New Books in Politics and Polemics
Hosted by Eleonora Mattiacci and Miranda Melcher and Morteza Hajizadeh · Marshall Poe
3.7from 7 ratings
- 1,852
- Episodes
- 69
- Transcribed
- 7
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
About New Books in Politics and Polemics
This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics
- Publisher
- Marshall Poe
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Dec 2015
- Latest episode
- 22 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
69 of 1,852 episodes have a transcript.
22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
No! The Art and Activism of Complaining
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Reimagining Foreign Aid in a Changing Global Order with Mary-Collier Wilks (Stanford UP, 2026)
17 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Night Hawk: A Nineteenth-Century Superhero and the Dawn of American Mass Culture with Matthew Warner Osborn (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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No! The Art and Activism of Complaining
Published 22 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so you have to believe in the possibility of change. And it's not like that belief is simply strategic. You believe in the possibility of change because you know that there has been change, that you can complain about sexual harassment is a result historically of other people's complaints. So complaints... historically, have made it possible for us to complain now. And it's really important to have that memory, to have that sense of the continuity between complaints in the present, that we can make them at all, and those that came before us. you know, one of the things I really learned about how hard it is to complain, it might be that your complaint doesn't succeed, that you don't get what you hoped you would get. […]
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- Sara Ahmed
- Mary-Collier Wilks
- Matthew Warner Osborn
- Jennifer Cyr
- Suparna Chaudhry
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