Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlissa Quart and David Wallis, "Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World's Richest Country" (Haymarket, 2023)
Episode 145
Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of…
2 years ago
Calla Hummel, "Why Informal Workers Organize: Contentious Politics, Enforcement, and the State" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 706
Informal workers make up over two billion workers or about 50 percent of the global workforce, and yet scholarly understandings of informal workers’ …
2 years ago
What Does It Mean to Govern a Multilingual Society Well?
Episode 8
Hanna Torsh speaks with Alexandra Grey about good governance in linguistically diverse cities.
Linguistic diversity is often seen through a deficit le…
2 years ago
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
Episode 202
Today’s book is: Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2024), by Tali Sharot and Cass R. Sunstein, a …
2 years ago
Laurence Ralph, "Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him" (Grand Central Publishing, 2023)
Episode 285
In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was ni…
2 years, 1 month ago
Allyson Mower, "Developing Authorship and Copyright Ownership Policies: Best Practices" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024)
Episode 45
Authorship represents a new area of policy-related work within higher education research administration, funding agencies, and scholarly journal publ…
2 years, 1 month ago
Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 340
An enduring paradox of urban public health is that many communities around hospitals are economically distressed and, counterintuitively, medically u…
2 years, 1 month ago
Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023)
Episode 120
In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner s…
2 years, 1 month ago
Laurence Cox et al., "Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Social Movements" (Edward Elgar, 2024)
Episode 176
Addressing practice-oriented questions, this handbook engages with both theoretical and political dimensions, unpacking the multidimensional nature o…
2 years, 1 month ago
Max Felker-Kantor, "DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 22
With its signature "DARE to keep kids off drugs" slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug educati…
2 years, 1 month ago