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Karen Patel, "Craft as a Creative Industry" (Routledge, 2024)
51 mins; August 20, 2024
Peter Allen, “The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are” (Oxford UP, 2018)
41 mins; August 20, 2024
Raj Jayadev, "Protect Your People: How Ordinary Families Are Using Participatory Defense to Challenge Mass Incarceration" (New Press, 2023)
32 mins; August 18, 2024
Sudhir Kakar, "The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations" (Karnac, 2024)
55 mins; August 17, 2024
Matthew Archer, "Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability" (NYU Press, 2024)
42 mins; August 16, 2024
Decoloniality
41 mins; August 15, 2024
Anthony Abraham Jack, "Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price" (Princeton UP, 2024)
32 mins; August 15, 2024
Policing and White Power with Daniel Kryder and David Cunningham (JP, EF)
39 mins; August 15, 2024
Tehila Sasson, "The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)
56 mins; August 14, 2024
Miguel Montalva Barba, "White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space" (Policy Press, 2024)
53 mins; August 14, 2024
Craig Gent, "Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work" (Verso, 2024)
56 mins; August 13, 2024
Soar and Chill
64 hours 34 mins; August 12, 2024
Spencer Piston, “Class Attitudes in American Politics: Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
33 mins; August 11, 2024
Neoliberalism and the University, Part 2
54 mins; August 09, 2024
Frederick Luis Aldama, "Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities" (U Arizona Press, 2020)
37 mins; August 09, 2024
Jacob Soll, "Free Market: The History of an Idea" (Basic Books, 2022)
89 hours 37 mins; August 08, 2024
Alice Mah, "Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation" (Duke UP, 2023)
48 mins; August 08, 2024
The Role of Psychoanalytic Mechanisms of Defense; What They Are and How They Work
41 mins; August 07, 2024
Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022)
74 hours 4 mins; August 05, 2024
Douglas Greene, "The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky: The Renegade's Revenge" (Routledge, 2024)
86 hours 14 mins; August 04, 2024
Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024)
46 mins; August 03, 2024
Susan Stryker, "When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader" (Duke UP, 2024)
60 hours 15 mins; August 03, 2024
Neoliberalism and the University, Part 1
53 mins; August 02, 2024
Bernard E. Harcourt. "Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory" (Columbia UP, 2023)
72 hours 28 mins; July 31, 2024
Jan Eeckhout, "The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work" (Princeton UP, 2021)
70 hours 33 mins; July 29, 2024
Musa al-Gharbi, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" (Princeton UP, 2024)
39 mins; July 28, 2024
Jonathan Branfman, "Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy" (NYU Press, 2024)
58 mins; July 26, 2024
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward, "Fascism in America: Past and Present" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
38 mins; July 22, 2024
Arie Perliger, "American Zealots: Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism" (Columbia UP, 2020)
63 hours 56 mins; July 21, 2024
Lucia Hulsether, "Capitalist Humanitarianism" (Duke UP, 2023)
72 hours 46 mins; July 21, 2024
Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020)
58 mins; July 21, 2024
Ujju Aggarwal, "Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
39 mins; July 20, 2024
Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
58 mins; July 18, 2024
Mahjabeen Dhala, "Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam: A Study on the Sermon of Fatima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
74 hours 48 mins; July 17, 2024
Michael Willrich, "American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century" (Basic Books, 2023)
71 hours 58 mins; July 16, 2024
Kevin Leo Nadal, "Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System" (Lexington Book, 2020)
38 mins; July 14, 2024
MĂłnica A. JimĂŠnez, "Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico" (UNC Press, 2024)
87 hours 14 mins; July 14, 2024
Matt Houlbrook et al., "Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: A History for the Present" (Manchester UP, 2024)
44 mins; July 13, 2024
Maya Wind, "Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom" (Verso, 2024)
48 mins; July 12, 2024
Wendy Matsumura, "Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
59 mins; July 11, 2024
Sasha Warren, "Storming Bedlam: Madness, Mental Health, and Revolt" (Common Notions, 2024)
86 hours 42 mins; July 10, 2024
Paul Rekret, "Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis" (Goldsmiths Press, 2024)
99 hours 3 mins; July 10, 2024
Joanne Leow, "Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise" (Liverpool UP, 2024)
72 hours 26 mins; July 10, 2024
Laura Robson, "Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work" (Verso, 2023)
51 mins; July 09, 2024
Premal Dharia et al., "Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change" (FSG Originals, 2024)
31 mins; July 09, 2024
Jonathan Tran, "Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2021)
31 mins; July 07, 2024
Jonathan Judaken, "Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism" (Columbia UP, 2024)
76 hours 29 mins; July 07, 2024
Samira Mehta, "The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging" (Beacon Press, 2023)
57 mins; July 05, 2024
Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, "In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South" (Stanford UP, 2023)
63 hours 14 mins; July 04, 2024
Racism as Power Relation: A Discussion with Adaner Usmani (EF, JP)
33 mins; July 04, 2024
Oneka LaBennett, "Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond" (NYU Press, 2024)
53 mins; July 03, 2024
Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva, "Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
66 hours 31 mins; July 02, 2024
Feng-Mei Heberer, "Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
59 mins; July 02, 2024
Kehbuma Langmia, "Black 'Race' and the White Supremacy Saga" (Anthem Press, 2024)
44 mins; July 01, 2024
Race, Social Reproduction, and Capitalist Totality
88 hours 51 mins; June 30, 2024
Bayley J. Marquez, "Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling Across Black and Indigenous Space" (U California Press, 2024)
75 hours 7 mins; June 30, 2024
Michael Sonenscher, "Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word" (Princeton UP, 2022)
51 mins; June 30, 2024
Joshua Schuster, "What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals" (Fordham UP, 2023)
57 mins; June 28, 2024
Christina M. GarcĂ­a, "Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking" (U Florida Press, 2024)
66 hours 34 mins; June 28, 2024
Shyam Ranganathan, "Yoga - Anticolonial Philosophy: An Action-Focused Guide to Practice" (Singing Dragon, 2024)
35 mins; June 27, 2024
Post-Orientalism Revisited: A Conversation with Salman Sayyid
38 mins; June 27, 2024
Jerry Rafiki Jenkins, "Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2024)
45 mins; June 25, 2024
Thomas Hendriks, "Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession" (Duke UP, 2021)
66 hours 34 mins; June 25, 2024
Matthijs Lok, "Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
56 mins; June 24, 2024
A Psychoanalytic Overview of Racism in America
48 mins; June 24, 2024
Pinky Hota, "The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
51 mins; June 23, 2024
Adrian Johnston, "Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital" (Columbia UP, 2024)
116 hours 17 mins; June 22, 2024
Slava Greenberg, "Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship" (Indiana UP, 2023)
60 hours 3 mins; June 21, 2024
Jennifer S. Clark, "Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation" (U California Press, 2024)
48 mins; June 21, 2024
Johanna Oksala, "Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology" (Northwestern UP, 2023)
82 hours 10 mins; June 20, 2024
Aziz Rana, "The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
76 hours 10 mins; June 19, 2024
Critical Muslim Studies: Post Orientalism
14 mins; June 19, 2024
Kira Huju, "Cosmopolitan Elites: Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order" (Oxford UP, 2023)
68 hours 7 mins; June 17, 2024
Hannah Forsyth, "Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
44 mins; June 16, 2024
Daniel Scott Souleles et al., "People before Markets: An Alternative Casebook" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
77 hours 58 mins; June 16, 2024
Michael V. Singh, "Good Boys, Bad Hombres: The Racial Politics of Mentoring Latino Boys in Schools" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
30 mins; June 16, 2024
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)
51 mins; June 15, 2024
Jessica Calarco, "Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net" (Portfolio, 2024)
46 mins; June 15, 2024
Lydia Walker, "States-in-Waiting: A Counter Narrative of Global Decolonization" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
45 mins; June 14, 2024
Christopher William England, "Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
41 mins; June 14, 2024
Nivedita Menon, "Secularism As Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South" (Duke UP, 2024)
69 hours 14 mins; June 13, 2024
Critical Muslim Studies: Decoloniality
16 mins; June 12, 2024
Laura GĂłmez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism" (The New Press, 2020)
63 hours 24 mins; June 11, 2024
Mark Stoll, "Profit: An Environmental History" (Polity Press, 2022)
75 hours 40 mins; June 09, 2024
Margaret A. Hagerman, "Children of a Troubled Time: Growing Up with Racism in Trump's America" (NYU Press, 2024)
31 mins; June 09, 2024
Jean Petrucelli et al., "Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives" (Routledge, 2022)
59 mins; June 08, 2024
Jason Read, "The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work" (Verso, 2024)
72 hours 9 mins; June 08, 2024
Michele Goodwin, "Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
64 hours 10 mins; June 08, 2024
Alan H. McGowan, "The Political Activism of Anthropologist Franz Boas, Citizen Scientist" (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2024)
49 mins; June 07, 2024
Critical Muslim Studies: Post-Postivism
24 mins; June 05, 2024
Amrita Ghosh, "Kashmir's Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts" (Lexington Books, 2023)
52 mins; June 04, 2024
Ronald R. Sundstrom, "Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and Reconstruction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
68 hours 45 mins; June 01, 2024
Margot Weiss, "Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures" (Duke UP, 2024)
53 mins; June 01, 2024
Anthony Heath and Yaojun Li, "Social Mobility" (Polity Press, 2024)
40 mins; May 31, 2024
Anne Kim, "Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor" (The New Press, 2024)
28 mins; May 30, 2024
Sa’ed Atshan, "Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique" (Stanford UP, 2020)
55 mins; May 29, 2024
The Social Acceptance of Inequality
32 mins; May 28, 2024
Tad Delay, "Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change" (Verso, 2024)
65 hours 45 mins; May 26, 2024
Lamia Karim, "Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
52 mins; May 26, 2024
Netta Avineri and Patricia Baquedano-LĂłpez, "An Introduction to Language and Social Justice: What Is, What Has Been, and What Could Be" (Routledge, 2023)
47 mins; May 25, 2024
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