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Back to SearchSherrow O. Pinder et al., "Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 446
Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2020) is a nuanced and long-needed anthology interrogates the “never ending issue” of the unequal positioning of…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Lara Harb, "Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 181
Lara Harb’s Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2020) is a delightful and formidable study on the details and development of poetics and a…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Kurt Braddock, "Weaponized Words" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 55
Kurt Braddock's new book Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization (Cambridge University Press, 2020) applies existing theories of persua…
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Mauro Nobili, "Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 68
In the early 19th century, on the floodplain of the Niger river’s inland delta in West Africa (present-day Mali), the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi emerged. The new State, locally known as the Maasina Diin…
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Arlie Loughnan, "Self, Others and the State: Relations of Criminal Responsibility" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 87
Criminal responsibility is a key-organizing concept of the criminal law, but Arlie Loughnan argues that it needs re-examination. Focusing on the Australian experience, Self, Others and the State: Rel…
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Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 182
Challenging the geographical narrative of the history of Islam, Chiara Formichi’s new book Islam and Asia: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2020), helps us to rethink how we tell the story of I…
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A. M. Ruppel, "Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Episode 47
In this podcast, we interview Dr. Antonia Ruppel about Sanskrit Studies. Dr. Ruppel is the author the Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and also teaches online San…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
Diana Fu, "Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Episode 435
When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take to the streets, what do they do? Diana Fu’s nuanced ethnography of Chinese labor organizations demonstrates how grassroots non-g…
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Yaacov Yadgar, "Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 24
Yaacov Yadgar discusses his new book, Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2020) with Peter Bergamin. An important and topical contribut…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
Julia C. Strauss, "State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 322
State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2019) by Julia C. Strauss is a comparative study of regime consolidation in the People’s Repub…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago