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Back to SearchAlice Mah, "Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 474
Is a green future possible? In Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation (Duke UP, 2023), Alice Mah, a Professor in Urba…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Role of Psychoanalytic Mechanisms of Defense; What They Are and How They Work
Episode 237
Using one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s major ideas as a springboard for their discussion, “The truth will set you free,” the host and co-host disc…
1 year, 10 months ago
Jason Blakely, "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)
Episode 20
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, 10 months ago
Jessica Roda, "For Women and Girls Only: Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 541
Mainstream portrayals of ultra-Orthodox religious women often frame their faith as oppressive: they are empowered only when they leave their communit…
1 year, 10 months ago
Elena Borisova, "Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life" (UCL Press, 2024)
Episode 37
Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life (UCL Press, 2024) by Dr. Elena Borisova is the first ethnographic monograph on migration…
1 year, 11 months ago
Julia Sonnevend, "Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 102
Politics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular person--perhaps someone we would like to have a b…
1 year, 11 months ago
Bernard E. Harcourt. "Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 472
Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—cooperat…
1 year, 11 months ago
Michael J. Sheridan, "Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 317
Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants (Routledge, 2023) tells five stories of plants, people, property, politics, peace, and prote…
1 year, 11 months ago
Will Urban Youth Fundamentally Change African Politics?
Episode 18
Will Africa’s increasingly youthful population lead to new democratic and development breakthroughs? Or will it generate fresh instability as frustra…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jan Eeckhout, "The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 154
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as a society we want successful, profitable companies because, as Jan Eeckhout says in The Profit Paradox…
1 year, 11 months ago