Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNicole Eaton, "German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 152
German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad (Cornell UP, 2023) reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-…
2 years, 7 months ago
Matthew F. Jordan, "Danger Sound Klaxon!: The Horn That Changed History" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Episode 72
Danger Sound Klaxon!:The Horn That Changed History (University of Virginia Press, 2023) reveals the untold story of the Klaxon automobile horn, one o…
2 years, 7 months ago
Laurence Ralph Reckons With Police Violence (EF, JP)
Episode 117
In the third episode of our Global Policing series, Elizabeth and John spoke back in 2020 with anthropologist Laurence Ralph about The Torture Letter…
2 years, 7 months ago
Elizabeth DeYoung, "Power, Politics and Territory in the ‘New Northern Ireland’" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
Episode 52
In the wake of the Good Friday Agreement, the redevelopment of the former Girdwood Army Barracks in North Belfast was hailed as a ‘symbol of hope’ fo…
2 years, 7 months ago
Colin McFarlane, "Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 322
In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Colin McFarlane, through Wa…
2 years, 7 months ago
Rory Coulter, "Housing and Life Course Dynamics: Changing Lives, Places and Inequalities" (Policy Press, 2023)
Episode 104
Deepening inequalities and wider processes of demographic, economic, and social change are altering how people across the Global North move between h…
2 years, 7 months ago
Greg Beets and Richard Whymark, "A Curious Mix of People: The Underground Scene of '90s Austin" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Episode 173
Ask anyone outside of Austin what they know about the city and chances are the first thing they'll mention is the music. While the Armadillo Era has …
2 years, 7 months ago
Graham Denyer Willis, "Keep the Bones Alive: Missing People and the Search for Life in Brazil" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 201
Every year at least 20,000 people go missing in São Paulo, Brazil. Many will be found, sometimes in mundane mass graves, but thousands will not. Keep…
2 years, 7 months ago
Joseph Brady and Paul Ferguson, "Dublin: Mapping the City" (Birlinn, 2023)
Episode 51
Maps are essential tools in finding our way around, but they also tell stories and are great depositories of information. Until the twentieth century…
2 years, 7 months ago
Faiza Moatasim, "Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Episode 17
Among urban designers and municipal officials, the term encroachment is defined as a deviation from the official master plan. But in cities today, su…
2 years, 8 months ago