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Critical Theory
Geography
April 21, 2021
Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future
Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartography in Hawai'i
Candace Fujikane
Hosted by Stentor Danielson
In Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i (Duke University Press, 2021), Candace Fujikane draws upon Hawaiian stories about the land and water and their …
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Philosophy
April 20, 2021
Curiosity and Power
The Politics of Inquiry
Perry Zurn
Hosted by Sarah Tyson
Is curiosity political? Does it have a philosophical lineage? In Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), Perry Zurn shows, consequentially, yes. He further asks …
Literary Studies
April 20, 2021
The World after the End of the World
A Spectro-Poetics
Kas Saghafi
Hosted by Britton Edelen
In this episode, I interview Kas Saghafi, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Memphis, about his book The World After the End of the World, published through SUNY …
Literary Studies
April 16, 2021
Contingent Figure
Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment
Michael D. Snediker
Hosted by Britton Edelen
In this episode, I interview Michael Snediker, professor of English at the University of Houston, about his book, Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment, recently published by University of …
Critical Theory
April 16, 2021
Redlining Culture
A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction
Richard Jean So
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
What is the story of race in American fiction? In Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction (Columbia University Press, 2020), Richard Jean So, an assistant professor of …
Literary Studies
April 15, 2021
Prosthesis
David Wills
Hosted by Britton Edelen
In this episode, I interview David Wills, professor of French Studies at Brown University, about his book, Prosthesis, recently republished for its 25th anniversary by University of Minnesota Press. A …
Education
April 13, 2021
Bearing with Strangers
Arendt, Education and the Politics of Inclusion
Morten T Korsgaard
Hosted by Kai Wortmann
Bearing with Strangers: Arendt, Education and the Politics of Inclusion (Routledge, 2018) looks at inclusion in education in a new way. By introducing the notion of the instrumental fallacy, it shows …
Critical Theory
April 12, 2021
Abolishing Freedom
A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism
Frank Ruda
Hosted by Dominik Finkelde
Frank Ruda's book Abolishing Freedom. A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism (University of Nebraska Press 2016) presents a compelling reading of authors diverse as Martin Luther, Descartes, Kant …
Education
April 9, 2021
Forms of Education
Rethinking Educational Experience Against and Outside the Humanist Legacy
Emile Bojesen
Hosted by Kai Wortmann
Emile Bojesen's book Forms of Education: Rethinking Educational Experience Against and Outside the Humanist Legacy (Routledge, 2019) analyses the tenets of the humanist legacy in terms of its educational ethos, examining …
Art
April 6, 2021
The Making of the American Creative Class
New York's Culture Workers and Twentieth-Century Consumer Capitalism
Shannan Clark
Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
During the middle decades of the twentieth century, the production of America’s consumer culture was centralized in New York to an extent unparalleled in the history of the United States …
Critical Theory
April 5, 2021
Warped
Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism
Peter Drucker
Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
The last several decades have seen tremendous political and cultural strides forward for the LGBTQ+ community with both the legislative and cultural recognition helping many secure a more safe and …
LGBTQ+ Studies
April 2, 2021
Poor Queer Studies
Confronting Elitism in the University
Matt Brim
Hosted by John Marszalek
In Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (Duke UP, 2020), Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite education toward poor and working-class people …
Critical Theory
April 2, 2021
Imperial Encore
The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire
Caroline Ritter
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
What role did culture play in the British Empire? In Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire (University of California Press, 2021), Caroline Ritter, an Assistant Professor of …
Eastern European Studies
March 31, 2021
Historicizing Roma in Central Europe
Between Critical Whiteness and Epistemic Injustice
Victoria R. Shmidt and Bernadette N. Jaworsky
Hosted by Steven Seegel
In Central Europe, limited success in revisiting the role of science in the segregation of Roma reverberates with the yet-unmet call for contextualizing the impact of ideas on everyday racism …
Psychoanalysis
March 31, 2021
Freud and Said
Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis
Robert Beshara
Hosted by Vira Sachenko
Robert Beshara’s Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis (Palgrave, 2021) is a guide through the textual relationship between the work of Sigmund Freud and Edward Said. It is also a …
Geography
March 30, 2021
Feminist Geography Unbound
Discount, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures
Banu Görkariksel et al.
Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Feminist Geography Unbound: Discomfort, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures, edited by Banu Gökarıksel, Michael Hawkins, Christopher Neubert, and Sara Smith (West Virginia University Press, 2021) is a collection of papers by a diverse …
Sociology
March 29, 2021
Forever Suspect
Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror
Saher Selod
Hosted by Nafeesa Andrabi
How does a specific American religious identity acquire racial meaning? What happens when we move beyond phenotypes and include clothing, names, and behaviors to the characteristics that inform ethnoracial categorization? Forever Suspect, Racialized …
Critical Theory
March 24, 2021
Decolonizing Politics
An Introduction
Robbie Shilliam
Hosted by Yi Ning Chang
Robbie Shilliam’s new book for the Polity Press’s “Decolonizing the Curriculum” series explores how the discipline of political science was born of colonialism, and takes us through different ways of …
Critical Theory
March 24, 2021
Red Creative
Culture and Modernity in China
Justin O'Connor and Xin Gu
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
Red Creative: Culture and Modernity in China (Intellect Books, 2020) is an exploration of China’s cultural economy over the last twenty years, particularly through the lens of its creative hub of …
Middle Eastern Studies
March 23, 2021
Egypt's Occupation
Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism
Aaron G. Jakes
Hosted by Nancy Ko
The story is a familiar one. In 1882, the British invaded Egypt to secure payment on the country’s crippling foreign debts and quash the movement for fiscal sovereignty and constitutional …
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