Episode Guide

Episode 1

Welcome to Mumbai & Houston

In this episode, we introduce ourselves, introduce you to our two cities, Houston and Mumbai. We share with you the feelings and experiences from the initial stages of the pandemic that were expressed in our conversations with people who are living and learning in this tumultuous time. Introducing this context is important for understanding the notions of place, power and privilege that we will circle back to in our future episodes.

Episode 2

Leadership & Governance

This episode is dedicated to exploring insights around leadership, what it means for our handling of crises like this one. and what role education has to play in the formation of future leaders. Governance is meant to be a collaborative process, both by and for the people. Today we unpack how government responses to COVID were conceptualised and enacted. 
As educators, we ask ourselves, what are our education systems doing to build future leaders?

Episode 3

Community Mobilization

In this episode, we consider the starkly different ways in which communities across Mumbai and Houston mobilised to tackle the challenges posed by the COVID pandemic. In times of crisis, we like to think that our communities come together to support each other. When we asked ourselves whether or not our cities came together during the pandemic, the first obvious answer was: not really in Houston, maybe a little bit in Mumbai. Yet, as we dove deeper into this subject, we saw a more complex picture emerging. From coordinating with restaurants to provide food & organizing protests against police brutality, to reckoning with social apartheid, racism, and "wicked problems," we've learned, with the help of our respondents, about the contradictory and multifaceted nature of community mobilization in our two cities.