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Back to SearchMonika Krause, "Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 371
In Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Dr. Monika Krause asks about the concrete material resea…
1 year, 11 months ago
Angela Garcia, "The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos" (FSG, 2024)
Episode 221
Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico C…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jake Johnson, "The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in Las Vegas" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Episode 244
Las Vegas is a place the American dream made; a city built in the middle of desert visited by millions of people every year hoping to make their drea…
1 year, 11 months ago
Timothy Barnard, "Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City" (NUS Press, 2024)
Episode 192
In Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City (NUS Press, 2024), historian Tim Barnard and his colleagues offer …
1 year, 11 months ago
Miranda Sachs, "An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 132
Childhood as lived during the French Third Republic was very different from childhood during the modern era. Working-class children laboured alongsid…
1 year, 11 months ago
Meaghan Stiman, "Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and Themselves" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 100
In recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates. In Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities an…
1 year, 11 months ago
Race, Social Reproduction, and Capitalist Totality
Episode 113
We live in a historical conjuncture characterized by the rise of a range of social movements that aim to challenge different forms of domination: cap…
1 year, 11 months ago
Frederick Klaits et al., "Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City: Designs for Vitality" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 312
In Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City: Designs for Vitality (Bloomsbury, 2022), Frederick Klaits compares how members of one majority white …
2 years ago
Elsa Devienne, "Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 29
The Los Angeles shoreline is one of the most iconic natural landscapes in the United States, if not the world. The vast shores of Santa Monica, Venic…
2 years ago
Jorge Almazán et al., "Emergent Tokyo:: Designing the Spontaneous City" (Oro Editions, 2024)
Episode 28
If ancient Kyoto stands for orderly elegance, then Tokyo, within the world’s most populated metropolitan area, calls to mind–– jam-packed chaos. But …
2 years ago