Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLisa Siraganian, "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots" (Verso, 2026)
Episode 871
Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protect…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Green Transition and the Politics of Lithium Extraction
Episode 870
Lithium is necessary for the green transition but its mining comes with significant environmental and social harms. This is the conundrum at the core…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Radio ReOrient 14.2: State of the Ummah: Authoritarianism and Resistance: Bangladesh and Pakistan, Hosted by SherAli Tahreen and Shehla Khan, with Tanzeen Doha and Salman Sayyid
Episode 869
In this episode of Radio ReOrient’ s occasional series The State of the Ummah, SherAli Tahreen, Shehla Khan, Tanzeen Doha, and Salman Sayyid unpack t…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Thorsten Gromes, "Sustaining Peace After Civil War: Insights from 48 Recent Cases" (Springer, 2026)
Episode 868
Sustaining Peace After Civil War: Insights from 48 Recent Cases (Springer, 2026) examines one of the most important questions in peace research: Wha…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Andrew Thomas Park, "Sarah Wambaugh and the Plebiscite: The Turbulent History of a Democratic Alternative to War" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 867
In Sarah Wambaugh and the Plebiscite: The Turbulent History of a Democratic Alternative to War (Cambridge UP, 2026) Dr. Andrew Park tells the story o…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Alex Diamond, "Governing the Excluded: Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Colombia's Peace Laboratory" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Episode 866
The Colombian village of Briceño might, at first glimpse, look like many communities in the rural Global South. Many of the people living there rely …
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Ho-fung Hung, "The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 865
"The contempt and naive idealization of China are two sides of the same coin. The latter cannot be an antidote to the former."
So argues Ho-Fung Hung…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Stephen Onyango Ouma, "Africa Unbound: Decolonial Pathways to Sovereignty and Liberation" (Brill, 2026)
Episode 862
I had a substantive conversation with Dr. Stephen Onyango Ouma, author of Africa Unbound: Decolonial Pathways to Sovereignty and Liberation (Brill, …
7 months ago
Marta Lorimer, "Europe As Ideological Resource: European Integration and Far Right Legitimation in France and Italy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 864
How did the far right go from illegitimate fringe to contender for public office, and did Europe have anything to do with it? Europe As Ideological R…
7 months ago
Hilary Matfess, "After Liberation: Women and the Politics of Expectations in Rebel-to-Party Transitions" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Episode 863
War offers opportunities for women to liberate their communities and build a better life for themselves. When women join rebel groups, they often tak…
7 months ago