Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAbdul Wohab, "Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh: 50 Years After Independence" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 591
Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh: 50 Years After Independence (Routledge, 2025) comprehensively analyses the syncretistic form of Bengali Islam and…
1 year, 1 month ago
Beaty Rubens, "Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home" (Bodleian Library, 2025)
Episode 169
Radio, today, can feel like a faithful old companion, but its early history was sensational. Between 1922 and 1939, British life was transformed by w…
1 year, 1 month ago
Ken Conca, "After the Floods: The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City" (Oxford UP, 2024)
One small town, two "thousand-year floods" in the span of two years: how does a community become resilient in the face of the ever-increasing risks o…
1 year, 1 month ago
Elyssa Ford and Rebecca Scofield, "Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Episode 184
What would a rodeo open to anyone and everyone look like? In their new book, Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo (U Washington, 2023), h…
1 year, 1 month ago
Darryl Campbell, "Fatal Abstraction: Why the Managerial Class Loses Control of Software" (W. W. Norton, 2025)
A tech insider explains how capitalism and software development make for such a dangerous mix.
Software was supposed to radically improve society. Ou…
1 year, 1 month ago
Tupur Chatterjee, "Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 279
Since the late 1990s, the multiplex in India has emerged as a dominant site of media exhibition, almost always embedded within the shopping mall. Thi…
1 year, 1 month ago
Cora Lingling Xu, "The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China" (SUNY Press, 2025)
Episode 108
Can a student inherit time? What difference does time make to their educational journeys and outcomes? The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Sha…
1 year, 1 month ago
Deana Jovanović, "Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Built on the shifting grounds of post-Yugoslav transformation, Staging the Promises examines how the residents of Bor — a Serbian copper-mining town …
1 year, 1 month ago
Living Right: Far Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe
Episode 266
What is the growing appeal of fascist idealism for young people? Why is radical nationalism on the rise in Europe and throughout the world? In Living…
1 year, 1 month ago
Eunji Kim, "The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 291
In an age of growing wealth disparities, politicians on both sides of the aisle are sounding the alarm about the fading American Dream. Yet despite a…
1 year, 1 month ago