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Episodes: 600
Frequency: Several times a week
Rating: 4.4/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Gender skew: Neutral
Listener location: USA
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Miranda Melcher - Dr. Miranda Melcher is a scholar whose research focuses on post-conflict military integration, treaty negotiation, and treaty implementation in civil-war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the ...
Anna Olteanu - Anna Olteanu is a scholar of intellectual history whose interests include political ecology, the history of economic thought, and literary criticism.
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Sandeep Vaheesan - The History Of Electrification In The United States, Public Utilities, Rural Electric Cooperatives, Antimonopoly Policy, And Decarbonization.
Utathya Chattopadhyaya - Cannabis Regulation, Colonial Governance, Empire, Labor, Gender, And The Social History Of Ganja In British India.
James Loeffler - Antisemitism, Hate Speech, The First Amendment, Free Speech, American Liberalism, And The Legal History Of Discrimination.
Matias E. Margulis - International Trade Law, United Nations Influence, WTO Negotiations, Agricultural Trade, And The Human Right To Food.
Rick Ramseyer - Immigration And Naturalization, Conscientious Objection, Citizenship, Patriotism, And The Legal History Of A Landmark Citizenship Case.
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Episodes
Civil Societies, Uncivil States: Government Repression of NGOs with Suparna Chaudhry (Cornell UP, 2026)
October 12, 2026
Why would a government bother to go after groups that carry no weapons and hold no power? Suparna Chaudhry argues that the answer says a lot about where politics is heading. In Civil Societies and Civil States: Government Repression of NGOs (Cornell University Press, 2026), she shows that states are targeting advocacy organizations less often with violence and more often with laws. These laws cap foreign funding, restrict advocacy, and bury groups in paperwork, to name just a few example...
Immoral Traffic An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India with Vibhuti Ramachandran (Cambridge UP, 2025)
October 08, 2026
Immoral Traffic: An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India (Cambridge UP, 2025) delves into the complex intersection of India's anti-prostitution law and global anti-trafficking campaigns, and how they impact sex workers in both voluntary and involuntary situations. Immoral Traffic examines the role of legal actors and NGOs in implementing these interventions, revealing the mix of paternalism, humanitarianism, punitive care, bureaucracy, and morality in the...
The Real Pain of Punishment: Prison, Belonging, and the Quest for Humanized Justice with Federica Coppola (Cambridge UP, 2026)
October 03, 2026
The Real Pain of Punishment: Prison, Belonging, and the Quest for Humanized Justice (Cambridge UP, 2026) highlights the concept of 'belonging' as an unprecedented lens for critically interrogating the legitimacy of incarceration across penal theory, sentencing practice, and human rights frameworks. The chapters chart pathways for bridging the gap between the normative idea of punishment and the stark realities of prison life. The final chapter, written with scholars currently and ...
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