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Brought to you by the Boys Club network, Too Online is a show where hosts Deana and Natasha brief each other on internet stories from the week. Think of this as your auditory FYP. From viral moments to online phenomena, digital subcultures to trending topics, they're 'too online' so you don't have to be. Send in your own internet story findings to hi@boysclub.vip.
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Amir Alexander, "Liberty's Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformity. Perpendicular streets and rectangular fields, all precisely measured and perfectly aligned, turn both urban and rural America into a checkerboard landscape that stretches from horizon to horizon. In evidence throughout the country, but especially …
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Tom interviewed Annie Lennox, who despite her highly successful solo career, insists that she is at her best partnered with Dave Stewart as the Eurythmics. She has a multitude of awards and accolades to her name including an Academy Award for Best Original Song, being named Best British Female Artist a record six times, as well as an OBE for her "t…
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Tom joined David Guetta in Paris, where he spoke to the house music pioneer about collaborating with Chris Willis on his early hits, how a French guitar sound plugin got him tracked down by will.i.am, and why he has stopped focusing on commercial success. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thetomcridland Substack: https://substack.com/@thetomcridland…
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The legendary Smokey Robinson tells Tom why you should never meet your idols, what makes music the international language, crying the Tears of a Clown, and why Berry Gordy told him “to get the f**k out of here”. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thetomcridland Substack: https://substack.com/@thetomcridland Greatest Music of All Time: https://www.tom…
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RAYE discusses five of her favourite songs with Tom: "Drive" - The Cars, "Divorce" - 070 Shake, "Walk On By" - Dionne Warwick, "What To Do" - JACKBOYS, Travis Scott, Don Toliver, "Baltimore" - Nina Simone. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thetomcridland Substack: https://substack.com/@thetomcridland Greatest Music of All Time: https://www.tomcridla…
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Tom spoke to the Toto guitarist and founder on being immortalised as a character in South Park and Family Guy, why Toto’s continued success was the best revenge on the press, NDAs, and of course, “Africa”. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thetomcridland Substack: https://substack.com/@thetomcridland Greatest Music of All Time: https://www.tomcridla…
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Lisa Fletcher and Elizabeth Leane, "Space, Place, and Bestsellers: Moving Books" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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From airport bookstores to deckchairs, as audiobooks downloaded by commuters, and on Kindles and other portable devices, twenty-first century bestsellers move in old and new ways. In Space, Place, and Bestsellers: Moving Books (Cambridge University Press Elements in Publishing and Book Culture series, 2024), Lisa Fletcher and Elizabeth Leane examin…
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David Kroening Seitz, "A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a space station near a postcolonial planet still reeling from a genocidal occupation. The crew was led by a reluctant Black American commander and an extraterrestrial first officer who had until recently been an anticolonial revolutionary.…
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Andrea E. Pia, "Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
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On the podcast today, I am joined by anthropologist Andrea Pia (London School of Economics and Political Science) to talk about his new book, Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics and Climate in Southwest China (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024). In recent years, the People’s Republic of China has seen an alarmed public endorsing techno-political sustainabi…
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“Devoted vs. Committed” – An Interview with Boone Baker, Champion, Wichita, KS
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Bryan interviews one of our champions from Wichita, KS, Boone Baker. Boone is a pastor and one of our leaders in the area, helping to advance our mission to guide believers into an intimate, abiding relationship with Christ, using The Journey. Boone gave our staff a great Nugget last week which prompted this podcast interview, as he talked about th…
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Bryan interviews Tulsa Regional Director, Frank Khalil, who gives an update on Tulsa discipleship activity and talks about his crucial priority of Nurturing and Protecting his own soul, his family, his leaders and his region. In the last 2 years, Frank has taken the concept of Nurturing and Protecting on the road, as he has taken his leaders to go …
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Bryan interviews Rocky and Journey Feature Films Chair, Sach Oliver, about the progress with The Journey Movie. We finally have a completed script by Brian Bird which we are very excited about. They talk about the script and the movie making process, including our next steps. Join us in the excitement of what God is doing and will do through this m…
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Meet Chris Pruitt, Another Pastor Who Found The Journey
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Bryan interviews Chris Pruitt, Pastor of Hillcrest Baptist in Jacksonville, FL. Another amazing story of the Holy Spirit helping someone seeking a discipleship tool to find our ministry. It started out as a woman in his church gave him an “Abide” book, which became a spark that started a fire. Hear this inspiring story, especially if you are a Past…
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Rocky interviews Bryan about his recent Sabbatical, emphasizing the impact of being still with God. It was an unsettling, surprising experience but one which affirmed the need to Abide and to be set free to live the abundant lives God intends for His children.By Bryan Craig
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Ep 30: Everything I've learned about Blake Lively I've learned against my will
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Welcome to Too Online, frontline reporting on unserious internet news. Dajana Bogojevic joins the show to explain the Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni drama that the internet wouldn't STFU about this weekend. Send in your own internet story findings. Email hi@boysclub.vip or DM Deana here and Natasha here. Subscribe to the Too Online, a weekly newsl…
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Stuart Elden, "The Birth of Territory" (U Chicago Press, 2013)
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Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial concepts such as sovereignty, rights, and justice. While territory continues to matter politically, and terr…
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Jeremy Black, "Rethinking Geopolitics" (Indiana UP, 2024)
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Amid the bloody Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2021 and the escalating tensions across the Taiwan Strait, the geopolitical balance of power has changed significantly in a very short period. If current trends continue, we may be witnessing a tectonic realignment unseen in more than a century. In 1904, Halford Mackinder delivered a seminal lecture en…
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Abbey Stockstill, "Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib" (Penn State UP, 2024)
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Over the course of the Almoravid (1040–1147) and Almohad (1121–1269) dynasties, mediaeval Marrakesh evolved from an informal military encampment into a thriving metropolis that attempted to translate a local and distinctly rural past into a broad, imperial architectural vernacular. In Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Iden…
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You’ve probably heard us say, “We go where we are invited.” This is a proclamation of our belief that God is orchestrating the steps and plans of this ministry. Hear an amazing orchestration of getting us to Cuba, starting the Matt Bertrand, in the Carolinas, with help from Tom Seay, our International Director to Henry Gutierrez, who got on a plane…
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Miguel Montalva Barba, "White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space" (Policy Press, 2024)
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White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space (Policy Press, 2024) examines the connections between race, place, and space, and sheds light on how they contribute and maintain racial hierarchies. Dr. Miguel Montalva Barba focuses on the White residents of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, which, according to the Cooks Politi…
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Catherine Boone, "Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design (Cambridge University Press, 2024) by Dr. Catherine Boone integrates African countries into broader comparative theories of how spatial inequality shapes political competition over the construction of markets, states, and nations. Existing literature on African countries has found e…
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Laura Zurowski et al., "City Steps of Pittsburgh: A History & Guide" (History Press, 2024)
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In Pittsburgh, the elevation varies wildly, fluctuating 660 feet from highest to lowest points throughout the area and making it one of the hilliest cities in the United States. Throughout this unruly and physically challenging landscape, the city's first mass transportation system was built - a steadily expanding network of public stairways, local…
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Andrew Denning, "Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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In Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Andrew Denning uncovers how roads and vehicles began to transform colonial societies across Africa but rarely in the manner Europeans expected. Like seafaring ships and railroads, automobiles and roads were more than a mode of transp…
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Michael J. Sheridan, "Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants" (Routledge, 2023)
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Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants (Routledge, 2023) tells five stories of plants, people, property, politics, peace, and protection in tropical societies. In Cameroon, French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, St. Vincent, and Tanzania, dracaena and cordyline plants are simultaneously property rights institutions, markers of social…
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Ed Pulford, "Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Anxiety may have been abounding in the old Cold War West that progress - whether political or economic - has been reversed, but for citizens of former-socialist countries, murky temporal trajectories are nothing new. Grounded in the multiethnic frontier town of Hunchun at the triple border of China, Russia, and North Korea, Ed Pulford traces how se…
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Mark Baker, "Pivot of China: Spatial Politics and Inequality in Modern Zhengzhou" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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China’s modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities, and between rural and urban areas. Contemporary observers and historians alike have attributed these inequalities to distinct stages of China's political economy: the dualistic economy of semicolonialism, rural-urban divisions in the socialist perio…
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Arang Keshavarzian, "Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space--an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these contestations lie in the different ways the Gulf has been defined as a region, both by those who live there and those beyond its shore. Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle E…
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Kevin Loughran, "Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into distinctive public spaces that meld repurposed infrastructure, wild-looking green space, and landscape architecture. For their proponents, they present an opportunity to turn disused areas into neighborho…
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(Rebroadcast) The DNA of The Journey- Part Two
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As many new Journey groups are in the process for this next season, it is ALWAYS good to review the DNA of what makes this unique process so special. Re-Listen to one of our original podcasts where Bryan and Rocky talk about the DNA of The Journey.By Bryan Craig
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Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023) focuses on the intersections of three entities otherwise deemed marginal in historical scholarship: the Jazira region, the borderlands of today’s Iraq, Syria, and Turkey; the mobile peoples within this region, from nomadic pastoralists to deportees and…
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Eric Thompson, "The Story of Southeast Asia" (NUS Press, 2024)
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Does Southeast Asia “exist”? It’s a real question: Southeast Asia is a geographic region encompassing many different cultures, religions, political styles, historical experiences, and languages, economies. Can we think of this part of the world as one cohesive “place”? Eric Thompson, in his book The Story of Southeast Asia (NUS Press: 2024), sugges…
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(Rebroadcast) The DNA of The Journey- Part One
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As many new Journey groups are in the process for this next season, it is ALWAYS good to review the DNA of what makes this unique process so special. Re-Listen to one of our original podcasts where Bryan and Rocky talk about the DNA of The Journey.By Bryan Craig
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David Alff, "The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast Corridor might be America’s most famous railway, but its influence goes far beyond the right-of-way. Dr. David Alff welcomes readers aboard to see how nineteenth-century train tracks did more than connect Boston to Washington, DC. They transformed hundreds of miles of Atlantic s…
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Amanda McMillan Lequieu, "Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Half a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But today, these places are not ghost towns. People still call these communities home, even as they struggle with unemployment, poverty, and other social and economic crises. Why do people remain in declining areas through difficult circumstances? What do their…
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John Soluri, "Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia" (UNC Press, 2024)
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Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalisation. Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia (University of North Carolina Press, 2024) by Dr. John Soluri upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals—terrestrial and marine, domesti…
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Samuel Dolbee, "Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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In this episode, I talk to Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His book, Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2023). In this highly original environmental history, Samuel Dolbee sheds new light on borders and state formation by following locusts…
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Meaghan Stiman, "Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and Themselves" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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In recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates. In Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and Themselves (Princeton UP, 2024), Meaghan Stiman examines the experiences of predominantly upper-middle-class suburbanites who bought second homes in the city or the country. Drawing on interviews wit…
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Race, Social Reproduction, and Capitalist Totality
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We live in a historical conjuncture characterized by the rise of a range of social movements that aim to challenge different forms of domination: capitalism, patriarchy, racism, settler colonialism, just to name a few. However, critical scholars remain divided about how to think about the relations between these different struggles. The political s…
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Rocky and Bryan discuss the movie project and the consideration of how we will meet the response afterwards. This gets us back to the Why (DNA) of what we do before we get to the How (Form). It is clear that this is going to require us to trust the Holy Spirit now, more than ever, and it will require us to get outside of our comfort zones. Listen a…
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Reeju Ray, "Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom, and Knowledge" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom, and Knowledge (Oxford UP, 2023) is a study of the travels of colonial law into the North-East frontier of the British Empire in India. Focusing on the nineteenth century, it examines the relationship of law and space, and indigenous place-making. Inhabitants of the frontier hills examin…
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Kevin Ernst was at the Global office for meetings and some more Guide video filming and also did some movie location scouting in the Ozarks. He sat down with Bryan for a long-awaited movie update, talking about the first version of the script, and next steps including site scouting, choosing a Director and actors and fundraising. They also talk abo…
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Paulina Rowinska, "Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers" (Pan Macmillan, 2024)
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How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote Alaska have such a large airport? Where should we look for elusive serial killers? The answers lie in the crucial connection between maps and maths. In Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers (Pan Macmillan, 2024), Dr Paulina Rowinska em…
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Introducing Influencers Maine, the newest Influencers Region
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We interview Andy Collar, our new Regional Director for Influencers Maine, who talks about how God first introduced him to Influencers and The Journey and how a small spark turned into a flame up in the Northeast. He helps us understand the culture in Maine and the spiritual challenges, but also how the Holy Spirit and Abiding is changing the cultu…
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Ep 29: The Loewe tomato explained with @homocowboi, plus Etiquette TikTok, Charli XCX Dominance, Drake's New Look and more
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Welcome to Too Online, frontline reporting on unserious internet news. Connor Downey joins the show to tell us about his viral Loewe tomato tweet. Original Loewe Tomato Tweet Loewe Tomato Cont. Etiquette Guy Naomi Cambell Tube Girl Preppy Drake Glenn Powell Cannibal Clip Send in your own internet story findings. Email hi@boysclub.vip or DM Deana he…
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Adrienne Brown, "The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistently tracks the inverse: the role of mass homeownership in changing the definition, perception, and value of race. In The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership (Stanford Universi…
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Aaron Eddens, "Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa" (U California Press, 2024)
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In Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa (University of California Press, 2024), Dr. Aaron Eddens rewrites an enduring story about the past—and future—of global agriculture. Dr. Eddens connects today's efforts to cultivate a "Green Revolution in Africa" to a history of American projects that intr…
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The Spiritual Tsunami Against the Tidal Wave of Darkness
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Rocky and Bryan talk about the darkness in the world that seems to be increasing, but how the Holy Spirit is creating a spiritual tsunami, an awakening, that is more powerful. As Influencers helps believers learn to abide, it’s raising up warriors that are equipped for the battle.By Bryan Craig
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Ep 28: Goldfish in the Grass, Pride Etiquette, Paul Mescal and Natalie Portman Cig, & Marc Jacob's God-Tier Marketing Strat
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Welcome to Too Online, frontline reporting on unserious internet news. Caitlyn Poli comes on the show to tell us about Marc Jacob's God-Tier marketing strategy. Goldfish in the Grass Pride Etiquette Paul Mescal and Natalie Portman Cig Loewe Tomato Marc Jacobs Tiktok Send in your own internet story findings. Email hi@boysclub.vip or DM Deana here an…
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Ronald R. Sundstrom, "Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and Reconstruction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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It is widely acknowledged that the United States is in the grip of an enduring housing crisis. It is less frequently recognized that this crisis amounts to more than there being an insufficient supply of adequate shelter. It rather is tied to a range of other forms of social and economic vulnerability – and many of these forms of vulnerability impe…
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Polo B. Moji, "Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives" (Routledge, 2022)
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Polo B. Moji's book Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (Routledge, 2022) approaches the study of AfroEurope through narrative forms produced in contemporary France, a location which richly illustrates race in European spaces. Moji adopts a transdisciplinary lens that combines critical black and urban geogra…
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