Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMónica A. Jiménez, "Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico" (UNC Press, 2024)
Episode 116
Myths about the powers held by the United States are often supported by the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, which derives its logic from the inter…
1 year, 8 months ago
Matt Houlbrook et al., "Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: A History for the Present" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 470
What does the history of men tell us about life today? In Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: A History for the Present (Manchester UP, 2024), t…
1 year, 8 months ago
Maya Wind, "Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom" (Verso, 2024)
Episode 278
Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sou…
1 year, 8 months ago
Wendy Matsumura, "Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 155
In Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire (Duke UP, 2024) Wendy Matsumura interrogates the erasure of c…
1 year, 8 months ago
Sasha Warren, "Storming Bedlam: Madness, Mental Health, and Revolt" (Common Notions, 2024)
Episode 469
Mental health care and its radical possibilities reimagined in the context of its global development under capitalism.
The contemporary world is overs…
1 year, 8 months ago
Paul Rekret, "Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis" (Goldsmiths Press, 2024)
Episode 245
The emergence of the popular music industry in the early twentieth century not only drove a wedge between music production and consumption, it also u…
1 year, 8 months ago
Joanne Leow, "Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise" (Liverpool UP, 2024)
Episode 534
Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise (Liverpool UP, 2024) draws from a body of Anglophone and multilingual cultural texts created in co…
1 year, 8 months ago
Laura Robson, "Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 100
When Americans and other citizens of advanced capitalist countries think of humanitarianism, they think of charitable efforts to help people displace…
1 year, 8 months ago
Premal Dharia et al., "Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change" (FSG Originals, 2024)
Episode 185
In recent years, a searching national conversation has called attention to the social and racial injustices that define America’s criminal system. Th…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jonathan Tran, "Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 85
Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. There are two contemporary approac…
1 year, 8 months ago