Best Radical Books Collective Podcasts (2024)

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13. Finale: What did we learn? Where do we go from here? 1:12:08

3h ago1:12:08

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In this, our final episode of the Practical Radicals Podcast, we hear from over a dozen progressive leaders, including several former students, and reflect with them about what we’ve learned since the book Practical Radicals came out last November and what we make of the path ahead — as the U.S. and the world face a daunting and overlapping set of …

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The Key to Business Success: Energy Over Mindset 24:50

1d ago24:50

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Grab a copy of my book "Radically Aligned," tune in, and let's shift your energy for lasting change. Are you ready to get radically aligned? Let’s go! Once you've grabbed a copy of my book, why not join us in the membership - check it out here. Or why not go all in and grab yourself a 15 minute Psychic Business Audit - Let's go - Click here.…

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Welcome and Intro the Radically Aligned Business Podcast 15:23

14d ago15:23

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Be a part of Vicki's world, buy the book here. Join her online community here. Visit her website here. But more importantly, don't forget to leave a comment / review the podcast, so she can personally connect with you, and others can find this resource for Radically Aligned Transformation.By Vicki Chisholm

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[Teaser] Vol.2 Interview #5 - The Defensible Iron Man w/ Neil Kapit 2:06

5d ago2:06

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Today in Bonus Feed Land, the irrepressible Neil Kapit takes the stand as a character witness for that plucky upstart Tony Stark! Neil asserts that, while Iron Man might not be the most beloved superhero on the left, the pathos and self-sacrifice of this demon-haunted Avenger speak to a far more interesting human being than the movies or Mark Milla…

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Three-Year Anniversary AMA Episode! 1:34:17

11d ago1:34:17

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Thank you all for a wonderful three years of Collective Action Comics! Please find attached the answers to all your burning questions. I tried my best to answer each one with the appropriate proportion of sass and humility. Here's to the future! Very proud to be fighting for it alongside all of you.(Please don't X-communicate me for having once lik…

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12. Learning from Opponents with Munira Lokhandwala of LittleSis.org 49:13

22d ago49:13

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Most famous guides to strategy are written for overdogs. (Think of Machiavelli’s The Prince or Sun Tzu’s Art of War.) And overdogs today invest in strategic education at a scale that dwarfs anything on the left. Their commitment is captured in the slogan of the right-wing Leadership Institute, which has trained over 200,000 people: “You owe it to y…

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In Love and War: Collective Memory and the Self 1:05:37

23d ago1:05:37

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In Love and War: Collective Memory and the Self is our fifth conversation in a series centering the Warscapes anthology Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (Daraja Press). Featuring Samina Najmi, Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, Beverly Parayno and Veruska Cantelli. Writing about war is often synonymous with writing about memory. Erasing narratives, stories a…

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11. Abolitionism & the Seven Strategies with Manisha Sinha 55:48

1M ago55:48

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In the struggle to abolish slavery — the social movement that arguably set the template for all that followed — organizers used all seven strategies we identify in Practical Radicals. According to our guest, historian Manisha Sinha, the abolitionists were “radical in their goals . . . but pragmatic in implementation” — the quintessential practical …

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Poetry of Witness 1:13:43

2M ago1:13:43

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Poetry of Witness is our fourth conversation in a series centering the Warscapes anthology Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (Daraja Press). Featuring Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, Jehan Bseiso and Meg Arenberg. What is the poet’s role in the event of the erasure of an entire people? Even as we deem certain acts of violence as “unspeakable” and “indescriba…

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10. Collective Care in the AIDS Crisis with Tim Sweeney 1:27:25

2M ago1:27:25

1:27:25

Underdogs often respond to systemic oppression through collective care – acts of mutual aid and cooperation with the goal of meeting people’s basic survival needs when the state fails to do so. Some people feel collective care is just what we should do as decent human beings, but that it isn’t a strategy for systemic social change. Others are more …

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Wounds of War: Narrating Health and Healing 1:05:56

2M ago1:05:56

1:05:56

Wounds of War: Narrating Health and Healing is the third conversation in a series centering the Warscapes anthology Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (Daraja Press). Featuring Zahra Moloo, Valerie Gruhn and Danielle Villasana. War brings the experiences and stories of health, health workers and emergency medicine into sharp focus. When one speaks ab…

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9. Momentum with Mae Boeve of 350.org 58:23

2M ago58:23

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Sometimes social movements can spread like wildfire. From the sit-ins of the Civil Rights movement to the sea change in support for marriage equality, from the divestment campaign to end apartheid in South Africa to the climate justice movement winning the largest climate bill in history (2022’s Inflation Reduction Act) — the strategy model known a…

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[Teaser] Vol.2 Interview #4 - Untimely Comics: A Marvelous History of Virulence w/ Shaun Corley 1:43

2M ago1:43

1:43

Today in Bonus Feed Land, friend of the show Shaun Corley takes Nat on a historical jaunt through a catalog of Marvel's earliest anticommunist stories and characters all the way up to some of their more recent racist depictions of dastardly foreigners.Find the full episode on the Patreon!(A contribution to MECA has been made in Shaun's name in appr…

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8. Inside-Outside Strategies with Felicia Wong 1:17:32

3M ago1:17:32

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In the right circumstances, progressive groups can work with progressive insiders in government to win big policy changes. In this episode, we consider “inside-outside campaigns,” including what makes them possible and some of the inevitable tensions that they create, for example about when and how to compromise when a coalition doesn’t have enough…

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Gaslighting as Method and Ways to Resist It 1:15:30

3M ago1:15:30

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Gaslighting as Method and Ways to Resist It is the second conversation in a series centering the Warscapes anthology Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (Daraja Press). Featuring Suzy Salamy, Suchitra Vijayan and Bhakti Shringarpure. Gaslighting is a term used to describe the process by which a person is manipulated into questioning their own reality.…

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7. Electoral Change with Maurice Mitchell 56:40

3M ago56:40

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Episode 7: Electoral Strategies with Maurice Mitchell Many progressives are cynical about electoral politics. But our guest today explains why engaging in electoral politics is crucial for building the kind of society we want. Maurice Mitchell is the National Director of the Working Families Party, a savvy, independent political organization that h…

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Unlearning War in the Classroom 1:10:18

3M ago1:10:18

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Unlearning War in the Classroom is our first conversation in a series centering the Warscapes anthology Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (Daraja Press). Featuring Sherry Zane, Veruska Cantelli and Bhakti Shringarpure. Wars, conflict and histories of violence have been continually framed as binary narratives between winners and losers, nation and no…

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6. Narrative Shift with Cristina Jimenez Moreta and Alan Jenkins 1:26:54

4M ago1:26:54

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In the past two decades, progressives have gotten far more savvy at the strategy we call “narrative shift,” learning how to challenge the dominant story and change the common sense on key issues. For example, on same-sex marriage, activists drove a sea change in public sentiment — from 27% support in 1996 to 71% in 2023. And research shows that Occ…

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5. Disruptive Movements with Frances Fox Piven 45:34

4M ago45:34

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In this episode, we explore the strategy of disruption and talk with one of its leading theorists and practitioners, the legendary scholar and activist Frances Fox Piven. Stephanie and Deepak begin by distinguishing protest from disruption, two types of action that are often confused. They consider famous instances of disruption, like the mass acti…

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4. Base-Building in Community Organizing with Make the Road NY’s José Lopez and Ángeles Solis 55:17

5M ago55:17

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In the Spring of 2021, dozens of immigrant New Yorkers, mostly women, launched a hunger strike that lasted 23 days and was the climax of a campaign to win an unprecedented $2.1 billion relief package for workers who had been excluded from unemployment benefits, federal stimulus checks, and rent relief. At the time, many thought the campaign’s deman…

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3. Base Building in the Labor Movement with Greg Nammacher of SEIU Local 26 53:35

5M ago53:35

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To succeed, any social movement needs people power. And, as the great Ella Baker preached, that takes a lot of slow, respectful work to forge relationships — what she called “spadework.” Base-building is the first of the “seven strategies to change the world” that we elaborate on in our book Practical Radicals. And base-building is so important tha…

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2. What is Power? + Ilyse Hogue on right-wing strategies 1:03:01

6M ago1:03:01

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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King famously said, “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and . . . love without power is sentimental and anemic.” But many on the left seem allergic to power. This episode starts with a fundamental question: What is power? Drawing on the influential sociologists Michael Mann and Erik Olin Wright, Stephanie and Dee…

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1. What is Strategy? with Maria Poblet and Alex Hertel-Fernandez 1:02:41

6M ago1:02:41

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Progressives need a strategy upgrade, and this episode points the way, first by delving into one of the greatest victories of the civil rights movement and the strategic masterstroke of Rev. Wyatt T. Walker. Next, we talk with Maria Poblet, Executive Director of the Grassroots Power Project, who argues that “the way strategy is being developed in p…

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Practical Radicals Trailer 4:46

6M ago4:46

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Deepak and Stephanie welcome listeners and give a preview of some organizers and thinkers who will appear in future episodes: Maurice Mitchell of the Working Families Party, longtime progressive activist Ilyse Hogue, legendary activist and scholar Frances Fox Piven, and historian Manisha Sinha. You can buy the book and find out more about the show …

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Mehfil 7 - Presenting Kashmir, Anew 37:41

8M ago37:41

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Amrita Ghosh talks to Kashmiri scholar and academic Hafsa Kanjwal her new book Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation (2023). The episode presents Kashmir and its long conflict in a new narrative. Kanjwal resets the usual ways of understanding Kashmir’s past and looks at the immediate postcolonial years of 1950s and 1960s in whi…

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Radical Publishing Futures 12: Hoopoe Fiction 33:06

8M ago33:06

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In our 12th episode of Radical Publishing Futures, Nadine El-Hadi, senior acquisitions editor at Hoopoe Fiction joins Meg Arenberg from her office near Tahrir Square in Cairo. The discussion focuses on the special position of Hoopoe and the American University in Cairo Press as a pioneering publisher of Arabic literature in English translation that…

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[Teaser] Vol.2 Interview #3 - Grist for the Millar w/ Elizabeth Sandifer 2:53

8M ago2:53

2:53

Today in Bonus Feed Land, we laugh! We cry! The great critic and writer Elizabeth Sandifer walks Nat through Mark Millar from his earliest work (it might surprise you) to his most recent corporate gambit (it won't)! https://www.eruditorumpress.com/last-war-in-albionhttps://www.patreon.com/elizabethsandifer----------Email: collectiveactioncomics@gma…

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Vol. 2 #13 - Classless Conflict: How the Ultimates Fails the World 2:13:59

9M ago2:13:59

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From oil fields to poppy fields to killing fields, the United States lays claim upon the world. Overwhelming force in service of the export of capital requires constant presence and insistent justification. There is no excuse too craven nor apologia too callow for the media that abets these crimes. No matter how you costume it, the violence is beyo…

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Writing Somalia: Nuruddin Farah 54:06

10M ago54:06

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Novelist, essayist and master trilogist Nuruddin Farah is one of the most important contemporary authors working today. In a writing career that spans more than five decades, Farah has published thirteen novels, dozens of essays and plays, all of which critically engage various dimensions of Somali history, culture and politics. Farah wrote his fir…

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Léonora Miano: A Glossary for Black Identities 1:01:47

10M ago1:01:47

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Cameroonian writer Léonora Miano joins guest host Greg Pierrot for the 10th episode of our Trailblazing African Feminists series. Miano was born in Doula, Cameroon and lived in France from 1991. She studied American literature at Nanterre university and this led her to African American and Caribbean writers that considerably influenced her work. Sh…

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[Teaser] Vol. 2 Interview #2 - Whedon's Avengers vs. Millar's Ultimates (w/ The Black Casebook) 3:14

11M ago3:14

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You asked, we delivered! We're finally doing it, folks! We're tackling the movies! In this sweeping interview, Walt from the Black Casebook breaks down what works and what doesn't about Whedon's two Avengers movies and how they compare politically and narratively to Millar's The Ultimates. Subscribe on Patreon to hear the whole thing! Listen to the…

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Radical Publishing Futures 11: Feminist Press 35:45

11M ago35:45

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Radical Publishing Futures returns with a conversation between Meg Arenberg and director of Feminist Press Margot Atwell. Margot offers some perspective on the pioneering role of the Feminist press and its interdisciplinary journal WSQ, not only for radical independent publishing in the US but for women and gender studies as an academic field, as w…

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Vol. 2 #12 - Capital Under the Cowl: Disguising History for Work and War 1:04:23

12M ago1:04:23

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Sometimes, you have to break a few omelettes to get to the eggs inside."Conventional wisdom" is a curious thing, and, in the United States, it's been deliberately constructed, shaped, and molded over the last 70+ years. Patriotic imagery and severely lacking history curricula have joined forces to warp the perception of the US, leaving its citizens…

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Tape - 8/4/23, Received and Catalogued 1:09

12M ago1:09

1:09

Message delivered. The end of the mission draws near.By Collective Action Comics

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[Unlocked] Vol. 2 Interview #1 - A Prescription of Paper Medicine (w/ Ben Becker) 42:10

1y ago42:10

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In this special bonus interview for season two, we get to hear from writer/artist Ben Becker on the first issue of his new anthology series "Paper Medicine" and follow him on the journey that led him to write about some very comradely goldfish piloting a mechanical man. Join us as we talk comics, cooperatives, and the aquatic liberation that only c…

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Vol. 2 #11 - Secret Identities: Guises, Spies-es, and Ruling Class Lies-es 59:19

1y ago59:19

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Good news: There's very little of The Ultimates in this episode.Bad news: That means we have to fill air time talking about ways in which the US government infiltrates and shuts down left wing movements, how the working class needs to learn to come together, and how other countries are good, actually. Hooray.----------Email: collectiveactioncomics@…

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Vol. 2 #10 - Adventures in Data-Sifting: Everything Capital Cares to Know About Us 1:05:21

1y ago1:05:21

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Tony Stark knows you better than you know yourself. In this age of sensors, cameras, and speculative markets, everything we do is catalogued and sold to the highest bidder.Unlike the Earth in this issue, our privacy isn't being invaded. We're giving it up willingly. (Ultimate Celebrity Sighting Count: 23)----------Email: collectiveactioncomics@gmai…

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Vol. 2 #9 - Super Serums, Super Soldiers: The U.S. Military's Abuse of Minds, Bodies, and Drugs 1:03:27

1y ago1:03:27

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Old jokes and old terrors. New jokes and new meanings. Does the United States of America care about you? Of course not. As a project at large, the United States is a vehicle for consumption and destruction, and even its most ardent defenders get thrown into the fuel tank. We explore that here. Also, Hank Pym's anatomy. I'm a Doofus Update: I missed…

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Vol. 2 #8 - The Mask Comes Off at Home: Exploitation and Superprofits in the Age of Borders 57:18

1y ago57:18

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Why does the United States of America keep children at its southern border? Why did Ronald Reagan give millions of dollars a day to fascists in El Salvador? Why does the Black Widow want a fake ID?It's all for Tony Stark.For the current count of children held at the US border:https://healthdata.gov/widgets/ehpz-xc9nErratum: The Trump administration…

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Color of Publishing 3, perspectives from the United Kingdom 47:52

1y ago47:52

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In the third episode of Color of Publishing, we focus on publishing perspectives from the United Kingdom with two prolific editors and writers, Margaret Busby and Ellah P. Wakatama. Host Bhakti Shringarpure engages the two experts in a wide-ranging conversation about the history of publishing in the UK, questions of diversity and representation, bo…

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Color of Publishing 2, perspectives from the United States 1:03:37

1y ago1:03:37

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In the second episode of Color of Publishing, we focus on publishing perspectives from and about the United States with Elizabeth Méndez Berry (One World Books) and Porscha Burke (Random House). Host Bhakti Shringarpure engages the two experts in a wide-ranging conversation about book acquisitions, editorial processes, taste and culture-making, equ…

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Color of Publishing 1, debrief of the PEN America Report 47:15

1y ago47:15

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On October 17th 2022, PEN America published a report titled “Reading Between the Lines: Race, Equity and Book Publishing” with the goal to expose and explore the fact that the publishing industry has “entered a moment of moral urgency about the persistent lack of racial and ethnic diversity among employees and authors.” In our three-part series foc…

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Mehfil 6 - Bhoot Prayt: Ghostly Encounters 51:15

1y ago51:15

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A quirky episode on ghosts, hauntings and horror on this week’s Mehfil. Two women writers from India and Pakistan interrogate ghostly encounters and how to write about them. Host Amrita Ghosh welcomes Jessica Faleiro from Goa (India) and Sehyr Mirza from Lahore (Pakistan) to explore the writing of ghosts, hauntings and horror on a personal level as…

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Mehfil 5 - Translating South Asia 1:04:50

1y ago1:04:50

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This Mehfil explores the exciting world of South Asian translation especially the regional and vernacular literature that has lately been garnering international attention and winning prestigious awards. In Translating South Asia, host Amrita Ghosh talks to two renowned translators from the neighboring countries of India and Bangladesh. The convers…

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Mehfil 4 - Dalit Gastronomy: Caste and Cuisine 51:43

1+ y ago51:43

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An exploration of the ways in which caste structures are rigidly enforced when it comes to food, water, eating and drinking in India. Food is usually seen as celebratory, as a source of cultural pride and as a symbol of nostalgia but today's Mehfil cuts through these ideas to foreground the pain that food, eating rituals, and culinary and gastronom…

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Mehfil 3 - CounterBlockbusters: On Subversive Cinema 1:04:24

1+ y ago1:04:24

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Indian popular cinema known as Bollywood has always been a dominant symbol of the nation. It constructs and legitimizes ideas of traditions, cultures and ethos, and most importantly, solidifies who gets to be Indian and who does not. In this episode, Amrita Ghosh welcomes Hussain Haidry and Alka Kurian to her mehfil to talk about a different India,…

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Vol. 2 #7 - Costumes and Uniforms: War Propaganda's Control Over Community 57:57

1+ y ago57:57

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CW: Violence and anti-Muslim racismYou are not you. You are you plus others. You are you plus others plus your environment.When this you is split, the consequences are almost beyond imagining. Almost. Through the Ultimates' manipulation of the media and the narrative, we imagine them here. ----------Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/collectiveac…

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Mehfil 2 - Khayali Pulao: On Writing Food 1:04:48

1+ y ago1:04:48

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Themes of food in literature inspire questions of resistance, cultural memory, gender and identity. This episode titled Khayali Pulao: On Food Writing touches upon food and food politics in Indian writing. Here, it is not merely a marker of identity, but can be a source of joy as well as pain and alienation. Writers Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and S…

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Mehfil 1 - Wounded States: On Writing Conflict 1:07:28

1+ y ago1:07:28

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India’s borders and borderlands have been marked by conflict since its independence from the British in 1947. Kashmir and the Northeast regions of India along with many forgotten enclave areas have been witness to relentless violence that have upended lives for several decades. How does literature from these war zones represent the conflict and peo…

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Shifting Geographies of the Self: Margo Jefferson and Victoria Adukwei Bulley 34:49

1+ y ago34:49

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Writer Margo Jefferson and poet Victoria Adukwei Bulley join BookRising host Bhakti Shringarpure to talk about their recent books which won the Rathbones Folio Prize 2023. The authors speak about crafting aesthetically innovative, genre-bending and political works. They also weigh in on particular challenges for Black women in the world of publishi…

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