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Back to SearchAlice Mah, "Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 474
Is a green future possible? In Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation (Duke UP, 2023), Alice Mah, a Professor in Urba…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Role of Psychoanalytic Mechanisms of Defense; What They Are and How They Work
Episode 237
Using one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s major ideas as a springboard for their discussion, “The truth will set you free,” the host and co-host disc…
1 year, 7 months ago
Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022)
Episode 7
Anne Gray Fischer speaks about her path to and through research, including how sex workers informed her analysis of policing and state violence, the …
1 year, 7 months ago
Douglas Greene, "The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky: The Renegade's Revenge" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 190
Returning to the New Books Network is Doug Greene, here to discuss his book The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky (Routledge, 2024). Spli…
1 year, 7 months ago
Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024)
Episode 473
Is Orwell still relevant today?
In Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century (Norton, 2024), Laura Beers, a Professor of History at Am…
1 year, 7 months ago
Susan Stryker, "When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 64
Susan Stryker is a foundational figure in trans studies. When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader (Duke UP, 2024) showcases the development of Str…
1 year, 7 months ago
Neoliberalism and the University, Part 1
Episode 13
This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global C…
1 year, 7 months ago
Bernard E. Harcourt. "Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 472
Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—cooperat…
1 year, 7 months ago
Jan Eeckhout, "The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 154
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as a society we want successful, profitable companies because, as Jan Eeckhout says in The Profit Paradox…
1 year, 7 months ago
Musa al-Gharbi, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 374
How a new "woke" elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status--without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged.
Society …
1 year, 7 months ago