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NBN Episodes hosted by Catriona:
July 23, 2023
The Muslim, State and Mind
Mental health is positioned as the cure-all for society’s discontents, from pandemics to terrorism. But psychology and psychiatry are not apolitical, …
July 2, 2023
Without Children
In an era of falling births, it’s often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without children: som…
May 8, 2023
When the Smoke Cleared
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 pro…
May 5, 2023
What Comes After Entanglement?
By foregrounding the ways that human existence is bound together with the lives of other entities, contemporary cultural theorists have sought to move…
January 18, 2023
Sorting Machines
It is commonly thought that, thanks to globalization, nation-state borders are becoming increasingly porous. In Sorting Machines: The Reinvention of t…
October 5, 2022
A Critical Theory of Police Power
A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of Social Order (Verso, 2021) offers a critical look at policing and the power of the state, examin…
September 28, 2022
Organize, Fight, Win
Black Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century fought for and led mass campaigns in the service of building collective power in t…
July 25, 2022
It's Not Free Speech
The protests of summer 2020 led to long-overdue reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in both American academe and cultural life m…
June 27, 2022
Abolition Geography
Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s work from over three decades, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Verso, 2022) presents her singu…
June 16, 2022
The Suspect
What impact has two decades' worth of policing and counterterrorism had on the state of mind of Muslims in Britain? In The Suspect: Counterterrorism, …
May 23, 2022
The Lost Promise
The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s (University of Chicago Press, 2021) is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked Ameri…
May 12, 2022
The Politics of Immunity
Our contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and herd immunity; how …
May 9, 2022
Deep Deception
In Deep Deception: The Story of the Spycop Network, by the Women Who Uncovered the Shocking Truth (Ebury, 2022), five women discuss their experiences …
February 23, 2022
The Soviet Passport
In The Soviet Passport: The History, Nature and Uses of the Internal Passport in the USSR (Polity Press, 2021), Albert Baiburin provides the first in-…
December 27, 2021
The Birth Certificate
For many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a driver’s license, verifying inf…
December 23, 2021
The Deportation Express
The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal (University of California Press, 2021) details the history of the United States' …
December 2, 2021
Transecting Securityscapes
In this interview, I speak with Till F. Paasche and James D. Sidaway about their new book, Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq,…
October 12, 2021
Marxism and America
If the United States has been so hostile to Marxism, what accounts for Marxism's recurrent attractiveness to certain Americans? Marxism and America: N…
August 30, 2021
Making the Forever War
Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021) is a timely collect…
August 18, 2021
Rough Draft
Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance (Cornell University Press, 2019) draws the curtain on t…
July 22, 2021
Epidemic Illusions
In Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health (MIT Press, 2020), physician-anthropologist Eugene T. Richardson explores how public…
July 13, 2021
State Secrecy and Security
In State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary (Routledge, 2021), William Walters calls for secrecy to be given a more central place i…