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A curated playlist of the best new podcasts on international affairs. Powered by The Syllabus. (To see the articles, books, reports and videos that are also part of the Cosmopolitan, check out our site: the-syllabus.com)

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01:05:35

Ethnography of "Development": Tania Li on Indonesia's...

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2022/01/25

Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Ethnography of "Development": Tania Li on Indonesia's Oil Palm ZonePub date: 2022-01-14What can years of ethnographic engagement with rural Indonesia teach us about capitalism, development, and resistance? On this episode of Ethnographic Marginalia, our guest is Dr. Tania Li, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Tania tells us about three decades of research on development programs, local activism, and

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00:27:05

The role of SOEs in China’s common prosperity push,...

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2022/01/19

Podcast: MERICS China Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The role of SOEs in China’s common prosperity push, with Sarah Eaton and Nis GrünbergPub date: 2022-01-14A sizeable part of the Chinese economy is still dominated by state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Due to their direct link to the government, they are often employed as spearheads for the roll-out of new policies. What role does the government envision for SOEs in the ongoing common prosperity push for a more equal China

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01:30:22

Literature and Censorship in China since 1979, with...

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2022/01/19

Podcast: Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Literature and Censorship in China since 1979, with Michel HockxPub date: 2022-01-07Speaker: Michel Hockx, Professor of Chinese Literature, University of Notre Dame On July 30, 1979, Deng Xiaoping addressed the fourth national conference of Chinese writers and artists. Towards the end of his speech he stated, to collective sighs of relief, that “the Party’s leadership of literature and the arts

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00:53:31

Tariq Ali on the Forty-Year War in Afghanistan

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2022/01/19

Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Tariq Ali on the Forty-Year War in AfghanistanPub date: 2022-01-06 For today’s show, Thursday host Allen Ruff is joined by historian and public intellectual Tariq Ali to discuss the latest in world politics and his new essay collection, The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan. Tariq Ali is a political activist, journalist, historian, novelist, and filmmaker based in London. He is a longstanding member of the editorial committee

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01:02:17

Mabel Moraña, "Philosophy and Criticism in Latin...

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2022/01/11

Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Mabel Moraña, "Philosophy and Criticism in Latin America: From Mariátegui to Sloterdijk" (Cambria Press, 2020)Pub date: 2022-01-04Mabel Moraña's book Philosophy and Criticism in Latin America: From Mariátegui to Sloterdijk (Cambria Press, 2020) explores the complex relationships between the fields of philosophy and criticism, focusing on methodological, ideological and cultural aspects in which European canonical

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00:50:15

Debjani Bhattacharyya - Empire and Ecology in the...

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2022/01/11

Podcast: LekhEpisode: Debjani Bhattacharyya - Empire and Ecology in the Bengal DeltaPub date: 2022-01-04In the 22nd episode, I speak to Debjani Bhattacharyya,Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies, Drexel University and soon to be Professor and Chair of theHistory of the Anthropocene at the University of Zurich on her recent book Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. The conversation begins by asking Bhattacharyya

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00:44:55

Episode 85: Estonia grapples with its Soviet past

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2022/01/11

Podcast: Talk Eastern Europe (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Episode 85: Estonia grapples with its Soviet pastPub date: 2021-12-29*** Support Talk Eastern Europe. Become a Patron at www.patreon.com/TalkEasternEurope The final episode of 2021 once again takes us to Estonia. This time the context is a discussion on the removal of the Soviet-era “Bronze Soldier” statue in Tallinn which took place in April 2007. As a result of the government’s decision, violent protests broke out in

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00:58:41

Sudan Coup: Analysis from the Ground

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2021/12/21

Podcast: LSE Middle East Centre Podcasts (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Sudan Coup: Analysis from the GroundPub date: 2021-12-10This event was co-organised by the LSE Middle East Centre and the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at the LSE. On 25 October 2021, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan declared a state of emergency in Sudan, dissolving the government and detaining civilian leadership. Burhan is leader of the joint ruling council. The council's official goal is to hand over

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00:58:41

Climate and Society in Ireland: Ep 3 | Bruce Campbell...

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2021/12/14

Podcast: The Royal Irish AcademyEpisode: Climate and Society in Ireland: Ep 3 | Bruce Campbell and Francis LudlowPub date: 2021-12-08In this new series of four podcasts host Gill Plunkett explores the long view of climate change by interviewing the authors of 'Climate and Society in Ireland'. We talk about hunter gatherers, disease, poetry, weather events and consider our future vulnerabilities. In epidode 3, Bruce Campbell (QUB) and Francis Ludlow (TCD) consider the effects that climate had on

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01:29:44

Unfree labour and refugee workers in Middle Eastern...

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2021/12/14

Podcast: CBRL SoundEpisode: Unfree labour and refugee workers in Middle Eastern agriculture I Panel I December 2021Pub date: 2021-12-0301 December 2021 This lecture revisits the notion of “unfree labour” through the study of refugee workers in Middle Eastern agriculture. It presents findings from the Refugee Labour under Lockdown project, drawing on interviews with 80 Syrian agricultural workers, 20 intermediaries, and 20 employers in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. The International Labour

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01:44:05

Dig: Brazil w/ Sabrina Fernandes & Andre Pagliarini

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2021/12/14

Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Dig: Brazil w/ Sabrina Fernandes & Andre PagliariniPub date: 2021-12-03Bolsonaro is presiding over mass COVID deaths and the destruction of the Amazon. Lula is free and polling way ahead for next year's presidential election. But the conditions that brought the far-right to power remain in place. Sociologist Sabrina Fernandes and historian Andre Pagliarini on Brazil.Check out Sabrina's Tese Onze YouTube channel

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01:14:49

Episode 12: Black Communists and the Soviet Union...

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2021/11/30

Podcast: Reimagining Soviet Georgia (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 12: Black Communists and the Soviet Union with Gerald HornePub date: 2021-11-23On today's episode we sit down with prolific historian Dr. Gerald Horne to discuss the intimate political relationship in the 20th century between the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of the USA and Black political struggle in the United States. We discuss a number of topics including African American Marxists such as Paul Robeson

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01:32:18

Desert Insurgency: Archaeology, T. E. Lawrence and...

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2021/11/30

Podcast: CBRL SoundEpisode: Desert Insurgency: Archaeology, T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt I Nicholas J Saunders I Nov 2021Pub date: 2021-11-18For 10 years, between 2005 and 2014, the ‘Great Arab Revolt Project’ (GARP) investigated the remains of the 1916-1918 Arab Revolt in southern Jordan, from Ma’an to Mudawwara. Expecting initially to survey and excavate the mainly ruinous Hejaz Railway stations for perhaps three years, events soon changed this to a 10-year project. The stations were

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00:41:04

Jasmine Mitchell, "Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness...

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2021/11/30

Podcast: New Books in Gender (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Jasmine Mitchell, "Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U. S. and Brazilian Media" (U Illinois Press, 2020)Pub date: 2021-11-22Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural narratives. Highlighting the prevalence of mixed race women of African and European descent, the two countries claim to have

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01:01:22

Pandemics and Politics in Mao's China, with Fang...

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2021/11/23

Podcast: Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Pandemics and Politics in Mao's China, with Fang XiaopingPub date: 2021-11-10Speaker: Fang Xiaoping, Assistant Professor of History, School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. During the 1961-1965 period, a cholera pandemic ravaged the southeastern coastal areas of Mao’s China which was already suffering from lingering starvation, class struggles, political campaigns and

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00:29:20

Long Reads: Fabien Escalona on French Socialism from...

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2021/11/23

Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Long Reads: Fabien Escalona on French Socialism from Mitterrand to MeltdownPub date: 2021-11-13Fabien Escalona, journalist at the French publication Mediapart, joins Long Reads for a discussion about the trajectory of socialism in France over recent decades. Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features

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00:53:09

The Fall of Evergrande with Robert Hockett

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2021/11/16

Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: The Fall of Evergrande with Robert HockettPub date: 2021-11-06Somber headlines recall the 2008 financial crisis: “Global financial markets have been on high alert,” warns the BBC. “Chinese property giant Evergrande is on the brink of collapse, and analysts warn the potential fallout could have far-reaching implications that spill outside China’s borders,” says CNBC. From the New York Times: “Every once in a while a company grows

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01:00:00

State, society, and markets in North Korea

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2021/11/16

Podcast: Events from the Brookings Institution (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: State, society, and markets in North KoreaPub date: 2021-11-08Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s economic markets have grown, a new middle class has emerged, and the country has experienced modest levels of urban development. Yet, questions remain about the country’s domestic future. To what extent have state-society relations shifted? How much domestic change has North Korea experienced, and what other

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01:18:28

Climate and conflict in Darfur / Jérôme Tubiana

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2021/11/16

Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Climate and conflict in Darfur / Jérôme TubianaPub date: 2021-11-08Journalist Jérôme Tubiana on his article "Land of Thirst" for The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/land-of-thirst-tubianaThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from This Is Hell!, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

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00:27:46

Travel and the Colonial Gaze, with Hamid Dabashi

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2021/11/09

Podcast: The Gateway - A Podcast from the Middle East (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Travel and the Colonial Gaze, with Hamid DabashiPub date: 2021-10-28In this episode, we hear from Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia, and the author of a new book Reversing the Colonial Gaze: Persian Travelers Abroad, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. Hamid follows the journeys of travelers from Iran and India as they

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