Mark Neocleous, "The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies" (Verso, 2022)
Our contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and herd immunity; how to immunize the social system against breakdown. T...
12 Touko 202248min
Postscript: Post-Roe Politics
Today’s Postscript uniquely engages abortion politics by addressing structural political issues (voter suppression, gerrymandering, dilutions of minority voting, obstacles to women registering their p...
12 Touko 20221h 14min
Pandemic Perspectives 10: Covid and the Art of Science Communication
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to John Tregoning, Imperial College respiratory infections researcher and author of the acclaimed book Infect...
11 Touko 202256min
Mark V. Tushnet, "The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Mark V. Tushnet's book The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941 (Cambridge UP, 2022) describes the closing of one era in constitutional jurisprudence and the opening of another....
11 Touko 202253min
Eve Ng, "Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Eve Ng’s new book Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), examines the phenomenon of "cancel culture" from a critical media studies perspective, as both cancel practices (what ...
11 Touko 202251min
The Problem with Museums: A Conversation with Georgina Adam and Nizan Shaked
In the past few years, museums of contemporary art have come under a fair deal of scrutiny. Pressures from groups such as Decoloinise This Space or the oxycontin scandal have forced changes to the gov...
10 Touko 20221h 12min
The Future of Opinion Polls: A Conversation with Mark Pack
As the culture wars intensify, it seems that all sources of neutral authority get challenged and that includes opinion polls. Accusations about bias and unreliability fly around and yet everyone serio...
10 Touko 202251min
LaGina Gause, "The Advantage of Disadvantage: Costly Protest and Political Representation for Marginalized Groups" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Does protest influence political representation? If so, which groups are most likely to benefit from collective action? The Advantage of Disadvantage: Costly Protest and Political Representation for M...
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