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About Nick Cheesman
Fellow, Dept of Political & Social Change, Australian National University
Host, Interpretive Political & Social Science; Co-host, Southeast Asian Studies; for comments or to suggest a book to feature, contact me at nick.cheesman@anu.edu.au
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NBN Episodes hosted by Nick:
Interpretive Political and Social Science
January 11, 2021
Authoritarian Apprehensions
Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria
Lisa Wedeen
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
How has the Syrian regime been able to bear the brunt of the challenges raised against it? And, what can we learn about the seductions of authoritarian politics more generally …
Southeast Asian Studies
October 20, 2020
The Constitution of Myanmar
A Contextual Analysis
Melissa Crouch
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
The tail end of the twentieth century was a good time for constitutional lawyers. Leapfrogging around the globe, they offered advice on how to amend, write or rewrite one state …
Interpretive Political and Social Science
October 15, 2020
Interpretive Social Science
An Anti-Naturalist Approach
Mark Bevir and Jason Blakely
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
In Interpretive Social Science: An Anti-Naturalist Approach (Oxford University Press, 2018), Mark Bevir and Jason Blakely make a case for why interpretivism is the most philosophically cogent approach currently on …
Southeast Asian Studies
August 17, 2020
Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar
Roman David and Ian Holliday
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
Democracy is a popular topic among scholars of politics in Southeast Asia. Liberalism is not. Or at least it hadn’t been up until the last few years, which have seen …
Interpretive Political and Social Science
June 3, 2020
Against the Grain
A Deep History of the Earliest States
James C. Scott
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
We are schooled to believe that states formed more or less synchronously with settlement and agriculture. In Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Yale University Press …
Southeast Asian Studies
April 15, 2020
Containing Contagion
The Politics of Disease Outbreaks in Southeast Asia
Sara E. Davies
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
At the start of 2020 few of us would have recognized the face of the current director general of the World Health Organization. Three months later, and in the midst …
Interpretive Political and Social Science
March 30, 2020
Elucidating Social Science Concepts
Frederic C. Schaffer
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
For the third installment in our special series on interpretive political and social scientific research, Frederic C. Schaffer joins us to discuss his Elucidating Social Science Concepts: An Interpretivist Guide …
Southeast Asian Studies
March 10, 2020
Becoming Arab
Creole Histories and Modern Identity in the Malay World
Sumit K. Mandal
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
In the wake of the so-called war on terror we’ve become accustomed to racialized portrayals of the Arab as an inflexible and threatening other to the mores and ways of …
Interpretive Political and Social Science
November 29, 2019
Everyday Exposure
Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley
Sarah Marie Wiebe
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
In a foreword to Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley (University of British Columbia Press, 2016), the public philosopher James Tully writes that, “Every once …
Southeast Asian Studies
October 22, 2019
Luxury and Rubble
Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon
Erik Harms
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
What happens when market-oriented policy reforms butt heads with a single-party state’s strictly maintained limits on political freedoms? That question sets the terms for Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession …
Interpretive Political and Social Science
August 19, 2019
Interpretive Research Design
Concepts and Processes
Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Dvora Yanow
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
This episode is the first in a new series, New Books in Interpretive Political and Social Science, which will feature works on interpretive research design and practice alongside recently published …
Southeast Asian Studies
July 23, 2019
In Plain Sight
Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand
Tyrell Haberkorn
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
In the preface to In Plain Sight: Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018) Tyrell Haberkorn asks, echoing Pakavadi Veerapaspong, if and when it might one …
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