We speak with Frank Andre Guridy about sports stadiums and contested space. Frank Andre Guridy teaches history and African American and African diaspora studies at Columbia University. His forthcoming book, The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics, shows how Texas-based sports entrepreneurs and athletes from marginalized backgrounds transformed American sporting culture during the high point of the Black Freedom and Second-Wave feminist movements.
Sascha O. Becker on the enduring effects of the communist experience in Germany
We talk with Sascha O. Becker about the impact of German division and reunification. Sascha O. Becker is the Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics at Monash University, Melbourne, and part-time Professor at the University of Warwick, England.
Vasiliki Fouka on The Great Migration
We speak with Vasiliki Fouka about the Great Migration, civil rights and immigration. Vasiliki Fouka is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She received her PhD in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her research interests are in cultural economics, economic history and political economy. She has studied immigrant assimilation, the dynamics of ethnic identity, and the formation of attitudes towards out-groups, in both historical and contemporary contexts.
African American family from the rural South arriving in Chicago, 1922.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library (1168439)
Nicola Mastrorocco on The Rise and Fall of Social Democracy
We discuss the history (and potential future) of social democracy with Nicola Mastrorocco. Nicola Mastrorocco is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin. He is also affiliated at the Trinity Impact Evaluation Unit, the Political Economy and Political Science Group of the London School of Economics and at the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University.
Martin Jay on the rise of fascism and the "racket society"
We discuss The Irishman and the Frankfurt School’s theory of the “racket society” with Martin Jay. Martin Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his works are The Dialectical Imagination (1973 and 1996); Marxism and Totality (1984); Adorno (1984); Permanent Exiles (1985); Fin-de-Siècle Socialism (1989); Force Fields (1993): Downcast Eyes (1993); Cultural Semantics (1998); Refractions of Violence (2003); La Crisis de la experiencia en la era postsubjetiva, ed. Eduardo Sabrovsky (2003); Songs of Experience (2004); The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying In Politics (2010), Essays from the Edge (2011), Kracauer: l’Exilé (2014) and Reason After its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory (2016). Verso will publish Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School Provocations in July.
Kerstin Enflo on technological change and social protests
We find out what happened when Sweden introduced electricity in early 20th century. Kerstin Enflo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economic History at Lund University. Her research focus on long-run regional and industrial growth as well as local labor markets. She has conducted analysis to assess the role of natural resources, the extent of the market, agglomeration economies, technical change and regional convergence. She is specifically interested in the role of historical place-based policies, such as infrastructure investments. She is also interested in the long-term evolution of regional inequality and has constructed regional GDPs per capita that go back to the 16th century.
Matthew Thompson on New Municipalism
We talk with Matthew Thompson about radical municipalism. Matthew Thompson is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Heseltine Institute at the University of Liverpool. His fellowship, which commenced in September 2018, was awarded for a project entitled ‘Reimagining the City: New Municipalism and the Future of Economic Democracy’.
George Souvlis on the Incredible Life of Manolis Glezos
We speak with George Souvlis about “Europe’s first partisan.” George Souvlis is a freelance writer and teaches at the University of Thrace, Department of Political Science.
Ilaria Cozzaglio on Populism, Rousseau and Realism
We speak with Ilaria Cozzaglio about populism. Ilaria Cozzaglio is a Research Associate at the Research Centre 'Normative Orders', Goethe University Frankfurt.
Nathan Nunn on The Roots of Global Inequality
We speak with Nathan Nunn about the historical origins of inequality. Nathan Nunn is Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Professor Nunn’s primary research interests are in political economy, economic history, economic development, cultural economics, and international trade.
