Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLaleh Khalili, "Corporeal Life of Seafaring" (MACK, 2023)
Episode 77
The body of the seafarer is a fulcrum upon which global systems of power, longstanding maritime traditions, and gendered and racialised pressures all…
2 years, 7 months ago
Huwy-min Lucia Liu, "Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 76
Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death (Cornell UP, 2023) tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the managemen…
2 years, 7 months ago
Curtis Smith, "Homelessness and Housing Advocacy: The Role of Red-Tape Warriors" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 323
Through compelling ethnography, Homelessness and Housing Advocacy: The Role of Red-Tape Warriors (Routledge, 2022) reveals the creative and ambitious…
2 years, 7 months ago
Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky, "Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 2
An essay collection exploring the board game's relationship to the built environment, revealing the unexpected ways that play reflects perceptions of…
2 years, 7 months ago
What Reality TV Says About Us
Episode 2
Reality TV shapes and reflects how we see ourselves, and what we regard as normal. Professor Danielle J. Lindemann watched thousands of hours of real…
2 years, 7 months ago
Kathleen Mcphillips and Naomi Goldenberg, "The End of Religion: Feminist Reappraisals of the State" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 212
Feminist theory has enhanced and expanded the agency, influence, status and contributions of women throughout the globe. However, feminist critical a…
2 years, 7 months ago
Colin McFarlane, "Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 322
In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Colin McFarlane, through Wa…
2 years, 7 months ago
Vicki Howard, ed., "A Cultural History of Shopping in the Modern Age" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 84
In this episode, I talk to Vicki Howard and Sarah Elvins, both contributors to Volume 6 of the anthology A Cultural History of Shopping. Jon Stobart …
2 years, 7 months ago
This Will Change Your Perspective on James Bond
Episode 1
The Bond movies have influenced portrayals of masculinity and femininity for decades, but the Daniel Craig-era saw a revolution in depictions of sex,…
2 years, 7 months ago
Michael Kaler, "Get Shown the Light: Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 208
Of all the musical developments of rock in the 1960s, one in particular fundamentally changed the music’s structure and listening experience: the inc…
2 years, 7 months ago