What Are 'Smart Cities'?

We speak with Natasha Tusikov about ‘Smart Cities’. Dr. Tusikov is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University. Her research examines the intersection among law, crime, technology, and regulation, and she is the author of Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet (University of California Press, 2017). She is a co-investigator on the SSHRC Insight Development Grant “Internet Governance, Intellectual Property and the Exercise of Power in the 21st Century” (2016-2020). She is the principal investigator of a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2018-2020) assessing data governance in smart cities with a focus on the proposed smart city development in Toronto.

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Monopoly Power: The Greatest Threat to Democracy?

Jonathan talks with Matt Stoller about the dangers of concentrated corporate power. Matt Stoller is a fellow at the Open Markets Institute and the author of Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy.

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On the 2020 presidential election in Taiwan, protests in Hong Kong, and Chinese power

We speak with Brian Hioe about the recent Taiwanese presidential election, the protests in Hong Kong, and Chinese power in the region. Brian Hioe is a founding editor of New Bloom. New Bloom is an online magazine featuring radical perspectives on Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific. New Bloom was founded by a group of students and activists after the 2014 Sunflower Movement in Taiwan.

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Global Social Unrest But No Revolution: Why?

We discuss why we need two internationales and a World Party with Sahan Savas Karatasli. Sahan Savas Karatasli is a global and macro-historical sociologist at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He has been extensively studying and writing on the evolution of historical capitalism, global inequality, social movements, nationalism and labor in the capitalist world economy.

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Walter Mignolo on Decoloniality

We speak with Walter Mignolo about the difference between decolonization and decoloniality. Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor and Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University. He is associated researcher at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, since 2002 and an Honorary Research Associate for CISA (Center for Indian Studies in South Africa), Wits University at Johannesburg. Among his books related to the topic are: The Darker Side of the Renaissance. Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization (1995); Delinking: The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality and the Grammar of Decoloniality (2007), Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (2000); The Idea of Latin America (2006) and The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options (2011). Currently, Professor Mignolo is working on two books, one co-edited with Catherine Walsh: On Decoloniality: Analysis, Concepts, Praxis, and Decolonial Politics.

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How to end extreme inequality in the U.S.? Try an inheritance tax (and not a wealth tax)

We talk with Henry Aaron about why both Sanders and Warren have it wrong. Mr. Aaron is a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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On Liberals, Empire and the Coup in Bolivia

We speak with Netfa Freeman about the coup in Bolivia. Netfa Freeman is an organizer in: Pan-African Community Action (PACA) and the International Committee for Peace Justice and Dignity, on the coordinating committee of the Black Alliance for Peace. Netfa is also the Events Coordinator and a Policy Analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies and co-producer/host of the radio program Voices With Vision on WPFW.

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Why Microfinance Failed in The Global South

We speak with Ahilan Kadirgamar about microfinance. Ahilan Kadirgamar is a member of the Collective for Economic Democratisation. He is also Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He served on the Central Bank of Sri Lanka appointed committee to draft the Economic Development Framework for a Northern Province Master Plan (August 2018).

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Which Way For Cuba?

We speak with Joseph J. Gonzalez about life and capitalism in post-Castro Cuba. Joseph J. Gonzalez is Associate Professor, Global Studies at Appalachian State University. He is a historian of the Cuban-U.S. relationship, publishing in both English and in Spanish, in the United States and Cuba, where he is affiliated with the Institute for Cuban History. He is finishing a book on the Cuba's relationship with the United States, titled Facing the Sun: Cuba's Challenge to America's Empire, 1868-1959.

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On Cinema, Literature and Neoliberalism in Tunisia and Morocco

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We speak with Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed about art and political economy. Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed is a PhD candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies and the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He works on modern Arabic literature and thought with a focus on literary engagement with postcolonial transformations in the political economy of the region, and interactions with pre-modern Islamic concepts of time such as those found in philosophical Sufism to negotiate these transformations. His work has appeared in such journals as Middle East Critique, Arab Studies Journal, and the Journal of North African Studies (forthcoming).

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