Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBeans Velocci, "Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary" (Duke UP, 2026)
Episode 3658
In Sex Isn’t Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary (Duke UP, 2026), Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to defin…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Cedric de Leon, "Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 3657
Our guest today is Cedric de Leon, author of Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity (U California Press, 2025)…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Melissa Butcher, "The Trouble with Freedom: Love, Hate and America’s Future" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Episode 3656
As Melissa Butcher puts it in her book The Trouble with Freedom: Love, Hate and America’s Future (Manchester UP, 2026) when asked to rank the importa…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Alex Diamond, "Governing the Excluded: Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Colombia's Peace Laboratory" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Episode 3654
The Colombian village of Briceño might, at first glimpse, look like many communities in the rural Global South. Many of the people living there rely …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Ho-fung Hung, "The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 3655
"The contempt and naive idealization of China are two sides of the same coin. The latter cannot be an antidote to the former."
So argues Ho-Fung Hung…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Kristina Jonutytė, "Between the Buddha and the New Tsar: Urban Religion and Minority Politics at the Asian Borderlands of Russia" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Episode 3653
Between the Buddha and the New Tsar: Urban Religion and Minority Politics at the Asian Borderlands of Russia (Cornell UP, 2026) by Dr. Kristina Jonut…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Caste and Tech with Murali Shanmugavelan and Sareeta Amrute
Episode 3651
This episode features a conversation with Murali Shanmugavelan and Sareeta Amrute about how caste structures IT workspaces and communication infrastr…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Derek Krueger "Monastic Desires: Homoeroticism, Homophobia, and the Love of God in Medieval Constantinople" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 3652
Derek Krueger Monastic Desires: Homoeroticism, Homophobia, and Love of God in Medieval Constantinople (Cambridge UP, 2026)
The Byzantine Abbot Symeon…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Kristin Ciupa, "The Political Economy of Oil in Venezuela: Class Conflict, the State, and the World Market" (Brill, 2026)
Episode 3650
The Political Economy of Oil in Venezuela: Class Conflict, the State, and the World Market (Brill, 2026) is the latest book from Dr. Kristin Ciupa, …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Zheng Liu, "Cultural Mavericks: The Business and Politics of Independent Bookselling in China" (Columbia UP, 2026)
Episode 3649
In recent decades, self-proclaimed “independent bookstores” have arisen across China. In the West, such retailers represent an alternative to corpora…
6 months, 4 weeks ago