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Back to SearchAlda Balthrop-Lewis, "Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 172
Balthrop-Lewis's Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism (Cambridge UP, 2021) presents a ground-breaking int…
2 years, 5 months ago
Megan MacKenzie, "Good Soldiers Don't Rape: The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 311
Sexual violence is a significant problem within many Western militaries. Despite international attention to the issue and global #MeToo and #TimesUp …
2 years, 6 months ago
Rahul Ranjan, "The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 199
How do affective sites such as memorials and statues produce political visions, emotions, and opportunities? And how are they used strategically to f…
2 years, 6 months ago
David B. Wong, "Moral Relativism and Pluralism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 195
Today I talked to David B. Wong about his book Moral Relativism and Pluralism (Cambridge UP, 2023).
The argument for metaethical relativism--the view …
2 years, 6 months ago
Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 97
The East India Company is remembered as the world's most powerful, not to say notorious, corporation. But for many of its advocates from the 1770s to…
2 years, 6 months ago
Rebecca Kingston, "Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 249
Throughout the early modern period, political theorists in France and England drew on the works of Plutarch to offer advice to kings and princes. Eli…
2 years, 6 months ago
Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī, "The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 246
The stories in the Thousand and One Nights, or the Arabian Nights, are familiar to many of us: from the tales of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba…
2 years, 6 months ago
Taylor Cowdery, "Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 245
Is the raw material of literature the paper, ink, vellum, paphyrus, and increasingly electronic data that it is inscribed on? Or is the stuff of lite…
2 years, 6 months ago
Alexandra Roginski, "Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 86
The contentious science of phrenology once promised insight into character and intellect through external ‘reading’ of the head. In the transforming …
2 years, 6 months ago
Ari Ezra Waldman, "Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 157
In Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power (Cambridge UP, 2021), Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech ind…
2 years, 6 months ago