Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSafe and Sound? On the Intersection of Child Protection and Child and Youth Residential Care in the Philippines
Episode 71
In the Philippines, unknown numbers of children are in institutional care. Commonly known as residential care or orphanages, these institutions have …
3 years, 5 months ago
Eyal Press, "Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America" (Picador, 2022)
Episode 31
In the episode of Conversations from the Institute, we hear from Eyal Press, who is the author of Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Co…
3 years, 6 months ago
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, "Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 184
It didn't always take thirty years to pay off the cost of a bachelor's degree.
In Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generatio…
3 years, 6 months ago
Beverley Clough, "The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 174
This book cuts new ground, challenging the assumption of law as an objective concept. It draws out the way that binary frameworks situate and create …
3 years, 6 months ago
Civil Disobedience
Episode 103
Eraldo Souza dos Santos talks about the invention of civil disobedience as a form of political action around the world, and the need for its redefini…
3 years, 6 months ago
Yahia Shawkat, "Egypt's Housing Crisis: The Shaping of Urban Space" (American U in Cairo Press, 2020)
Episode 261
Along with football and religion, housing is a fundamental cornerstone of Egyptian life: it can make or break marriage proposals, invigorate or slow …
3 years, 6 months ago
Mathematical Morality: The Ideology that Justifies Billionaires
Episode 46
How can billionaires justify the endless accumulation of wealth? Effective altruism. An almost religious philosophical belief. Sam Bankman-Fried, the…
3 years, 6 months ago
Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz, "The Economics of Platforms: Concepts and Strategy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 124
Digital platforms controlled by Alibaba, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, Tencent and Uber have transformed not only the ways we do business, but…
3 years, 6 months ago
Shana Kushner Gadarian et al., "Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 631
None of us really want to relive our first encounters with COVID-19 and the disruptions to our lives, to say nothing of the anxiety and concern about…
3 years, 6 months ago
Paul Watt, "Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London" (Policy Press, 2021)
Episode 260
It is widely accepted that London is in the midst of a serious housing crisis, manifested most obviously in city's soaring rents. While the causes of…
3 years, 6 months ago