Best Groningen Podcasts (2024)

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S2. 6. Culinaire reis door 12 provincies - Groningen 8:41

5h ago8:41

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www.yourdutchcoach.com Learn Dutch in a fun and easy way. Improve your conversational and listening skills. Theme: Food. Topic: Culinaire reis door 12 provincies - Groningen Music by OlegFedak from ⁠Pixabay⁠

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S2. 7. Culinaire reis door 12 provincies - Friesland 8:49

12h ago8:49

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www.yourdutchcoach.com Learn Dutch in a fun and easy way. Improve your conversational and listening skills. Theme: Food. Topic: Culinaire reis door 12 provincies - Friesland Music by OlegFedak from ⁠⁠Pixabay⁠⁠

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Victoria Smolkin, "A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism" (Princeton UP, 2018) 1:03:31

23m ago1:03:31

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The specter of the “Godless” Soviet Union haunted the United States and continental Western Europe throughout the Cold War, but what did atheism mean in the Soviet Union? What was its relationship with religion? In her new book, A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism, Dr. Victoria Smolkin explores how the Soviet state defined an…

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Maria Taroutina and Allison Leigh, "Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940" (Manchester UP, 2023) 42:53

7d ago42:53

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Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940 (Manchester UP, 2023) features new research on Russia's historic relationship with Asia and the ways it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Sov…

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S2. 5. Culinaire reis door 12 provincies - Drenthe  7:32

12d ago7:32

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www.yourdutchcoach.com Learn Dutch in a fun and easy way. Improve your conversational and listening skills. Theme: Food. Topic: Culinaire reis door 12 provincies - Drenthe Music by OlegFedak from ⁠Pixabay⁠

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Elena Borisova, "Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life" (UCL Press, 2024) 57:11

11d ago57:11

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Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life (UCL Press, 2024) by Dr. Elena Borisova is the first ethnographic monograph on migration in Tajikistan, one of the most remittance-dependent countries in the world. Moving beyond economistic push-pull narratives about post-Soviet migration, it foregrounds the experiences of those who ‘sta…

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S2. 4. Culinaire reis door 12 provincies - Overijssel 6:22

13d ago6:22

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www.yourdutchcoach.com Learn Dutch in a fun and easy way. Improve your conversational and listening skills. Theme: Food. Topic: Culinaire reis door 12 provincies - Overijssel Music by OlegFedak from…

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S2. 3. Culinaire reis door 12 provincies - Gelderland 8:16

19d ago8:16

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www.yourdutchcoach.com Learn Dutch in a fun and easy way. Improve your conversational and listening skills. Theme: Food. Topic: Culinaire reis door 12 provincies - Gelderland Music by OlegFedak from…

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Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE 1:12:58

1M ago1:12:58

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Numerous Iron-Age nomadic alliances flourished along the 5000-mile Eurasian steppe route. From Crimea to the Mongolian grassland, nomadic image-making was rooted in metonymically conveyed zoomorphic designs, creating an alternative ecological reality. The nomadic elite nucleus embraced this elaborate image system to construct collective memory in r…

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Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva, "Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021) 1:06:31

2M ago1:06:31

1:06:31

Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva’s Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021) evaluates today’s economic political, social and ecological crises through the lens of rentier capitalism and countermovements in Central Asia. Over the last three decades, the rich and powerfu…

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Per Högselius and Achim Klüppelberg, "The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism" (CEU Press, 2023) 23:41

3M ago23:41

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In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press/CEU Review of Books) sat down with Per Högselius and Achim Klüppelberg to discuss their new book with CEU Press entitled, The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism (CEU Press, 2023). The book is available Open Access, click here to down…

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Bryan K. Miller, "Xiongnu: The World's First Nomadic Empire" (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:03:13

4M ago1:03:13

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In Xiongnu: The World’s First Nomadic Empire (Oxford UP, 2024), Bryan K. Miller weaves together archaeology and history to chart the course of the Xiongnu empire, which controlled the Eastern Eurasian steppe from ca. 200 BCE to 100 CE. Through a close analysis of both material artifacts and textual sources, Miller centers the nomadic perspective, s…

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Legal Cultures in the Russian Empire 1:13:01

5M ago1:13:01

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Law. How does the state form and use it? How do people use and shape it? How does law shape culture? How does the practice of law change over time in a modernizing colony? What was stable and what was malleable in the application of law in early modern Russia versus its Central Asian colony in the Empire’s final century? What’s the difference betwe…

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Bringing farmers and researchers together for sustainable agriculture (Stefano Bertorini) 10:22

5M ago10:22

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In this episode, Stefano Bertorini, PhD student at the Campus Fryslân at the University of Groningen, shares his views on and experiences with public engagement. For his research project, Stefano developed workshops to engage with Dutch farmers, to listen to their experiences and to accompany them develop new business models in regenerative agricul…

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Working towards a relationship of trust and finding a common language (Alberto Godioli) 10:27

6M ago10:27

10:27

Alberto Godioli, Associate Professor in European Culture and Literature at the University of Groningen, shares his views on and experiences with public engagement. For his NWO-funded research project "Humor in Court'', Alberto is developing a policy-oriented toolkit for judges, a cartoon exhibition and a website with accessible analyses of recent h…

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Eren Tasar, “Soviet and Muslim: The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia” (Oxford UP, 2017) 57:10

8M ago57:10

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Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah et al., "Life & Legacy: A Window into Jewish Life Across the Islamic World" (U Groningen Press, 2023) 50:25

8M ago50:25

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Through stunning images, maps and insightful commentary, Life & Legacy: A Window into Jewish Life Across the Islamic World (U Groningen Press, 2023) offers a glimpse into the diversity, historical legacy, and rich culture of Jewish communities within the Muslim world. From the growing Jewish community of Dubai to ancient synagogues and shrines, the…

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Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation 58:31

9M ago58:31

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The “barbarian” nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced some of the world’s greatest conquerors: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, among others. Their deeds still resonate today. Indeed, these nomads built long-lasti…

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Valerie Kivelson et al., "Picturing Russian Empire" (Oxford UP, 2023) 57:34

9M ago57:34

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Picturing Russian Empire (Oxford UP, 2023) appears as Russia’s imperialist war of aggression against Ukraine grinds on. The stakes could not be higher. It follows that grappling with Russia’s imperial history is inescapable. After all, “[s]elective, exaggerated or patently false reimaginings” of the past “have been central to Russia’s justification…

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Christopher P. Atwood, "The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese Sources" (Hackett, 2021) 1:42:40

10M ago1:42:40

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In this interview we deep dive into the historiographical issues of the texts in The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese Sources (Hackett, 2021), edited and translated by Christopher P. Atwood, with Lynn Struve. For a complementary, more general interview of the book dealing with the period under discussion listeners can also check out the July 2023 …

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Isaac McKean Scarborough, "Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2023) 1:14:55

11M ago1:14:55

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Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. Isaac Mckean Scarborough tells the story of the collapse of the USSR from the perspective of the many millions of Soviet citizens who experienced it as a period of abjection and violence. Mikhail Gorbachev and the leaders of the USSR saw the years of ref…

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The Secret History of the Mongols 1:02:55

11M ago1:02:55

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The Secret History of the Mongols is one of the literary wonders of the world. Writing in the thirteenth century, the Secret Historian - whose identity remains unknown - combines insider history and verse to chronicle the life of Chingghis Khan and the empire he founded. In an evocative new translation, Chris Atwood brings to life for contemporary …

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Antony Kalashnikov, "Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time" (Cornell UP, 2023) 59:16

11M ago59:16

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Antony Kalashnikov's Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time (Cornell UP, 2023) analyzes Stalinist monument-building. From the 1930's through the Great Patriotic War, architectural monuments such as subway stations were designed to emphasize the perpetual endurance of the nation, regardless of the many crises o…

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A Better Way to Buy Books 32:44

12M ago32:44

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Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has already raised more than $27,000,000. In this interview, Andy Hunter, founder and CEO discusses his journey to creating one of the most revolutionary new organizations in the book world. Bookshop has found …

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Adeeb Khalid, "Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present" (Princeton UP, 2021) 1:13:42

1y ago1:13:42

1:13:42

In Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present (Princeton University Press, 2021), Adeeb Khalid presents a comprehensive narrative of modern Central Asian history based on original research and an exhaustive synthesis of recent scholarship. Khalid explores how the modern forces of empire, revolution, and communism (and it…

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Yiannis Kokosalakis, "Building Socialism: The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System, 1921–1941" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 1:17:31

1y ago1:17:31

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By placing the party grassroots at the centre of its focus, Yiannis Kokosalakis' book Building Socialism: The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System, 1921–1941 (Cambridge UP, 2023) presents an original account of the formative first two decades of the Soviet system. Assembled in a large network of primary party organisations (PPO), the…

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Archaeology and Nomadism in the Russian Empire: An interview with Ismael Biyashev 56:19

1y ago56:19

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In the second half of the 19th century, both professional and amateur archaeologists, surveyors, and explorers of the “periphery” of the Russian Empire became increasingly interested in the perceived ancient nomadic histories of Siberia, Central Asia, and Ukraine. Their excavations of “nomadic sites” associated with the Scythians or the Mongol Empi…

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Get started with open educational resources (Mira Buist-Zhuk) 9:39

1y ago9:39

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Mira Buist-Zhuk is an academic information specialist at the University of Groningen Library specializing in open educational resources. In this episode, she shares tips and advice for teaching staff on how to get started with open educational resources. Listen to the episode and learn how to use, create, share and benefit from open educational res…

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Mongol Nomadism, Mongol Identity, and the Fall of the Mongol Empire 53:13

1y ago53:13

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In part two of our conversation about his book The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East (Basic Books, 2022), Nicholas Morton, Associate Professor of History at Nottingham Trent University, joins me to share more about his research into Mongol imperial expansion and the Mongol conquests of the Near East. In this episod…

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Sofia Samatar, "The White Mosque: A Memoir" (Catapult, 2022) 34:40

1y ago34:40

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In the late 19th century, a group of Mennonites leave Russia for what is now Uzbekistan. Driven out by Russian demands that the pacifist group make themselves available for conscription, and pushed forward by prophecies of the imminent return of Christ, over a hundred families travel in a grueling journey, eventually building a settlement and churc…

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Fostering diversity in knowledge production (Rashid Gabdulhakov) 10:03

1+ y ago10:03

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Rashid Gabdulhakov, assistant professor at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the Faculty of Arts, developed two fully open online courses in collaboration with IWPR, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. The courses aim to help non-Western scholars to navigate the Western system of academic knowledge production. Rashid shares his …

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Alexander Jabbari, "The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 1:16:30

1+ y ago1:16:30

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Alexander Jabbari’s The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India (Cambridge University Press, 2023) narrates the cultural and literary history of one of the world's most significant yet understudied lingua francas. From the ninth to the nineteenth centuries, Persian was the pre-eminent language of learnin…

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Open education - Buzzword or added value to teaching? (Sander van Lanen) 9:45

1+ y ago9:45

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Sander van Lanen, Assistant Professor in cultural geography at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, developed the open textbook ‘Introduction to academic research’ by reusing texts that were already openly available. In this episode, Sander shares his experiences with creating open educational material. He also reflects on the purpose of open education…

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Alfrid Bustanov and Vener Usmanov, "Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia" (Brill, 2022) 1:06:24

1+ y ago1:06:24

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The world as seen by a Qur’an specialist in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Alfrid Bustanov and Vener Usmanov's book Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia (Brill, 2022) tells a dramatic story of ’Abd al-Majid al-Qadiri, a Muslim individual born in the Kazakh lands and brought up in the Sufi environment of the South Urals, who memorized the en…

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Jonan Pilet, "Nomad, Nomad" (Bound to Brew, 2021) 42:43

1+ y ago42:43

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In his debut short story collection, Nomad, Nomad (Bound to Brew, 2021), Jonan Pilet explores the lives of Mongols and expats looking for a sense of home within the nomadic culture. Based on Jonan’s insights having grown up in Mongolia, the series of interlinked narratives capture the cultural turmoil Mongolia experienced after the fall of the Sovi…

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The Transformation of Livestock Herding in Socialist Mongolia 1:04:05

1+ y ago1:04:05

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Between 1956 and 1960, leaders in the Mongolian People’s Republic embarked on a collectivization campaign to change the way in which Mongolians interacted with animals and the environment. Collectivization in Mongolia, which followed the Soviet model, confiscated private livestock to create collectively-owned and -worked livestock herds, and was se…

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Increasing student motivation through co-creating open educational material (Anoek Sluiter-Oerlemans) 8:05

1+ y ago8:05

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Anoek Sluiter-Oerlemans, Assistant Professor in Youth Studies at the University of Groningen, shares her views on and experiences with open education. Anoek recently decided to start implementing open educational resources. She involved students in co-creating teaching materials for a course on research methods for the MA programmes in Youth, Socie…

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Nomadic Pastoralism Among the Mongol Herders 50:01

1+ y ago50:01

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Nomadic Pastoralism among the Mongol Herders: Multispecies and Spatial Ethnography in Mongolia and Transbaikalia (Amsterdam University Press, 2021) is based on anthropological research Charlotte Marchina carried out between 2008 and 2016 to investigate the spatial features of nomadic pastoralism among the Mongol herders of Mongolia and Southern Sib…

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Xin Wen, "The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road" (Princeton UP, 2023) 47:33

1+ y ago47:33

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Many of us–who maybe aren’t historians–have an image of the Silk Road: merchants who carried silk from China to as far as ancient Rome, in one of the first global trading networks. Historians have since challenged the idea that there really was such an organized network, instead seeing it as a nineteenth-century metaphor that obscures as much as it…

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The Future of the Silk Road: A Discussion with Tim Winters 37:01

1+ y ago37:01

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The term "Silk Road" evokes images of trade and exotic luxurious goods and Orientalist images. Today, however, it also is associated with the projection of Chinese power abroad. And as that pairing suggests, the term "Silk Road" in fact has many meanings as Professor Tim Winter has been explaining in his book The Silk Road: Connecting Histories and…

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Jangar: The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads 33:41

1+ y ago33:41

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Saga Bougdaeva is the translator of the first English version of Jangar (University of California Press, 2023), the heroic epic of the Kalmyk nomads. The Kalmyks are the Western Mongols of Genghis Khan’s medieval empire in Europe. Today, Kalmykia is situated in the territory that was once the Golden Horde, founded by Genghis Khan son’s Juchi. Altho…

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Star Wars: Andor’s Aldhani and its Real-World Parallels 1:01:50

1+ y ago1:01:50

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In this episode, Dr. Kenny Linden, an environmental and animal historian of Mongolia and Inner Asia, joins me to discuss the Disney+ Star Wars prequel series Andor and its real-world parallels to pastoralism and the treatment of pastoralists in Central and East Asia by state authorities. We talk about nomadism in the Star Wars universe, depictions …

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Gillian Tan, "Pastures of Change: Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations among Nomadic Pastoralists of Eastern Tibet" (Springer, 2018) 1:00:58

1+ y ago1:00:58

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Tibetan nomads have developed a way of life that is dependent in multiple ways on their animals and shaped by the phenomenological experience of mobility. These pastoralists have adapted to many changes in their social, political and environmental contexts over time. From the earliest historically recorded systems of segmentary lineage to the incor…

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Jeff Fearnside, "Ships in the Desert" (Santa Fe Writer's Project, 2022) 40:27

1+ y ago40:27

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Many of us have likely seen photos of the Aral Sea, and the rusted Soviet-era ships, sitting in the desert with no water in sight. The Aral Sea is now just 10% of its former volume, shrinking down from what was once the fourth-largest body of inland water in the world, after what writer Jeff Fernside calls “one of the worst human-caused environment…

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Tricia Starks, "Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2022) 42:45

1+ y ago42:45

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Seeing cigarette smoking as a cultural phenomenon of Western modernity is perhaps easier when the test case is outside the US where the narrative is dominated by Big Bad Tobacco and litigation. Tricia Starks's two volume study does just that. Her second volume, Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR (Cornell University Press, 2022) traces the …

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Regine A. Spector, "Order at the Bazaar: Power and Trade in Central Asia" (Cornell UP, 2017) 39:43

1+ y ago39:43

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Order at the Bazaar: Power and Trade in Central Asia (Cornell UP, 2017) delves into the role of bazaars in the political economy and development of Central Asia. Bazaars are the economic bedrock for many throughout the region--they are the entrepreneurial hubs of Central Asia. However, they are often regarded as mafia-governed environments that are…

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Buddhist Medicine in Tibet: A Discussion with Bill McGrath 1:22:58

1+ y ago1:22:58

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In this episode, I sit down with my friend Bill McGrath, a historian of Tibetan Buddhism and medicine. He's one of the most knowledgeable people in the world on this subject, and we get deep into the weeds in an academic conversation about traditional Tibetan medicine, the category of Buddhist medicine, and Bill's perspectives on magic, religion, a…

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Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022) 58:29

1+ y ago58:29

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Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (Princeton UP, 2022) explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external p…

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Vladislav M. Zubok, "Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union" (Yale UP, 2021) 56:16

1+ y ago56:16

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In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong with five thousand nuclear-tipped missiles and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart by nationalist separatism. It…

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James Mark and Paul Betts, "Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation" (Oxford UP, 2022) 1:20:10

1+ y ago1:20:10

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Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation (Oxford UP, 2022) is the first work to provide a broad history of the relationship between Eastern Europe and the decolonising world. It ranges from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, but at its core is the dynamic of the post-1945 period, when s…

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