New Books Network
Gender Studies October 15, 2021

The Political Economy of Stigma

HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities

Allyson Day

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
In The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities (Ohio State UP, 2021), Ally Day offers a compelling critique of neoliberal medical practices in the US by coupling …

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Japanese Studies October 15, 2021

The Blood of Gutoku

A Jack Riddley Mystery in Japan

J. W. Traphagan

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Today I talked to anthropologist J. W. Traphagan's novel The Blood of Gutoku: A Jack Riddley Mystery in Japan (Balestier Press, 2021). Jack Riddley is an anthropologist all too ready to retire – …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast October 15, 2021

Kant, Applied

Onora O’Neill

Hosted by Howard Burton
Kant, Applied is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Onora O’Neill, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a crossbench member of the …
Southeast Asian Studies October 15, 2021

Moments of Silence

The Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok

Thongchai Winichakul

Hosted by Nick Cheesman
The massacre of student protestors at Thammasat University on 6 October 1976 is one of the most infamous incidents in modern Thai political history. It is also among the most …
General History October 15, 2021

The Cinema of Rithy Panh

Everything Has a Soul

Leslie Barnes and Joseph Mai

Hosted by Michael Vann
In this episode I chatted with Leslie Barnes and Joseph Mai, two scholars of film, about their new anthology The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul out with …
Eastern European Studies October 15, 2021

International Courts and Mass Atrocity

Narratives of War and Justice in Croatia

Ivor Sokolić

Hosted by Christian Nielsen
In his new book International Courts and Mass Atrocity: Narratives of War and Justice in Croatia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) Ivor Sokolić explores the effects of international and national transitional justice …
Geography October 15, 2021

Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature of this era reckoned with a new …
Journalism October 15, 2021

The American Newsroom

A History, 1920-1960

Will Mari

Hosted by Jenna Spinelle
The story of the American newsroom is that of modern American journalism. In The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960 (University of Missouri Press, 2021), Will Mari documents a time of great change …
Jewish Studies October 15, 2021

The Prince and the Emperors: The Life and Times of Rabbi Judah the Prince

Dov Zakheim

Hosted by Michael Morales
Rabbi Judah the Prince transformed the Mishnah into a text, and now Dov Zakheim, culling from a fascinating array of sources, has brought to life the story and historical times …
Latin American Studies October 15, 2021

Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs

Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835-1946

Rocio Gomez

Hosted by Rachel Newman
In Mexico environmental struggles have been fought since the nineteenth century in such places as Zacatecas, where United States and European mining interests have come into open conflict with rural …
East Asian Studies October 15, 2021

Green with Milk and Sugar

When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups

Robert Hellyer

Hosted by Nathan Hopson
Robert Hellyer’s Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups (Columbia UP, 2021) is a tale of American and Japanese teaways, skillfully weaving together stories of Midwesterners …
Islamic Studies October 15, 2021

Elusive Lives

Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia

Siobhan Lambert-Hurley

Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, University of Sheffield, highlights …
Environmental Studies October 15, 2021

Deep Time Reckoning

How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now

Vincent Ialenti

Hosted by Matthew Brown
Based on twelve years of anthropological exploration, Vincent Ialenti's Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now (MIT Press, 2020) is an engaging guide on deep time learning …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast October 15, 2021

Career and Family

Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity

Claudia Goldin

Hosted by Marshall Poe
A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college …
Nordic Asia Podcast October 15, 2021

Beyond a Shadow

Southeast Asia Transcending US-China Rivalries

Joseph Liow Chin Yong

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
Why do Southeast Asia specialists get tired of explaining that the politics of the region cannot be reduced to a zero-sum game of Chinese-US great power rivalries? How do relatively …
Jewish Studies October 15, 2021

A Fortress in Brooklyn

Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg

Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
The Hasidic community in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is famously one of the most separatist, intensely religious, and politically savvy groups of people in the entire United States. Less …
African American Studies October 14, 2021

The Other Side of Terror

Black Women and the Culture of US Empire

Erica R. Edwards

Hosted by Brittney Edmonds
Dr. Erica R. Edwards's The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire (New York University, 2021) reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US …
Asian Review of Books October 14, 2021

Dwelling in the World

Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860-1960

Elizabeth Lacouture

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
To call the hundred years that straddle the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries as a radical period of change for China is an understatement, moving from the Imperial period, through the Republican …
American West October 14, 2021

Imperial Metropolis

Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941

Jessica M. Kim

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Between 1865 and 1900, the population of Los Angeles grew from around 5,000 people to over 100,000. With population growth that explosive came the opportunity for vast riches to be …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast October 14, 2021

Democratic Lessons

What the Greeks Can Teach Us

Josiah Ober

Hosted by Howard Burton
Democratic Lessons: What the Greeks Can Teach Us is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Josiah Ober, Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Professor in Honor of Constantine Mitsotakis Professor of …