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Introducing Ministry of Ideas
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December 27, 2022
An Introduction to Digital Nomads
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Welcome to Digital Nomads! This episode introduces your host, Maggie, and gives a brief overview of the aims, future of, and inspiration behind this podcast. Music in this episode: Desert …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast
June 24, 2020
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast
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September 21, 2018
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Welcome to the New York Institute for the Humanities podcast. Learn more about the history of the Institute and our shows. …
Sociology
September 21, 2023
Nice Is Not Enough
Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High
C. J. Pascoe
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Miranda Melcher
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Nice is not enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High (University of California Press, 2023) by Dr. C. J. Pascoe is a provocative story of contemporary high …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Asian Review of Books
September 21, 2023
China Incorporated
The Politics of a World Where China is Number One
Kerry Brown
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Nicholas Gordon
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How do we talk about China? It’s a question every analyst, academic, policymaker, and reporter probably needs to ask themselves. Is China, as some of the hawks claim, an existential …
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 …
Disability Studies
September 21, 2023
Mediating Alzheimer's
Cognition and Personhood
Scott Selberg
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Shu Wan
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With no known cause or cure despite a century of research, Alzheimer's disease is a true medical mystery. In Mediating Alzheimer's: Cognition and Personhood (U Minnesota Press, 2022), Scott Selberg …
Academic Life
September 21, 2023
A Calm and Normal Heart: Stories
Chelsea T. Hicks
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Christina Gessler
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Today’s book is A Calm and Normal Heart: Stories (The Unnamed Press, 2022) by Chelsea T. Hicks. The heroes of A Calm and Normal Heart are modern-day adventurers—seeking out new places to …
Genocide Studies
September 21, 2023
Przemysłowa Concentration Camp
The Camp, the Children, the Trials
Katarzyna Person and Johannes-Dieter Steinert
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Ari Barbalat
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Katarzyna Person and Johannes-Dieter Steinert's book Przemysłowa Concentration Camp: The Camp, the Children, the Trials (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023) explores one of the most notorious aspects of the German system of oppression …
Novel Dialogue
September 21, 2023
Weirding Out with Kate Marshall
Novel Dialogue Season 6 Preview
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We kick off Season 6 with Kate Marshall, friend of the show and author of the forthcoming book Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century. Hosts and producers …
Children's Literature
September 20, 2023
A Discussion with Jannie Ho, Illustrator and Author
Jannie Ho
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Mel Rosenberg
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Philadelphia, Jannie Ho is the illustrator of the early reader graphic novel Fry Guys (Andrews McMeel Publishing, launching September 26, 2023) written by Eric …
Interpretive Political and Social Science
September 20, 2023
Rooted Globalism
Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries
Kevin Funk
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Nick Cheesman
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Triumphant capitalism has in our time engendered a new global class that lives and works in a borderless world, beyond the reach of national politics or sovereign power. Or has …
Gender Studies
September 20, 2023
Male Femininities
Dana Berkowitz, Elroi J. Windsor, and C. Winter Han
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Isabel Machado
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Innovative essays that explore how men perform femininity and what femininity looks like without women.What counts as “male femininity”? Is it simply men behaving in effeminate ways or is it …
African American Studies
September 20, 2023
Passing
An Alternative History of Identity
Lipika Pelham
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Katrina Anderson
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A slave woman in 1840s America dresses as a white, disabled man to escape to freedom, while a twenty-first-century black rights activist is 'cancelled' for denying her whiteness. A Victorian …
Food
September 20, 2023
Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived
The Surprising Story of Apples in the South
Diane Flynt
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Kelly Spivey
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For anyone who's ever picked an apple fresh from the tree or enjoyed a glass of cider, writer and orchardist Diane Flynt offers a new history of the apple and …
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