Language for Living with Dr Zoe Chitare
Language for Living is a weekly podcast hosted by Dr Zoe Chitare, a socio-legal scholar. In each episode, she offers concepts, language, and perspectives that help listeners better understand their own experiences and the world around them. The show explores law, power, identity, belonging, philosophy, and culture—the ideas, systems, and experiences that shape our lives. Rather than telling people what to think, it creates a space for reflection and conversation.
Episodes
Episode 5: Back to School, Storytelling, Meaning-Making & Life after the PhD
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.A little catch-up on Paris, new glasses, Grease, the start of a new academic year, and the power of storytelling and meaning-making in our own lives.Follow me on Instagram: @DrZoeChitareEmail: drzoechitare@gmail.com
EPISODE 2 When the Law Only Sees Part of You: Citizens, Subjects and Partial Legal Subjectivity
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.Episode 2: Citizen, Subject and Partial Legal SubjectivityIn this episode of Language for Living, I explore Mahmood Mamdani’s Citizen and Subject alongside Oliver Phillips’ concept of partial legal subjectivity.We look at how colonial law did more than distribute rights unequally — it created different kinds of legal and political subjects.
Ep 1 The Problem with Outsourcing Value
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.Why do we so often measure our worth through other people’s approval?In the first full episode of Language for Living, I explore what happens when we outsource our value to qualifications, relationships, achievements, or public recognition—and why this leaves us vulnerable to losing ourselves.This podcast isn’t about telling you what to thi
Trailer: Welcome to Language for Living
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.What if the hardest part of an experience isn’t living through it but not having the words to describe it? Join Dr. Zoe Chitare as she explores law, society, identity, power and everyday life, and follow the show so you never miss an episode.YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok @drzoechitare
Episode 4: Why Rights on Paper Aren’t Always Rights in Practice
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.What happens after a right is written into a constitution?In this episode of Language for Living, I return to a question that sat at the heart of my doctoral research: why can a progressive constitutional commitment exist on paper without being fully realised in everyday life?At the heart of the episode is a simple distinction:Recognition i
Ep3 When a Constitution Outlives Its Values: Women, the Home and Article 41.2
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.What happens when a constitution outlives some of the values of the society that created it?In this episode of Language for Living, I explore Article 41.2 of the Irish Constitution, often referred to as the “woman in the home” provision ,and the ideas about women, motherhood, care and family that shaped its drafting in 1937.I look at Éamon
