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Who makes a living from the music industry? In Music Technology Panic Narratives Beyond Piracy: From Taping to Napster to TikTok (Anthem Press, 2026) David Arditi, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Arlington, looks at... more

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Alex Diamond, "Governing the Excluded: Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Colombia's Peace Laboratory" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

The Colombian village of Briceño might, at first glimpse, look like many communities in the rural Global South. Many of the people living there rely on small-scale farming, even as a newly constructed hydroelectric dam threatens traditional livelihoo... more

6 Apr 2026 • 1 hr 4 min

Wout Saelens, "Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries" (Leuven UP, 2026)

Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries (Leuven UP, 2026) by Dr. Wout Saelens explores how the homes of ordinary city dwellers sparked our modern dependence on fossil fuels. Drawing on a rich variety of... more

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Isabelle Held, "Atomic Bombshells: How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies" (Duke UP, 2026)

Bullet bras, bazookas, bombshells, bikinis. In Atomic Bombshells: How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies (Duke UP, 2026), Dr. Isabelle Held challenges the usual narratives of how war technologies enter domestic use by following plastics on their journey ... more

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Recent Guests

Allan Greer

Author of Canada in the Age of Rum

McGill University / McGill-Queen's University Press

Episode: Allan Greer, "Canada in the Age of Rum" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2026)

Ben Collier

Senior Lecturer in Digital Methods, University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

Episode: Ben Collier on Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy

Zheng Liu

Author and Lecturer in Innovation Management at University of Bristol Business School

University of Bristol

Episode: Zheng Liu, "Cultural Mavericks: The Business and Politics of Independent Bookselling in China" (Columbia UP, 2026)

Nellie Chu

Author of Precarious Accumulation, Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou

Assistant Professor of Culture Anthropology, Duke Kunshan University

Episode: Nellie Chu, "Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou" (Duke UP, 2026)

Dovev Lavie

Professor of Strategic Management at Bocconi University

Bocconi University

Episode: Dovev Lavie, "The Cooperative Economy: A Solution to Societal Grand Challenges" (Routledge, 2023)

James Lin

Author of In the Global Vanguard, Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan

University of Washington (and author)

Episode: James Lin, "The Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan" (U California Press, 2025)

Steffan Blayney

Author of Health and Efficiency, Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working Class Body

University of Sheffield / Wellcome Trust (former fellow)

Episode: Steffan Blayney, "Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body" (Activist Studies of Science, 2022)

Orsi Husz

Author of Bankminded, Professor at Uppsala University

Uppsala University

Episode: Orsi Husz, "Bankminded: Banks As Intimate Agents of Everyday Life in Welfare State Sweden" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)

Elizabeth Elder

Political scientist by training, author of Company Towns

Hoover Institution

Episode: Elizabeth Mitchell Elder, "Company Towns: Industry Power and the Historical Foundations of Public Mistrust" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

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This channel is unique in the depth and breadth of content you can find. I’m pleasantly surprised more often than not. However, in not a small number of cases, the interview is almost entirely spent on details like how long a book took to write or details like research methods without talking about any key ideas. It’s also common to find guests who are activists before academics but that’s probably a reflection of academics more than this channel. The uncritical and uninteresting questions from ... more
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Steffan Blayney, "Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body" (Activist Studies of Science, 2022)

Q: What drew you to this project and how does your background shape the approach to the history of health and work?

The project emerged from a long-standing interest in how seemingly ordinary ideas about health have been historically constructed, and how the notion of health as efficiency emerged through interactions among scientists, policymakers, and capitalists; the aim is to trace that complex history rather than accept health narratives at face value.

Mattie Armstrong-Price, "Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways" (U California Press, 2026)

Q: What role did race play in the daily life of railway towns in colonial India vs Britain?

In India, race created a pronounced hierarchy that affected who could live in company towns and who could be promoted, with Indian workers often barred from higher-grade roles; in Britain, class-based hierarchies were prominent but less overtly racial, shaping different patterns of residence and access to facilities.

Mattie Armstrong-Price, "Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways" (U California Press, 2026)

Q: How did unions operate differently in Britain and India, and what changes occurred over time?

Unions began as craft unions and evolved into broader, industrial unions that included non-public-facing workers; in India, the white laborist approach and nationalist movements influenced union growth, with strikes becoming more common into the early 20th century and the state responding with policy measures that shifted the labor landscape.

Mattie Armstrong-Price, "Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways" (U California Press, 2026)

Q: What does respectability mean in this historical context, and how did managers use it?

Respectability related to comportment, housing, family life, and public-facing behavior, used by managers to stabilize the workforce and ensure a pleasant interaction with middle-class passengers, while enforcing gendered and racial hierarchies within the workforce.

Dovev Lavie, "The Cooperative Economy: A Solution to Societal Grand Challenges" (Routledge, 2023)

Q: How would the cooperative economy actually function in practice?

It would operate as a digital platform prioritizing equality, sustainability and well-being, allowing price subsidization, consumption limits, and controlled profits to redistribute value, with local communities governing operations and algorithms ensuring alignment with design principles.

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