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Merchants of Culture – new edition for a changing industry

May 9th, 2012 · No Comments

When John Thompson‘s Merchants of Culture appeared in the summer of 2010, it was the first serious study of the publishing industry in many years. Thompson compared himself to an anthropologist studying his subjects in order to explain a field of human activity that strikes many outsiders as baffling and often irrational. The industry recognized [...]

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Tags: economics · podcasts · social sciences · technology and communication

Consumption and its consequences – “rethinking our relationship to the material world”

March 27th, 2012 · No Comments

My guest in this programme is Professor of Material Culture at UCL, Daniel Miller. Daniel appeared in an earlier Polity Books podcast to talk about his previous book, Tales from Facebook, which looked at how people really use Facebook as a form of social interaction, as opposed to how media commentators would have us think [...]

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Tags: economics · podcasts · social sciences

Wikileaks – “significant, symptomatic but not game-changing”?

March 15th, 2012 · No Comments

WikiLeaks is the most challenging journalistic phenomenon to have emerged in the digital era. It has provoked anger and enthusiasm in equal measure from across the political and journalistic spectrum. Its use of new technologies and its methods of disseminating information raise profound questions about the role of journalism and its future in the contemporary [...]

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Tags: podcasts · social sciences

The Olympic spirit, ancient-style

March 14th, 2012 · No Comments

  Earlier this week, I interviewed archaeologist and broadcaster Neil Faulkner about his forthcoming book on the ancient Greek Olympics (Yale University Press, 2012). It’s eye-opening, often shocking stuff: full lurid details of what a chaotic, violent, hedonistic experience it was will be provided in my forthcoming podcast for Blackwell Online (link here when it’s [...]

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Tags: history and politics · podcasts · sport

Robin Dunbar on the Science of Love

March 5th, 2012 · No Comments

Evolutionary anthropologist Robin Dunbar has spent many years investigating human mating strategies. What that means is that he can spend time pondering why we kiss, what the point of high heels is, and why a GSOH is so often on the shopping list of desirable traits in a partner. Here in under four minutes he [...]

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Tags: podcasts · science and philosophy · video

Jon Agar – Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

March 2nd, 2012 · 2 Comments

Jon Agar‘s new History of Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond goes beyond the limitations of disciplinary and national histories of science to look at the broad themes in the science of the last eleven decades. He shows the close connections between science and warfare, politics and the commercial world, and charts the rise [...]

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Tags: history and politics · podcasts · science and philosophy

Ash Amin on Land of Strangers

February 20th, 2012 · 1 Comment

“I wanted to look for a politics for the stranger, and of the stranger, which didn’t require of strangers to become friends with each other or with the host community. I felt that that kind of politics was just too narrow and impossible quite frankly in a very cosmopolitan age.” My guest in this podcast [...]

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Le Monde diplomatique podcast – Greece in Chaos

December 7th, 2011 · No Comments

In this month’s podcast for Le Monde diplomatique, I speak to Noëlle Burgi about the heavy toll that austerity measures are exacting in her homeland, Greece. Noëlle, who is a researcher at the Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Sciences Politique (CESSP), Sorbonne University, Paris, describes Athens and Thessaloniki as “dying cities”, in which drug [...]

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Tags: history and politics · podcasts

“Following the footsteps of the psyche” – an interview with Carol Gilligan

November 9th, 2011 · No Comments

In September I met up with Carol Gilligan at Polity‘s offices in Cambridge to record this two-part interview in which she talked about her childhood, writing her landmark study In a Different Voice (1982), her most recent book Joining the Resistance, and her thoughts on what has been achieved in the three decades since In [...]

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Joanna Nadin – Queen of Teen

October 17th, 2011 · No Comments

My daughters, Livi and Abby, interviewed Joanna Nadin (far right below, with fellow authors after the Queens of Teen event) before her talk at the Bath Children’s Literature Festival last month. Click here to listen to the interview. [9:56]

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Tags: children's books · podcasts