Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchElaine Pearson, "Chasing Wrongs and Rights: My Experience Defending Human Rights Around the World" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
Episode 41
Chasing Wrongs and Rights: My Experience Defending Human Rights Around the World (Simon & Schuster, 2022) by Elaine Pearson, the Asia Director at Hum…
3 years, 10 months ago
Anna Pendergrast and Kelly Pendergrast, "More Zeros and Ones: Digital Technology, Maintenance and Equity in Aotearoa New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)
Episode 83
Many of today’s digital technologies inadvertently amplify the power structures and prejudices of wider society. By examining the way digital tools a…
3 years, 11 months ago
Arcia Tecun et al., "Towards a Grammar of Race in Aotearoa New Zealand (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)
Episode 82
A search for new ways to talk about race in Aotearoa New Zealand brought together this powerful group of scholars, writers, and activists. For these …
4 years ago
Ethics, Utopia and Materiality: Glimpses of Everyday Creativity and Hope in Indonesian Papua
Episode 68
The Asmat are an indigenous people of Indonesian Papua and are renowned for their artistic carving flair and complex life-cycle rituals. They also ha…
4 years, 1 month ago
Robin Derricourt, "Creating God: The Birth and Growth of Major Religions" ( Manchester UP, 2021)
Episode 63
What do we really know about how and where religions began, and how they spread?
Robin Derricourt considers the birth and growth of several major rel…
4 years, 1 month ago
John Richens, "Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other" (Melbourne UP, 2022)
Episode 173
A medical doctor with an inquisitive mind and a traveling spirit, John Richens thought he had hit upon an exemplary public health case study – the st…
4 years, 1 month ago
Fiona Crawford and Lee McGowan, "Never Say Die: The Hundred-Year Overnight Success of Australian Women's Football" (NewSouth Books, 2019)
Episode 228
Today we are joined by two guests: Dr. Fiona Crawford, a writer, editor, and researcher whose work engages with social, environmental, and sports. Dr…
4 years, 1 month ago
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
Episode 20
Last episode we discussed films about how a nuclear war would start, particularly the insane logic of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). In this epi…
4 years, 1 month ago
Anna Clark, "Making Australian History" (Random House Australia, 2022)
Episode 1264
Australian history has been revised and reinterpreted by successive generations of historians, writers, governments and public commentators, yet ther…
4 years, 1 month ago
Mohamed Adhikari, "Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples" (Hackett, 2022)
Episode 1264
Today I talked to Dr. Mohamed Adhikari about his book Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples (Hackett, 2022).
"This book explo…
4 years, 1 month ago