Best Ball State University Podcasts (2025)

Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Xiang Biao on his new book, Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World, which was originally written and published in Chinese. The English translation has just come out with Palgrave Macmillan. Self as Method provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people t…

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Boiler Alert - It Always Rains on Purdue Football 32:31

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A second rain/lightning delay in two weeks. What are the odds? Ryan and I cover everything that happened in South Bend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy FFSN

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Hurricane Catarina 31:34

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We have an interesting one for you this time! Hurricane Catarina is the topic of today's discussion. Give it a listen to see what exactly is strange about this storm.By Authored by: Anthony Finchum, Produced by: Kaitlin Finchum

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Boiler Alert - Finding a Road to Notre Dame 32:48

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Ryan and I talk about heading to Notre Dame and trying our best to find a road there. Plus, Boilermakers in the NBA! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy FFSN

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ALL BALL - Pt.2 - Daniel Poneman, George Hemmingsen & Brandon Globe - Weave Basketball 51:58

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Doug is joined by Daniel Poneman, George Hemmingsen and Brandon Globe of Weave Basketball, a player representation and consulting group focused on NIL, showcases and connecting athletes to opportunities. Subscribe NOW to get the latest All Ball Podcasts! #douggottliebshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Bounce Back: The Anatomy of Conceptual Offense | Kevin Carroll, Lipscomb Bisons 28:08

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Lipscomb head men's basketball coach, Kevin Carroll, breaks down conceptual offense. He provides ideas for introducing concepts, repping through 5-on-5 play, and adjusting to zone defenses. This episode is sponsored by the Dr. Dish Basketball Shooting Machine, the #1 shooting machine in the world! Mention "Quick Timeout" and receive $300 off on the…

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Boiler Alert - Purdue Throws it Away Against USC 29:09

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Ryan and I talk about the latest AP Top 25 and also get into the loss against USC and why this year's team is different than last year's team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy FFSN

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Nidhi Mahajan, "Moorings: Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean" (U of California Press, 2025) 1:04:03

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Moorings: Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean (U of California Press, 2025) follows sailors from the Gulf of Kachchh in India as they voyage across the Indian Ocean on mechanized wooden sailing vessels known as vahans, or dhows. These voyages produce capital through moorings that are spatial, moral, material, and conceptual. With a view from…

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ALL BALL - Pt.1 - Daniel Poneman, George Hemmingsen & Brandon Globe - Weave Basketball 1:00:41

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Doug is joined by Daniel Poneman, George Hemmingsen and Brandon Globe of Weave Basketball, a player representation and consulting group focused on NIL, showcases and connecting athletes to opportunities. Subscribe NOW to get the latest All Ball Podcasts! #douggottliebshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Susan M. Rigdon, "Oscar Lewis in Cuba: La Partida Final" (Berghahn Books, 2024) 1:07:48

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American anthropologist Oscar Lewis secured permission from Fidel Castro to undertake three years of field research on cultural and economic change in Cuba in the decade after the victory of Castro's M-26 Movement. Oscar Lewis in Cuba: La Partida Final (Berghahn Books, 2024) delves into Lewis' research goals, methods, the training and composition o…

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Boiler Alert - Can Purdue Take Down USC? 26:41

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Ryan and I are back and want to know, is it possible that Purdue takes down the USC Trojans? Join us as we predict Saturday's game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy FFSN

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Chelsi West Ohueri, "Encountering Race in Albania: An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife" (Cornell UP, 2025) 51:10

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Encountering Race in Albania: An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife (Cornell University Press, 2025) is the first book to interrogate race and racial logics in Albania. Chelsi West Ohueri examines how race is made, remade, produced, and reproduced through constructions of whiteness, blackness, and otherness. She argues that while race is often …

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NADA: The Antifragile Defense | Brian McCormick 38:15

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Coach Brian McCormick dives into how traditional defensive strategies are failing against modern offenses and why a new, more adaptable approach is needed. McCormick breaks down his concept of "no-advantage, defensive-advantage" and shares how coaches can equip their players to thrive in the chaos of today's game. Learn how to build a resilient and…

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Jovana Diković, "The Laissez-Faire Peasant: Post-Socialist Rural Development in Serbia" (UCL Press, 2025) 55:05

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What if rural progress isn’t about government intervention but about the self-reliance and ingenuity of peasants themselves? The Laissez-Faire Peasant: Post-Socialist Rural Development in Serbia (UCL Press, 2025) subverts conventional wisdom on rural development by shifting the focus from state-led planning to the agency of peasants themselves. Rej…

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Darcie Deangelo et al., "Demilitarizing the Future" (Anthem Press, 2025) 50:25

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Demilitarizing the Future (Anthem Press, 2025) draws from art, anthropology, and activism to investigate the entrenchment of militarism in everyday lives and consider novel imaginaries of its dissolution--of peacemaking, community, and shared equitable futures. This book will be published in October of 2025. In this episode, Rebecca Kastleman, Darc…

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Cold Rush 27:45

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In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Sari Pietikainen about her new book Cold Rush (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). This book is an original study of “Cold Rush,” an accelerated race for the extraction and protection of Arctic natural resources. The Northernmost reach of the planet is caught up in the double dev…

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Boiler Alert - Purdue Improves to 2-0 25:38

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Purdue football improves to 2-0. In this economy? What is happening? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy FFSN

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Ruth E. Toulson, "Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore" (U Washington Press, 2024) 58:30

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Can a state make its people forget the dead? Cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-state of Singapore. Confronted with high population density and rapid economic growth, the government has ordered the destruction of all but one burial ground, forcing people to exhume their family members. In Necropolitics of the O…

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Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, "Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East" (UP of Colorado, 2025) 58:49

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Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East (University Press of Colorado, 2025) by Dr. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni offers an in-depth exploration of the Urartian empire, which occupied the highlands of present-day Turkey, Armenia, and Iran in the early first millennium BCE. Lesser known than its rival, the Neo-Assyrian empire, …

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Boiler Alert - A Basketball Commitment and SIU Predictions 22:47

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Every time we talk about SIU I'm confused on if it's a labor union or a Purdue opponent. Rest assured this is a Purdue opponent. Ryan and I talk week 2 along with a new basketball commitment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy FFSN

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Pitfalls When Installing Conceptual Basketball Offense | Mark Cascio, SAVI Coaching 30:08

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SAVI Coaching's Mark Cascio is back to break down the common mistakes coaches make when implementing a conceptual basketball offense. We talk teaching triggers, training decision-making, repping advantage game, and scaffolding to faster gameplay. Coach Cascio shares invaluable insights to help you avoid the pitfalls that can derail your team's offe…

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Boiler Alert - A 1-0 Week! 35:58

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1-0 is the only way to start the season. Unless you're ND...sad. Oh well, let's take a look around the Big Ten and then chat about Purdue's victory over Ball State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy FFSN

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Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football 58:04

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Big-time college football promises prestige, drama, media attention, and money. Yet most athletes in this unpaid, amateur system encounter a different reality, facing dangerous injuries, few pro-career opportunities, a free but devalued college education, and future financial instability. In one of the first ethnographies about Black college footba…

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Maan Barua, "Plantation Worlds" (Duke UP, 2024) 58:49

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In Plantation Worlds (Duke UP, 2024), Maan Barua interrogates debates on planetary transformations through the histories and ecologies of plantations. Drawing on long-term research spanning fifteen years, Barua presents a unique ethnography attentive to the lives of both people and elephants amid tea plantations in the Indian state of Assam. In the…

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4 Ways to Foster Team Culture | Tony Miller, BJU Bruins 4:42

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Tony Miller, head men's basketball coach for the Bob Jones University Bruins, shares four practical tips to help you build a championship-level team culture for your basketball program. Whether you're a coach looking to inspire your players or an athlete hoping to contribute more to your team, these insights are a must-listen. This episode is spons…

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Vanessa Diaz, "Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood" (Duke UP, 2020) 50:01

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While Hollywood’s images present a veneer of fantasy for some, the work to create such images is far from escapism. In Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood (Duke University Press, 2020), anthropologist Vanessa Díaz examines the raced and gendered hierarchies and inequalities that are imbricated within the work …

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Boiler Alert - No Matter What, Remember, IU Sucks 33:22

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Ryan and I are back to discuss Purdue football's 12th and final opponent of the REGULAR season, I'm still holding out hope for a miraculous bowl game, the Indiana Hoosiers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy FFSN

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Bettina Ng′weno, "No Place Like Home in a New City: Anti-Urbanism and Life in Nairobi" (U of California Press, 2025) 53:28

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Bettina Ng’weno is Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis Nairobi, known as the Green City in the Sun, has taken shape through anti-urban ideologies that insist that the city cannot be home for most residents. Based on decades of experience in rapidly changing Nairobi, No Place Like Home in a New Ci…

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Boiler Alert - A Look at the Washington Huskies 27:33

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Ryan and I are back to talk about Purdue's next to last opponent of the 2025 football season. Just two episodes left until we've taken a look at every team on Purdue's schedule. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy FFSN

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The Formula for Elite Basketball Practices | Kyle Rechlicz, Milwaukee Panthers 42:44

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University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Panthers' women's basketball coach, Kyle Rechlicz, dives into practice planning, inclduing structuring practices for maximum efficiency and player development, preparing her team for pressure situations by effectively practicing special situations, and using 5-on-5 and small sided games to teach skills and decisi…

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Erased Voices and Unspoken Heritage 41:01

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In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Alexandra Grey speaks with Dr Zozan Balci about Zozan’s new book, Erased Voices and Unspoken Heritage: Language, Identity and Belonging in the Lives of Cultural In-betweeners, published in 2025 by Routledge.. The conversation focuses on a study of adults with three languages ‘at play’ in their…

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Boiler Alert - A Worthless, Hairless, Nut 14:59

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I ride solo this week and talk about the game against Ohio State. Guys and gals, I won't lie to you, I don't like Purdue's chances in this one. It's gonna be tough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy FFSN

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Kate Herrity, "Sound, Order and Survival in Prison: The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown" (Bristol UP, 2024) 1:07:54

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The soundscape of prison life is that of constant clangs, bangs and jangles. What is the significance of this cacophonous din to those who live and work with it? Sound, Order and Survival in Prison: The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown (Bristol UP, 2024) tells the story of a year spent with a UK prison community, bringing its social world vividl…

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Boiler Alert - Purdue Travels to Michigan 36:00

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Ryan is back from being a good son and joins me to talk about the AP Preseason top 25, the cost of the #1 QB recruit in the country, and the Michigan Wolverines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy FFSN

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BTST Episode 54: Dolan Tierney "When The Ball Stops Bouncing" 1:05:27

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The latest from the BTST series - "When The Ball Stops Bouncing". Today Adam sits down with one of his former players Dolan Tierney. They discuss Dolan's career on the court but also discuss becoming a Pro Trainer, being a Mental Health Advocate and life after the ball stops bouncing.PLEASE HIT THE SUBSCRIBE BUTTONPlease Follow Us....Instagram - ht…

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Win, One, Won | Andrew Wingreen, New College of Florida 14:58

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Andrew Wingreen, head coach of New College of Florida and author of the new book "Win One Won," explores his journey in collegiate athletics and the core principles of his coaching philosophy. Coach Wingreen shares insights on building a winning culture, developing strong leadership, and the mindset behind his groundbreaking book. This is a must-li…

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Kevin P. Donovan, "Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 1:02:03

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In his book, Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2024), Kevin Donovan argues that East African decolonization was not coterminous with political sovereignty but rather consisted of a longer process of reorganizing how value was legitimately defined, produced, and distributed. It is an…

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Boiler Alert- I Don't Like Greg Schiano (Rutgers preview) 20:58

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I'm riding solo here with Ryan out being a good son. I talk the injury to Rondale Moore and the game against the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy FFSN

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Kirin Narayan, "Cave of My Ancestors: Vishwakarma and the Artisans of Ellora" (U Chicago Press, 2024) 1:17:25

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On the podcast today I am joined by Kirin Narayan, emerita professor at the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Kirin is joining me to talk about her new book, Cave of my Ancestors: Vishwakarma and the Artisans of Ellora published by Chicago University Press in 2024, and in 2025 as an Indian edition by HarperColli…

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Ayo Wahlberg, "Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China" (U California Press, 2018) 1:12:16

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From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex. Today, there are sperm banks in each of China’s twenty-two provinces, the biggest of which screen some three thousand to four thousand potential donors each year. Given the estimated one t…

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Boiler Alert - A Look at the Northwestern Wildcats 27:26

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After taking one episode off, I'm back to discuss Purdue's next football opponent, the Northwestern Wildcats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy FFSN

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Boiler Alert: Ryan and Drew Preview the Golden Gophers 37:30

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Drew and Ryan take a preliminary look at the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Ryan has a shocking revelation regarding their mascot. Things are said about P.J. Fleck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy FFSN

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Intentional Basketball Program Building | Chris Acker, Long Beach State University 22:09

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Long Beach State Head Coach Chris Acker shares lessons learned during his first year as a head coach. Coach Acker shares strategies for success, including how to strategically use assistant coaches to maximize team performance and develop effective offensive and defensive schemes that fit your roster. We also dive into the crucial topic of recruiti…

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"Age, Creativity and Culture: Reconsideration of how the Phases of Life Influence Knowledge, Experience, and Creation" 1:08:59

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“Age, Creativity and Culture: Reconsidering how the Phases of Life Influence Knowledge, Experience, and Creation” by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera appeared in Nuevos Horizontes in 2024. The article examines age as a dimension of identity, creativity and cognition, and in this episode, Heidi Landecker, Samuel Jay Keyser, and Jenny Wilson consider the importa…

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Lizzie Wade, "Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures" (Harper, 2025) 1:29:26

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A richly imagined new view on the great human tradition of apocalypse, from the rise of Homo sapiens to the climate instability of our present, that defies conventional wisdom and long-held stories about our deep past to reveal how cataclysmic events are not irrevocable endings, but transformations. A drought lasts for decades, a disease rips throu…

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Anand Pandian, "Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down" (Stanford UP, 2025) 52:22

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In 2016, Anand Pandian was alarmed by Donald Trump's harsh attacks on immigrants to the United States, the appeal of that politics of anger and fear. In the years that followed, he crisscrossed the country—from Fargo, North Dakota to Denton, Texas, from southern California to upstate New York—seeking out fellow Americans with markedly different soc…

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Klaus Bachmann, "The Genocide in Rwanda in Comparative Perspective: Death and Survival on the Lake Kivu Shore" (Routledge, 2025) 1:22:35

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The Genocide in Rwanda in Comparative Perspective: Death and Survival on the Lake Kivu Shore (Routledge, 2025) combines social science concepts, history and transitional justice studies to examine the social dynamics, specific actors and ideologies involved in the genocide in Rwanda and examines what makes this genocide a unique case of mass violen…