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African American Studies March 21, 2023

Driving the Green Book

A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance

Alvin Hall

Hosted by Nicole Trujillo-Pagan
For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers encountered locked doors, hostile police, and potentially violent …

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Critical Theory March 21, 2023

The Politics of Precarity

Spaces of Extractivism, Violence, and Suffering

Gediminas Lesutis

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
Based on critical theory and ethnographic research, Gediminas Lesutis' book The Politics of Precarity: Spaces of Extractivism, Violence, and Suffering (Routledge, 2021) explores how intensifying geographies of extractive capitalism shape human …
Urban Studies March 18, 2023

Tensions in Diversity

Spaces for Collective Life in Los Angeles

Felicity Hwee-Hwa Chan

Hosted by Anna Zhelnina
Urban landscapes are complex spaces of sociocultural diversity, characterized by narratives of both conviviality and conflict. As people with multiple ethnicities and nationalities find their common destinies in thriving globalizing …
East Asian Studies March 17, 2023

One China, Many Taiwans

The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism

Ian Rowen

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism (Cornell UP, 2023) shows how tourism performs and transforms territory. In 2008, as the People’s Republic of China pointed over a …
Southeast Asian Studies March 15, 2023

Unsettled Frontiers

Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands

Sango Mahanty

Hosted by Michele Ford
Like other global frontiers, the Cambodia-Vietnam borderlands are a hotspot for migration, land claims, and markets for newly introduced commodities. These topics and more are the focus of Sango Mahanty’s …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones March 7, 2023

The Silk Road

Connecting Histories and Futures

Tim Winter

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
The term "Silk Road" evokes images of trade and exotic luxurious goods and Orientalist images. Today, however, it also is associated with the projection of Chinese power abroad. And as that …
African American Studies March 5, 2023

Violent Utopia

Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa

Jovan Scott Lewis

Hosted by Omari Averette-Phillips
In Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa (Duke UP, 2022), Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration …
Geography March 1, 2023

Indigenous Economics

Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands

Ronald L. Trosper

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
What does “development” mean for Indigenous peoples? Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands (U Arizona Press, 2022) lays out an alternative path showing that conscious attention to relationships among …
Geography February 15, 2023

Hydronarratives

Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition

Matthew S. Henry

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
The story of water in the United States is one of ecosystemic disruption and social injustice. From the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and Flint, Michigan, to the Appalachian coal and …
Geography February 12, 2023

White Enclosures

Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route

Piro Rexhepi

Hosted by Dino Kadich
In White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route (Duke UP, 2022), Piro Rexhepi explores the overlapping postsocialist and postcolonial border regimes in the Balkans that are designed to protect …
South Asian Studies February 11, 2023

South vs. North

India's Great Divide

Nilakantan RS

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Compare two children – one born in north India, the other in the south. The child from south India is far less likely to die in the first year of …
East Asian Studies February 10, 2023

Knowing Manchuria

Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland

Ruth Rogaski

Hosted by Ed Pulford
Among all the world’s most storied and legend-filled regions, the place known to some over time as ‘Manchuria’ has had an especially wide range of ideas projected onto it. Everyone …
Geography February 8, 2023

Co-Cities

Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities

Sheila R. Foster and Christian Iaione

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
A new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city’s infrastructure and services. The majority of the world’s inhabitants live in cities, but …
Indian Ocean World February 7, 2023

On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World

A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890

Philip Gooding

Hosted by Gargi Binju
On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890 (Cambridge UP, 2022) is the first interdisciplinary history of Lake Tanganyika and of eastern Africa's relationship …
Caribbean Studies February 2, 2023

Dougla in the Twenty-First Century

Adding to the Mix

Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh

Hosted by Aleem Mahabir
Identity is often fraught for multiracial Douglas, people of both South Asian and African descent in the Caribbean. In this groundbreaking volume titled Dougla in the Twenty-First Century: Adding to …
British Studies February 1, 2023

The 10,000 Year Build-Up to Brexit

A Conversation with Ian Morris

Ian Morris

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
How did Britain become a global superpower? Historian and classicist Ian Morris thinks geography has a lot to do with it. Prof. Morris discusses his latest book, Geography is Destiny …
High Theory January 30, 2023

Queer Space

A Discussion with Jack Jen Gieseking

Jack Jen Gieseking

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Jack Jen Gieseking tells us about queer space. Queer geographies matter alongside queer temporalities. And it turns out that lesbian life in the 1950s …
Geography January 25, 2023

Just One Rain Away

The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control

Stephanie C. Kane

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Not long ago it seemed flood control experts were close to mastering the unruly flows funnelling toward Hudson Bay and the Prairie city of Winnipeg. But as more intense and …
Anthropology January 22, 2023

The Industrial Ephemeral

Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction

Namita Vijay Dharia

Hosted by Garima Jaju
What transformative effects does a multimillion-dollar industry have on those who work within it? The Industrial Ephemeral: Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction (U California Press, 2022), presents …
Economic and Business History January 21, 2023

Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies

Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science

David Collier and Gerardo L. Munck

Hosted by Javier Mejia
Over the past 50 years, scholars across the social sciences have employed critical juncture analysis to understand how social orders are created, become entrenched, and change. In this book, leading …