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Back to SearchWeh Yeoh, "Redundant Charities: Escaping the Cycle of Dependence" (Koan Press, 2023)
Episode 219
Weh Yeoh's Redundant Charities: Escaping the Cycle of Dependence (Koan Press, 2023) presents a transformative approach to charitable work. Drawing on…
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Ronald R. Sundstrom, "Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and Reconstruction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 343
It is widely acknowledged that the United States is in the grip of an enduring housing crisis. It is less frequently recognized that this crisis amou…
2 years, 4 months ago
Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, "Disability Worlds" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 43
In Disability Worlds (Duke UP, 2024), Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging di…
2 years, 4 months ago
Anne Kim, "Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor" (The New Press, 2024)
Episode 183
Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact po…
2 years, 4 months ago
Transforming Hispanic-Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice
Episode 218
What makes Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) uniquely Latinx? And how can university leaders, staff, and faculty transform these institutions into…
2 years, 4 months ago
Tom Mueller, "How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine" (Norton, 2023)
Episode 218
Dialysis is a medical miracle, a treatment that allows people with kidney failure to live when otherwise they would die. It also provides a captive c…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Social Acceptance of Inequality
Episode 147
On this episode of International Horizons, Francesco Duina, Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Bates College and Luca Storti, Associate Profes…
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Carola Binder, "Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 102
A sweeping history of the United States’ economy and politics, in Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy (U Chicago Press, 2024), C…
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Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans, "The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels" (Crown, 2024)
Episode 362
For centuries, people who died destitute or alone were buried in potters’ fields—a Dickensian end that even the most hard-pressed families tried to a…
2 years, 4 months ago
Premilla Nadasen, "Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism" (Haymarket Books, 2023)
Episode 458
During the COVID pandemic, billions of dollars in relief aid was sent out to help us ride out the storm, although many people who struggled through i…
2 years, 4 months ago