Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThomas G. Cowan, "Subaltern Frontiers: Property and Labour in the Neoliberal Indian City" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 197
In urban and peri-urban areas across the Global South, politicians, planners and developers are engaged in a voracious scramble to refashion land for…
3 years, 4 months ago
Jonathan Brunstedt, "The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 1278
In The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR (Cambridge UP, 2021), Jonathan Brunstedt examines how Sovie…
3 years, 4 months ago
Geetanjali 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 go…
3 years, 4 months 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 Latin…
3 years, 4 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 Oc…
3 years, 4 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 …
3 years, 5 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 le…
3 years, 5 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…
3 years, 5 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 h…
3 years, 5 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 Wa…
3 years, 5 months ago