Tues 4.28.09| Saskia Sassen
Do discussions about globalization adequately deal with the deep transformations taking place? Is the world economic crisis properly called a "crisis"? Saskia Sassen, author of Territory, Authority,...
View ArticleWed 6.17.09| History in Music
According to George Lipsitz, popular music emerges from, and tells stories about, social conditions, power relations, and collective struggles. The songs, especially those that endure, convey histories...
View ArticleTues 1.05.10| Harvey on the City and Neoliberalism
What role does urbanization play within the surplus-generating dynamics of capitalism? And what part do cities play in fueling or abating economic crises? Pioneering Marxist geographer David Harvey...
View ArticleTues 8.31.10| What Children Need
What if urban and suburban neighborhoods were designed specifically to meet the needs of children? If young people's preferences were given priority in design and planning decision making, where would...
View ArticleWed 4.13.11| What Children Need
What if urban and suburban neighborhoods were designed specifically to meet the needs of children? If young people's preferences were given priority in design and planning decision making, where would...
View ArticleWed 6.08.11| The Punitive Turn
What are the real reasons for this nation's unprecedented (in world history) boom in incarceration? Is the prison a tool to fight crime, or does it serve an entirely different function? And what about...
View ArticleTues 1.10.12 | The New Geography of Need
The fact of glaring inequalities in income and wealth has been placed front and center by the Occupy movement. But where, in this country, does poverty reside? Margaret Weir describes the dramatically...
View ArticleWed 3.21.12 | The Punitive Turn
What are the real reasons for this nation's unprecedented (in world history) boom in incarceration? Is the prison a tool to fight crime, or does it serve an entirely different purpose? And what about...
View ArticleMon 4.30.12 | The New Geography of Need
The fact of glaring inequalities in income and wealth has been placed front and center by the Occupy movement. But where, in this country, does poverty reside? Margaret Weir describes the dramatically...
View ArticleMon 1.14.13 | Why So Radical?
Why were they so radical? What accounts for the disportionate involvement of American Jews in leftist causes, socialist parties, and radical debates? In a new book, Tony Michels traces the significant...
View ArticleWed 6.17.09| History in Music
According to George Lipsitz, popular music emerges from, and tells stories about, social conditions, power relations, and collective struggles. The songs, especially those that endure, convey histories...
View ArticleTues 1.05.10| Harvey on the City and Neoliberalism
What role does urbanization play within the surplus-generating dynamics of capitalism? And what part do cities play in fueling or abating economic crises? Pioneering Marxist geographer David Harvey...
View ArticleTues 8.31.10| What Children Need
What if urban and suburban neighborhoods were designed specifically to meet the needs of children? If young people's preferences were given priority in design and planning decision making, where would...
View ArticleWed 4.13.11| What Children Need
What if urban and suburban neighborhoods were designed specifically to meet the needs of children? If young people's preferences were given priority in design and planning decision making, where would...
View ArticleWed 6.08.11| The Punitive Turn
What are the real reasons for this nation's unprecedented (in world history) boom in incarceration? Is the prison a tool to fight crime, or does it serve an entirely different function? And what about...
View ArticleTues 1.10.12 | The New Geography of Need
The fact of glaring inequalities in income and wealth has been placed front and center by the Occupy movement. But where, in this country, does poverty reside? Margaret Weir describes the dramatically...
View ArticleWed 3.21.12 | The Punitive Turn
What are the real reasons for this nation's unprecedented (in world history) boom in incarceration? Is the prison a tool to fight crime, or does it serve an entirely different purpose? And what about...
View ArticleMon 4.30.12 | The New Geography of Need
The fact of glaring inequalities in income and wealth has been placed front and center by the Occupy movement. But where, in this country, does poverty reside? Margaret Weir describes the dramatically...
View ArticleMon 1.14.13 | Why So Radical?
Why were they so radical? What accounts for the disportionate involvement of American Jews in leftist causes, socialist parties, and radical debates? In a new book, Tony Michels traces the significant...
View ArticleTues 9.23.14 | Ecological Crises: The Long View
Are we humans preordained to create ecological crises? Environmental geographer Ruth DeFries argues that our past is neither the story of complete catastrophe nor techno-utopia. She traces our...
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