Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJoanna Allan, "Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea" (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)
Episode 198
Spain's former African colonies-Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara-share similar histories. Both are under the thumbs of heavy-handed, postcolonial…
1 year, 7 months ago
Andrea E. Pia, "Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Episode 101
On the podcast today, I am joined by anthropologist Andrea Pia (London School of Economics and Political Science) to talk about his new book, Cutting…
1 year, 7 months ago
Jack Crangle, "Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Twentieth-century Northern Ireland: British, Irish or 'Other’?" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Episode 69
Addressing questions about what it means to be ‘British’ or ‘Irish’ in the twenty-first century, Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Twentieth-Cen…
1 year, 7 months ago
Beng Huat Chua, "Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore's Public Housing" (NUS Press, 2024)
Episode 33
The achievement of Singapore’s national public housing program is impressive by any standard. Within a year of its first election victory in 1959, th…
1 year, 7 months ago
Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions
Episode 232
Today’s book is: Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions (Columbia UP, 2024), by Ernesto Castaneda and Carina Cione, which is a prac…
1 year, 7 months ago
Marta Fijak and Artur Ganszyniec, "How and Why We Make Games" (CRC Press, 2024)
Episode 18
How and Why We Make Games (CRC Press, 2024) delves into the intricate realms of games and their creation, examining them through cultural, systemic, …
1 year, 7 months ago
Neil Van Leeuwen, "Religion As Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 229
It is an intuitive truth that religious beliefs are different from ordinary factual beliefs. We understand that a belief in God or the sacredness of …
1 year, 7 months ago
Eli Revelle Yano Wilson, "Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beer" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 381
Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beer (U California Press, 2024) unpacks the problems and privileges of pursuing a career of…
1 year, 7 months ago
Jason Ramsey, "Reckoning with Change in Yucatán: Histories of Care and Threat on a Former Hacienda" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 323
A perpetual tension exists between history and change, which is an issue long explored by historians and social scientists. Reckoning with Change in …
1 year, 7 months ago
Michael L. Walker, "Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 2
Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have …
1 year, 7 months ago