Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNoam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 294
“No man’s land” invokes stretches of barren landscape, twisted barbed wire, desolation, and the devastation of war. But this is not always the realit…
1 year, 1 month ago
Daniel Silverman, "Seeing Is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 146
Factual misinformation is spread in conflict zones around the world, often with dire consequences. But when is this misinformation actually believed,…
1 year, 1 month ago
Raheel Dhattiwala, "Keeping the Peace: Spatial Differences in Hindu-Muslim Violence in Gujarat in 2002" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 267
In times of extreme violence, what explains peace in some places? This book investigates geographic variation in Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat in …
1 year, 1 month ago
Philip A. Martin, "Strong Commanders, Weak States: How Rebel Governance Shapes Military Integration after Civil War" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Episode 123
In Strong Commanders, Weak States: How Rebel Governance Shapes Military Integration after Civil War (Cornell University Press, 2025), Dr. Philip A. M…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Internet, Power, and the Deep State: Zeynep Tufekci on Technology and Democracy Today
Episode 161
As the second Trump administration reshapes the U.S. government and its role in the world, how do technology, media, and political power intersect? I…
1 year, 1 month ago
Eeva Luhtakallio et al., "Youth Participation and Democracy: Cultures of Doing Society" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Episode 406
How do young people participate in democratic societies? Youth Participation and Democracy: Cultures of Doing Society (Bristol UP, 2024) introduces t…
1 year, 1 month ago
Marion Laurence, "Intrusive Impartiality: Learning, Contestation, and Practice Change in United Nations Peace Operations" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 122
Impartiality is a guiding principle in United Nations peace operations that has helped legitimize multilateral intervention in dozens of armed confli…
1 year, 1 month ago
Postscript: How to Fight Back: Charting Opposition to the Actions of the Trump Administration
Episode 33
Shortly after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th American president, he issued 37 executive orders and, subsequently, the Trump administration …
1 year, 1 month ago
Aure Schrock on Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America
Episode 91
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Aure Schrock, an interdisciplinary technology scholar and writing coach and editor at Indelible Voice, …
1 year, 1 month ago
Ting Guo, "Religion, Secularism, and Love As a Political Discourse in Modern China" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)
Episode 108
What is the meaning of love in modern Chinese politics? Why has 愛 ai (love) been a crucial political discourse for secular nationalism for generation…
1 year, 1 month ago