Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchZoha Waseem, "Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 14
The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakistan, notorious for its corruption and brutality. In both colonial and postcolonia…
3 years, 2 months ago
Luca Zan, "The Venice Arsenal: Between History, Heritage, and Re-Use" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 70
The Venice Arsenal: Between History, Heritage, and Re-Use (Routledge, 2022) reviews four decades of debate about restoring an industrial heritage sit…
3 years, 2 months ago
Slum Tourism and Affective Economy in Delhi, India
Episode 176
In Delhi, former street children guide visiting tourists around the streets that they used to inhabit and show how the NGO they work for tries to res…
3 years, 2 months ago
Tim Simpson, "Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China's Consumer Revolution" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 285
A comprehensive look into how Macau’s recent decades of gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories on the planet.
Betting on M…
3 years, 2 months ago
Howard Gillette, Jr., "The Paradox of Urban Revitalization: Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Episode 11
In the twenty-first century, cities in the United States that had suffered most the shift to a postindustrial era entered a period widely proclaimed …
3 years, 2 months ago
Eli Elinoff, "Citizen Designs: City-Making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
Episode 10
What does it mean to design democratic cities and democratic citizens in a time of mass urbanization and volatile political transformation?
Citizen D…
3 years, 2 months ago
Kristin Hass, "Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices" (Beacon Press, 2022)
Episode 112
Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices (Beacon Press, 2022) provides a field gu…
3 years, 3 months ago
Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil, "Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 180
How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countrysid…
3 years, 3 months ago
Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson, "Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 84
Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson's book Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions (Routledge, 2020) brings together …
3 years, 3 months ago
Felicity Hwee-Hwa Chan, "Tensions in Diversity: Spaces for Collective Life in Los Angeles" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Episode 9
Urban landscapes are complex spaces of sociocultural diversity, characterized by narratives of both conviviality and conflict. As people with multipl…
3 years, 3 months ago