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Back to SearchLuke Clements, "Clustered Injustice and The Level Green" (Legal Action Group, 2020)
Episode 141
In Clustered Injustice and The Level Green (Legal Action Group, 2020), Professor Luke Clements tackles the problem of the way in which "our legal sys…
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Zakiya Luna, "Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice" (NYU Press, 2020)
Episode 5
How did reproductive justice—defined as the right to have children, to not have children, and to parent—become recognized as a human rights issue? In…
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Quentin Skinner, “Quest for Freedom” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 85
Quest for Freedom is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and intellectual historian Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Profe…
4 years, 4 months ago
Jovan Scott Lewis, "Scammer's Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Episode 41
There is romance in stealing from the rich to give to the poor, but how does that change when those perceived rich are elderly white North Americans …
4 years, 4 months ago
Doing an Ethnography of Policing: In Conversation with Sarah Brayne
Episode 14
How has the use of big data and algorithms changed policing and police surveillance? On this episode, we speak with Dr. Sarah Brayne, Assistant Profe…
4 years, 4 months ago
Renee Ann Cramer, "Birthing a Movement: Midwives, Law, and the Politics of Reproductive Care" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Episode 553
Political Scientist Renee Ann Cramer’s newest book Birthing a Movement tells the stories of American midwives and their battle for reproductive right…
4 years, 4 months ago
Matthew J. Lacombe, "Firepower: How the NRA Turned Gun Owners Into a Political Force" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 120
Firepower: How the NRA Turned Gun Owners into a Political Force (Princeton, 2021) explores the scope and power of one of America’s most influential i…
4 years, 4 months ago
Nada Moumtaz, "God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State" (U California Press, 2021)
Episode 149
Nada Moumtaz’s God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State (University of California Press, 2021) is an ethnography anchored in deep study o…
4 years, 4 months ago
David Madland, "Re-Union: How Bold Labor Reforms Can Repair, Revitalize, and Reunite the United States" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 147
In Re-Union: How Bold Labor Reforms Can Repair, Revitalize, and Reunite the United States (Cornell UP, 2021), David Madland explores how labor unions…
4 years, 4 months ago
Robert J. Spitzer, "The Politics of Gun Control" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 557
Dr. Robert J. Spitzer’s classic text, The Politics of Gun Control: 8th Edition (Routledge, 2020), has been revised based on new data on gun ownership…
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