Diana Leon-Boys on Latina girls’ media and research, motherhood, Elena of Avalor, Disney, transformational flexibility, studies of production, meaning, and reception, Spanish, and theme-park work You can read about Diana’s work here: https://www.dleonboys.com/
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 253
Stephen Duncombe, Peter Bloom, and Stevphen Shukaitis on post-capitalist societies, realizing utopias, self-management in sports, radicalism in business schools, running organizations, students, and artificial intelligence You can read about their work here: https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/stephen-duncombe https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/shuka90902/stevphen-shukaitis https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/bloom09008/peter-bloom https://c4aa.org/ https://www.catalyticsound.com/ https://www.essex.ac.uk/c...
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 252
Stacey Sowards on critical race theory, Dolores Huerta, the United Farm Workers, Indonesia, reproductive justice, environmental communication, PETA, and joy You can read about Stacey’s work at: https://commstudies.utexas.edu/faculty/stacey-k-sowards
Mar 22, 2024•40 min•Ep. 251
David Lloyd on settler colonialism in Palestine and Ireland, Gaza and US universities, Césaire, Beckett, Kant, Schiller, aesthetics, creativity, Cabral, and affirmative action You can read about David’s work at: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/dclloyd https://davidcolleslloyd.com/about/
Mar 22, 2024•52 min•Ep. 250
Catherine Benamou on US and Madrid Spanish- and Portuguese-language TV, news, telenovelas, African community media, Orson Welles, fieldwork, and It’s All True You can read about Catherine’s work here: https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=5510
Mar 21, 2024•50 min•Ep. 249
Chris Robé on reactionary populism, progressive Hollywood, Eisenstein, anarchism, surveillance, and social movements You can read about Chris’ work here: https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/scms/faculty/robe/ https://blog.pmpress.org/authors-artists-comrades/chris-robe/
Mar 21, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 248
William Mazzarella on advertising, magic, disenchantment, charisma, affect, media, religion, Indian film censorship, mass society, liberalism, and populism You can read about William’s work here: https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/directory/Willliam-T-S-Mazzarella
Mar 21, 2024•50 min•Ep. 247
LS Kim on Asian Americans in media culture, stereotypes, Maid for Television, whiteness, cross-racial coalitions, and ceilings for Asian Americans in Hollywood You can read about her work here: https://film.ucsc.edu/faculty/ls_kim https://www.lskim.com/
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 246
Katherine Johnston on surveillance, Profiles and Plotlines, New Mexico, Serena Williams, Amazon, the International Spy Museum, and big data as storytelling You can read about Katherine’s work and interests here: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/english/people/JohnstonK#Biography https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/profiles-and-plotlines https://www.spymuseum.org/...
Mar 19, 2024•41 min•Ep. 245
Claire Parkinson on the Dangerous Dogs Act, gender, class, activism, critical animal studies, media coverage, and anthropomorphism You can read about Claire here: https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/person/claire-parkinson/staff/ https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/cfhas/
Mar 19, 2024•47 min•Ep. 244
William Robinson on global capitalism, the transnational capitalist class, Latin America, neoliberalism, European versus US and Chinese imperialism, the global police state, absence of an organized global left, journalism, and future crises You can read about William’s work here: https://robinson.faculty.soc.ucsb.edu/ https://www.facebook.com/WilliamIRobinsonSociologist/...
Mar 18, 2024•59 min•Ep. 243
Arvind Rajagopal on engineering, sociology, media studies, the history of studying communication, NWICO, religion, India, Nehruvianism, and Hindutva https://nyu.academia.edu/ArvindRajagopal
Mar 18, 2024•44 min•Ep. 242
Melissa Wilde on religion, Hitler, eugenics, suffrage, evolution, inequality, class, race, birth control, and Vatican II You can read about Melissa’s work here: https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/people/melissa-wilde https://theconversation.com/profiles/melissa-j-wilde-546285
Mar 18, 2024•51 min•Ep. 241
Tom Schatz on classical Hollywood, New Hollywood, conglomerate Hollywood, independents, blockbuster franchises, and streaming You can read about Tom’s work here: https://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/tom-schatz https://www.thenation.com/article/society/netflix-disney-media-consolidation/
Mar 18, 2024•58 min•Ep. 240
Siobhan Angus on tar sands, renewables, Canadian identity, class, minerals, Marx, photography, organizing—and fertilizer You can read more about Siobhan here: https://www.siobhanangus.com/
Mar 18, 2024•50 min•Ep. 239
Juan Antonio Tarancón de Francisco, Luis Miguel García Mainar, Elena Oliete Aldea, y Carmen Sáez González sobre la crisis y la esperanza en cine Se puede leer meas sobre su obra aquí: https://filologiainglesa.unizar.es/personal/juan-antonio-tarancon-de-francisco https://filologiainglesa.unizar.es/personal/luis-miguel-garcia-mainar https://sideral.unizar.es/sideral/CV/elena-oliete-aldea https://filologiainglesa.unizar.es/personal/carmen-saez-gonzalez https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/global-genres-lo...
Mar 18, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 238
Millan Diaz Foncea sobre la economía, las intervenciones sociales, y los negocios sociales Se puede leer sobre la obra de Millan aquí: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Millan-Diaz-Foncea https://lafabricadelosocial.org/
Mar 17, 2024•34 min•Ep. 237
Paul Adler on the environment, socialism, WWII, mobilization for a green transformation, complex capitalist organizations, labor, automation, and critical management studies You can read about Paul’s work here: https://faculty.marshall.usc.edu/Paul-Adler/
Mar 14, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 236
Heidi Ashton on marginalizing UK arts, boosterish rhetoric, precarious cultural labor, injuries, the First Position, transactional welfare, COVID-19, dancing, choreography, Coppelia, and producing You can read about Heidi’s work here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/heidi_ashton/ https://www.kvndancecompany.com/coppelia https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10286632.2022.2058497...
Mar 14, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 235
Lauren Levitt on sex-workers’ cultural production, personal and informational zines, formal and informal networks of care, and feminism You can read about Lauren’s work and books she mentioned here: https://ucriverside.academia.edu/LaurenLevitt https://twitter.com/LaurenLevitt8 https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/a14056ec-10b6-4781-b597-8a85725cf9f9 https://lh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/lh/article/view/39483...
Mar 13, 2024•56 min•Ep. 234
Lucía Dalmau Menéndez, Helena Vizcay Goñi, y Laura Vergara Román sobre el medioambiente, el ecofeminismo, ECODES, ConBici, movimientos sociales, métodos de comunicar, el consumo, el viaje, y la salud Se puede leer más sobre Lucía, Helena, y Laura, y sus intentos y compromisos, aquí: https://ecodes.org/quienes-somos/equipo/equipo-de-trabajo/88-lucia-dalmau-menendez https://ecodes.org/quienes-somos/equipo/equipo-de-trabajo/81-helena-vizcay https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenavizcaygoni/?originalSubd...
Mar 13, 2024•55 min•Ep. 233
Jodi Dean on Gaza, Lenin, anti-imperialist environmental politics, the end of international order, social movements, communicative capitalism, socialism, communism, democracy, and feminism You can learn about Jodi’s work and interests here: https://www.hws.edu/faculty/dean-jodi.aspx https://leninistdays.com/ https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/from-the-river-to-the-sea https://www.versobooks.com/products/2890-abolish-the-family https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/564149/after-work-b...
Mar 13, 2024•53 min•Ep. 232
Sarah Font on US drug addiction, child protection and rights, violence against children and their neglect, foster care, political perspectives, and writing for different audiences You can learn more about Sarah’s work here: https://sociology.la.psu.edu/people/saf252/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wcuxj5gAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao...
Mar 13, 2024•42 min•Ep. 231
Georgia Warnke on identity, gender, race, class, higher education, critical theory, hermeneutics, the Supreme Court, hot-headedness, Gadamer, and analytic, Continental, and pragmatic philosophy You can read about Georgia’s work here: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/warnke
Mar 12, 2024•51 min•Ep. 230
Lisa Hajjar on Gaza, Israel, Hamas, activism, Guantánamo, torture, human rights, the law, journalism, and ethnography You can read about Lisa’s work here: https://www.soc.ucsb.edu/people/lisa-hajjar
Mar 12, 2024•45 min•Ep. 229
Emily West on climate change, greeting cards, advertising, promotional culture, Amazon, labor, gender, consumer activism, and cheerleading You can read about Emily’s work here: https://www.emilywestphd.com/about
Mar 12, 2024•51 min•Ep. 228
Johanna Arnesson on influencers, politics, editing, knitting, gender, class, “Visit Dubai,” and consumption You can read about Johanna’s work here: https://www.umu.se/en/staff/johanna-arnesson/?flik=presentation
Mar 12, 2024•51 min•Ep. 227
Debra Ramsay on archives, the British army and emotion, WWII in the US media, memory, and climate change and war You can read more about Debra’s work here: https://lcvs.exeter.ac.uk/arthistory/people/profile/index.php?web_id=ramsay
Mar 11, 2024•48 min•Ep. 226
Andrea Castro Martínez sobre el género, el ciber-activismo, la música, el feminismo, Vox, COVID-19, el trabajo, y la inteligencia artificial Se puede leer más sobre la obra Andrea aquí: https://www.uma.es/departments/teachers/Ly9FcDJheTZ1b25XUnZRbHRvTUFIdz09/ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2775-625X @andreitakas...
Mar 11, 2024•48 min•Ep. 225
Murray Phillips on sports historiography, concussion, First Nations, research ethics, and gender You can read about Murray’s work here: https://hmns.uq.edu.au/profile/1466/murray-phillips https://paralympichistory.org.au/
Mar 11, 2024•58 min•Ep. 224