Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRethinking Community in Myanmar: Practices of We-Formation Among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon
Episode 172
Where does the concept of “community” come from? How does it shape the lives of Hindus and Muslims in metropolitan Yangon? And how do these people na…
3 years, 3 months ago
Eric Porter, "A People's History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 123
What can an airport tell us about a city? Quite a bit, according to UC-Santa Cruz history professor Eric Porter in A People's History of SFO: The Mak…
3 years, 3 months ago
Roger Biles and Mark H. Rose, "A Good Place to Do Business: The Politics of Downtown Renewal Since 1945" (Temple UP, 2022)
Episode 280
The “Pittsburgh Renaissance,” an urban renewal effort launched in the late 1940s, transformed the smoky rust belt city’s downtown. Working-class resi…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Hippie High-Rise: Rochdale College, Toronto’s Communal Living High Rise Free Education Experiment
Episode 51
From 1968 to 1975 one high-rise was the heart of Canada’s counterculture. Rochdale College in Toronto was jammed full with leftist organizers, hippie…
3 years, 3 months ago
Chris Walley on Deindustrialization (EF, JP)
Episode 101
On a blustery fall morning back in 2019, RTB welcomed Christine Walley, anthropologist and author of Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Ch…
3 years, 3 months ago
T. R. Johnson, "New Orleans: A Writer's City" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 7
New Orleans is an indispensable element of America's national identity. As one of the most fabled cities in the world, it figures in countless novels…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ali Mozaffari and Nigel Westbrook, "Development, Architecture, and the Formation of Heritage in Late Twentieth-Century Iran" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Episode 82
Development, Architecture, and the Formation of Heritage in Late Twentieth-Century Iran (Manchester UP, 2020) analyses the use of the past and the pr…
3 years, 3 months ago
Lillian Colon, "Lilly: The First Latina Rockette" (Lilly Enterprises, 2021)
Episode 8
Lilly: The First Latina Rockette (Lilly Enterprises, 2021) is the improbable story of a Puerto Rican toddler, confined by her father for 15 years to …
3 years, 3 months ago
Rotem Geva, "Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 178
Delhi, one of the world's largest cities, has faced momentous challenges—mass migration, competing governing authorities, controversies over citizens…
3 years, 3 months ago
Jovan Scott Lewis, "Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 365
In Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa (Duke UP, 2022), Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tuls…
3 years, 3 months ago