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SSEAC Stories December 8, 2022

Safe and Sound?

On the Intersection of Child Protection and Child and Youth Residential Care in the Philippines

Steven Roche

Hosted by Natali Pearson
In the Philippines, unknown numbers of children are in institutional care. Commonly known as residential care or orphanages, these institutions have been established to fill a social welfare gap, and …

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NYIH Conversations December 5, 2022

Dirty Work

Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

Eyal Press

Hosted by New York Institute for the Humanities
In the episode of Conversations from the Institute, we hear from Eyal Press, who is the author of Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict that Divided America …
Education December 4, 2022

Indentured Students

How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

Hosted by Thomas Discenna
It didn't always take thirty years to pay off the cost of a bachelor's degree.  In Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt (Harvard UP, 2021), Elizabeth Tandy …
Law December 3, 2022

The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law

Moving Beyond Binaries

Beverley Clough

Hosted by Jane Richards
This book cuts new ground, challenging the assumption of law as an objective concept. It draws out the way that binary frameworks situate and create the notion of the individual in …
Sociology December 2, 2022

Egypt's Housing Crisis

The Shaping of Urban Space

Yahia Shawkat

Hosted by Rituparna Patgiri
Along with football and religion, housing is a fundamental cornerstone of Egyptian life: it can make or break marriage proposals, invigorate or slow down the economy, and popularize or embarrass …
High Theory December 2, 2022

Civil Disobedience

A Discussion with Eraldo Souza dos Santos

Eraldo Souza dos Santos

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Eraldo Souza dos Santos talks about the invention of civil disobedience as a form of political action around the world, and the need for its redefinition to describe activism present …
Darts & Letters November 30, 2022

Mathematical Morality

The Ideology that Justifies Billionaires

Émile P. Torres

Hosted by Gordon Katic
How can billionaires justify the endless accumulation of wealth? Effective altruism. An almost religious philosophical belief. Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO and founder of collapsed crypto exchange FTX is a …
Medicine November 28, 2022

Where They Need Me

Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti

Pierre Minn

Hosted by Rachel Pagones
Haiti is the target of an overwhelming number of internationally funded health projects. While religious institutions sponsor a number of these initiatives, many are implemented within the secular framework of …
Sociology November 28, 2022

Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents

Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London

Paul Watt

Hosted by Anna Zhelnina
It is widely accepted that London is in the midst of a serious housing crisis, manifested most obviously in city's soaring rents. While the causes of this crisis are manifold …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones November 25, 2022

The Future of Multiculturalism

A Discussion with Patti Tamara Lenard and Peter Balint

Patti Tamara Lenard and Peter Balint

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
What is the best way to achieve societal harmony in a place in which groups of people with different identities are living together. Should minority groups be given exemptions from …
Politics & Polemics November 23, 2022

Chokepoint Capitalism

How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back

Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold …
Intellectual History November 23, 2022

Liberal Freedom

Pluralism, Polarization, and Politics

Eric MacGilvray

Hosted by Keith Krueger
The liberalism that is defended here is therefore itself an object of political contestation, and not just the background against which such contestation takes place. If we can look to …
American Studies November 22, 2022

Tree Thieves

Crime and Survival in North America's Woods

Lyndsie Bourgon

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
There's a strong chance that chair you are sitting on was made from stolen lumber. In Tree Thieves: Crime And Survival In North America's Woods (Little, Brown Spark, 2022), Lyndsie …
Public Policy November 21, 2022

Eating While Black

Food Shaming and Race in America

Psyche A. Williams-Forson

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
In Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America (UNC Press, 2022), Psyche A. Williams-Forson offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice …
Science, Technology, and Society November 18, 2022

The Leak

Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Robert P. Crease with Peter D. Bond

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was--and is--a world-class, Nobel Prize-winning lab, and its reactor was the …
Disability Studies November 18, 2022

Disability in Contemporary China

Citizenship, Identity and Culture

Sarah Dauncey

Hosted by Shu Wan
In Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture (Cambridge UP, 2022), Sarah Dauncey offers the first comprehensive exploration of disability and citizenship in Chinese society and culture from 1949 to …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones November 15, 2022

The Future of Data Control

A Discussion with Sarah Lamdan

Sarah Lamdan

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
A few big companies are selling information about us to governments and companies. But beyond a general sense of unease, what do we need to know about this and what …
American West November 15, 2022

Seattle from the Margins

Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City

Megan Asaka

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Seattle has a reputation as a city of Progressive values, but as Megan Asaka argues in Seattle From the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City (U Washington Press …
Public Policy November 15, 2022

Mass Incarceration Nation

How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How it Can Recover

Jeffrey Bellin

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
The United States imprisons a higher proportion of its population than any other nation. Mass Incarceration Nation offers a novel, in-the-trenches perspective to explain the factors - historical, political, and …
Politics & Polemics November 14, 2022

Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism

Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights

Igor Shoikhedbrod

Hosted by Lavinia Stan
Is Marx relevant today, after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe? Is Marx’s political theory compatible with individual rights? You will be surprised to learn that the answers are …