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Back to SearchJoe Greenwood-Hau," Capital, Privilege and Political Participation" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
Episode 3560
Who gets involved in politics? In Capital, Privilege and Political Participation (Liverpool UP, 2025) Joe Greenwood-Hau a Lecturer in the John Smit…
11 months ago
Sarah Hoiland, "Righteous Sisterhood: The Politics and Power of an All-Women's Motorcycle Club" (Temple UP, 2025)
Episode 3558
A righteous sister identifies herself as a biker. She might wrench, or maintain, her own bike, and she prefers to ride with other righteous sisters. …
11 months, 1 week ago
Adam Jones, "Sites of Genocide" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 166
Adam Jones will be familiar to anyone interested in the field of genocide studies. He's published one of the leading textbooks in the field. He's bee…
11 months, 1 week ago
Shatema Threadcraft, "Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 3557
Western democracies are haunted. Michael Hanchard suggests that the specter of race is what haunts our democracies, but it may be more accurate to su…
11 months, 1 week ago
Janice M. McCabe, "Making, Keeping, and Losing Friends: How Campuses Shape College Students’ Networks" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 3556
We’re all familiar with the sentiment that “college is the best time of your life.” Along with a newfound sense of freedom, students have a unique op…
11 months, 1 week ago
Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 29
It's easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Nayma Qayum, "Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Episode 196
Across the global South, poor women’s lives are embedded in their social relationships and governed not just by formal institutions – rules that exis…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Jason A. Higgins, "Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
Episode 306
In Prisoners after War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration (University of Mass. Press, 2024), Dr. Jason Higgins examines the connections betwe…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Christopher Ali, "Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity" (MIT, 2021)
Episode 215
As much of daily life migrates online, broadband—high-speed internet connectivity—has become a necessity. The widespread lack of broadband in rural A…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Michelle Christine Smith, "Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
Episode 1151
Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age (Southern Illinois UP, 2021) focuses on three prominent yet understudied …
11 months, 3 weeks ago