Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAdrian Johnston, "Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 466
Marxism and psychoanalysis have a rich and complicated relationship to one another, with countless figures and books written on the possible intersec…
1 year, 9 months ago
Slava Greenberg, "Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Episode 45
While many live-action films portray disability as a spectacle, "crip animation" (a genre of animated films that celebrates disabled people's lived e…
1 year, 9 months ago
Jennifer S. Clark, "Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 465
How have women resisted sexism in TV? In Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation (U California Press, 2024), Jennifer S.…
1 year, 9 months ago
Johanna Oksala, "Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology" (Northwestern UP, 2023)
Episode 345
Can capitalism be made ecologically sustainable? Can it be good for women? What theoretical approaches help us to grapple with these questions in way…
1 year, 9 months ago
Aziz Rana, "The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 214
In a pathbreaking retelling of the American experience, Aziz Rana shows that today’s reverential constitutional culture is a distinctively twentieth-…
1 year, 9 months ago
Critical Muslim Studies: Post Orientalism
Season 1 Episode 3
An interview with Prof. Salman Sayyid on post-orientalism, what it means and its place in Critical Muslim Studies.
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1 year, 9 months ago
Kira Huju, "Cosmopolitan Elites: Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 230
Cosmopolitan Elites: Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Dr. Kira Huju narrates the birth,…
1 year, 9 months ago
Hannah Forsyth, "Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 1448
Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 (Cambridge UP, 2023) explores the rise of the prof…
1 year, 9 months ago
Daniel Scott Souleles et al., "People before Markets: An Alternative Casebook" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 309
People before Markets:: An Alternative Casebook (Cambridge UP, 2022) presents twenty comparative case studies of important global questions, such as …
1 year, 9 months ago
Michael V. Singh, "Good Boys, Bad Hombres: The Racial Politics of Mentoring Latino Boys in Schools" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 232
The unintended consequences of youth empowerment programs for Latino boys Educational research has long documented the politics of punishment for boy…
1 year, 9 months ago