New Books in Critical Theory
Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books
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- Description
- Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books
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- đŹđ§ English
- last modified
- 2025-03-06 18:33
- last episode published
- 2025-03-06 09:00
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- 3.07 days
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- Marshall Poe
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- Number of Episodes
- 1929
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- Social Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
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| 2025-03-06 | Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Maria Kaika & Dr. Luca Ruggiero reveals something seemingly counterintuitive: that nineteenth-century class struggles over land are deeply... |
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| 2025-03-05 | Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking and insulting were the foundation of a kind of universal culture from which friendship, camaraderie and sol... |
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| 2025-03-01 |
Sam Srauy, "Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry: A Vicious Circuit" (Routledge, 2024) My guest today Sam Srauy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Journalism, and Public Relations at Oakland University, Her research examines race, video games, and the political economy of the video game industry. Srauyâs work a... |
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| 2025-02-28 |
Wan-Chuan Kao, "White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages" (Manchester UP, 2024) White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages (Manchester University Press, 2024) by Dr. Wan-Chuan Kao analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. The book argues that wh... |
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| 2025-02-26 | Nearly fifty years after the end of the war in Vietnam, American children of Vietnamese refugees continue to process the meanings of the war and its consequences through creative work. Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in V... |
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| 2025-02-25 | A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms highlights how, since the recent financial crises, the expression âliberal reformâ has entered common parlance as an evocative image of austerity and economic malaise, esp... |
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| 2025-02-22 |
Tabish Khair, "Literature Against Fundamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2024) Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking can counteract fundamentalism. Literature is a mode of thinking, stories being one of the oldest thinking 'devices' known to humankind. The ways in which... |
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| 2025-02-21 | The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England (Hurst, 2025) by Dr. Martyn Percy offers a bold and unsettling truth: the British Empire and Great Britain are primarily English constructions, and the Church of En... |
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| 2025-02-21 | Perversions of the Market: Sadism, Masochism, and the Culture of Capitalism (SUNY Press, 2024) argues that capitalism fosters sadism and masochism--not as individual psychological proclivities but as widespread institutionalized patterns of behavior. T... |
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| 2025-02-21 | In this episode, Chella Ward and Salman Sayyid talked to Adnan Husain about some of the challenges involved in reorienting history. We spoke about the opportunities and limitations of the idea of âthe globalâ as a way of organising history, and explore... |
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