Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid Cunningham, January 6th and Asymmetrical Policing (JP, EF)
Episode 113
Recall This Book first heard from the sociologist of American racism David Cunningham in Episode 36 Policing and White Power. Less than a week after …
2 years, 6 months ago
Valentina Capurri, "Not Good Enough for Canada: Canadian Public Discourse Around Issues of Inadmissibility for Potential Immigrants with Diseases And/Or Disabilities" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Episode 33
Valentina Capurri's book Not Good Enough for Canada: Canadian Public Discourse Around Issues of Inadmissibility for Potential Immigrants with Disease…
2 years, 6 months ago
Molly Ladd-Taylor, "Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Episode 32
Between 1907 and 1937, thirty-two states legalized the sterilization of more than 63,000 Americans. In Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Chi…
2 years, 6 months ago
David B. Wong, "Moral Relativism and Pluralism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 195
Today I talked to David B. Wong about his book Moral Relativism and Pluralism (Cambridge UP, 2023).
The argument for metaethical relativism--the view …
2 years, 6 months ago
Moisés Kopper, "Architectures of Hope: Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Episode 254
Moisés Kopper's Architectures of Hope: Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing (U Michigan Press, 2022) examines ho…
2 years, 6 months ago
Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, "Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 16
This book shows how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrificat…
2 years, 6 months ago
Ian Patel, "We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire" (Verso, 2021)
Episode 672
What are the origins of the hostile environment against immigrants in the UK? In We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire…
2 years, 6 months ago
Daniel Jaffee, "Unbottled: The Fight Against Plastic Water and for Water Justice" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 170
In just four decades, bottled water has transformed from a luxury niche item into a ubiquitous consumer product, representing a $300 billion market d…
2 years, 6 months ago
Luke Messac, "Your Money Or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 164
A riveting exposé of medical debt collection in America -- and the profound financial and physical costs eroding patient trust in medicine For the cr…
2 years, 6 months ago
Beverley Chalmers, "Child Sex Abuse: Power, Profit, Perversion" (Grosvenor House, 2022)
Episode 37
Children of all ages are abused in every country in the world, by members of every society, culture, religion, and socio-economic class. About 120 mi…
2 years, 6 months ago