Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMelinda N. Ritchie, "Backdoor Lawmaking: Evading Obstacles in the US Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 694
Civics textbooks focus on how Congress makes policy through the legislative process, but the reality is that members of Congress have limited opportu…
2 years, 3 months ago
Julian Go, "Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 18
The police response to protests erupting on America's streets in recent years has made the militarization of policing painfully transparent. Yet, pro…
2 years, 3 months ago
Wendy S. Hesford, "Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
Episode 692
Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics (Ohio State UP, 2021) turns to the humanitarian figure of the child-in-peril i…
2 years, 3 months ago
Self Help
Episode 134
In this episode of High Theory, Angela Hume tells us about Self Help, not the neoliberal strategy of self-actualization through consumer choices, but…
2 years, 3 months ago
James A. Chamberlain, "Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work" (ILR Press, 2018)
Episode 428
This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Future of the State: A Discussion with Graeme Garrard
Episode 89
The Reagan-Thatcher neoliberal era started the retreat of the state. Privatisation and deregulation meant power was handed over to corporations and m…
2 years, 3 months ago
Andrew C. McKevitt, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 691
The United States has more guns than people – a condition that is “unprecedented in world history.” Scholars often focus on gun culture, the Second A…
2 years, 3 months ago
Tracy E. Perkins, "Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 176
Despite living and working in California, one of the county's most environmentally progressive states, environmental justice activists have spent dec…
2 years, 3 months ago
Chhaya Kolavalli, "Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Episode 18
Chhaya Kolavalli's book Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City (U Georgia Press, 2023) documents how…
2 years, 3 months ago
Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce, "Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World" (The New Press, 2023)
Episode 171
In the tradition of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce’s Practical Radicals: Seven St…
2 years, 3 months ago