Podcasts with Authors about their New Books
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episode 325: Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, "Branding Japan’s Food: From Meibutsu to Washoku" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
The authors argue that the definition of washoku in the UNESCO nomination is part of a longer history of manipulative place branding in Japan that has its roots in the premodern period....
episode 132: Christina Griffin, "The Regulars’ Table Conversations with Ferenczi" (IP Books, 2018)
"Conversations with Ferenczi" is about deep enduring friendships...
episode 114: Alice C. Early, "The Moon Always Rising" (She Writes Press, 2020)
At the dawn of the new millennium, Els Gordon finds herself adrift...
episode 49: sarah-marie belcastro, "Discrete Mathematics with Ducks" (CRC Press, 2018)
The book includes an introductory chapter on algorithms and several bonus chapters, for example on number theory and on complexity, which instructors and interested students can subset as they please...
episode 80: Alexander L. Fattal, "Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Fattal investigates the Colombian government’s campaign to turn Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens...
episode 88: Brian Crim, "Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Crim explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust influences and shapes science fiction and horror film and television by focusing on notable contributions from the last fifty years...
episode 79: Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, "Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present" (UNC Press, 2020)
Nobbs-Thiessen traces the entwined histories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants to Amazonian Bolivia...
episode 324: Alexander Bukh, "These Islands Are Ours" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Bukh provides critical historical perspective on the social construction of territorial disputes between Japan and its neighbors in Northeast Asia...
episode 196: Carl Suddler, "Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York" (NYU Press, 2019)
Suddler brings to light a much longer history of the policies and strategies that tethered the lives of black youths to the justice system indefinitely...
episode 109: Megan E. O'Keefe, "Velocity Weapon" (Orbit, 2019)
O’Keefe’s characters search for truth in a universe where the secrets are centuries old and where A.I.s depend on humans as much as humans depend on A.I.s...