Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKristin Henning, "The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth" (Pantheon Books, 2021)
Episode 294
Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience representing Black youth in Washington, D.C.'s juvenile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America's ir…
3 years, 10 months ago
Nandita Sharma, "Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants" (Duke UP, 2020)
Episode 225
In today's program, we speak to Nandita Sharma, activist scholar and Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. We talk about Home…
3 years, 10 months ago
Kelly Bauer, "Negotiating Autonomy: Mapuche Territorial Demands and Chilean Land Policy" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
Episode 597
The 1980s and '90s saw Latin American governments recognizing the property rights of Indigenous and Afro-descendent communities as part of a broader …
3 years, 10 months ago
The University Network for Human Rights: A Discussion with Jim Calvallaro
Episode 59
The University Network for Human Rights facilitates supervised undergraduate engagement in the practice of human rights at colleges and universities …
3 years, 10 months ago
Matt Sheedy, "Owning the Secular: Religious Symbols, Culture Wars, Western Fragility " (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 267
In Owning the Secular: Religious Symbols, Culture Wars, Western Fragility (Routledge, 2021), Matt Sheedy, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Univers…
3 years, 10 months ago
Maia Szalavitz, "Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction" (Hachette, 2021)
Episode 46
Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction (Hachette Go, 2021) tells a long-running, but largely unknown, story of…
3 years, 10 months ago
Jennifer Petersen, "How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 315
In How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech (Duke University Press, 2022), Jennifer Petersen constructs a genealogy of ho…
3 years, 11 months ago
Tom Theuns, "The Need for an EU Expulsion Mechanism: Democratic Backsliding and the Failure of Article 7" (2022)
Episode 59
"The rule of law is a means by which [western EU members] want to knead us into something that resembles them," warned Viktor Orbán during his succes…
3 years, 11 months ago
Erin Metz McDonnell, "Patchwork Leviathan: Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 223
Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries. However, some groups within these states are distinctly…
3 years, 11 months ago
Elisabeth Anderson, "Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 26
The beginnings of the modern welfare state are often traced to the late nineteenth-century labor movement and to policymakers’ efforts to appeal to w…
3 years, 11 months ago