structures. The stark contrast between…

BONUS Utopia of Play: we got union busting before GTA6 (part 1)

Nov 19, 2025 18m Bonus

This episode explores the concept of collective action through the lens of recent events at Rockstar Games, highlighting the contradictions within the culture industry and the threats posed by…

Utopia of Play: the gift

Nov 12, 2025 20m

What would it look like if instead of owing 1s and 0s we built reputation and social capital through generosity and constant exchange of giving - of time, resources, care. If success was measured by…

Utopia of Play: rethinking debt

Nov 05, 2025 32m

Debt isn't just what you owe - it's an architecture of obedience. It colonises your time and keeps you trapped in bullshit jobs. But in ancient societies, they knew permanent debt would destroy…

Utopia of Play: bodies on the altar

Oct 29, 2025 31m

We all live inside the cage of modern work culture, but that cage doesn't confine everyone equally. This episode asks: whose exhaustion counts as virtue, and whose is simply erased? Who gets to…

Utopia of Play: the altar of exhaustion

Oct 22, 2025 28m

Why are we so exhausted we can only imagine how to hustle harder rather than imagine alternatives? In this episode, i explore how corporate culture transformed exhaustion from side effect to…

S1E3 Utopia of Play: games we're forced to play

Oct 15, 2025 23m

What makes play different from games? In this episode of Your Local Anthropologist, i explore the concept of play versus games, emphasising the invisible rules that govern modern work culture and…

S1E2 Utopia of Play: playing with the gods

Oct 08, 2025 23m

This episode is historical - what was the role of work in early societies? How did Christianity influence labour and play? And what does the modern workplace have to do with plantations?Watch a…

S1E1 Utopia of Play: in the beginning there was labour

Oct 01, 2025 9m

Why do we work this much? Even hunters and gatherers had shorter work days than us. Play is the crucial ingredient for breakthroughs and new ideas, so why don't we do it more? This is the first in…

S1E1 Introducing: Your Local Anthropologist with Elina

Sep 28, 2025 2m Trailer

Elina's been dying to figure out why we don't construct better worlds. Armed with a politics of hope and knowledge of our histories, she's hoping to find ways of solving this crisis of imagination.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does Your Local Anthropologist with Elina have?

Your Local Anthropologist with Elina has published 13 episodes since September 2025, covering topics in Science, Social Sciences.

Is Your Local Anthropologist with Elina still active?

Your Local Anthropologist with Elina is currently sporadic with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 27m.

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