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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 113 days 10 hours 26 minutes
episode 170: Santiago Zabala, "Being at Large: Freedom in the Ago of Alternative Facts" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
In recent years, questions around the nature of truth and facts have reentered public debate...
episode 181: Yassir Morsi, “Radical Skin, Moderate Masks: De-radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-racial Societies” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Muslims living in locations like Australia, Europe, or North America exist within a context dominated by white racial norms...
episode 431: James M. Jasper, "Public Characters: The Politics of Reputation and Blame" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Did Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency in 2016 because he was a master of character work – able to sum up opponents in pithy epithets that encourage the public to see them as weak or immoral?
episode 145: Ashley Mears, "Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit" (Princeton UP, 2020)
The global party circuit. . . lifestyle that offers million-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne....
episode 24: Yaacov Yadgar, "Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Yadgar provides a novel analysis of the interplay between Israeli nationalism and Jewish tradition, arriving at a fresh understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through its focus on internal questions about Israeli identity...
episode 433: T. Skocpol and C. Tervo, "Upending American Politics: Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance" (Oxford UP, 2019)
How can we make sense of the elections of Barack Obama and Donald Trump?
episode 141: C. M. Driscoll and M. R. Miller, “Method as Identity: Manufacturing Distance in the Academic Study of Religion” (Lexington, 2018)
Whatever strategy one uses there is a relationship between one’s social identity and the categories shaping theoretical and methodological assumptions...
episode 169: Massimo Modonesi, "The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action" (Haymarket, 2019)
What does it mean to be a political subject?
episode 49: Cailin O’Connor, "The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread" (Yale UP, 2018)
Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequences for the people who hold them?
episode 104: Sarah M. A. Gualtieri, "Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Gualtieri uncovers the dynamic and complex stories of Arabic-speaking migrant communities who came to call Southern California home...