Remembering the Neoliberal Turn (Veronika Pehe)
The memory of how neoliberal economic policies were implemented in Eastern Europe after 1989 is still relevant to the region’s politicians, blue-collar workers and white-collar managers, and cultural ...
25 Okt 202314min
Barcelona ’92: The New Europe at the Olympic Games (Leslie Waters)
Does international sport foster capitalist economics and political liberalism among participating states? In this episode of the Transformative Podcast, Leslie Waters (University of Texas, El Paso) te...
4 Okt 202315min
Economic Memories of Transformation (Till Hilmar)
Economic thinking is far from the preserve of central bankers and policy wonks. In dozens of interviews in the Czech Republic and the former East Germany, sociologist Till Hilmar asked healthcare work...
2 Aug 202315min
Beyond Political History: Social and Cultural Dynamics of Socialist Poland (Małgorzata Fidelis)
In recent years, the narrative of the history of Polish socialism has changed as it moved beyond a narrow scholarly focus on political elites and party-state structures. In this episode, Thục Linh Ngu...
12 Juli 202315min
Minority Languages in Russia (Jeremy Bradley)
How can the challenges faced by minoritized languages of the Russian Federation and their speaker communities be understood through the lens of Russia’s colonial expansion? In this newest episode, Leo...
21 Juni 202317min
Transformative Power Of Utopias (Kristen Ghodsee)
What brings together Pythagoras and Wonder Woman? In her dazzling new book, Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life, Professor Kristen Ghodsee shows how,...
31 Maj 202319min
Why Studying Migration Matters (Jannis Panagiotidis)
In this thought-provoking conversation, Thuc Linh Nguyen Vu (RECET) and Jannis Panagiotidis (RECET) dive deep into the question of why migration — as a scholarly field and an intrinsic aspect of conte...
10 Maj 202317min
Banal Nationalism in Soviet Ukraine (Fabian Baumann)
In this episode, Fabian Baumann (RECET) talks to Irena Remestwenski (also RECET) about ‘banal’ forms of nationalism and visual representations of Ukrainianness employed by postwar Soviet propaganda, a...
19 Apr 202323min
