Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKevin B. Smith, "The Jailer's Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Episode 24
How does a Black man in Austin get sent to prison on a 70-year sentence for stealing a tuna sandwich, likely costing Texas taxpayers roughly a millio…
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Lauren D. Olsen, "Curricular Injustice: How U.S. Medical Schools Reproduce Inequalities" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 226
Medical schools have increasingly incorporated the humanities and social sciences into their teaching, seeking to make future physicians more empathe…
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Petra Molnar, "The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" (New Press, 2024)
Episode 394
In 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it was training “robot dogs” to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border against migrants. Four…
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Without Parents or Papers: A Discussion with Stephanie L. Canizales
Episode 240
Today’s book is: Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States (U California Press, 2024), a which explores …
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Shalini Kakar, "Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
Episode 364
Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023) examines how fan…
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Vivian Asimos, "Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity" (Reaktion, 2024)
Episode 202
Cosplay, born from the fusion of ‘costume’ and ‘play’, transcends mere dress-up by transforming enthusiasts of TV shows, movies, books or video games…
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Sasikumar Harikrishnan, "Social Spaces and the Public Sphere:: A Spatial-history of Modernity in Kerala" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 249
What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society? How do everyday social spaces like teashops, reading rooms and libraries reify-or s…
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Muhammad H. Zaman, "We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 225
Around the world, millions are forcibly displaced by conflict, climate change, and persecution. Some cross international borders, while others are di…
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Carrie J. Preston, "Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 136
In this incisive critique of the ways performances of allyship can further entrench white privilege, author Carrie J. Preston analyses her own compli…
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Linguistic Diversity as a Bureaucratic Challenge
Episode 36
How do street-level bureaucrats in Austria’s public service deal with linguistic diversity? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Ingr…
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