Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLe Lin, "The Fruits of Opportunism: Noncompliance and the Evolution of China's Supplemental Education Industry" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 377
An in-depth examination of the regulatory, entrepreneurial, and organizational factors contributing to the expansion and transformation of China’s su…
1 year, 8 months ago
Lost in Ideology: A Conversation with Jason Blakely
Episode 115
If ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as it appears to be today then, Jason Blakely argues in his …
1 year, 8 months ago
Joseph Heathcott, "Global Queens: An Urban Mosaic" (Fordham UP, 2023)
Episode 31
Joseph Heathcott discusses his latest book, Global Queens: An Urban Mosaic (Fordham University Press, 2023), an engaging hybrid of text and visual th…
1 year, 8 months ago
Peter Allen, “The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Episode 98
Who is in charge? In The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are (Oxford University Press, 2018), Peter Allen, a Reader in Comparativ…
1 year, 8 months ago
Karen Tongson, "Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 192
In Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us (NYU Press, 2023), Karen Tongson presents an irreverent look at the love-hate relationship betw…
1 year, 8 months ago
Stephanie L Canizales, "Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 376
Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pu…
1 year, 8 months ago
Carole Ammann, "Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 196
Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics (Routledge, 2020) examines how women in Guinea articulate themselves politically within and o…
1 year, 8 months ago
Isabel Bramsen, "The Micro-Sociology of Peace and Conflict" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 730
How do micro-interactions of resistance, fighting and dialogue shape larger patterns of peace and conflict? How can nonviolent resistance, conflict t…
1 year, 8 months ago
Claudio Lomnitz, "Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 5
Over the past fifteen years in Mexico, more than 450,000 people have been murdered and 110,000 more have been disappeared. In Sovereignty and Extorti…
1 year, 8 months ago
Anthony Abraham Jack, "Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 103
Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admitting their first majority-minority classes. But w…
1 year, 8 months ago