Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSusan Partovi, "Renegade M.D.: A Doctor's Stories from the Streets" (Bookbaby, 2024)
Episode 216
Dr. Susan Partovi first experienced poverty medicine volunteering at a dump site in Tijuana during high school. There, she recognized the need for al…
2 years, 2 months ago
Jeremy Black, "Paris: A Short History" (Thames & Hudson, 2024)
Episode 1436
Once described as "that metropolis of dress and debauchery" by the Scottish poet David Mallet, Paris has always had a reputation for a peculiar joie …
2 years, 2 months ago
On Fiorello La Guardia and Why He Still Matters: A Discussion with Author Terry Golway
Episode 16
Has any American mayor ever made a greater stamp on the public consciousness than the Little Flower, Fiorello La Guardia, mayor of New York City from…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bruce O'Neill, "Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Episode 208
Bruce O'Neill's Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, l…
2 years, 2 months ago
Grazia Ting Deng, "Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 294
Why and how local coffee bars in Italy--those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces--have been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas si…
2 years, 2 months ago
Seth D. Kaplan, "Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time" (Little, Brown Spark, 2023)
Episode 118
The neighborhoods we live in impact our lives in so many ways: they determine who we know, what resources and opportunities we have access to, the qu…
2 years, 2 months ago
Cristiana Strava, "Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 293
What does living “precariously” mean in Casablanca? In 2014 it meant being labeled tcharmil (seeming to endanger public order) and swept up by the po…
2 years, 2 months ago
Mauricio Fernando Castro, "Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Episode 212
In Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024), Mauricio Ca…
2 years, 2 months ago
Loren D. Lybarger, "Palestinian Chicago: Identity in Exile" (U California Press, 2020)
Episode 256
Chicago is home to one of the largest, most politically active Palestinian immigrant communities in the United States. For decades, secular nationali…
2 years, 2 months ago
Alexandrina Vanke, "The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in Everyday Struggle" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 349
Despite the intense processes of deindustrialisation around the world, the working class continues to play an important role in post-industrial socie…
2 years, 2 months ago