Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBenjamin Barson, "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)
Episode 258
Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons (Wesleyan UP, 2024) recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orlea…
1 year, 7 months ago
Vishaan Chakrabarti, "The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 92
From one of today's most inspired architects and urban advocates, a manifesto for architecture as a force for addressing our biggest social challenge…
1 year, 7 months ago
Manan Ahmed Asif, "Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore" (New Press, 2024)
Episode 248
The city of Lahore was more than one thousand years old when it went through a violent schism. As the South Asian subcontinent was partitioned in 194…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanaullah Khan, "Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Episode 64
Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self (Lexington Books, 2023) explores the interrelation between carceral conditi…
1 year, 7 months ago
Brian Groom, "Made in Manchester: A People's History of the City That Shaped the Modern World" (Harpernorth, 2024)
Episode 137
Long before Manchester gave the world titans of industry, comedy, music and sport, it was the cosmopolitan Roman fort of Mamucium. But it was as the …
1 year, 7 months ago
Sabina Faiz Rashid, "Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 293
Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows (Routledge, 2024) provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts that depict t…
1 year, 8 months ago
Megan Steigerwald Ille, "Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
Episode 254
Every year a relatively small number of canonic operas are produced around the world. Many companies shy away from new works, afraid of alienating a …
1 year, 8 months ago
René Boer, "Smooth City: Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives" (Valiz, 2023)
Episode 36
In cities across the world, a new urban condition is spreading rapidly: an ever-increasing push toward efficiency, sanitization, surveillance and the…
1 year, 8 months ago
Adam Greenfield, "Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire" (Verso, 2024)
Episode 5
In Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire (Verso, 2024), Adam Greenfield presents a compelling vision for collective resilience in an…
1 year, 8 months ago
Amanda Shoaf Vincent, "Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City: Paris's New Parks, 1977-1995" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Episode 135
In the space of about two decades, five major parks were proposed, designed, and created in Paris. Some emerged from competitions between professiona…
1 year, 8 months ago