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How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
Episode 15
Davarian L. Baldwin is a professor of American studies and founding director of the Smart Cities Lab at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. His latest…
3 years, 5 months ago
Namita Vijay Dharia, "The Industrial Ephemeral: Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 209
What transformative effects does a multimillion-dollar industry have on those who work within it? The Industrial Ephemeral presents the untold storie…
3 years, 5 months ago
Dick Weissman, "Bob Dylan's New York: A Historic Guide" (SUNY Press, 2022)
Episode 213
New York has long been a city where people go to reinvent themselves.
And since the dawn of the twentieth century, New York City’s Greenwich Village h…
3 years, 5 months ago
Viola Franziska Müller, "Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South" (UNC Press, 2022)
Episode 351
In Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South (UNC Press, 2022), Viola Franziska Müller examines runaways who camouflaged them…
3 years, 5 months ago
Jennifer Forestal, "Designing for Democracy: How to Build Community in Digital Environments" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 636
Political Theorist Jennifer Forestal’s new book is a fascinating exploration of contemporary democracy and how it operates in different spaces. Fores…
3 years, 5 months ago
The History of the Black Urban Working-Class in the United States
Episode 40
Joe William Trotter, Jr., Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Founder and Director of the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and th…
3 years, 5 months ago
Infrastructure and Inequality
Episode 7
Daniel Armanios, associate professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, talks about his work on infrastructure and inequ…
3 years, 5 months ago
Carwil Bjork-James, "The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia" (U Arizona Press, 2020)
Episode 177
In the early twenty-first century Bolivian social movements made streets, plazas, and highways into the decisively important spaces for acting politi…
3 years, 5 months ago
Eternity Now: Talking about Mysticism with the Apostle to the Gangs of LA
Season 1 Episode 17
Jesuit Father Greg Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries in East LA, the world’s largest and most successful gang intervention and rehabilitatio…
3 years, 5 months ago
Matthew Smith, "The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 188
Social psychiatry was a mid-twentieth-century approach to mental health that stressed the prevention of mental illness rather than its treatment. Its…
3 years, 5 months ago