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About Thomas Kingston
Thomas Kingston is currently at University of California, Berkeley as a Berkeley Fellow where he is working on a PhD research in the Intellectual History and Political Economy of Southeast Asia. He holds an MA in Pacific Asian Studies from SOAS, University of London and an MPhil in Philosophy from Renmin University of China. His research interests focus on the histories of knowledge, power and capital in the East and Southeast Asian context.Thomas Kingston is an early career scholar and a voracious reader (183 books in 2021). You can find his website at www.thomasekingston.com or reach him on twitter @thomasekingston
NBN Episodes hosted by Thomas:
August 16, 2024
They Called It Peace
A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires. Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, sla…
March 23, 2024
Pax Economica
A new economic history which uncovers the forgotten left-wing, anti-imperial, pacifist origins of economic cosmopolitanism and free trade from the mid…
June 26, 2023
Empire, Incorporated
Philip Stern places the corporation―more than the Crown―at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and governed global empire, …
June 12, 2023
Scarcity
Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis (Harvard UP, 2023) is a sweeping intellectual history of the concept of econo…
July 25, 2022
The Unimagined Community
Duy Lap Nguyen's book The Unimagined Community: Imperialism and Culture in South Vietnam (Manchester UP, 2019) proposes a reexamination of the Vietnam…
March 24, 2022
Ripe for Revolution
In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent Asian and African countries and established Latin American states pursued a socialist …
March 16, 2022
The Urge
Even after a decades-long opioid overdose crisis, intense controversy still rages over the fundamental nature of addiction and the best way to treat i…
November 16, 2021
The Greek Revolution
In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon's defeat in 1815, there was one cause that came to galvanize countless individuals across Eu…
November 5, 2021
Governing the Dead
In Governing the Dead: Martyrs, Memorials, And Necrocitizenship in Modern China (Cornell UP, 2021), Linh D. Vu explains how the Chinese Nationalist re…
October 5, 2021
The World Turned Inside Out
Many would rather change worlds than change the world. The settlement of communities in 'empty lands' somewhere else has often been proposed as a solu…