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Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
Southeast Asian Studies October 1, 2023

The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia

Lynette J. Chua

Hosted by Erron Medina
The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia (Cambridge UP, 2022) offers an empirically-grounded approach to understanding the mobilisation of rights in the region. Instead of deriving definitions of rights from …

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Indian Religions September 28, 2023

Local Selfhood, Global Turns

Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century

Sumit Chakrabarti

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
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Sumit Chakrabarti's book Local Selfhood, Global Turns: Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal (Cambridge UP, 2023) examines the works of Akshay Kumar Dutta (1820-1886), who can be seen as …
African American Studies September 28, 2023

Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America

Revolution, Race and Popular Performance

Peter Reed

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
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American culture maintained a complicated relationship with Haiti from its revolutionary beginnings onward. In Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance (Cambridge UP, 2022), Peter P. Reed …
Political Science September 28, 2023

Monitors and Meddlers

How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in Elections

Sarah Sunn Bush and Lauren Prather

Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty
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Foreign influences on elections are widespread. Although foreign interventions around elections differ markedly-in terms of when and why they occur, and whether they are even legal-they all have enormous potential …
British Studies September 27, 2023

The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age

Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845

Michael Wheeler

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
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What was special about 1845 and why does it deserve particular scrutiny? In The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845 (Cambridge UP, 2022), one …
Environmental Studies September 25, 2023

Thoreau's Religion

Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism

Alda Balthrop-Lewis

Hosted by Ilana Maymind
Balthrop-Lewis's Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism (Cambridge UP, 2021) presents a ground-breaking interpretation of Henry David Thoreau's most famous book, Walden. Rather than treating …
Sociology September 24, 2023

Good Soldiers Don't Rape

The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence

Megan MacKenzie

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Sexual violence is a significant problem within many Western militaries. Despite international attention to the issue and global #MeToo and #TimesUp movements highlighting the impact of sexual violence, rates of …
Nordic Asia Podcast September 22, 2023

The Political Life of Memory

Birsa Munda in Contemporary India

Rahul Ranjan

Hosted by Kenneth Bo Nielsen
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How do affective sites such as memorials and statues produce political visions, emotions, and opportunities? And how are they used strategically to further particular political projects? In this episode, we …
Intellectual History September 19, 2023

Moral Relativism and Pluralism

David B. Wong

Hosted by Jessica Zu
Today I talked to David B. Wong about his book Moral Relativism and Pluralism (Cambridge UP, 2023). The argument for metaethical relativism--the view that there is no single true or most …
British Studies September 16, 2023

The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge

Joshua Ehrlich

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
The East India Company is remembered as the world's most powerful, not to say notorious, corporation. But for many of its advocates from the 1770s to the 1850s it was …
Literary Studies September 14, 2023

Plutarch's Prism

Rebecca Kingston

Hosted by Benjamin Phillips
Throughout the early modern period, political theorists in France and England drew on the works of Plutarch to offer advice to kings and princes. Elizabeth I herself translated Plutarch in …
Literary Studies September 10, 2023

The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures

Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry

Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
The stories in the Thousand and One Nights, or the Arabian Nights, are familiar to many of us: from the tales of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and his …
Literary Studies September 6, 2023

Matter and Making in Early English Poetry

Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney

Taylor Cowdery

Hosted by John Yargo
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Is the raw material of literature the paper, ink, vellum, paphyrus, and increasingly electronic data that it is inscribed on? Or is the stuff of literature the storehouse of tropes …
Australian and New Zealand Studies September 4, 2023

Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World

Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

Alexandra Roginski

Hosted by Piers Kelly
The contentious science of phrenology once promised insight into character and intellect through external ‘reading’ of the head. In the transforming settler-colonial landscapes of nineteenth-century Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand …
Science, Technology, and Society September 2, 2023

Industry Unbound

The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power

Ari Ezra Waldman

Hosted by Jake Chanenson
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In Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power (Cambridge UP, 2021), Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech industry conducts its ongoing crusade to undermine …
Environmental Studies September 2, 2023

Night on Earth

A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918–1930

Davide Rodogno

Hosted by Eyad Houssami
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Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918–1930 (Cambridge UP, 2021) is a broad-ranging account of international humanitarian programs in Central and Eastern Europe, the …
Southeast Asian Studies September 1, 2023

Ethnicity and Politics in Southeast Asia

Amy H. Liu and Jacob I. Ricks

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
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What explains the varying treatment of ethnic minorities in Southeast Asia? Why have some states in the region been far more successful than others in handling relations with minorities? And …
German Studies August 30, 2023

Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany

The Fragebogen Questionnaire and Political Screening During the Allied Occupation

Mikkel Dack

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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In the wake of the Second World War, the victorious Allied armies implemented a radical program to purge Nazism from Germany and preserve peace in Europe. Between 1945 and 1949 …
Psychology August 29, 2023

The Philosophy of Envy

Sara Protasi

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
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Envy is almost universally condemned and feared. But is its bad reputation always warranted? In The Philosophy of Envy (Cambridge UP, 2022), Sara Protasi argues that envy is more multifaceted …
Middle Eastern Studies August 28, 2023

When Democracy Died

The Middle East's Enduring Peace of Lausanne

Hans-Lukas Kieser

Hosted by Roberto Mazza
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The Treaty of Lausanne, signed in Switzerland in July 1923, officially settled the conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Allied forces. Not only did the Treaty establish the borders …