Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTessa Farmer, "Well Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 234
Who is responsible for ensuring access to clean potable water? In an urbanizing planet beset by climate change, cities are facing increasingly arid c…
3 years ago
Mark R. Warren, "Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 199
The story of how Black and Brown parents, students and members of low-income communities of color organized to dismantle the school-to-prison pipelin…
3 years ago
Michael T. Friedman, "Mallparks: Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 248
In Mallparks: Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption (Cornell UP, 2023), Michael T. Friedman observes that as cathedrals represented power …
3 years ago
J. T. Roane, "Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 387
In Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (NYU Press, 2023), author J. T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities…
3 years ago
Chris Campion and Bud Lee, "The War is Here: Newark 1967" (ZE Books, 2023)
Episode 224
July 1967. After the arrest, beating, and imprisonment of cab driver John Smith by local police, the city of Newark--already a tinderbox, became a ho…
3 years, 1 month ago
Cat Button and Gerald Taylor Aiken, "Over Researched Places: Towards a Critical and Reflexive Approach" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 93
Cat Button and Gerald Taylor Aiken's Over Researched Places: Towards a Critical and Reflexive Approach (Routledge, 2022) explores the implications th…
3 years, 1 month ago
James Zarsadiaz, "Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A." (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 131
The myth of the frontier West found its home in America's late twentieth century suburbs, argues University of San Francisco associate professor Jame…
3 years, 1 month ago
Waqas Butt, "Life Beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 228
Over the last several decades, life in Lahore has been undergoing profound transformations, from rapid and uneven urbanization to expanding state ins…
3 years, 1 month ago
Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure
Episode 83
Michael Truscello, author of Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure, discusses the ways in which infrastructure deter…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Politics of Community-Making in New Urban India
Episode 181
How is urban India changing? And how do communities inhabit and transform India’s new cities and urban spaces? In this episode Kenneth Bo Nielsen is …
3 years, 1 month ago