Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMaïa Pal, "Jurisdictional Accumulation: An Early Modern History of Law, Empires, and Capital" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 65
With rigorous attention to history and empire, Maïa Pal's Jurisdictional Accumulation: An Early Modern History of Law, Empires, and Capital (Cambridg…
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Eunji Kim, "The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 291
In an age of growing wealth disparities, politicians on both sides of the aisle are sounding the alarm about the fading American Dream. Yet despite a…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Ipek A. Celik Rappas, "Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location (Cornell University Press, 2025) explores the effort behind creating screen production locations. D…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Martin Thomas, "The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 126
Empires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of e…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Maliha Safri et al., "Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation" (U of Minnesota Press, 2025)
In this episode, Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy, and Craig Borowiak talk about their new co-authored book Solidarity Cities: Confr…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Laleh Khalili, "Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy" (Profile Books, 2025)
Episode 204
Whether it's pumping oil, mining resources or shipping commodities across oceans, the global economy runs on extraction. Promises of frictionless tra…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
Episode 264
When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuverin…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Franck Billé, "Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity" (Duke UP, 2025)
Episode 126
In Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity (Duke UP, 2025), Franck Billé examines the conceptual link between the nation-state an…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024)
From the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory shapes the world. But where do these ideas come from…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Philip V. McHarris, "Beyond Policing" (Legacy Lit, 2024)
Episode 500
What would happen if policing disappeared? Would we be safe? This book imagines a world without police.
It's evident that policing is a problem. But w…
10 months, 3 weeks ago