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1651
Greg Burris, "The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media...
Is there a link between the colonization of Palestinian lands and the enclosing of Palestinian minds?
64 min
1652
Evan Smith, "No Platform: A History of Anti-Fas...
The tactic of ‘no platforming’ has been used at British universities and colleges since the National Union of Students adopted the policy in the mid-1970s...
70 min
1653
Ali Meghji, "Black Middle-Class Britannia: Iden...
Maghji considers the identity of Britain’s Black middle-class by understanding culture and cultural consumption...
32 min
1654
How Neoliberalization Has Increased Social, Eco...
An interview with Cory Blad
16 min
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Tsedale Melaku, "You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: ...
What kind of discrimination do Black women face in the legal profession?
49 min
1656
Josh Cerretti, "Abuses of the Erotic: Militariz...
Cerretti argue that a project of militarizing sexuality succeeded in the 1990s United States...
58 min
1657
Mariann Hardey, "The Culture of Women in Tech: ...
What is the culture of the tech industry?
40 min
1658
George Lawson, "Anatomies of Revolution" (Cambr...
What causes revolutions?
81 min
1659
Marcia Chatelain, "Franchise: The Golden Arches...
Chatelain examines the relationship between the fast-food industry, Black business owners, and the communities where they set up franchises after the Holy Week Uprisings of 1968...
67 min
1660
Minou Arjomand, "Staged: Show Trials, Political...
Arjomand provides a startling account of the many intersections between theatre and trials in Germany and the United States from the 1930s to the 1960s...
73 min
1661
Joy White, "Terraformed: Young Black Lives in t...
How are black lives lived in the contemporary city?
34 min
1662
How Neoliberalization Has Increased Social, Eco...
An interview with Cory Blad
24 min
1663
Micol Seigel, "Violence Work: State Violence an...
Recent calls for the defunding or abolition of police raise important questions about the legitimacy of state violence and the functions that police are supposed to serve...
67 min
1664
Sa’ed Atshan, "Queer Palestine and the Empire o...
Atshan explores the Palestinian LGBTQ movement and offers a window into the diverse community living both in historic Palestine and in diaspora...
52 min
1665
Aaron Kamugisha, "Beyond Coloniality: Citizensh...
Kamugisha reminds us of a Caribbean radical tradition that is fiercely critical of racism, middle-class complacencies and the incursions of neoliberalism...
58 min
1666
Robert Nichols, "Theft Is Property!: Dispossess...
Nichols explores the idea of recursive dispossession, which Nichols explains as the situation where “new proprietary relations are generated but under structural conditions that demand their simultaneous negation.”
57 min
1667
Alberto Harambour, "Soberanías fronterizas: Est...
Harambour examines the explosion of foreign-owned sheep farming, the fitful expansion of Argentine and Chilean sovereignty, and the violence of primitive accumulation and genocide in southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego...
55 min
1668
Edgar Garcia, "Signs of the America: A Poetics...
45 min
1669
Fadi A. Bardawil, "Revolution and Disenchantmen...
One of these movements, Socialist Lebanon, took root in the 1960s, and much Arab political thought has developed in its shadow ever since.,,
87 min
1670
Sam Han, "(Inter)Facing Death: Life in Global U...
Han analyzes the nexus of death and digital culture in the contemporary moment in the context of recent developments in social, cultural and political theory....
49 min
1671
Frank Wilderson III, "Afropessimism" (Liveright...
How should we understand the pervasiveness – and virulence – of anti-Black violence in the United State?
56 min
1672
Shiu-Yin Sharon Yam, "Inconvenient Strangers: T...
Yam examines how three transnational groups—mainland Chinese maternal tourists, Southeast Asian migrant domestic workers, and South Asian permanent residents—engage with the existing citizenry and gain recognition through circulating personal narratives....
58 min
1673
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
1674
Viet Thanh Nguyen, "Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam ...
According to Viet Thanh Nguyen, all wars are fought twice: first on the field of battle, and then in the struggles over memory...
67 min
1675
Elinor Carmi, "Media Distortions: Understanding...
What is spam?
33 min