RADIKAAL is a DIY podcast about the radical aspects of music, politics, and sports. Each episode, host Cas Mudde interviews one guest about a specific topic for about 30 minutes. Guests include academics, athletes, journalists, musicians, and politicians. In short, this is a podcast about fascists, punks, and ultras.
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76. Maria Sobolewska and Rob Ford on Brexit
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My guests today are the political science power couple Maria Sobolewska and Rob Ford, who are both Professor of Political Science at the University of Manchester in the UK. Maria works on the political integration and representation of ethnic minorities in Britain and abroad as well as on public perceptions of ethnicity, immigrants, and integration…
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75. Richard Steigmann-Gall on Fascism and Religion
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Ever since President Biden referred to “MAGA Republicans” as “semi-fascists”, the previously shunned F-word has become the omnipresent. At the same time, Christian nationalism has also become broadly used. Today, I will talk about fascism in general, and its relationship to Christianity in particular, which Richard Steigmann-Gall. Richard is an Ass…
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SES 9. Malu Gatto on the Brazilian Elections
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My guest today, for this ninth episode in the Special Election Series, and the first covering a non-European election, is Malu Gatto. Malu is an Associate Professor of Latin American Politics at the Institute of the Americas at University College London. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the Un…
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74. Kim Lane Scheppele on Viktor Orbán's Hungary
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My guest today is Kim Lane Scheppele. Kim is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University. Her work focuses on the intersection of constitutional and international law, particularly in constitutional systems under stress. After 1989, she studied the emergence of constitutional law in Hungary a…
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73. Tessel Middag on Women and Soccer and Politics
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My guest today is Tessel Middag. Tessel is a professional soccer player for Rangers FC in Glasgow, Scotland, as well as an international for the Dutch women national team. She studied history at the University of Amsterdam, where she also researched the history of women soccer in the Netherlands. In 2017 she was the first Dutch player to join the N…
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SES 8. Giulia Sandri on the 2022 Italian Elections
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My guest today, for this eight episode in the Special Election Series, is Giulia Sandri. Giulia is an Associate Professor of Political Science at ESPOL at the Catholic University of Lille in France. Her main research interests are digital politics, comparative politics, quality of democracy and political behavior. She has also written extensively o…
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72. Elizaveta (Lisa) Gaufman on Music and Politics in Russia
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My guest today is Elizaveta Gaufman. Lisa is Assistant Professor of Russian Discourse and Politics in the Department of European Languages and Politics of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the exploration of verbal and visual enemy images through big data analysis. Lisa has worked a lot on nationalism and secur…
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SES 7. Nicholas Aylott on the 2022 Swedish elections.
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My guest today, for this seventh episode in the Special Election Series, is Nicholas Aylott. Nick is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Södertörn University in Sweden. His main academic interests are in comparative European politics, in particular political parties. Today, we will discuss the context, results, and consequences of the Sw…
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71. Luisa Turbino Torres on Feminist Soccer Groups in Brazil
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My guest today is Luisa Turbino Torres. Luisa is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and the Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality at Florida Atlantic University. Earlier this year she defended her PhD thesis, entitled “The Politics of Being a Soccer Fan: An Ethnographic Perspective on Feminist Action Around Soccer in Brazi…
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My guest today is Christophe Jaffrelot, a CERI-CNRS Senior Research Fellow who teaches in three different schools at Sciences Po in Paris. He is a world-leading scholar of Indian politics, from its foreign policy to its political sociology. In 2020, he was elected president of the French Association of Political Science (AFSP), and last year, he pu…
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69. Dana El Kurd on Palestinian Authoritarianism and Protest
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My guest today is Dana El Kurd, an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Richmond in Virginia, who works on authoritarian regimes in the Arab world, state-society relations in these countries, and the impact of international intervention. In 2020, she published the book Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism…
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68. Phil Gorski on White Christian Nationalism in the US
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My guest today is Philip Gorski. Phil is a Professor of Sociology at Yale University, where he is currently also Chair of the Department of Sociology, and Co-Director of Yale’s Center for Comparative Research. He is a comparative-historical sociologist with strong interests in theory and methods and in modern and early modern Europe. Much of his wo…
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67. Ellen van Damme on Gender and Gangs in Central America (Honduras)
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My guest today is Ellen van Damme. Ellen has a BA, MA, and PhD in Criminology from the KU Leuven in Belgium, as well as an MA in Conflict and Development from Ghent University in Belgium and has just finished a Fulbright Post-Doc at the Center for the Study of International Migration at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her PhD research co…
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66. Aurelien Mondon on the Mainstreaming of the Far Right
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My guest today is Aurelien Mondon, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies at Bath University in the United Kingdom. He has been studying the far right in Europe and beyond for over a decade now, focusing in particular on its mainstreaming, and engaging critically with both the scholarship and its terminol…
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65. Melanie Schiller on Music and Nationalism in Germany
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My guest today is Melanie Schiller, an Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Popular Music at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her research combines critical theory, cultural studies, and media studies and focuses particularly on the relationship between popular music and nationalism and populism. In 2018 she published Soundtracki…
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64. Lenka Bustikova on Radical Right Parties in Eastern Europe
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My guest today is Lenka Bustikova, currently an Associate Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University who will soon join St. Anthony’s College at the Oxford University, as Associate Professor in European Union and Comparative East European Politics. Her research focuses on party politics, democratic decay, ethnicity, and clientelism,…
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63. Phillip Ayoub on the LGBT Movement in Europe
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My guest today is Phillip Ayoub. Phillip is an Associate Professor in the Department of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College in California. This Summer he will take up a Professorship in the Department of Political Science at University College London. His research bridges insights from international relations and comparative politics,…
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SES6. Rainbow Murray on the 2022 French Presidential Elections
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My guest today, for this sixth episode in the Special Election Series, which will focus on the 2022 French presidential elections, is Rainbow Murray. Rainbow is a Professor of Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London in the UK. She is an expert on representation, political institutions, gende…
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62. Charlotte Lysa on Gender, Politics, and Soccer in Qatar
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My guest today is Charlotte Lysa. Charlotte is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law and the University of Oslo in Norway. Her academic interests include politics and society in the Middle East and North Africa, and in the Arab Gulf monarchies in particular. She is currently working with the project REF-ARAB: R…
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61. Chris Ogunmodede on Afrobeat in Nigeria and Beyond.
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My guest today is Christopher Ogunmodede. Chris is a foreign policy advisor and associate editor of World Politics Review, who is based in Lagos, Nigeria. He specializes in diplomacy, development and international security, with a particular focus on West Africa and its history, political institutions and foreign relations. His areas of interest in…
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SES5. Zsolt Enyedi on the 2022 Hungarian Election
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My guest today is my former colleague Zsolt Enyedi. Zsolt is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Senior Researcher at the Democracy Institute of Central European University, which was initially based in Hungary but now primarily operates from Austria. His research focuses both on the role of religion in politics and on party politi…
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60. Lorenza Antonucci on the Gig Economy, the Proletariat, and Populism
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My guest today is Lorenza Antonucci. Lorenza is an Associate Professor and Birmingham Fellow in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology at the University of Birmingham in the UK. Her research and teaching focuses on the impact of European social policies on people’s lives, and she is currently leading two major research projects,…
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My guest today is Kirsten Dyck. Kirsten got her PhD in American Studies from Washington State University in 2012. She taught History, Humanities, Academic Writing, and English as a Foreign Language at James Madison University from 2012 to 2017 after which she joined the Peace Corps and taught English in Poltava, Ukraine. She currently teaches Conve…
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58. Mic Crenshaw about Anti-Racist Skinheads in Minneapolis and Hip Hop in Portland
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My guest today is Mic Crenshaw. Mic is a hip hop activist, organizer, and MC, who is based in Portland, Oregon. He used to be the front man of Hungry Mob and has since published various CDs, including “Thinking Out Loud” and “Under the Sun”. Before that, Mic was part of an anti-racist skinhead crew in Minneapolis, which was the topic of a recent PB…
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My guest today is Andrew Lawn, a UX writer at Pickatale. He also delivers training courses on “Designing Better Academic Posters” and “Effective Digital Communications” at the University of East Anglia. In his spare time, Andy is Assistant Manager of Norwich United FC U18s and a co-founder of the Norwich City fanzine, Along Come Norwich. Finally, h…
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56. Ildiko Otova on Nationalism and Populism in Bulgaria
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My guest is Ildiko Otova, who teaches European Migration Policy at Sofia University. Ildiko holds a PhD in Political sciences from New Bulgarian University and is a laureate of the Mozer Scholarship for excellence in the study of political science and civil courage. She works as researcher in various national and international projects on migration…
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55. Kathleen Belew on White Supremacy and Paramilitary America
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My guest today is Kathleen Belew. Kathleen is an assistant professor in history at the University of Chicago – soon to be an associate professor at Northwestern University. In 2019 she published her first book, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, with Harvard University Press, which has become a must-read on the c…
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54. Russ Rankin on Punkrock, Veganism, and Hockey
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My guest today is Russ Rankin. Russ is a musician, record producer, hockey scout and writer from Santa Cruz, California. He is best known as the singer of the punk rock bands Good Riddance and Only Crime, but has lend his voice to many other punk bands too. He is also the California scout for the Tri City Americans, a junior hockey team in the West…
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SES4. Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser on the 2021 Chilean Presidential Elections
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My guest today is mi hermano Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser. Cristóbal is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Social Science Research Institute at Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile. He has published extensively on populist and right-wing politics in Europe and particularly Latin America, including, co-edited with Pablo Luna…
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53. Brenda Elsey on Women and Sports in Latin America
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My guest today is Brenda Elsey. Brenda is a professor of History at Hofstra University on Long Island, New York, and studies the history of popular culture and politics in twentieth century Latin America, with a particular focus on gender and sports. She has written extensively on these issues, in both academic and popular journals and magazines. A…
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53. Katherine Cramer on Rural Consciousness and the Politics of Resentment
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My guest is Katherine Cramer. Kathy is a Professor of Political Science and the Natalie H. Holton Chair of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Her work focuses on the way people in the United States make sense of politics and their place in it. In 2016 she published The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisco…
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51. Simon Kuper on Football and Politics (and Barca)
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My guest today is Simon Kuper. Simon is a columnist with the Financial Times and an award-winning author on football, or if you will soccer. Among his many excellent books are Football against the Enemy, which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, Soccernomics (with Stefan Szymanski), and Ajax, the Dutch, the War: Football in Europe during …
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My guest is Toni Haastrup, a Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Stirling in Scotland. Her research broadly explores the nature of global power hierarchies in knowledge and practice between the Global North and South. She has researched topics such as the African Union, EU relations with Africa, feminist foreign policy, a…
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49. Matt Duss on a Progressive US Foreign Policy
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My guest today is Matt Duss. Matt is the foreign policy advisor of Senator Bernie Sanders and one of the most prominent protagonists of a progressive US foreign policy. Before joining the Sanders team, he was president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace and a Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress. He tweets at @mattduss. We…
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48. Amy Erica Smith on Politics and Religion in Latin America.
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My guest today is Amy Erica Smith. Amy is an Associate Professor of Political Science and a Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Professor at Iowa State University in the US. In the 2020-22 academic years, she is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. The key focus of her research is, in her own words, how ordinary people understand and engage in politics. Her key…
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SES3. Kai Arzheimer on the 2021 German Federal Election
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This episode is the third installment of the Special Elections Series and will focus on the German federal election of September 26. My guest is Kai Arzheimer, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Mainz in Germany. Kai is one of the foremost scholars of elections and the far right in Europe, and Germany in particular. He also curat…
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47. Airo Hino on Nativism and Populism in Japan
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My guest is my friend Airo Hino. Airo is a Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University in Japan. His main work in on electoral behavior and party politics in Western Europe, on which he has published many articles and books, includingNew Challenger Parties in Western Europe: A Comparative An…
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SES2. Anders Jupskås on the Norwegian Election
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My guest today is my colleague and friend, Anders Ravik Jupskås. Anders is a senior researcher and the deputy director of the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo – where I also hold an affiliation. As probably the foremost scholar of Norwegian party politics, he is the perfect guest for this second Special Election Ed…
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46. Marlene Laruelle on Illiberalism in Russia
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My guest today is Marlene Laruelle. Marlene is a Research Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she also holds various administrative functions, including Director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institut Francais des Relat…
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45. Eva Önnudóttir on the Great Recession and (Radical) Politics in Iceland
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My guest today is Eva Önnudóttir. Eva is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, the country’s capitol. Her main work is in the fields of electoral studies and public opinion in Iceland and beyond and she has published several pieces about the so-called “pots and pans protests” in the wake of the economic crisis …
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44. Nazita Lajevardi on American Muslims and Islamophobia in the US
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My guest isNazita Lajevardi, an attorney and political scientist, who is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. Her work focuses primarily on issues related to public opinion and political behavior through the lens of religious and racial identity. She is also a regular public commentat…
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43. Tarek Kahlaoui on the Arab Spring and Politics in Tunisia
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My guest today is Tarek Kahlaoui, an academic and activist who has been involved in student protests in the 1990s and the Arab Spring protests in Tunisia in the early 2000s. After teaching for various years at Rutgers University in the US, he returned to Tunisia to join the Southern Mediterranean University in Tunis, where he is now an assistant pr…
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42. Paul Mason on the Fight for the Left and against Fascism
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My guest is Paul Mason. Paul is a British journalist and left-wing activist as well as a film maker and prolific author. He has made a four-part documentary on the Greek left populist party SYRIZA called #ThisIsACoup and, more recently, the documentary “R is for Rosa” about the politics of Rosa Luxemburg. Among his books are Postcapitalism: A Guide…
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41. Robbie Shilliam on Decolonizing Politics and the Rastafari Movement
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My guest is Robbie Shilliam. Robbie is a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he researches the political and intellectual complicities of colonialism and race in the global order. His latest book is Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction, which is just out with Polity and is a fascinating read. Robbie is a…
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40. Léonie de Jonge on the Far Right in the Benelux and the Role of the Media
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My guest today isLéonie de Jonge. Léonie is an assistant professor in European Politics & Society at the University of Groningen. In 2019 she defended her PhD at the University of Cambridge on “The Success and Failure of Right-wing Populist Parties in the Benelux Countries”, which will be out with Routledge later this month. Léonie is also an up-an…
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39. David Lowery about Camper, Cracker, and Music and Politics
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My guest is the US singer-songwriterDavid Lowery. David has a decades-long history in music and is probably best known as frontman of bands like Camper van Beethoven and Cracker. Less know, he has been teaching courses on the music business in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, where I also work. In recent years, David has …
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38. Poyâ Pâkzâd on the Left and the Immigration Issue in Denmark
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My guest is Poyâ Pâkzâd, economic policy advisor with the Red-Green Alliance, or Unity List, a left-wing party that supports the current minority government of the Social Democrats in Denmark. He is also the editor of the left-wing magazine Eftertryck, which translates as Emphasis, if I’m not mistaken, and a parliamentary candidate for the Red-Gree…
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37. Laurien Schreuder about Snowapple, Femicide in Mexico, and Music and Politics
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My guest today is Laurien Schreuder, the artistic director of Snowapple, a multidisciplinary, international ensemble that combines theater with a wide range of different music genres, from pop to opera and avant-garde cumbia. Snowapple has spoken out on political issues, most notably violence against women in Mexico. This year, on International Day…
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36. Sam Jackson on the Oath Keepers and Militias in the US
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My guest today is Sam Jackson. Sam is an assistant professor in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Security at the University at Albany in Upstate New York. He primarily studies the far right in the US, focusing most notably on the militia movement and on online extremism. He is the author ofOath Keepers: Patriotism and the …
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35. Dilara Hekimci-Adak on Football and Politics in Turkey
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My guest today is Dilara Hekimci-Adak. Dilara is a graduate student in Political Science at Florida International University in Miami, where she works on a PhD on populists in power and the role of the opposition in Hungary and Turkey. Before coming to the US, she had already done a PhD at Bahcesehir University, in her native Turkey, on clientelism…
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