Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMarcos E. Pérez, "Proletarian Lives: Routines, Identity, and Culture in Contentious Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 19
What drives and sustains participation in unemployed workers’ movements in Argentina? Today’s guest, Marcos Perez, is Assistant Professor in the Depa…
4 years, 1 month ago
Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross, "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 37
How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Cambridge U…
4 years, 1 month ago
Audrey L. Comstock, "Committed to Rights: UN Human Rights Treaties and Legal Paths for Commitment and Compliance" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 609
International treaties are the primary means for codifying global human rights standards. However, nation-states are able to make their own choices i…
4 years, 1 month ago
Timmen Cermak, "Marijuana on My Mind: The Science and Mystique of Cannabis" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 47
Few substances have been researched as extensively, and debated as fiercely, as cannabis. In Marijuana on My Mind: The Science and Mystique of Cannab…
4 years, 1 month ago
Rana Siu Inboden, "China and the International Human Rights Regime: 1982–2017" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 30
In China and the International Human Rights Regime (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Rana Siu Inboden examines the evolution of China’s posture tow…
4 years, 1 month ago
Hyaeweol Choi, "Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 203
Postcolonial feminist scholarship on the formation of gender relations primarily uses the analytic of colonizer-colonized dyad. In her new monograph,…
4 years, 1 month ago
Christopher Carothers, "Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes: Lessons from East Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 445
Political corruption remains … one of the most intriguing and challenging issues in social science research and public policy, perhaps because althou…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Future of Human Fertility: A Conversation with R. John Aitken
Episode 13
Human fertility rates are declining fast and in twenty years or so the global population will go down fast – not just in affluent countries but in th…
4 years, 1 month ago
Suman Seth, "Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 155
Before the nineteenth century, travelers who left Britain for the Americas, West Africa, India and elsewhere encountered a medical conundrum: why did…
4 years, 1 month ago
Mahmood Kooria, "Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 52
Analyzing the spread and survival of Islamic legal ideas and commentaries in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean littorals, Islamic Law in…
4 years, 1 month ago