Best Metropole Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 15 - Careful What You Wish For 1:04:02

18d ago1:04:02

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What we have in store: News! Rules about Rezzing Cards! Reviewing our RWR wishlist asks from last episode! ▶EPISODE LINKS◀-2024 Meme Contest Details: https://youtu.be/s0tKj3M29Bo -https://nanpc.games/ ▶PATREON◀⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/neonstatic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ▶DONATE◀⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neonstatic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ▶YOUTUBE◀⁠youtube.com/@neonstatic…

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Sanjay Subrahmanyam, "Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640" (U Texas Press, 2024) 44:31

24d ago44:31

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Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640 (University of Texas Press, 2024) by Dr. Sanjay Subrahmanyam presents a history of two centuries of interactions among the areas bordering the western Indian Ocean, including India, Iran, and Africa. Beginning in the mid-fifteenth century, the regions bordering the western Ind…

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SCCALE interview with Carlo Tacconelli from EnGreen 19:24

2M ago19:24

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This episode is with Carlo Tacconelli. Carlo is an international energy expert and CEO of EnGreen, anItalian renewables start-up. Carlo has 16 years of experience in distributed renewable energy systems in Europe and in developing countries. Carlo shares some of that experience in this episode, with a special focus on the incredible power of energy…

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Knut A. Jacobsen, "The Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Diasporas" (Oxford UP, 2023) 59:07

2M ago59:07

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Knut A. Jacobsen's edited volume The Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Diaspora (Oxford UP, 2023) presents the histories and religious traditions of Hindus with a South Asian ancestral background living outside of South Asia. Hinduism is a global religion with a significant presence in many countries throughout the world. The most important cause o…

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Episode 14 - Our Netrunner Wishlists 44:42

2M ago44:42

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What we have in store: What we’ve been up to, because you’re all dying to know! What we have on our Netrunner wish lists for Liberation Cycle Part 2 and beyond ▶PATREON◀⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/neonstatic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ▶DONATE◀⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neonstatic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠▶YOUTUBE◀youtube.com/@neonstaticpod▶DISCORD◀New Hampshire Netrunners Discord:…

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SCCALE episode about Czech energy transitions with Michal Svoboda, Sustainable Energy consultant 22:02

3M ago22:02

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He is an ultra-runner and an ultra-communicator. When Michal Svoboda talks to Mayors about new eneergy practices he demonstrates both, endurance and creativity. This Czechman who used to work for the leading big energy company is now a fervent advocate of local renewable energy. Michal is an energy consultant and involved in several municipal netwo…

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Episode 13 - A Case of the Post-CBI Blues 37:07

3M ago37:07

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In a clever ploy to avoid having to pay for a real therapist, Eric gets Nick to listen to him complain about how bad he feels about the CBI. OUR PATREON:⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/neonstatic⁠⁠⁠⁠ Or leave us a tip:⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neonstatic⁠⁠⁠⁠-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------…

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Karen C. Pinto, "Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2016) 53:04

3M ago53:04

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The history of Islamic mapping is one of the new frontiers in the history of cartography. Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration (University of Chicago Press, 2016) offers the first in-depth analysis of a distinct tradition of medieval Islamic maps known collectively as the Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Kitab al-Masalik wa al-Mamalik, or KMMS). Create…

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Rishad Choudhury, "Hajj Across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture After the Mughals, 1739-1857" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 1:27:07

3M ago1:27:07

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In Hajj Across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture After the Mughals, 1739-1857 (Cambridge UP, 2023), Rishad Choudhury presents a new history of imperial connections across the Indian Ocean from 1739 to 1857, a period that witnessed the decline and collapse of Mughal rule and the consolidation of British colonialism in South Asia. In this hig…

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Adam Mestyan, "Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2023) 47:41

4M ago47:41

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In Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2023), Adam Mestyan (Duke University) argues that post-Ottoman Arab political orders were not, as many historians believe, products of European colonialism. Rather, they spurred from the process of “recycling empire.” Mestyan shows…

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EUCityCalc episode with Ivan Simic, Managing Director of REA North in Croatia 17:18

4M ago17:18

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For this episode we traveled to Croatia: From Zagreb it takes between one and two hours by car to the much smaller towns of Koprivnica, Varazdin and Virovitica in the North-East of Croatia. It's in Koprivnica, a city of 30.000 inhabitants, where today’s guest Ivan Simic lives and works. Ivan is managing director of the regional energy agency REA No…

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David S. Powers and Eric Tagliacozzo, "Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies" (Cornell UP, 2023) 31:28

4M ago31:28

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The essays in Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies (Cornell UP, 2023) address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan are members of a broad cultural unit. Although the Muslim inhabitants of these lands speak dozens of languages, represent numerous ethnic groups, and practi…

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Abdul Galil Shaif, "South Yemen: Gateway to the World?" (Authorhouse UK, 2022) 45:02

4M ago45:02

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Abdul Galil Shaif's book South Yemen: Gateway to the World? (Authorhouse UK, 2022) tells the story of South Yemen. The book traces the history of the country from the struggle for independence from the British which was gained in 1967. The first part provides an insight into the Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen, the first and only socialist sta…

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Xavier Luffin, "Another Look at Congolese History: Arabic and Swahili Documents in the Belgian Archives" (Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, 2020) 1:10:56

4M ago1:10:56

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Another Look at Congolese History: Arabic and Swahili Documents in the Belgian Archives (Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, 2020), edited by Xavier Luffin, unlocks an unprecedented journey through the tapestry of Congo's past in Central Africa and the Indian Ocean world. This meticulously compiled collection unveils a trove of Arabic and Swa…

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Fae Dussart, "In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony" (Bloomsbury, 2022) 58:16

4M ago58:16

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Despite recent research, the 19th-century history of domestic service in empire and its wider implications is underexplored. In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony (Bloomsbury, 2022) by Dr. Fae Dussart sheds new light on servants and their masters in the British Empire, and in doing so offers new discourses o…

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Nur Sobers-Khan et al., "Beyond Colonial Rupture: Print Culture and the Emergence of Muslim Modernity in Nineteenth-Century South Asia" (2023) 41:06

5M ago41:06

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Scholarly discussions on Islam in print have focused predominantly on the role of Urdu in the development of North Indian Muslim publics (Dubrow, 2018; Robb, 2020), ʿulama and Islamic jurisprudence (Tareen, 2020) and relations between Islam and colonial modernity (Robinson, 2008; Osella & Osella, 2008). This special issue of International Journal o…

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Sayan Dey, "Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean" (Anthem Press, 2023) 45:29

5M ago45:29

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Usually, discourses on the planetary evolution and the movements of slaves remain restricted within the narratives and scholarships of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and hardly engage with the evolution, movements, and shifts about the Indian Ocean World (IOW) slave trade. But multiple published, unpublished, authored, and non-authored historical d…

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Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023) 42:41

5M ago42:41

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Anti-blackness has until recently been a taboo topic within Arab society. This began to change when Nader Kadhem, a prominent Arab and Muslim thinker from Bahrain, published the first in-depth investigation of anti-black racism in the Arab world in 2004. This translation of the new and revised edition of Kadhem’s influential text brings the convers…

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Jarmo T. Kotilaine, "Sustainable Prosperity in the Arab Gulf: From Miracle to Method" (Routledge, 2023) 1:01:02

5M ago1:01:02

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Tracing the development journey of the Arabian Gulf region with a forward-looking perspective, Sustainable Prosperity in the Arab Gulf: From Miracle to Method (Routledge, 2023) describes how a combination of good fortune, creative experimentation, and determination has enabled the region to achieve prosperity. Today, the Arabian Gulf is well-positi…

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Laleh Khalili, "Corporeal Life of Seafaring" (MACK, 2023) 50:12

5M ago50:12

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The body of the seafarer is a fulcrum upon which global systems of power, longstanding maritime traditions, and gendered and racialised pressures all rest. In this vital new essay, scholar Laleh Khalili draws on her ongoing research and experiences of travelling on cargo ships to explore the embodied life of these labourers. She investigates an exp…

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EUCityCalc Episode with Mantova's City Councillor Adriana Nepote 19:37

5M ago19:37

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Mantova, West of Venice, is a beautiful city with a UNESCO protected core. Unfortunately, it is also surrounded by three artificial lakes that suffer from last century pollution. But the local administration is determined to give nature back to citizens both in and around the city centre. The city even already hosted the World Forum on Urban Forest…

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James White, "Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century: Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran and India" (Bloomsbury, 2023) 1:10:57

6M ago1:10:57

1:10:57

A wealth of scholarship has highlighted how commercial, political and religious networks expanded across the Arabian Sea during the seventeenth century, as merchants from South Asia traded goods in the ports of Yemen, noblemen from Safavid Iran established themselves in the courts of the Mughal Empire, and scholars from across the region came toget…

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EN FRANCAIS - Entretien avec Jean-Patrick Masson, Vice-Président, Dijon Métropole 11:58

6M ago11:58

11:58

Mise à part son excellence culinaire, la région métropolitaine a également été reconnue par la Commission européenne comme étant un leader climatique. Elle fait partie de 100 villes phares en matière de climat. Mon invité aujourd'hui est Jean-Patrick Masson, vice-président chargé de la transition énergétique à Dijon Métropole. Jean-Patrick est l'un…

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EUCityCalc episode with Dijon's Vice-President Jean-Patrick Masson 11:13

6M ago11:13

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What do you think of when you hear Dijon? Mustard? Wine? Certainly not energy planning, right? Yes, Dijon is located in the famous Burgundy region and it is known for quite some delicious goods. But it’s good you’ve tuned in today: food and drinks are not the only thing in which this city and its surroundings excel. The Metropolitan area has also b…

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Boyd Cothran and Adrian Shubert, "The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914" (UNC Press, 2024) 1:15:02

7M ago1:15:02

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It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel—in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin Fox reveals how an everyday merchant ship drew together a changing world and its people in an extraordinary age of rising empires, sweeping economic transformation, and social change. The Edwin…

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Seema Alavi, "Sovereigns of the Sea: Omani Ambition in the Age of Empire" (India Allen Lane, 2023) 54:21

7M ago54:21

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It’s one of the strange artifacts of history that Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania, was once controlled by the Sultanate of Oman. In 1832, then Sultan Sayyid Saïd bin Sultan al-Busaidi made the island his capital, with the empire split in two upon his death: one based in Muscat, one based in Zanzibar. As Seema Alavi notes in her history, Soverei…

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Brian Ulrich, "The Medieval Persian Gulf" (ARC Humanities Press, 2023) 1:23:14

7M ago1:23:14

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The Persian Gulf today is home to multiple cosmopolitan urban hubs of globalization. This did not start with the discovery of oil. The Medieval Persian Gulf (ARC Humanities Press, 2023) tells of the Gulf from the rise of Islam until the coming of the Portuguese, when port cities such as Siraf, Sohar, and Hormuz were entrepots for trading pearls, ho…

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Episode 12 - Go Not Quietly Into The Flat Line 1:02:22

7M ago1:02:22

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Eric and Nick talk about Flatlines in Netrunner - why we think they're great for the game, and what someone can do not to die if they're running against a malicious corporation who's out for blood. Links: Our livestreamed games featuring not playing around flatlines correctly -- TIMESTAMPS --00:00 Intro0:01:16 24/7 News Cycle0:15:08 Spec Work (Rule…

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Stefan Helmreich, "A Book of Waves" (Duke UP, 2023) 46:29

7M ago46:29

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In A Book of Waves (Duke UP, 2023), Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at…

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Guillemette Crouzet, "Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022) 1:01:39

7M ago1:01:39

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The “Middle East” has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. Few question the origin of the term or the boundaries of the region, commonly understood to have emerged in the twentieth century after World War I. In Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian …

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Peter Good, "The East India Company in Persia: Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century" (Bloomsbury, 2022) 55:40

7M ago55:40

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In 1747, the city of Kerman in Persia burned amidst chaos, destruction and death perpetrated by the city's own overlord, Nader Shah. After the violent overthrow of the Safavid dynasty in 1722 and subsequent foreign invasions from all sides, Persia had been in constant turmoil. One well-appointed house that belonged to the East India Company had bee…

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Divya Cherian, "The Owl and the Occult: Popular Politics and Social Liminality in Early Modern South Asia" (2023) 55:47

7M ago55:47

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Today I talked to Divya Cherian about her article "The Owl and the Occult: Popular Politics and Social Liminality in Early Modern South Asia" published in Comparative Studies in Society and History (June, 2023). Historians of Islamic occult science and post-Mongol Persianate kingship in the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires have in recent years …

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Kalyani Ramnath, "Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962" (Stanford UP, 2023) 1:32:54

8M ago1:32:54

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For more than a century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war and as India, Burma, Ceylon, and Malaya wrested independence from the British Empire. Set against the tumult of the postwar peri…

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Samson A. Bezabeh, "Djibouti: A Political History" (Lynne Rienner, 2023) 1:17:22

8M ago1:17:22

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Wedged between Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, at the intersection of the world’s busiest shipping routes, Djibouti has long been a global geostrategic hub. In Djibouti: A Political History (Lynne Rienner, 2023), Samson Bezabeh traces the tortuous political history of this tiny country since its independence from France in 1977. Bezabeh challenges …

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Alice Wilson, "Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman" (Stanford UP, 2023) 56:25

8M ago56:25

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The Dhufar Revolution was fought between 1965–1976, in an attempt to depose Oman's British-backed Sultan and advance social ideals of egalitarianism and gender equality. Dhufar, the southernmost governorate in today's Sultanate, captured global attention for its revolutionaries and their liberation movement's Marxist-inspired social change. But fol…

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Lucia Carminati. "Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859-1906" (U California Press, 2023) 57:48

8M ago57:48

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Lucia Carminati's book Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859-1906 (U California Press, 2023) probes migrant labor's role in shaping the history of the Suez Canal and modern Egypt. It maps the everyday life of Port Said's residents between 1859, when the town was founded as the Suez Canal's no…

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Episode 11 - On Why Standard is Great [Ft. Andrej of The Métropole Grid] 1:51:00

8M ago1:51:00

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The Neon Static crew is joined by Andrej of The Métropole Grid to do our very best to convince each and every listener out there to try their hand at the playing in the Standard Format Links: The Métropole Grid Youtube ChannelThe Snakedraft Spreadsheet https://proxynexus.net Andrej's 7 Tips for Better Netrunner Video -- TIMESTAMPS --00:00 Intro0:00…

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Christopher D. Bahl and Stefan Hanß, "Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) 52:01

8M ago52:01

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Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) is the first to chart the global diversity of colophons between 1400 and 1800. The volume presents a new approach to scribal cultures that expands traditional definitions. Moving from the paradigm of codicological information towards a thorough interpretatio…

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Episode 10 - East Coast Nationals Recap & New Meta Chat 1:10:40

9M ago1:10:40

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Eric and Nick reminisce about their extremely poor performance at East Coast Nats, laugh at their bad plays, and talk about the new bad ideas that they are excited about in the new meta brought on by the Automata Initiative! Decks of ours that we discuss in this episode: https://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/2fbc110c-3007-4166-9af8-db3d9a4a23a2/padma…

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Episode with Cristina Daniel from energy agency ENA (Portugal) 22:12

9M ago22:12

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In this episode we welcome Cristina Daniel who is the managing director of the regional energy agency ENA – Energy and Environment Agency of Arrábida in Portugal. ENA connects the dots between 3 municipalities that are located within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area and the agency helps those cities with their energy and environmental strategy. How is …

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India's Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa 24:24

9M ago24:24

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In this episode, Kenneth King (University of Edinburgh) & Meera Venkatachalam (University of Mumbai), discuss their recently co-edited volume, India's Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa, published by Boydell and Brewer in 2021. India has understood its relations with Africa within the framework of South-South cooperation, where postcolo…

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Steve Mentz, "An Introduction to the Blue Humanities" (Routledge, 2023) 47:35

9M ago47:35

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An Introduction to the Blue Humanities (Routledge, 2023) is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water, utilizing literary, cultural, historical, and theoretical connections and ecologies to introduce students to the history and theory of water-centric thinking. Comprised of multinational texts and materials, each chapter …

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Episode 9 - Neon Spoilers 1:15:22

9M ago1:15:22

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Nick, Johnny, and Eric share three exclusive spoilers for the Automata Initiative! Thanks so much for NSG for including us in this exciting process!The card images are uploaded to Instagram - our profile name is @neonstaticpod https://www.instagram.com/p/CvEzwwLsrdD/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==they are also being uploaded to our facebook page. If you l…

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Episode 8 - Interviews from Startup Tournament #2 38:47

9M ago38:47

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Eric and Nick brought the mics to their second Startup Tournament they organized in Derry, New Hampshire at Midgard Hobbies and Games - listen as Eric interviews folks from the tournament. If you like this content, consider joining our Patron or leaving a donation towards gear upgrades: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/neonstatic⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.buymeacof…

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Hassan S. Khalilieh, "Islamic Law of the Sea: Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2019) 48:32

9M ago48:32

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The doctrine of the modern law of the sea is commonly believed to have developed in Renaissance Europe. The role of Islamic law of the sea and customary practices is often ignored though. In Islamic Law of the Sea: Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought (Cambridge UP, 2019), Hassan S. Khalilieh highlights Islamic legal doctrine…

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Nile Green, "How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding" (Yale UP, 2023) 1:39:30

10M ago1:39:30

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The nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their profits from trade, and it saw Christian missionaries spread printing across Asia to bring Bibles to the colonized. The unintended consequence was an Asian communications revolution: the maritime public sphere expanded from Istanbul to Yokohama. From all cor…

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Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada, "Connecting the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land" (Routledge, 2023) 52:41

10M ago52:41

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The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space. Connecting the Indian Ocean World Across Sea and Land (Routledge, 2023) and its companion, Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World (Routledge, 2023), explore these connections around the wider Indian Ocean world. The book examines the man…

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Markus Virgil Höhne, "Between Somaliland and Puntland: Marginalization, Militarization and Conflicting Political Vision" (Rift Valley Institute, 2023) 1:08:43

10M ago1:08:43

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On February 6, 2023, fighting erupted around Las Anod, a city in the eastern parts of the de facto independent state of Somaliland. This still-ongoing conflict has been subject to recent scrutiny from the United Nations, IGAD, US State Department, and others. Markus Hoehne, a Research Associate at the Institute of Social Anthropology in the Univers…

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Episode 7 - Stop, Collaborate, and Listen (ice) 1:33:16

10M ago1:33:16

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Nick, Johnny, and Eric got to record in person and talk about ice! It's fun! Eric's gameplay from a recent Metropole Grid Stream we refer to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13lsKcrxYlg&t=7630s&ab_channel=MetropoleGrid If you like this content, consider joining our Patron or leaving a donation towards gear upgrades: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/neonsta…

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Episode 6 - Booshy's Wild Podcast (Dan B Interview) 51:51

10M ago51:51

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Nick, Johnny, and Eric sat down in the most Reverb-filled room in all of Massachusetts to chat with Dan B, the Marketing Lead for Null Signal Games and Tournament Organizer for the Rhode Island Area. If you like this content, consider joining our Patron or leaving a donation towards gear upgrades: https://www.patreon.com/neonstatic https://www.buym…

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