Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLynette J. Chua, "The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Season 2 Episode 126
The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia (Cambridge UP, 2022) offers an empirically-grounded approach to understanding the mobilisation of rights in…
2 years, 10 months ago
Sally Frances Low, "Colonial Law Making: Cambodia Under the French" (NUS Press, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 137
In 1863 the French established a protectorate over the kingdom of Cambodia. The protectorate, along with Vietnam and Laos, later became part of the c…
2 years, 10 months ago
Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 206
Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia (Knopf, 2023), a book ten years in the making, is the definitive account of t…
2 years, 10 months ago
Kathy Stuart, "Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 58
Suicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650. Suicidal people committed capital crimes with the explicit goal of “earning” their execu…
2 years, 10 months ago
Melinda N. Ritchie, "Backdoor Lawmaking: Evading Obstacles in the US Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 694
Civics textbooks focus on how Congress makes policy through the legislative process, but the reality is that members of Congress have limited opportu…
2 years, 10 months ago
Julian Go, "Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 18
The police response to protests erupting on America's streets in recent years has made the militarization of policing painfully transparent. Yet, pro…
2 years, 10 months ago
Tristan G. Brown, "Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 79
Welcome to another episode of New Books in Chinese Studies. I am your host, Julia Keblinska, and I am speaking today to Prof. Tristan Brown about his…
2 years, 10 months ago
Paolo Caroli, "Transitional Justice in Italy and the Crimes of Fascism and Nazism" (Routledge, 2022)
Season 2 Episode 1390
Paolo Caroli's book Transitional Justice in Italy and the Crimes of Fascism and Nazism (Routledge, 2022) presents a comprehensive analysis of the Ita…
2 years, 10 months ago
Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 358
The end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernity—industrializ…
2 years, 11 months ago
Andrew C. McKevitt, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 691
The United States has more guns than people – a condition that is “unprecedented in world history.” Scholars often focus on gun culture, the Second A…
2 years, 11 months ago