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Political Science
December 10, 2016
Starve and Immolate
The Politics of Human Weapons
Banu Bargu
Hosted by
John McMahon
What is the relationship between state power and self-destructive violence as a mode of political resistance? In her book Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia University Press …
Political Science
November 28, 2016
Immigrants and Electoral Politics
Nonprofit Organizing in a Time of Demographic Change
Heath Brown
Hosted by
John McMahon
Why do nonprofits representing immigrants participate (or choose not to participate) in electoral politics, and what forms does their participation take? In his new book, Immigrants and Electoral Politics: Nonprofit …
Critical Theory
September 16, 2016
Embodied Power
Demystifying Disembodied Politics
Mary Hawkesworth
Hosted by
John McMahon
How can we explain the "occlusion of embodied power" and "lack of attention to race, gender, and sexuality" in the discipline of political science, a field "that claims power as …
World Affairs
June 26, 2016
Rightlessness in an Age of Rights
Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Struggles of Migrants
Ayten Gundogdu
Hosted by
John McMahon
How does one "rethink and revise the key concepts of Hannah Arendt's political theory in light of the struggles of asylum seekers, refugees, and undocumented immigrants" (207)? In her new …
Critical Theory
May 17, 2016
The Political Philosophy of G.A. Cohen
Back to Socialist Basics
Nicholas Vrousalis
Hosted by
John McMahon
In his book The Political Philosophy of G.A. Cohen: Back to Socialist Basics (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), Nicholas Vrousalis (Leiden University) provides a thorough and complex reconstruction of G.A. Cohen's political …
World Affairs
April 19, 2016
Humanitarian Intervention
Ideas in Action (3rd edition)
Thomas G. Weiss
Hosted by
John McMahon
How are humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect changing in the current international political scene? In Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action (3rd ed., Polity Press, 2016), Thomas G. Weiss …
Critical Theory
March 7, 2016
The End of Progress
Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory
Amy Allen
Hosted by
John McMahon
How can we de-colonize critical theory from within, and reimagine the way it grounds its normative claims as well as the way it relates to post- and de-colonial theory? Amy …
Environmental Studies
January 21, 2016
Reason in a Dark Time
Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed - and What It Means for Our Future
Dale Jamieson
Hosted by
John McMahon
How are we to think and live with climate change? In Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed - and What It Means for Our …
African American Studies
December 18, 2015
Freedom as Marronage
Neil Roberts
Hosted by
John McMahon
What does it mean to be free? How can paying attention to the relationship between freedom and slavery help construct a concept and practice of freedom that is "perpetual, unfinished …
Gender Studies
December 1, 2015
Gender, War, and Conflict
Laura Sjoberg
Hosted by
John McMahon
How does gender make war, and how does war make gender? In Gender, War, and Conflict (Polity Press, 2014), Laura Sjoberg (University of Florida) analyzes war and conflict through a …
Middle Eastern Studies
October 27, 2015
The Islamic Worldview
Islamic Jurisprudence--An American Muslim Perspective (Volume One)
Azizah al-Hibri
Hosted by
John McMahon
How can a perspective on Islamic law and jurisprudence be constructed responding to the lives and practices of diasporic Muslims while remaining deeply grounded in the foundational texts of the …
World Affairs
August 27, 2015
Affective Relations
The Transnational Politics of Empathy
Carolyn Pedwell
Hosted by
John McMahon
What are the multiple meanings, ambivalences, possible risks, and potentials for transformation that arise from interrogating empathy on a transnational scale? Carolyn Pedwell (University of Kent) thinks through these complex …
World Affairs
July 21, 2015
Climate Justice
Vulnerability and Protection
Henry Shue
Hosted by
John McMahon
How can a practical philosophical perspective concerned with justice and fairness help us address the problem of climate change? Henry Shue (Merton College, Oxford) tackles this essential question in his …
World Affairs
July 8, 2015
Transnationalizing the Public Sphere (Polity, 2014)
Nancy Fraser
Hosted by
John McMahon
How is "the public sphere" best conceptualized on a transnational scale? Nancy Fraser (The New School for Social Research) explores this pressing question in her book Transnationalizing the Public Sphere …
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