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South Asian Studies March 24, 2023

Migrants and Machine Politics

How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness

Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil

Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion …

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Political Science March 23, 2023

Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters

Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID

Lee Trepanier

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political Theorist Lee Trepanier has a new edited volume focusing on thinking about human responses to disasters and diseases. Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections of Political Theory from …
Women's History March 23, 2023

Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women

Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right

Robin M. Morris

Hosted by Jane Scimeca
Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right (U Georgia Press, 2022) is a statewide study of women’s part in the history of conservatism …
MIT Press Podcast March 22, 2023

Present at the Creation

Edward Mead Earle and the Depression-Era Origins of Security Studies

Sean Lynn-Jones and David Ekbladh

Hosted by MIT Press
Edward Mead Earle was a historian, scholar, professor, and international relations expert; he was also a founding father of the field we know as Security Studies. Listen as David Ekbladh …
Ukrainian Studies March 22, 2023

How Patronal Networks Shape Opportunities for Local Citizen Participation in a Hybrid Regime

A Comparative Analysis of Five Cities in Ukraine

Oleksandra Keudel

Hosted by John Vsetecka
In How Patronal Networks Shape Opportunities for Local Citizen Participation in a Hybrid Regime: A Comparative Analysis of Five Cities in Ukraine (Ibidem, 2022), Oleksandra Keudel proposes a novel explanation for why some …
MIT Press Podcast March 20, 2023

China's Century?

Why America's Edge Will Endure

Michael Beckley

Hosted by MIT Press
Much has been made of the rise of China's economy, and some fear that China will surpass the United States as the world's largest economy in the coming years. Michael …
Politics & Polemics March 18, 2023

The Struggle for a Decent Politics

On "Liberal" as an Adjective

Michael Walzer

Hosted by Keith Krueger
The national purpose of the American state is to realize and then sustain the democracy and the equality that was the promise of our founding. I believe that requires perennial …
Political Science March 16, 2023

The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America

Hernán Flom

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political Scientist Hernán Flom has written a fascinating and nuanced analysis of how the criminal drug markets operate in Argentina and Brazil. Instead of tracking the path that illegal drugs …
Economics March 15, 2023

Lives Amid Violence

Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict

Mareike Schomerus

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Violent conflict and its aftermath are pressing problems, particularly for international development initiatives. However, the results of development in conflict contexts have generally been disappointing and their preventative potential thus …
Sociology March 15, 2023

A Good Place to Do Business

The Politics of Downtown Renewal Since 1945

Roger Biles and Mark H. Rose

Hosted by Nicole Trujillo-Pagan
The “Pittsburgh Renaissance,” an urban renewal effort launched in the late 1940s, transformed the smoky rust belt city’s downtown. Working-class residents and people of color saw their neighborhoods cleared and …
Taiwan on Air March 15, 2023

Taiwan’s Green Parties

Alternative Politics in Taiwan

Dafydd Fell

Hosted by Taiwan on Air
In this podcast, the host, Lara Momesso, interviews Prof Dafydd Fell, Director of the Centre of Taiwan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. The two …
Political Science March 14, 2023

Strategies for Navigating Graduate School and Beyond

Kevin G. Lorentz, Daniel J. Mallinson, and Julia Marin Hellwege

Hosted by Lilly Goren
This new compendium, Strategies for Navigating Graduate School and Beyond, is a true asset to the discipline of Political Science (and other graduate programs as well) in the myriad ways …
Law March 14, 2023

Reckoning with Empire

Self-Determination in International Law

Miriam Bak Mckenna

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Miriam Bak McKenna is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University (Denmark). Her first monograph, Reckoning with Empire: Self-Determination in International Law (Brill, 2023), adopts a …
Eastern European Studies March 13, 2023

Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia

State Connections and Patterns of Violence

Iva Vukušić

Hosted by Iva Glisic
Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence (Routledge, 2022) examines the nature and functions of paramilitary units throughout the 1990s and their ties to the state …
Political Science March 13, 2023

The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren

Hosted by Susan Liebell
In The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (UP of Kansas, 2022), Drs. Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren ask what lessons does Marvel – a “hulking, hegemonic media franchise” …
International Horizons March 13, 2023

The Role of Global South Women in Shaping Global Governance

A Conversation with Rebecca Adami and Fatima Sator

Rebecca Adami and Fatima Sator

Hosted by International Horizons
This week on International Horizons, Ellen Chesler interviews Rebecca Adami and Fatima Sator, editor and co-author of Women and the UN: A New History of Women's International Human Rights (Routledge …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones March 13, 2023

The Future of Nonviolence

A Conversation with Julie M. Norman

Julie M. Norman

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
Ever since Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, non-violent resistance has held a special place in the public imagination. What can be better after all than forcing political change without …
Interpretive Political and Social Science March 13, 2023

Marriage Unbound

State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China

Ke Li

Hosted by Nick Cheesman
In recent years the authors of a slew of books and articles have debated whether China is moving toward or away from the rule of law. Against this end-of-history approach …
Politics & Polemics March 12, 2023

The Covid Consensus

The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left

Toby Green and Thomas Fazi

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
During the first months of the pandemic, governments worldwide agreed that ‘following the science’ with hard lockdowns and vaccine mandates was the best way to preserve life. But evidence is …
SSEAC Stories March 9, 2023

Social Media Influencers and Digital Media Regulation in Vietnam

A Discussion with Jonathon Hutchinson

Jonathon Hutchinson

Hosted by Natali Pearson
In 2021, a famous Vietnamese businesswoman hosted a three-hour long Facebook livestream, in which she named and shamed celebrities for their controversial public behaviours. This formed part of a regular …