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Back to SearchDominic Boyer, "No More Fossils" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 182
Our hosts, Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel, sat down with Dominic Boyer to talk about his new book, No More Fossils, which appeared just last year…
1 year, 11 months ago
Erin L. Durban, "The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Episode 108
Evangelical Christians and members of the global LGBTQI human rights movement have vied for influence in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Each side a…
1 year, 11 months ago
Huaping Lu-Adler, "Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 206
Kant scholars have paid relatively little attention to his raciology. They assume that his racism, as personal prejudice, can be disentangled from hi…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen, "The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition" (Haymarket Books, 2024)
Episode 450
The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggle…
1 year, 11 months ago
Michael Ortiz, "Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism" (Bloombury, 2023)
Episode 1431
What is fascism? Is it an anomaly in the history of modern Europe? Or its culmination?
In Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism (Bloomsb…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jeffrey R. Di Leo, "Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 290
The most exhaustive mapping of contemporary literary theory to date, Jeffrey R. Di Leo's book Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview …
1 year, 11 months ago
Anita R. Gohdes, "Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 446
Global adoption of the Internet has exploded, yet we are only beginning to understand the Internet's profound political consequences. Authoritarian s…
1 year, 11 months ago
Colette Cann and Eric Demeulenaere, "The Activist Academic: Engaged Scholarship for Resistance, Hope and Social Change" (Myers Education Press, 2020)
Episode 215
How can traditional academic scholarship be disrupted by activist academics? How can we make space for those who are underrepresented and historicall…
2 years ago
Marc-William Palen, "Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 202
A new economic history which uncovers the forgotten left-wing, anti-imperial, pacifist origins of economic cosmopolitanism and free trade from the mi…
2 years ago
Isaac Deutscher, "Lenin's Childhood" (Verso, 2024)
Episode 263
On January 21, 1924 and at the age of 53, Vladimir Lenin passed away. We’ve now had a century of a world without him, but also a century of a world u…
2 years ago