Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMeghana Joshi, "Children are Everywhere: Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin" (Berghahn, 2024)
Episode 164
Children are Everywhere: Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin (Berghahn Books, 2024) by Dr. Meghana Joshi engages with how …
1 year, 8 months ago
Sharad Chari, "Apartheid Remains" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 200
Over the course of the 20th century, the South African state attempted to construct a “White Man’s Country” on the African continent using the biopol…
1 year, 8 months ago
Rebuild by Design: A Talk by Eric Klinenberg
Episode 72
In October 2010, Eric Klinenberg, NYU professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge, spoke about his work on Rebuild by D…
1 year, 8 months ago
Wes Marshall, "Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System" (Island Press, 2024)
Episode 374
In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse in recent years, yet we continu…
1 year, 8 months ago
Kanupriya Dhingra, "Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 245
Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar (Cambridge UP, 2024) looks at Old Delhi's Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Ki…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Ideology of Democratic Athens
Episode 1
We are Clavis Aurea: a dynamic team constantly looking for ways to make the academic publishing industry grow and to promote groundbreaking academic …
1 year, 8 months ago
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, "The Cities We Need: Essential Stories of Everyday Places" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 35
An expressive book of prose and photographs that reveals the powerful ways our everyday places support our shared belonging. Where would you take som…
1 year, 8 months ago
Lynne B. Sagalyn, "Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 34
What is it about Times Square that has inspired such attention for well over a century? And how is it that, despite its many changes of character, th…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jonathan Maskit, "Bicycle" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 371
These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An almost miraculous 19th-century contraption, the bicycle pro…
1 year, 9 months ago
Max Hirsh and Till Mostowlansky, "Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Episode 325
In the twenty-first century, infrastructure has undergone a seismic shift from West to East. Once concentrated in Europe and North America, global in…
1 year, 9 months ago