The Future of the Apocalyptic Right in the U.S.: A Discussion with Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
How did Steve Bannon come to believe the strange things he believes? The influential, former Trump aid, began as a Democrat-supporting Naval officer with an interest in Buddhism and transcendental med...
22 Helmi 20221h
Teresa Kulawik and Zhanna Kravchenko, "Borderlands in European Gender Studies: Beyond the East-West Frontier" (Routledge, 2020)
Challenging persistent geopolitical asymmetries in feminist knowledge production, this collection depicts collisions between concepts and lived experiences, between academic feminism and political act...
22 Helmi 20221h 26min
Mark Devenney, "Towards an Improper Politics" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
Historically, discourses of racial, civilizational, and sexual difference have inevitably been entangled with, shaped by, and constitutive of institutions that divide up the land and allocate rights o...
21 Helmi 20221h 28min
Irmgard Emmelhainz, "Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures: Feminist Living as Resistance" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures: Feminist Living as Resistance (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) is an homage to a constellation of women writers, feminists, and creators whose voices draw a map of our current gl...
18 Helmi 202256min
Kyle T. Mays, "An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2021)
Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Kyle T. Mays, an Afro-Indigenous historian, argues that the foundations of t...
18 Helmi 202237min
Keller Easterling, "Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World" (Verso, 2021)
How do we formulate alternative approaches to the world’s unresponsive or intractable dilemmas, from climate change, to inequality, to concentrations of authoritarian power? Keller Easterling argues t...
17 Helmi 202249min
Vânia Penha-Lopes, "The Presidential Elections of Trump and Bolsonaro, Whiteness, and the Nation" (Lexington Books, 2021)
The Presidential Elections of Trump and Bolsonaro, Whiteness, and the Nation (Lexington Books, 2021) is a sociological analysis of the similarities between the elections of Donald Trump and Jair Bolso...
16 Helmi 202244min
Himani Bannerji, "The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender" (Brill, 2020)
How should we understand identity? What sort of politics are needed to address various forms of oppression and marginalization? Are knowledge and practice untainted by ideological obfuscation possible...
14 Helmi 20222h 24min
