Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPayal Arora et al., "Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Episode 294
The future of work is at the centre of debates related to the emerging digital society. Concerns range from the inclusion, equity, and dignity of tho…
2 years, 10 months ago
Red Team Blues and the Social Dimensions of Technology
Episode 49
This episode is a first for the Peoples & Things podcast: it features a guest host. It is something you will be seeing more of in the future. Guest h…
2 years, 10 months ago
Brendan Keogh, "The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 343
The videogame industry, we're invariably told, is a multibillion-dollar, high-tech business conducted by large corporations in certain North American…
2 years, 10 months ago
Drone: Remote Control Warfare
Episode 101
Drone Warfare is the first comprehensive analysis of one of the fastest growing--and most secretive--fronts in global conflict: the rise of robot war…
2 years, 10 months ago
Amanda L. Van Lanen, "The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
Episode 132
In the nineteenth century, most American farms had a small orchard or at least a few fruit-bearing trees. People grew their own apple trees or purcha…
2 years, 10 months ago
Lawrence Freedman, "Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 1324
Command in war is about forging effective strategies and implementing them, making sure that orders are appropriate, well-communicated, and then obey…
2 years, 10 months ago
Athene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 127
Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the s…
2 years, 10 months ago
Amy Brady, "Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--a Cool History of a Hot Commodity" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
Episode 152
Ice is everywhere: in gas stations, in restaurants, in hospitals, in our homes. Americans think nothing of dropping a few ice cubes into tall glasses…
2 years, 10 months ago
Erik J. Dahl, "The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
Episode 108
Epidemiologists and national security agencies warned for years about the potential for a deadly pandemic, but in the end global surveillance and war…
2 years, 10 months ago
The History of 19th-Century Quarantine Politics: A Conversation with David S. Barnes
Episode 48
David S. Barnes, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, talks about his book, Lazaretto: How Phil…
2 years, 10 months ago