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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 113 days 10 hours 26 minutes
episode 169: Victoria Shepherd, "A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse" (Oneworld, 2022)
An interview with Victoria Shepherd
episode 30: Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
An interview with Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan
episode 168: Moisés Lino e Silva, "Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rights—usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois—at the expense of marginalized groups, such as Black people, children, LGBTQ people, and slum dwellers. In this visceral ethnography of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Moisés Lino e Silva explores what happens when liberalism is challenged by people whose lives are impaired by normative understandings of liberty...
episode 229: Rashna Darius Nicholson, "The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage: The Making of the Theatre of Empire (1853-1893)" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
An interview with Rashna Darius Nicholson
episode 35: Alexander Monea, "The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight" (MIT Press, 2022)
An interview with Alexander Monea
episode 291: David Swift, "The Identity Myth: Why We Need to Embrace Our Differences to Beat Inequality" (Constable & Robinson, 2022)
An interview with David Swift
episode 167: Charlie Eaton, "Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
An interview with Charlie Eaton
episode 174: Christopher Harker, "Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine" (Duke UP, 2020)
An interview with Christopher Harker
episode 150: Rajesh Veeraraghavan, "Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
An interview with Rajesh Veeraraghavan
episode 19: Marcos E. Pérez, "Proletarian Lives: Routines, Identity, and Culture in Contentious Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
An interview with Marcos E. Pérez