Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIza Ding, "The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 131
What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance i…
3 years, 4 months ago
Border Lines: Refugees and the International Order
Episode 32
Climate change and war have flung millions of people on the move, who often seek safe harbor in the very countries responsible for their displacement…
3 years, 4 months ago
Ross Beveridge and Philippe Koch, "How Cities Can Transform Democracy" (Polity Press, 2022)
Episode 7
We live in an urban age. It is well-known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environments, social infrastructures and everyday lives acr…
3 years, 4 months ago
Derrick Darby, "A Realistic Blacktopia: Why We Must Unite to Fight" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 306
In the United States, unjust disparities in things like income, opportunity, health, safety, and education tightly track racial categorizations of th…
3 years, 4 months ago
Alexandre I. R. White, "Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 1294
For many residents of Western nations, COVID-19 was the first time they experienced the effects of an uncontrolled epidemic. This is in part due to a…
3 years, 4 months ago
Peter Jones and Kristel van Ael, "Design Journeys Through Complex Systems" (Bis Publishers, 2022)
Episode 46
As I slowly settle into 2023 — reflecting on the blur that was 2022 — I can’t help but think about the complex problems (aka big messes!) we face at …
3 years, 4 months ago
Virtually Violent: Are Online Attacks "Violence?"
Episode 25
During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, vulnerable communities have been hit especially hard by disruptive online attacks. But calling these attacks "v…
3 years, 4 months ago
Seeing Truth in Museums
Episode 57
Feeling down about museums? We have so many reasons to, but Chris Newell, Tribal Community Member-in-Residence at UConn and Director of Education at …
3 years, 4 months ago
Sheri Brenden, "Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Episode 235
In Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), Sheri Brenden examines how two teenage girls i…
3 years, 4 months ago
Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022)
Episode 130
Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines describe what you can do to prepare. …
3 years, 4 months ago