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Back to SearchFreddy Foks, "Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 221
Freddy Foks's Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain (U California Press, 2023) is a no…
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Abortion and the Law
Episode 16
Today’s Postscript focuses on abortion politics in the United States, with particular attention to the April 7, 2023 federal court decisions in Texas…
2 years, 11 months ago
Rajesh Veeraraghavan, "Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Reform in India" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 184
Rajesh Veeraraghavan’s Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India (Oxford University Press, 2022) offers the first ethnogr…
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The Cooperative Extension System
Episode 114
In this episode of High Theory, Karl Dudman tells us about the Cooperative Extension System.
Formed in 1914 as an extension of the Land Grant Universi…
2 years, 11 months ago
Howard Gillette, Jr., "The Paradox of Urban Revitalization: Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Episode 11
In the twenty-first century, cities in the United States that had suffered most the shift to a postindustrial era entered a period widely proclaimed …
2 years, 11 months ago
Antero Garcia, "All through the Town: The School Bus as Educational Technology" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 192
Everyone knows the yellow school bus. It’s been invisible and also omnipresent for a century. Dr. Antero Garcia shows how the U.S. school bus, its fo…
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Solving Public Problems with Beth Noveck
Episode 117
In this episode of International Horizons, we present the recording of a book talk by John Torpey, Ralph Bunche Institute director, with Beth Noveck,…
2 years, 11 months ago
Deborah Carr, "Aging in America" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 196
The aging of America will reshape how we live and will transform nearly every aspect of contemporary society. Renowned life course sociologist Debora…
2 years, 11 months ago
Eli Elinoff, "Citizen Designs: City-Making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
Episode 10
What does it mean to design democratic cities and democratic citizens in a time of mass urbanization and volatile political transformation?
Citizen D…
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Administrative State 101: A Conversation with Adam J. White
Season 1 Episode 2
What is the Administrative State? Where did it come from? Is it a cause for concern or celebration? Adam J. White, Resident Scholar at the American E…
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