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Back to SearchMichael D. Gordin, "Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 24
Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience," typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or un…
2 years, 5 months ago
Alda Balthrop-Lewis, "Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 172
Balthrop-Lewis's Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism (Cambridge UP, 2021) presents a ground-breaking int…
2 years, 5 months ago
C. J. Pascoe, "Nice Is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 309
Nice is not enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High (University of California Press, 2023) by Dr. C. J. Pascoe is a provocativ…
2 years, 6 months ago
Kathrin Eitel, "Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia: Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 133
Kathrin Eitel's book Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia: Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh (Routledge, 2022) examines the recycling…
2 years, 6 months ago
Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, "Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 16
This book shows how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrificat…
2 years, 6 months ago
Takeo Rivera, "Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 68
There are few grand narratives that loom over Asian Americans more than the “model minority.” While many Asian Americanist scholars and activists aim…
2 years, 6 months ago
Global Inequality: Are We Really Measuring What We Should Be Measuring?
Episode 124
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviewed Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics at the University of Massachuset…
2 years, 6 months ago
Lenora Hanson, "The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 252
Lenora Hanson's The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation (Stanford UP, 2022) provides an account of the long arc of dispossession from the British Roman…
2 years, 6 months ago
Margaret Galvan, "In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 17
In In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s (U Minnesota Press, 2023), Margaret Galvan explores a number of feminist and c…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Future of Anarchism: A Discussion with Ruth Kinna
Episode 78
50 years ago, anarchism was written off by some as a set of outdated idealistic ideas that had no contemporary relevance. Then came protests at event…
2 years, 6 months ago