Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLeila Jancovich and David Stevenson, "Failures in Cultural Participation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Episode 132
For the past two decades, the arts and cultural establishment in the UK has been trying to engage a broader set of audiences in their work. Countless…
3 years, 3 months ago
Joseph Plaster, "Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 48
In Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin (Duke UP, 2023), Joseph Plaster explores the informal support network…
3 years, 3 months ago
Jonathan Herring, "The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
Episode 180
Professor Jonathan Herring makes an argument that suicidal people have a right to be protected from committing suicide, and that the state should be …
3 years, 3 months ago
Zoe Adams, "The Legal Concept of Work" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 180
"Why do we think about some practices as work, and not others? Why do we classify certain capacities as economically valuable skills, and others as i…
3 years, 3 months ago
Robyn Sloggett and Marcelle Scott, "Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 101
How can cultural heritage give us the methodological tools and source material to confront climate change? How can the cultural heritage sector lead …
3 years, 3 months ago
Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud, "Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy" (Henry Holt, 2023)
Episode 65
Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy (Henry Holt, 2023) is the inside story of a worldwide investig…
3 years, 3 months ago
Victor Roy, "Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 190
Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines (U California Press, 2023) takes readers into the struggle over a medical …
3 years, 3 months ago
John Peters and Don Wells, "Canadian Labour Policy and Politics" (UBC Press, 2022)
Episode 17
For many, the COVID-19 pandemic has awakened them to the dangers attendant to a lot of the working conditions in society today—for others, it has mad…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Politics of Bicycling
Episode 39
Zack Furness, an associate professor of communications at Penn State Greater Allegheny, talks about his 2010 book, One Less Car: Bicycling and the Po…
3 years, 3 months ago
The History of Student Loans in the United States
Season 2 Episode 37
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, an associate professor of history at Loyola University Chicago, talks about her book, Indentured Students: How Government-Gu…
3 years, 3 months ago