Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRachel Hall Sternberg, "The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights" (U Texas Press, 2021)
Episode 6
Although the era of the Enlightenment witnessed the rise of philosophical debates around benevolent social practice, the origins of European humane d…
4 years, 1 month ago
Florence Ashley, "Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis" (U British Columbia Press, 2022)
Episode 28
NB: This interview contains explicit language.In Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis (U British Columbia Press, 202…
4 years, 1 month ago
Suzanne E. Scoggins, "Policing China: Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 598
China has the reputation for being a strong security state. After the pro-democracy Tiananmen protests, the Chinese government moved to increase stab…
4 years, 1 month ago
David P. Forsythe, "Advanced Introduction to the Politics of International Human Rights" (Edward Elgar, 2021)
Episode 27
“Human rights in public policy are constructed by diplomats and politicians in an international legislative process, not discovered amongst the cloud…
4 years, 1 month ago
Charles Alistair McCrary, "Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 236
"Sincerely held religious belief" is now a common phrase in discussions of American religious freedom, from opinions handed down by the US Supreme Co…
4 years, 1 month ago
Michael L. Walker, "Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 2
Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have …
4 years, 1 month ago
Clayton Howard, "The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac: The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Episode 94
"I don't care what people do in their bedroom, but do they need to flaunt it?" This sentiment is a common refrain in American culture and politics wh…
4 years, 1 month ago
Kristin 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month 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 …
4 years, 1 month ago