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Carla Power, "Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism" (One World, 2021)
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In the Pulitzer Prize finalist book Home, Land, Security: Deradicalisation and the Journey Back from Extremism (One World, 2021), Carla Power explores: what are the roots of radicalism? Journalist Carla Power came to this question well before the January 6, 2021, attack in Washington, D.C., that turned the US’ attention to the problem of domestic r…
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Katherine E. Sugg, "Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture" (McFarland, 2022)
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Stories of world-ending catastrophe have featured prominently in film and television lately. Zombie apocalypses, climate disasters, alien invasions, global pandemics, and dystopian world orders fill our screens—typically with a singular figure or tenacious group tasked with saving or salvaging the world. In her new book, Apocalypse and Heroism in P…
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James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti, "Atlas of the Invisible: Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
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Award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti transform enormous datasets into rich maps and cutting-edge visualizations. In this triumph of visual storytelling, they uncover truths about our past, reveal who we are today, and highlight what we face in the years ahead. In Atlas of the Invisible: Maps and Graphics That Will…
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S4 E89: The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: Cross-Examination of Kyle Rittenhouse — Part 5
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This season of Jury Duty explores the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. In The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: Cross-Examination of Kyle Rittenhouse — Part 5, we conclude our look at Kyle Rittenhouse’s testimony, beginning with the shooting of Joseph Rosenbaum. Looking to listen to Jury Duty ad-free? Become a patron on our Patreon page! In addition to a…
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Teemu Taira, "Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously: Essays on the Discursive Study of Religion" (Brill, 2022)
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Teemu Taira's book Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously: Essays on the Discursive Study of Religion (Brill, 2022) demonstrates through methodological reflections and carefully chosen case studies a new way to conduct the study of religion. It focuses on how social actors negotiate what counts as “religion” and how discourses on religion are part of how cont…
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S4 E88: The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: Cross-Examination of Kyle Rittenhouse — Part 4
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This season of Jury Duty explores the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. In The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: Cross-Examination of Kyle Rittenhouse — Part 4, we look at the second part of a sidebar hearing discussing a Defense motion for mistrial and then continue our review of the Prosecution’s cross of Rittenhouse. Looking to listen to Jury Duty ad-f…
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The Future of Philanthropy: A Conversation with Emma Saunders-Hastings
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Philanthropists are praise for their generosity but does their desire to keep control of what happens to their donations mean they exercise power in ways that clash with democratic principles? Approval of philanthropists’ good intentions can mask some important moral considerations about what philanthropy means for the donor and the recipient. Gene…
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S4 E87: The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: Cross-Examination of Kyle Rittenhouse — Part 3
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This season of Jury Duty explores the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. In The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: Cross-Examination of Kyle Rittenhouse — Part 3, we follow the defendant’s testimony as Prosecutor Thomas Binger wanders into yet another quagmire. Looking to listen to Jury Duty ad-free? Become a patron on our Patreon page! In addition to ad-fr…
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Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon, "Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG" (Lexington Books, 2022)
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Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon's edited volume Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG (Lexington Books, 2022) examines the origins, boundaries, and transnational effects of the genre, addressing significant formal elements as well as narrative themes, character construction, and player involv…
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S4 E86: The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: Cross-Examination of Kyle Rittenhouse — Part 2
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This season of Jury Duty explores the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. In The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: Cross-Examination of Kyle Rittenhouse — Part 2, we continue our review of the State's cross-examination including a tense sidebar in which Judge Bruce Schroeder severely reprimands the prosecutor. Looking to listen to Jury Duty ad-free? Become …
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Carles Lalueza-Fox, "Inequality: A Genetic History" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Inequality is an urgent global concern, with pundits, politicians, academics, and best-selling books all taking up its causes and consequences. In Inequality: A Genetic History (MIT Press, 2022), Carles Lalueza-Fox offers an entirely new perspective on the subject, examining the genetic marks left by inequality on humans throughout history. Lalueza…
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Joni Schwartz and John R. Chaney, "Gifts from the Dark: Learning from the Incarceration Experience" (Lexington Books, 2022)
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While in no way supporting the systemic injustices and disparities of mass incarceration, in Gifts from the Dark: Learning from the Incarceration Experience (Lexington Books, 2021), Joni Schwartz and John Chaney argue that we have much to learn from those who have been and are in prison. Schwartz and Chaney profile the contributions of literary gia…
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S4 E85: The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: Weekly Recap — “Binger Gets Stung” with Abbe Smith
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On this episode of Jury Duty: The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, host Kary Antholis is joined once again by Abbe Smith who serves as Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Defense and Prisoner Advocacy Clinic at Georgetown University. Together, they begin their review of the long-awaited testimony presented by the defendant, Kyle Rittenhouse. Lo…
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Christopher Blattman, "Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace" (Viking, 2022)
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In Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace (Viking, 2022), Chris Blattman explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into war, and how to interrupt that deadly process. It's easy to overlook the underlying strategic forces of war, to see it solely as a series of errors, accidents, and emotions gone awry. It's also easy to …
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Susan Hartman, "City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town" (Beacon Press, 2022)
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City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town (Beacon Press, 2022) paints an intimate portrait of the newcomers revitalizing a fading industrial town – illuminating the larger canvas of refugee life in 21st century America. For many Americans, ‘refugee’ still conjures up the image of a threatening outsi…
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Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
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In the United States, systemic racism is embedded in policies and practices, thereby structuring American society to perpetuate inequality and all of the symptoms and results of that inequality. Racial, social, and class inequities and the public health crises in the United States are deeply intertwined, their roots and manifestations continually p…
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S4 E84: The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: Cross-Examination of Kyle Rittenhouse — Part 1
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This season of Jury Duty explores the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. In The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: Cross-Examination of Kyle Rittenhouse — Part 1, we begin our coverage of the State’s cross-examination of the defendant, led by Prosecutor Thomas Binger. Looking to listen to Jury Duty ad-free? Become a patron on our Patreon page! In addition t…
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Agustín Fuentes, "Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature" (Second Edition) (U California Press, 2022)
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There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; and men and women are wholly different in behavior, desires, and wiring. Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature (Second Edition) (U California Press, 2022) counters these pervasive and perni…
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Max Holleran, "Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world. A growing number of influential activists aren't waiting for new public housing to be built. Instead, they're calling for more construction and denser cities in order to increase affordability. Yes to the …
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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, "Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in LIfe" (Dey Street Books, 2022)
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Today I talked to Seth Stephens-Davidowitz about his new book Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in LIfe (Dey Street Books, 2022) Looking for advice on how to get a date, how to have a successful marriage, or just how to have a happier life? Don’t trust your gut, don’t trust conventional wisdom, and put down that self-help…
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Michael Heneise, "Agency and Knowledge in Northeast India: The Life and Landscapes of Dreams" (Routledge, 2018)
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The Nagas of Northeast India gives great importance to dreams as sources of divine knowledge, especially knowledge about the future. Although British colonialism, Christian missions, and political conflict have resulted in sweeping cultural and political transformations in the Indo-Myanmar Borderlands, dream sharing and interpretation remain import…
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Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish, "Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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Image by image and hashtag by hashtag, Instagram has redefined the ways we relate to food. Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish edit contributions that explore the massively popular social media platform as a space for self-identification, influence, transformation, and resistance. Artists and journalists join a wide range of scholars to look at food…
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Jennifer D. Sciubba, "8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
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As the world nears 8 billion people, the countries that have led the global order since World War II are becoming the most aged societies in human history. At the same time, the world's poorest and least powerful countries are suffocating under an imbalance of population and resources. In 8 Billion and Counting, political demographer Jennifer D. Sc…
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Jonathan Crary, "Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World" (Verso, 2022)
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In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our ‘digital age’ is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialisation of social existence, mass impoverishment, ecocide, and military terror. Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World (Verso, 20…
Dr. Duane Bidwell works to reduce suffering and promote abundant life in all of his teaching, writing, and research. Experiences as chaplain, pastor, spiritual director, pastoral counselor, HIV/AIDS professional, and non-profit director inform his work as teacher-scholar-clinician. CST students have given him teaching and mentoring awards three tim…
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S4 E83: The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: Direct Examination of Kyle Rittenhouse — Part 3
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This season of Jury Duty explores the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. In The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: Direct Examination of Kyle Rittenhouse — Part 3, we conclude the Defense team’s direct examination of Kyle Rittenhouse including his account of the shootings of Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber, and Gaige Grosskreutz. Looking to listen to Jury D…
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The Future of Public Opinion: A Conversation with Susan Herbst
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Politicians and corporations cannot only measure public opinion but also manipulate and create it. And they have been doing so since the 1930s when serious polling began. And as Professor Susan Herbst, author of Numbered Voices: How Opinion Polling Has Shaped American Politics, explains early public opinion research raised hopes for better democrat…
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Edwin Amenta and Neal Caren, "Rough Draft of History: A Century of US Social Movements in the News" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Rough Draft of History: A Century of US Social Movements in the News (Princeton UP, 2022) offers a new view of U.S. social movement history across the twentieth century by examining how movement organizations were covered in major national newspapers. The book analyzes U.S. social movements--ranging from temperance to women's suffrage to the Tea Pa…
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S4 E82: The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: Direct Examination of Kyle Rittenhouse — Part 2
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This season of Jury Duty explores the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. In The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: Direct Examination of Kyle Rittenhouse — Part 2, we continue our look at Kyle Rittenhouse’s direct examination as he and his attorney, Mark Richards, take the jury through the events of August 25, 2020, up to the precipice of the defendant firi…
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Brian Kulick, "The Secret Life of Theater: On the Nature and Function of Theatrical Representation" (Routledge, 2019)
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Unlike many books that examine the how of making theater, Brian Kulick's The Secret Life of Theater: On the Nature and Function of Theatrical Representation (Routledge, 2019) examines the why. Using Jorge Luis Borges' story Averroes's Search as a guide, Kulick defines theatre via its proximity to play, ritual, imitation, and religion, all of which …
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Sara Austin, "Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
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In Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States (Ohio State Press, 2022), Sara Austin traces the evolution of monstrosity as it relates to youth culture from the 1950s to the present day to spotlight the symbiotic relationship between monstrosity and the bodies and identities of children and adolescents. Examining…
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Eli Friedman, "The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Amid a vast influx of rural migrants into urban areas, China has allowed cities wide latitude in providing education and other social services. While millions of people have been welcomed into the megacities as a source of cheap labor, local governments have used various tools to limit their access to full citizenship. The Urbanization of People: T…
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S4 E81: The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: Direct Examination of Kyle Rittenhouse — Part 1
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This season of Jury Duty explores the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. In The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: Direct Examination of Kyle Rittenhouse — Part 1, we begin our multi-episode coverage of the testimony of the defendant himself, Kyle Rittenhouse. Looking to listen to Jury Duty ad-free? Become a patron on our Patreon page! In addition to ad-fre…
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Natalia Molina, "A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community" (U California Press, 2022)
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In 1951, Doña Natalia Barraza opened the Nayarit, a Mexican restaurant in Echo Park, Los Angeles. With A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community (U California Press, 2022), historian Natalia Molina traces the life's work of her grandmother, remembered by all who knew her as Doña Natalia--a generous, reserved, and extrao…
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Judah Schept, "Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia" (NYU Press, 2022)
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As the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy for economic development. More than 350 prisons have been built in the U.S. since 1980, with certain regions of the country accounting for large shares of this dramatic growth. Central Appalachia is one such region there are eigh…
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Simidele Dosekun, "Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Women in Lagos, Nigeria, practice a spectacularly feminine form of black beauty. From cascading hair extensions to immaculate makeup to high heels, their style permeates both day-to-day life and media representations of women not only in a swatch of Africa but across an increasingly globalized world. Simidele Dosekun's detailed interviews and criti…
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James J. Connolly et al., "Vulnerable Communities: Research, Policy, and Practice in Small Cities" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Vulnerable Communities: Research, Policy, and Practice in Small Cities (Cornell UP, 2022) examines the struggles of smaller cities in the United States, those with populations between 20,000 and 200,000. Like many larger metropolitan centers, these places are confronting change within a globalized economic and cultural order. Many of them have lost…
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Matthew T. Huber, "Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet" (Verso, 2022)
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The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of ‘believing science’ or individual ‘carbon footprints’ – it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve. In Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet (Verso, 2022), Matthew T. Huber argu…
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Mikaela Rabinowitz, "Incarceration without Conviction: Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice" (Routledge, 2021)
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Mikaela Rabinowitz’s Incarceration without Conviction: Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice (Routledge, 2021) addresses an understudied fairness flaw in the US criminal justice system: namely, the significant impact of pretrial detention on the millions of Americans held in local jails. On any given day, appr…
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S4 E80: The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: Weekly Recap — “The Only Prosecution Win So Far” with Abbe Smith
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On this episode of Jury Duty: The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, host Kary Antholis is joined once again by Abbe Smith who serves as Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Defense and Prisoner Advocacy Clinic at Georgetown University. Together, they review the testimonies presented by the Defense witnesses this week and discuss what may very wel…
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Jennifer Natalya Fink, "All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship" (Beacon Press, 2022)
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Disability is often described as a tragedy, a crisis, or an aberration, though 1 in 5 people worldwide have a disability. Why is this common human experience rendered exceptional? In All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship (Beacon Press, 2022), disability studies scholar Jennifer Natalya Fink argues that this originates in ou…
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Dorina Pojani, "Trophy Cities: A Feminist Perspective on New Capitals" (Edward Elgar, 2021)
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Offering a fresh perspective, this timely book analyzes the socio-cultural and physical production of planned capital cities through the theoretical lens of feminism. In Trophy Cities: A Feminist Perspective on New Capitals (Edward Elgar, 2021), Dorina Pojani evaluates the historical, spatial and symbolic manifestations of new capital cities, as we…
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Ximena Vengoechea, "Listen Like You Mean It: Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection" (Portfolio, 2021)
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Today I talked to Ximena Vengoechea about Listen Like You Mean It: Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection (Portfolio, 2021). What’s your default listening mode? Are you perhaps a pivoter, a distractor, a withdrawer, an explorer or, like today’s guest, an innate problem-solver trying to find a solution to whatever is troubling the person you’re …
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S4 E79: The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: The Testimonies from Lucas Zanin, Jacob Marshall, & Anmol Khindri
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This season of Jury Duty explores the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. In The Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse: The Testimonies from Lucas Zanin, Jacob Marshall, & Anmol Khindri, we examine the testimonies of three more defense witnesses—Lucas Zanin, a bystander whose step-daughter captured audio of the shooting of Joseph Rosenbaum while they were drivin…
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Çigdem Çidam, "In the Street: Democratic Action, Theatricality, and Political Friendship" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Çigdem Çidam, Associate Professor of Political Science at Union College, has a new book titled In the Street: Democratic Action, Theatricality, and Political Friendship (Oxford UP, 2021) that examines political action by citizens, and how we interpret and discuss that action in context of political structures. The title In the Street is a reference…
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Robert McColl Millar, "Sociolinguistic History of Scotland" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
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In A Sociolinguistic History of Scotland (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Dr. Robert McColl Millar presents the first sociolinguistic history of all languages spoken in Scotland. The book includes analyses from across the country including coverage of Gaelic, Scots, Pictish, British, Norn, Immigrant languages and Scottish Standard English. It al…
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John Wills, "Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
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In 1975, design engineer Dave Nutting completed work on a new arcade machine. A version of Taito's Western Gun, a recent Japanese arcade machine, Nutting's Gun Fight depicted a classic showdown between gunfighters. Rich in Western folklore, the game seemed perfect for the American market; players easily adapted to the new technology, becoming pisto…
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Lydia Wilkes et al., "Rhetoric and Guns" (Utah State UP, 2022)
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Guns hold a complex place in American culture. Over 30,000 Americans die each year from gun violence, and guns are intimately connected to issues of public health, as is evident whenever a mass shooting occurs. But guns also play an important role in many Americans’ lives that is not reducible to violence and death—as tools, sporting equipment, and…
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Sokphea Young, "Strategies of Authoritarian Survival and Dissensus in Southeast Asia: Weak Men versus Strongmen" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
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The durability of strongmen leaders in Southeast Asia has puzzled many scholars and observers of the region. In the book Strategies of Authoritarian Survival and Dissensus in Southeast Asia: Weak Men versus Strongmen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), Sokphea Young offers a critical examination of the ways in which the ruling regime in Cambodia maintains …
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Marc Schuilenburg, "Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Politics" (Routledge, 2021)
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According to the medical world, hysteria is a thing of the past, an outdated diagnosis that has disappeared for good. Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Politics (Routledge, 2021) argues that hysteria is in fact alive and well. Hyperventilating, we rush from one incident into the next - there is hardly time for a breather. From the worldwide run on toilet…
