Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJesse Dart, "Feeding the Hustle: Free Food & Care Inside the Tech Industry" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Episode 270
Food is increasingly a subject of interest in social sciences: how we cook, consume, and share food is relevant to our social lives. In Feeding the H…
2 years, 6 months ago
Lindsey Claire Smith, "Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Episode 147
What do Tulsa, Santa Fe, and New Orleans have in common? When viewed from the perspective of Indigenous arts and culture, the answer is quite a bit. …
2 years, 6 months ago
Abigail Agresta, "The Keys to Bread and Wine: Faith, Nature, and Infrastructure in Late Medieval Valencia" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 53
How did medieval people think about the environments in which they lived?
In a world shaped by God, how did they treat environments marked by religio…
2 years, 6 months ago
Chhaya Kolavalli, "Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Episode 18
Chhaya Kolavalli's book Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City (U Georgia Press, 2023) documents how…
2 years, 6 months ago
Daniel Jütte, "Transparency: The Material History of an Idea" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 358
Transparency is a mantra of our day. It is key to the Western understanding of a liberal society. We expect transparency from, for instance, politica…
2 years, 6 months ago
Dirk Van Laak, "Lifelines of Our Society: A Global History of Infrastructure" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 73
Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today's strong…
2 years, 7 months ago
Kat Mustatea, "Voidopolis" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 22
Shortlisted for the 2023 Lumen Prize, Kat Mustatea's Voidopolis (MIT Press, 2023) is a hybrid digital artistic and literary project in the form of an…
2 years, 7 months ago
Lidia Katia C. Manzo, "Gentrification and Diversity: Rebranding Milan's Chinatown" (Springer, 2023)
Episode 326
Lidia Katia C. Manzo's book Gentrification and Diversity: Rebranding Milan's Chinatown (Springer, 2023) examines lived experiences of making, inhabit…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Future of the Rural-Urban Divide: A Discussion with Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea
Episode 87
The town/countryside split has always been a feature of democratic Western politics and has impacted party choice. The advent of rust belts may have …
2 years, 7 months ago
Andrew Brandel, "Moving Words: Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Episode 64
In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city – …
2 years, 7 months ago