Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGeetanjali Srikantan, "Identifying and Regulating Religion in India: Law, History and the Place of Worship" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 220
Judicial debates on the regulation of religion in post-colonial India have been characterised by the inability of courts to identify religion as a governable phenomenon. Geetanjali Srikantan's book I…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Sarah Quesada, "The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 100
The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2022) unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx writers of the last fifty years. It challenges d…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Jamie Allinson, "The Age of Counter-Revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 62
The last two decades have witnessed an unprecedented amount of protests for far-reaching social change around the world – from the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street to the protests against police vi…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe
Episode 178
An alienated society divided into groups and classes suspicious of one another does not pose an especially great problem for an authoritarian regime that does not legitimize itself through fair elect…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Sabine Frühstück, "Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 468
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan (Cambridge University Press 2022) is a new addition to a list of publications by Sabine Fruhstuck, one of the leading scholars in the world on the topic. Written …
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan W. Concannon, "Does Scripture Speak for Itself?: The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 4
Is the Bible the unembellished Word of God or the product of human agency? There are different answers to that question. And they lie at the heart of this book's powerful exploration of the fraught w…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Gregory Conti, "Parliament the Mirror of the Nation: Representation, Deliberation, and Democracy in Victorian Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 67
Given that we live in an era roiled by concerns about how democratic supposedly democratic countries actually are and when skepticism abounds about how truly representative our electoral systems are,…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Sarah Fatima Waheed, "Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 281
Censorship, Urdu literature, Islam, and progressive secular nationalisms in colonial India and Pakistan have a complex, intertwined history. Sarah Waheed, Assistant Professor at the University of Sou…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Monika Nalepa, "After Authoritarianism: Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 623
Transitional justice – the act of reckoning with a former authoritarian regime after it has ceased to exist – has direct implications for democratic processes. Mechanisms of transitional justice have…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 326
Sarah Derbew’s new book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge UP, 2022) asks how should articulations of blackness from the fifth century BCE to the twenty-first century be properly read…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago