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episode 263: S. Myers and H. Frumkin, "Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves" (Island Press, 2020)
Myers and Frumkin illustrate the interconnectedness of human health and the health of our planet...
episode 106: Jana K. Lipman, "In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates" (U California Press, 2020)
Lipman offers an in-depth study of the fate of the nearly 800,000 Vietnamese refugees who left their country by boat, and sought refugee in Southeast Asia and the Pacific..,
episode 4: Myanmar’s Disciplined Democracy and the 2020 Elections: A Discussion with Dr Roger Lee Huang
Myanmar is scheduled to hold general elections in November 2020. While the country has experienced political liberalisation since 2011, the latest Freedom House Report ranked Myanmar as “not free.” Dr Roger Lee Huang talks with Dr Natali Pearson about Myanmar's ongoing regime transition, arguing that the country’s "disciplined democracy" contains features of democratic politics, but at its core remains authoritarian...
episode 91: Doug Specht, "Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping" (U London Press, 2020)
The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and subaltern...
episode 828: Michael Stamm, "Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
Stamm begins with the simple but thought-provoking premise that, not too long ago, newspapers were almost exclusively physical objects made out of paper...
episode 116: P. Djèlí Clark, "Ring Shout" (Tordotcom, 2020)
Ring Shout (Tordotcom, 2020) is a fantasy built around an ugly moment in American history—the emergence of the second Ku Klux Klan in the early 20th century....
episode 25: Thomas Abt, "Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence" (Basic Books, 2019)
How do we promote peace in the streets?
episode 116: Hilary Jacobs Hendel, "It’s Not Always Depression" (Random House, 2018)
Depression and anxiety are not what you think they are, according to my guest...
episode 837: Robert Zoellick, "America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy" (Twelve, 2020)
Both a sweeping work of history and an insightful guide to U.S. diplomacy past and present, America in the World serves as an informative companion and practical adviser to readers seeking to understand the strategic and immediate challenges of U.S. foreign policy during an era of transformation and change...
episode 4: Rosanne Carlo, "Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing" (Utah State UP, 2020)
Carlo approaches writing studies from the rhetorical flank, the flank which, for many, is the only flank the discipline has,,,