New Books in World Affairs
Interviews with Scholars of Global Affairs about their New Books
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 1951
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2025
Stephen Macekura, “Of Limits and Growth: The Rise of Global Sustainable Development in the Twentieth Century” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Today, sustainability is all the rage. But when and why did the idea of sustainable development emerge, and how has its meaning changed over time?
Stephen Macekura’s new book, Of Limits and Growth: …
01:14:44 |
Fri 04 Dec 2015
Jason W. Moore, “Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital” (Verso, 2015)
In Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (Verso, 2015), author Jason W. Moore seeks to undermine popular understandings of the relationship among society, environment…
00:51:55 |
Thu 03 Dec 2015
Marjorie Feld, “Nations Divided: American Jews and the Struggle over Apartheid” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
In Nations Divided: American Jews and the Struggle over Apartheid (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Marjorie Feld, associate professor of history at Babson College, explores the tension between the particu…
00:32:40 |
Mon 23 Nov 2015
Anthony Reid, “A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads” (Wiley Blackwell, 2015)
To write a comprehensive history of Southeast Asia is a task reserved for precious few scholars: historians of unrivaled skill and formidable knowledge. Anthony Reid is among them. His new book, A Hi…
01:12:32 |
Fri 20 Nov 2015
Vicken Cheterian, "Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks, and a Century of Genocide" (Oxford UP, 2015)
The assassination of the Armenian-Turkish activist Hrant Dink in 2007 raised uncomfortable questions about a historical tragedy that the leaders of the Turkish Republic would like people to forget: t…
01:33:13 |
Thu 29 Oct 2015
Aileen Moreton-Robinson, “The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty” (U of Minnesota Press, 2015)
Owning property. Being property. Becoming propertyless. These are three themes of white possession that structure Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s brilliant new inquiry into the dynamics of race and Indigen…
01:01:19 |
Thu 22 Oct 2015
Conference Report: Genocide In World History, Bryant University, 9-10 October 2015
Today’s podcast marks the beginning of what I hope might become a regular feature on the podcast. The session was recorded live on the campus of Bryant University at the end of weekend conference wit…
00:39:32 |
Tue 20 Oct 2015
Edwin van de Haar, “Degrees of Freedom: Liberal Political Philosophy and Ideology” (Transaction Publishers, 2015)
“What exactly is liberalism?” The independent scholar Edwin van de Haar tackles this important question in his new book Degrees of Freedom: Liberal Political Philosophy and Ideology (Transaction Publ…
01:21:52 |
Tue 06 Oct 2015
Jonathyne Briggs, “Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities, and Pop Music, 1958-1980” (Oxford UP, 2015)
“Pop pop pop pop musik” -M
Jonathyne Briggs‘ new book, Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities, and Pop Music, 1958-1980(Oxford University Press, 2015) makes music the historical focus of…
01:01:14 |
Wed 30 Sep 2015
Eric Tagliacozzo, et al., “Asia Inside Out: Connected Places” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Eric Tagliacozzo, Peter C. Perdue, and Helen F. Siu‘s “Asia Inside Out” project is a model for interdisciplinary and collaborative scholarship in all kinds of ways. Planned as a trilogy, the first tw…
00:49:28 |
Mon 28 Sep 2015
Jenny Shaw, “Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference” (U of Georgia Press, 2013)
Jenny Shaw‘s recent book Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference (University of Georgia Press, 2013) analyzes how social, religious, and ethn…
00:50:02 |
Wed 23 Sep 2015
Neha Vora, “Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora” (Duke UP, 2013)
Neha Vora‘s Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2013) is a wonderfully rich and engaging account of middle class Indians who live and work, supposedly temporarily, in…
00:54:36 |
Tue 22 Sep 2015
Suzanna Reiss, “We Sell Drugs: The Alchemy of U.S. Empire” (University of California Press, 2014)
Though the conventional history of the U.S.-led “War on Drugs” locates the origins of this conflict in a reaction to the domestic culture of excess of the 1960s, a new book argues that international …
00:43:43 |
Mon 14 Sep 2015
Phil Tiermeyer, “Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants” (U of California Press, 2013)
Today’s guest discusses the history of sexuality in the workplace through the lens of male flight attendants. We speak with Phil Tiemeyer about the shifts and changes in the airline industry across t…
00:39:55 |
Mon 14 Sep 2015
Gordon H. Chang, “Fateful Ties: A History of America’s Preoccupation with China” (Harvard UP, 2015)
“There was China before there was an America, and it is because of China that America came to be.”
According to Gordon H. Chang‘s new book, the idea of “China” became “an ingredient within the devel…
01:10:58 |
Sun 30 Aug 2015
Carolyn Pedwell, “Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
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) th…
01:06:30 |
Thu 27 Aug 2015
Nicole Starosielski, “The Undersea Network” (Duke UP, 2015)
Nicole Starosielski‘s new book brings an environmental and ecological consciousness to the study of digital media and digital systems, and it is a must-read. The Undersea Network (Duke University Pre…
01:09:44 |
Tue 25 Aug 2015
Tom Jackson, “Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Tom Jackson‘s Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again (Bloomsbury, 2015) is a completely engrossing look into the history and technology of refrigeration. This book reads …
00:56:17 |
Wed 19 Aug 2015
Paul A. Christensen, “Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo” (Lexington Books, 2014)
Paul A. Christensen‘s new book is a thoughtful ethnography of drinking, drunkenness, and male sociability in modern urban Japan. Focusing on two major alcohol sobriety support groups in Japan, Alcoho…
01:06:44 |
Wed 19 Aug 2015
Ellen Hazelkorn, “Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education: The Battle for World-Class Excellence” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Ellen Hazelkorn, Policy Advisor to the Higher Education Authority (Ireland) and Director of the Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU), Dublin Institute of Technology, provides an in-depth ana…
00:31:38 |
Tue 18 Aug 2015
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