Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMegan Asaka, "Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Episode 112
Seattle has a reputation as a city of Progressive values, but as Megan Asaka argues in Seattle From the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making o…
3 years, 4 months ago
Jeffrey Bellin, "Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How it Can Recover" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 144
The United States imprisons a higher proportion of its population than any other nation. Mass Incarceration Nation offers a novel, in-the-trenches pe…
3 years, 4 months ago
Igor Shoikhedbrod, "Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Episode 156
Is Marx relevant today, after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe? Is Marx’s political theory compatible with individual rights? You will be …
3 years, 4 months ago
Adam Crowley, "Representations of Poverty in Videogames" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Episode 62
Adam Crowley's book Representations of Poverty in Videogames (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) argues that digital games address contemporary, middle-class …
3 years, 4 months ago
Bruce W. Dearstyne, "The Crucible of Public Policy: New York Courts in the Progressive Era" (SUNY Press, 2022)
Episode 203
During the early twentieth century New York State, with its settlement houses, muckraking journalists, labor unions and national political leaders li…
3 years, 4 months ago
Todd Meyers, "All That Was Not Her" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 180
While studying caregiving and chronic illness in families living in situations of economic and social insecurity in Baltimore, anthropologist Todd Me…
3 years, 4 months ago
Richard Petts, "Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States: Contemporary Norms and Barriers" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 256
Richard Petts' Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States: Contemporary Norms and Barriers (Routledge, 2022) focuses on issues of fa…
3 years, 4 months ago
Christopher Howard, "Who Cares: The Social Safety Net in America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 2022
Societies are often judged by how they treat their most vulnerable members: the poor and near poor. In the United States, this responsibility belongs…
3 years, 4 months ago
Dan Bouk, "Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them" (MCD, 2022)
Episode 204
The census isn't just a data-collection process; it's a ritual, and a tool, of American democracy. Behind every neat grid of numbers is a collage of …
3 years, 4 months ago
June Carolyn Erlick, "Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 87
In Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity (Routledge, 2021), June Carolyn Erlick explores the relationship betwee…
3 years, 4 months ago