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Boodskappe van hoopEk is die Brood wat lewe gee - NagmaalMense dink steeds dat jy jou verlossing self moet verdien, daarom verval daar soveel mense in 'n nuwe “Joodse tradisie” van wettiesisme en die nakoming van die Ou Testamentiese gebruike en wette – so asof Jesus nie die nuwe bedeling gebring het nie.
Hulle sê weer, soos die Jode van destyds: Jy moet jou plek verdien! Jy sal voor die troon van God staan en jy sal geoordeel word vir elke ding wat jy gesê en gedoen het. So asof Jesus nie jou straf aan die kruis betaal het nie, so asof Jesus nie die finale offer vir jou sond...2023-03-1218 min
Radio AntidotoLizzy Wagner Radikaal Opera Centerbezig met plannen voor ‘n Lizzy Wagner Radikaal Opera Center; new opera forms to fit new opera content:builders sing, singersContinue readingLizzy Wagner Radikaal Opera Center2023-01-0430 min
God se Woord VARS vir jou VandagGod se Radikale GenadeLukas 13:14-17 Die hoof van die sinagoge was verontwaardig omdat Jesus op die sabbatdag iemand gesond gemaak het. Hy sê toe vir die mense: “Daar is ses dae in die week waarop 'n mens moet werk. Julle moet op een van daardie dae kom om julle te laat gesond maak, nie op die sabbatdag nie.” Toe sê die Here vir hom: “Julle huigelaars! Maak elkeen van julle nie op die sabbatdag sy bees of sy donkie van die krip los en lei hom weg om hom te laat suip nie? En hier is 'n vrou, 'n kind van Abra...2022-12-2602 min
RADIKAAL76. Maria Sobolewska and Rob Ford on BrexitMy guests today are the political science power couple Maria Sobolewska and Rob Ford, who are both Professor of Political Science at the University of Manchester in the UK. Maria works on the political integration and representation of ethnic minorities in Britain and abroad as well as on public perceptions of ethnicity, immigrants, and integration. Rob works broadly in the areas of public opinion, electoral choice, and party politics. Together they published the book Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics with Cambridge University Press in 2020, which won the prestigious WJM Mackenzie Prize of the Political Studies...2022-12-1136 min
RADIKAAL75. Richard Steigmann-Gall on Fascism and ReligionEver since President Biden referred to “MAGA Republicans” as “semi-fascists”, the previously shunned F-word has become the omnipresent. At the same time, Christian nationalism has also become broadly used. Today, I will talk about fascism in general, and its relationship to Christianity in particular, which Richard Steigmann-Gall. Richard is an Associate Professor of History at Kent State University, former Director of the Jewish Studies Program, and a specialist of historical fascism, in particular its relationship to Christianity. In 2003, he published The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945 with Cambridge University Press. In the past years he has also explored...2022-11-2028 min
RADIKAALSES 9. Malu Gatto on the Brazilian ElectionsMy guest today, for this ninth episode in the Special Election Series, and the first covering a non-European election, is Malu Gatto. Malu is an Associate Professor of Latin American Politics at the Institute of the Americas at University College London. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her work explores questions about political behavior, representation, policy-making, and gender and politics with a regional focus on Latin America, especially Brazil. Today, we will discuss the context, results, and consequences of the Brazilian presidential elections, which were held...2022-11-0626 min
RADIKAAL74. Kim Lane Scheppele on Viktor Orbán's HungaryMy guest today is Kim Lane Scheppele. Kim is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University. Her work focuses on the intersection of constitutional and international law, particularly in constitutional systems under stress. After 1989, she studied the emergence of constitutional law in Hungary and Russia, living in both places for extended periods. Over the last decade, she has become one of the most prominent and insightful critics of Viktor Orbán’s rule in Hungary. Today, we will talk about democratic erosion, EU laxness, and the Frankenstate. You can follow Kim Lane Scheppele on...2022-10-2329 min
RADIKAAL73. Tessel Middag on Women and Soccer and PoliticsMy guest today is Tessel Middag. Tessel is a professional soccer player for Rangers FC in Glasgow, Scotland, as well as an international for the Dutch women national team. She studied history at the University of Amsterdam, where she also researched the history of women soccer in the Netherlands. In 2017 she was the first Dutch player to join the NGO Common Goal. Today we will talk about politics and women soccer. You can follow Tessel Middag on both Instagram and Twitter at @tesselmiddag.2022-10-1023 min
RADIKAALSES 8. Giulia Sandri on the 2022 Italian ElectionsMy guest today, for this eight episode in the Special Election Series, is Giulia Sandri. Giulia is an Associate Professor of Political Science at ESPOL at the Catholic University of Lille in France. Her main research interests are digital politics, comparative politics, quality of democracy and political behavior. She has also written extensively on Italian electoral and party politics. Notably, she co-edited the special issue “Politics in Italy 2022: The Year of Mario Draghi” for the journal Contemporary Italian Politics. Today, we will discuss the context, results, and consequences of the Italian parliamentary elections that were held on September 25. You can...2022-10-0227 min
RADIKAAL72. Elizaveta (Lisa) Gaufman on Music and Politics in RussiaMy guest today is Elizaveta Gaufman. Lisa is Assistant Professor of Russian Discourse and Politics in the Department of European Languages and Politics of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the exploration of verbal and visual enemy images through big data analysis. Lisa has worked a lot on nationalism and security in the post-Soviet space, including in Russia and Ukraine, and is currently involved in collaborative research on music and politics in Russia, which will be the main topic of this conversation. You can follow Lisa Gaufman on Twitter at @Lisas_Research. 2022-09-2626 min
RADIKAALSES 7. Nicholas Aylott on the 2022 Swedish elections.My guest today, for this seventh episode in the Special Election Series, is Nicholas Aylott. Nick is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Södertörn University in Sweden. His main academic interests are in comparative European politics, in particular political parties. Today, we will discuss the context, results, and consequences of the Swedish parliamentary elections that were held on September 11. You can find more information about Nichols Aylott on, or perhaps better through, his rather minimalistic webpage at www.nicholasaylott.net and you can follow him on Twitter at @nicholasaylott.2022-09-1925 min
RADIKAAL71. Luisa Turbino Torres on Feminist Soccer Groups in BrazilMy guest today is Luisa Turbino Torres. Luisa is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and the Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality at Florida Atlantic University. Earlier this year she defended her PhD thesis, entitled “The Politics of Being a Soccer Fan: An Ethnographic Perspective on Feminist Action Around Soccer in Brazil”, at the University of Delaware. Today, we will talk about gender and soccer fandom in Brazil. You can follow Luisa Turbino Torres on Twitter at @turbinotorres. 2022-09-1128 min
RADIKAAL70. Christophe Jaffrelot on Modi's IndiaMy guest today is Christophe Jaffrelot, a CERI-CNRS Senior Research Fellow who teaches in three different schools at Sciences Po in Paris. He is a world-leading scholar of Indian politics, from its foreign policy to its political sociology. In 2020, he was elected president of the French Association of Political Science (AFSP), and last year, he published the incredibly detailed but still very readable book Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy with Princeton University Press. Today, we will speak about this terrifying study of contemporary India. You can follow Christophe Jaffrelot on Twitter at...2022-08-2833 min
RADIKAAL69. Dana El Kurd on Palestinian Authoritarianism and ProtestMy guest today is Dana El Kurd, an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Richmond in Virginia, who works on authoritarian regimes in the Arab world, state-society relations in these countries, and the impact of international intervention. In 2020, she published the book Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine with Oxford University Press. Today, we will speak about authoritarianism in the Arab world as well as Palestinian opposition to both Israeli occupation and Palestinian authoritarianism. You can follow Dana El Kurd on Twitter at @DanaElKurd.2022-08-1525 min
RADIKAAL68. Phil Gorski on White Christian Nationalism in the USMy guest today is Philip Gorski. Phil is a Professor of Sociology at Yale University, where he is currently also Chair of the Department of Sociology, and Co-Director of Yale’s Center for Comparative Research. He is a comparative-historical sociologist with strong interests in theory and methods and in modern and early modern Europe. Much of his work has been on the sociology of religion, including in the US, which includes his new book, co-authored with Samuel Perry of the University of Oklahoma, entitled The Flag and The Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy, published by...2022-08-0127 min
RADIKAAL67. Ellen van Damme on Gender and Gangs in Central America (Honduras)My guest today is Ellen van Damme. Ellen has a BA, MA, and PhD in Criminology from the KU Leuven in Belgium, as well as an MA in Conflict and Development from Ghent University in Belgium and has just finished a Fulbright Post-Doc at the Center for the Study of International Migration at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her PhD research concerned the role of women in and around gangs in Honduras, Central America, for which she did extensive field work between 2017 and 2020. Today we will talk about gangs in Central America, the role of gender, and the...2022-07-1827 min
RADIKAAL66. Aurelien Mondon on the Mainstreaming of the Far RightMy guest today is Aurelien Mondon, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies at Bath University in the United Kingdom. He has been studying the far right in Europe and beyond for over a decade now, focusing in particular on its mainstreaming, and engaging critically with both the scholarship and its terminology, in particular the term populism. Aurelien is a frequent commentator on the far right in the media and blogs on the topic on Medium. His most recent book, published together with his longtime collaborator Aaron Winter, is called Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and...2022-06-2027 min
RADIKAAL65. Melanie Schiller on Music and Nationalism in GermanyMy guest today is Melanie Schiller, an Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Popular Music at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her research combines critical theory, cultural studies, and media studies and focuses particularly on the relationship between popular music and nationalism and populism. In 2018 she published Soundtracking Germany: Popular Music and National Identity with Rowman & Littlefield. Currently, Melanie is part of a collaborative international research project on “Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe, 2018-2022”. You can follow Melanie Schiller on Twitter at @Mel_Schiller.2022-06-0628 min
Demos Helsinki Podcast64. Lenka Bustikova on Radical Right Parties in Eastern Europe Podcast: RADIKAAL (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: 64. Lenka Bustikova on Radical Right Parties in Eastern EuropePub date: 2022-05-23Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:The guest discusses party politics, democratic decay, ethnicity, and clientelism, with special reference to Eastern Europe.Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMy guest today is Lenka Bustikova, currently an Associate Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University who will soon join St. Anthony’s College at the Oxford University, as Associate Professor in Europ...2022-06-0124 min
RADIKAAL64. Lenka Bustikova on Radical Right Parties in Eastern EuropeMy guest today is Lenka Bustikova, currently an Associate Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University who will soon join St. Anthony’s College at the Oxford University, as Associate Professor in European Union and Comparative East European Politics. Her research focuses on party politics, democratic decay, ethnicity, and clientelism, with special reference to Eastern Europe. She is the author of the awards-winning book Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe, published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. Lenka is currently working on a new book project about the social origins of illiberalism, exploring the relationship between ‘uncivil soci...2022-05-2324 min
RADIKAAL63. Phillip Ayoub on the LGBT Movement in EuropeMy guest today is Phillip Ayoub. Phillip is an Associate Professor in the Department of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College in California. This Summer he will take up a Professorship in the Department of Political Science at University College London. His research bridges insights from international relations and comparative politics, engaging with literature on transnational politics, gender and politics, norm diffusion, and the study of social movements. He is the author of When States Come Out: Europe’s Sexual Minorities and the Politics of Visibility, published by Cambridge University Press in 2016, and co-editor, with David Pa...2022-05-0930 min
RADIKAALSES6. Rainbow Murray on the 2022 French Presidential ElectionsMy guest today, for this sixth episode in the Special Election Series, which will focus on the 2022 French presidential elections, is Rainbow Murray. Rainbow is a Professor of Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London in the UK. She is an expert on representation, political institutions, gender and diversity, with particular expertise in French and British politics. Rainbow is also the Faculty Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Among her many publications are,Gendered Electoral Financing: Money, Power and Representation...2022-04-2735 min
RADIKAAL62. Charlotte Lysa on Gender, Politics, and Soccer in QatarMy guest today is Charlotte Lysa. Charlotte is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law and the University of Oslo in Norway. Her academic interests include politics and society in the Middle East and North Africa, and in the Arab Gulf monarchies in particular. She is currently working with the project REF-ARAB: Refugees and the Arab Middle East: Protection in States Not Party to the Refugee Convention, where she works on a sub-project on Saudi Arabia, but for her PhD-project she explored how women in Qatar and Saudi Arabia challenged patriarchal structures through playing...2022-04-2525 min
RADIKAAL61. Chris Ogunmodede on Afrobeat in Nigeria and Beyond.My guest today is Christopher Ogunmodede. Chris is a foreign policy advisor and associate editor of World Politics Review, who is based in Lagos, Nigeria. He specializes in diplomacy, development and international security, with a particular focus on West Africa and its history, political institutions and foreign relations. His areas of interest include governance, elections, military dictatorships, comparative authoritarianism, trade and regional integration, migration, diasporism and social movements. In addition to being an expert on international affairs and foreign policy, as well as a critical voice on African politics, as well as US and particularly European perception of and...2022-04-1127 min
RADIKAALSES5. Zsolt Enyedi on the 2022 Hungarian ElectionMy guest today is my former colleague Zsolt Enyedi. Zsolt is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Senior Researcher at the Democracy Institute of Central European University, which was initially based in Hungary but now primarily operates from Austria. His research focuses both on the role of religion in politics and on party politics. His most recent book, Party System Closure, co-authored with Fernando Casal Bertoa, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. But Zsolt is also an expert on Hungarian politics and was, as Pro-Rector for Hungarian Affairs, very closely involved in the inevitably unsuccessful negotiations...2022-04-0432 min
RADIKAAL60. Lorenza Antonucci on the Gig Economy, the Proletariat, and PopulismMy guest today is Lorenza Antonucci. Lorenza is an Associate Professor and Birmingham Fellow in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology at the University of Birmingham in the UK. Her research and teaching focuses on the impact of European social policies on people’s lives, and she is currently leading two major research projects, GIGWELL, about the gig economy, and PRECEDE, about the economic and cultural roots of populism in Europe. You can follow Lorenza Antonucci on Twitter at @SocialLore and find more information on her research projects at www.gigwell.org and www.precede.eu.2022-03-2727 min
RADIKAAL59. Kirsten Dyck on White Power MusicMy guest today is Kirsten Dyck. Kirsten got her PhD in American Studies from Washington State University in 2012. She taught History, Humanities, Academic Writing, and English as a Foreign Language at James Madison University from 2012 to 2017 after which she joined the Peace Corps and taught English in Poltava, Ukraine. She currently teaches Conversational English and Cross-Cultural Communication at Nanjing Xiaozhuang University in China. In 2016 she published the book Reichsrock: The International Web of White Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music with Rutgers University Press, which will be the topic of our conversation today. Kirsten Dyck is not on Twitter but...2022-03-1428 min
RADIKAAL58. Mic Crenshaw about Anti-Racist Skinheads in Minneapolis and Hip Hop in PortlandMy guest today is Mic Crenshaw. Mic is a hip hop activist, organizer, and MC, who is based in Portland, Oregon. He used to be the front man of Hungry Mob and has since published various CDs, including “Thinking Out Loud” and “Under the Sun”. Before that, Mic was part of an anti-racist skinhead crew in Minneapolis, which was the topic of a recent PBS program, called “The Baldies”. We talk about being a skinhead, about hip hop in the US and Africa, and about Black man in overwhelmingly white cities.2022-02-2830 min
RADIKAAL57. Andrew Lawn on Football ChantingMy guest today is Andrew Lawn, a UX writer at Pickatale. He also delivers training courses on “Designing Better Academic Posters” and “Effective Digital Communications” at the University of East Anglia. In his spare time, Andy is Assistant Manager of Norwich United FC U18s and a co-founder of the Norwich City fanzine, Along Come Norwich. Finally, he is the author of ‘We Lose Every Week; The History of Football Chanting’, which was published by Ockley Books in 2021. You can follow Andrew Lawn on Twitter at @Andrew_Lawn and learn more about his fanzine at www.alongcome...2022-02-1427 min
RADIKAAL56. Ildiko Otova on Nationalism and Populism in BulgariaMy guest is Ildiko Otova, who teaches European Migration Policy at Sofia University. Ildiko holds a PhD in Political sciences from New Bulgarian University and is a laureate of the Mozer Scholarship for excellence in the study of political science and civil courage. She works as researcher in various national and international projects on migration and refugee issues, integration, urban policies and citizenship. She published, with Evelina Staykova, Migration and Populism in Bulgaria with Routledge in 2022. You can follow her on Twitter at @otovaildiko.2022-01-3125 min
RADIKAAL55. Kathleen Belew on White Supremacy and Paramilitary AmericaMy guest today is Kathleen Belew. Kathleen is an assistant professor in history at the University of Chicago – soon to be an associate professor at Northwestern University. In 2019 she published her first book, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, with Harvard University Press, which has become a must-read on the contemporary far right in the US and has made her a much sought-after media guest and public speaker. Last year, together with Ramón Guitiérrez, she published the co-edited volume A Field Guide to White Supremacy with the University of California Press. You can...2022-01-1731 min
RADIKAAL54. Russ Rankin on Punkrock, Veganism, and HockeyMy guest today is Russ Rankin. Russ is a musician, record producer, hockey scout and writer from Santa Cruz, California. He is best known as the singer of the punk rock bands Good Riddance and Only Crime, but has lend his voice to many other punk bands too. He is also the California scout for the Tri City Americans, a junior hockey team in the Western Hockey League. Russ is also an outspoken voice on many political issues, including animal rights. If you want to keep up to date on the many things Russ Rankin is doing, you can...2022-01-0327 min
RADIKAALSES4. Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser on the 2021 Chilean Presidential ElectionsMy guest today is mi hermano Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser. Cristóbal is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Social Science Research Institute at Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile. He has published extensively on populist and right-wing politics in Europe and particularly Latin America, including, co-edited with Pablo Luna, the prophetic The Resilience of the Latin American Right, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2014; co-authored with me, Populism: A Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press in 2017; and most recently, co-edited with Tim Bale, Riding the Populist Wave: Europe’s Mainstream Right in Cris...2021-12-2329 min
RADIKAAL53. Brenda Elsey on Women and Sports in Latin AmericaMy guest today is Brenda Elsey. Brenda is a professor of History at Hofstra University on Long Island, New York, and studies the history of popular culture and politics in twentieth century Latin America, with a particular focus on gender and sports. She has written extensively on these issues, in both academic and popular journals and magazines. Among her most relevant books are, Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth Century Chile, published with the University of Texas Press in 2011, and, together with Joshua Nadel, Fubolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America, published by t...2021-12-2029 min
RADIKAAL53. Katherine Cramer on Rural Consciousness and the Politics of ResentmentMy guest is Katherine Cramer. Kathy is a Professor of Political Science and the Natalie H. Holton Chair of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Her work focuses on the way people in the United States make sense of politics and their place in it. In 2016 she published The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker with the University of Chicago Press. This excellent book won several awards and has become one of the key texts for people to help understand the Trump phenomenon in the US. You can...2021-12-0626 min
RADIKAAL51. Simon Kuper on Football and Politics (and Barca) My guest today is Simon Kuper. Simon is a columnist with the Financial Times and an award-winning author on football, or if you will soccer. Among his many excellent books are Football against the Enemy, which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, Soccernomics (with Stefan Szymanski), and Ajax, the Dutch, the War: Football in Europe during the Second World War. His new book is Barca: The Inside Story of the World’s Greatest Football Club, published by Short Books in Europe and as The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making – and Unmaking – of the Wor...2021-11-2229 min
LexisEpisode 22 - Katie EdwardsShow notes for Episode 22
Here are the show notes for Episode 22, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk to Dr Katie Edwards about grammar pedantry, accent shaming and why ‘grammar nazis’ need to get a life (and a new name).
Warning: this episode contains some explicit language!
Katie Edwards’ website: https://www.katiebedwards.com/
Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KatieBEdwards
Katie’s (fairly) recent language articles (some of which we discuss):
Gerraway with accentism – I’m proud to speak Yorkshire | Katie Edwards
No, You’re Shit: Grammar Pedantry and Knowing Your Place
Putting the Accent On Prejudice. Rather than being yet...2021-11-0946 min
RADIKAAL50. Toni Haastrup on EU-Africa RelationsMy guest is Toni Haastrup, a Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Stirling in Scotland. Her research broadly explores the nature of global power hierarchies in knowledge and practice between the Global North and South. She has researched topics such as the African Union, EU relations with Africa, feminist foreign policy, and the women, peace and security agenda. I discuss most of these issues with her in this episode. You can follow Toni on Twitter at @ToniHaastrup.2021-11-0827 min
RADIKAAL49. Matt Duss on a Progressive US Foreign PolicyMy guest today is Matt Duss. Matt is the foreign policy advisor of Senator Bernie Sanders and one of the most prominent protagonists of a progressive US foreign policy. Before joining the Sanders team, he was president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace and a Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress. He tweets at @mattduss.We talk about the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the US foreign policy establishment, and the challenge of creating a progressive US foreign policy.2021-10-2527 min
RADIKAAL48. Amy Erica Smith on Politics and Religion in Latin America.My guest today is Amy Erica Smith. Amy is an Associate Professor of Political Science and a Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Professor at Iowa State University in the US. In the 2020-22 academic years, she is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. The key focus of her research is, in her own words, how ordinary people understand and engage in politics. Her key topical foci are public opinion and religion and politics and her primary regional expertise is Latin America, in particular Brazil. In 2019 she published Religion and Brazilian Democracy: Mobilizing the People of God with Cambridge University Press, wh...2021-10-1126 min
RADIKAALSES3. Kai Arzheimer on the 2021 German Federal Election This episode is the third installment of the Special Elections Series and will focus on the German federal election of September 26. My guest is Kai Arzheimer, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Mainz in Germany. Kai is one of the foremost scholars of elections and the far right in Europe, and Germany in particular. He also curates the "The Eclectic, Erratic Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe". Kai is active all over social media, from Twitter to YouTube.2021-10-0429 min
RADIKAAL47. Airo Hino on Nativism and Populism in JapanMy guest is my friend Airo Hino. Airo is a Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University in Japan. His main work in on electoral behavior and party politics in Western Europe, on which he has published many articles and books, includingNew Challenger Parties in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis, by Routledge in 2012. However, more recently, he has also been working on populism in Japan, which will be topic of our conversation today.2021-09-2726 min
RADIKAALSES2. Anders Jupskås on the Norwegian ElectionMy guest today is my colleague and friend, Anders Ravik Jupskås. Anders is a senior researcher and the deputy director of the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo – where I also hold an affiliation. As probably the foremost scholar of Norwegian party politics, he is the perfect guest for this second Special Election Edition of RADIKAAL, which focuses on the Norwegian election of September, 13, 2021. Anders Jupskås is on Twitter, although reluctantly, where you can follow him at @arjupskas.2021-09-2224 min
RADIKAAL46. Marlene Laruelle on Illiberalism in RussiaMy guest today is Marlene Laruelle. Marlene is a Research Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she also holds various administrative functions, including Director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institut Francais des Relations Internationales in her native France and a prolific writer on Russian and Central Asian history and politics. This year alone she has two new books out: “Is Russia Fascist? Unraveling Propaganda East and West”, with Cornell University Press, and “Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia”, with UCL...2021-09-1331 min
RADIKAAL45. Eva Önnudóttir on the Great Recession and (Radical) Politics in IcelandMy guest today is Eva Önnudóttir. Eva is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, the country’s capitol. Her main work is in the fields of electoral studies and public opinion in Iceland and beyond and she has published several pieces about the so-called “pots and pans protests” in the wake of the economic crisis of 2008-9, which hit Iceland early and hard. We talk about the effect of the Great Recession, Jon Gnarr and the Best Party, and the absence of radic al politics in Iceland. 2021-08-3024 min
RADIKAAL44. Nazita Lajevardi on American Muslims and Islamophobia in the USMy guest isNazita Lajevardi, an attorney and political scientist, who is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. Her work focuses primarily on issues related to public opinion and political behavior through the lens of religious and racial identity. She is also a regular public commentator on these issues, including in various US media. In 2020 she published the book “Outsiders at Home: The Politics of American Islamophobia” with Cambridge University Press. Nazita tweets at @nazitalajevardi. 2021-08-1634 min
RADIKAAL43. Tarek Kahlaoui on the Arab Spring and Politics in TunisiaMy guest today is Tarek Kahlaoui, an academic and activist who has been involved in student protests in the 1990s and the Arab Spring protests in Tunisia in the early 2000s. After teaching for various years at Rutgers University in the US, he returned to Tunisia to join the Southern Mediterranean University in Tunis, where he is now an assistant professor in history. Pre-COVID, he wrote me an email that he was writing a book on populism in Tunisia, which he described as “the only Arab surviving democracy after the wave of the Arab Spring” -- note that...2021-08-0127 min
RADIKAAL42. Paul Mason on the Fight for the Left and against FascismMy guest is Paul Mason. Paul is a British journalist and left-wing activist as well as a film maker and prolific author. He has made a four-part documentary on the Greek left populist party SYRIZA called #ThisIsACoup and, more recently, the documentary “R is for Rosa” about the politics of Rosa Luxemburg. Among his books are Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future (2017), Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being (2019), and How To Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance, which is forthcoming in August. He tweets at @paulmasonnews. 2021-07-1932 min
RADIKAAL41. Robbie Shilliam on Decolonizing Politics and the Rastafari MovementMy guest is Robbie Shilliam. Robbie is a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he researches the political and intellectual complicities of colonialism and race in the global order. His latest book is Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction, which is just out with Polity and is a fascinating read. Robbie is also a scholar-activist of the Rastafari movement, involved in a host of activities focused on highlighting the histories and significance of the Rastafari movement for contemporary politics. Two of these projects are Rastafari in Motion, which focuses on Britain, and Iniversial Development...2021-07-0534 min
RADIKAAL40. Léonie de Jonge on the Far Right in the Benelux and the Role of the MediaMy guest today isLéonie de Jonge. Léonie is an assistant professor in European Politics & Society at the University of Groningen. In 2019 she defended her PhD at the University of Cambridge on “The Success and Failure of Right-wing Populist Parties in the Benelux Countries”, which will be out with Routledge later this month. Léonie is also an up-and-coming commentator in the Dutch media on the topic of the far right as well as a critic of the way the media cover the far right. She tweets at @L_DeJonge.Léonie and...2021-06-2131 min
RADIKAAL39. David Lowery about Camper, Cracker, and Music and PoliticsMy guest is the US singer-songwriterDavid Lowery. David has a decades-long history in music and is probably best known as frontman of bands like Camper van Beethoven and Cracker. Less know, he has been teaching courses on the music business in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, where I also work. In recent years, David has also been a tireless activist for the right of musicians and a fighter against streaming companies. He is currently involved in a court case against Spotify. David tweets at @davidclowery.David and I talk...2021-06-0730 min
RADIKAAL38. Poyâ Pâkzâd on the Left and the Immigration Issue in DenmarkMy guest is Poyâ Pâkzâd, economic policy advisor with the Red-Green Alliance, or Unity List, a left-wing party that supports the current minority government of the Social Democrats in Denmark. He is also the editor of the left-wing magazine Eftertryck, which translates as Emphasis, if I’m not mistaken, and a parliamentary candidate for the Red-Green Alliance. Poya and I got into a discussion on Twitter on the challenges of immigration policy for left parties, which is a key topic of our conversation today. He tweets at @ppkzd.2021-05-2433 min
RADIKAAL37. Laurien Schreuder about Snowapple, Femicide in Mexico, and Music and PoliticsMy guest today is Laurien Schreuder, the artistic director of Snowapple, a multidisciplinary, international ensemble that combines theater with a wide range of different music genres, from pop to opera and avant-garde cumbia. Snowapple has spoken out on political issues, most notably violence against women in Mexico. This year, on International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Snowapple and Mexican singer Vivir Quintana released the beautiful song “Alerta” and an incredible video of testimonials. We’ll talk about music and politics in general, and Snowapple’s decision to become active around the issue of femicide in Mexico in parti...2021-05-0922 min
RADIKAAL36. Sam Jackson on the Oath Keepers and Militias in the USMy guest today is Sam Jackson. Sam is an assistant professor in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Security at the University at Albany in Upstate New York. He primarily studies the far right in the US, focusing most notably on the militia movement and on online extremism. He is the author ofOath Keepers: Patriotism and the Edge of Violence in a Right-Wing Antigovernment Group, published by Columbia University Press in 2020. We will talk about the US militia movement in general and the Oath Keepers in particular. He tweets at @sjack26.2021-04-2528 min
RADIKAAL35. Dilara Hekimci-Adak on Football and Politics in TurkeyMy guest today is Dilara Hekimci-Adak. Dilara is a graduate student in Political Science at Florida International University in Miami, where she works on a PhD on populists in power and the role of the opposition in Hungary and Turkey. Before coming to the US, she had already done a PhD at Bahcesehir University, in her native Turkey, on clientelism and democracy in Latin America. She also wrote an MA thesis on nationalism and football in Turkey. Dilara and I talk about football and politics in Turkey, including the role of Istanbul United in the Gezi protests an...2021-04-1224 min
RADIKAAL34. Nadia Marzouki on Islam, Islamophobia, and "Islamo-Leftism" in FranceMy guest is Nadia Marzouki. Nadia is a Research Fellow in Political Science at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, France. Her work examines public controversies about Islam and religious freedom in Europe and the United States. She has written and co-edited several books, including Islam, an American Religion, published by Columbia University Press in 2017, and with Olivier Roy and Duncan McDonnell of Saving the People, How Populists Hijack Religion, published by Hurst and Oxford University Press in 2017. We talk about Islam and Islamophobia in France and the US and the newest enemy of...2021-03-2932 min
RADIKAALSES1. Sarah de Lange on the 2021 Dutch ElectionThis is the first of a new special series of RADIKAAL, the Special Election Series (SES), in which we discuss a very recent election with an expert.My guest today is my colleague and friend, Sarah de Lange. Sarah holds the Dr. J.M. Den Uyl Chair at the Department of Political Science of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She has published widely on far right and populist politics in Western Europe and is also involved in research on social democratic parties. A much-consulted expert on Dutch politics, she is the perfect guest for the f...2021-03-2230 min
New Books in Latin American StudiesCas Mudde, "The Far Right Today" (Polity, 2019)What is the difference between Jean-Marie Le Pen’s National Front and Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president? Why should we understand Trump as part of a dangerous “fourth wave” of radical right politicians? Dr. Cas Mudde’s new book The Far Right Today (Polity, 2019) argues that politicians like Le Pen represented a 20th-century marginalized populist radical right party but Trump (and others across the globe) represent a fourth wave in which the 21st-century radical right parties are normalized and mainstreamed all over the world such that three of the world’s largest democracies (India, the United States, and Braz...2021-03-1554 min
New Books in South Asian StudiesCas Mudde, "The Far Right Today" (Polity, 2019)What is the difference between Jean-Marie Le Pen’s National Front and Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president? Why should we understand Trump as part of a dangerous “fourth wave” of radical right politicians? Dr. Cas Mudde’s new book The Far Right Today (Polity, 2019) argues that politicians like Le Pen represented a 20th-century marginalized populist radical right party but Trump (and others across the globe) represent a fourth wave in which the 21st-century radical right parties are normalized and mainstreamed all over the world such that three of the world’s largest democracies (India, the United States, and Braz...2021-03-1556 min
RADIKAAL33. Gooyong Kim on Economics, Gender, and Soft Power of K-PopMy guest today is Gooyong Kim, Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Cheney University of Pennsylvania. He has published extensively on various aspects of K-Pop, the topic of today’s podcast, including his book “From Factory Girls to K-Pop Idol Girls: Cultural Politics of Developmentalism, Patriarchy, and Neoliberalism in South Korea's Popular Music Industry”, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2018. We talk about the economics, gender, and soft power of K-Pop.2021-03-1523 min
RADIKAAL32. Cynthia Miller-Idriss on Education, Fashion, and the Far RightMy guest today is my colleague and friend Cynthia Miller-Idriss. Cynthia is Professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Education at American University and runs the new Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab in the Center for University Excellence. She is also Director of Strategy and Partnerships at the UK-based Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR) and serves on the international advisory board of the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) in Oslo. She has published many articles and books on the far right, including The Extreme Goes Mainstream: Commercialization and Far...2021-02-2830 min
RADIKAAL31. David Miliband on Social Democracy, Refugees, and the Age of ImpunityMy guest today is David Miliband. David is CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development NGO, founded in 1931 by Albert Einstein. Before joining the IRC, David held several cabinet positions in various Labour governments, including that of British Foreign Secretary. In 2017 he published the TED book “Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time” and in 2019 he gave a Fulbright Lecture entitled “The New Arrogance of Power: Global Politics in the Age of Impunity”. If you want to know more about the IRC, you can go to their website at www.rescue.or...2021-02-1528 min
RADIKAAL30. Lisa Zanotti on VOX and the Far Right in SpainMy guest today is Lisa Zanotti. Lisa is an Associate Researcher at the Research Institute for Social Sciences of the Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile. Lisa finished her PhD on “Populist Polarization in Italian Politics: An Assessment from a Latin American Analytical Perspective” in 2019, shared between Leiden University and Diego Portales. She has written articles on the Great Recession and populism and is co-author, with José Rama, Stuart J. Thurnbull-Dugarte and Andrés Santana, of the new book “VOX: The Rise of the Spanish Populist Radical Right”, which will be out with Routledge this summer. Lisa tweet...2021-02-0123 min
RADIKAAL29. Manisha Tailor on Football and Mental HealthMy guest today is Manisha Tailor, the CEO of Swaggarlicious, an organization that uses football to create social cohesion and help with mental health problems. She is also a coach at the academy of Queens Park Rangers (QPR), a London football club that plays in The Championship. Manisha is a celebrated activist and speaker on issues related to football, and was awarded a prestigious MBE for services to football and diversity in sport in 2017. She tweets at @swaggarlicious_Manisha and I talk about football and mental health as well as gender and race in football.< >2021-01-1821 min
RADIKAAL28. Karim Zidan on Ultras in Egypt, Sportswashing in Saudi Arabia, and MMA and the Far Right in Europe and the US.My guest today is Karim Zidan. Born and raised in Cairo, Egypt, Karim is an investigative reporter who works on the intersection of sports and politics. He has written for many different publications, from mainstream newspapers like The Guardian to specialized blogs like Right-Wing Watch. Karim writes about many sports, from basketball to boxing, but much of his recent work is on Mixed Martial Arts, and he is one of the managers of Bloody Elbow, the MMA and UFC blog of SB Nation. He tweets at @ZidanSports.Karim and I talk about the connections between...2021-01-0328 min
RADIKAAL27. Stanislav Vysotsky on American AntifaMy guest today is Stanislav Vysotsky, who is an associate professor in Criminology at the University of Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of the book, American Antifa: The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant Antifascism, which came out with Routledge earlier this year. His current research is focused on analyzing the dynamics between protesters, counter-protesters, and police at fascist rallies as well as looking at the dynamics of targeted harassment of antifascists by supremacist activists.Stas and I talk about the history and current structure of Antifa in the US...2020-11-3028 min
RADIKAAL26. Nicole Hemmer on the Conservative Media in the USMy guest today is Nicole Hemmer, an associate research scholar with the Obama Presidency Oral History project at Columbia University. She specializes in the history of conservative media in the United States from the 1940s to the present, and the role of right-wing media in American electoral politics. In 2016 she published Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of US Politics, one of the key texts on the topic, with the University of Pennsylvania Press. Nicole is also an incredible public communicator. She is a columnist at CNN Opinion, the founder of the Made in...2020-11-2330 min
RADIKAAL25. Amarnath Amarasingam on Religion and TerrorismMy guest is Amarnath Amarasingam, an assistant professor in the School of Religion at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. Amar is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, both in London, England. His research interests are in radicalization, terrorism, diaspora politics, post-war reconstruction, and the sociology of religion. He is the author of Pain, Pride, and Politics: Sri Lankan Tamil Activism in Canada, published by the University of Georgia Press in 2015, and co-editor of Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Pe...2020-11-1624 min
RADIKAAL24. Carles Viñas and Natxo Parra on the German cult club FC St. PauliThis week RADIKAAL has a premiere, as I will be interviewing two guests, at the same time. Carles Viñas is a researcher in the Department of History of the University of Barcelona, who has published extensively on the far right, skinheads, and ultras, mostly in Catalan and Spanish. Natxo Parra is a labor lawyer and cooperative partner at Col.lectiu Ronda. Together they wrote the excellent new book St. Pauli: Another Football Is Possible, which just came out with Pluto Press. We will talk about the German cult club and the role of radical politics in co...2020-11-0927 min
RADIKAAL23. Louis Wierenga on EKRE and far right in EstoniaMy guest is Louis Wierenga, a former US Marine who went to study in Canada befoire moving East. He is currently a junior Research Fellow at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies of the University of Tartu, where he works on a PhD on the far right in contemporary Estonia and Latvia. You can follow him on Twitter at @louis_wierenga.Louis and I talk about far right politics in Estonia, in particular the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE), currently a member of the national coalition government, and its "alt-right" youth branch, Blue...2020-11-0223 min
RADIKAAL22. Lisa Nandy on post-Brexit Britain, post-Corbyn Labour, and saving Wigan AthleticMy guest is Lisa Nandy. Lisa has been a Member of Parliament for Wigan since 2010. Earlier this year she came third in the election to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party. She is currently the Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and, given the state of Britain and the world, extremely busy.Lisa and I talk about post-Brexit Britain, about post-Corbyn Labour Party, about populism and progressive patriotism, and about the importance of saving Wigan Athletic. You can follow Lisa on Twitter at @LisaNandy.2020-10-2636 min
RADIKAAL21. Sophia Solomon on Beitar Jerusalem, La Familia, and football and far right in IsraelMy guest is Sophia Solomon, a PhD student in political science at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel. Her current research focuses on civil-military relations in Britain, Canada and Israel, with a particular focus on so-called “shooting soldiers”, i.e. soldiers who killed suspected terrorists after they were captured. However, Sophia and I talk about her previous research, for her MA thesis, which focuses on the Israeli football club Beitar Jerusalem, its infamous ultras/hooligans La Familia, and the connections to and significance for the far right in Israel. 2020-10-1928 min
The Fire These Times50/Golden Dawn: The Anatomy of a Nazi Party in 21st Century Europe (with Loukas Stamellos)This is a conversation with Loukas Stamellos. He's a member of the Greek grassroots media organisation OmniaTV and of the "Golden Dawn Watch" initiative.
Loukas and I spoke about Golden Dawn more generally, not just the trial that finally concluded that they are a criminal organisation but about fascism in Greece and in Europe more broadly. He was really able to link Golden Dawn's fascism with wider trends such as nationalism and xenophobia.
The episode is available on the usual podcasting apps as of Sunday 18th 2020: Apple Podcasts, Anchor, Breaker, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Radio Public, Spo...2020-10-1834 min
RADIKAAL20. Tara Lopez on the Winter of Discontent, the Bad Brains, and punk in El Paso, TexasMy guest is Tara Martin Lopez. Tara is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences of at Northern New Mexico College. Her work focuses on the intersection between gender, race, and social movements with a particular focus on the US punk movement. She also wrote a book on one of the most tumultuous period in postwar British history, entitled “The Winter of Discontent: Myth, Memory and History”, which was published by Liverpool University Press in 2014. Tara and I talk about the "winter of discontent" in the UK, about "the great...2020-10-1226 min
RADIKAAL19. Gabriel Kuhn on football and radical politicsMy guest today is activist and author Gabriel Kuhn. As an activist and author of books on both music and politics and sports and politics, Gabriel is the personification of RADIKAAL. Gabriel has written on pirates and Straight Edge music, a topic I hope to tackle another time with him, as in this episode we focus primarily on sports and politics. Gabriel is not on social media, but you should really buy his books, in particular “Soccer vs the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics” and “Playing As If the World Mattered: An Illustrated History of Activism in Spo...2020-10-0523 min
RADIKAAL18. Daphne Halikiopoulou on Golden Dawn and Far Right Politics in GreeceMy guest today is Daphne Halikiopoulou. Daphne is Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Reading in England. She has published extensively on nationalism and far right politics in Europe and her latest book, co-authored with Sofia Vasilopoulou of York University, is “The Golden Dawn’s ‘National Solution’: Explaining the Rise of the Far Right in Greece”, which was published by Palgrave in 2015. If you want to know more about Daphne Halikiopoulou, you can follow her on Twitter at @halikiopoulou. 2020-09-2825 min
RADIKAAL17. Mona Krook on violence against women in politicsMy guest today is Mona Lena Krook. Mona is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Women and Politics PhD Program at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is one of the foremost scholars on gender and politics and has published many articles and books on the topic. In this episode, we will talk in particular about her newest book, Violence Against Women in Politics, which was published by Oxford University Press earlier this year. If you want to know more about Mona Lena Krook, you can check out her website at mlkrook.org...2020-09-2123 min
RADIKAAL16. Shannon Reid on alt-right gangs in the USMy guest today is Shannon Reid, an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. She has published extensively on youth culture and gangs in the US and her latest book, co-authored with Matthew Valasik of Louisiana State University, is “Alt-Right Gangs: A Hazy Shade of White”, which has been published by the University of California Press. She tweets at at @MourningShannon. 2020-09-1423 min
RADIKAAL15. Guilherme Casarões on Bolsonaro in BrazilMy guest today is Guilherme Casarões, a Professor of Public Administration, Political Science and International Relations at the Getulio Vargas Foundation. He has mostly published on Brazilian foreign policy, but his more recent interest is in the far right in Brazil, most notably Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. Together with two colleagues he runs the Twitter account Observatório da Extrema Direita (Observatorium of the Extreme Right) at @oedbrasil.His personal Twitter account is @GCasaroes. 2020-09-0728 min
RADIKAAL14. Sithembile Mbete on the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in South AfricaMy guest today is Sithembile Mbete, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, where she teaches on International Relations and South African politics. She has published several articles on the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and is at the start of a book project on populism in South Africa. You can follow her on Twitter at @sthembete.2020-08-3125 min
RADIKAAL13. Kacper Rekawek on Far Right Foreign Fighters in UkraineMy next guest will be Kacper Rekawek. Kacper is an affiliated researcher at the Counter Extremism Project and a GLOBSEC associate fellow. Between 2016 and 2019 he led the latter’s national security program and has published on a broad range of extremist and terrorism groups. Since 2014 he has been monitoring the topic of foreign fighters in Ukraine and earlier this year published a report titled “Career Break or New Career? Extremist Foreign Fighters in Ukraine” for the Counter Extremism Project. He tweets at @KacperRekawek.2020-08-2423 min
RADIKAAL12. Evan Smith on 'No Platform" and so-called 'cancel culture'My guest today is Evan Smith. Evan is a Research Fellow in History in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University in Australia. His academic work focuses on Australian, British and South African politics and history. He has published on a broad variety of topics relevant to RADIKAAL, including British Communism, counter-terrorism, as well as fascism and anti-fascism. His latest book is the very timely “No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech”, published by Routledge this year. He tweets at @evanishistory.2020-08-1720 min
RADIKAAL11. Winnie Wong on progressive politics in the USMy guest is Winnie Wong. Winnie has been at the forefront of almost every major progressive campaign in the US in this century. She was a leading organizer for Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Sandy, and the Women’s March on Washington. She co-founded People for Bernie, and helped develop the viral hashtag “Feel the Bern”. After serving as a Senior Political Advisor to Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign, she is now an Advisor of the Once Again PAC, which strives for “the continuation of everything we’ve been fighting for”. She tweets at @WaywardWinifred.2020-08-1022 min
RADIKAAL10. Billy Bragg on music and politicsMy guest is the singer songwriter and activist Billy Bragg. Billy started his music career in the late 1970s in the band Riff Raff, had a short flirt with the British Army, before embarking on a solo career that has led to twelve albums so far. He is also a tireless political activist for a broad range of progressive causes and groups, including my friends at the anti-racist group Hope not Hate. Finally, he has written several books, including his latest booklet “The Three Dimensions of Freedom”, published with Faber last year. He tweets at @BillyBragg.2020-08-0331 min
RADIKAAL9. Justin Salhani on football and fashionMy guest is Justin Salhani. Justin is a freelance journalist who has written on both radical politics and football for many different outlets. He lived and worked for several years in Lebanon, where he also almost had a football career. Two of his most recent ventures are also football-related. The first is Guerrilla FC, which started as a football team in Washington DC, but has since evolved into a creative studio and streetwear brand inspired by football culture. The second, founded last month, is the podcast “The Streets Will Remember”, which assesses the legacies of the greatest foot...2020-07-2723 min
RADIKAAL8. Nicole Curato on Duterte and Populism in the PhilippinesMy guest is Nicole Curato. Nicole is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra in Australia. Her academic work focuses on deliberative democracy as well as on populism in the Philippines. She is also a much sought-after commentator on politics in the Philippines. Last year she published the book Democracy in a Time of Misery: From Spectacular Tragedies to Deliberative Action with Oxford University Press. You can follow Nicole on Twitter at @NicoleCurato. 2020-07-2023 min
RADIKAAL7. Matthew Oware on politics and rap musicMy guest today is Matthew Oware. Matthew recently left DePauw University for the University of Richmond in Virginia, where he will be the Irving May Professor of Human Relations in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology. Matthew’s work centers on the intersections of race, class, and gender in popular culture with a particular focus on hip hop music. In 2018 he published the book I Got Say Something to Say: Gender, Race, and Social Consciousness in Rap Musicwith Palgrave.2020-07-1322 min
RADIKAAL6. Rafal Pankowski on far right (and football) in PolandMy guest this week is Rafal Pankowski, a Professor at the Institute of Sociology of Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, who has published widely on nativism in Poland. He is also co-founder of the anti-racist ‘Never Again’ Association and a tireless activist to kick racism out of football. I will talk with Rafal about the transformation of the far right in Poland, the democratic challenges that Poland is facing under the current PiS government, and the continuing problem of racism in Polish football. 2020-07-0621 min