Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchVictoria Soyan Peemot, "The Horse in My Blood: Multispecies Kinship in the Altai and Saian Mountains" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
Episode 335
A fascinating interspecies relationship can be seen among the horse breeding pastoralists in the Altai and Saian Mountains of Inner Asia. Growing up …
1 year, 10 months ago
Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, "How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America" (Harvard Education Press, 2024)
Episode 243
In How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America (Harvard Education Press, 2025), Dr. Laura C. Chávez-Moreno uncovers the process t…
1 year, 10 months ago
Amy J. Binder and Jeffrey L. Kidder, "The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 74
The past six years have been marked by a contentious political atmosphere that has touched every arena of public life, including higher education. Th…
1 year, 10 months ago
James T. White and John Punter, "Condoland: The Planning, Design, and Development of Toronto's CityPlace" (UBC Press, 2023)
Episode 38
Casting an eye toward the frantic vertical urbanization of Toronto, Condoland: The Planning, Design, and Development of Toronto’s CityPlace (UBC, 202…
1 year, 10 months ago
Fatima Rajina, "British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The Changing Landscape of Dress and Language" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 147
Popular discourse around British Muslims has often been dominated by a focus on Muslim women and their sartorial choices, particularly the hijab and …
1 year, 10 months ago
Brett Bowden, "Now Is Not the Time: Inside Our Obsession with the Present" (Iff Books, 2024)
Episode 196
Human beings have an overwhelming tendency to overemphasize the significance of the present without considering context or historical perspective. Fo…
1 year, 10 months ago
Samantha A. Vortherms, "Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Episode 106
The redistribution of political and economic rights is inherently unequal in autocratic societies. Autocrats routinely divide their populations into …
1 year, 10 months ago
Nick Butler, "The Trouble with Jokes: Humour and Offensiveness in Contemporary Culture and Politics" (Policy Press, 2023)
Episode 142
In this podcast, Nick Butler explores humour's complex and often controversial role in shaping modern political discourse, examining how jokes can ch…
1 year, 11 months ago
Sabrina Strings, "The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance" (Beacon Press, 2024)
Episode 43
More men than ever are refusing loving partnerships and commitment, and instead seeking out “situationships.” When these men deign to articulate what…
1 year, 11 months ago
Tom Scott-Smith, "Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Episode 196
Abandoned airports. Shipping containers. Squatted hotels. These are just three of the many unusual places that have housed refugees in the past decad…
1 year, 11 months ago