New Books Network Podcast

Australian and New Zealand Studies September 28, 2023

Blood and Dirt

Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand

Jared Davidson

Hosted by Ed Amon

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Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard-labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy …

Political Science September 25, 2023

The People and Their Peace

Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-revolutionary South

Laura F. Edwards

Hosted by Susan Liebell

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Do individuals have the right to “keep and bear” arms? Do “the people” have any collective rights to public safety? Now that the United States Supreme Court requires each side …

Media September 23, 2023

The New True Crime

How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence

Diana Rickard

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence (NYU Press, 2023) by Dr. Diana Rickard examines how serialized crime shows became an American obsession. TV …

Law September 23, 2023

Justifying Violent Protest

Law and Morality in Democratic States

James Greenwood-Reeves

Hosted by Jane Richards

Was the use of violence on January 6th Capitol attacks legitimate? Is the use of violence morally justified by members of Extinction Rebellion or Just Stop Oil campaigners? Justifying Violent Protest …

Recall This Book September 21, 2023

January 6th and Asymmetrical Policing (JP, EF)

A Discussion with David Cunningham

David Cunningham

Hosted by 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 …

Urban Studies September 19, 2023

Before Gentrification

The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap

Tanya Maria Golash-Boza

Hosted by Deidre Tyler

This book shows how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrification in Washington, DC. In Before …

Sociology August 27, 2023

Engage and Evade

How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life

Asad L. Asad

Hosted by Kendall Dinniene

Because immigration is such a recurring-and divisive-topic in the United States, it is easy to assume that we understand what it means for an immigrant to live under the specter …

Latin American Studies August 16, 2023

If I Give My Soul

Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro

Andrew Johnson

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick

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Pentecostal Christianity is flourishing inside the prisons of Rio de Janeiro. To find out why, Andrew Johnson dug deep into the prisons themselves. He began by spending two weeks living …

Medicine August 9, 2023

Besides, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?

Indiana Women's Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920

Michelle Daniel Jones and Elizabeth A. Nelson

Hosted by Claire Clark

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What if prisoners were to write the history of their own prison? What might that tell them--and all of us--about the roots of the system that incarcerates so many millions …

Irish Studies June 27, 2023

Gender and Punishment in Ireland

Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922-64

Lynsey Black

Hosted by Aidan Beatty

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Dr Lynsey Black is a lecturer in criminology, in the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University. She researches in the areas of gender and punishment, the death penalty, historical …

Law June 23, 2023

Criminal Law and the Man Problem

Ngaire Naffine

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

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Men have always dominated the most basic precepts of the criminal legal world – its norms, its priorities and its character. Men have been the regulators and the regulated: the …

Education June 7, 2023

Willful Defiance

The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Mark R. Warren

Hosted by Laura Kelly

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The story of how Black and Brown parents, students and members of low-income communities of color organized to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline in their local schools and built a movement …

Law May 21, 2023

Historical Criminology

David Churchill, Henry Yeomans, and Iain Channing

Hosted by Jane Richards

Historical Criminology (Routledge, 2022) breaks new ground by challenging researchers to question what we do, and why we do it. It draws out what criminologists can learn from historians, and examines the …

Interpretive Political and Social Science May 18, 2023

Freedom Inside?

Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State

Farah Godrej

Hosted by Nick Cheesman

Are meditation and yoga offered to prisoners merely to have them acquiesce to being incarcerated and degraded? Or can they help prisoners interrogate the political and social structures that incarcerate …

Policing, Incarceration, and Reform May 15, 2023

The Prescription-To-Prison Pipeline

The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain

Michelle Smirnova

Hosted by Deidre Tyler

In The Prescription-To-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain (Duke UP, 2023), Michelle Smirnova argues that the ongoing opioid drug epidemic is the result of an endless cycle in …

MIT Press Podcast May 14, 2023

Carol A. Stabile on the Red Scare

America & Democracy Ep. 3

Carol A. Stabile

Hosted by MIT Press

In this series of interviews from The MIT Press Podcast, we'll be drawing on the research of various authors to reflect on some of the issues shaping the American political …

Library Science May 13, 2023

Prison Media

Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology

Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

Prisons are not typically known for cutting-edge media technologies. Yet from photography in the nineteenth century to AI-enhanced tracking cameras today, there is a long history of prisons being used …

General History May 8, 2023

When the Smoke Cleared

The 1968 Rebellion and the Unfinished Battle for Civil Rights in the Nation's Capital

Kyla Sommers

Hosted by Catriona Gold

In April 1968, following the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., a wave of uprisings swept across America. None was more visible—or resulted in more property damage, arrests, or federal …

MIT Press Podcast May 5, 2023

Carceral Capitalism

Jackie Wang

Hosted by MIT Press

Conor Rose reads from Jackie Wang's Carceral Capitalism. This extract, taken from the opening of the book, offers insight into the Black Lives Matter movement as well as new forms …

African American Studies May 4, 2023

After Black Lives Matter

Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle

Cedric Johnson

Hosted by Omari Averette-Phillips

The historic uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd transformed the way Americans and the world think about race and policing. Why did it achieve so little …