Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLisa Uperesa, "Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 223
Since the 1970s, a “Polynesian Pipeline” has brought football players from American Sāmoa to Hawaii and the mainland United States to play at the col…
4 years, 2 months ago
Alastair Paton, "Of Marsupials and Men" (Black Inc, 2022)
Episode 81
Alistair Paton joins today, writer of Of Marsupials and Men (Black Inc, 2022), a book recounting the fascinating and often hilarious history of the m…
4 years, 2 months ago
Jarrod Hore, "Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 104
During the early years of photography, settlers around the Pacific World were fascinated with the landscapes of the places they conquered. According …
4 years, 3 months ago
Nicholas Ferns, "Australia in the Age of International Development, 1945–1975: Colonial and Foreign Aid Policy in Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Episode 1244
In the voluminous literature on the history of modernisation theory and its associated concept of development since the end of World War II, much of …
4 years, 3 months ago
Eda Gunaydin, "Root and Branch: Essays on Inheritance" (NewSouth, 2022)
Episode 80
Eda Gunaydin joins us today to talk about Root and Branch: Essays on Inheritance (NewSouth, 2022). Lots of themes: Turkey, Australia, Sydney, family,…
4 years, 4 months ago
Mae Ngai, "The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Episode 101
Between 1848 and 1899, miners extracted more gold from the earth than in the previous 3,000 years of human history combined. Each gold rush in this p…
4 years, 4 months ago
Douglas Booth, "Bondi Beach: Representations of an Iconic Australian" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Episode 220
Today we are joined by Douglas Booth, Dean of Adventure, Culinary Arts and Tourism at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia, Canada and Prof…
4 years, 4 months ago
Holger Droessler, "Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 172
In Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa (Harvard UP, 2022), Holger Droessler provides a novel history of the impact of globali…
4 years, 5 months ago
Matthew Ricketson and Patrick Mullins, "Who Needs the ABC?: How Digital Disruption and Political Dysfunction Threaten the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Existence" (Scribe, 2022)
Episode 79
Hello media fans - The ABC is Australia's public broadcaster, for TV, digital and radio. Think BBC and CBC and NPR.
Who Needs the ABC?: How Digital D…
4 years, 5 months ago
Jack Ashby, "Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 61
Think of a platypus: they lay eggs (that hatch into so-called platypups), they produce milk without nipples and venom without fangs and they can dete…
4 years, 5 months ago