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 2 When the Law Only Sees Part of You: Citizens, Subjects and Partial Legal Subjectivity
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. From the distinction between citizen and subject, to the
Ep 1 The Problem with Outsourcing Value
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 think. It’s about giving you the concepts, language, and tool
Trailer: Welcome to Language for Living
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
Ep3 When a Constitution Outlives Its Values: Women, the Home and Article 41.2
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 de Valera, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and Fr John Charles Mc
