Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchColin Copus, "In Defence of Councillors" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Episode 58
In Defence of Councillors (Manchester UP, 2021) is an unashamed defence of local representative democracy and of those elected to serve as councillor…
3 years, 8 months ago
Jamie Susskind, "The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
Episode 324
From one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century (Pegasus Books, 2022) is…
3 years, 8 months ago
Scott Gehlbach, "Formal Models of Domestic Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 108
Formal mathematical models have provided tremendous insights into politics in recent decades. Formal Models of Domestic Politics (Cambridge UP, 2021)…
3 years, 8 months ago
Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky, "Discard Studies: Wasting, Systems, and Power" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 67
An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. Discard studies is an emerg…
3 years, 8 months ago
Claire L. Wendland, "Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 162
A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge.
By the early twenty-f…
3 years, 8 months ago
Does Financial Repression Work?
Episode 39
Michael Pettis is Professor of Finance at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management. He started his career in banking in 1987 just in time fo…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Future of Philanthropy: A Conversation with Emma Saunders-Hastings
Episode 19
Philanthropists are praise for their generosity but does their desire to keep control of what happens to their donations mean they exercise power in …
3 years, 8 months ago
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, "Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation" (Verso, 2022)
Episode 66
Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s work from over three decades, Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation (Verso, 2022) presents her singu…
3 years, 8 months ago
Alan Lane, "The Club on the Edge of Town: A Pandemic Memoir" (Salamander Street, 2022)
Episode 298
What happened to arts organisations during the pandemic? In The Club on the Edge of Town: A Pandemic Memoir (Salamander Street, 2022), Alan Lane, Art…
3 years, 8 months ago
Elizabeth Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 45
With me on today’s show is Professor Elizabeth Anker, whose most recent book, Ugly Freedoms (Duke UP, 2022), works to understand how the idea of free…
3 years, 8 months ago