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December 27, 2022
An Introduction to Digital Nomads
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The Proust Questionnaire Podcast
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September 22, 2023
Reading the Walls of Bogota
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Alba Griffin
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Victoria Lupascu
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A cultural imaginary is a structuring space through which collective understandings of cultural and society phenomena are formed, reproduced, and accepted as the norm. Reading the Walls of Bogota: Graffiti …
Buddhist Studies
September 22, 2023
Buddhist Masculinities
Megan Bryson and Kevin Buckelew
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Jue Liang
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While early Buddhists hailed their religion's founder for opening a path to enlightenment, they also exalted him as the paragon of masculinity. According to Buddhist scriptures, the Buddha's body boasts …
Jewish Studies
September 22, 2023
A Nazi Camp Near Danzig
Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof
Ruth Schwertfeger
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Ari Barbalat
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Within the vast network of Nazi camps, Stutthof may be the least known beyond Poland. This book is the first scholarly publication in English to break the silence of Stutthof …
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September 22, 2023
The Poet & the Baroness
W.H. Auden and Stella Musulin, a Friendship
Michael O’Sullivan
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In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast Series, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press/CEU Review of Books) sat down with biographer and historian Michael O’Sullivan to discuss his latest book …
African American Studies
September 22, 2023
Before Busing
A History of Boston's Long Black Freedom Struggle
Zebulon Vance Miletsky
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Adam McNeil
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In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible. Partly as a result, when the 1972 crisis over school desegregation and busing erupted, many observers professed shock at …
Eastern European Studies
September 22, 2023
Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain
Youth and the Global Sixties in Poland
Malgorzata Fidelis
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Jill Massino
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The Global Sixties are well known as a period of non-conformist lifestyles, experimentation with consumer products and technology, counterculture, and leftist politics. While the period has been well studied in …
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September 22, 2023
Off the Mark
How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don't Have To)
Jack Schneider and Ethan L. Hutt
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Max Jacobs
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Amid widespread concern that our approach to testing and grading undermines education, two experts explain how schools can use assessment to support, rather than compromise, learning. Anyone who has ever …
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September 22, 2023
The Political Life of Memory
Birsa Munda in Contemporary India
Rahul Ranjan
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Kenneth Bo Nielsen
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How do affective sites such as memorials and statues produce political visions, emotions, and opportunities? And how are they used strategically to further particular political projects? In this episode, we …
Environmental Studies
September 22, 2023
Clean Air and Good Jobs
U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice
Todd E. Vachon
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Zalman Newfield
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The labor–climate movement in the U.S. laid the groundwork for the Green New Deal by building a base within labor for supporting climate protection as a vehicle for good jobs …
Geography
September 22, 2023
Beyond Straw Men
Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care
Phaedra C. Pezzullo
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Stentor Danielson
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Addressing plastics can feel overwhelming. Guilt, shame, anger, hurt, fear, dismissiveness, and despair abound. Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care (U California Press, 2023) moves beyond …
Islamic Studies
September 22, 2023
Merchants of Virtue
Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia
Divya Cherian
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SherAli Tareen
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In her formidable and fiercely well-argued new book Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (U California Press, 2022), Divya Cherian shows with meticulous detail and in lyrical …
Southeast Asian Studies
September 21, 2023
Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia
Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh
Kathrin Eitel
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Michele Ford
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Kathrin Eitel's book Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia: Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh (Routledge, 2022) examines the recycling infrastructure in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It considers the circular flows of …
Literary Studies
September 21, 2023
Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again
The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama
Shigeru Kayama
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Daniel Moran
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Godzilla emerged from the sea to devastate Tokyo in the now-classic 1954 film, produced by Tōhō Studios and directed by Ishirō Honda, creating a global sensation and launching one of …
Recall This Book
September 21, 2023
January 6th and Asymmetrical Policing (JP, EF)
A Discussion with David Cunningham
David Cunningham
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Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
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Recall This Book first heard from the sociologist of American racism David Cunningham in Episode 36 Policing and White Power. Less than a week after the horrors of January 6th …
Indian Religions
September 21, 2023
Middle-Class Dharma
Gender, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism
Jennifer D. Ortegren
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Raj Balkaran
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Middle-Class Dharma: Gender, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism (Oxford UP, 2023) is a contemporary ethnography of class mobility among Hindus in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Focusing on women …
British Studies
September 21, 2023
The Happiness of the British Working Class
Jamie Bronstein
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Morteza Hajizadeh
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For working-class life writers in nineteenth century Britain, happiness was a multifaceted emotion: a concept that could describe experiences of hedonic pleasure, foster and deepen social relationships, drive individuals to …
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