culturalstudies
Conversations with artists, writers, intellectuals, workers--you choose the designation--about the politics of culture
Episodes
Fawzia Afzal-Khan on literary studies, activism, colonialism, Pakistan, women’s rights, Afghanistan, Palestine, Susan Sontag, raga, theater, TE Lawrence, and traveling feminism
You can read about her work here:
https://www.fawziaafzalkhan.com/
Melani McAlister on her new book covering the Gaza-Israel-US conflict, evangelical nationalism, Ukraine, queerness, and Weber
You can read about her work here:
Bev Best on student protest, teaching, critical theory, Marxism, value, fetish, social labor, money, and class struggle
You can read about Beverley’s work here:
https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/beverley-best.html?c=/artsci/cissc/phd-humanities/faculty-profiles
https://explore.concordia.ca/beverley-best
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/authors/best-beverley
Tema Milstein on migrating, sojourning, the ocean, environmental communication, ecocultural identity, public impact, and pedagogy
You can read about Tema’s work here:
https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/tema-milstein
Carlos del Valle sobre del contexto de la violencia global, el colonialismo, las cosmovisiones indígenas, la teoría critica, y Boric y el conflicto estado-Mapuche
Se puede leer sobre la obra de Carlos aquí:
https://scholar.google.cl/citations?user=iUgwiLQAAAAJ&hl=es
https://converginghorizons.ufro.cl/
Richard Higgott on dislocated international politics, globalization, the Indo-Pacific/Asia-Pacific region, China and the US, liberalism, middle powers, and dependency theory
You can read about Richard here:
https://www.brussels-school.be/team/higgott-richard
Robert Vitalis on academic freedom at the University of Pennsylvania, Egypt, archives, du Bois, international relations, Saudi Arabia, and putative scarcity of natural resources
You can read about Robert here:
https://live-sas-www-polisci.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/people/standing-faculty/robert-vitalis
Angela Prysthon and Shawn Shimpach on the end of the world, world cinema, political protest, language, and the Americas
You can read about their work here:
https://ufpe.academia.edu/AngelaPrysthon
https://www.umass.edu/communication/about/directory/shawn-shimpach
Lúcia Nagib on de-centering humans, animal film, Brazilian culture, tropicália, world cinema, realism, representation, presentation, and artificial intelligence and research
You can read about her work here:
https://www.reading.ac.uk/film-theatre-television/staff/professor-lucia-nagib
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGVAYRlcBNA
https://research.reading.ac.uk/intermidia/
Larissa Buchholz on the commodification of art, growing up in East Germany, Christa Wolf, the sociology of art, and Pierre Bourdieu
You can read about her work here:
https://larissabuchholz.soc.northwestern.edu/
https://www.textezurkunst.de/de/articles/why-i-speak-global-art-field-and-not-global-art-world/
Todd McGowan on right-wing populism, capitalism’s death spiral, psychoanalysis, desire, Lacan, identification, identity, universality, and Hegel and Marx
You can read about Todd’s work here:
https://www.uvm.edu/cas/english/profiles/todd-mcgowan
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOMku8U1zFKsBudd3BcgSAw
https://soundcloud.com/whytheory
Ted Striphas on the success/decline of cultural studies, print culture, the book industry, and algorithms
You can read about Ted’s work here:
https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/college-leadership/ted-striphas
Anthony Nocella on dismantling visible and invisible barriers, education beyond the classroom, hip hop, lowriders, anarchism, activism, animal liberation, and consumption
You can read about Anthony’s work and interests here:
https://www.anthonynocella.org/
https://houstonfoodnotbombs.org/
https://foodnotbombs.net/new_site/
https://animalliberationfrontline.com/
Andy Opel on a Tallahassee tornado, climate grifters, Appalachian oystermen, climate witnesses, unseen forces, environmental communication, children’s books, video virtuality, and micro radio
You can read about Andy’s work and interests here:
https://wordofsouthfestival.com/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p093wp6h/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/303536/believing...
Tony Kashani and Joe Cronin on the humanities, administrative-capitalist priorities, DuBois, Washington, activism, Tagore, Dewey, and critical thought
You can read about them here:
Alicia Dara on women thriving professionally, patriarchal employment, speech skills for women executives, perimenopausal social issues, the right to choose, women’s power, music, Womancake magazine, intergenerational feminism, and golf weekends
You can read about Alicia’s work and interests here:
https://www.womancake.com/about
Marwan Kraidy on swimming, the Arab world, Turkish and reality TV, the Arab Spring, Lebanon, and experience and heterodoxy impelling research
You can read about Marwan’s work here:
https://communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/marwan-kraidy.html
Lisa Henderson on encampments, room to move, being a Dean during a pandemic, autocracy, queerness and class, pedagogy, ethnography, the avant garde, Canada, indigenous issues, and language politics
You can read about Lisa’s work here:
Mary Beltrán on democracy, student protests, Orange is the New Black, Latin@ screen representation, Paul Rodríguez, Freddie Prinze Sr, and Tanya Saracho
You can read about her work and interests here:
https://moody.utexas.edu/faculty/mary-beltran
https://untitledlatinxproject.com/
Tom Streeter on authoritarian populism, the media, capitalist technological hype, regulation, Canadian trucker protests, Romanticism, and law and the iPhone
You can read about Tom’s work here:
https://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/profiles/tom_streeter.html
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