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Chhaya Kolavalli, "Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

32 mins; December 02, 2023

Too Much Communication?

52 mins; December 02, 2023

Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio, "Diversity Dividend" (MIT Press, 2023)

41 mins; December 01, 2023

Charlotte Al-Khalili, "Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity (UCL Press, 2023)

50 mins; November 28, 2023

Astra Taylor, "The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart" (House of Anansi Press, 2023)

61 hours 32 mins; November 28, 2023

Kevin F. Adler and Donald W. Burnes, "When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America" (North Atlantic Books, 2023)

87 hours 35 mins; November 28, 2023

Sayan Dey, "Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean" (Anthem Press, 2023)

45 mins; November 27, 2023

Ceri Houlbrook,"‘Ritual Litter' Redressed" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

43 mins; November 27, 2023

Dan Senor and Saul Singer, "The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)

27 mins; November 26, 2023

Saran Stewart et al., "Each One Teach One: Parental Involvement and Family Engagement in Jamaica's Education System" (U West Indies Press, 2022)

74 hours 16 mins; November 25, 2023

Leontina Hormel, "Trailer Park America: Reimagining Working-Class Communities" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

55 mins; November 24, 2023

Daniel Shea and Nicholas F. Jacobs, "The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America" (Columbia UP, 2023)

53 mins; November 24, 2023

Sarah E. Stoller, "Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain" (MIT Press, 2023)

40 mins; November 24, 2023

Jessi Streib, "The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

34 mins; November 23, 2023

Boris Heersink, "National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2023)

50 mins; November 23, 2023

Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine et al., "When Will the Joy Come?: Black Women in the Ivory Tower" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)

44 mins; November 23, 2023

The Future of the Rural-Urban Divide: A Discussion with Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea

43 mins; November 20, 2023

Lidia Katia C. Manzo, "Gentrification and Diversity: Rebranding Milan's Chinatown" (Springer, 2023)

59 mins; November 20, 2023

Andrew Brandel, "Moving Words: Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

49 mins; November 19, 2023

Jason Puskar, "The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

85 hours 24 mins; November 18, 2023

Konstantinos Retsikas, "A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

64 hours 8 mins; November 17, 2023

Terah J. Stewart, "Sex Work on Campus" (Routledge, 2022)

77 hours 50 mins; November 17, 2023

Huping Ling, "Chinese Americans in the Heartland: Migration, Work, and Community" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

52 mins; November 16, 2023

Laurence Ralph Reckons With Police Violence (EF, JP)

42 mins; November 16, 2023

Pavitra Sundar, "Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

57 mins; November 15, 2023

Martin Jay, "Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure" (Verso, 2023)

82 hours 23 mins; November 15, 2023

Stefan Tanaka, "History without Chronology" (Lever Press, 2019)

62 hours 8 mins; November 15, 2023

Briana L. Wong, "Cambodian Evangelicalism: Cosmological Hope and Diasporic Resilience" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)

56 mins; November 15, 2023

Emily H. C. Chua, "The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

65 hours 52 mins; November 13, 2023

Cecilia Márquez, "Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation" (UNC Press, 2023)

48 mins; November 12, 2023

Alison Halsall, "Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

47 mins; November 12, 2023

Stephanie K. Kim, "Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul" (MIT Press, 2023)

53 mins; November 12, 2023

Laleh Khalili, "Corporeal Life of Seafaring" (MACK, 2023)

50 mins; November 11, 2023

Huwy-min Lucia Liu, "Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death" (Cornell UP, 2023)

152 hours 38 mins; November 10, 2023

Curtis Smith, "Homelessness and Housing Advocacy: The Role of Red-Tape Warriors" (Routledge, 2022)

83 hours 56 mins; November 09, 2023

Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky, "Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space" (MIT Press, 2023)

37 mins; November 09, 2023

What Reality TV Says About Us

44 mins; November 08, 2023

Kathleen Mcphillips and Naomi Goldenberg, "The End of Religion: Feminist Reappraisals of the State" (Routledge, 2020)

45 mins; November 08, 2023

Colin McFarlane, "Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife" (Verso, 2023)

46 mins; November 07, 2023

Vicki Howard, ed., "A Cultural History of Shopping in the Modern Age" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

42 mins; November 07, 2023

This Will Change Your Perspective on James Bond

77 hours 31 mins; November 07, 2023

Michael Kaler, "Get Shown the Light: Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead" (Duke UP, 2023)

62 hours 57 mins; November 06, 2023

Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, "Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

64 hours 7 mins; November 06, 2023

Rory Coulter, "Housing and Life Course Dynamics: Changing Lives, Places and Inequalities" (Policy Press, 2023)

50 mins; November 06, 2023

Coastlines, Climate, and Comics: In Conversation with Dr. V. Chitra

40 mins; November 05, 2023

Jan Selling, "Romani Liberation: A Northern Perspective on Emancipatory Struggles and Progress" (Central European UP, 2022)

58 mins; November 05, 2023

Gitte Marianne Hansen and Fabio Gygi, "The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan" (NIAS, 2022)

38 mins; November 04, 2023

Graham Denyer Willis, "Keep the Bones Alive: Missing People and the Search for Life in Brazil" (U California Press, 2022)

99 hours 6 mins; November 03, 2023

James K. Beggan, "How Our Love of Dogs Creates Social Conflict" (Lexington Books, 2022)

51 mins; November 03, 2023

Anthony Hodgson, "Ready for Anything: Designing Resilience for a Transforming World" (Triarchy Press, 2011)

59 mins; November 03, 2023

Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale, "Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality" (Hurst, 2023)

74 hours 36 mins; November 03, 2023

Alexandra Hudson, "The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)

33 mins; November 02, 2023

Akiko Takeyama, "Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan’s Adult Video Industry" (Stanford UP, 2023)

61 hours 12 mins; November 02, 2023

Daniele Lorenzini, "The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

89 hours 7 mins; November 01, 2023

Gerard McCarthy, "Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar" (Cornell UP, 2023)

49 mins; November 01, 2023

On Wars: A Discussion with Michael Mann

55 mins; October 31, 2023

Michael Serazio, "The Authenticity Industries: Keeping It Real in Media, Culture, and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2023)

75 hours 5 mins; October 31, 2023

Dara Z. Strolovitch, "When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

63 hours 44 mins; October 31, 2023

Claire Jean Kim, "Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

65 hours 29 mins; October 30, 2023

Faiza Moatasim, "Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

54 mins; October 30, 2023

Simone Varriale, "Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations: Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migration" (Bristol UP, 2023)

38 mins; October 29, 2023

Sarah Mayorga, "Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2023)

44 mins; October 29, 2023

Lesley Nicole Braun, "Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)

47 mins; October 29, 2023

Utsa Mukherjee, "Race, Class, Parenting and Children's Leisure: Children's Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle-Class British Indian Families" (Policy Press, 2022)

37 mins; October 29, 2023

Arjun Shankar, "Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India" (Duke UP, 2023)

70 hours 4 mins; October 28, 2023

Jeremy Nobel, "Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection" (Avery Publishing Group, 2023)

50 mins; October 24, 2023

Margaret K. Nelson, "Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s" (NYU Press, 2022)

36 mins; October 24, 2023

Özge Yaka, "Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles" (U California Press, 2023)

54 mins; October 23, 2023

Melissa Weininger, "Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century" (Wayne State UP, 2023)

63 hours 30 mins; October 21, 2023

The Radical Imagination in Reactionary Times

69 hours 9 mins; October 21, 2023

Katherine Mason, "The Reproduction of Inequality: How Class Shapes the Pregnant Body and Infant Health" (NYU Press, 2023)

48 mins; October 20, 2023

Maitrayee Deka, "Traders and Tinkers: Bazaars in the Global Economy" (Stanford UP, 2023)

51 mins; October 20, 2023

Sébastien Tutenges, "Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

49 mins; October 19, 2023

From the Indian Goddess to Icelandic Spirits

60 hours 47 mins; October 19, 2023

Katherine Jensen, "The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

47 mins; October 18, 2023

Philipp Stelzel, "The Faculty Lounge: A Cocktail Guide for Academics" (Indiana UP, 2023)

47 mins; October 18, 2023

Michael A. Robinson, "Dangerous Instrument: Political Polarization and US Civil-Military Relations" (Oxford UP, 2022)

28 mins; October 17, 2023

Colin Dickey, "Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy" (Viking, 2023)

32 mins; October 17, 2023

AI, Post-Truth, and Cultural Transformation

41 mins; October 16, 2023

Margaret Hillenbrand, "On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China" (Columbia UP, 2023)

46 mins; October 14, 2023

E. Summerson Carr, "Working the Difference: Science, Spirit, and the Spread of Motivational Interviewing" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

54 mins; October 14, 2023

Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl, "If You Should Go at Midnight: Legends and Legend Tripping in America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)

48 mins; October 13, 2023

Kristen M. Budd and David C. Lane, "Beyond Bars: A Path Forward from 50 Years of Mass Incarceration in the United States" (Policy Press, 2023)

43 mins; October 13, 2023

Working Children: The Luxury and Complexity of Childhood in Lombok, Indonesia

26 mins; October 13, 2023

Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol, "Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party" (Columbia UP, 2023)

40 mins; October 12, 2023

Evan C. Rothera, "Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico, and Argentina, 1860–1880" (LSU Press, 2022)

84 hours 27 mins; October 10, 2023

Rhoda Kanaaneh, "The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America" (U Texas Press, 2023)

44 mins; October 10, 2023

Resentment: The Complexity of an Emotion and its Effect on Politics

39 mins; October 10, 2023

Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill, "Anxious Eaters: Why We Fall for Fad Diets" (Columbia UP, 2022)

64 hours 7 mins; October 09, 2023

Stephanie Southworth and Sara Brallier, "Homelessness in the 21st Century: Living the Impossible American Dream" (Routledge, 2023)

66 hours 50 mins; October 08, 2023

Eric B. Elbogen and Nico Verykoukis, "Violence and Mental Illness: Rethinking Risk Factors and Enhancing Public Safety" (NYU Press, 2023)

34 mins; October 08, 2023

Rachel O'Dwyer, "Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform" (Verso, 2023)

48 mins; October 08, 2023

Angie Lederach, "Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia" (Stanford UP, 2023)

77 hours 48 mins; October 06, 2023

James N. Druckman and Elizabeth A. Sharrow, "Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

88 hours 1 min; October 05, 2023

Zeynep K. Korkman, "Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey" (Duke UP, 2023)

45 mins; October 05, 2023

Anne Allison, "Being Dead Otherwise" (Duke UP, 2023)

71 hours 9 mins; October 04, 2023

Taylor Lorenz, "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)

59 mins; October 03, 2023

Naisargi N. Davé, "Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being" (Duke UP, 2023)

72 hours 38 mins; October 02, 2023

Rik Peels, "Life without God: An Outsider's Look at Atheism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

43 mins; October 02, 2023

Kevin F. Adler and Donald W. Burnes, "When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America" (North Atlantic Books, 2023)

32 mins; October 01, 2023

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