New Books Network Podcast

Disability Studies June 9, 2023

Cheap Talk

Disability and the Politics of Communication

Joshua St. Pierre

Hosted by Shu Wan

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In Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication (U Michigan Press, 2022), Joshua St. Pierre flips the script on communication disability, positioning the unruly, disabled speaker at the center of …

Asian American Studies June 8, 2023

Pedagogies of Woundedness

Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority

James Kyung-Jin Lee

Hosted by Shu Wan

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The pressures Asian Americans feel to be socially and economically exceptional include an unspoken mandate to always be healthy. Nowhere is this more evident than in the expectation for Asian …

Disability Studies June 7, 2023

Activist Affordances

How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds

Arseli Dokumaci

Hosted by Clayton Jarrard

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For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or taking off clothes can be …

Disability Studies June 6, 2023

The Disabled Child

Memoirs of a Normal Future

Amanda Apgar

Hosted by Shu Wan

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When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in another world, without a roadmap, without community, and without narratives …

Disability Studies June 3, 2023

Dyslexia

A History

Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling

Hosted by Shu Wan

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In 1896 the British physician William Pringle Morgan published an account of “Percy,” a “bright and intelligent boy, quick at games, and in no way inferior to others of his …

Disability Studies June 1, 2023

Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice

Amber Knight and Joshua Miller

Hosted by Shu Wan

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The routinization of non-invasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT) raises urgent questions about disability rights and reproductive justice. Supporters defend NIPT on the grounds that genetic information about the fetus helps …

Disability Studies May 19, 2023

Colonising Disability

Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800-1914

Esme Cleall

Hosted by Shu Wan

Colonising Disability: Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800-1914 (Cambridge UP, 2022) explores the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and its empire from the nineteenth …

African American Studies May 18, 2023

More than a Glitch

Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech

Meredith Broussard

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

The word "glitch" implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just bugs in mostly functional …

Disability Studies May 14, 2023

Disability Dialogues

Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions

Andrew J. Hogan

Hosted by Shu Wan

Disability activism has fundamentally changed American society for the better--and along with it, the views and practices of many clinical professionals. After 1945, disability self-advocates and family advocates pushed for …

Disability Studies May 14, 2023

Money, Marriage, and Madness

The Life of Anna Ott

Kim E. Nielsen

Hosted by Shu Wan

Anna Ott died in the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane in 1893. She had enjoyed status and financial success first as a physician's wife and then as the only …

Medicine May 7, 2023

Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People

How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer's Disease

Stephen G. Post

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

How do we approach a "deeply forgetful" loved one so as to notice and affirm their continuing self-identity? For three decades, Stephen G. Post has worked around the world encouraging …

Political Science April 24, 2023

Three Generations, No Imbeciles

Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell

Paul A. Lombardo

Hosted by Susan Liebell

“Three generations of imbeciles are enough” were the infamous words U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote in 1927. In Buck v. Bell, an almost unanimous Court upheld …

Disability Studies April 22, 2023

Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages

Un/Suitable for Divine Service?

Ninon Dubourg

Hosted by Shu Wan

Today I talked to Ninon Dubourg about her new book Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages: Un/Suitable for Divine Service? (Amsterdam UP, 2023). The petitions received and the letters sent by …

Disability Studies April 14, 2023

Committed

Remembering Native Kinship in and Beyond Institutions

Susan Burch

Hosted by Shu Wan

Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in …

Disability Studies March 21, 2023

Families We Need

Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care's Resistance in Contemporary China

Erin Raffety

Hosted by Shu Wan

Set in the remote, mountainous Guangxi Autonomous Region and based on ethnographic fieldwork, Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care's Resistance in Contemporary China (Rutgers UP, 2022) traces the …

Ministry of Ideas March 7, 2023

IQ or, What if "Intelligence" Were a Matter of Life and Death?

Measure for Measure Episode 6

Hosted by Zachary Davis

The Intelligence Quotient is a measure of intelligence that has life-or-death consequences. Should we trust it? GUEST: Alan Gouddis is a Partner with Sherman & Sterling. He was recognized by The …

LGBTQ+ Studies February 26, 2023

Spoke by Spoke

How a Broken Back and a Broken Back Led to a WholeHearted Life

Terry M Chase

Hosted by Morris Ardoin

In this episode of Queer Voices I talk to Dr. Terry Chase about her book Spoke by Spoke: How a Broken Back and a Broken Bike Led to a WholeHearted Life …

Medicine February 26, 2023

Embodied Injustice

Race, Disability, and Health

Mary Crossley

Hosted by Rachel Pagones

Black people and people with disabilities in the United States are distinctively disadvantaged in their encounters with the health care system. These groups also share harsh histories of medical experimentation …

How to Be Wrong January 31, 2023

Otherness, Disability, and Beauty

A Conversation with Pulitzer finalist Chloé Cooper Jones

Chloé Cooper Jones

Hosted by John Kaag and John Traphagan

This episode of How To Be Wrong is about humility, beauty and the ways in which our society dictates the nature and boundaries of what is deemed beautiful. We talk …

Anthropology January 24, 2023

Undocumented Motherhood

Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing

Elizabeth Farfán-Santos

Hosted by Reighan Gillam

Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the terror of migrating alone with her toddler and …