Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast

69:24

Deborah Mayersen, "Genocide Prevention: An...

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2026/08/18

There has never been a more promising time for genocide prevention. More resources and research are being focused on prevention than ever before. Yet we still lack vital knowledge as to the most effective ways to stabilise and reduce the risk of genocide in current at-risk societies.Genocide Prevention: An Evidence-Based Approach(Cambridge UP, 2026)offers a compelling new approach: to understand how to prevent genocide, we need to examine societies in which genocide has been prevented. It is in

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23:55

Jacob Hagstrom, "Asymmetric Warfare: Politics and...

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2026/08/18

Asymmetric Warfare: Politics and Cultures of Violence in the Modern Era (Cambridge University Press, 2025).The forces that fight asymmetric wars are so distinct that one side avoids direct military confrontation in favor of political, social, or otherwise unorthodox means of resistance. These conflicts have been a mainstay of modern times, though scholars have often separated them into various designations by era. Observers have referred, in chronological order, to Indian warfare, petite

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50:56

Xiaofan Amy Li, "The Aesthetics of Risk in...

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2026/08/15

TheAesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures(Cambridge UP, 2026)is the first book that examines the concept of risk in non-anglophone world literature. Focusing on how risk is produced and reshaped by literary aesthetics, Li argues that risk is a creative rather than negative force in world literature. Instead of disaster narratives, Li approaches risk from the fresh perspective of ludic aesthetics, or playful, gamelike, illusionistic and experimental literary strategies. Comparatively

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53:03

David W. Congdon, "Who is a True Christian?:...

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2026/08/14

Who Is a True Christian?: Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture(Cambridge UP, 2024)examines how American Christians have tried to determine who qualifies as an authentic Christian and which beliefs should be treated as authoritative. Congdon approaches the question historically, tracing debates over terms such as orthodox, historic and biblical Christianity across the twentieth century and into the present.The book distinguishes between describing Christianity as it has existed and

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50:55

Edlie Wong, "Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the...

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2026/08/07

Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific (Cambridge University Press, 2026) is an Element which centers the 'Black Pacific' as a generative site for comparative and intersectional methodologies and transnational frameworks for thinking about racial formations, post-national literary forms, and cultural histories. At the end of the nineteenth century, US overseas expansion into the Pacific brought white supremacy and colonial rule into alignment. It also threw into greater relief the

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51:48

Georgia Kernell, "Inside Parties: How Party Rules...

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2026/08/06

Inside Parties: How Party Rules Shape Membership and Responsiveness(Cambridge UP, 2025) by Georgia Kernell examines how party rules determine how parties select candidates, nominate leaders, and set policy goals. Most research on party organisation pays very little attention to what happens within political parties; this book addresses this gap by examining how internal party rules and procedures shape party membership and political responsiveness. Drawing on an original dataset of party statutes

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40:23

Thomas Richardson, "Soldiers and Bushmen: The...

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2026/08/02

Soldiers and Bushmen: The Australian Army in South Africa, 1899–1902(Cambridge UP, 2025) by Dr. Thomas Richardson examines the commitment to what was expected to be a short war. It presents a thematic, analytical history of the birth of the Australian Army in South Africa, while exploring the Army's evolution from colonial units into a consolidated federal force.Soldiers and Bushmeninvestigates the establishment of the 'bushmen experiment' – the belief that the unique qualities of rural Australians

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68:24

David J. Teece and Sohvi Heaton, "Dynamic...

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2026/07/26

In times of deep uncertainty, the university needs to transform itself into an entrepreneurial entity to maintain long-term evolutionary fitness. Dynamic Universities(Cambridge University Press, 2026)explores how strategic, entrepreneurial leadership can help US higher education institutions thrive amid unprecedented challenges. Drawing on the dynamic capabilities’ framework, David J. Teece and Sohvi Heaton provide a strategic roadmap to help university leaders identify emerging

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121:51

Debolina Dutta, "A Jurisprudence of Conversations:...

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2026/07/22

Grounded in empirical studies, this bookis both a history of the emergence of feminist jurisprudence inpost-colonial India and a model of innovative legal research. The book inaugurates a creative practice of scholarly activism that engages a new way of thinking about law and feminist jurisprudence, one that is geared to acknowledge and take responsibility for the hierarchies in Indian academic practices. Its method of conversation and accountability continues the feminist tradition of taking

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58:58

Matteo Gatti, "Corporate Power and the Politics of...

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2026/07/22

InCorporate Power and the Politics of Change(Cambridge UP, 2025)Matteo Gatti examines how corporations have taken on roles traditionally reserved for governments – advocating on social issues, setting internal norms, and stepping in where public institutions fall short. This phenomenon, called corporate governing, takes two forms: socioeconomic advocacy, when companies take public stances, and government substitution, when they deliver services or protections the state does not provide. Drawing on

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63:11

Aditi Chandra, "Unruly Monuments: Disrupting the...

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2026/07/01

Unruly Monuments: Disrupting the State at Delhi's Islamic Architecture (Cambridge University Press, 2025) examines how Delhi's Sultanate and Mughal architecture, dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, became modern monuments and were assimilated and ordered into public consciousness as spaces for tourism, leisure, and intellectual contemplation during the colonial and early postcolonial eras (1828-1963). It examines the resistance that challenges this ordering, rendering

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28:49

Daniel Krcmaric, "Above the Law" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

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2026/06/30

The United States has traditionally been a great promoter of international justice – forging the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals after World War II and leading the way in creating tribunals to address genocides in Yugoslavia and Rwanda after the Cold War. Yet the US views the International Criminal Court – the culmination of the tribunal-building process – as a dire threat. The US voted against its establishment, passed legislation threatening to invade The Hague, and tried to destroy the ICC with

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61:06

Fabio Lanza, "Urban Revolution: People's Communes in...

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2026/06/27

During the Great Leap Forward (1958-62), the collectivization of the Chinese countryside had catastrophic results, but how did this short-lived political experiment reshape urban life? In his new book, Urban Revolution: People's Communes in Beijing (Cambridge UP, 2026), Fabio Lanza examines the most radical attempts to remake cities under Mao. This first full-length history in English of China's urban communes shows how universalization of production, the collectivization of life, including communal

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29:52

Cyanne E. Loyle, "Escaping Justice: Impunity for...

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2026/06/24

Now more than ever, the international community plays a central role in pressing governments to hold themselves to account. Despite pressure to adhere to global human rights norms, governments continue to benefit from impunity for their past crimes. In an age of accountability, how do states continue to escape justice? Escaping Justice: Impunity for State Crimes in the Age of Accountability (Cambridge UP, 2025)presents a theory of strategic adaptation that explains the conditions under which

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74:50

Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, "Boundaries of Belonging:...

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2026/06/23

Examining sectarian divergence in the early modern Middle East, Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer's study provides a fresh perspective on the Sunni–Shi'i division. Drawing on Ottoman Turkish, Persian, and European sources, Boundaries of Belonging: Sectarianism and Statecraft in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2026) explores the paradox of an Ottoman state that combined rigid ideological discourses with pragmatic governance. Through an analysis of key figures, events,

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48:47

Jonathon W. Penney, "Chilling Effects: Repression,...

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2026/06/23

In Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age (Cambridge UP, 2025), Jonathon W. Penney explores the increasing weaponization of surveillance, censorship, and new technology to repress and control us. With corporations, governments, and extremist actors using big data, cyber-mobs, AI, and other threats to limit our rights and freedoms, concerns about chilling effects – or how these activities deter us from exercising our rights – have become urgent. Penney draws on law,

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47:34

Don Baker, "Korean New Religions" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

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2026/06/20

Korean New Religions (Cambridge University Press, 2025) is an excellent primer for anyone interested in modern Korea’s religious landscape. The Korean peninsula has dramatically transformed over the past century, and various new religions have emerged. Dr. Donald Baker outlines these new religions, explores their basic beliefs and shared features, and compares them with the peninsula’s three spiritual traditions (Confucianism, Buddhism, and folk religion). In addition to the interview, Dr. Baker

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48:31

Pamela Walker Laird, "Self-Made: The Stories that...

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2026/06/14

"Self-Made" success is now an American badge of honor that rewards individualist ambitions while it hammers against community obligations. Yet, four centuries ago, our foundational stories actually disparaged ambitious upstarts as dangerous and selfish threats to a healthy society. In Pamela Walker Laird's fascinating history of why and how storytellers forged this American myth, she reveals how the goals for self-improvement evolved from serving the community to supporting individualist dreams of

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54:30

Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande, "The Politics of...

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2026/06/14

Fundamental to Islamic thought is the idea that there is a way that human beings simply are, by nature or creation. This concept is called fiṭra. In The Politics of Islamic Ethics: Hierarchy and Human Nature in the Philosophical Tradition (Cambridge UP, 2025), rooting her investigation in two central passages in the Qur’an and hadith literature, where it is asserted that God created human beings in a certain way, the author moves beyond discussion of the usual figures who have commented on those

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63:34

Kristen Abbott Bennett, "Teaching Shakespeare's...

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2026/06/12

Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World (Cambridge University Press, 2025) engages with one of Shakespeare's greatest thought-experiments: How does one navigate the 'theatre of the world'?It invites students to examine how Shakespeare challenges this metaphor's vertical hierarchies in response to shifting understandings of cosmological order. Teachers will find rich contextual frameworks for exploring how Shakespeare envisions 'worlds' as emerging from dynamic variables, raising urgent

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