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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 112 days 23 hours 55 minutes
episode 138: Christopher D. Bader, "Fear Itself: The Causes and Consequences of Fear in America" (NYU Press, 2020)
From moral panics about immigration and gun control to anxiety about terrorism and natural disasters, Americans live in a culture of fear...
episode 61: Thomas Piketty, "Capital and Ideology" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Piketty expands his focus to include the political and ideological in his comparative analysis of capital accumulation and ‘inequality regimes’.
episode 135: Baptiste Brossard, "Forgetting Items: The Social Experience of Alzheimer’s Disease" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Alzheimer's disease has not only profound medical consequences for the individual experiencing it but a life-changing impact on those around them...
episode 137: Pawan Dhingra, "Hyper Education: Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough" (NYU Press, 2020)
Dhingra offers up-close evaluation of the competitive nature of the United States education system and the extra-curricular and co-curricular activities associated with them...
episode 50: Carlo Caduff, "The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger" (U California Press, 2015)
In this episode, we discuss the pandemic when it was a ‘perhaps’, unpack the blurring of reason and faith among expert interlocutors and draw out lessons on preparedness and its paradoxes for the present global coronavirus crisis...
episode 62: Maura Finkelstein, "The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai" (Duke UP, 2019)
Mumbai's textile industry is commonly but incorrectly understood to be an extinct relic of the past...
A Discussion with Kelly McFall about Using "Reacting to the Past" in College Courses
The "Reacting" technique asks students to play the roles of historical actors and to re-enact particular events and situations. The instructors using the method have had great success...
episode 134: Miriam J. Abelson, "Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Abelson and I discuss the various types of masculinity she identified in her study, such as hypermasculine men, regular guys, and men who seek to embody what Abelson calls “Golidlocks masculinity.”
episode 417: Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird, "Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior" (Princeton UP, 2020)
White and Laird explore the political behavior of African American voters in the United States...
episode 49: Great Books: Denis Hollier on Lévi-Strauss' "Tristes Tropiques"
Ostensibly a travelogue and ethnographic account of a European's fieldwork among indigenous people in mid-20th century Brazil, it is a work of impassioned curiosity...