Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKevin Loughran, "Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 30
A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into dis…
1 year, 8 months ago
Seth A. Berkowitz, "Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Episode 186
Health inequity is one of the defining problems of our time. But current efforts to address the problem focus on mitigating the harms of injustice ra…
1 year, 8 months ago
Kevin Leo Nadal, "Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System" (Lexington Book, 2020)
Episode 107
Throughout US history, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have been pathologized, victimized, and criminalized. Reports of…
1 year, 8 months ago
Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 369
A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die.
These days, so much of our lives takes place online—but what…
1 year, 8 months ago
Maya Pagni Barak, "The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 226
Each year, hundreds of thousands of migrants are moved through immigration court. With a national backlog surpassing one million cases, court hearing…
1 year, 8 months ago
Monika Krause, "Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 371
In Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Dr. Monika Krause asks about the concrete material resea…
1 year, 8 months ago
Angela Garcia, "The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos" (FSG, 2024)
Episode 221
Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico C…
1 year, 8 months ago
Premal Dharia et al., "Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change" (FSG Originals, 2024)
Episode 185
In recent years, a searching national conversation has called attention to the social and racial injustices that define America’s criminal system. Th…
1 year, 8 months ago
Laura Robson, "Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 100
When Americans and other citizens of advanced capitalist countries think of humanitarianism, they think of charitable efforts to help people displace…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jessie Abrahams, "Schooling Inequality: Aspirations, Opportunities and the Reproduction of Social Class" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Episode 75
Despite a mass expansion of the higher education sector in the UK since the 1960s, young people from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds rem…
1 year, 8 months ago