In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books

Books
History
Social Sciences
1026
Robert Gerwarth, "November 1918: The German Rev...
Was Weimar doomed from the outset?
53 min
1027
S. Moskalenko and C. McCauley, "Radicalization ...
The authors propose twelve mechanisms that can move individuals, groups, and mass publics from political indifference to sympathy and support for terrorist violence...
56 min
1028
Peter J. Boettke, "Public Governance and the Cl...
In our conversation we defined the disciplines of Public Choice and Public Administration and we named the key actors of a very long intellectual debate...
46 min
1029
David Carballo, "Collision of Worlds: A Deep Hi...
Carballo provides a deep history of the encounter, one that considers temporal depth in the richly layered cultures of Mexico and Spain...
60 min
1030
Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke, "Grandstanding:...
We are all familiar with the ways in which the acts associated with upholding morality can go wrong....
65 min
1031
Drew Thomases, "Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Touri...
Drew Thomases investigates the Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkar...
55 min
1032
R. P. Saldin and S. M. Teles, "Never Trump: The...
Should we understand the conservative elites of #Never Trump as homogeneous and united? Failed renegades? Moral guardians of republicanism and values?
83 min
1033
Adheesh Sathaye, “Crossing the Lines of Caste" ...
What does it mean to be a Brahmin, and what could it mean to become one?
50 min
1034
Michael Goldfield, "The Southern Key: Class, Ra...
Goldfield charts the rise of labor activism in each and then examines how and why labor organizers struggled so mightily in the region...
27 min
1035
Greg Garrett, "A Long, Long Way: Hollywood’s Un...
Garrett brings his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism to bear on this history...
62 min
1036
Ehud Halperin, “The Many Faces of a Himalayan G...
Halperin employs an interdisciplinary approach to tell the story of Hadimba from the ground up...
66 min
1037
Anya P. Foxen, "Inhaling Spirit: Harmonialism, ...
Foxen traces several disparate yet entangled roots of modern yoga practice to show that much of what we call yoga...
54 min
1038
Barbara J. Risman, "Where the Millennials Will ...
Risman uses her gender structure theory to tackle the question about whether today’s young people, Millennials, are pushing forward the gender revolution or backing away from it...
56 min
1039
Hamsa Stainton, "Poetry as Prayer in the Sanskr...
Stainton explores the relationship between 'poetry’ and ‘prayer’ in South Asia through close examination of the history of Sanskrit hymns of praise (stotras) in Kashmir from the eighth century onwards...
55 min
1040
James A. Diamond, "Jewish Theology Unbound" (Ox...
Diamond challenges the widespread caricature of Judaism as a religion of law as opposed to theology...
62 min
1041
Matthew Duncombe, "Ancient Relativity: Plato, A...
Duncombe considers ancient views of relativity from Plato, Aristotle, the Skeptics (particularly Simplicius), and the Stoics (particularly Sextus Empiricus)...
59 min
1042
Deepra Dandekar, “The Subhedar's Son” (Oxford U...
"The Subhedar's Son" provides a fascinating insight into Brahmanical-Christian conversions of the era, along with attitudes surrounding such conversions...
63 min
1043
John Stratton Hawley, “Krishna's Playground: Vr...
What happens when the Anthropocene Age makes everything virtual? What happens when heaven gets plowed under?
51 min
1044
Ilya Somin, "Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migrati...
Somin defends the idea that foot voting is an essential element of political freedom and democratic governance...
61 min
1045
Elissa Bemporad, "Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogrom...
Bemporad examines the uneasy and often ambivalent but mutually dependent, and ever-shifting relationship between the regime and the Jewish population as the Soviet century unfolds...
56 min
1046
Kevin Duong, "The Virtues of Violence: Democrac...
Duong offers a fascinating analysis of the way that violence has been used, in a sense, to create or promote solidarity during the course of the “long nineteenth century” in France...
54 min
1047
Dana El Kurd, "Polarized and Demobilized: Legac...
Kurd’s rich case study illustrates how certain authoritarian strategies used by the PA increased societal polarizing...
50 min
1048
James M. Jasper, "Public Characters: The Politi...
Did Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency in 2016 because he was a master of character work – able to sum up opponents in pithy epithets that encourage the public to see them as weak or immoral?
41 min
1049
T. Skocpol and C. Tervo, "Upending American Pol...
How can we make sense of the elections of Barack Obama and Donald Trump?
65 min
1050
Paul Matzko, "The Radio Right" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Matzko details its emergence in the 1950s and the response to its rise by some of the leading political and religious institutions of the era...
51 min