In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books

Books
History
Social Sciences
1051
Thomas J. Donahue-Ochoa, "Unfreedom for All: Ho...
How should we understand and combat injustice? Is it only the responsibility of those who suffer the consequences or perpetrate the harm?
51 min
1052
Leslie Dorrough Smith, "Compromising Positions:...
Sex scandals are ubiquitous in American politics...
59 min
1053
Luke Messac, "No More to Spend: Neglect and the...
Messac challenges the inevitability of inadequate social services in twentieth-century Africa, focusing on the political history of Malawi...
59 min
1054
Brian F. Harrison, "A Change is Gonna Come: How...
Harrison critiques many of the current methods of communicating and explores the growing divide within political discourse...
51 min
1055
Fay Bound Alberti, "A Biography of Loneliness: ...
Fay Bound Alberti argues that loneliness is not an ahistorical, universal phenomenon. It is, in fact, a modern emotion: before 1800, its language did not exist...
50 min
1056
David L. Haberman, “Loving Stones: Making the I...
Haberman explores the worship world of Mount Govardhan; located in the Braj region of India, the mountain is considered an embodied form of the Hindu deity Krishna...
72 min
1057
Luca Scholz, "Borders and Freedom of Movement i...
Scholz's maps shift the focus from the border to the thoroughfare to show that controls of moving goods and people were rarely concentrated at borders before the mid-eighteenth century...
61 min
1058
Francine Hirsch, "Soviet Judgement at Nuremberg...
How did an authoritarian regime help lay the cornerstones of human rights and international law?
82 min
1059
Robert Gerwarth, "November 1918: The German Rev...
Was Weimar doomed from the outset?
53 min
1060
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
1061
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
1062
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
1063
Drew Thomases, "Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Touri...
Drew Thomases investigates the Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkar...
55 min
1064
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
1065
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
1066
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
1067
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
1068
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
1069
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
1070
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
1071
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
1072
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
1073
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
1074
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
1075
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