Today we air a rerun from 2016. We'll be back next week with our end of year roundup.
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Social movements produce a huge amount of intellectual knowledge. Yet, in many academic circles, this knowledge is overlooked. Aziz Choudry spent most of his life working with social movements around the world. At the time of this interview, he was an associate profess ... Show More
Aug 2020
American Politics, Individualism, & Economics Unapologetically with Germinal G. Van!
Today's episode is an interview with political scientist, author, essayist and scholar Germinal G. Van. Born and raised in Ivory Coast, Germinal is the author of 14 books, and has authored "The Economic Condition of Black America in the 20th Century", his most recent work. His ed ... Show More
1h 26m
Feb 2025
Making Sense of the Arab State (S. 14, Ep. 8)
On this week's episode of the podcast, Steven Heydemann of Smith College joins Marc Lynch to discuss his new book, Making Sense of the Arab State. This book grapples with enduring questions such as the uneven development of state capacity, the failures of developmentalism and gov ... Show More
42m 3s
Oct 2022
Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East & Authoritarian Adaptation (S. 12, Ep. 6)
Marc Owen Jones Hamad bin Khalifa University joins Marc Lynch on this week's podcast to discuss his new book, Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media. The book analyzes how social media has been weaponised by states and commercial ... Show More
1h 4m
Nov 2017
Lakatos Award Lectures [Audio]
Speaker(s): Dr Brian Epstein, Dr Thomas Pradeu | The Lakatos Award is given for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, widely interpreted, in the form of a book published in English during the previous five years. The 2015 award winner Dr Pradeu will speak on W ... Show More
1h 36m
Jul 2021
Workers Movements in the Global South w/ Immanuel Ness
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Professor Immanuel Ness to talk about his brand new book, Organizing Insurgency: Workers Movements in the Global South. The book combines theory of workers movements with case studies from India, South Africa, and the Philippines ... Show More
2h 11m
Aug 2024
Lessons in Decolonization From North Africa's Global Thinkers | Idriss Jebari
What does it mean to decolonize our thinking? In this episode of the afikra podcast, we chat with Idriss Jebari, assistant professor at Trinity College Dublin, and discuss language, colonialism and 20th century North Africa. Tracking the transformation of North African countries ... Show More
57m 28s