Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia
Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia
What does a map of Southeast Asia as a pegasus have to do with translation and Southeast Asia? How can we think of trans... Read more
11 Aug 2023
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34mins
Cindy McCulligh, "Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River" (MIT Press, 2023)
Cindy McCulligh, "Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River" (MIT Press, 2023)
For almost two decades, the citizens of Western Mexico have called for a cleanup of the Santiago River, a water source s... Read more
6 Aug 2023
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1hr 2mins
Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony, "Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony, "Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Certain cities—most famously New York, London, and Tokyo—have been identified as “global cities,” whose function in the ... Read more
5 Aug 2023
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59mins
Logistic Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth
Logistic Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth
Why is Memphis home to hundreds of motor carrier terminals and distribution centers? Why does the tiny island-nation of ... Read more
3 Aug 2023
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15mins
Omolade Adunbi, "Enclaves of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Extractive Practices in Nigeria" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Omolade Adunbi, "Enclaves of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Extractive Practices in Nigeria" (Indiana UP, 2022)
How do we measure and truly grasp the sweeping social and environmental effects of an oil-based economy? Focusing on the... Read more
31 Jul 2023
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41mins
Erica Abrams Locklear, "Appalachia on the Table: Representing Mountain Food and People" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Erica Abrams Locklear, "Appalachia on the Table: Representing Mountain Food and People" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
When her mother passed along a cookbook made and assembled by her grandmother, Erica Abrams Locklear thought she knew wh... Read more
28 Jul 2023
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53mins
Miya Qiong Xie, "Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Miya Qiong Xie, "Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Xiao Hong, Yom Sang-sop, Abe Kobo, and Zhong Lihe—these iconic literary figures from China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan all... Read more
28 Jul 2023
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57mins
António Tomás, "In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda" (Duke UP, 2022)
António Tomás, "In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda" (Duke UP, 2022)
In his book, In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda (Duke UP, 2022), António Tomás traces the history... Read more
19 Jul 2023
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42mins
Anne Giblin Gedacht, "Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan" (Brill, 2022)
Anne Giblin Gedacht, "Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan" (Brill, 2022)
Anne Giblin Gedacht’s Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan (Brill, 2022) centers c... Read more
11 Jul 2023
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1hr 7mins
Linda J. Seligmann, "Quinoa: Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Linda J. Seligmann, "Quinoa: Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Quinoa's new status as a superfood has altered the economic fortunes of Quechua farmers in the Andean highlands. Linda J... Read more
8 Jul 2023
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44mins