Off the Page: A Columbia University P...

Interviews with Columbia University Press authors.

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Evan Friss, "On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of...
Friss historicizes the bicycle’s place in New York City’s social, economic, infrastructural and cultural politics...
46 min
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Sandra Fahy, "Dying for Rights: Putting North K...
Fahy gives a thorough and compelling analysis of testimonies and reports on North Korea...
47 min
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Hunter Vaughan, "Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: T...
Vaughan offers a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective...
61 min
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Philip M. Napoli, "Social Media and the Public ...
"Social Media and the Public Interest" approaches this complex and multi-layered issue from a host of perspectives, leading the reader into the broader discussion through a history of social media,..
44 min
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James Gordon Finlayson, "The Habermas-Rawls Deb...
Finlayson traces their dispute from its inception in their earliest works to the 1995 exchange and its aftermath, as well as its legacy in contemporary debates...
121 min
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Dana Fisher, "American Resistance: From the Wom...
"American Resistance" follows activists from the streets back to their congressional districts around the country...
25 min
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Benjamin Fong, "Death and Mastery: Psychoanalyt...
Fong revitalizes two oft’ maligned psychoanalytic concepts, the death drive and the drive to mastery...
65 min
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Wendy Brown, "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: Th...
Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...
40 min
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Perin Gürel, "The Limits of Westernization: A C...
In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: "Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?"
34 min
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Geoffrey Barstow, "Food of Sinful Demons: Meat,...
Barstow explores the tension between Buddhist ethics and Tibetan cultural norms to offer a novel perspective on the spiritual and social dimensions of meat eating...
62 min
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Andrew Sidman, "Pork Barrel Politics: How Gover...
Sidman offers a systematic explanation for how political polarization relates to the electoral influence of federal spending...
20 min
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Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, "Race, Class, and Camp...
Threatening Property examines the campaigns for residential segregation in early-20th century North Carolina...
35 min
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Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Isla...
How are notions of justice and equality constructed in Islamic virtue ethics (akhlaq)?
64 min
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Elizabeth S. Kassab, "Enlightenment on the Eve ...
Kassab shows her readers that the demands for human dignity, freedom, and political participation had been robustly discussed by intellectuals in Syria and Egypt during the 1990s and 2000s...
56 min
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Max Oidtmann, "Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing...
Why would the Chinese Communist Party revive this former ritual? What powers lie in the symbolism of the “Golden Urn”?
72 min
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Donna Dickenson, "Me Medicine vs. We Medicine: ...
Personalized healthcare―or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls "Me Medicine"―is radically transforming our longstanding "one-size-fits-all" model...
20 min
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Shennette Garrett-Scott, "Banking on Freedom: B...
Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South...
39 min
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Patton E. Burchett, "A Genealogy of Devotion: B...
Burchett re-examines what we assume about the rise of devotionalism in North India, tracing its flowering since India’s early medieval “Tantric Age” to present day...
59 min
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Tsering Döndrup, "The Handsome Monk and Other S...
Christopher Peacock, with a contribution from Lauran Hartley, masterfully introduces the work of contemporary Tibetan author Tsering Döndrup...
74 min
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Kerim Yasar, "Electrified Voices: How the Telep...
Kerim Yasar argues that modern technologies of sound reproduction and transmission have had profound—and often underappreciated—social, economic, and political effects...
89 min
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Matthew W. King, "Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood...
Matthew W. King tells the story of Zawa Damdin, one Mongolian monk’s efforts to defend Buddhist monasticism in revolutionary times, revealing an unexplored landscape of countermodern Buddhisms beyond old imperial formations and the newly invented national subject...
61 min
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Christina Yi, "Colonizing Language: Cultural Pr...
The fact that Korea’s experience of Japanese imperialism plays a role in present-day Japan-Korea relations is no secret to anyone
59 min
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Wendy Pearlman and Boaz Atzili, "Triadic Coerci...
In the post–Cold War era, states increasingly find themselves in conflicts with nonstate actors...
56 min
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Jill Stauffer, "Ethical Loneliness: The Injusti...
Jill Stauffer argues that survivors of unjust treatment and dehumanization can experience further harm when individuals and institutions will not or cannot hear the survivors’ claims...
59 min
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I. Gould Ellen and J. Steil, "The Dream Revisit...
Why do people live where they do? What explains the persistence of residential segregation?
56 min