Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMark W. Geiger, "Floor Rules: Insider Culture in Financial Markets" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 58
Are financial markets lawless and irrational? It may seem that way from the outside, but for market insiders there are multiples sets of rules that t…
1 year, 11 months ago
Melissa Deckman, "The Politics of Gen Z: How the Youngest Voters Will Shape Our Democracy" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 744
As the 2024 American presidential election approaches, it is common to hear scholars and journalists discuss the role of particular groups such as La…
1 year, 11 months ago
Townsend Middleton, "Quinine's Remains: Empire’s Medicine and the Life Thereafter" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 332
What happens after colonial industries have run their course—after the factory closes and the fields go fallow? Set in the cinchona plantations of In…
1 year, 11 months ago
Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva, "The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game" (UNC Press, 2024)
Episode 278
In The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (UNC Press, 2024), Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva offer an existential …
1 year, 11 months ago
How Did Arabic Get on That Sign?
Episode 34
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Rizwan Ahmad, Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Department of …
2 years ago
Larisa Jasarević, "Beekeeping in the End Times" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Episode 331
Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the ang…
2 years ago
Nathan J. Murphy, "The Ideas That Rule Us: How Other People's Ideas Rule our Lives and How to Change it" (Prepolitica, 2024)
Episode 390
The Ideas That Rule Us: How Other People's Ideas Rule Our Lives and How to Change it (Prepolitica, 2024), political theory researcher, author, and en…
2 years ago
Matilde Masso, "Contested Money: Towards a New Social Contract" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 390
Discussing money is always accompanied by controversy as well as enchantment. Debating what money is and how it performs its main functions in the co…
2 years ago
Himanshu Upadhyaya, "Critical Insights on Colonial Modes of Seeing Cattle in India (1850–1980)" (Springer, 2024)
Episode 391
Critical Insights on Colonial Modes of Seeing Cattle in India: Tracing the Pre-history of Green and White Revolutions (Springer 2024) traces the cont…
2 years ago
Omer Aijazi, "Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Episode 119
Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed co…
2 years ago