Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRené Boer, "Smooth City: Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives" (Valiz, 2023)
Episode 36
In cities across the world, a new urban condition is spreading rapidly: an ever-increasing push toward efficiency, sanitization, surveillance and the…
1 year, 4 months ago
Anna Lora-Wainwright, "Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 329
Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China (MIT Press, 2021) by Dr. Anna Lora-Wainwright digs deep into the paradoxes, ambivalences, and…
1 year, 4 months ago
Amanda Shoaf Vincent, "Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City: Paris's New Parks, 1977-1995" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Episode 135
In the space of about two decades, five major parks were proposed, designed, and created in Paris. Some emerged from competitions between professiona…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jennifer Chudy, "Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sympathy, Suffering, and Solidarity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 743
There is racial inequality in America, and some people are distressed over it while others are not. Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sym…
1 year, 5 months ago
Keith E. Whittington, "You Can't Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms" (Polity Press, 2024)
Episode 190
Who controls what is taught in American universities – professors or politicians? The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented eff…
1 year, 5 months ago
Gretchen Sisson, "Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Episode 242
Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the otherwise partis…
1 year, 5 months ago
Wes Marshall, "Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System" (Island Press, 2024)
Episode 374
In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse in recent years, yet we continu…
1 year, 5 months ago
Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, "Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future" (The New Press, 2024)
Episode 189
A clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy California’s Salton Sea region is home to some of the worst environmental health conditions …
1 year, 5 months ago
Frank R. Baumgartner, “Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us about Policing and Race” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 63
We recently marked the 50th Anniversary of Terry vs. Ohio, the US Supreme Court case that dramatically expanded the scope under which agents of the s…
1 year, 5 months ago
Brianna Nofil, "The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 104
Today, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detains an average of 37,000 migrants each night. To do so, they rely on, and pay for, the use of…
1 year, 5 months ago