About Catriona Gold

Catriona Gold is a PhD candidate in Geography at University College London. She is currently researching the US Passport Office's role in governing Cold War travel, and broadly interested in questions of security, surveillance and mobility.


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NBN Episodes hosted by Catriona:

Tarek Younis, "The Muslim, State, and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia" (Sage, 2022)

July 23, 2023

The Muslim, State and Mind

Tarek Younis
Hosted by Catriona Gold

Mental health is positioned as the cure-all for society’s discontents, from pandemics to terrorism. But psychology and psychiatry are not apolitical, …

Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, "Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother" (Seal Press, 2023)

July 2, 2023

Without Children

Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
Hosted by Catriona Gold
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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…

Kyla Sommers, "When the Smoke Cleared: The 1968 Rebellion and the Unfinished Battle for Civil Rights in the Nation's Capital" (New Press, 2023)

May 8, 2023

When the Smoke Cleared

Kyla Sommers
Hosted by Catriona Gold

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…

Eva Haifa Giraud, "What Comes After Entanglement?: Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion" (Duke UP, 2019)

May 5, 2023

What Comes After Entanglement?

Eva Haifa Giraud
Hosted by Catriona Gold

By foregrounding the ways that human existence is bound together with the lives of other entities, contemporary cultural theorists have sought to move…

Steffen Mau, "Sorting Machines: The Reinvention of the Border in the 21st Century" (Polity Press, 2022)

January 18, 2023

Sorting Machines

Steffen Mau
Hosted by Catriona Gold

It is commonly thought that, thanks to globalization, nation-state borders are becoming increasingly porous. In Sorting Machines: The Reinvention of t…

Mark Neocleous, "A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of the Social Order" (Verso, 2021)

October 5, 2022

A Critical Theory of Police Power

Mark Neocleous
Hosted by Catriona Gold

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…

Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean, "Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing" (Verso, 2022)

September 28, 2022

Organize, Fight, Win

Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean
Hosted by Catriona Gold

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…

Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth, "It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)

July 25, 2022

It's Not Free Speech

Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth
Hosted by Catriona Gold

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…

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, "Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation" (Verso, 2022)

June 27, 2022

Abolition Geography

Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Hosted by Catriona Gold

Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s work from over three decades, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Verso, 2022) presents her singu…

Rizwaan Sabir, "The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State" (Pluto Press, 2022)

June 16, 2022

The Suspect

Rizwaan Sabir
Hosted by Catriona Gold

What impact has two decades' worth of policing and counterterrorism had on the state of mind of Muslims in Britain? In The Suspect: Counterterrorism, …

Ellen Schrecker, "The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

May 23, 2022

The Lost Promise

Ellen Schrecker
Hosted by Catriona Gold

The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s (University of Chicago Press, 2021) is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked Ameri…

Mark Neocleous, "The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies" (Verso, 2022)

May 12, 2022

The Politics of Immunity

Mark Neocleous
Hosted by Catriona Gold

Our contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and herd immunity; how …

Helen Steel et al., "Deep Deception: The Story of the Spycop Network, by the Women Who Uncovered the Shocking Truth" (Ebury, 2022)

May 9, 2022

Deep Deception

Helen Steel et al.
Hosted by Catriona Gold

In Deep Deception: The Story of the Spycop Network, by the Women Who Uncovered the Shocking Truth (Ebury, 2022), five women discuss their experiences …

Albert Baiburin, "The Soviet Passport: The History, Nature and Uses of the Internal Passport in the USSR" (Polity Press, 2022)

February 23, 2022

The Soviet Passport

Albert Baiburin
Hosted by Catriona Gold

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-…

Susan J. Pearson, "The Birth Certificate: An American History" (UNC Press, 2021)

December 27, 2021

The Birth Certificate

Susan J. Pearson
Hosted by Catriona Gold

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…

Ethan Blue, "The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal" (U California Press, 2021)

December 23, 2021

The Deportation Express

Ethan Blue
Hosted by Catriona Gold

The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal (University of California Press, 2021) details the history of the United States' …

Till F. Paasche and James Derrick Sidaway, "Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique" (U Georgia Press, 2021)

December 2, 2021

Transecting Securityscapes

Till F. Paasche and James Derrick Sidaway
Hosted by Catriona Gold

In this interview, I speak with Till F. Paasche and James D. Sidaway about their new book, Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq,…

Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome, "Marxism and America: New Appraisals" (Manchester UP, 2021)

October 12, 2021

Marxism and America

Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome
Hosted by Catriona Gold

If the United States has been so hostile to Marxism, what accounts for Marxism's recurrent attractiveness to certain Americans? Marxism and America: N…

Mark P. Bradley and Mary L. Dudziak, "Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)

August 30, 2021

Making the Forever War

Mark Philip Bradley and Mary L. Dudziak
Hosted by Catriona Gold

Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021) is a timely collect…

Amy J. Rutenberg, "Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance" (Cornell UP, 2019)

August 18, 2021

Rough Draft

Amy J. Rutenberg
Hosted by Catriona Gold

Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance (Cornell University Press, 2019) draws the curtain on t…

Eugene T. Richardson, "Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health" (MIT Press, 2020)

July 22, 2021

Epidemic Illusions

Eugene T. Richardson
Hosted by Catriona Gold

In Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health (MIT Press, 2020), physician-anthropologist Eugene T. Richardson explores how public…

William Walters, "State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary" (Routledge, 2021)

July 13, 2021

State Secrecy and Security

William Walters
Hosted by Catriona Gold

In State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary (Routledge, 2021), William Walters calls for secrecy to be given a more central place i…