Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSheila R. Foster and Christian Iaione, "Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 85
A new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city’s infrastructure and services. The majority of the world’…
3 years, 4 months ago
Emily Strasser, "Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
Episode 140
In 1942, the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area west of Knoxville, Tennessee…
3 years, 4 months ago
Iza Ding, "The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 131
What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance i…
3 years, 4 months ago
Michael Lawrence Dickinson, "Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Episode 355
Beginning in the late seventeenth century and concluding with the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in t…
3 years, 4 months ago
Ross Beveridge and Philippe Koch, "How Cities Can Transform Democracy" (Polity Press, 2022)
Episode 7
We live in an urban age. It is well-known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environments, social infrastructures and everyday lives acr…
3 years, 4 months ago
Clare Forstie, "Queering the Midwest: Forging LGBTQ Community" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 47
Drag shows that test the capacity of bars persist alongside wishes for stronger community among River City's LGBTQ population. In this examination of…
3 years, 4 months ago
Nicole von Germeten, "The Enlightened Patrolman: Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Episode 179
When late eighteenth-century New Spanish viceregal administrators installed public lamps in the streets of central Mexico City, they illuminated the …
3 years, 4 months ago
Queer Space
Episode 109
In this episode of High Theory, Jack Jen Gieseking tells us about queer space. Queer geographies matter alongside queer temporalities. And it turns o…
3 years, 4 months ago
Robin Bartram, "Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 269
Though we rarely see them at work, building inspectors have the power to significantly shape our lives through their discretionary decisions. The bui…
3 years, 5 months ago
Stephanie C. Kane, "Just One Rain Away: The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Episode 84
Not long ago it seemed flood control experts were close to mastering the unruly flows funnelling toward Hudson Bay and the Prairie city of Winnipeg. …
3 years, 5 months ago