Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnne Kim, "Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor" (The New Press, 2024)
Episode 183
Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact po…
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Sa’ed Atshan, "Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Episode 106
In Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2020) anthropologist and activist Sa’ed Atshan explores the Palestinian LGB…
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The Social Acceptance of Inequality
Episode 147
On this episode of International Horizons, Francesco Duina, Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Bates College and Luca Storti, Associate Profes…
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Tad Delay, "Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change" (Verso, 2024)
Episode 459
The age of denial is over, we are told. Yet emissions continue to rise while gimmicks, graft, and green-washing distract the public from the climate …
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Lamia Karim, "Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Episode 302
Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh (U Minnesota Press, 2022) examines how female garment workers experience their…
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Netta Avineri and Patricia Baquedano-López, "An Introduction to Language and Social Justice: What Is, What Has Been, and What Could Be" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 121
An Introduction to Language and Social Justice: What Is, What Has Been, and What Could Be (Routledge, 2023) is designed to provide the who, what, whe…
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Premilla Nadasen, "Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism" (Haymarket Books, 2023)
Episode 458
During the COVID pandemic, billions of dollars in relief aid was sent out to help us ride out the storm, although many people who struggled through i…
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Jeffrey Reiman and Paul Leighton, "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 182
For 40 years, this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor? Why aren't …
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Sunaura Taylor, "Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 167
A powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance.
Deep below…
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Anjali Arondekar, "Abundance: Sexuality’s History" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 228
In Abundance: Sexuality’s History (Duke UP, 2023), Anjali Arondekar refuses the historical common sense that archival loss is foundational to a subal…
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