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NBN Episodes hosted by John:
December 10, 2016
Starve and Immolate
What is the relationship between state power and self-destructive violence as a mode of political resistance? In her book Starve and Immolate: The Pol…
November 28, 2016
Immigrants and Electoral Politics
Why do nonprofits representing immigrants participate (or choose not to participate) in electoral politics, and what forms does their participation ta…
September 16, 2016
Embodied Power
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 …
June 26, 2016
Rightlessness in an Age of Rights
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 undoc…
May 17, 2016
The Political Philosophy of G.A. Cohen
In his book The Political Philosophy of G.A. Cohen: Back to Socialist Basics (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), Nicholas Vrousalis (Leiden University) provi…
April 19, 2016
Humanitarian Intervention
How are humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect changing in the current international political scene? In Humanitarian Interventio…
March 7, 2016
The End of Progress
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 d…
January 21, 2016
Reason in a Dark Time
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…
December 18, 2015
Freedom as Marronage
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 freedo…
December 1, 2015
Gender, War, and Conflict
How does gender make war, and how does war make gender? In Gender, War, and Conflict (Polity Press, 2014), Laura Sjoberg (University of Florida) analy…
October 27, 2015
The Islamic Worldview
How can a perspective on Islamic law and jurisprudence be constructed responding to the lives and practices of diasporic Muslims while remaining deepl…
August 27, 2015
Affective Relations
What are the multiple meanings, ambivalences, possible risks, and potentials for transformation that arise from interrogating empathy on a transnation…
July 21, 2015
Climate Justice
How can a practical philosophical perspective concerned with justice and fairness help us address the problem of climate change? Henry Shue (Merton Co…
July 8, 2015
Transnationalizing the Public Sphere (Polity, 2014)
How is "the public sphere" best conceptualized on a transnational scale? Nancy Fraser (The New School for Social Research) explores this pressing ques…