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Scholarly Communication March 26, 2023

Blunt Instruments

Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices

Kristin Hass

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices (Beacon Press, 2022) provides a field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in …

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Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books

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 …
Architecture March 20, 2023

Climate Justice and Community Renewal

Resistance and Grassroots Solutions

Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson's book Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions (Routledge, 2020) brings together the voices of people from five continents who live, work, and research …
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 …
Nordic Asia Podcast March 17, 2023

Rethinking Community in Myanmar

Practices of We-Formation Among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon

Judith Beyer

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
Where does the concept of “community” come from? How does it shape the lives of Hindus and Muslims in metropolitan Yangon? And how do these people navigate between their ethno-religious …
American West March 16, 2023

A People's History of SFO

The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport

Eric Porter

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
What can an airport tell us about a city? Quite a bit, according to UC-Santa Cruz history professor Eric Porter in A People's History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and …
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 …
Darts & Letters March 14, 2023

The Hippie High-Rise

Rochdale College, Toronto’s Communal Living High Rise Free Education Experiment

Marc Apollonio

Hosted by Marc Apollonio
From 1968 to 1975 one high-rise was the heart of Canada’s counterculture. Rochdale College in Toronto was jammed full with leftist organizers, hippies, draft dodgers, students, artists, and others just …
Recall This Book March 9, 2023

Chris Walley on Deindustrialization (EF, JP)

Christine J. Walley

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
On a blustery fall morning back in 2019, RTB welcomed Christine Walley, anthropologist and author of Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago. In the early 1980s Chris’s father …
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast March 9, 2023

New Orleans

A Writer's City

T. R. Johnson

Hosted by Mark Klobas
New Orleans is an indispensable element of America's national identity. As one of the most fabled cities in the world, it figures in countless novels, short stories, poems, plays, and …
Architecture March 8, 2023

Development, Architecture, and the Formation of Heritage in Late Twentieth-Century Iran

A Vital Past

Ali Mozaffari and Nigel Westbrook

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Development, Architecture, and the Formation of Heritage in Late Twentieth-Century Iran (Manchester UP, 2020) analyses the use of the past and the production of heritage through architectural design in the …
South Asian Studies March 7, 2023

Delhi Reborn

Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital

Rotem Geva

Hosted by Niharika Yadav
Delhi, one of the world's largest cities, has faced momentous challenges—mass migration, competing governing authorities, controversies over citizenship, and communal violence. To understand the contemporary plight of India's capital city …
Urban Studies March 7, 2023

Lilly

The First Latina Rockette

Lillian Colon

Hosted by James Wunsch
Lilly: The First Latina Rockette (Lilly Enterprises, 2021) is the improbable story of a Puerto Rican toddler, confined by her father for 15 years to a Bronx orphanage—the former Kennedy …
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 …
Public Policy March 1, 2023

Unequal Cities

Overcoming Anti-Urban Bias to Reduce Inequality in the United States

Richard McGahey

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
Cities are central to prosperity: they are hubs of innovation and growth. However, the economic vitality of wealthy cities is marred by persistent and pervasive inequality—and deeply entrenched anti-urban policies …
MIT Press Podcast February 28, 2023

What a City Is for

Remaking the Politics of Displacement

Matt Hern

Hosted by MIT Press
Matt Hern began to examine urban displacement when he first encountered an empty lot in the northeast sector of Portland, OR. This corner was the site of a community resisting …
Architecture February 28, 2023

The Building as Screen

A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media

Dave Colangelo

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
The Building as Screen: A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media (Amsterdam UP, 2019) describes, historicizes, theorizes, and creatively deploys massive media -- a set of techno-social assemblages and …
Sociology February 26, 2023

Fair Share

Senior Activism, Tiny Publics, and the Culture of Resistance

Gary Alan Fine

Hosted by Michael Johnston
If you’ve ever been to a protest or been involved in a movement for social change, you have likely experienced a local culture, one with slogans, jargon, and shared commitments …
American West February 26, 2023

Hella Town

Oakland's History of Development and Disruption

Mitchell Schwarzer

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Oakland grew up on the shadow of the dynamo of the nineteenth century West, always the "other" city on San Francisco Bay.  But as Mitchell Schwarzer, Professor Emeritus of art …
Almost Good Catholics February 23, 2023

Digging for Answers

The Archaeology of Jerusalem and the Politics of Archaeology

Katharina Galor

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
Katharina Galor, an archaeology professor at the at the Program in Judaic Studies at Brown University who has done a lot of excavation in Israel, is the author of The …