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Episodes

Ilana Gershon, "The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

25 Feb 2026

46m

Todd H. Weir and Lieke Wijnia, eds., "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Heritage in Contemporary Europe" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

24 Feb 2026

1h 22m

Aidan Seale-Feldman, "The Work of Disaster: Crisis and Care Along a Himalayan Fault Line" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

23 Feb 2026

38m

Jason Cons, "Delta Futures: Time, Territory, and Capture on a Climate Frontier" (U California Press, 2025)

23 Feb 2026

51m

Wendy Wolford, "The Plantation Ideal: Landscapes of Extraction in Mozambique" (U California Press, 2025)

21 Feb 2026

1h 6m

Darién J. Davis, "'Black Orpheus' and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

18 Feb 2026

55m

Alexis Lerner, "Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

16 Feb 2026

46m

Feminism and Critical Hindu Studies with Shreena Gandhi, Harshita Kamath, Sailaja Krishnamurt, and Shana Sippy

16 Feb 2026

1h 1m

Hanna Garth, "Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement" (U California Press, 2026)

14 Feb 2026

46m

Javiera Barandiaran, "Living Minerals: Nature, Trade, and Power in the Race for Lithium" (MIT Press, 2026)

13 Feb 2026

54m

Claire Morelon, "Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague, 1914–1920" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

13 Feb 2026

42m

Peer Schouten, "Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

08 Feb 2026

53m

Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State" (punctum books, 2024)

03 Feb 2026

1h 25m

Allison Caine, "Restless Ecologies: Climate Change and Socioecological Futures in the Peruvian Highlands" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

02 Feb 2026

49m

Jason Roberts, "We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea" (U Arizona Press, 2024)

02 Feb 2026

1h 3m

The Caste Question with Suraj Yengde and Anupama Rao

01 Feb 2026

59m

Terry Williams, "Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York" (Columbia UP, 2024)

26 Jan 2026

27m

Lesly-Marie Buer, "RX Appalachia: Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky" (Haymarket, 2020)