Podcast Episodes
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Episode 360
Forensic genetic technologies are popularly conceptualized and revered as important tools of justice. The research and development of these technolog…
2 years, 5 months ago
Tom Özden-Schilling, "The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science After the War in the Woods" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 32
In The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science after the War in the Woods (Duke University Press, 2023) by Dr. Tom Özden-Schilling explores …
2 years, 5 months ago
Violent Majorities, Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 1
Episode 118
"The Slippery Slope to a Multiculturalism of Caste"
Professor Balmurli Natrajan has long studied questions of caste, nationalism and fascism in the In…
2 years, 6 months ago
Self Help
Episode 134
In this episode of High Theory, Angela Hume tells us about Self Help, not the neoliberal strategy of self-actualization through consumer choices, but…
2 years, 6 months ago
Shelly Kagan, "How to Count Animals, More Or Less" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 60
Most people agree that animals count morally, but how exactly should we take animals into account? A prominent stance in contemporary ethical discuss…
2 years, 6 months ago
James A. Chamberlain, "Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work" (ILR Press, 2018)
Episode 428
This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique…
2 years, 6 months ago
Simon Joyce, "LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 55
It has been decades since Michel Foucault urged us to rethink "the repressive hypothesis" and see new forms of sexual discourse as coming into being …
2 years, 6 months ago
Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 358
The end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernity—industrializ…
2 years, 6 months ago
Chhaya Kolavalli, "Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Episode 18
Chhaya Kolavalli's book Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City (U Georgia Press, 2023) documents how…
2 years, 6 months ago
Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce, "Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World" (The New Press, 2023)
Episode 171
In the tradition of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce’s Practical Radicals: Seven St…
2 years, 6 months ago